LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER SATURDAY MAY 6 1882.
Hancastev -iUrlkaenccc.
SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1882.
Bessemer Steel.
The secretary of the American iron
and steel association writes te Judge
Kelley te correct the statements of con
gressmen made in debate upon the tariff
commission bill which is new receiving
the consideration of Congress. One
statement lie excepts te is that of Sena Sena
eor Beck, who said that the capital in
vested in the Bessemer steel companies
in 1880 was $20,975,999, and that the net
p refit amounted te $14,047,933, or GO per I
1 i-.--. O 1. 1.4- tl, 1
ct;nu ecuicuirj ewaiiK. says iu-- iuc
senator erred in this, because the figures
applied te the twenty-five manufacturers
of steel by the open hearth process as
well as te the eleven Bessemer concerns,
and he declares that the twenty millions
of capital includes only the sum invested
in machinery and accessions required in
the conversion of pig iron into Bessemer
steel and net the amounts invested " in
ere and coal mines, blast furnaces,
foundries and machine shops, lateral
railroads and ether enterprises necessary
te the production of the raw material."
Ne doubt that is se ; but se also is it
true that the profit in preparing the raw
material is distinct from the profit of
the Bessemer steel production.
Secretary Swank seems te be
particularly careful net te say what
the profit of the Bessemer manu
facture in 1880 was ; nor does he venture
te say that it was less than CG per cent.,
though he seems te desire te create that
impression. The truth is that he could
net conscientiously say that it was any
thing like as low as CGper cent. He
knows a great deal better ; and se does
every man who knows that steel rails
were sold for seme twenty dollars a ten
above the price of iron rails, although the
cost of their production is about ten dol
lars a ten less. The Bessemer mills
reuld ikiL well have realized less than
G per eent profit upon their manufac manufac
ture.althengh Senater Beck's statement,
we believe, only charged upon them a
profit of CU per cent, en their capital.
Mr. Kelley, fortified by the data fur
nished hiinby the steel association, made
a speech yesterday, during which he as
sailed Mr. Bunnell, of Minnesota, for
stating that the Bessemer manufacturers
realized a profit of sixty-seven per cent.,
and Mr. Dunnell does net seem te have
been sufficiently master of the subject te
maintain his position against the array
of authorities Judge Kelley brought te
bear upon him.
But Secretary Swank, of the American
iron aud steel association, might be en
gaged in a better business than that of
furnishing misleading facts as te the
Bessemer industry, which is profitable
te a degree that is simply scandalous con cen
sidering that it enjoys the " protection "
of a heavy duty. It is simply silly te
speak of men who are levying the enor
mous tribute upon the industry of the
country that is realized by the Bessemer
manufacturing, as Secretary Swank does
in this paragraph : "If these who, with
undaunted courage but often with fail-
in!- strength, faithfully nursed it for
many years when it was a sickly child
are iiej- able te recover their losses
through the general prosperity of the
whole country, and it can be shown, as
it most certainly can be, that their en
terprise and courage have resulted in
giving te the country a vigorous industry
that has cheapened the cost of our rail
roads aud reduced the cost of transperta
tien, who shall say that they are net
worthy of their reward ?"
' Solely in the interest of honest
elections " we venture te suggest te the
editor of the Examiner that he had bet
ter move en with that First ward elec
tion contest case which has been insti
tuted by himself, Charley Ebernian,
Charley Tripple and ether perspiring
patriots who are known te labor all the
year round " solely in the interest of
honest elections.'" The oyster months
..,.. jene and the summer will seen be
at hand, whuu election contests are
apt te spoil,especially;if net entrusted te
that experienced political undertaker, J.
W. .lohnsen, esq., who has coffined most
of the Republican contests here. It is
highly important, at least, that it be de
termined which of the candidates for in
spector were elected in the First ward,
where only two were running and two
were te be chosen. By all means let the
testimony begin.
i
Up in Clinten county the court has
directed the constables te include in their
quarterly returns all persons who rent
houses for b.iwdy purposes, saloon keep
en; who allow card playing for drinks,
persons who sell gunpowder, fire-arms
or explosives te anybody under 16 years
of age, and these who sell or offer fish
in violation of law. Down this way it
is net considered necessary te enlarge
the ..subjects of the constables' returns
untii they learn te tell the truth about
the thiugs they are new expected te in
quire into. It would make Tem Pepper
green with envy te hear the Lancaster
county cenatsbles stand up in a row be
fore the court every three months and
swear that they knew of no violations of
the liquor law, and that all the finger
boards are up.
TiiK adjournment of the "Virginia
Legislature without making an appor
tionment te suit Mahone's purposes,
allowing the additional congressman te
be elected at large, wrecks the Readjust
ee' hopes. The Democrats are altogether
likely te carry the state while the oppo
sition are demoralized. The " Independ
ent " movement of Southern adventurers
has been checked, and the Seuth re.
mains
"solid" fera return te beuest
Ih-mcemtic federal government,
Tiieke has been some conflict in the
accounts published of the Continental
hotel conference between the Republi
can committees of the two factions. One
who was there tells the story truthfully
in the Wilksbarre Recerd, and these who
knew the statesmen engaged in that con
ference, will recognize the -Recerd's re
port as se natural that there can hardly
lie any doubt of his literal truth. Ferj
the accuracy Of historical "record we re
print it with care,
The aldermen seem te have already
learned sometbinjrfrem the investigations
of the auditors. A reduction of $200 a
month in their bills is no inconsiderable
saving.
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HINOB TOPICS.
The late Mr. Emersen once observed
concerning the state of Blair and Bil
Chandler :
" The Ged who made Xew Uainpshlie,
Blest.d the lefty land
w uu nine men ;
Small bat and wren
Heuse In the oak."
A pine tree stands alone en
A bate bleak northern height ;
The lec and snow they swathe
heyswathelt.
As it sleeps there, all In white.
'Tts dreaming et aplam-tree,
In a far-off Eastern land .
That mourns, alone and silent,
On a ledge of burning sand.
Heine.
The Philadelphia Timet very sensibly
argues that the contests in the Democratic
delegation from that city te the state con
vention should be settled at home and net
taken te Harrisbnrg. The city Democrats
have often bean disgraced by the transfer
of their quarrels te the state convention,
where they have become a Btate scandal.
These from the interior long since became
disgusted with that kind of thing and
have repeatedly given notice that Phila
delphia quarrels must be settled in Phila
delphia, and this the Democrats are new
trying te de. There is every prospect
that they will succeed.
It is in Crawford county "that the sys
tem reaches its perfeotien. If the Pitts
burg Chronicle is te be believed the Lan
caster striker should strike for Meadville
at once. According te the Chronicle at the
late Republican county conventieu, where
Dick was laid out and Re-form wen, "of the
59 delegates it is a modest estimate te
place 50 as having sold their votes, aud it
is very doubtful if the lowest priee was
under $300. The issue of the contest
depended entirely en the strength of the
financial backing of the candidate."
The wise Serpents and iuncccut Deves
having long trained in different Factious,
conceived the Idea that for sweet Har
meny's sake they would cenibiue their
Fortunes and form a party of superior
Wisdom and Innocence. But when the
combination had been effected it was
found that the Scrpeuts appropriated all
the Wisdom and left only the Innocence
te the Deves. Whereupon the larger por
tion of the Deves, who had somehow be bo be
ceme inoculated with Wisdom, found out
that they were no better off than before,
and withdrew from the Partnership.
Mokai, : " Reform s' mother year."
As might have been expected, the Yerk
Ecening Dispatch, is entirely reconciled te
Kauffman's displaeement of Wiley as cel
lector, ou the ground that the counties of
Yerk and Perry both.Dcmecratic help
te make up the district and by custom
the patronage of the minority counties
belongs te the senator. Besides, "Col
lector Wiley te strengthen Congressman
Smith in his district would appoint his
friends and send them into Yerk county
te de duty in a district he did net repre
sent" ; whereas under Kaufftnan, "the
best men qualified will be chosen as deputy
collectors, store keepers and 'augers, and
the revenues carefully returned te the
government." It is te be hoped that when
Andy comes te handing out the places te
the "best meu" Brether Hiram Yeung of
the Dispatch will net be overlooked.
Rev. Dr. Cutler states the case suc
cinctly thus : "Ne stream rises higher
than its fountain. The vital point at
which sound temperance principles are te
be applied is the conscience of the individual.
Righteous laws against the drink traffic
are eminently desirable. When sustained
by a powerful public sentiment they pro
duce admirable results ; but. no civil en
actment will prevent a man from becom
ing a drunkard if he is feel enough te
tamper with intoxicating drinks." Has
it evor occurred te the Temperance agita
tor that, after all, local option practically
prevails in Pennsylvania ? Wherever
local sentiment is strong enough te elect
and sustain a court which will, in the ex
ercise of its discretion, grant no licenses,
there the liquor traffic may be virtually
abolished without any amendment in the
existing laws of the 6tate.
The New Yerk Sun calls this " the
voice of true statesmanship." It is the
voice of Hen. Sam'l S. Coxin Congress :
" I favor, openly and boldly, the entire
abolition of the cumbrueus, corrupt and
spying system of the internal revenue. It
is net necessary te say that its officers are
corrupt ; it is the system. Its officers
pursue the veter into his cigar and tobacco
shops and iute stills, breweries and facto
ries with threats, and it has its army of
5,000. Worse than the janizary or the
mameluke, it undertakes by its occult
machinery te intimidate and defraud.
Away with it ! Every speck of it ou our
body politic is a cancer. I am willing te
meet this issue at the polls, aud oe be te
that member who upholds it te eveifill our
treasury, that the greedy may riot iu the
people's hard-earned means collected by
its officials. Indeed, it seems a pait of the
plan adopted by the dominant party te
allow no reductieu. The surplus is te be
piled up year after year, and this is the
issue we are te meet."
A,.'ltlabla Spectacle.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Who could have expected a seuater of
the United States te present such a pitia
ble spectacle as Mr. Blair? He, a senator,
agreed for an alleged counsel fee, te bring
Shipherd's monstrous claim te the atten
tion of the secretary of state confessedly
without knowing whether the claim was
valid or a sham; and it new turns out that
he was aware that the "scrip," of which
his fee consisted, was worth nothing unless
the government could be induced te back
the claim in a way as if " ships," of war "
were going, te Shipherd's support. This
puts him, as a senator, in the position of
urging a trumped-up claim npen bis own
government, a proceeding by which his
worthless fee in "scrip " might be made
valuable, and his representations were
made in view of the fact that the pressing
of the claim might lead the country into
war!
Trylngte Break a win.
The contest ever the will of the late
Sarah Burr, who left ever $3,000,000 te
different public and private institutions of
the Protestant Episcopal church, as char
itable bequests was begun yesterday at
New Yerk in the surrogate's court. The
second cousins of the decedent contest the
will Nen the - gspuidj oDundee influence,
wasttytefeaeatar; capacity and infor
mality of execution.
DE LONG'S PAETY DEAD.
-BODIES
OF THE EXPLORERS TOVSD.
Probability that the Captain or the Jean-
nelte and These With Him Died
In October, 1881.
The following dispatch via Irkutsk,
Slay 5, has been received by Secretary
Chandler :
Lena Delta, March 24, 1882. Found
De Lene and party dead. Found all papers
and books. Will continue search for Chipp.
Melville.
Thus the story of DeLene's fate ends
with the dread certainty which all have
feared yet hoped against. Frem the night
of September 12, when en parting with
the two ether beats containing the remain
der of the Jeannette's crew, he waved at
once an adieu and an order te each te
make the best course she could for safety,
there have been just two brief and uncer
tain glimpses of bis movements, like the
view one gets when the ieg lifts a moment
and again shuts out everything in an im
penetrable mist. After the beats sepa
rated, DcLerg with his thirteen meu
landed at one of the mouths of the river
Lena, September 17. Thence they traveled
slowly southward, having two days' pro pre
visions brought from the beat, and killing
game for their immediate wants. On Sat
urday, October 1, 1881, DeLong wrote a
letter, which was found by Engineer Mel
ville while making his first search, and
three ether records were found, containing
little news, however. The first letter was
as fellows :
Saturday, Oct. 1, 1831. Fourteen of
the officers and men of the Jeannctte
reached this hut en September 28, and
having been forced te wait for the river te
freeze ever are proceeding te cress te the
west side this morning en their jour
ney te reach some settlement ou the Lena
river. I have two da s' previsions, but
having been fortunate enough thus far te
get game in our pressing needs wc have
no tears for the future. Our party arc all
well except Hans Erikscn, wher.a tees
have been amputated iu consequence of
frost bite. Other records will In found in
several huts en the east side of the river,
along which we havecome fieni the north.
Gee. W. Di. Lone.
On the 7th Eriksen, the frost-bitten
sailor whose feet had been amputated,
died. At this time the party were in great
distress for want of feed, and ea the 9.h
Nores and Nindemann, who were the
two strongest of the the party, were sent
ahead te leek for help. On the 24th they
were met by some native fishermen at a
point halfway teBulun, the nearest per
manent settlement. They were then
nearly dead fiem starvation, but seen re
covered their strength, aud en the 1st of
November they leached Engineer 3fel 3fel
ville's party. Molville immediately started
te search for De Leng's party
and spent three weeks in the
Lena Delta, finding the letter
abeve quoted and the three ether
records, but net succeeding iu discovering
the men. As winter was then coming en
and the natives refused te work any
longer, Molville returned teBuluu, and
went en te Yakutsk, a distance of about
110 mile te obtain Russian assistance and
supplies. This journey required about
thirty five days, and it was net until De
cember 30 that Melville arrived there.
On the 27th of January, 1882, he had or
ganized his search party and started back.
Arriving in Bulun about the 1st of March
he took the route for Sisternek, ou the
west bank of the Lena, where he had
found the last trace of De Leng ou his
previous search. He reached the sceno of
close oneratiens about the middle of
March, aud en the 24th their search ended,
as far as De Leng's party was concerned,
by the lamentable discovery recited in his
brief dispatch.
The names of these lest are : Lieutenant
Commander Gcerge W. DeLeng, Passed
Assistant Surgeon James M. Ambler, Col Cel
lins, Eriksen (previously known te have
died), Gurtcz, Drcsley, Iversen, Kaach,
Bevd. Lee. Ah Sam and Alexci. These
probably lest in Lieutenant. Chipp's party
are : Lieutenant V. W. Clnpp, uunear,
Swcetman, Staar, Warren. Kuehne, John John Jehn
eon and Sharwell.
PEBSONAL.
Dr. T. R. Pixten and family leave en
Monday for Europe and will be absent
about three months.
The most unlikely story yet circulated
about Den Cameren is that he is in
sanely jealous " of his wife. Such yarns
as that will net beat Bcaver.
Hen. C. R. Buckalew will be a can
didate for nomination for Congress be be bo
fero the Democratic convention of Colum
bia county. That ought te settle it.
In powers of reasoning, general culture,
modesty of assertion and statcsmanlike
fairness Mr. Carlisle, of Kentucky, is re
garded by many congressmen of both
parties as the ablest man in the Heuso.
Longfellow's relatives will carry out
the intent of his will and givejhis brother
and his nephews and nieces the legacies
which the court said were net valid be
cause niade by interlineatien instead of
codicil.
One of the daughters of Minister Sar
gent sailed for Germany with her eyes
blindfolded,owing te an affection contract
ed while studying Sanscrit and Anglo Angle Anglo
Saxen. Sargent is net se much of a literary
feller.
The Press says: "The cesspool of ran
corous malice was exhausted in 187G te
ruin Blaine, butuone of the offal reached
its object." Blaine was saved by a sun
stroke, but net until he had lest the presi
dential nomination.
The president has "remitted" all the
penalties incurred by Fitz Jehn Pouter
under the fiuding of the court martial
which deprived him of his position iu the
army and debarred him from ever holding
office under the iJnitcd States govern
ment. Mary Cleninier thinks t.'iat ic in net only
the awkwardly " heavy lrat-.e " en the
Mrs. Hates portrait that cai.j it te be
pushed from pillar te pest in ' 'ie White
Heuse, but also because its pu seuce and
the fact that it was the gift of the temper
ance women, in memory of Mrs. Hayes'
banishment of liquor from tbe White
Heuse, are a perpetual rebuke te a wine
bibbing administration.
McSweent, of Mansfield, O., additional
counsel for the Star Reute defendants,
once mystified a Cincinnati court in banc
by gravely refciring te "5th Moses" as
authority for his position. The judges
conferred with each ether before confess
ing ignorance of the particular reports te
which they had been referred, when the
counsel, pulling a small volume from his
pocket, proceeded te cite an ancient Jew
ish law recorded in Deuteronomy;
Twe days before death, Emersen's old
companion in the early labors of ideal
ism in Bosten Mr. Alcott, came te
bid him farewell. As he took his hand,
Emersen said, tenderly : " Are you well ? "
"Very well." "Are you quite sure?
Yeu have a strong held en life ; keep it
firm." And with this hint of immortal
existence, in which he had se constantly
believed, the dying sage said his smiling
geed-by te the world he wa leaving.
Dallas Sanders, the Philadelphia
Democratic lawyer, sent by Attorney Gen
eral Brewster te Seuth Carolina te prose
cute alleged election frauds has returned.
He denies the story of the New Yerk Trib
une, given en the authority of Kerr, his
colleague, that the windows of bis hotel in
Charleston were stoned by a mob, and
says Kerr never told it. Sanders says that
while people in, Seuth Carolina didn't re
ceive him with open arms at first, upon
the whole he has no reason te complain of
his treatment.
THE LATEST NEWS.
GI.EAN.JtD rBOBIHSMOBaUiG MAULS.
Disaster 1b Various luqm CrU ad Cas
ualty Seme Notable Death. "The
Striking events of a Day.
In a collision in Chicago, between a
Lake Shere passenger train and a Grand
Trunk freight train, James Carriganwas
instantly killed and Branford Hamilton
and J. J. Jey made cripples for life.
Daniel Cellier, employed at the iron
works at Trey, N. Y., was instantly killed
by a red of iron coming ent of the rolls
and going directly through his body. He
was asleep en a plank at the time.
William Barry. 40 years old, while
working en the Mills building, New Yerk,
was struck en the head by a block which
fell from an upper lloer and was killed.
Dr. Preston E. Buckner, of Greenville,
Miss., entered the dark room of one
Wentworth, who called out " halt !" Re
ceiving no response, Wentworth fired, kill
ing the doctor immediately.
The dead body of Themas H. Whitney,
of the firm of Whitney Bres., Ne. 227
Seuth Frent street, Philadelphia, was
found lying in a muddy peel near the road
side a lew miles from Glassboro, N. J.,
where he resided. Mr. Whitney, who was
about 73 years of age, had started out in
the afternoon alone te take his customary
drive. Later iu the day his horse and
buggy were found en the read some dis
tance from Glassboro. the latter being
without an occupant, while the reins weie
trailing along the ground.
At Lawrence, Mass., ene of the main
pulleys, which runs the machinery of half
of the drawing, spooling and warping
rooms in the Central Pacific mills, burst,
aud the flying pieces struck a carder,
Jennie O'Dennel, breaking her left leg in
two places. Sixty spinning frames had
te be stepped.
The. body of the man who was run ever
and killed in the Harlem railroad tunnel
at New Yerk, has been identified by his
wife as the remains of Jehn Deyle, a bar
teuder, who left his home en Wednesday
morning. He was insane and threw him
self befere a passing train.
An Engineer Killed at Ills 1'enf.
The mail train which left Jacksonville,
Fla., at 7:40 o'clock Thursday evening
for Tallahassee, collided with a leg train
coming te the city, near the White Heuso
station, eleven miles west of Jacksonville.
The leg train was five minutes behind
time, and was running down te back up en
the siding. The engineer en the passen
ger train supposed the ether train was en
the siding, until tee-late te prevent a col
lision. The two engines were badly
smashed, and Henry Hewlett, the eldest
engineer and the first who ever pulled a
throttle valve in Flerida, was killed in
stantly, his body being sovered about the
thighs and jammed between the tender
and car. Henry Simmons, a colored fire
man, was badly injured and will probably
die. Mr. Stebbins, the engineer en the
passenger train, jumped, and escaped with
a sprained ankle. The passengers all es
caped uninjured.
The Mere or J.ess Distinguished Dead.
William Allmend, father of Mayer All
mend, of Wilmington, Del., died yester
day in that city of general infirmity, iu
his 90th year.
Isaac Ward, father of the Wardbrethcis,
the famous oarsmen, died at Cornwall, N
Y., yesterday, aged 84 years. He leaves
fourteen children.
Cel. Wm. II. Snowheok, an old resi
dent of Chicago, collector of customs and
United States sub-treasurer under Presi
dents Polk aud Pierce, died yesterday,
aged 80 years.
A special from Oshkosh, Wiss., an
nounced the death of Ephriam Sherman
Durfec, aged ninety-seven years, who was
the worshipful master of the Rochester
ledge of Masens in 1828, and conferred the
degrce en Morgan, who subsequently ex
posed the masenic secrets. Owing te the
anti-Masonic excitement at the time, Mr.
Durfec was cempelled te leave the coun
try. He was a soldier of the war of 1812.
The Way or the Transgressor.
Willis Pcttit was hanged at Tamcquah,
Indian territory, for the murder" of Mar
garet Ferd.
In the criminal court at Washington, D.
C, Jehn Shaw, colored, was sentenced te
be hanged en January 19, 1883, for the
murder of his sister an January IC, 1881.
Sadie West, who robbed Alexander
Swift, the Cincinnati merchant, of a large
sum of money about two wceks age, in
New Yerk city,was sentenced te state pri
son for four aud a half years.
Albert Smith, colored, who murdered
Jeshua Thompson, colored, en Monday
night last at Norfolk, Va., and fled, has
been captured and is in jail.
William Richards, who is wanted for a
murder committed near Montreal in July
last, was apprehended at Waterbury,
Conn., en a requisition. He was working
in a foundry, and had been living there
about two weeks with his family.
Alfred B. Doyal, of Griflin, Ga., who
murdered a policeman in the streets iu
April, 1881, wa3 sentenced te be hung ou
June 30. He objected te the date because
it was the day set for Guiteau's hanging.
The judge, therefore, named June 29.
SEWS NOTES.
Current items of Varied Interest.
She spread of smallpox is doing injury
te the business in Cincinnati.
R. T. Wilsen's axe factory, at Dundas,
Ont., burned. Less, $15,000.
The cotton factory at Kindcrhoek, N.
Y destroyed by fire. Less, $40,000.
About 100 operatives thrown out of em
ployment. Mexico was yesterday enthusiastically
celebrating the twentieth anniversary of
the defeat of the French at Pueblo.
In Michigan recent heavy frosts have
destroyed two thirds of the peach crop
and of pther fruits.
Over thirty saloons have closed at Col
umbus, Ohie, since May 1, and it is es
timated that if the Pend law is declared
constitutional half the 500 saloons in the
city will close by June 1. Of thirty-two
saloons at Corning, en the Ohie Central
read, eleven have already been closed.
William Peace at New Yerk obtained
judgment for $3,000 against the Delaware
and Lackawanna railroad company for
forcible ejection from a train because he
offered the conductor the wrong part of
art excursion ticket, the ether part having
been taken up in mistake by another con
ductor. A l'rlze fight That was net fought.
The prize fight between Bryan Camp
bell, of Leadville, and Themas Walling,
of England, who were te have fought for
$500 a side near Oak Creek, Colerado.,
ended in a fizzle. Campbell refused te
enter the ring, claiming that the place se
lected by Walling did net suit him ; sport
ing meu claimed that Campbell was afraid
te fight, aud Walling's friends claimed the
stakes.
Anether Seuth Carolina Election Case.
In the United States supreme court at
Charleston, the jury in the case of the
Charleston election managers charged
with ballet-box stuffing announced its in
ability te agree, whereupon it was dis
charged by Judge Bend, and a mistrial
entered. The jury, it is understood, was
eight for conviction and four for acquittal.
'The Sew Yerk Contested Judgeship.
The jury in the case of Richard O'Gor O'Ger
man vs. William B. Arnenx, in which the
former contests the right of the latter te
the snrpreme court judgeship of New Yerk
city, were' unable te agree yesterday, and
were discharged from further considera
tion of the case.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
STKA3BCRG HIGII SCHOOL.
The Sixth
Annual. Ceaameaccment a Cem
plete success.
The sixth annual commencement of the
high school in Strasburg last evening at
tracted au audicuce that packed Massas Massas
seit hall, where the exercises were held, te
its utmost capacity ; and this tee in spite of
the very unfavorable weather, which no
doubt deterred rnauy from attending.
Every seat in the hall was occupied, and
standing room was at a premium. The
stage was handsomely decorated with flags
aud evergreens, the cntire rear wall beiug
covered with a large flag, while an arch of
cedar was surmounted with a life-size por
trait of the late President Garfield.
Throughout the hall were tasteful decora
tions of flowers and oil paintings, a feature
being the floral pyramids in the front cor
ners near the entrance. The ceiling Was
hung with festoons of cedar, while a large
bell made of cedar depended from the
centre.
The graduating class numbered eight,
the largest since the organization of the
school, which uuder the ahle principal,
Prof. Charles B. Keller, is making rapid
and substantial progress. The names of
the members are as fellows :
Rebcrata N. Foulk, Mary L. Maynard,
31. Agnes Martin, Emily Warren, Lillian
Rakestraw, Jehn L. Schrey, Bieu Spiudlcr
Charles Martin.
The exercises began about eight o'clock,
aud embraced music, recitations, orations,
etc. The pregramme was of such uniform
merit that distinction of its many excel
lencies is rendered unnecessary. The re
ligious portion was conducted by Revs.
Stringer and llaney, and the pregramme
complete was as follews:
Music March " Enchanted Beauty "
Orchestra.
Prayer.
" Light Guard Quickstep " Orchestra.
Salutatory "A Geed Stout Heart"
Mary Maynard.
Recitation " The Green Mountain Jus
tice ' ' Jeb n Myl in .
Recitation" The First Settler's Story"
Emily Potts.
" Target Schottische "Orchestra.
Oration "The Curse of the Territory "
Bien Spindler.
Recitation " Tem " Nannie Hersh,
Recitation " The Sergeaut's Story"
Merris Bachmau.
Oration" By the Sea" Lillian Rake
straw. " Crawford's Serenade" Variations
Orchestra.
Oration ''Signs and Omens" Emily
Warren.
Recitation " On the Frontier" Gcerge
Brua.
Recitation " New" Miuela Spindlnr.
Oratieu "The Peet or Cambridge"
Charles Martin.
Recitation "Samantha Allen'.'- Emmie
Phenegar.
Music Mazeuika "Eob-e-Liuk" Or
chestra. Oration " Our Grandmother " Agnes
Martin.
Recitation" Macdonald's Raid "
Milten Cooper.
Recitation " Nuttimr " Mary Au
di ews.
Recitation -"Advertisement Answered"
Bernarda Foulk.
Waltz ' Sea Nymph "Orchestra.
Oratieu "The Coming Event" Jehn
Schrey.
Recitation" Brier Rese "Ella Eber
nian. Presentation of diplomas by Prof Chas.
B. Keller.
Music Pelka " The Falconers '' W.
II. Kcffer.
Valedicteiy "The Heart of the Rose "
R. N. Foulk.
uaiep ".Maud &, with accempani
ment Orchestra.
Benediction.
The music, which was a very meriteri
eus feature of the performance, was by
the Str.isburg Philharmonic society, a new
and flourishing organization that is rapidly
making ler use It a name, and in this oc
casion added a new leaf te its laurels. Iu
every respect the entertainment was a
credit te all the participants, te the school
and its patrons, and te Prof. Keller and
his assistants.
DISMISSED CASES.
Alilerinen'd Fees Coming Down.
Following are the bills of the several
aldermen of this city and justices of the
peace of Columbia for dismissed cases,
heard bofero them during the months of
March aud April, 1882, respectively :
LANCASTER CITY
Wards
JfareJi
$ 03 80
April
$ 83.53
1st Alderman McConeny
2nd Alderman Wiley
3rd Alderman l.arr
ltli AMerniiiii Spurrier
5th Alderman McGlimi
lit li Alderman Samson
ilh Alderman A.P. Dennelly
St h Alderman 1. Denm-lly
IHh Alderman Miley
COLUMBIA
Snulre Crier
Sqiiiru Teun
!5iiiir frank
Deduction luit month $ 210.10
r Alderman Spurrier presented no bill
for March, but lumped Match and April
together, his bill for the two months being
$259.-10. In the abeve account we have
estimated his bill for March at $129.40 and
for April at $120.00.
The deduction in constables' bills cor
responds with the aldermcns, se that it is
fair te assume that a saving of $400 te$500.
has been effected during the past mouth
in the single matter of dismissed cases in
this city and Columbia. Hew much has
been saved in ether parts of the county,
and in ether official circles, through the
laboisefa beard of auditors who audit,
wc de net knew.
Reformed Theological Seminary Commence
ment. Next week the Reformed theological
seminary of this city will celebrate its com
mencement exercises. The annual ser
mon, before the society of inquiry, will be
delivered by Dr. Greene of Princeton, N.
J., en Tuesday evening, May 9th, in St.
Paul's Reformed church at 7:45 p. m. The
beard of visitors convenes Tuesday, May
9th ; examinations will be held en Wed
nesday morning and afternoon and Thurs
day morning. The commencement will
be held en Thursday evening, May 14th iu
the college chapel at half-past seven
o'clock. The graduating class numbers 5.
Uestltnte Orphan Children.
Mis. Sarah J. Seiple, whose serious ill
ness and destitute circumstances were
noticed in Thursday's IxTnLUGENCEK,
died at her residence, 50C Seuth Beaver
street, yesterday afternoon. She was a
widow and leaves two-small children ut
terly unprevided with any comforts or
necessaries of life. Her immediate neigh
bors have been rendering the family seme
assistance, but ether help will be needed
te provide for her decent burial. The
;haritabe should act promptly in this sad
case.
Fuel and Light.
Marietta Register.
During the past school session in East
Denegal township, a lady teacher, who
bearded at a heuse in Maytown, was visi
ted frequently by a pedagogue of the ether
sex. After the close of the session, and
ere the gentleman who paid these visits
had departed, the party at whose beuse
the young lady bearded, presented a bill
te the young 'man "for light and fuel
during the past five months $4,25."
meeting or Peer Directors.
The peer directors held their meeting
te-day and passed a number of bills.
12.160 I1S.'1
I29.4U 120.00
W.IS - .17.20
-. Irti'i
i7.::e 56.05
01.20 S2.10
71.81 50.70
110.15 Oi.W
$ SS3.M 673.73
07X03
&M
COURT
MORNING.
Tavern mail Eating Houses Licenses VU-,
peeed of uprrcnt Buslnesa. .
This sserning oeoxt met at 10 'o'clock..
when tke liceswc cases, were taken tip and''
uispeseu ei as ionews.,:
Jes. Desch, Columbia, hotel, uew a res
taurant. Case continued te June.
Wm. Renin, Sixth ward, cit3, new
stand. Continued te Thursday.
Larzarus Wolf, Fairvillc, hotel, new
stand, with a remonstrance. Net granted.
Jacob Warlel, hotel at Shenk's Ferry,
Concstega township. A hotel was kept
at this place for years, but was abandoned
some years age. It was new claimed that
a hotel was required te accommodate the
public, and a ticket office of the Columbia
& Pert Deposit railroad is te be placed in
that house. This case was continued te
June.
J. J. Decrsch was an applicant for a
hotel license for Schecnbergcr's old .staud,
en North Queen street, which newhas a
restaurant license, granted at January
term. This case was refused for the present.
Jehn S. Weidler, of Salunga, was au
applicant for tavern license. There was a
remoustrance against the stand, which was
an old, ene en the grounds that the appli
cant had sold liquor en Sunday ami te
persons of known intemperate habits. The
licence was refused.
Millard F. Rccse was an applicant te
keep a restaurant en Middle btrcct, this
city. It was refused.
H. B. Stauffer was an applicant for a
restaurant licence (new stand) en Shippen
street, this city. This was refused.
The application of J. W. Gerz and Wm.
Shultz te keep an eating heuse in the 8th
waid , this city, was continued until the
June term.
Ames Seurbeer, who has a restaurant
license in Safe Harber, asked te have the
license transferred te another heuse into
which he will move.
Jehn Glick, of Maner township, wanted
a license te keep a hotel in Maner town
ship, the license of which was abandoned
wheu the iron works at Safe Harber stop step
ped. This was refused.
William Eckert, of Paradise township,
petitioned ler au eating heuse license for
the old Londen Greve hotel, Paradise
township. This formerly had a tavern
license but none was asked for last year.
Refused.
LicenBCb Transferred.
Samuel Shenberger, of Columbia, hotel
license te August Kruger.
D. H. Sellcnbcrgcr, of Brecknock hotel,
te Henry Bicnemau.
Henry M. llettcnstein, of East llemp
ficld hotel, te Graybill .1. Brickhart.
Current Ituslucss.
A citation was granted in the estate of
Susan Erb for an account te be filed en
May 22.
A rule te bliew cause why a new trial
should net be had was granted in the case
of A. J. Dunlap vs. David H. Potts.
In the case of Biua vs. Bciles the rule
for a new trial-was made absolute.
A Constable Resigns.
The resignation of Gcerge Shell, who
was elected constable of West Lampeter
township, vas presented te the court, and
the reason was that he had removed from
the district. Accompanying the tcsigua-
tien was the petition of James Kautz, of
this city, who wants te be appointed cou ceu cou
stable of the township. The affidavit of
Shell, setting forth that he had teceived
nothing te resign and that of Kautz that
he had paid nnthing were also read. The
court continued the matter te Thursday,
when the appointment will be made, in
otse there are no ether applicants from the
district.
This morning Gcerge Nauman, esq., for
the beard of county auditors officially
announced te the court the death of Jehn
K. Reed president of the beard. He
stated that the ether members of the beard
did net wish te dictate te the court in the
matter of filling the vacancy but they
would recommend Jeseph L. Clarksen,
of this city as a suitable person, as he is
new clerk te the beard aud with them bad
gene ever all of the accounts. The court
has agreed upon Mr. Reed's successor but
they diil net announce his name for the
reason that the act of assembly requires
that the person appointed should have
voted for the deceased. The party ap
pointed will be notified te make such an
affidavit.
Court ajeurncd te Thursday morning
NEW 1IOLLAN11 NOTKS.
Condensed Frem the "Clarien."
Jehn Mcntzer's cow was killed en the
railroad by the neon train up, yesterday,
at Ranck's crossing, bolewn town.
As Joe Frank, of East Earl, was en his way
te this town, en feet, through the field?,
he shot a black suake that measured five
feet.
A gross outrage has lately been com
mitted against the patrons of tbe 'office,
by the sudden removal of GiefFs stere
posteffico from the central and proper
point it occupied since its establishment.
Geerge A. Wallace, of E:tst Earl, while
working about his coal and lumber yards
and warehouse, lest a roll of notes be
twecen $75 or $100.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Weaver, of this
place, wlicre in Lancaster last Satur
day, and en his way home, in the vicinity
of Mcchanicsburg, Mrs. W. missed her
pocket book, containing about seven dol
lars. The new U. B. church, at Limcville in
Salisbury township, will be dedicated en
Sunday, May 21, 1882. Bishops J. Dick Dick
eon, D. D., of Ohie, and J. J. Glossborn Glessborn Glossbern
ncr, of Virginia, Rev. M. P. Deyle and
Rev. E. Light, will be present.
On Wednesday night, the wife of Gee,
Harding,residing near Mt. Airy, Salisbury
township, dropped evor aud expired in
fifteen minutes thereafter. She was a
strong and robust woman and enjoyed
geed health. -
The New Helland bank has dccUred a
dividend of two and one-half per cent.
payable en the 10th inst. In addi.ien te
this dividend ene thousand dollars of the
profits of the bank were set aside as a
surplus fund and about seven hundred
dollars were placed te the profit and less
account.
Mr. Sam Ridgcway, hostler at the Stycr
house, discovered the top of one of Mr.
Styer'tf new buggies terribly cut with a
pocket knife. There were a number of
long gashes, and although they can be
sewed up, it will disfigure the top very
much. Mr. Gee. Sprecher had the buggy
out en the previous night, but did net
learn where the malicious deed was done.
At the. annual meeting .of the stock
holders of the East Brandywine and
Wayncsburg railroad company, the follow
ing beard of officers were elected for the
ensuing year: President, Jehn Cornog ;
Directors. William Morten, T. 31. Sterb,
Ames Dillcr. Strickland Kneass, B. F.
Kinzcr, J. N. DuBarry, S. M. Fetten,
Wistar Norris, G. B. Roberts, James Mc
Chinc, Edmund Smith, N. P. Shertridgc.
Repert el Viewer.
Fer several days past the beaid of view
ers appointed te assess the damages sus
tained by the estates of Jehn It. McGov McGev
cm and Jehn McGrann, deceased, by rea
son of the Pennsylvania railroad company
taking land of these estates in Manhcini
township, in straightening- their read,
have been at work and filed their reports
this.merning. They award $13,357.00 te
the McGovern estate aud $8,374.80 te the
McGrann estate. . '. .
Sale or Real Estate.
Knmnnl TTnae Xr. Snn nnfttinnecrS. Sold at
r.nlilif beIa nt tlin TCVv.stenC IlOUSC last
nighf, for David Ni Brubaker, jr., a two
story brick house, situated e. n East
Walnut Street, te Auramw" " iuuner,
for $1,350.
THK WILLIAMS UUKULAKV.
Chier'peiflbler Demands and Obtain a
tearfisi ana lemn unt Itetter
".jlhan 11 U Accuser.
AVtksJfe'qucst of Chief ofTelico Deichler
Mayer MacGonigle yesterday afternoon ex
amined a number of policemen, te ascer
tain the truth in icgard te Chief Doich Deich
ler's connection with the Peter Williams
case, of which " our esteemed contempo
raries" niade sensational reports, with a
view of damaging Chief of Pelice Deichler.
The result of the examination showed
that Chief Deichler's action iu the case
was perfectly honorable and in accordance
with the established practice in the police
department. Officers Cramer, Swenk and
Sterrafeltz, (all Republicans), stated
that the practice in the pelice de
partment, for a ereat many years
past, has been that all arrests made
and taken te the , station beuse, between
9 p. m. aud 4. a. bb., belong te the chief
(who is the officer en dety during that
time) unless otherwise expressly provided
for ; and Officers Swenk, Stermfeltz and
Mercer declared that when Watchman
Shubroeks and citizen Green brought in
the burglar Williams, Shubroeks said te
the chief in se many words, ' I hand this
man ever te you, te take charge of him,"
aud tbe chief did take charge of him, as iu
duty bound, and in accordance with a long
established custom. Watchman hu
brooks, who was also examined, corrobor
ated the statements of the ether officers
and added that there was net a word of
truth iu the published statement that
the chief wanted te have the case heard
befere Aldrraau Dennelly. The chief
asked him at what hour he would be down
town, and he answered that he usually
slept during the morning. The chief then
advised him te go te Alderman Mc
Conomy's and enter cemplaiuts against
Williams of felonious assault and battery
and carrying concealed deadly weapons.
As Alderman Samson was ene of his sub
scribers, Shubroeks made complaint be be be
eoeo him, and as Daily was an officer
of the ward he directed the alder
man te make out the warrants and
commitments in his name, net knowing,
or forgetting that the cases belonged by
established precedeut te Chief Deichler.
This was a mistake en the part of Mr.
Shubroeks, who has proved himself a
careful and gallant officer. Officer Daily
also niade a mistake in accepting the war
rants and commitments, but he speedily
corrected it, by banding them ever te
Chief Deichkr; and we think
Chief Deichler, who was undoubt undeubt
etly entitled te conduct the cases
against Williams, made a mistake in re
taining any part of the reward paid for
the recovery of the Cruikshank watch.
But the greatest mfetake was made by the
reporters of "our esteemed contempora
ries," who for the purpose of venting their
spleen against a faithful, cflictr attempted
te make a mountain cut el'a mole-hill, and
have get themselves iute very het water,
out of which they may have seme trouble
of getting with whole skins. But of
that, anon.
TUK VKNSION 11UARU.
Dr. Wm. ttlackwoed'H Kemeval.
On Wednesday last the Examiner con
tained a paragraph iu its local dcpattmciit
headed, " The Pension Frauds." in which
it was intimated that some startling de
velopments would be made in "the sweet
alter awhile." Yesterday the Aew Era
followed with a paragraph in which it
spoke of alleged frauds by " members "
of the pension beard, and that the "phy
sicians se charged," denied the same. The
Era adds that " the outcemo of it will
possibly be the disbandment or at least,
the dismemberment of the present beard
of pension surgeons for this district."
As the statements of our-esteemed con
temporaries are calculated te cast a shade
of suspicion upon all the members of the
beard, we deem it proper te make public
facts which came te our knowledge before
cither of the publications above alluded
te. Majer Behle, a special fSgsut of tbe
government, has been for some-time past
investigating certain applicants for pen
sions in this city aud vicinity, and inci
dentally ebtainetl information relative te
alleged irrcgulatieus of Dr. Blackwood,
ene of the members of the beard of
examining surgeons, which he deemed
of sufficient importauce te send en te the
commissioner of pensions at Washington.
On Saturday last Drv Blackwood was re
lieved from active duty as secretary aud
member of the beard,' aud directed te turn
ever his books and papers te Dr. A. J.
Herr, president of the 'beard, which he
did. The charges made against Dr. Black
wood are te the effect that he received
money from certain applicants for pensions
in consideration for his scrvices iu pro
curing the same. It is due te Mr. Black
wood te say that he emphatically deniett
the truth of the charges. Dr. Ucrr and
Dr. Wm. R. Greve, the ether members of
the heard, met en Wednesday for the
transaction of business as usual, and will,
wc arc informed, meet every Wednesday
iu Grand Army ball, as usual, te hear and
examine claimants for pensions.
The Minstrels Last Might.
An OI'f:itlizatinii suivArtiwul :m ,l flenrtm
Thatcher's minstrels " appeared before a
goeu auuience at the opera house last
miii. luu mvm, conspicuous pare ei me
ncrfermance was tlin nhsini-i nf Tlintchpr
himself, and of two ether bright particular
stars who had been likewise extensively
billed, namely Courtright and Simmons.
The entertainment moved :tlnnr :ifti- :i
fashion without these worthies, the main
business railing en Hughey Dougherty,
who was funny as ever, while Geerge
Edwards was accnntnhtn en thn nllicr etui.
There was seme excellent music, the or
chestra OeiDg-netaDly geed, but with the
exception of the last act the sketches were
old and threadbare, and the performance
without special merit.
Ills Aaaae and Casta of Ueath.
Tlirt nimn aF tlin men rrts lnl j1
a uu li v auv awa ntiv uiUH nuu
denly at Jehn Martin's hotel, in West
miiun, jcw7iuiiji wuiuiug, was v iiuam
Dminrdlv. ITn ct; fiirmAvltr , rntiiTnnf aF
Cumberland county, but had no relatives
livine. Tlin vnrdiRt. nf thn inrnnA Im-tr
was death from apoplexy.
Itetere ttae Mayer.
This merililM- tlin rrinvnr li-wl hulTi-n litre.
Daniel Haley, who while drank yesterday
threatened te demolish all the buildings
in the neighborhood of Plum and East
King streets aud te kill every ene. Officer
Cramer took kbit m ftstjic geti30 days this
morning ; one vag was discharged.
Horses Shipped.
This morning Fiss & Deerr shipped 21
head of horses from their stables en Grant
street, te New Yerk. There was ene pair
of very heavy grays, one of which wi-ighed
1,700 pounds.
Mr. Clarksea Appointed.
This afternoon Jeseph Clarksen was ap
pointed county auditor te fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Mr. Reed, be
having filed the required affidavit as noted
elsewhere."!
Crenrded Oat.
Bv reason of the pressure upon our
columns today a large amount of interest
ing local and ether reading matter,
prepared for te-day's paper, is emitted.
Deeeratlnn Day Orator.
Cap . Chas. Denues will bo'Deceration,;
day orator at Mt Jey, and E. K. Martin
esq., at Marietta.
Baruam and Jasnbe moanien
Te Reading en Tuesday, May 'Jl Kare rorreund
trip only $1.40. Train leaves Lancaster and
Columbia at 7-50 a. m. Excursion tickets for
Ue at all stations. Ge and see Jumbo. mC-.td
iM