LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER WEDNESDAY JUNE 21 1882. h. I It lancastet f ntelligencct. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 21, 1882 Tie BeBck and Bar. The exchange of compliments which we elsewhere print between the court and one of its auditors, is interesting reading. The auditor's remarks have net found a place upon the court records, although embodied in his report distributing the balance of an estate, which was recorded after being emas culated te suit the views of the clerk of the court. Hew this officer came te think that he had a right te record a part and reject a part of a court paper we de net understand, and perhaps it will be well for the judges te inquire. "We believe that it is made the duty of the court, under the act of 1839, te examine their records as often as their officers are changed, and as much oftener as they consider necessary, te see that they are properly kept, and te order any deficien cy in them te be supplied. In this case all of the auditor's report, of course, should have been recorded, or at least none of it could be lawfully emitted by the clerk of his own motion. His ex cuse that he was net paid for the re cording may have been geed if he had refused te record any part of the report ; but he certainly cannot wake a false lecerd by recording part and emitting part. Possibly the court may consider it te be. within its power te suppress such part of an auditor's report as it considers impertinent or superfluous; but no order of the court is presented as the sanction of his conduct by the dep uty clerk of the orphans' court, and we de net understand that he has any. The judges seem te be called upon te exam ine into the.matter from a proper regard for their prerogative and for the integ rity of their records. Meanwhile we supply, se far as we can, the neglect of the clerk by publishing the unrecorded portion of the auditor's report, and accompanying it with the remarks of the judge which led te his response. It must be considered a case of very plain speaking between bench and bar, the free speech of the auditor being based upon yet freer speech of the judge. It was undoubtedly proper in the judge te pronounce the auditor's charge for his services te be ex orbitant if lie thought se; but it is doubtful, indeed, if he was at liberty te impugn his motives by saying that if the moneys distributed had been his own he would have less highly valued his services, and again, by intimating that he had allowed excessive fees te counsel " as paving the way te his own exorbitant fee." The judge should have Leen sure of his ground before venturing en such an iutimajtien against an at torney, especially one who has always born se honorable a repute as has Mr. Shadle. The provocation te the auditor te resent this severe imputation upon his honor was great. His declaration that all the parties interested in the distribu tion agreed te his charge as a fair one seems te sufficiently defend it ; though some of them seem afterward te have reconsidered the matter and te have ob jected te it. If this was done in cham bers and without notice te him after the adjournment of court he had a right te complain of it ; but here in his turn lie should have been sure of his ground be fore venturing en that suggestion. The lessen of this warfare of words between judge and attorney, is one te the bench ; that it should be careful te treat the bar respectlully if it would always be se treated itself. The bench has net license te scold and insult the bar ; it is net i hus its dignity is successfully maintained. A Medel Judge. Judge Trunkey declines te be named before the Democratic convention for the office of governor, without assigning any reason save his disinclination. But it may readily be imagined why this disinclination exists. The judge may think, as we de, that it is net a geed thing for a judge te be named for a pe litical place. It seems te us that the ju diciary should se far be separated from politics that a judge should net be deem ed eligible for a political nomination. The executive and judicial functions are entirely distinct, and a man whose tastes and ambition lead him towards the bench should cling te the field he has selected and let all his honorable aspira tions find in it their outlet. If this is the motive of Judge Trunkey's action he deserves high honor for it and he has set an example worthy of all emulation. Then it may well be that he considers his present place of higher importance and honor than that of governor ; or its duties may readily be imagined te be mere agreeable te him. There is surely no nee'd for surprise in finding that a student of the law would rather be judge than governor. Any sensible man, with such tastes, would. A politician might prefer te be governor, as putting him mere directly in the line of political advancement, which is his aim. But we de net want politicians en the bench and men with such aspirations ought net te go en it. "We are glad te knew that Judge Trunkey is net a judge of this kind. m The full magnitude of the damage wrought by the recent Western cyclone cannot be appreciated at this distance from the scene of the catastrophe that has devastated a large section of Iowa and etiier portions of the country. The appeal for aid which is sent out te-day graphically portrays the horror of the situation as it exists, but anything less than personal knowledge must neces sarily fall short of an accurate concep tion of the awful reality. Whole dis tricts have been laid waste ; happy homes have been desolated or completely dr. streyed, while the less of life has been truly appalling.' Frem the ac count which we print it seems nrnlmblfl that the storm kine's fatal work has involved the sacrifice of mere than a hundred lives, while millions of money have beeu swept away in the path of the dread destroyer. The charitable instinct must be strongly stirred by the pitiful story which the sightless messengers of the air carry te the farthermost parts of the country, and past experience in sea sons of similar calamity has taught that the present Macedonian cry will net fall unheeded en the ears of the generous American public. They have the dead weed en our old friend, the peach crop liar. New Castle county comes up smiling with a total of 350,000 baskets,and the Delaware demon for the present is compelled te hide his diminished head. But he will be as chippy and as cheeky as ever next year and take the same fiendish delight in frightening unsuspecting people with dismal reports of the scarcity of the luscious fruit. Olk own Brosius is fallen upon at Harrisburg and a nomination for con. gressman-at-large pressed upon him against his pretest V Brosius in the em brace of the Camerons bearing their gifts is an unexpected spectacle. Hew awkwardly he must feel dandling his baby in that company. Third class male matter is net an in-. appropriate sort of name for the cigar ette young men who fumigate our streets and sometimes go se far as te carry the nasty little things into my lady's parlor. Jenx Wakamaker could net " see his way clear " te let his name go before the convention. There is great trouble, no doubt, in a Republican candidate see ing the way clear te an election. Summeii begins te-day. Se nigh is grandeur te our ilust. Se ncur 1m Ued te man. When duty whimpers low, Theu muzl The youth replies, lean. Kmcrsen. The New Hampshire medical society, iu auuual session at Concord yesterday, after excited discussion, indefinitely postponed a resolution te allow members te consult with any physician legally allowed te practise in the state. Senatek Meiic.an, of Alabama, will have practically no opposition in his can vass for a re-election, his only formidable competitor, Walter L. Bragg, having withdrawn. This is creditable te the sen timent of the state, as Mr. Morgan has proved au able and honorable senator. Mil. Hehuell has returned te Washing ton from a trip te Michigan, whither he went te see about senatorial prospects. He expects te ferce Senater Ferry out of his seat and te take it himself. At this distance it leeks as though Mr. Ilubbell's campaign is te be entirely Pickwickian. 6eeiu:e William Ccktis, ihiity years age, asked Bancroft hew far he proposed te continue his history of the United States, and the reply was : "If I were an artist painting a picture of this ocean my work would step at the hoiizeu. lean see no further. My history will end with the adoption of the constitution. All be yond that is experiment." Eugene Hale, whose name appears en the blackmailing circular issued te federal officeholders by the Republican campaign committee, will, it is announced, defend the scheme in a speech in the Senate. That may be a geed way te help the Re publican party in Maine out of its embar rassing position, but it went hurt the Democrats any. When Judges Livingston and Patter son appended te McMollen's $1,S00 bill a recommendation that he should have " very liberal compensation" for re arranging the papers in the prothenotary's ellice, they hit upon a phrase which fits Sammy GrefTs little job in getting $285 from the county for a safe which cost him $125 second baud, and which could bs bought new for $170. The young Earl of Shrewsbury, whose cscapade with a married woman of the name of Millcr-Munday petrified the Eng lish dowagers last summer, has returned from his winter cruise in the Mediter ranean and last Sunday was married te his ensnarcr, who has succeeded in getting a divorce from her former husband. The youthful bridegroom is just twenty-one, and English aristocracy will accept the first countess in the kingdom just the same as though her admission was in the most honerablo form. Ik the new executive mansion is te be built alongside of the present one. as Seu ter Merrill intimates, a long headed ob server rises te inquire what is the use of spendiug the three hundred thousand dol lars at all ? The main motive for an ad ditional building is the alleged insalubrity of the present site, se near the Potomac marshes. Ne ene claims that the present White IIouse is net big enough, or that the situation is net handsome. Under these circumstances, what's the use of a new $300,000 building en the same spot The scientific preposition is new made that human saliva in normal condition is poisonous. A physician who has been in vestigating the subject and making some experiments finds that injected into rab bits it will produce death in periods vary ing from twenty-four henrs te three weeks. The tests showed also that the saliva of some races when brought into contact with septic material is mero virulent than that of ethers ; that nogreos and residents of the tropics exhibit an extreme degree of virulence, and that the virulence seems te bear a decided relation te the amount of tobacco used by the individual ; that is te say, the saliva of smokers either did net kill at all, or else killed in an inverse pro portion te the amount of tobacco used . UKATD OF DAVID THOMAS, The Father et the Anthracite Iren Huslness. David Themas, the father of the an thracite iron business in the United States, died of pneumonia at his home in Cata sauqua Tuesday, in the 83th year of his age. Mr. Themas came te this country from Wales in 1839. On July 4, 1840, he pat into blast the first furnace which suc cessfully smelted iron ero by the use of anthracite coal with the het blast, and has lived te sea the present vast extension of such furnaces, producing 5,000,000 tens of pig iron annually. He was a man or vigorous frame, and possessed a elear mind te the last. BALTIMORE'S FESTIVAL. Parade or the Grand Army or the Republic. Baltimore, June 21. All railroads and incoming steamers last night and this morning brought heavy leads of passen gers, and vast crowds are new thronging the streets te view the Grand Army pa rade. Baltimore street is swathed iu bunting and decorations are general throughout the city. The weather is fine. WOKK OF THE WIND. DISTRESS CAUSED BX TUK STORM. CO Feeple Head, SOO Wounded and 1500 Homeless 33,000,000 m Property Leut Appeal for Aid. The following appeal for aid has been furnished the associated press, with a renuest for its nublicatieu in ali the papers in the country : Te the Public : After two days and nights spent in traversing the track of the tornado that swept ever Iowa with such fearful havoc last Saturday, and hav ing reports from scores of reporters of the Register and associated press sent te all parts of it, I find the condition of the stricken peeple se piteous and se needful of instant help that I send this appeal te the people of the United States in their be half. The tornado made a destructive sweep through a thickly-settled portion of Iowa, some 150 miles in length and enau average half a mile wide, extending from points south of Ames, in the centre of the state, and in the shape of a crescent, te the south of English, in Keokuk county. Frem the southeastern part of the state we have the names new of GO of the dead and 500 of the wounded, half of the latter grievously hurt and probably a fifth of them fatally. Over 300 families have had their homes totally destroyed, and there are new at least 1,500 persens homeless and in want. The less in property wili exceed $2,000, 000, and may reach $3,000,000. In the town or Grinncll alone ever $400,000 in property was destroyed, en none of which was there a cent of insurance, as in the case of fires. It will take at least $3,000,000 te put the people thcre beyond need and distress. It will take $100,000 at ence te put the wounded peeple in condition te be cared for. It will take $100,000 at the lowest te keep the sufferers from want and te help them te put the humblest of reefs ever their heads. The people of Des Moines and Iowa are responding generously. The citizens of Des Moines havp subscribed $8,000 this morn ing and will make it $20,000 hefore night in money, and are also sending previsions and clothing. It will take the help of every humane city and town in the West and of every liberal city and town iuthc East, te put comfort and safety between these stricken people and further suffering and fatality. Grinnell isa town of New Eng land people a thrifty, intelligent peeple -rand with the lowest rate of crime and illiteracy in the state and the highest rate of intelligence and morality. The rich towns of the East may well help these sons and daughters of New England in the distress and need caused by the utter ca lamity visited upon them se cruelly by this Melech of the air, which has killed fifty of their people, destroyed 100 of their homes, maimed and mutilated 200 mero of its people, many of whom will seen die, and all of whom must be cared for for months, and has wiped out nearly half a million of dollars in uninsured property. Iowa college has had all its buildings destroyed, its 300 students made homeless and lias suffered a less of $75,000 of unin sured property. The condition of the ether towns and farming communities is fully as pitiable and helpless. All that the peeple of Iowa cau de will be done te t alleviate the condi tion and repair in part the losses of the sufferers ; hut it will take $1,000,000 te de it, evep in half-way comfort and rec ompense, and the peeple of a slate who have always borne their share aud done their part in all national calamities may fitly ask the people of ether communities te help them in this hour of great calam ity te mauy of the worthiest of its people ; and te this end I ask my fellows of the press throughout the United States te place the facts before their readers, and give their timely help te its sufficient pur pose of raising and providing aid at the earliest moment possible. The fury and power of this calamity were as indescribable in their mightiness of strength as their havoc and power were cruel and complete. Mauy people were bereft of their houses. Net a splinter as large as a finger, net a shred of furniture as large as a skein of silk remained, and hundreds have no clothing except what they had en. Little children with both parents killed were left by themselves maimed and wounded. Every condition of wee- exists that most tenderly appeals te the pity of the human heart. Wounds inflicted by the debris that filled the air like chaos, by the electric balls of fire that seemed te traverse every inch of space, and that ex ploded with fearfully fatal effects, will, many of them, defy all skill and nursing, even with the teudcrest care. The fury of the storm, which was clearly of electric origin, and which indeed may by described at having been electricity itself, may be understood from the statement that at various places it took up in its great spirals or funucls houses a thousand feet in the air. and took tin and carried larac droves of cattle through the air for thousands of feet and dashed them down dead in heaps. Many thousands of cattle, horses, hogs and ether animals new lie iu the track of the tornado, aud are already retting aud adding te the horror the foul and pervad ing odors of putrefaction. The horrors of the storm ; the unspeakable cruelties it in flicted, and the pitiless wee of its coming iu the night, when the dead were net known and the wounded could net be found ; the sad state in which it has left hundreds of families before prosperous, may net be described iu weids, but, once known te generous hearts, it must com mand the instant sympathy of the liberal and immediate help. Remittances may be made te the lien. J. B. Grinnell, at Grinncll, or te the mayor of Grinnell. I write from the knowledge of two whele days and nights spent at the sceue of desolation and among the dead and wounded, and tell the facts of the multitude of horrors simply as they are, feeling that they will themselves best ap peal te the ceuutry and most effectually aid the sufferers. J. S. Claiiksen. Editor of the Des Moines Register. m NEWS BREVITIES. l'at atrophic Points In the Day's Doings. Kenneth Harrcl, white, and an unknown negre were drowned in Sussex county, Va., en Saturday by the swamping of a beat. The planing mill, sash, blind aud deer manufactory at Teledo, O., owned by Charles Schreedcr, was burned yesterday. Less, $25,000. The brig Mary T. Kimball, Captain Sanborn, from Philadelphia for Bosten, is ashore en Nashawena island, near Weed's Hele, and will be a total less. Frederick Tenper, aged 45 years, a icsi icsi dent of Blissvillc, while drunk yesterday, threw himself iu front of a train of cars at Leng Island City, L. I., and was killed. The posteffico at Hampton, Va., was entered by burglars en Monday night and a number of registered letters aud a small amount of money aud stamps were taken. The savings bank at Foxborough, Mass., which has ler several years been embar rassed, in consequence of a run by the de positors, was yesterday declared solvent, and allowed te resume business. A saw-mill boiler en Owens1 farm, near Marien, Ohie, exploded yesterday, killing Engineer A. L. Ilincs and Sawyer Tem Berger. Dave Yeung is probably fatally scalded. Lew water was the cause. Hedge Peth, a citizen of Hickfeid, Va , was found en Monday near the railroad bridge at Belficld. dead. The body -is badly mutilated, and the man is supposed te have been murdered en Sunday night, by whom it is net known. While lying at a deck iu Cincinnati yesterday the United States snag-beat Woodruff explededjher rigger beiler,fataily scalding Clayten Jenes, a fireman ; slight ly injuring Mr. Jeffries, the first'niate, and scalding the chambermaid slightly. Owing te dissatisfaction with freight rates charged by existing railroad com panies, the manufacturers of Meriden, Conn., have raised money te build a new linn te Ornmtrf.ii nn tlm Connecticut river. giving them a new outlet te New Yerk by water. The auuual meeting of Knights of Wise men, an order of colored men similar te the Knights of Hener, is in session at Atlanta, Ga., and will continue four days. Representatives from all parts of the world are there, about 350 in number, ameug them some very prominent colored men. The British steamer Escambia, 2,000 tens burden, which recently arrived at San Francisce from Heng Keng, after having landed Chinese passengers at Victeria, B. C, sailed en Monday for a pert in Portugal, but when still in sight of the signal station suddenly went down. It is said that she was overloaded. AlJOl.lSII THE INTERNAL REVENUE. A Hrief bat Powerful Speerh by Hun. !. S. Cox. Congressional Kccerd, June 13. I beg the attention of members te say that enough has been developed,- owing te the unfortunate colloquy that has taken place, te show honest people who are watching our proceedings with mere care for our own honor than we seem te be doing. I say the revelations which have beeu made in connection with the internal revenue system have begotten much sus picien. Whether well or ill-founded, I de net say ; but it calls for very careful in vestigation. The result will be, and net very remote either, that the whole intern al lcvenue system will be blotted out. It ought te be. I believe if the tariff were properly ar ranged, if the number of articles upeu which duties are levied was cut down from mere thau 2,000 te some smaller number and with revenue qualities, it would net require a commission te frame a tariif that would yield rerenue enough te pay all the expenditures of frugal government. I would hail the day wheu this infernal rcvenue system shall be abolished aud our revenues be collected with revenue purposes, neither political partisan, nor protective We have had it new twenty years. It was a war measure. It has done its work. It is past its usefulness. I knew the effect of it iu my own state. Yeu gentlemen who favor a free ballet and an honest count perhaps de net knew hew the in ternal revenue officers, the storekeepers, the gangers, and all of the employees of that bureau, force by their espionage and terrorism the free ballet. It is a power which I could, had I time, display here in its enormity, aud from published and notorious facts. It is au expensive system. It is costly in country and city. Ge te North Caro lina. 1 defy any man of common sense te tell me that the system in North Carolina pays either morally or economically. Take the several districts of North Carolina as you find them in the report of the com missioner of iutcrnal revenue. Take its sixth district. Yeu will find that it costs te collect $510,944 of revenue ever $274,- 415. It is ever 54 per cent, for the cost of collection, let in the same state, quiet aud orderly as it is, they collect their state taxes for five per cent., or $26,513 as the cost of collecting $530,203. This expensive system does iuvade the towns and the cities. As I said it forces the ballets It uses spies and informers, persons of bad fame throughout all his tery. Of all thoFe which history hands down as most execrable arc the spy in formers. They are the voluntary witnesses for a consideration, which the amendment of the gentleman from Kentucky Mr. White would cut up by the roots. With permission 1 quote the description of the detested informer given by the Irish orator Currau. It was familiar te our school boys. It out te direct us en this amendment : In a case of life of honor aud of iu famy te credit a vile infermer, the per jurer of an hundred oaths, a wretch whom pride, honor, or religion could net bind? The forsaken prostitute of every vice calls upeu you with one breath te blast the memory of the dead and te blight the character of the living. He measures his value by the coffins of hisvictims ; and in the held of evidence appreciates his fame as the Indian warrior docs iu fight, by the. number of scalps with which he cau swell his triumphs. He calls en you by the solemn league of eternal justice te audit the purity of a conscience washed in his own atrocities, lie has premised and be trayed ; he has sworn aud forsworn ; and whether his soul shall go te heaven or te hell, he seems altogether indifferent, for he tells you he has established an interest m each. I make this speech new net for the pur pose or with the expectation that any special reform will be made in this bill. But we cannot fail te sce that a reform must commence some time and seme where. This whisky stench, which has been ventilated in this Heuse, may be the means, under Providence, of se arranging parties iu the next election that we will tear up this internal revenue system by the roots. Mr. Davitt ill Bosten. Nearly eight thousand peeple greeted Michael Davitt in the Mechanics' fair building Bosten. Mr. Davitt was accom panied te the stage by Jehn Beyle O' Reilly, editor of the Pilet ; Frederick O. Prince and ether prominent men. Iu speaking te the audience Mr. Davitt said that his address was intended mere for an American than for an Irish audience and that it was mero of an appeal te the un derstanding of the American peeple. The speaker then cave statistics prepared by friends of the Irish cause, and argued that landlerdism as it exists te day is an un mitigated failure, and has resulted in a peasantry compelled te live in one-roomed huts. The TarM' Commission Continued. The nominations for tariff commission ers were confirmed by the Senate yester day in executive session by a vete of 31 te 21. Several Democrats voted for confir mation, and ene Republican (Van Wyck, of Nebraska) against it. The following gentlemen constitute the commission : Jehn L. liayes, of Massachusetts, chair man ; Henry W. Oliver, of Pennsylvania, Jacob A. Ambler, of Ohie, Rebert P. Por Per ter, of the District of Columbia, Jehn W. H. Underwood, of Georgia, Duncan F. Kcnncr, of Louisiana, Alexander R. Bote Bete ler, of West Virginia, Wm. II. McMahon, of New Yerk. Sivarthmnre College. The tenth annual commencement of Swarthmore college took place in the re stored college building at Swarthmore, Delaware county, yesterday afternoon. The attendance was large. The pupils graduated numbered twenty-one. The cellege was destroyed by fire en the night of September 25, 1881. The work of re building has progressed se far as te give assnrauces of its completion by the begin ning of the new college year. The new scientific building as been completed, at a cost of $20,000, and will be fully equipped witii the necessary apparatus and ma chinery and be ready for occupancy by Sep tember 12th. The restored building will, when finished, accommodate 200 students, besides the officers and instructors. PERSONAL. R. K. Gaslasd, brother of Senater Gar land, has received the Greenback nomina tion for governor of Arkansas. William H. Vaxderbilt is accompa nied en his western trip by about a score of persons, who get free rides and free champagne. The party is said te be bennd for Winnipeg. Maxwell Rowland, ex-member of se lect council from the Twenty-third ward, of Philadelphia, died yesterday morning from Bright's disease of the kidneys, after several months illness. Emersen's grave, at Concord, is always covered with fresh dowers. This is dene by the young people of the town, who have a regular system about it, se that the flowers are never withered, but always bright and beautiful. Den Ramen Cbiade, a citizen of. the United States, who died recently in Havana, bequeathed $400,000 with which te found a college in New Yetk for the children of peer Cubans. Sener Criado lived in New Yerk for many years. He owned large sugar estates in the Jucare district of Cuba. Lee Pey Feen, renowned for his fabu lous wealth, was buried in San Francisce the ether day in the midst of a din that rivaled a Fourth of July celebration. lie was presidcut of ene of the Six Companies. He owned an immense plantation in China, stocked with 2,000 slaves, three wives and seven children. Feen was the richest heathen in Ameiica. Herbert Spencer will leave England for America en the Servia. August 15, and en his first ai rival will be the guest of Dr. Youmans, of New Yerk. He is dread ing the ocean passage very much, as he suffers seriously from sea-sickness. Mr. Spencer will remain iu America about three mouths, and will avoid public ap pearances and lionizing as much as possi ble, devoting his time te travel. A ROY'S GHASTLY DISCOVERY. Finding tils Father and Slelhur Dead in a Peel el llloed. A German carpenter named Peter Wein kauf, living ou Frankstown avenue, East End, Pittsburgh, killed his wife by first striking her down with a base ball bat and then cutting her threat with an 18 inch butcher knife. After accomplishing his aim he cut his own threat, nearly severing his head from the trunk, with the same weapon used te dispatch his wife. Ne one was present wheu the double murder was committed, but shortly afterwards a 15 year old seu of Wcinkauf entered the house and found the ceuple lying dead ou the iloer in a great peel of bleed. He hurried down stairs, locking the deer, and at once notified the police authorities. Wciukauf was a man of considerable property aud the woman was his second wife. By a former wife he had five chil dren, the eldest being twenty-three years of age. The cause of the murder is at tributed te the fact that his second wife some time age induced him te sign a deed conveying te her all of his property, part of which had been left him by his first wife in trust for the children. The ceuple had lived unhappily for some time, and yesterday, it is said, Mrs. Weinkauf had stated that she intended getting a divorce. NITIUUBUKHOUD NEWS. Events Near and Acress the County Liues. Farmers say there is a geed demand for harvest hands and that they are almost all engaged for the approaching ingathering of crops. This season wages are beyeud these of last year. The total receipts of the spring fair of the Oxford agricultural society were $2,119 90. Expenses, $409.04; premiums, $783.25 $1,189.29. Net profit, $927.01. Reading receives fresh meat direct from the Western cities. Yerk will have for amusement en the Fourth of July, a balloon ascension, base ball match, walking and running matches aud a military parade iluriug the day, aud closing in the evening with a display of fireworks, There are in the borough of Yerk eight cases of smallpox ; six in ene family. The Hessian fly has made its appear appear ance in Montgomery county in great num bers and threatens te de much harm te the wheat. Chestcr aud Montgomery ceuutics will have a very heavy hay crop this year. A little colored boy, three years of age, arrived at the Bread street depot of the Pennsylvania railroad per train, with a tag tied te his wrist'eonsigninghimte Ne. 727 North Twentieth street Philadelphia, but no ene knowing him, the society for the Prevention of Cruelty te Children, took him te the Colored Shelter. Jehn Bcckley, residing in East Nant raeal, Chesterceunty, and a soldier of the war of 1812, has died at the age of 90. Burglars arc mete common in Bucks, Montgemeiy and Delaware counties than they are in Philadelphia. Stcclten, Dauphin county, is seen te have extensive waterworks. Straburg News. Dr. J. G. Weaver, ene of the delegates te the American medical society, which met at St. Paul, Minn., returned te his home iu this borough en Sunday at neon, having beeu abscut ever two weeks. Jehn Bachman and wife, who attended the Presbyterian church en Sunday, brought with tbcm two Indian children, a sirl and boy. They are receiving instruc tions in farming during their vacation, after which they will return te school at Carlisle. Samuel Shroy, jr., is the possessor of a verv old coin. On ene side may be found " Ferd. VI.," with crown and flag of the Spanish standaul ; en the ether, "Yinum W., 1521, W. V. T. R. a. ea. c." A Resurrected Statesman. liarrisburg Telegraph. Notwithstanding the fact that General Mack M'Cellum notified the Telegraph a year age of his death in East Lampeter township, Lancaster county, and wrote an elaborate obituary of himself depicting his virtues as a gentleman and a patriot, he turned up in the mayor's deck this morning, having been arrested last night for being drunken and disorderly. The "jjcncral" threatened that unless the mayor set him free he would revolution ize East Lampeter from a Republican stronghold te a fortress of Democracy, and in view of this awful consequence the mayor sent Mack up for thirty days. Gene rifliing. Police Officers Herr, Swcnk, Pyle,Elias, Lemen, Ceyle and Cramer, accompanied by Abe Millcrand Franciscus, fiddlers, and a representive of the press, took coaches at an early hour this morning and ilrevc te Hartman's Island, iu the Susque hanna te enjoy a day's fishing for black bass. As a prevision against fisherman's luck, aud lest they might net get a bite en the river, thny took a bite along with them, and something te wash it down. Uuinallablc Eatter. Letters nddrnsspd as fnllnera am Iiel.-I n the posteffico for better directien: "jurs. danc ivnigut, Highland, Heme, Montgomery CO." " Mr. C. Van Giesen 2 Grceerv strpr.t. Jersey street." Mr. Kyan V. Pine Daufphin co Pa." A Pretty Flower. Jehn A. Keller had en exhibition at Bursk's grocery store last night, a large night-blooming cereus which attracted a large throng who greatly admired its beauty and fragrance. It opened between 9 and 10 o'clock, and remained in full bloom for several hours. MANURES FOR TOBACCO. Artificial Fertilizers ts. Stable manure. The Harrisburg Independent makes the following deliverance en a very important matter te farmers. It decs net centaiu much that is net well-known te practical tobacco growers, nor does it very clearly point out te novices the best method of manuring ; but we print it as a contribu tion te a subject that is but very imper fectly understood, and upon which there is a wide difference of opinion even ameug the most successful tobacco growers : It is claimed that the tobacco growers of Lancaster county and ether portions of this state are dissatisfied with the result from the use of artificial fertilizers ea te bacce. Whether the farmers or tobacco growers iu general make this statement, or whether it comes only from a few, is net clear, but several agricultural jour nals are advocating the use of barnyard manure only for tobacco. A leek ever the fields will convince tobacco growers of the fact that they have been placing their confidence almost entirely in super super peosphate. This substance, while beneficial te a certain extent, is only a partial fertilizer." Tobacco re quires a large amount of potash, and iu the tobacco legions of Virginia and North Carolina the growers have made the best crops by burning brush ever the fields in order te get the ashes. Very seldom de they use any manure, aud this course has done much te depreciate the quality of the soil. Magnesia is another substance de manded by tobacco, usually left out in ap plying fertilizers. The crude sulphate of magnesia (impure Epsom salts) is a cheap article, the market price seldom going be yond half a cent a pound. It furnishes a soluble ingredient for tobacco plant feed. Te lcly wholly en barnyard manure isun safe, as that article is as variable in qual ity as artificial fertilizers, its worth de pending entirely upon hew the manure is made aud protected, the kiud of feed, condition of the animals, their age, etc. Bulk docs net always mean value, nor does a liberal application of manure made from straw aud ether inferior mateiial preve as satisfactory as that from animals in geed condition aud fed en grain, geed hay and eilcake. The manure heap, if it is of geed quality, con tains usually all the elements for plant feed, and when fertilizers are used they should be prepared in strict compliance with all that is demanded by the fertnuhi. It should be borne in mind by novice tobac co growing that se far as the quality of tobacco is concerned, new land produces a different effect from old ; wet seasons from dry ; geed cultivation from bad ; heavy land from light; new manures from well retted, and, finally, that if the slight est mistake is made in curing the crop damage is done. Thus it can be secu that there is much te ba taken into considera tion befere tobacco growers cm make a just companion between artificial and barnyard manure for use en that crop. CJjlt' AND VICINITY. The Latest News l tne Neigliboriieoil. On Saturday a number of the leading officials of the Pennsylvania railroad met here and spent the day in viewing and commenting en the temporary read-bed and concluded te finish the job ; aud en Monday morning there arrived he: e about twenty men who at ence commenced the work of laying the track en the temporary read-bed. As yet the company have met with no person or persons who will under take te contract te reduce the steep grade through this place, and it is Iikeiy they will de it themselves. It is reported upeu geed authority that all work at the Gap nickel mines, in Bart township, will be suspended en or after the first of July next, thus throwing about ene huudrcd and fifty men out of employ ment. The cause of this suspension is the accumulation of an immense quantity of nickel for which there is but little de mand. Once this large amount of metal is disposed of, it is quite likely the work will be resumed again, but that will net be at a very early date. The Amish denomination of this town ship have, after considerable consultation among themselves, concluded te erect a church near Millwood, and the work el digging out the foundations for the build ing has been commenced already. Hereto fore this denomination have been accus tomed te holding their services at the mem bers' houses, turn about, and as a general thing weie bitterly opposed te having churches. Mrs. Mary Norten, who died at her les les idence here en Thursday from pneumonia, was buried at Cedar Greve Presbyterian church, in East Earl township, en Mon day. The deceased was 67 years of age and leaves a number of children and a large circle of friends and relatives te mourn her death. W. P. Linville rccevcied his herse which was stolen from his stable lait Mon day, en Tuesday afternoon near the White Herse. He was found loeso by the read side. It is supposed that seme person took the animal, rede him that far, then turned him loose. Last week Jehn Taggart, while weiking in the corn field, found lying there an old silver coin valued at twelve and a half cents, dated 1779 ; it is well preset veil. Jehn Eckert, whose accident was detailed iu full in these columns last week, has been removed te his residence and is new able te be about again. Quite a number of our farmers arc using self-binding reapers this year. Last week Jacob Rife purchased a Champien self binding machine from G. G. Worst, of the White Herso. SUICIDE. A Man Cult Mis Threat aud IIutigA Illinheli. William S Reed, aged about 50 years, a citizen of the village of Elim, Little Britain township, Lancaster county, committed suicide at au early hour last Monday morning. He arose fiem his bed at 2 o'clock aud net returning at daylight his wife informed a neighbor, Ilaimen (Jrrth. who immediately began a search for him. as Mr. Reed had shown symptoms of de rangement for a few weeks past. On going into a left room at the back part of the house Mr. Gcrth found the unfortunate man dead, hanging by a rope fastened te a rafter. The suicide was a deliberate act, as he had previously used a knife en his threat inflicting a deep cut and then finished the work by hanging. When found, his knees were about four inches from the fleer and life was extinct. Deputy Corener Wake man Wesley summoned a jury, composed of the following persons, who rendered a verdict in accordance with the above facts : Jonathan Pickering, Addison Wilsen, Geerge T.TelIingcr, Elisha Brown, J. C. Lynch and Dr. Peeples, Deceased was an industrious man of steady habits. He was born February 14, 1833, in Fultcn township, this county, but has lived iu Little Britain township for a number of ycais. He was twice married and his second wife and four children survive him. The funeral will take place at ten o'clock Wednesday morn ing, interment being made in the ceme tery attached te the Little Britain church. Important Heme Industry. As will be seen elsewhere, the amount of money thus far expended at the Lan caster watch factory aggregates between $650,000 and $700,000. This is an enor mous sum, but the Lancaster watches aie geed enough te justify the outlay. In Town Dr. I.Weidler, of Leacock,who has becu in ill-health for mero than a year, and whose life was for several weeks despaired of, is in town and leeks very well, though net quite se fleshy as we were went te see him. A SHAEP KETORT. PLAIN TALK FROM AN AUDITOR. Unving Been Rebuked by the Cenrt Me Arraigns Cenrt anil Ceuusel. The " supplemental report" of Auditor Samuel W. Shadle, esq., (a member or the Lancaster bar, net new in the city ) in the estate of Sarah Ceyle, dee'd.. is 'a document that has created some interest en Barbary Coast since it was filed, and its contents made known, although an effort has been made te prevent a portion of the lepert from being publishcd,cvcn upon the records of the court where such documents are supposed te be permanently engrossed for reference. The history of this some what remarkable case is, briefly, as fol fel fol eows: The balance of the estate of Sarah Ceyle, something less than $2,000, was te be distributed among the legatees aud claimants for pay for medical ser vices, nursing, attendance. &c. Thcre were tive meetings of the audit and when the auditor filed his report he allowed the claims of the doctor and nurse, gave the accenntant $25 for attending the audit, his counsel $75 for the same, aud himself an auditor's fee of $150, dividing the small balance of the es es tate among the residuary legatees. Te four items of this reported distribution the allowauce for nursing, accountant's fee, attorney's fee and auditor's fee W. M. Franklin, esq., counsel for ene of the legatees tiled exceptions and in passing upon these exceptions, Judge Livingston in an opinion, filed April 15, 1S32, said : ludge Livingston's Opinion. i Orphans' Court. Sarah Ceyle, Dee'd. Exeptiens te Re- ) pett of Auditor. Iu this case, the auditor has been ex ccedingly liberal, aud if the moneys dis tributed had been his own, we should net, iu all probability, have been called upeu by exceptions, te interfere with his dis tribution. This is net the case, however, aud execptieus have been very properly taken te his report. He has awarded te Mrs. Myers, for attendance upon Sarah Ceylo for 17 days, $-1 per day, $68, and un making the shroud and laying out the body $30, in all $98 ; this is a very liberal allowance, and is fully as much, as under the law and evidence, she is entitled le, and the exception te this item is ercrrtrfed. We cannot say the same as te the ether exceptions, as they arc objections te fees and allowances which arc legulated in a manner by specified rules, as well as law : The allowance te accountant for attend ing the audit, $25, is disallowed wholly. The amount allowed by the auditor te counsel, being three times the amount charged by counsel for settling the estate, preparing aud passing the account, Arc., which was perhaps allowed as paving the way te hi.s Own cxeibitaut fee. must be l educed te a sum net exceeding his charge for settling the estate, that is $25 instead of $75. The fee of the auditor, we think, is without a parallel, $150 for five meet ings, $30 per day being greatly in ex cess of the lees allowed by law ; let this be reduced te $65, which shall include writing the report. This will make $160, te be added te the .sum for distribution. We hereby recommit the icpert te the learned auditor, te remodel it and make the distribution in accordance with the foregoing review and opinion, aud repot t the same te the court without further or additional cost or expense te the estate or parties interested in the fund, within ten days from this date. J. B. Livingston, P. J. Al'UIL 15, 18-J. The Supplemental Repert. Iu accordance with this opinion and within the required time. Mr. Shadle filed a supplemental report. After adding te the fund for distribution the $160 de ciecd by the court and dividing it between the residuary legatees, Mr. Shadle. eon een cludcd his report as fellows : Your auditor feels that justice te him self demands that he shall net pass un noticed two or three remarks in your honor's opinion iu this case as delivered April 15, 1882. Your auditor could have no ground of complaint had he followed his own judgment in fixing the fees in this case, nor could your honor " in all probability have been called upon by ex ccptiens te interfere with his distribution," had net the economy bordering near en te parsimony of counsel for exceptant se governed them that they seem te have lest sight of that honor which usually charac terizes gentlemen of the profession in their dealings with each ether. When the fees in this case wcre fixed both the attorney for the estate and for the residuary legatee they being all the parties in interest wcre consulted and they, with your auditor, agreed upon the amount as charged iu the report as reasonable and just, and net until after the argument of this case did your auditor hear anything further about it ; but shortly thereafter he was informed by one of counsel that the report " would be upset,",and by an other that " it would net stand," and aain that it was " raising trouble in the Meunonite church," and still again that " such d d" charges would drive a man's clients away " all this, tee, from counsel who had been consulted and who, if they did net advise, certainly acquiesced in the fee charged. Your auditor was very loath te believe any of their statements until your honor's opinion iu this case convinced your auditor that the case had in all probability been argued in the chambers " after it was argued " in banc ;" which conviction was strengthened by the caustic lemark of your honor that "if the money distri buted had been his own we should net in all probability have been called upon by exceptions te interfere with his distribu tion," aud by what seems te your auditor the entirely gratuitous, and te say the least of it, the extra-judicial utterance that the allowance te counsel iu the case was only for the purpose of " p.iving the way te his own exorbitant fee." The imputa tion of such a base metive your auditor new repels, and with all respect uew sub mits the report revised in accordance with your honor's opinion of April 15, 1822. 8. W. Siiadle, Auditor. An Imperfect Recerd. Upen examination of the record books in the office of the clerk of orphans' court it is te be found that the extracts which we have printed from Auditor Shadle's supplementary report are entirely emitted from the record. The distribution is given, but two eutire pages of the report are emitted, without any explanation or note of them ou the record. Why or by what authority this has been il-ne we have net been able te ascertain, th j deputy clerk of orphans' caurt simply stating that he re gards that portion of the report as trash, and that as he has never beeu p.tid nor granted any allewance ler recording it, he docs net feel that he is under ebh'gitkun te record any of it. DieJ at (he Hospital, Patrick Nelan, aged about 50 years, died at the county hospital ycsteiday. He was sent te that institution from Col umbia en the 15th inst., suffering hope lessly from dropsy. He was a Union sol dier during the war and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He w:ih en gaged, prier te his illness, as bar-tender at the Continental hotel, Columbia. Ar rangements will be made te send his body te Columbia for burial. Entered at West Point. The cadet te West Point military aca demy from this district, Mr. Edw. V. McCaskey, has just passed the picliminary examinations and been regularly admittw). The number of appointees examined last week was about 150. Most of the week was occupied in the examinations.
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