LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER WEDNESDAY MARCH 22 1882.
Eancaster hiUUizmiufc
WEDNESDAY EVS'O, MARCH 22, 182.
Editorial," Rashness " aid " Jfldgmeat."
The Examiner says :
Geed characters we will always respect ;
bat doubtful reputations, clothed with
false sanctity or fk:dtanf behind stolen
titles, are quite different, things, and can
be handled less carefully, bnt at the same
time must be spoken of truthfully. "The
case or our contemporary, im utu
GENCEit, is different. It is rash, but has i
tone and character, and se what we f said
concerning its charge .ufea. Mr. Cartef,'
grew out of just surprise,4-tkat a Kman
with the character of Mr. Carter, should
be harshly judged and cruelly wronged by
a journal generally fair and frequently
liberal.
When our esteemed contemporary
points out, as differences between the
Examiner and the Intelligencer,
that this journal has " tone and charac
ter " and is " generally fair and fre
quently liberal " we can hardly in truth
or politeness Gnd fault with the distinc
tion which it draws. A strict regard for
truth, however, compels us te say that
the Intelligence! is net " rash." It
forms its judgments with deliberation.
Especially was it net rash in accusing
Prison Inspector Calvin Carter of sell
ing his four dollar hogs te the prison at
seven dollars apiece. A communication
by a reliable and disinterested party te
that effect was printed in this journal in
geed faith and after a diligent inquiry
into its truth. That inquiry resulted in
developing very much stronger circum
stances te warrant publication than any
well-conducted newspaper obtains for
most of the news it prints. By a most re
markablc coincidence, it happened that
the allegation against Carter was net
htrictly correct,and the Intelligences
very promptly investigated and pub
lished the facts, which were that the four
dollar hogs sold te the prison for seven
dollars were bought from a personal ami
political friend of Carter, though lie liad
told his own neighbors that these in his
own pen were for the prison, and had
even engaged one of them te haul them
up. That Mr. Carter's " character' was
neither " harshly judged " nor " cruelly
wronged " may be inferred from the fact
that subsequent investigation of his ofli efli
cial conduct has shown that.
All of which, together with our de
fense against the charge of" libel, we
would be pleased te show before any
tribunal which Mr. Carter would seek
te redress his wrongs or reverse our
judgment of him.
That the Examiner se impetuously
denied " tone and character " te the In
telligencer, en the occasion of its
strictures upon Carter, we have never
laid grievously te the charge of any of
the ' generally fair and frequently lib
eral" persons engaged in its editorial
direction. Every well-informed person
knew that the sometimes tee " liberal "
hospitality of its editorial columns had
en that occasion been abused by a polit
ical loafer and editorial dead-beat, who
had his private ajxe te grind by a super
serviceable defense of Carter and an
ancient grudge te feed by abuse of the
Intelligencer. He failed about as
lamentably in this as in his " exclusive "
advice te Carter te bring a libel suit
which he has dropped like a het poker.
If the Examiner wants te establish tr
maintain a reputation for " tone and
character," for general fairness and fre
quent liberality, it will net only exclude
such intruders from the chance te make
it ridiculous, but it will cool off its red red
het Columbia correspondent, who is now new
using its columns te indulge in low
grade and unstinted abuse of Senater C.
y. Ivauffman, in order te discharge his
personal venom. There are a geed many
geed people who would 'be very well
satisfied te see Jehn M. Stehman nom
inated for state senator from the upper
district, in large measure because he has
suffered injustice from a " mad deg "
cry against him. But a very sure way
te hurt him with this class is te resort te
personal vilification of his opponent.
As a candidate for re-election Senater
Kauffman is te be judged by his record.
It is a very fair one, and a geed deal
mere creditable and less ridiculous than
his enemies hoped and some of his
friends feared it would be. Ilis " char
acter " as a citizen or an official deserves
quite as much " respect " and merits as
careful " handling " as Calvin Carter'?,
and it cannot be hurt much by the "red "red
het" abuse of the Examincr,s special
correspondent, especially when " Colum
bia"' makes himself and his motives se
plainly known.
A romantic interest always attaches
even te the most bootless search for the
North Pele. The popular apprehension
of failure throws around every new ex
pedition a glamour, and the uncertainty
which nearly always attends the-fate of a
portion of the explorers gives perpetual
melancholy interest te the lest mariners,
and stimulates new efforts in the direc
tien in which they have failed .Though alt
trace of Capt. DeLong of the Jeannette,
since October 9, has been lest, like Sir
Jehn Franklin, he will be an object cf
interest until the similar fortunes of
some new expedition supersede him in
popular attention. The Jeannette was
crushed and sunk by the, ice en the 12th
of June. 1881, in latitude 77 deg. 15 min.
north, longitude 155 deg., after having
drifted twenty-two months in the tre
mendous pack ice of the Northern seas ;
and, of her crew, Melville's party and
the two relief men who reached him
from De Leng, are all as yet who have
reported. They search in. vain across
trackless icefields and during the flees
of the upper zone for their ill-fated com
rades. The story of their adventures
and sufferingais much the same as that
of all Arctic explorers, and for anything
except newspaper sensation the Herald
expedition has thus far been as profitless
as any of these sent te that region.
The horrors, of Andersonville may
have net been exaggerated, but the re
sponsibility for keeping Union prisoners
amid them has never been satisfactorily
located, and the article from a New
Orleans paper which we reprint te-day
is at least worth reading as a Southern
statement of the Confederacy's willing
ness te exchange prisoners. ,
The tell-bar must go sooner or later,
and the sooner the better.
at tne late meaung or me jrennsyiva-
ma raiireatr aiuctvuuiuare, x reaiueui
Roberts said, , V th local business is at
the bottom of- tbjfc reaCs prosperity."
Wise men will net kill the geese which
lays golden eggs nor will they overtax
the fowl and expect her te lay two a day.
In an opinion, of which we print an ab
stra6t te-day, Judge Baxter, of Cleve
land, lays down the eminently sound
doctrine that " railroad officers are in a
qualified sense trustees for the public as
jwell as for the shareholders, and are in
law as well as in morals bound te exe
cute the trust imposed upon them by
their charters, se as te furnish te every'
one applying therefer equal facilities in
the use of their reads and upon the same
terms." A discrimination against local
supplies is net only inconsistent with
geed material policy, but it is repugnant
te geed morals and sound law. There is
no mere odious form of discrimination
than that which takes' advantage of the
necessities of local shippers te charge
them many hundred per cent, higher
tonnage than is imposed upon unprofita
ble patrons of the railroad company ;
and te suck the life bleed of local manu
facturer in order te supply the " vam
pires of the rail " as Railroad Commis
sioner . Adams ' characterized the fast
freight lines, express companies and par
lor coach companies.
.
There can no longer -be any doubt
that Anna Dickinsen's essay at playing
Hapilet is an utter failure, and that she
entirely lacks genius for dramatic repre
sentation. Nothing but this stern fact
could account for the very general ad
verse criticism of her venture. There
has been much mere of an effort te write
her up than te write her down. She is a
melancholy failure, both as .an actor and
a play-wright, and the fact that she as
cribes this entirely te hostile critics,
proves that she is incapable of a correct
estimate of her own powers. Exit Anna.
The wrangling Philadelphia Deme,
crats are at it again like Kilkenny cats.
If they would only finish each ether off
like the Kilkenny cats did, theie would
be peace with honor.
Four dollar bank notes are popular in
1 Canada.
Female physicans are increasing
number in Russia.
in
Between hostility te the administra
tion and indignation at the capers of their
present dis'solute Legislature, the Ohie Re-
' publicans are expected te let go their held
i this fall.
I Moiuienisii having waxed stronger aud
stronger in twenty-oeo years of Republi
can administration, it is a little late in the
day te stigmatize the Democrats as " de
fenders of polygamy."
An Otteman newspaper has tersely sum
mad up the net results of the French cam
paign iii Tunis : Fer France glory,
typhus, diarrhcea. Fer the Arabs civili civili
zitien, famines, massactes. Geucral total
death aud misery.
It has been found that a pensioner of
the war of 1812, down in Seuth Carolina,
lias been drawing his pension regularly
through the agent though lie died in
1872. The agent likely thought he was
as much entitled te it as some of the frauds
who have been grabbing under the arrears
of pensions act.
Utah's Mormons keep it from becemiug
a state, but New Mexico with half the
population is likely te get in for the beno bene
lit of a very few men who would run the
machine, as a large proportion of the popu
lation is Mexican in origin, language, and
peisenal characteristics, who care very
little for public affairs, and knew almost
nothing about American politics.
FATH.
Out el the leading lurna.ee name
A mass of molten silver came ;
Than beaten Inte pieces three.
Went forth te meet Its destiny.
The' first a crucifix was made,
Within a soldier's kn&psacs laid :
The second was a locket lair,
Where a mother kept her dead child':; hair ;
The third a banglf, bright and warm,
Around a faithless woman's arm
F.E. Weatharly.
Tuc Geneva canton .lias 1,600 places
where liquor is.seld an average of ene
for each G5 inhabitants. The people spend
$60 per head for drink and less for bread.
While the canton has these 1,600 whisky
shops, it has only 111 butchers' shops, 132
bakers' shops, and 420 grocers' shops.
The $4,000,000 which the Genevans spend
is equal te the maximum deposits in the
public savings banks.
The Maheneitcs propose te divide Vir
ginia into ten-shoe string congressional
districts, of which they will appropriate
eight for themselves and give ever two te
tha Democrats, taking care te group all
the ablest Democrats and all the kicking
Rapudiaters into these two in the hope
that their conflicting ambitions may lead
te a destructive Kilkenny fight even in
the few Democratic districts.
A Washington editor, named II in ten,
whom Jehn Sherman called a "dead beat,"
responds with alacrity by calling Sherman
all kinds of a liar and a thief in all Ian.'
guages ; he also reminds him, casually,
that a Washington judge has recently de
clared en the bench that criminal libel
admitted no plea of truth less than abso
lute, and that motives could net be pleaded
in defense. That glove is tee heavy for
Sherman te pick up.
Congress should lese no time in cut
ting up by the roots that mess covered
"custom" of the supreme court,according
te which $2 for a page of 100 words is ex
acted for copies of decisions which many
a copyist would be glad te write for ten
cents a page; and that ether " custom"
which prevents any one, newspaper re
porter or lawyer, writing notes in the
presence of the court, by reason of which
the only way te secure a correct report of
a decision is te pay . the clerk's fees for a
copy of it, waiting his convenience.
Although Themas a' Kempis' "Imi
tation of Christ " has passed through five
hundred editions in Ave hundred years, it
is only new the world is learning the per
sonal history of this most widely read of
all authors., He was -born in 1380, forty,
miles Yrein Cologne His peer artisan
father and pious mother encouraged his
early inclinations te piety, and at 14 he
went te Deventer te perfect his education
and became associated with the Brethers
of Common Life, and te Mount St. Agaes,
near Zwolle, where he became a Canen
Regular of -St. Augustine, and dwelt the
greater pan of his long life. In person,
Themas a' Kempis was somewhat under
middle height, with a fine bread forehead
and thoughtful, massive countenance of
the Flemish cast. The colerof his face
was fresh, with a slight tinge of brown.
His eyes when in repose were large, grave
and bespoke a mind engaged in ' centem
platien, as if he were absorbed in looking
at what was beyond the present.
A fresh fraud seems te turn up eveiy
day in Washington and it keeps the most
alert person moving te get the run of
them all. When Mexico and the United
States settled the claims of their citizens
who allegfed te have suffered damage from
the depradatiens of persons under the pro
tection of the ether state, our people had
much the larger claim, and Mexico has
been paying the three or four millions in
which it was mulcted in installments of
$300,000 each. Since the money has been
paid out in part te American claimants, it
is found that the two largest claims, about
a half million each, one for cotton de
stroyed by the Mexicans and another for a
mine taken by them from an Ameiican,
are unmitigated frauds, the award having
been based en perjury and secured by
means of a conspiracy. Our government
will warn and protect Mexico from further
less by this rascally imposition. New
comes the Grand Ferks, Dakt, chamber
of commerce and tells the people of the
country that a bill new pending in Con
gress, introduced by the Hen. W. D.
Washburn, of Minnesota, which proposes
te vacate all the Indian - reservations of
Minnesota, except that of White Earth,
and te assomble all the Indian bands upon
the reservation of White Earth, puts it
within the power 6f "rings," or combina
tions of capitalists aud speculators, te
purchase from the government vast areas
of pine timber lands at one-tenth of their
market value. Alse it virtually abrogates
the homestead and pre-emption acts ever
nearly one-half of Northern Dakota, in
cluding the finest portions of the terri
tory, and throws the laud open te non
resident speculators and " bonanza farm
ers," who; it is calculated, are te get
$40,000,000 worth of pirc lands at a nom
inal value, and $10,000 sections for from
$200 te $400. This should be looked after
by our statesmen.
PERSONAL.
The fact that Judge Truskey declines
te be a candidate for governor makes him
in the sight of the Times, a man likely te
be called.
Harriet Mautineau declared that she
had never met but three men who knew
hew te treat women ! Has that been the
trouble with Annie Dickinsen, tee ?
Besides Cel. S. B. Dick, the Press
thinks the Republicans have timber for
Congressman at large in Gov. Heyt, Gen.
Henry White, Gen. W. H. Koentz and
the left candidates for governor.
By the death et Miss Burb, of New
Yerk, the benevolent Christian lady,'
whose estate is valued at $3,000,000 the
Mount Siniai hospital and the Hebrew
orphan asylum will each receive the km
of $10,000.
A Chinaman in Bradford fell desperately
iii love with a young colored woman. His
affection was returned but sparingly by
the dusky beauty, who finally cast him off
entirely, which cut the Celestial's tender
soul te the quick, and he took a whopping
big dose of morphine te end his woes.
Medical attendance, however, resuscitated
him.
Mis Lillian Tayler, daughter et
Bayard Tayler, studying art in New Yerk,
says her father never wrote up a place
without making a careful study of it,
which studies were the origin of the hun
dred and fifty sketches lately exhibited,
which were a surprise te theso who did net
knew Bayard Tayler painted with any
ether pencil than his glowing words.
The late Jens M. Hablistex, cashier of
the Baltimore Suu, whose death en Mon
day was noticed in our news columns yes
terday, was married te Miss Munderf, of
this county, aud was a brother-in law of
Dr. J . A. E. Reed, of this city, who at
tended him in his last illness. Mr. Hab
listen was in his sixty-first year; and had
for a continuous period of forty-two years
been connected with the Sun.
Cel. Mulberry Sellers is te the front in
the persen of Mr. Morten Ferver, of
New Yerk, who tells of marvelleus caves
out in Texas, " reached by recent railroad'
extensions," where billions of bats have
roosted doubtless for millions of years
aud made guano deposits thirty feet deep.
" There's millions in it." A few shares
of stock in the railroads leading te these
uiauure bonanzas may yet be had at par.
Thesia8 J. McKec, a New Yerk lawyer,
has the largest and finest collection of
books and pictures relating te the stage in
America. He is an amateur of
the drama, and spares neither
time nor money te make his collection
complete. Net long age a dealer
called upon him with an original bill of a
performance of the " Scheel for Scandal,"
given by the British officers in New Yerk
during the Revolution. The name of Majer
Andre is in the cast. "These bills are very
scarce," said the man " and worth a geed
deal of money." "Yes," said Mr. McKee,
" I knew they are. There are but eight in
the country. I own five, besides the proof
of the first copy corrected in M ajer Andre's
hand."
Tlie Fish Onestlen A Dealer who Bites for
Information.
Lancaster, March 22.
Editors Intelligencer: Will you
allow me ask through your columns, what
the fish dealer is te de, or where he is te
go te dispose of his fish? After the first
of April no dealer is allowed te offer any
fish for sale in Penn square, or sell them
from his wagon through the streets. The
old fish market, corner of Vine and Seuth
Queen streets,has been declared a nuisance
by the court. Councils have taken no ac
tion in the matter te procure another
market. The -fish season is at its heightb,
fresh shad are coming in market, and
unless some place is agreed upon by coun
cils in the next two weeks Lancaster will
be withent a fish market.
Fish Dealer.
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In accordance with the call issued by a
conference of Democratic, lawyers, held at
Senater Gorden's office, is Philadelphia, en
Saturday last, a meeting of the Democratic
members of the bar was held yesterday
jfternoen at the rooms of the Yeung Men's
Democratic association, en Seuth Merrick
street, in opposition te the re-election of
Judge Briggs. In the absence of Mr.
Henry Flanders, who presided evefthe
conference, Mr. Geerge M: Dallas was
chosen chairman and Senater Gorden acted
as secretary. S. Davis Page offered the
following :
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
meeting that the next Democratic judicial
convention for the county of Philadelphia
should nominate an upright, competent
and liberal-minded Democratic lawyer for
the office of judge of the court of common
pleas, Ne. 4.
Beselved, That a committeee of nine be
appointed for the purpose of taking sueh
steps as may be necessary te promote the
objects of this meeting, which shall report
te a subsequent meeting.
General Snewdcn said that he was in
favor of a non-partisan judiciaiy. As it
new steed there were thirteen Republican
judges out of the fifteen. The Democracy
of Philadelphia cast two-fifths of the vote
of the city, and they should have a larger
representation en the bench. He moved
te amend the resolutions by prefixing the
following :
Whereas, It is the sentiment of this
meeting that there should be annn-parti
san judiciary ; therefore, etc.
Edmund Randall said that the legal
profession had a proper and just griev
ance against Judge Briggs, and that they
fully recognized his unfitness for the posi
tion. He had nothing te say against his
moral character,but he was net the proper
person for judge. He claimed that Judge
Briggs used the bench as a rostrum, auu
acted as a stump speaker. His court waB
net known as a " hall of justice, but a
circus." The speaker continued at soine
length in this vein te the amusement of
the assembled disciples of Blackstone.
S. Davis Page thought that in this mat
ter all personal considerations should be
laid aside. He referred te the sentiment
of the people as expressed at the late elec
tions as being opposed te the rule of the
gas trust. He believed that the appoint
ment of James McManes as park com
missioner by the beard of judges de
manded the disapproval of the people. He
feared the elevation of any person through
the influence of McManes. This was a
fitting time for the people te express their
sentiments. Judge Briggs was the first of
the beard which oppeinted Mr. . McManes
te come before the people for re election.
Mr. Jehn Cadwalader moved te strike
out "judiciary" in General Snowden's
amendment and insert "judges," which
was adopted.
The preamble and resolutions were then
discussed at some length, the question be
ing raised that the former was in contra,
diction te the latter.
The resolutions as amended were finally
adopted, and the meeting adjourned te re
assemble at the call of the chair.
Among the prominent Democrats pre
sent were Geerge M. Dallas, s. Davis
Page, A. A. -Hirst, Jeseph P. Kenned y,
Majer Moses Veale, Charles H. Krumb
haar. Secretary Gorden said that among
ethers who were in entire accord with the
movement were Cel. R.P. Dechert, Daniel
Dougherty, Jehn R. Read, C. M. Hus
band, E. Coppee Mitchell, Geerge
Northrop, Davis Duffield, Charles Henry
Jenes, Themas Greenbank and Charles F.
Stiltz.
Streng as was this array against Judge
Briggs, there appears te be even mere for
midable opposition in his own party. Ar
rangements wcre made yesterday for a
meetiug of Republican members of the
bar te consider the best plan te pursue te
prevent the continuance of Judge. Briggs
upon the bench. " I am of the opinion,"
said one of the most influential Republi
can members of the bar yesterday, " that
the Republican lawyers will support any
candidate for the judical position whom
the Committee of One Hundred will en
dorse" " Yes " said a preminent mem
ber of the Committee of One Hundred,
" aud you may be assured that there is net
a man - in that body who is in fayer of
Judge Briggs remaining any longer in the
position he has disgraced."
A TMKKK DATS' TKASOK.
Ir.
Faluicsteck's View of the Reading Mys
tery.
Editors Intelligencer : In your paper
of the 20th inst., we notice the account of
a "Trance," in the case of a young lady of
Reading, Pennsylvania, of three days con
tinuance, aud there scarcely a week passes
that seme of the papers de net detail
cases of even longer duration and from
the accounts generaily given the condition
does net seem te be understood, even by
physicians who are called in te restore
them te consciousness
We are constrained te ask, why in this
se?
We answer, simply, because the trance
condition is considered a disease which, it
is net J and as physicians de net study its
true uature before they are called te -such
cases, thev are net only ignorant of its
natnre, but incapacitated te afford any re
lief. The trance condition, as we have often
before stated, is simply natural somnam
bulism, and when deeply entered, neces
sarily presents symptoms of catalepsy,
which are natural te it when the condition
is net understood by the patient. But
when the patient has been taught its true
nature, instead of it being a disease re
quiring medicines, it is absolutely itself a
remedy for the relief Of human suffering,
as well as for diseases of the mind and
body.
If, therefore, physicians desire te be of
any use whatever, we would say te them,
study the true nature of the condition and
apply the only remedy, which a true
knowledge of the powers of theso who are
in it will render self-evident. We are
sorry te add that medical works de net
give the necessary information which the
study of statu-velence can only impart.
Wsr. Baker Fahnestock, M. D.
Lancaster, Pa., March 21, 1882.
Seme Recent Tragedies
A. H. Themas , Jr., son of a prominent
minister of "Memphis, Tenn., was found
dead in the street from a pistol -ball wound
early en Monday morning. He is supposed
te have been murdered.
On Wednesday night a snow slide in
Lake Canten, California, buried several
men, four of whom Rebert Trumbull,
Alex. McKeen and B. Grant miners, and
Henry Schumacher, engineer .were killed.
Charles Ray, seu of William Ray, a well
known citizen of Louisville, Ky., yesterday
shot and killed James Kennedy, an ex
policeman. The men were relatives, and
it is thought family affairs led te the
sheeting. Ray is in jail.
Death of a Divine.
Rev. Dr. Orville Dewey, a well-known
Unitarian divine, died yesterday at Shef
field,' Mass., aged 88 years.
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GUEAaKD ritOtf THE MOJtSHiSU-UAlM.
Recerd or the Leading Kvents That Mate
Up the Uadgetuf tsfe Dy The
Small Fex.
Fifteen cases of smallpox and nine
deaths were reported in St. Leuis last
weekl-rFear new cases of the disease
have been reported, in Seuth Bethlehem J
since bunday ; thus far there have been
152 cases and 30 deaths from the smallpox
in that place.
Judge Advocate General Swaim has
made a report te the secretary of war in
the case of Sergeant Masen. It is under
stood he recommends a modification ,of
Masen's sentence, en the ground that
" Guiteau was net in a position where he
could possibly have been killed by Masen
when the latter was shot, and that, under
such circumstances, the charge of assault
with intent te kill cannot be sustained
The New Yerk board'ef aldermen yes - l
terday adopted a resolution asking "that
wslnv nrlAitAn nawv1VaiY'k nlw 1a 1
Masen be pardoned.
The Connecticut Heuso of Representa
tives yesterday refused te receive a reso
lution asking an unconditional pardon for
Masen.
At yesterday's cabinet meeting the
court martial case of Cadet Whittaker was
disposed of by disapproving the scutence
of dismissal from the service imposed by
the court, en the ground that the techni
cal evidence taken at the trial was -improperly
intaeduced.: The decision of .the
cabinet bustains the opinion of the attor
ney general.
LOST, WITH ALl. ON BOARD.
The Steamer Sidney L. Wright, Fennctereil
en tier Way te Fert Riee Ne One
Buvuu rrgiume wrecK.
The steamer Sidney L. Wright, which"'
was used as a ferryboat en the Delaware
river between Tacony, Philadelphia and
Bridesburg, as te whose fate there has
been se much anxiety for a long time, it
would scctn is new at. the bottom of the
sea. The probability is that she was lest
en her way te Perte Rice, with all en
beard, off the Frying Pan Sheals, coast of
North Carolina, about the 2d inst. Some Seme
portions of her wreckage were picked up
near Smithville, N. C, en the 4th inst.,
and the following days. The uUfortunate
men who went down with her are : Silas
C. Cressman, captain, Bapylen, L. I. -William
McShane. engineer, Norfolk, Va;
a fiteman, nephew of the captain, New
Yerk, city, 'and two. deck hands of Phila
phia, who shipped the day she sailed.
The lest vessel was comparatively a new
craft of 59 tens register, havinz heen built
in 1877 for the Delaware Transportation
CDmpany. She was the regular passenger
beat between Philadelphia, Bridesburg
and Tacony, and was purchased by the
firm per order of a wealthy resident of
Perte Rice, whose name under the cir
cumstances they would net new like te
mention. They then contracted with Cap
tain Silas Cressman,. an old and experi
enced navigator, for her safe delivery at
Perte Rice for a certain sum of money,
and insuring the craft for $10,500, she
started ler Philadelphia en January 2nd
last, with a total complement of five men.
The captain's brother was te have uone as
engineer, but he obtained McShane as a
substitute in consequence of a mere profit
able engagement for himself en shore.
February 24 the steamer put in at
Moerchead City for slight repairs, the
captain writing that he should sail the
following day. The news received was en
the 14th inst., by the publication of the
following paragraph : '
Smithville, N. C, March 0, 1882.
A stcam-guage was picked, up by a
pilot-beat en the 4th inst. Number of
guage 24,778, Utica, Steam Guage com
pany, Utica, N. Y.; also, as well as could
be made out, weie the names "B &
Husten. Kensington engine aud boiler
works, Philadelphia, Penn.
The number thus given is that of the
Wright's guage, se. that beyond a doubt
she is lest, with all en beard.
Swearing That Ills Confession Was False.
Geerge Ellis, en whose confession Craft
and Neal were convicted of the murder of
the Gibbens family, at Ashland, Kentucky,
yesterday, called a notary public te. tlie
jail and made affidavit that his confession
and testimony wcre false.
Reopening of the Antenelll Will Case.
There is a prospect of the reopening of
the Antonelli will case, the Court of Cas
sation having decided that the Countess
Lambcrtini, who alleges that Cardinal An
tonelli was her father, has a right te call
evidence in regard te her paternity and the
fraud which she asserts exists in the regis
ter of her baptism. .
The Fire Recerd.
The warerooms and finishing depart
ment of the New England furniture com
pany, at Grand Rapids, Mich., were
burned en Monday night. Less, $25,000.
The residence of S. Jl ,P. Ladd, and
some' surrounding property at Norwich,
Conn,, were burned yesterday. Less,
$10,000.
The gas works of Mechauiesburg, Ohie,
were ignited en Monday night by the
breaking of a lantern, aud were burned
down.
A tire at Miucela, Texas, ou Monday,
destroyed a block of mercantile buildings.
Less, $80,C00.
Fer Heaver ana Rrewn.
The Republican cemmittee of Indiana
county, Penna , yesterday inshucted its
delegates te the r-tate convention te sup
port Beaver for governor and Brown for
judge.
Grant lu the White Heusa.
General and Mrs. Grant arrived in Wash
ington yesterday afternoon, and were
Qiiventethe White Heuse, where they
will remain for several days as .the guests
of President Aithur. .
A I'HlSlClAS'd C1U3IE
He Attempts
te Assault
Patient.
a Toens; Lady
At Hazleton, Pa., en Saturday the trial
of Henry Stautfeniug, charged with a das
tardly assault en a woman, had hardly con
cluded when the news spread that Dr.
Rebert Blakeslee had assaulted a lady pa
tient while in his office. Blakeslee was ar-,
rested and ledged in jaii, and having had
a hearing lie was ledged in the Wilkes
barre jail teawait trial.
The story of the girl, who is sixteen
years old, is that she and her aunt went te
the hotel where Blakcslee's office is, and
that, in order, as the physician said, an
examination might be made, the aunt re
mained in the parlor while the physician
took bis' patient into his private office.
Jlerc the assault was made. The girl re
sisted and called for help,, and was finally
allowed te depart. She immediately in
formed her aunt, and the arrest followed.
Thisis said te be Blakeslee's third offense
of this kind. . '
Mere Disaster in tne Seuth.
There were high winds and heavy rabu
in the Lewer Mississippi region en Mon
day night, and, asaresult, mere disasters
te levees are reported. The Terrene levee,
at the junction of the White and Missis
sippi rivers, caved in during the night, and
several small buildings were washed away,"
but no less of life is reported. The Alsatia
levee in Thompson's Bend, ou the Loui
siana side, below Helena, Is also broken in
three places. These breaks, which will de
great damage, caused.a fall of, several feet
in the river atVicksburg. -TheL'argent
levee, opposite Natehez, is also broken in
two places ; the levee around Lake Con
cordia, at Tacony, and the Hendersen-
Concordia
Paris, Lepisiana, ajtaiioerekeu
Terrl-
resi edits en Ml He lowlands below-
Shotgun Spragne Again.
In the supreme court at--Prevideuce, R.
I., yesterday Hen. C. B. Farnsworth,
custodian of the Quidniek company's
property, took out a writ against William
Sprague and Superintendent Carey, of the
ArcticTnllTfer contempt'ef - court.- It Is
alleged ijhat -Sprague iaid Carey denied
Farnsworth admission te the mill for the
purpose of taking an inventory, .Sprague
threatening te threw Fariie'swerth into the
river.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
1UE METHODISTS.
Adjournment of the Conference The Ap
pointments. At a meeting of the Methodist ceufei-
- encerinEhiIadelphi - jtcsterdafi Re v. T.
li iLT a& 1 J A'aba 3 aim Al1nalkk
B. Neal v; offered hoftllewiiis? :
r tl 3 w .rw
Jteselced, That we deprecate the multi
plication and continuance of small charges
that are net likely te give a fair support te
a pastor and his family, ('and1 thatiwe'de
preeatethepoliey of admitting preachers
te such an extent that true and tried mem
bers of the conference arc crowded out.
The motion was adopted after a sharp
debate.
The following persons were admitted en
trial : OlhxjW. Miutzcr,C. W. Green, Jo Je
seph II. Smith, -Jehn DjfMartin Arthar
Oakes, Charles 'EdgarAdhmsen", Geerge
W. Dunsan, Harry Hess, A. 31. Millison,
A. Hecbncr and William Bamfprd.
The afternoon session of the conference
was largely occupied in tlie presentation of
reports from the various organizations
sustained by ite. f
'The Heme missions and Suslehtatien;
society was representedte, be'in a satis
factory comhtieu. Thereportef the tract-
cause was adopted, as was that of the
cemmittee en temperance.
The church extension eommtttce re
commended $3,500 for distribution in the
conference, wliile the Freed men's aid so
ciety thought 60,000 pupils was a ceed
showing for its $300,000 investment. The
statistics rnade a gratifying shewiug of
the numerical and financial strength of the
conference. The next session will be held
in Union church, Philadelphia, in March,
1888.
In the evening the appointments were
announced by the bishop, among which
the following arc of local interest : -LancasterFirst
church, W: C. Robinson ;
Missions, R. A.McIlvaine, one te be sup
plied ; St. Paul's, A. T. Cellum. Chuich
town and Morgantown S. W. Smith ;
Georgtewn and Gap E. C. Yerkes j Bain
bridge A. N. Millison ; Strasburg J.
Stringer ; Mount. .Tey U. Reads ; New
Helland and Barcvillc Te be supplied ;
Columbia R. W. Hnmbriss ; Washing
ton Te be supplied ; Marietta J. C.
Weed ; Mount Nebo R. C. Weed ; Mil
lersville J. M. Wheeler ; Safe Harber
A. J. Jamther ; Union and Octoraro W.
W. Weisgarten ; Mount Hepe 9. T.
Hurlock.
The presiding elders of the districts in
which the local churches are situated, are
respeptivcly : West Philadelphia districts,
J. Dickerseu ; Seuth Philadelphia dis
trict, J S. J. -McConnell.
Rev. Mr. Downey, the here of the
" Geese Sermon" at the Bread street
church, whose . troubles were yesterday
reported, was reappointed te his charge in
spite of the opposition that had been man
ifested by seme members of his congre cengre congre
tien. Rev. C. F. Turner, formerly of this
city, was appointed te Summerficld church,
Philadelphia : iiev. S. O. Garrison, te
Catawissa ; Rev. T. M. Jacksen, te.Eben-
"ezer church, Manayunjc f Rev. Dr.J. B.
Debbins, te St. Peters, Reading ; Rev. J.
Liudcrmuth, te Asbury, Philadelphia ;
Rev. H.- Wlweleri te Christ church, Phil
adelphia ; Rev. Beyle, te Western. Phil
adelphia ; Rev. W. II. Aspril, te Dauphin
(supernumerary) ; Rev, J. C. Gregg, te
Bethany, Philadelphia ; Rev. H. O. Smith
te, Salem, Philadelphia; liewi'. Coembo,
toFernweod.
After the appointments were read the
convention adjourned until next year.
1
OBITUARY.
Death of Owen Hepple.
. Owen Hepple died at his residence, Ne.
135 Shippcn street, at an early hour this
morning, aged-70 years; 2 months and 15
days. . He was perhaps as widely known
te residents and railroad tiavelers as any
ether man in Lancaster, no was born in
Chester county and very parly in life en
gaged; in railroading. He was a con
ductor en the " main line' from Philadel
phia te Lancaster (new a part e the Penn
sylvania' railroad) when the passenger
cars were drawn by horses. He was
afterwards conductor en a train of
steam cars," en which it is said said
Tem Scott, afterwards the famous presi
dent of the raihead company, was fire
man. While acting in the capacity of con.
ductef, Mr. Hepple married Miss Margaret
Smcltz, and senuafterwaids became pro
prietor of the Railroad hotel, a frame,
rough-cast structure that steed where the
northern end of the Pennsylvania railroad
passenger depot new stands. When the
Cadwell heuse (new the Iliei.tcr house)
was erected en the site of the old Netth
American hotel, Mr. Hepplo took charge
of it and conducted it for several years ;
and when the present passenger depot was
erected, Mr. Hepplo took charge of
the restaurant theicin and carried
it en successfully until October,
1880; ' when declining health com
pelled him te relinquish business
and retire te private life. During the late
war he was largely engaged in furnishing
horses and ether supplies for the use of
the United States government, and fur a
tfme ran a line of omnibuses fiera the
railroad depot te all parst et the city. It
is as a hotel and restaurant keeper that"h5
was most successful and most "widely
known, and much of his success ju, these
departments was due te the geed judg
ment, skillful management and amiability
of his wife. He had two children, a son
and a daughter, but both of them are
dead. Hepple.was for many years' a mem
ber of Lqdge43?Fiaud ArM.5Hi funeral
will takeplace at-2 o'clock" en-Friday. '
Must Sign Their Karnes.
Constable Killingcr, of the Fifth ward,
has received a long letter from seme one
who complains thabecrlis sold en Sunday
in the Fifth ward. There is no name te
the letter, and the officer wants it under
stood that he will take ue notice of any
anonymous communications. If any per
sons desire' tejnake any complaints, of the.
kind they should sign their names te let
ters or go te the officers and make them
selves known. Persons in this community
have gene se far as te write te the judges
te whom they have complained, but they
have always failed te make themselves
known, and no notice was taken of them.
They may as well save their ink and rapcr
for it would be very, easy for then te let
flirt nnt Tinrifiec IrnnTT wltn iYtrfv rft 1
Toe Bad.
James Toegood, colored, was tee geed
te walk and net quite geed enough te pay
his fare en a passenger train. He chose
te steal a' ride en a freight train last
night, but Officers Pyle and Gilbert found
him, and Alderman MoCenomy this morn
ing sent him te jail for 10 days.
Tbe Clly' Credit Abroad.
At Themas's auction sale in Philadel
phia yesterday, $1,400 Lancaster city 4 per
cent, bends sold at $105. Thi3- is a pretty
geed showing fer,rt!ie credit of our city
away .from home.
AehJey tee, the IsVflMt in
CONCERNING T0LLE0ADS
TUX, E3IBAKUO
ON LOCAL XKADK.
v-;:
w i'rec Keada ifer All the Vccpic.
" A correspondent, in a communication
te the JVhe Era, directs attention in most
vigorous and decided language te the many
turnpikes that terminate in this city, some
fifteen in all, he says, which cover every
approrteh,e thai-farmers new find them
selves unable te get te market without
passing eyef oriejjj. mere, of.these turn
pikes and'beiug compelled te pay tell! He
Holds that' this, while It is net only oppres
sive te the community, will gradually work
te the disadvantage of the best 'interests
of this city as a centre of .trade. It has a
tendeneyte drive bushioseelieirhete. The
tells are netJrifling matters tcKJue'n who
have te pay them almost daily. In many
place.", he says, progress is the order of
the day, aud free bridges and highways are
the result, while heru in Lancaster the re
verse seems te be the rule.'"
The snbjcet regardiac'jwhicli our con
temporary publishes this cemplatut is ene
te which the Ixthlliguxcek has very often
directed the attention of the public aud in
almost exactly the same terms asthn.se
adopted by the -STw Era's correspondent.
Again and again we have sought te im
press the public with a proper seuse of
this matter, and called special attention te
it recently when application was mac'e by
a private corporation for a charter te seixa
thevaluable franchisee of tlie 'ifoild'read,""
leading te the eastern end of the county,
and crcec a turnpikb and tell bars en it.
We repeat new what was then said in the
editorial columns of the Intelligence!: :
Advertisement is made that "applica
tion will be made te, the governor of Penn
sylvania for a charter te ' construct and
maintain a turnpike read te begin at the
eastern terminus of the ' Bridgeport and
Horseshoe read t tirupike ' and end in the
village of Bml-iti Hand, at or near the
point of intersection of. the. old Philadel
phia read and the GordenvilW read, and
te occupy part or the whole of the said Old
Philadelphia lead - between said points,
lying and beimr in East Lampeter town
ship, Lanca..ter county, Pa., a distance of
about three and a-half miles, the com
pany te be styled 'The Bird-iu-lland Turn
pike read company.' " It is for the large
number of citizens of Lancaster county
who are went te travel ever the high
way thus proposed te be occu
pied in "part or the whoje" te con
sider whether this privilege shall be
granted te a corporation without the cx cx
crcise of every possible effort te prevent
it. Probably no thoroughfare in Lancas
ter county is butter known or mere used
than the "old read," and, most of all, just
the portion which is proposed te be occu
pied aud crossed with tell-gates by the
incipient "lead' company" giving the
abeve notice. It is a venerable highway,
bead, lccl and generally in excellent
condition. It runs almost in a straight
line, leading fiem a point near this city
down into ene of the most populous sec
tions of thecennty. It is a well-graded,
pleasant summer drive, and at nearly all
seasons is much resorted te by persons
livjng along it, for miles en either side,
who find it a better read in most of the
year than cither the Lancaster or the New
Helland turnpikes and free from the ex
actions of the tellgatherer. People will
drive miles out of their direct way te en
joy its advantages and te escape the toll tell
bars which are thrown across the ether
avenues of travel te and from the cast end.
New it is proposed te take these priv
ileges from the people, and te convey all
the advantages which this read pesscssca
upon a corporation which will, like as net.
spoil the read as much as impreve it, and
then set up a tellgate and charge every
one who passes it about 2.cents a.niUe for
no greater privileges? than ;.be new has
free. cw A "
The experience of our people with turn
pikes and tell-gates is such that the ten
dency should -beMewartT their abatement
rather than their increase.- There are new
leading te or toward this city, the Phila
delphia, Strasburg, iieaver-Valley,WiUew
Street, New Danville, Millenrville, Colum
bia, Marietta, Harrihburg. Manhcira,
Fiuitvile, Eatitz,. jEnbritaNew Helland
and Bridgopeit'und Horseshoe turnpikes
fifteen tell reath-, whose gates build a
very wall around ear city, pat an embargo
en our trade and a tax upon these who
trade with us. In an address te the farm
era of the state, the writer some time age
said :
It Is my opinion that In the Intelligent lay
ing out. KraUinsr. macadamizing ami smooth
ing of rufhis. the erection ami protection el
liee bridges. Uiu general employment or read
scrapers, the nrrnnRPinent of breaks ami
atcr ceurseq. the erection et fingerboards
and ether duties et tne supervisor ear eas
tern countries show most lamentable lack,
and that the rcnltlng looses mid wear and
tear sifrgrcsatc double the Increase read tux
that wenlrt ensue trem a proper discharge
et tliesu duties,, by better, uien than uiu
u-jnally elected- te perferin tlietu. Indeed
it U a mutter el conviction that for
tliu'ti'lvanncd statu et thuileuding ceun
Ues , of. Eastern' Pennsylvania, toll tell
biidKCS nml turnpikes ure relic-j et
piimitlve conditions and should Mpeeiliiy
btt alieli-tied. The public should unwAitp- .
pert these ways el truvei uccetMiiy ler the
public convenience. In the richest rural
county of the commonwealth it Is the rc rc
preacti et its capital city a. esntre et trade
and population before the revolution th.it
amoat.everyioa't tea ling into It is obstructed
"by a tel!-b;tr, the rates being nearly as high as
rrallrqail fares ; and he general is tliia embargo
en trade thut even en one of the public streets
within the limits et the city et Lancaster, a
corporation, by the grace of legislative de de
lermity, swings its gate seresa the highway,
and public sentiment is dull te an Imposition
which ls'as great as tluit ler which ear tather
raised the tempest in a tea-pet in ISo-ten a
centnry age.
The favor with which these remarks
were received and have stnee been' com
mented upon, is sufficient apology for their
reproduction here.
s It costs as much te drive a double team
ovecseiub of out- turnpikes as the fare of
a passenger en the railroad, for the same
distance ; and many of then, it is notori
ous; arc net in as geed-condition nor as
safe for driving as all public reads
sheuld.be .kept, in a community as
far advanced as this. We will engage,
within five miles of this city,' te find en
half the turnpikes places se dangerous or
e iUy kept that any township -supervisor
Lwhd i would- 'be responsible far tkejr-ex-
lsicnee ou pamioruaa-ceaia im con
victed in a quarter sessions court of ne
glect of duty. Notably dec3 the New
Danville turnpike maintain a nuisance in
the exposur&ef these who pay-tell ever it
tethe danger of drowning in the) Conestesa ;
tfliilc,"b"n m'eSt of the ethers" the summer
read is up or down a bank that is danger
ous te life and Iimb. There is new only
one way into anden't of tikis city te escape
the tell bar, and that is toctueas and hard
te find. Let us open ethers instead of
closing these free reads which new lead
toward Lancaster.
OTR
Tlin AVrentr Date.
It was inadvertently stated yesterday
that Managers Hattmycr & Dailey had con
tracted for the appearance of Miss Ada
Gray in "East Lyane 'I en Friday evening
of next week. It'shenldhave read "Wed
nesday evening, the 29th.
Male of Henes.
Samuel Hess & Sen, auctioneers, sold
yesterday at public sale at Petersburu
Lancaster ceilnty, for JacefrS. Feltz, 17
head of Nerman and Clidesda'e horses at
an average priee of 219 ; the highest one
cold brought $273.
m -
A Big Cblckeu.
- T. A. Steiner- of Ephra'ta, yesterday
killed a chicken that weighed four pounds
dressed. The liver was C inches long,
Zi inches wide and 2 iacbes through the
centre and weighed one pound.