LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER WEDNESDAY jMARCH.1 L882
Eamasfei frntelUgencer.
WEDNESDAY.KVEN'a, MABCH1, 1882.
Party Beles.
An " arithmetic man " can easily fig
ure out that under the new rules pro
posed for the Republican party in this
county the choice of a plurality can be
defeated. Many queer tricks can be
played with figures, especially when
manipulated by politicians, and it is
easily possible under the new rules for a
man te get.a plurality of the votes and
net even be mentioned in a county con
vention nor have a single delegate. The
new rules prevent the possibility of the
" dark horse " coming te the front when
the deadlock ensues between the leading
candidates; but they also go far te ex
clude from the contest men who may
get a very considerable popular vote..
The advantage under them rests with
these who can carrydistricts rather than
with these who can command the -popular
vote. He who secures 251 votes out
of 500 votes is as well off as if
he had 409. But this is an in
equality of opportunity -that seems te
pertain te all representative systems, by
which, en the one hand, minorities often
fail te be represented, but en the ether
baud an aggregate minority very often
controls the result. A popular minority
can elect a president aud minorities very
often control the nominating conven
tions. Besides, under the present system
candidates can be nominated in this
county who haven't the support of mere
than 3,000 or 4,000 votes out of 12,000 or
15,000 polled. Indeed, with a number of
candidates, it has been demonstrated
that almost any compact organization of
the weakest and worst can win against
disorganization among the ethers; anil
te defeat one ring another has had te be
formed, in whose composition equally
base elements are generally found. The
dubious results of the primaries, the
fraud attending them, and the demorali
zation which has ensued Irem mak
ing politicians out of all their peo
ple, have very completely disgusted
the Republicans here with the Craw
ford county system, and we de net won
der te find them ready te exchange it for
that which is proposed, though its
merits and popularity cannot be foretold
until after it is given trial. It is cer
tainly Keine what complicated and, though
it apparently combines with the popular
vote idea the delegate system, we think,
in practice, the delegates will be found
mere automata. Inmost every instance
the result will be entirely calculable upon
the face of the returns, aud should it
be adopted whenever that calculation
counts out a man whom the plurality of
the popular vote weirid have elected, a
violent kick at the new rules may be ex
pected. "Whatever rules the Republicans adept
the is no doubt that the Democratic
p.ir: In both the city and county needs
some formally expressed rules. Its prac
tices are new regulated only by tradition
and by precedents liable te be disputed
When the officers of the primary elec
tions, delegate meetings or county con
ventions are sworn, under thenew law,
te conduct them according te the
rules, they have no means of know
ing what they are swearing te de. More
over, the present system of a representa
tion, by which a district with 000 Demo
cratic votes has no mere voice nor power
" in a convention than a district with 10
votes, is unfair and should be modified
at once.
Ne ' Ceinplimeutarlcs."
The next Democratic state convention
will be charged with a very grave and
responsible duty. Whether the Inde
pendent Republicans put up a third
ticket or net, and they are mere likely
te de se than net, the Democratic nom
inees can be elected if their names, their
record and the action of the convention
give the people of the commonwealth
every reason te hope and no reason te
fear from such a result. If the party is
te command success it must deserve suc
cess. Happily the voice of discord is hushed
and factional quarrels are net disturbing
its integrity. If anything is lacking it
is interest in its welfare or confidence in
the election of its candidates. Its con
vention needs some wisdom te guide it
te a proper choice of men and some en
thusiasm te launch a ticket that will
have hearty popular support. We take
it for granted that nobody and nobody's
friends want any nomination made that
will net be ratified in Xevember by an
election. It is net the season in politics
for passing compliments.
Pennsylvania new occupies a very im
portant position in the politics of the
country. The dangers which threaten
the Democracy in the Seuth, in Indiana
and in Xew Yerk may all be retrieved
here in our own state, and a victory in
Pennsylvania in 1882 will be the fore
runner of great advantages In 1SS1. The
way te best assure these results is for the
Pennsylvania Democracy te assemble
the best possible sort of a state conven
tion. If its members come together, un
instructed and disinterested, te make
common cause for the party welfare,
they can largely promote it. If they
simply gather as the personal or political
friends of this e&that interest te get ene
man or nnether en the ticket, they
might as well stay at home.
Lecal instructions for local candidates
may be well enough; they at least can
not de much harm ; we have always re
garded them- as useless and uncompli
mentary te the men who are lettered
with them ; but beyond these we trust
the Democracy of the state will net ven
ture. Let the party in the several coun
ties pay heed rather te the selection
of intelligent and Independent represen
tatives, in whose united council there
will be wisdom. An uninstructed con
vention, bound te no man's interest, Is
what the party needs at this time.
An Interesting Story.
The narrative of the Xew Yerk Times
about the last presidential election in In
diana, or its October forerunner rather
which we reprint te day, is an interest
ing but net in the main nn .,ni;i.ni
story. The Cincinnati Enquirer has long
been a political will-e'-the-wisp which has
Jed the Western Democrats into manv a
quagmire. . We can easily conceive of It
lending itself te a scheme te deceive the
Indiana Democrats as te the condition
of their organization, especially if
"Blaine took $1,600 worth of the
papers;" while the utter lack of disci
pline and want of intelligent manage
ment in the party in Indiana have long
been notorious with well-informed poli
ticians. Mr. English was a failure, and
te make matters worse he had the ill
feeling of ether prominent Democrats in
the state especially Mrs. Hendricks te
contend against. The party was badly
managed and no doubt had traitors in its
ranks. The Republicans were flush
with menej and repeaters, and
whether Dersey stele or spent. the half
million be raised does net matter much.
That the Republican expenditures were
only $74,000 is net likely, as the Penn
sylvania Pilgrims alOne sent mere than
half that te Indiana. It has long been
reported that Barnum brought back mere
unspent Democratic money from In
dianapolis than was expended by the
party in that state. The Times story
proves as much rascality en the part of
the Republicans as there was stupidity
and treachery en the part of the Demo
crats, and with these three influences at
work it is net much wonder thai Mr.
English's state was lest.
Viiiginia is getting along. The Legis
lature has appropriated $100,000 for a cel
ered normal school, and is wrestling with
a local option law.
Tue Democrats, by a heavy majority,
have elected an anti-Monopoly senator te
succeed the Republican Monopoly Senater
Wagner, of New Yerk, killed iu the Spuy
ten Duyvil railroad disaster.
Tue New Jersey Senate has passed
the bill authorizing the increase of the
stock of the Central railroad company ever
the governor's veto by a vote of 10 te 5.
The Heuse is a larger body and Gould
may net se readily get his work in there.
Tui: railroad companies de net always
take the hair of the ticket scalper. The
B. & O. prosecuted ene in Baltimore for
altering a ticket, and he was acquitted ;
he sued the railroad company for malicious
prosecution and has been awarded 0,7.j0
damnges.
The adjourned court of quarter sessions
has adjourned after two days' work, leav leav
three of the irapertaut cases which it was
called te try, undispesed of. The law's
delays are proverbial, but public patience
is becoming exhausted. The next time
important persons are sick let the court
appoint its own medical commission te ex
amine them.
Tin: indiscriminate enforcement of the
New Yerk law that women employed
in shops, stores, restaurants, etc., shall be
permitted te sit down when net waiting
en customers,' has led te the less of their
places by many females. Many employ
ers, rather than-he worried by tho-neep'e
who have made it their business te sec te
it that the statute is enforced, are dis
charging the. women aud putting young
men behind the counter.
Tueiu: can be be no doubt that the Ex
aminer is a very modest newspaper, for it
keeps telling its readers se every day.
The people all knew Uriah Keep's humil
ity, for he was " well aware that I am
the humblest person going, let the ether
be who he may." With uufailing self
proclaimed modesty, therefore, " us and
Herbert Spencer" will continues te rezu-
late the universe aud our esteemed con -temporaries.
Them; is fresh alarm in New Yerk city
ever the revival of the old scheme of the
city aud Albany politicians te cut a street
through Trinity Church cemetery, at the
head of Wall street. Tjie city journals,
with scarcely au exception, vehemently
pretest against it, aud "warn the Legisla
ture against giving their sanction te any
such undertaking. 01d Trinity and its
cemetery arc new impressive monitors in
that busy mart, and for sentimental rea rea
sens of the greatest practical weight they
should be left undisturbed. "
The president and Den Cameren haviiur
" inadvertently " get Jehn Gallagher, the
brother-in-law of a Half-Breed Philadel
phia editor, appointed te the consulate of
a Rie Janeiro without knowing what a fat
office it is, Stalwart persuasions have fn
duced Arthur te withdraw the appoint
ment te make room for a better Republi
can, if net for a better man. The shock
te Mr. Gallagher's feelings by losing the
place that was almost within grasp will
be mitigated by a miner appointment.
The wife of a Pittsburgh physician has
eloped with a drunken worthless fellow
and her twelve-year-old boy is sobbing and
meaning himself te death, and cannot be
seethed or quieted. He will net eat or
sleep and keeps saying: "If I can only
see mamma once mere, I will be satisfied."
The stricken father say s : "If she wants
te see her hey again, she had better re
turn at once, but she must corae alone.
She will net be harmed or detained. T
xmake the eiler that the life of my son be
saved.-'
Tjik Philadelphia Bulletin vividly ex
plains the toue of the Blaine-Garfield
eulogy by this striking comparisen:
"There is as much difference between the
orator of the congressional obsequies ever
President Garfield and the orator of
mu j-umiudi rostrum anu tue congres
sional arena as there is between the meas
ured steppings of the led steed behind a
here'B hearse aud the magnificent rush of
the same steed driven te battle amid all
the impulse and excitement that he gath
ers from his living rider and the scene
around him."
Tue Philadelphia Times seems te under
stand the situation in the Republican
pentics of thisceuuty. The Butler men.
take the empty shell. The New Era insists
that its friends did net get the cold end of
the poker, and raises a point according te
which it claims for the voters the right,
under the new rules, te instruct the dele
gates en all state candidates. The point
seems te be well taken "-if" the new
rules prevail. In auy event the New Era
will wake up some day te find that it has
been beating the bush for Quay te bag
his game.
Uxdeic the new apportionment in the
election of president hereafter, Delaware
will have three electoral votes, or one for
every 48,000 inhabitants, and Nevada,
with only 62,000 people, will cast three
electoral votes, or one for every 20,000 in
habitants. Rhede Island will have a vote
for every CO.OOD inhabitants, while it will
take 141,000 in New Yerk and nearly 143,
000 in Pennsylvania te represent an elec
toral vote, thus making every ballet in
Rhede Island and Flerida count as much
as two in New Yerk and Pennsylvania.
One man in Nevada is of as much account
as seven in Lancaster county.
Bv the exclusion of liquor selling from
its limits Vineland, N. J., has gained
some reputation for morality. m There
must be a geed deal of pruriency and
maybe something as bad as whisky
among its people. An old man was cow
hided there tue ether day by the bister of
a chambermaid whom he was charged
with insulting by leaving indecent pic
tures exposed in his room. When the
suits and cress suits, growing out of this,
came en for preliminary hearing, public
spirited citizens hired a hall that seats GOO
men, wemeu. and children, and it was
packed with a crowd of all ages and sexes
anxious te hear and sce the filthy evi
dence which it was anticipated would be
produced.
It scorns that the Pittsburgh Dispatch
and Commercial Gazette both broke the
seals of Blaine's oration and broke faith
with these who sent it te. them, by pub
lishing it in advance of its delivery. Their
attaches also sent it te the Chicago and
St. Leuis papers. The New Yerk and
Philadelphia uewspapers were notified
that the two Pittsburgh morning dailies
of the " great party of moral ideas " would
break faith with allthe journals of the
country by publishing the spsech, but the
Eastern journals refused te priut the speech
until it was delivered. The Commercial
admits that it is ashamed of its perform
ance but says the Dispatch forced it into
the measure by dishonorable rivalry. The
result of this business and the genera! de
nunciation of it by decant journal- will
prevent any repetition of it.
Coxklixe aud Sargent have been fa
vorably reported te the Senate, but their
Stalwart friend. Hugh Hastings, of the
Commercial Advertiser, is net at all happy.
He thinks that Arthur has shown the
white feather and lest the admiration of
the people. Hastings's paper says: "It
was net the part of wisdom te nominate
Mr. Ceukling for an office that he did net
wish, and which no true friend would ad
vise him te accept. It was ill-judged te
neminate Mr. Sargent for the Berlin mis
sion, when he had been from all accounts,
fixed upon for a member of the cabinet,
It is an exhibition of weakuess we did net
expect from the president. New that his
enemies see him fluttering aud frightened
under their fire they will be encouraged te
go en. We reqret the president's mistake.
We had hoped fe:- better things."
By a clever stroke of enterprise the New
Yerk Independent had cabled te it, ficsh
from die author's hand aud bimultanceus
with its publication iu England, Tenny
son's uew poem en the " Charge of the
Heavy Brigade" the Scots Greys and
second squadron, of the Inniskillings at
Balakiava. It is of about the same length
as his famous '.' Charge of the Light Bri
gade," suggested by an incident of the
sanicbattle, and is, of course, a compauion cempauion compauien
pieco te that popular poem. It is very
kindly received by the American press,
but it is net likely te add te its author's
fame, nor te become as popular as the
carlicr'pecni. The enterprise of the In
dependent iu securing it by cable and giv
ing it te all the dailies, who promptly
credit it, is a- rare .stroke of advertising
genius.
PERSONAL,
will visit Arthur
Gkant will visit Arthur en his w;s
Seuth.
SeiAUer Hawluv, will be Decoration
day oraterat Gettysburg.
Geucral Sherman leaves Washington
today for a tour of inspection of the
Texan frontier of Mexico.
Hans Makart, the distinguished painter,
of Vienna, has just completed a full
leugth pretrait of SakauBekniiakdt.
Mrs. Ke, the widow of Professer Ke,
doesn't want " te go back -te the -old
tyranny of Oriental custom" aud probably
will continue te live in Bosten.
Newtex Case, of Hartferd, Conn., has
offered te give $100,000 for a library for
the nartferd theological seminary pro
vided an equal amount is raised.
Bjeiinstjekn-i: Bjokxsex, the Nor
wegian poet, is new at work en a ' ' great
drama," but expects te return te America
before long.
Jennie Line advises all American girls
who are iu Eurepe studying music te
SiUdyat home and get American hus
bands. Rev. Jehn Chandler Uiceciu will lec
ture en "The Devil's Rocking Chair," at
Union M. E. church, West Nottingham,
Chester county, en Thursday evening.
The Republican committce of Schuyl
kill county has unanimously resolved in
favor of the rcuominatien of Judge Per
suing, who is a Democrat.
Representative Reseckanh, of Califor
nia, was elected- chairman of the Demo
cratic caucue of the U. S. Heuse of Rep
resentatives, at a meeting of the caucus
last night.
"MaxAdlek" retires from the Phila
delphia Bulletin ; W.T.Cueasdale assumes
entire control of the Baltimore Gazette ;
and Mukat Halvtead, of the Cincinnati
Commercial is having a silver wedeing.
The Columbia Ilcrald has a picture of
Sam Matt Fkiey's ninth baby looking
into the crib at the tenth and wondering
where it get its bald head. The pretended
question is an insult te the elder baby's
intelligent powers of observation.
Horrible Murder or a Yeung Schoolmis
tress. Miss Emma Numbers, seventeen years
old, a schoolmistress at Salem, Adams
county, Ind., was found murdered in the
school by the scholars, who were first te
arrive. A few miles cast in Ohie is an
immense forest that has long been the
headquarters of a gang of cutthroats
against whom the law has been powerless.
It is believed that some of these despera
does, finding the little school teacher alene
in the school house, assaulted her and then
murdered her. Besides smashing her
skull the murderers hacked off one arm,
cut out her tongue and pinned her te the
fleer with a dagger, which was driven
through the neck. Large parties are
searching for the murderers.
TO-DAYS NEWS.
INCIDENTS OF THE TIMES.
FIKfc, FLOOD, CALAMITY AND CRIME.
Three escls Supposed te be Lest With
Tbeir Crews of 30 9Ieu.
The owners of the missing fishing
schooner Bessie W. Somers have given
her up for lest. She sailed Ter the Grand
Banks ou the 2d of January last and was
last seen en February 2, when she was
ready te come home. She wa3 probably
lest in the gale of the' 5th inst- She had en
beard fourteen men. The Somers was a
hue vessel, and was insured for $5,598, and
$1,200 ou her outfit.
The schooner Paul Revere,' of ihe
Geerges baddeckiug fleet, is given up as
lest. She has been absent live weeks.
She was last seen en the Geerges en Sat
urday, the 4th inst., the day before a
heavy gale, in which it was supposed she
was lest. She had a crew of fourteen
men, nearly all of whom are married and
leave families. The Paul Revere was a
first class vessel, and was owned by An
drew Lcighteu. There is $4,034 insurauce
ou the vessef and $1,100 en the outfit.
The schooner Charles Carrell which lefc
en the Geerges trip en Jauuary 12 was
seen en the day of the gale, aud has net
been heard from since. She had a crew
of cloven men. The schooner was owned
by Benjamin Montgomery & Seu, and was
valued at $2,700. She was insured for
$2,200. A feeling of profound sorrow pre
vails iu Gloucester. All hope for the
safety of the Geerges lleet appears te be
abandoned.
1'urpeses el t!je Irish League
It is stated that the central council of
the Irish National Land League of the
United States has called a general conven
tion of that body, te meet in Washington
en the 12th of April next, te consider
" Hew the Land League can meet and co
operate with ether bodies iu aiding Ire
land's cause ;" te elect a new executive,
aud te ".ratify the policy and purpese of
the Irish people as expressed by their
Land League convention at Dublin, the
emancipation of Ireland from landlord
rebbeiy and- foreign oppression." Each
branch of the League numbering 30 or
mere members " will be cutitlcd te one or
mere delegates, and each branch having
300 or mere delegates will be entitled te
an additional delegate for every 200 mem
bers above that number." Rev. Lawrence
Walsh, treasurer of the National Laud
League, repeits that from January 10th,
1831, te February 14th, 1883, the re
ceipts ' el the le vgue have aggregated
$201,233.
Frem the Submerged Region.
A heavy storm of raiu and hail, accom
panied by high wind, prevailed yesterday
iu the lower Mississippi region. Nearly
the whole cotton region, from Caire te
Vicksburg, is under water or likely te be
soeu submerged, aud tha damage is be
lieved te be greater than that done by any
previous flood. A crevasse occurred yes
terday in the Longwood Levee at Lake
Providence, Louisiana, which threatened
serious disaster. Much damage was done
by the nigh wiiiu te buildings in Lake
Providence, Jackben, Mississippi and ether
places.
Twe colored mep, driven from home by
the flood at Caire, Illinois, took refuge ou
Monday in an old beat aud were drowned.
DIa.istms te Freight Trains.
A freight train ou the Wisconsin rail
road run into a Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul freight yesterday, and soeu
after another Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul train came along and piled into the
rear of the Wisconsin train. A brakemau
named Richard McBridc, was killed, aud
the two engines and several cars were
wrecked.
A westward-beuud freight traiu dashed
into a through freight train en the Reme,
Watertown & Ogdeusburg railroad at the
crossing north of Syracuse, N. Y., yester
day morning. Ten or twelve leaded cars
aud three northward-bound cars were
burned. The locomotive of the Central
is lying iu the Onondaga lake.
I.ebs of liile.
Frank Atkins aud Geerge Dayis, rail
road employees, were killed by a passing
train, atJarvis, untarie, yesterday morn
ing. Jehn Grant aud William Orcult, were
killed by an explosion of nitroglycerine
while unloading caus of that compound
from a wagon, near Bolivar, New Yerk,
last night.
la Virginia City, Nev., United States
Marshal August Ash, committed suicide,
by sheeting himself through the heart.
Financial trouble aud hard drinking are
supposed te have been the causes which
led bim te the rash act.
In skirmishes with the insurgents iu
Herzegovina since the 10th instant the
Austi-ians have lest 110 killed and wounded
including ten officers.
Killing MiiuseU oil Ilia WileM Grave.
The superintendent of Ward's island has
notified the coroner of New Yerk of the
suicide in the Emigration cemetery en
the island of a perseu who had secured
admission te the place en the representa
tion that he was a visitor. It is said that
he had shot himself en the grave of his
wife.
Crushed Undent (iun Carriage,
u Washington, while Light Battery A,
.second artillery, under command of Cel.
Pennington, was maneeuvring at thoaise
nal Barrack, Private McMenamy, a gun
ner, was dangerously injured. McMen
amy, who is 55 years of age, was attempt
ing te mount a gun carriage which was in
motion. His sabre becoming entangled iu
his legs tripped him and he fell beneath
the wheels, which passed ever his abdo
men and breast, crushing in his ribs.
llalryineu Organizing.
The dairymen of western New Yerk aud
northwestern Pennsylvania met iu conven
tion at Jamestown, N. Y., yesterday
morning. Ex-Govorner R. E. Fenten
presided. Prof. J. T. Edwards, of the
Chambcnain iustitute, at Randelph, de
livered an address en ensilage in the aftor after aftor
ueon, and iu the evening the convention
was addressed by Prof. L. B. Arneld, of
-Rochester. I here was a large attendance
A permanent organization will be formed,
with the object of securing the best mar
kets, and te study improved dairying
methods. The convention will last two
d ays.
A MtiHT l'UR SCIENTISTS
Six I'uoble Clileft) Coming te Plymouth Reck
te .Perferin an Ancient Ceremony.
F. II. Cushing. of the ethnological
bureau of the Smithsonian institution at
Washington, accompanied by six chiefs of
the agricultural aud pastoral tribe of
Pueblo Indians, located in Western New
.Mexico is en route te Washington
and Bosten, by way of Chicago. The
object of the trip is te enable the Zunis,
who have a civilization similar te that of
the ancient Toltec aud Aztec peoples, te
perform a religious ceremony which
can euly be performed at the
ocean. The ceremony in its mi
nutest details, has been handed down from
the past by tradition, but se old is it that
net even their traditions say when it was
last performed. It is an interesting scien
tific problem, therefore, when these
people were en the shore of the ocean and
at what point. The ceremony will prob
ably be performed at Plymouth Reck.
Mr. Cushing has been adopted by the
highest religious order and will take part
in this ceremony. The Zunis are an agri
cultural people and have reached the
highest success in that industry as well
as in horticulture, and have large herds
and flecks. One of, the objects of this
trip is te secure an 'enlargement of their
grazing ranges. "Mr. Cushing has' discov
ered a rich and fruitful field for ethnolog
ical research, and scientists in the East
are waiting for the result of the trip with
great interest.
- Incendiary and Other Fires.
An incendiary fire at Sparrow Bush, two
miles west of Pert Jervis, N. 1., at four
o'clock yesterday morning, destroyed the
store building of Peter White, which was
occupied by H, E. Brewster, and the resi
dence of Henry Bellew. The less en the
store is $2,200 ; insurance $1,200.
The dry goods store of E. Malley, iu
New Haven, was destreved by fire early
yesterdaj morning. The building was
also occupied by Fullersten & Bradbury,
retail grocers. The I033 is estimated at
about $175,000.
A fire at Madisen, Georgia, destroyed
three stores and about 2,500 bales of cot
ton, causing a less of $48,000. -
II R.
The Oyster and the Shell.
Phihulelnbia Times. '
The machine bosses of Lancaster get
away with the oyster, in arranging the
Republican primaries, and the friends of
reform get away with the shell. The
opponents of the machine iuferced the
election of delegates te the state conven
tion at the regular nominating primaries,
and they also get through the county com
mittee a reform system of nominations te
be voted upon at the coming primaries ;
but the machine bagged the oyster by de
ciding that the people should net vote in
structions for governor or ether state offi
cers at the delegate elections. The oyster
was thus gobbled by the bosses, by the
decisive vete of 39 te 25.
The decision of the committee cuauingly
confines instructions te Judge Livingston
for supreme judge, who is just about as
likely te be nominated as he is te be struck
by lightniug in the next snowstorm. With
one candidate in the county for a state
effiee, every consideration of expediency
forbids offensive instructions fbr ether
candidates, and there is where the ma
chine has the bulge en its fees. Even if
the ether side were te vete for Butler for
governor, or for any ether state candidate,
the answer would be ready and plausible
that instructions were net iu order ;
that many Voted them because they hap
pened te be en part of the tickets, and
that no delegate can be bound by - a one ene
sided vote, whether large or small. The
machine has the oyster ; the independents
have the shell, and the machine will be a
severe stickler for the principle involved,
when the principle belongs te the oyster
already in its possession.
The Lancaster county delegation new
belongs te Judge- Livingston for supreme
judge, aud with the assent of the oppo
nents of the machine. By that assent the
independents made Livingston the owner,
and largely the maker, of the delegation,
with General Beaver as residuary legatee ;
aud the residuary legatee is really the
only party with practical interest in the
matter. The oyster is gene, therefore,
and only the hell remains with the oppo
nents of the machine. They will likely be
put in the position of voting for veueercd
machine delegates or voting against Judge
Livingston, and cither way, they must
fight with the odds against them. When
Farmer Butler loses Lancaster, or fails
te carry it with emphasis, Here Beaver
will have passed the winning pest. That's
the case in a nutshell.
In It a Point?
New lira.
The committee haH just adopted the
revised rules by a unanimous vote. The
schedule declares that if adopted by the
people'they shall be in force at once The
sixth rule gives the people the right te
vote instructions te the delegates chosen
te the state couvcutien. All jurisdiction
ever that question passed out of the con
trol of the committee as seen as they re
ferred them te te the people. The reso
lution therefore restricting instructions te
a single cendidatc is net worth tha paper
it is written en or the breath expended in
pressing it upon the' committee. And it
is strauge that no membar of the commit
tee seemed te sec this pe int.
LOCAL INTELL1UENC
V
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THK l'IRE IMSI'AJtTUlSKT.
The
Union
mid Washington Knglucit
ami
heusm aecuren. aecuren.
The committee ou the reorganization of
the lire department met last evening, pres
ent Messrs. Albert, Barnes, Barr, Bergor,
Davis and Zccher. The president and
ether officers of the Washington fire
company were in attendances and an
nounced the readiness of their cempauy te
at once enter into a lease of their property
and apparatus te th city ou the terms pre
viously eft'ercd by them, viz., $3j0 for all
the property and apparatus with the ex
ception of the second story room of the
engine house, which the company'desire te
retain for meeting purposes. If the city do de
sires the use of the second story room the.
rent will be y-lUJ. The committee stated
that the terms are entirely satisfactory, and
the necessary articles of agreement willbc
at ence drawn up aud executed, en the
terms first mentioned.
The oflicers of the Union cempauy were
also present wit'i the contract between
that company aud the city en the terms
previously published and reported te coun
cils. These include the letting of the
engine heuse and real estate and all the
apparatus te the city for the period of one
year, at the end of which time, namely, en
March 1, 1833, the city shall pay the com
pany the sum of $2,000, then all the appa
ratus aud personal effects te become the
property of the city. During the inter
vening year the company will be allowed
te man and officer the engine, subject te
the approval of the committee. The con
tract was read and duly executed by the
signatures of the members of the commit
tee and the officers of the Union.
It is also understood that the Washing
ton company will man and officer the
apparatus leased te the city.
Chairman Zechcr presented a se ties of
regulations for the government of the de
partment, which will be, submitted at the
meeting of councils this evening. They
provide for the various duties and re
quirements of the- several officers aud
members and for the mode of conducting
operations of the new department.
The chairman was authorized te adver
tise for proposals for fourteen sets of har
ness of new and improved pattern, such as
is at present used in lire departments of
ether cities.
Chief Engineer Hewell, who was pres
ent, was authorized te meet the trustees
of the Empire company te inquire en what
conditions they will lease their truck,
tower and bell te the city, or, it they will
net lease, what they will sell their bell and
truck for. The" committce will meet
again en Friday evening.
Ravages of Scarlet Pcvtr.
Scarlet fever has been raging te a con
siderable extent in the lower end of Berks
'county, in and around Boyertown, a place
of about two thousand inhabitants. The
physicians have been endeavoring te con.
quer the disease, 5ut have net as yet suc
ceeded. The number of deaths iu this
small place since December is between
sixty and seventy. Several families have
lest three and seme four children. Three
and four funerals a day are a usual occur
rence. The whole place has the appear
ance of being in mourning. The greatest
number of deaths have been of children,
but grown persons are also affected. Ne
cause can be given for the prevailing
fever,
NEW REPUBLICAN RULES.
THE IMPORTANT CHANGES I'KOPOSBD
A System Under Which the Weaker Candi
date May Win.
The new rules proposed for the govern
ment of the Republican party in this
county will, if finally approved, make
some decided changes in the manner of
making nominations which has been in
vogue since the adoption of the Crawford
county system. The new plan proposes te
have a popular vdte and also te elect dole dele
gates who shall carry out their instruc
tions, se long as the candidates for whom
these instructions are given are in the field,
leaving them free te exercise their dis
cretion only when there is no candidate re
maining before the convention who had
received teu per cent. of. the vete in their
district. In the event that these" mles are
adopted at the next primary en the last
Saturday of April, a convention te be held
tinder them will immediately fellow, and
in view of this a glance at their operation
is interesting.
An experienced Republican politician
and lightning calculator supplies us with
the following table and deductions which
will show hew a convention would be
composed under these new rules", the ap
portionment te be based, according te
their direction en the Garfield vete :
Districts.
Lancaster First Ward. ..
.Ve. 0 VcU'yatcs.
a (
I
4
..".". i
...a. .... 4
Second Ward
Tuird Ward
Fourth Ward
Filth Ward
" Sixth Ward
Seventh Ward
Kluhth Ward ,
Ninth Ward
Drumerc
Elizabethtown Boreusch
Elizabeth twp
Strasburg borough
Manhclm '
Salisbury
East Cocalico
Maytown
Caernarvon
iitivt .
Celemln
A: UllCl I )
V ilttt lL.lv
Marietta borough
Columbia First Ward
' Second Ward
Third Ward
Sadsbury
Leacock ,
JirecKnecc.......... ......
Mount .Joyberoiigh
i'etersburg
West Lampeter
Cquestegu
Washington U pper
Lewer
Ephrala
OQllQj
Manhcim twp
Millcrsville ,
West Earl
Silver Spring
Strasburg twp
ludiantewn
West Cocalico
East Earl
i'aradisc
Eust Ilemptleid
Lancaster twp
East Lampeter
Little Britain
Upper Leacock
Adamstown
Clay
l'equea
Providence
Jj lltv II
Mount Jey Leaicuns
West Denegal
Mount Jey Brenemau's
Kaphe Stickler's
East Denegal Springville....
iluplie Newtown
Maner--Xew
Menntvillc -....
Norwood
Northwestern
Sporting Uill
Union Square
East Denegal Lincoln ,
The total convention would consist of
20 1 delegates, of whom 37 would be from
Lancaster and 13 from Columbia. The
city cast little less th-tu 15 per cent, of the
total Republican vete of the county in
1880 and would have a little ever 14 per
cent, of the repeesentatien iu the conven
tion is a very fair ratio.
Of the 201 delegates 120 would be ap ap ap
portienedto the lower senatorial district
aud 138 te the upper about a fair division
accerdicc te their vote.
Had this system been iu vogue at the
last primary aud had the vete been the
same as it was, High would have been
nominated for sheriff ou first ballet ;
though from Lancaster city Kready would
have get 2D delegates 'te 14 for High,
while there was only 194 votes between'
them ; aud out et Columbia High would
I have had only 5 delegates te 8 for Kready
tiieuiru the vote steed JUl ler High te 2Sj
for Kready.
Fer prothenotary had the delegates fel
lowed their instructions the vote ou first-
ballet would have been
Friday 120
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Necessary te a choice 133
On the second ballet, in accordance with
the new rules, Fielis being dropped, -the
vote 6t his township, Warwick. - :ild
have geno te Skiles, the second hu;'-est
'candidate, aud Skiles would have been
nominated, though en the popular vote
Fridy had a majority ever him.
Fer county treasurer, as between the
thrce leading candidates, ene or the ether
of whom carried every township, the pop
ular vete of 1881 steed : Gridcr, 3,115 ;
Grissinger, 4,181 ; Geed, 4,812. According
te their instructions the vote of the dele
gates ou first ballet would have been,
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(joed .............................. .....10J
Little Britain being a tie and net voting.
After the first ballet, iu accerdance with
Rule 8, Se
Pn-v TV "fJriilpr wmilrl linvn tipnn
dropped.
An examination of the districts
he carried, and of the persons for whom
their second highest vote of instructions
was cast, shows that his 52 delegates
would then have been distributed as fol fel
lows under rule G, sec. IX. had they
strictly voted for the second shoice of their
respective districts. ,
Fer Grissinger : Elizabeth, Columbia
first ward, Petersburg, W. Earl, New
town, Mouutville and North Western
Total, 21.
Fer Geed : Caernarvon, Leacock, Man
heirn twp., Silver Spring, Lancaster twp.,
E. Lampeter, Little Britain and Norwood
Total 31.
Tie and net voting ; Maner New, 3.
The result of such a second ballet would
have been
Geed 140
Urissliigcr 121
This would, it is true, have jlcctcd
Geed, but when the returns are examined
it will be found that 2 votes only in Silver
Spring out of its 14C would have given
him the 3 delegates ; G votes in Lancaster
.township out of 120 would have given
him 3 delegates there ;' and a majority of
only 1 in Little Britain 3 delegates there
fore, although he received from the peo
ple G31 mere votes than Grissinger, a
change of 9 individual votes in these three
districts might have lest him their dele
gates and the nomination. .
This latter calculation is, however, based
en the assumption that the delegates fol
lowed strictly the second choice of their
district. Rule G, Sec. IX, may be se con
strued as te allow delegates te use their
own discretion when no caudidate remains
who received ten per cent, of the votes iu
their district, and as that would be the
case iu some of the abeve districts the del
egates in the oxercise of their volition
might have changed the result.
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KI.ECTION OF OFFICERS.
Ten Xearg of a Succeful Society.
At the regular monthly meeting k-2 St.
Bernard's beneficial society, held at their
hah last evening, the following officers
were elected te serve the ensuing year :
President, Jehn A. Ceylo ; Vice Prcsi-
dent, Q. Edward Hegener ; Secretary, W.
J. Widmyer; Treasurer, Mich. Haber
bush ; Finance Committee, Jes. F. Altiek,
Wm. A. Keyaer, Mich. Kennedy ; Mar
shal, Lawrence Bevle ; Standing Commit
tee, H. R. Altiek," Jehn J. Altiek, E. S.
Miller, Jeseph Lebar, JehnM. Dougherty,
Themas B. McManus, Jehn Hatz, Mich.
Corcoran ; Messenger, Geerge Nagle.
This meeting closed the tenth year of
the existence of this society. The fellow,
ing statistics show the financial work dur
ing that time : Received from ail sources,
$10,409,68 ; Disbursed for sick and mor
tuary benefits, $6,346.38, Disbursed for
contingencies, i
118.02
This society also contributed 8109.27 te
the yellow fever sufferers of the Seuth in
lS7t, the Mini being collected from its
members and circus of Lancaster.
ir:tde or Pupils.
The following is the relative grade, by
classes, of th pupils in attendance at the
boys' high school for the month of Feb
ruary just closed. Twe hours home
study expected from each pupil :
a
I
rutsT class.
CUus Caipentur
J II tier liar t....
J as HMunseu..
C II Obreiter...
D S Smith
Carl ItEaliv ...
Gee M Derwari,
Harrv ASliciik .
N J Black ..!
EGEIohheltz....
WmH Kirk
3R Slavtnaker...
Wm Dfceck
D. II. Stwsenig...
Wm C l'yfer.
Harrv It Smith...
Wm L Gable
Oa
....87
..b7
.OD
....83
....SI
....84
....7S
r.".ei
S9
...81)
SUCONU CLASS,
tiee W l'e(i;n-i ..
Jue II Ilurtiiiitu.
Chas J Zeehrr ...
Win II A user ..
Ed It Garvin
Fred S l'vter
C S Stennleltz..
Chas IS llrudy....
Chas V Hen-
Win It I'eters ...
WmG linker .. .
....!
S C Wiant
II It Shearer
A K Albrhtht....
Menree II Ilirsli..
T W Suesserett...
E M Stene
.78
.75
.74
...a:
... 91
)
...!H
...ill
...87
.-..S3
.. SI
...81
...78
6
Jehn A Charles..
.M
Isaac II Stlrk 66
WBIIellinecr....
..64
.3'.!
Abrainl.. Miles.,
Sidney Evans
..5S
TUIRD CLASS.
Ed 31 H.u-tinun 92
Gee E ZeUers SS
Cliasl Kreider 85
Uarry X Mills 82
Jas L Stewart 82
Jehn L Colie SO
ID Iiet:ustcIu 76
Jehn W Uitner 75
Jehn II Kreai,'C'i....75
Heward G Snyder 74
Edw C Ilursk 72
Jehn C Sample 7
Christ J Urban.....
Chas 1) Myers ,
Harry C fiercer..
.78
.71!
.76
Chas WIIellinger....6S
Chas. U. Oilier ....36
retrit-m class.
Sam'l Geuheir.uier....DI
Jehn X lletrlek !KI
W BKirkpatriek CS
Wm H Musser 67
Arthur Beardman...fiS
Herman L Wiant .'9
Gee L Harpel SS
Edw D Sprccher. 57
Gee L Cramer. 55
A Wayne Bltncr 50
D U Gumlaker 48
Harry L Zeek 47
Lemuel E I)erwart...44
Jacob H Greff. 40
U ZKueads 4(1
Sherman Kdi,rlpy..sa
Jlarlln 1. Ktam 88
WinMSlaxwell 3S
Harry ISucklus .-.82
Ilew'il Gressman. ...HI
Win I. StermlelU ...81
Wm J Kbcrly bO
Abram ISItner 7D
Wm K Adams 75
THumphreville 75
Heward iteurer. 74
The following is the grade of pupils in
attendance at the James street first
grade secondary school during the month
of February:
A CLASS.
Harry Apple 97
Sue Troyer
Katie Murnitt
Jehn Council
Gee. Yeagcr...
Laura Sleber
3Iaggle fctelnim-tz.
Fred. Lutz
Ed. Heltshu 92
Clias. Lcyden 88
Clara Uellet 87
Heckle u'Bryen 87
Thee. A pel 81
LilHe Jliies CO
CO
53
42
40
36
36
U CLASS.
Clius. bener 79
Charles Feil 77
Walt. Burr 3R
Lizzie Flick 37
Carrie Benedict. . . . 34
Gertie Zecher 31
Ella Masen 25
Flera Miles 18
Frank Smith 74
Samuel Beas 73
Christ Flick 73
Marv Munson 68
1'eter Flick 65
Slichael Hartley..... 64
William Leng. X
Daisy Gorrceht. 51
Katie JHcIntyrc.... 43!
Herb. I'lnkerten.... 17
viola Kline 11
Sephia Cunnlngli;
Aunm Finger....
mm 10
10
COUKTjOF OCAKTEH SESSSONS.
It Adjourned for tne Week Yesterdaj.
Yesterday afternoon court met at 2$
o'clock.
The iirst case called for trial was that of
Cem'th vs. Gee. A. and Charles D. Tripple,
charged with embezzlement. The defense
asked for a continuance of the case en the
grounds that Gee. A. Tripple,. ene of the
defendants, and the important witness of
the case, was sick and unable te come te
court. A doctor's certificate te that effect
was presented and after considerable talk
between counsel this case was continued.
Iu the case of Gee. W. Evans, charged
with burglary, which was an old one of
ex-District Attorney Eshlcman, a verdict
of net guilty was taken.
There were no mere cases ready for trial
and the jury was discharged.
Children's Heme Appropriation.
The court made'the annual appropria
tion of $10,000 te the Children's Heme for
1882, te be paid as fellows -. $2,000 en the
first Monday of April, $2,000 en the first
Monday of May, and $1,000 en the first
Monday of each succeeding mouth until
the meney is paid. Dr. Jehn L. Atlce and
Majer C. M. IIowell were appointed trus
tees of the institution and Mrs. Clara
Kaun'raan and Mrs. Mary L. Reed, mana
gers. "- m
raic drama.
Mr. Raymond 01 "Fresb, the Americas."
The large and cultured audience which
last night assembled at Fulton opera
house te witness Mr. Raymond's imper
sonation of his new character of Ferdinand
Nervy Fresh attested by their presence
and numbers their appreciation of the dis
tinguished qualities that have made that
actor among the most popular of Ameri
can comedians. " Fresh, the American,."
which is the title of the piece, in
which Mr. Raymond appeared, is an
altogether preposterous sort of com
position without the slightest tinge
of prebab' try iu any of the series of
ludicrous incidents that are strung te
gether with r.iy a small attempt at dra
matic de.c: . .:nd slight account of literary
ethics. 1 '. all that it is a thoroughly
comical perlermancc. Fresh is what tne
late Artemas Ward would call an"amoosin an"ameosin an"amoesin
cuss," aud his off hand manners and
startling assurance in the presence of East
ern potentates kept the audience in a con
tinued feme nt of mirth-. Mr. Raymond's
impersonate !i of the title role is quite
characteiisti-'. but net te be compared in
dramatic scope te his Cel. Sellers. It
serves the purpose of laughter and very
likely was never intende'd for any mere ex
alted object. In the support the principal
object of interest was a ferocious person
age, Mr. Atkins Lawrence, whose capac
ity for rant and savage stride was watched
with cut "u. is interest by an audience that
had been under a mistaken impression that
Mr. Lawrence was an actor.
MARIETTA MATTERS.
instruction by Fire or a Dnrellleg Heuso.
Mr. Jehn Cleppcr, living in the western
part of Marietta, lest his frame dwelling
house' about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon
by fire. Owing te the distance from the
centre of town where the apparatus is
beused, the building was destroyed oelere
the firemen reached it. The. lire origin
ated from astove pipe running through
the fleer. Ne insurauce. Luckily the
wind blew from the east or adjoining
property would Have suffered Mr. Clep
pcr's wife was lying ill at the time and
was carried te a nBigu -.....
Ilolleware works telephone connection
is very convenient and Chiques rolling
mill is 1 1 have connection.
Isaac Reising has started along-needed
first-class restaurant and James Jehnsen
has established the fifth cigar factory in
town.
Four rafts here se far, but the river has
fallen. -
Short Tint net Swet.
Hayes G iler'8 Columbia Herald.
In Lancaster, the ether day, we had oc
casion te make inquiry as te the where
abouts of the office of the Lancaster
Inquirer printing company. We asked
the information of Collector Wiley. He
informed us that "it was behind Calvin
Carter's pig pen." New friend Wiley
thought we were hunting Maj. Griest.
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