LANCASTEK DAILY INTELLIGENCER WEDNESDAY APRIL 12 1882. ftamasm fntelliaencet. WEDNESDAY KVKN'O, APBIL 12, 1883. HU Ample YladleatlM. In accordance with the disposition te be " generally fair and sometimes liber al" which the Examiner ascribes te us, we hasten te republish what our es teemed but unamiable contemporary has te say in answer te the Xew Era's charge, that when its editor was a senator he was in a " corrupt combination," whose members were paid from $1,000 te $6,000 each for their votes en certain measures out of a fund raised te bribe the Legisla ture. As we se profoundly hoped, our contemporary makes what is intended te be a denial of this allegation, and inti mates that it is a " personal libel." Te be sure, We had trusted that this denial would be broader and mere specific, and that the vindication of its editor's sena torial integrity would rest en some thing better than the improbability of him being purchased te support a bill which had enough votes without his. But we accept his denial and deprecate the wickedness of our ether Republican contemporary in aspersing his geed name and fair fame. As has been remarked somewhere, " Can party or personal malice go further ? What man in the community is safe from base and mali cious attacks en his character if such conduct as this en the part of the public press is te be tolerated ? Te what is the boasted ' freedom of the press' leading us, if men of irreproachable character are thus te be maligned and lied about ? Is civilization a failure, or is the news paper te become a curse instead of bless ing te society ?" We feel bound, however, te remind the Examiner again that it is net the In telligence: which has been "gush ing slush " about his ' venality " of twenty jears age. The New Era has told him that four eminent members of the Lancaster bar, te whose editorial ability the Examiner itself pays high compliment, first " gushed " this " slush" about him ; it was their challenge te him te prove that it was a " personal libel " which he never accepted ; and new, when it is revived after twenty years because of the " red-het " zeal of the Examiner te go after the records of the Exjtress and Senater Kauffman of that long age the Examiner should lese its temper at the authors of the charge, and net at the Ixtelligexceh, which has shown such sincere desire te protect his '"geed name from reproach," and which is as deeply gratified at the vindi catien of it as it was when the Xew Era demonstrated se satisfactorily that no body about its office rode en free passes issued in violation of the constitution. "Costs' In "Dismissed Cases." The iuvestigatien by the county audi tors into the bills of the aldermen and constables for costs in dismissed cases for the past year will lead te the expos ure of the most stupendous system of public plunder that has yet been re vealed in our county affairs. -Fer years it has been the wonder of the taxpayers hew this sort of business had grown te such astonishing proportions and yet was constantly en the increase. The alder mens' bills published monthly in the Ix telligexcek, showed enormous reve nues te their offices from this single source, and the number of cases dismiss ed had come te be se utterly out of pro portion te these returned as te warrant the suspicion that there must be some rottenness in the management of this business. At any time honest and in telligent investigation by the auditors would have revealed it, and a careful inspection of the bills by a capable coun ty solicitor would have prevented or checked it. Fer some time the newspapers of the city have been aware that the present beard of auditors had get en the track of the plan by which the aldrrmcn and officers manipulated their business ; and being assured that as seen as the neces sary preparations had been made for a complete public investigation, it would fellow, they have bided their lime, and te-day is published the first instalment of the testimony taken. It wa3 a favorite remark of Blessem Brick te Mr. Mulhoely that " when the people tumble te our gania, there'll bi h lltj pay." The auditors wisely se lected Samson as the most inexperienced of our professional aldermen and the least apt te cover his tracks, se that the people might in an exposure of his prac tices tumble te the game. lie has already told enough of hew he profited by the example, and the instruc tion of his colleagues, te reveal the way in which the "game" is worked. Against every person arrested as many charges are trumped up as possible ; each is made the basis of a separate complaint, warrant, subpoena and commitment ; and " the business is divided among the officers." The wit nesses are made the subjects of a half dozen different sets of subpoenas te ap pear at the same time and place, and hence there are multiplied charges for service and mileage, and triple, quad ruple or sextuple costs for the aldermen. A half dozen offenders are complained against at one time for the same offense a half dozen cases and as many sets of costs are made out of it. Witnesses are invented, complainant's names are forged ' and the entire business is conducted te make the most costs for aldermen and officers. One by one, we are assured, these offi cers and their business are te be investi gated without fear, favor or affection. We heartily approve this determination. Let the work go en no matter hew long time it takes or whom it hurts. Republi can and Democratic offenders must be brought te book. Tiie people have been robbed; in the name of the people let the guilty be exposed, prosecuted and punished. Sa9ex excuses most of his irregular ities en the ground that he was a begin ner and had te learn the art of doing it from ether aldermen. He proved an apt pupil, but what can we txpect when his instructors get en the stand and under take te explain their itlll mere remark able bills? Light m the Mtnaea Problem. A short time age a young Pres byterian missionary from Utah lectured in this city en Mormonism, and he was respectfully listened te by an intelligent audience and fairly reported in the local newspapers. His story was interesting and plausible and was received with that credulity which an audience unacquaint ed with the facts' very naturally gives te a well accredited reporter fresh from the scenes and incidents which he reports. It is most remarkable and it gives the ptiblic increased trouble in arriving at a fair conclusion en this Mermen ques tion what variance of report comes from these who pretend te have viewed the Mermen system at short-range, though they may have looked at it from different standpoints. Here upon the heels of the Rev. Mr. McMillan comes a pamphlet en " Utah and Its Feeple," professing te be written by a Gentile, "an ex-U. S. official," and though its anonymous authorship somewhat dis credits it, the " facts and statistics " it gives, se circumstantially, carry weight with them and certainly present a striking contrast with the aspect of the Mermen problem depicted by Mr. McMillan and ether social, religious and political op ponents of Mormonism. We make the least account of the claim set up for the Mormons that -they have suffered " bloody persecution," just as we pay the slightest attention te such narratives as the Mountain Meadow massacre and kindred outrages by the Mormons, as bearing upon a correct so lution of the present Mermen problem. There have been wrongs suffered and wrongs done en both sides, and it is hard te make an luiimpassiened score or strike the balance. Mormons have murdered and pillaged, and Mormons have been murdered and pillaged, just as Catho lics and Protestants, Jews and Infidels have suffered and have been persecuted at different times and under different circumstances. The important question for present consideration is tre condition, the ten dencies, the influence and the behavior of the Mormons of te-day. They are rep resented te us as a degraded, supersti tious, ignorant, nrsled people ; pledged te the bleed atonement doctrine that enemies te Mormonism may be right eously exterpated by assassination, re lentless in the persecution of Gentiles, opposed te the development of Utah's materhil interests, holding their women in servile degradation and failing te let these who differ from their faith dwell among them in peace and liberty. Hear new the Mermen side, as pre sented by this alleged Gentile. He holds that whatever credibility and respect attaches te a faith by reason of its in herent power te promulgate itself must be conceded te Mormonism, since from Smith and his six followers in 1830 it has spread te every quarter of the glebe and has gathered into Utah inhabitants of every country in Europe, many of these of Seuth America, and from Hindostan, Burniah, China, Cape Colony, Natal, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand and Sandwich, Society and Navigators islands, together with negrees and In dians, all united in one common belief. With the secret rites and esoteric doc trines of the Mermen church, of course, the law of the land and the regulations of Congress need make no account, net only because a tree is te be judged by its fruit rather than from the soil out of which it springs, but because the genius of our institutions permits a religious sect te cherish such doctrines and practice such rites as it sees fit, se long as they de net violate public order or tend te a breach of the peace. The argument for the Mormons which we have under consideration gains no force by an attack upon the disintegrat ing tendencies at work in Christianity or its assault upon the social anarchy of Eastern communities ; but if, as is claimed, the practical results of Mor monism, while they make mere for the average exlialtatien of the material wel fare of these who embrace it, also en hance the moral well-being of its votaries above the average of ether communities! the dominant element of Utah's citizen ship has been sadly belied. Instead of a theocracy, the communion is said te be a Democracy, and at its semi annual con cen f eren ces every member, male and female, has a vote and every officer in the church has te be regularly re elected. It is here said, tee, that Brigham Yeung never claimed infalla bility and never pretended te have a revelation ; instead of the church own ing all the property its monopoly of land is the ten acre temple let in Salt Lake city, and ninety-live per cent, of the Mermen population live in their ejch houses, en their own land, te which they held deeds in their oxen names. As te the share of the Mormons and Gentiles in the -administration of public affairs, although the " Gentiles " constitute only ten per cent, of the population, " yet from this small minority are taken the incumbents of nearly every position of influence and emolument. They have the governor, with absolute veto power, secretary, judges, marshals, prescuting attorneys, land register, re corder, surveyor general, clerks of the courts, commissioners, principal post pest office mail contractors, postal agents, revenue assessors and collectors, super intendent of Indian affairs, Indian agen cies, Indian supplies, army contractors, express, railroad and telegraph lines, the associated press agency, half the jurors in law, but at least three-fourths and always the foreman in' practice, in fact, every position net elective." In the culture of the Mermen people, " education is strongly insisted upon, and the formation of societies for mu tual improvement; for young men and women. Every se ttlement is urged te have a library and great care taken in the selection of books, particular stress being lain upon books treating en gar dening and architecture. Singing is urged in the schools strongly," and the training of the youth of both sexes in regular occupations and habits of indus try. Against the charge that the priest craft of the Mermen leaders is exercised te retard the material development of Utah is here cited the fact that, As early as 1852, Brigham Yeung and the Legislature petitioned Congress te con struct a railroad and telegraph line across the continent via Salt Lake. Later the Mormons graded and tied some fenr hun dred miles of the Union & Central Pa cific R. R. ever the Recky Meuntainsand west of Salt Lake, a very difficult part of the route. They also built about six hun dred miles of the first transcontinental telcsrraDh line. Id addition, they have constructed ever five hundred miles of local railroads and have as many mere in process of construction, and can beast that they have no debts en account of rail road construction. They have some fif teen hundred miles of telegraph lines, like their railroads, built without subsidies of any kind. The business statistics of Utah show an immense development in commer cial relations. The value of the yearly imports and ex ex eorts is about sixteen million dollars. Jobbers and retailers de a yearly business of ten millieu dollars. The manufacturers of Utah have grown from $300,000 in value in 1850 te $5,000,000 in 1870. There are a hundred flour mills, mere saw mills, twenty tanneries, twenty beet and shoe factories, ten furniture factories, woolen mills with five thousand spindles, cotton factories, foundries, machine shops, etc. The manufacture of bullion from ores, employing one hundred and fifty stamps and a score of smelting stocks, doubles the above value, making it ten millions easy at the present time. Utah has about three hundred and fifty district schools, and normal schools, academies and a uni versity ; private and public libraries every where may be found. They have a maga zine, also Uie Weman's Exponent, edited by Mermen ladies, co-operative stores, in dustrial institutions and ladies' relief so cieties. The latter in 1880 numbercd three hundred branches. Tliey have young men's and young women's Mutual Improvement societies in almost every settlement, literary and choral unions and glee clubs. The taxes are lower than in any ether state or territory, and in Salt Lake City are only five mills ; the territory has no bended debt, or any municipality except Salt Lake City, which has only $175,000 of outstanding bends, issued te construct a canal twenty miles long te bring water for irrigation from the river Jerdan, twenty miles off, and the city owns an extensive water works system, and part of its gas works, clear of debt. The figures of criminal statistics we take with some allowance because they may be compiled by Mermen authorities, and because it is vehemently claimed that the criminal laws are mere strin gently enforced against Gentiles than Mormons. But while the latter have five sixths the population, net one sixth of the criminals come from among them, and this pamphlet declares that " out of the two hundred saloon, bill iard, bowling alley and peel table keep ers, net ever a dozen even profess te be Mormons. All of the bagcies and ether disreputable concerns in the territory are run and sustained by anti-Mormons. Ninety-eight per cent, lers in . Utah are element. Ninety-five the Utah lawyers are of the gamb of the same per cent, of Gentiles, and eighty per cent, of all the Jitigatien theieisef outside growth and promo tion." "Of the suicides committed in Utah ninety odd per cent, are non-Mer men, and of the Utah homicides and in fanticides ever eighty per cent, are per petrated by the seventeen per cent. ' 'out siders." Of 1,020 arrests made in Salt Lake City last year only 1G9 were of Mormons. "The per centage of total white population who cannot write in Utah is 5.71. Sixteen states and terri teries show a far higher per centage, eight being above fifteen and two above twenty. Rhede Island presents us with a per centage of S.82 and Massachusetts 5.14." We must admit that these facts and figures are well calculated te make re flective minds pause before they " indict a whole people" or assault with ruthless hand a social system that has produced such moral and material results. Even conceding this testimony te be one-sided and that the truth is only half way be tween it and the familiar narratives of Gentile missionaries, the offense of the Mermen people against Christian civili zation, polygamy, appears venial when their exemption from se many of the vices of modern society is given fair con sideration. It will hardly be claimed that the marked social results set down te the credit of Mormonism are due te polygamy, or that they could net survive its extirpation It must have some in herent qualities which have enabled it te thrive under persecution, te survive the death of its characteristic leaders, te meet and take advantage of the develop ment of the great West something which will, therefore, continue its exist ence as a system even when the plurality of marriages shall have been suppressed by law or moral pressure. But while this is coming about, the Anglo-Saxen instinct of fair play de mands that Mormonism in all its fea tures should have an equitable hearing ; and even with regard te this most objec tionable characteristic of polygamy there seem te be some mitigating circumstan ces. If at most net ten percent, of the Mermen males are polygamists ; if there i3 no surplus of women in the territory, as there is in twenty-two states ; if " the most intellectual, the most moral, the most untrammeled of Mermen ladies indorse the system of polygamy ;" if the dissatisfied wife can easily procure a divorce and a proportionate share of the husband's property for herself and off springif the institution of polygamy is ameliorated by these conditions, we can fairly say, without abating one jet of rigorous opposition te it, as an offense against human decency, social order and Ged's law, that the practice of it in Utah is at least no mere disgraceful nor hurt ful te our Christian civilization than the drunkenness, the debauchery, the licen tiousness and profligacy te the marital relation which run riot in nearly every community in this land, and that our preachers have work te de in pulpits nearer home than these offered te them in Mormendom, our lawmakers have mere grievous social cancers te eradicate in New Yerk, in Philadelphia and Washington than in Salt Lake City. She was Delighted With Her Nese. A Chinese woman who had been se un fortunate as te lese her nose was recently fitted with a brand new one, made of celluloid, by a San Francisce dentist. When the operation had been complete she called for a mirror, and her delight at the improvement in her appearance knew no bounds. In a transport of eratitude she gave the dentist a handful of 10 geld j pieces, wiuiuub stepping te count tnem, and ran off te show herself te her friends. BONOS TOPICS. Samson heard 436 cases and dismissed 400, "county for costs." He is a dismiss er from Dismisserrille. " It is the custom," says issue 21 senarate warrants Samson, te where one would suffice a custom which Jehnsen se signally illustrated in multiplying indict ments when he was district attorney. The bold doctrine set up by Judge Lawrence, of New Yerk, that "gasmeters ate net infallible," and that the power of a gas company ever its victims may he re stricted by "questions of fact te be deter mined by evidence and net by the will or conclusion of the company," will startle the community. Pkesident Akthck is represented as having indulged in some very plain talk te Congressman Bayne about the imper tinence and impropriety of the " feeling among the members of Congress that each one must establish himself a sort of deputy president, and control with arbi tary hand all appointments in there respective district's." Arthur ought te try a little of that talk en Den Cameren. Colonel Jacksen, of Armstrong county, has been named for collector of internal revenue for the Twenty-third district in place of Collector Sullivan. Jacksen is a Stalwart whom Camereu desired in Sulli van's place, although Sullivan was backed by Senater Mitchell and Representatives Bayne, Shellenberger and Miller, and nothing was alleged against him except that he did net suit the bosses. Tem. Wiley may get his valentine by Whit Monday. New that " practically the question of th'e governorship is settled " ami "Gen. Beaver, of Centre county, will be nomi nated en the first ballet," the Examiner "will advecate the claims of Judge Livingston " and cannot fight for honors for Chester county." This is touching. Gen. Beaver is like the bill for the relief of the Sunbury & Erie railroad iu 1801 he has a " large majority " with out needing any votes 'from Lancaster county. In apportioning the responsibility for the system of multiplying criminal busi ness which has beceme such an enormous abuse in this county, it is net te be for gotten that District Attorney J. W. Jehnsen first brought it te perfection by .multiplying indictments in the quarter sessions court in an outrageous and illegal manner. We charged then, and belie ve yet, that if the court had had.the ceurage te cut up the abuse by the roots aldermen and constables weuIdVnever have dared te pattern after the prosecutor of the pleas at a cost, of tens of thousands of dollars te the county treasury. Our in Perry county, Arkansas, where Chivalry still picks its teeth with a bowie knife, Billy Brazil worked hard for his money and left it te his widow. A school teacher, named Butler, from Indiana, came into the neighborhood and Widow Brazil took te him. The ether evening the school teacher, while en the perch of her house, saw a man toss a nete ever the fence. Butler called te the man, who at ence discharged both barrels of a shotgun at his victim, who died in a few minutes. The note was found te be a warning that the tender hearted neighbors couldn't bear te sce Billy Brazil's estate squandered by his widow's second husband. PERSONAL. Dante Gabriel Resseti, the artist and author of the work " The Early Italian Peets," and a volume et poems, is dead. Miss Tnunsnv will return te this country in July after an absence of two years, during which time she has electrified various crowned heads. Senater Hawley has been allowed by Congress te accept decorations from Italy, Spain and Japan in recognition of his ser vices as Centennial commissioner. Charles E. Ssirrn, editor and publisher of the Press, was yesterday arrested en an affidavit of Ilenry Weyl, a detective in the district attorney's office, charging him with libel. D. Oedex Mills, jr., son of D. O. Mills, and Miss Ruth Livingston, daugh ter of the late Maturin Livingston, were married yesterday in Grace church, New Yerk, by Rev. Dr. Henry C. Petter. Mr. Cellins, of Bosten, the president of the National Land League, te meet at Washington, D. C, te-day announces positively that under no circumstances will he be a candidate for re-election. Gen. Clinten B. Fisk, for whose arrest upon a charge of misrepresentation regard ing certain mining stocks an order has been issued at New Yerk, has started back te New Yerk, from Detroit, Mich. Themas H. McGraw. of Poughkeepsie, N. Y has given $50,000 te endow the president's chair at Amherst, a pest new filled by Julius H. Scolye, a mau of na tional reputation as a man and singular power as an educator. Naval Constructor' Jehn Lentiiall, United States navy ( retired ) aged 75 years, died suddenly at the Baltimore & Ohie depot, Washington, D. C, yesterday morning, as he was about te take the train for New Yerk. The quarrel in the Democratic ranks in Philadelphia, arising from the exclusion of certain contesting members from the Democratic city committee, has resulted in a movement te form a second city com mittee, in which Geerge Bull is promi nent. The Philadelphia Demecrats should, by all means, have a Bull ring. After Lonpellew's visit te Windser Castle, in 1857. the Oueen uairt te Sir Theodere Martin: " I notice an unusual interest among the attendants and servants. I could 'scarcely credit that they se generally understood who he was. When he took his leave they concealed themselves in places from which they could get a geed leek at him as he passed." A Blew at License In Massachusetts. In the Senate of Massachusetts yester day a bill reducing the number of liquor licenses te be granted te one te every 1,000 persons was pasRed te a third reading. This bill applied te Bosten would reduce the number of places selling liquor from 2,500 te about 600, including druggists, whose licenses are net affected by the bill. They "Weren't Ymle " Leck. The Yale leek manufacturing company, of Norwich, Conn., has entered suit at Baltimore against the postmaster of that city for erroneously stating that the locks recently picked in the posteffice there were of the Yale company's manufacture. Jumped Off tbe Boer. Annie Flatia, aged 38 years, while suf fering from temporary insanity, yesterday jumped from the reef of her five story residence, Ne. 816 Sixth avenue. New Yerk, te the ground, and was instantly killed. NEWS FE0M THE CAPITAL CUANDLEK FAVOKABLX REPORTED Secretary Lincoln te Head the Cabinet Senater Teller's Successor Named Items of Interest Frem Over the Country. In the executive session of the Senate yesterday the' nomination of William . Chandler te be sscretary of the navy and Secretary Hunt te be minister te Russia were reported favorably and placed en the calender. They will probably be called up for action te-day. The Senate confirmed Sterling P. Rounds te be public printer, and Rebert S. Chilton te be consul at Fert Erie. The Washington Critic says that Secre tary Lincoln will remain in the cabinet " ler a bhert time longer," and then be superseded "by some one mere in accord with the present adminstratien." The same paper says it is understood that Pay Inspector G. . Thornten will be nomi nated for paymaster general in the navy. It is understood that the Fitz Jehn Por Per ter case was practically disposed of at yesterday's cabinet meeting, and will be made the subject of a special message te Congress at an early day. The president yesterday nominated Jehn R. G. Pitkin te be U. S. marshal for east ern Louisiana, and Edward F. Burten te be superintendent of the San Francisce mint. Geerge M. Chilcott, of Pueblo, Colerado was yesterday appointed U. S. Senater, te succeed Teller. LABOR'S DEMANDS. Large Auditions te the Banks or tbeStrlkers Thq journeymen plasterers of Wil Wil miugten, Del., at a meeting last night, re solved te ask for $3 per day and nine hours en Saturdays, beginning with May 1st. Nearly all the carpenters in New Yerk have resumed work at the advance de manded. The bluestone cutters and flag gers have received an increase of 50 cents per day. The horsesheers have demand ed $4 per day, and, it is believed, will se cure it. Several hundred miners in the Cam bridge district of Ohie have struck against a reduction te C2J cents per ten. One thousand quarrymen atLement.Ill , have struck for $2 per day, an advance of 50 cents. The mill hands of Fleming Brethers, at McGregor, Iowa, struck yesterday for higher wages and fewer hours. The mills were immediately closed, throwing 120 men out of work. Thirty-seven additional weavers were hired at the Pacific mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, yesterday morning, mak ing the whole number employed 185. Less than 35 frames are working in the spinning department. A GIUL IN TUE AIK. Plunging Over a .Precipice and Escaping Without Serious Injury. Sarah Fehr, aged 12, who is very corpu lent for her age, started te descend a steep stairs at the bridge at the Bath read, in Northampton county, and proceeded se hastily that she could net control her gait. She was making rapid headway down the steps, and tiied te catch the branch of a tree standing just at the brink of a preci pice between 20 and 25 feet in depth. The unfortunate girl missed catching held of the limb of the tree, and with a loud shriek she plunged ever the precipice, and after turning a somersault in the air, landed en the stones and loose ground which He piled up about ten yards distant from the limestone quarry. Many persons who steed en the bridge at the time wit nessed the dreadful accident. They hast ened te the assistance of the unfortunate girl, whom they found in an unconscious condition. She seen revived when the dis covery was made that her injuries were net serious. M HAT TliK LKUlSLATUBfcS AKE DOING' Ohie Gerrymandered Out Bands. ei Democratic The Senate of Ohia yesterday passed a redisricting bill which gives the Republi cans 14 districts and the Democrats 4, leaving 3 doubtful. A Cnance for Slndraiu In New Yerk. The New Yerk assembly yesterday passed a bill from the Senate te allow a prisoner under sentence of death te apely for a new trial en the plea of newly dis covered evidence. It is understood that this bill, which new gees te the governor, will apply te the case of Sindram. Lecal Kioctlens. The Ne-License city ticket was elected yesterday at Lockport, N. Y., in a poll of about 2,500 votes. Mayer Nelan, Democrat, was yesterday re-elected at Albany, N. Y., by a reduced majority. The election in Beverly, N. J., resulted in the success of the Republican-;. The council chosen is opposed te granting liquor licenses. v The election in Bordentown was carried by the Democrats. Taussig, Demjcrat, was re elected mayor of Jersey City. Besseu, Republican, was elected mayor of Hoboken. Fire Recerd. The ladies' dormitory of the college at Olivet, Mich , was burned en Monday night. Less, $50,000. A fire in Algiers. La., yesterday deploy ed seven small houses and the McDonough Echoel, Ne. 5. The total less is $20,000. A. J. Dumont loses $400. A fire yesterday in the Fitzgerald build iug at Providence, R. I., occupied by man ufacturing jewelers, caused a less of from $5,000 te $10,000, which is jointly sustain ed by Fowler Bres. & Ce., Fester & Baily, and Fitzgerald & Ce. The Delaware Peach Crep. The Wilmington Morning News says all stories of damage te the peach crop by the late storm are premature. While there is a likelihood of injury hav ing been done, it cannot be definitely known until the buds begin te develop, which will net be for several days yet, if at all. Only these buds that have blos somed are liable te be. injured, and they are se few in proportion as net te affect the general yield even if killed. Crimes and Criminals. Emmett Jenes, the murderer of Auteiue Yalle at St Leuis, was yesterday granted a new trial by the court of appeals. Edward McClesky was fatally shot by Adelph Hayes en Monday night at Minge, thrce miles south of Steubcnville, Ohie, in a bar-room quarrel. Patsey Devine has been sentenced te be hanged at Clinten, 111., en May 12. This is his second sentence for the murder of Aaren Geed fellow in 1870. Turned Out by Her Daughter te Uie. Mrs. Ann Flyun, 70 years old, who re sided with her married daughter, in Seuth Brooklyn, was turned out of doers late at night by the daughter, who had quarrelled with her and hau become tired el support ing her. The old lady, who was thinly clad, was making her way te a house of a friend, but had only gene a short distance when she fell down, and died almost im mediately. Finns at Uls Priest. Henry Gallagher, being slightly intoxi cated, last evening fired at Rev. Father Dongan, of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, in AUentewn, but missed his aim. Gallagher, who has a daughter snffering from St. Vitus' dance, is said te labor under the hallucination that Father Dongan could cure her if he desiied. A. Youthful Bergia. Mary Beeth, the fourteen year old col ored girl arrested for the murder of Mrs. Gray and Travis Jenes, in Snrrey county, Va., by giving them arsenic, has confessed her guilt and implicates Martha Jenes and ethers. Fears for a Schooner. The schooner Victer, before reported as overdue en en a Geergp's'fishing trip, has been giveu upby her owners at Gloucester, Mass., as lest. She sailed en March 3, and was exposed te the gale of March 17, since which time there have been no tid ings from her. She had a crew of twelve men. Bobbins tbe Mall. Henry Parke, 22 years old, postal clerk en the Missouri Pacific railroad between St. Leuis and Kansas City, was yesterday arrested at St. Leuis en the charge of rob bing the mail, and admitted his guilt. Heavy Catch ei Seals. The Dundee sealing steamer Arctic has arrived at St. Jehn, N. F., with 21,000 seals, old and young, which is regarded as a very heavy catch. It reports favorably of nearly all the fleet. Immigrant Arrivals in Manitoba. Mere than 200 immigrants have arrived in Manitoba within twenty-four hours. Iu ten days 400 entries for homesteads were made in the Turtle Mountain land office. Anether Thieving Cashier. Cashier Ruth, of the Washington, Pa., Savings bank, is reported $50,000 "short" in his accounts, having sunk the stolen money iu speculations. Suicide et an Insurance Agent. Ferdinand Everz, 26 years old, employed by the Germania life insurance company, at New Yerk, committed suicide yesterday in that city by sheeting himself. Bobbed of 813,000. Themas Carr, residing near Hudsen, Wis., went into Illinois te buy horses, and falling in with sharpers had $12,000 stolen from him. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. m TUE DRAMA. MUs Anna Dickinsen as " Hamlet." The audience that assembled iu Fulton opera house last night te witness Miss Anna Dickinsen's impersonation of the melancholy Dane was rather sparse as te numbers, cold and undemonstrative as te quality, and apparently dominated by a feeling of extreme caution lest they might be betrayed into the manifestation of ap proval of what the critics high and mighty of the New Yerk and Philadelphia newspapers have condemned with such boisterous energy. People of ordinarily just temper who read the severe notices of Miss Dickinsen's performances prier te her appearance here could bcarcely help feeling that their tene was inspired mero by the desire te down the little woman and force her te retire from the work she has undertaken than by any sincere pur pose of maintaining the standard of his trionic art at a piano hedged about by defenses that would render it reasonably secure against the barnstorming fraternity. Ner was this impression disabused in the minds of fair-thiuking people who went te Fulton opera heuse last night with the genuine purpose of adjudging Miss Dick Dick ineon's Hamlet soluly.'en its own merits and without prejudice. Fer certainly, though net an ideal representation of the character that has tested the intellectual faculties and dramatic capacities of scholars and actors since the time of its gi eat author, Miss Dickinsen's personatien is. net a rfair target for the savage assaults that have greeted her essay of the past. If the character as rendered last night had been by an actor of the masculine gender, in all probability it would have been mild ly criticised, its imperfections pointed out in a general way, and senin wholesome lessens read by these same censers of the drama, who with such general accord have swooped down en the female usurper and dissected the impersonation with a minute particularity that did net fail te note each separate sin of emission aud of com mission and damn the whole from begin ning te end. The able observation of one critic that Miss Dickinsen is obliged te ex hibit her legs in the part and that therefore she should be discountenanced is unique as au illustration of the spirit that has seemed te move her judges. Miss Dickinsen is net the Hamlet Shakspearc made, but there never has been such ; and it is unjust and untrue te assert that she is entirely wanting in apprehension of the part and without any idea of dramatic rudiments. Her reading was always in telligent, though occasionally the inner meaning of line or passage was indistinctly produced. Her greatest fault lies in an inability te sink her individuality in the part ; her auditor never forgets that she is a woman! and that woman Anna Dick Dick ineon. The argument that this is due te the novelty of a feminine impersonation of a role never-befern se attempted is scarcely a geed one. Her strong lerceful nature cries out against imprisonment iu any ether garb than that of self, and this seems apparently an insurmountable ob stacle te a full measure of success in the role. She needs te suppress a tendency te declamatory effect, which is especially noticeable in the soliloquies, aud there are many stage tricks and gestures that have taken held of her, and that she cau shake off if she will but try. Miss Dick Dick ineon's fine facial expression was employed with geed effect in the delivery of her lines. The supporting company was uniformly bad, if Miss Lillie Joyce's Ophelia be emitted. The latter was a pleasing and artistic performance. The stage manage ment was execrable. The preparation for the final scene raised such a hullaballoe in the rear of the stage that the dialogue of the actors was almost indistinguishable; the waits between acts wcre distressingly long and stretched the performance out te half past eleven, while a provoking blunder was made iu givinir the signal for lowering the curtain while Hrmlet was delivering his dying speech, and it had te be raised again te allow him te finish. UERHART-U.1UPJSNTKR. Wedding In the Moravian Church This Morning. The festivities of Easter week arc sig nalized te-day by an event that has been expectantly awaited in high social circles, and which attracted a large and brilliant company te the Meraviau church, West Orange street, where at half past ten o'clock this morning Cel. Wm. R. Gel bart, well known in the social and business (nmmnnilr. nis united in mnrrinfn wiHi Miss Ella Carpenter, daughter of the late ! William Carpenter, deceased. The num ber of invitations issued for the weddiug was four hundred aud for the reception :t hundred and fifty. The ceremony took place promptly at the hour stated, when te the strains of the wedding march the bridal party entered the church, proceed ins up the central aisle e flirc fli?inoe! tvhnrn OinnffiointincreWfrvmnn cfnn.1 rnn,v I tnrecnivnthnm. Thmislinrs wnrn Mpsars ! te receive them. The ushers wcre Messrs . Harry M. Herr, P. Eckert Slaymaker, Dr. Oliver Reland and Eugene G. Smith, esq. The bridesmaid was Miss Emma J. Car penter, sister of the bride, attended by Mr. David Meft btauuer as bridesman. The simple and imprcssive service of the Moravian liturgy was pronounced by Rev. E. V. Gerhart," D. D., of the Reformed theological seminary, father of the bride groom, assisted by Rev. J. Ma Hark, pastor of the Moravian church. At the conclusion of the ceremony the bridal party were driven te the residence of the bride's mother, North Duke street, where a reception was held from eleven till one o'clock. The event was notable for the handsome costumes of the ladies, and for the extensive and elegant array of pres ents. The newly-wed pair left en the 1:55 p. m. train for the West, a large party of friends being at the depot te see them off, and their departure being accompanied by hearty expressions of geed-will, congratu lation and Ged-speed. AUDITOES A7S. ALDERMEN SAMSON IN THE TOILS Otr THE I'll II.-ISTINfcS. An Interesting Investigation Hew Trumped Up Cases are Made te Cost the Ceuntjr Thousands or Dollars. Fer some time past'it has been an epeu secret that the county auditors have been bothering their brains in examining the wonderful bills presented by some of the city aldermen and Columbia justices . especially these relating te dismissed cases with a vfew of ascertaining hew it can be possible that se many cases ceme before the aldermen and se few of them ever reach a higher court. After spending much time in the exam ination of these bills, and being unable te reconcile them with either the facts, the law or their consciences, the auditors re solved te call in some of the magistrates te explain certain things that were inex plicable te them. Alderman Jeseph Sam son of the Sixth ward, city, was the first called u jn, and he was ordered te appear before the auditors in the orphans' court re am at 2 o'clock yesterday after noon with his books and papers. The ai -derman failed te respond, and a messen ger was sent te notify him that the audi tors were waiting for him. About 3 o'clock the alderman entered the court room, smiliug, and placed his docket upon the table be bo be fere the auditors, and immediately re tired, tbe auditors net noticing his de parture. As they had some important questions te ask him they impatiently awaited his return but he came net. Impatience was followed by indignation, and then the auditors had an attachment issued and sent Sheriff High after the de linquent. While awaiting the return of the sheriff and his prisoner the auditors made a cursory examination of Alderman Samson's docket and appeared te be much astonished by finding a number of cases therein marked " costs paid," whereas in the alderman's bills the county was charged with costs in the same cases. Samson Brought Hack. Finally, the sheriff returned with the alderman in custody. Auditor Reed 8 cewled at the smiling alderman and bluntly blurted out, " Why didn't you obey the order of this beard and ceme here for examination ?" The alderman protested that he had ceme here and brought his docket with him as ordered, but that he did net knew that the audi tors wished te examine him. " That's exactly what we de want," said Mr. Reed. " We want you teexplaiu entries in your bills that we cannot understand. We want te examine you under oath." Seme Pointed Questions. Alderman Samson was then sworn and the following questions were read te him by 3Ir. Reed : "Did you during 1881, receive any costs or fees for dismissed or discharged cases, either from the prosecutor or de fendant, or from any ether person ? And if se, did you embrace such costs or fees in your bills against the county of Lan caster for payment ?" Answer "I did net." " Did you at any time during the year 1881 make or have any arrangement or understanding with any officer or any ether person or persons, te bring or pro cure any prosecution or. arrest of any per son or persons, and such cases upon hear ing were dismissed with county for costs ?" ' Answer" Ne." " Did you, as alderman, during the year 1881 ever issue any warrant or sub poena in blank and hand the same te any constable or policeman and allow him te fill in the name of such person arrested or subpoenaed '?" Answer " Ne; I did net." " Did you ever, during the year 1881, wilfully or knowingly multiply or dupli cate any cases of crime heard and exam ined before you as alderman, when one case or one warrant would have been suffi cient for the commonwealth ; and upon the hearing, if such cases were discharged, was it net done in such cases (if any) for the purpese of increasing fees te be paid out of the county treasury ?" Answer ,4Ne; I never multiplied eases te increase the fees." Had you any arrangement or under standing with any officer or officers, or any ether person connected with the almshouse or house of employment and the Lancaster county hospital, te procure the arrest from time te time during the year 1SS1, of per sons who called at the above named places 'for lodging, having committed no crime ; aud did you npen such information arrest such persons ?" Answer : " Ne, I never had such an ar rangement with any one ! " Auditor Greider Crb-Kxiulnes. While the abeve interrogatories were bo be ing asked and answered, Auditor Greider had been carefully looking ever some of the aldeiraen's and constable's bills, and comparing them with the alderman's docket. He asked the alderman what ob ject he had in issuing warrants te several different officers for the arrest of eue and the same prisoner. The alderman answered that it often happened that several complaints were made against the same person one com plaint charging him with drunken aud disorderly conduct, another with malicious mischicf.anelber with assault and battery, etc., and it was the practice te divide the cases among several officers. " Would net one warrant aud one con stable have answered as well as thice or four?" asked Mr. Greider. "Yes, Isupposeso," replied Alder mm Samson. "I notice that there are quite a number of the same witnesses subpecnaed te ap pear at the same time and place te testif in a number of different cases. Hew a that?" "The different cases may have crown ' out of the same transaction, and the wit ness been subpoenaed te testify te the fact." " Did all tire witnesses here named ap pear before you at the time stated '."' "Yes, I guess se." Multiplying Cases. Mr. Greider called the attention of the alderman te the large number of com plaints made against several boys for mar ket thieving, all of whom were discharged at the hearing. Alse, te the seven com plaints manufactured out of a trilhmr assault aim Dattery committed by tonie boys en the son of Jehn B. Aliment, and asked if a single complaint, and a single warrant with all the names of the accused placed upon it would net have answered as well as the seven complaints and seven warrants. The alderman replied : ' I don't knew CnOUBh about tllB LlW tO .inSWCr that qilCS tien. I took my instructions from the ether aldermen. " Wcre the witnesses named in the abeve cases present en the same day at the hear ing before you ?" "Yes, I think they were, or their names s would net appear en the bills." " We'll see about that." said Mr. Reed ; "you have the name of a witness there who has been dead for seveial years, aud ethers who were net present at the hear ing." Alderman and Scheel juireeter. " Did Jehn B.Warfel en the 15th of De cember enter complaint before you against Jehn Keller and-ethcr boys?" " j "Yes ; Mr. Warfel made complaint thatr the boys had disturbed tbe night schools." "Did he make oath te the complaint and sign it?" " I forget te get him te sign the com plaint." " New, did he net simply complain te yen that the boys disturbed the school, and ask you as chairman of the night
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