ra3ttW3l"wae LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCEB, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1882. b or. ex: .1 cuiiasin Imtelligrncct FRIDAY BVKNINQ, JULY 7, 1883. Bat for BckesM. It is a great pity ex-Secretary of the Navy Robeson can't have aclearcharac ter ; because it is a great pity that any man, and especially one who has filled so high an office, should not have a good character to boast of. But Mr. Robeson has not; and it cannot be helped. Every one knows that he has not, including himself. Mr. Robeson being a poor man and being placed in a position where he could cure that deficiency, cured it; and is now a rich man. But a man cannot gat rich in those easy ways while indulg ing himself in the practices of virtue, lie cannot be respectable and rich when he steals. He cannot wear the white robes of innocence when he isn't inno cent. He cannot have his cake and eat it too ; as every child in the land that is knee high to a grasshopper has long learned by sad experience. Nor can Mr. Robeson, any more than any other man, show himself clean by attempting to show his neighbor to be black. That is another thing which ex perience teaches. Every rogue natur ally likes to make out others to be a? bad as he ; but it don't help him a bit in reality even though be succeeds in his effort. If Mr. Robe son could make out that his accuser, Mr. Whitthorne, was. not himself immacu late it might lie bad for Whitthorne, but it is not good for Robeson. But when Mr. Robeson tries and fails to blacken Mr. Whitthorne's character, as he has signally tried and failed, it is very bad, indeed, for Robeson. Mr. Whitthorne has said that Mr. Robeson is not a truth ful or honest man ; which is not say' ing anything new and certainly nothing false, as the public judgment goes; and Mr. Robeson does nothing at all towards correcting this judgment by as railing Mr. Whitthorne and abstaining from defending himself. The charges made against him may be easily refuted if false ; but, though they have often been made, we have heard of no attempt at refutation. Mr. Robeson is what is termed a very good fellow ; he is fond of a good dinner and good company ; he has good tastes ; but his tastes are cost ly ; entirely too much so for an honest purse. If Mr. Robeson had been born an anchorite he might have made a very good public servant ; but born as he has been, the public service has no use for him. m - A blind hog occasionally finds an acorn. Our jail authorities have had that sort of luck in securing the return of two of the ten convicts who went over the garden wall some six weeks ago at high noon. The youngest and green est of them, it will be icmenibered, was accidentally arrested in mistake for a train rider at the station in this city, before he had time to change his con . vict dress. It now appears that another of them has been recognized at the jail door in a person taken off a freight train at Columbia for violating the railroad law. With these exceptions the whole lot of fugitive jail birds are still soaring through the free air of liberty. The ac cidental arrest of two of them may serve as a warning to others to make themselves a little scarcer in this imme diate neighborhood, while at the same time it will strengthen the popular con viction that they have been circling around the city ever since their escape, and that tlio failure to capture them is due mostly to the same sort of stupidity which facilitated their outbreak. It will be an interesting question to decide who is entitled to the reward offered for Buz zard's recapture. The railroad detec. tives who arrested" Milton Smith " can hardly claim it, much less the jail ofli cial, who only recognized hini atler he bad been placed in his custody. Our esteemed fellow-citizen, Mr. Bro. " ,sius, continues to be the recipient of a ness great deal of good advice and condolence of tl touching the position on the Republican T,ticket into which he was hurled at the and Harrisburg convention by " a bolt of SoniNeutiriug from a clear sky," and which fitrc he interpreted on the spot as a premon be ition of early death. The Philadelphia KJJ0 Times excels all others in its paternal soucituue ior mm ana ventures to urate such a letter as he ought to send to Cooper "to be hypothecated as security for a new draft that is about to be drawn on the easy-going Independents." It is not likely that Mr. Brosius will take the advice so kindly tendered him. He is of the Stalwart faith, and believes that he can serve his country best through loyal service to his party. He recognizes Cooper and his associates as the regular party organiza tionand what they deem best for its in tegrity our lightning-scarred townsman may be safely entrusted to do, at least until another stray bolt or a fall down the political stairs changes his mind. The candidates upon the Democratic state ticket have been invited to meet in Philadelphia on next Tuesday afternoon, to confer together regarding the plan of campaign, and also to name a chairman of the state committee. So far John R. Read and J. K. Bogcrt are the only per sons mentioned for the latter place ; and while the Philadelphia element of the party is for Mr. Read there is a strong disposition manifested in the rural dis tricts against locating the chairman in the city. It is urged that the city com mittee ought to take c ire of the cam paign in Philadelphia, leaving the gen eral conduct of the state campaign to a chairman from the interior. The Press complains that the bands at the Davitt meeting in New York played the "Marseillaise," by which tune "no cause will be helped on Ameri can soil." " It stands for license not for liberty; for riot and revolution, not for progran through law. Yankee Doodle and John Brown are the tunes with which to do anything under law." It would be interesting to know by what mental process the Press arrive3 at the conclusion that John Brown stands for liberty not license, for progress through Jaw not for riot and revolution. The Williamsport Bulletin and Brad ford Star take exception to the Demo cratic declaration of " the faith that all power not delegated by the constitution, is reserved to the states and the people." While they concede this to be merely a reasertion of the constitution they re gard it as "a manifest attempt to per petuate the odious doctrine that gave birth to secession and treason." Evi dently the Republicans continue to re gard the constitution as "a covenant with bell," and devotion to it as treason to the Republican party. " A grocer " who sends us his com plaint that the c president of common council did not present to that body an anonymous communication of public in terest sent to him, should remember that councilmen, like newspapers, have a right to put anonymous communications into the waste basket. People who want others to present their projects to the public should at least manifest enough good faith to entrust the names of their authors to those who are expected to stepfather them. Postmaster Huidekooper, of Phil adelphia, is tainted with civil service reform and must go. His name may take him to a snug consular appointment in Germany 'where civil service reform notions are not so dangerous to the super-excellent party of Cameron and Cooper. And "lo !" when the Cameron people got themselves together for a conference Brosius came also. The West Chester Republican begins its fifth year with every indication of pros perity. It is a newsy little sheet and has won deserved lank as au exponent of the best sort of local journalism. Somi: of the morning dailies print what they call a view of a section of Guilcau's brain. They can very safely remand this cut to tlio agricultural columns of their weekly editions and use it to illustrate a new vaiicly of potato. The Erie Herald floats the Democratic ticket at its mast head and is giving all the candidates au earnest support. A year ago it bolted the nomination of Mr. Noble for reasons that are presumed to have been purely personal, but uudor the prevailing enthusiasm for Pattisou hastens to renew its old allegiauce. The Democ racy of Pennsylvania in this campaign are united aud invincible. The New England poets are advised to consult a rhyming dictionary as Byron and their betters did. Complaint is uiado of Holmes ihyming praise with phrase, table with Babel, Dane with Ukraine, too with Jew, cadi with lady, Tom with from, stand on with laud on, aid is with hades, peeled aud reeled with unsealed, true with two and knew, fictiou with benediction, aud so forth. Mr. Whittier rhymes bow ers and flowers with ours, aud follows up by combiuing her and minister, man and puritan, strokes and folks, pearl and girl, o'er and Labrador, men and pen, and ten and pen, given and heaven, stirs and hers aud so forth. Col. T. B. Bayse made another fierce attack on the administration in Congress yesterday, declaring that Arthur had violated his promise to stand by the civil service plank of the Republican platform ; he had removed faithful aud competent officers without causo, not only violating his promise, but the constitution and tho laws ; the executive and those upon whom ho called for advice had undertaken the herculean task of stalwartizing the Re publican party, and that, too, when tho very namo of Stalwart had becomo a re proach ; tho bullet of Guiteaukad made a mark on the forehead of Stalwartism that could never bo effaced. The Chambersburg Valley Spirit, one of the ablest and fairest of our Democratic contemporaries, expresses hearty confi dence in the salutary operation of the rules adopted for the government of the party in this state, though it viewed with suspicion the attempt to have some rules adopted for the Democracy. As finally adopted the code is free from somo objec tions urged against tho original draft, and the Democratic press may safely bo trust ed to sound the alarm against any attempt to abase this improved system to the ser vice of that bossism which is deservedly so odious. Edwin C. Woodbury, who was confined in the Bloomingdale insane asylum, N. Y., for nearly two jcars, has been declared sane by a jury, some of whom deuouuee his incarceration as an outrage. Mr. Woodbury thinks other patients in the asylum sane. This is the institution to which Julius Chambers, a bright young journalist, had himself committed somo ten years ago, and after two weeks con finement in tho mad wards his friends had him released and he wrote up the abuses of tho management, as learned from an inside view. His expose created groat ex citement and was supposed to have re sulted iu some improvements in the man agement, but the above cited facts justify the suspicion that there is again some thing rotten at Bloomingdale. THE suioto uokbor. Belief That tbe Dead Will Number Sixty-live or Seventy-live. At Mingo Junction, O., yesterday the bodies of Charles Swearingen, of Kensing ton, O. ; Daniel Thomas, the captain's son; E. P. Smith, and a man named Dunbamer, or Durhamcr, of Wellsvill, O., were found. About forty men who came down with skiffs and a cannon from Eest Liverpool are doing good work. Several bodies are lodged in the engine-room and under tho bow, but want of necessary apparatus pre vent their being reached. Boats and gap pling tools, diving bells, etc., are on tho way from Pittsburg. When tho wreck is raised it is expected that from thirty to fifty bodies will be found. The missing are accumulating, aud with what have been found the dead will number sixty five. Tho dead so far have Ivru rccognizod and moved to their lato hones. The body of Stewart Pipes, repotted found, has not yet been found. The Ball Tossern. Baseball yesterday : At Pittsburgh Baltimore, 9 ; Allegheny, 8. At New York Metropolitans, C ; Philadelphia?, 5. At Buffalo Buffalo, 11 ; Worcester, 1. At Cleveland Cleveland, 2; Provi gence 1. At St. Louis Browns, 21 ; Eclipse, 17. At Detroit Bostons, 10 ; Detroit, 4. KEIGN OF VIOLENCE. SOME SEVERE STORMS IK THE WEST. Coloaibas, K-iasas, Swept by a Tornado. Damage bj Wind la Colorado. Columbus, Kansas, has been visited by a tornado, accompanied by bail and rain. Trees were uprooted, stacked grain scat tered, corn cut down and all property touched by the wind was wrecked. J. T. Thomas' frame house was completely de molished aud six persons in the house were most severely injured. At Girard and Belknap much damage was' done. The farms and towns in Crawford county were visited by the tornado at a much later hour and the grain in .those sections was leveled. Peter Crawford and James Ar rowsmith are reported to be dead and members of their families injured by being blown away. At Manitou springs, Col., Saturday's hail storm and waterspout were more dis astrous than at first supposed. Later re ports say that though only one life was lose, oridge8, trees, fences, buildings and rooks were torn from the ground and hurled through the air. Houses standing on banks of streams were carried away. There is not a house in Manitou uninjured by the storm. The loss in cattle and horses alone amounts to many thousands of dollars. The loss on buildings will ex cecd $100,000. MINOR TRAGEDIES. Kecently Reported Calamity and Crime. George M. Forney, aged 53 years, form erly a prosperous merchant of Baltimore, committed suicide yesterday, in that city, by taking morphia. A Hungarian named Jdhn Kocollock was crusnea to death at tho mines near Mount Pleasant, Somerset county, on Wednesday. John Daly, of PhiladeIphia,eraploycd on the farm of Watson Reeder near Laug- horne park, - Bucks county, recently cut Ins throat while suffering from delirium tremens. The body of J. H. Plant, tho St. Louis merchant who lately disappeared, in con sequence of numerous attachments against him, was found, yesterday morn ing, in the slough at East St. Louis. It is believed he committed suicide. Herman Blackmann, of Bloomfiuld, Iowa, has died from wounds inflicted by another farmer named Crane on Tuesday night, during a drunken quarrel. Black inann's father is said to have been a duke of the Grand Dudedom of Saxony. Wbilo walking on tho Reading railroad, above Birdsboro, Charles Miller, of 403 New Market street, Philadelphia, was in stantly killed by No. 10 passenger train. Miller, with two other Philadclphians, had been gathering watercresses. Crow Dog, convicted of the murder of Spotted Tail, will not bo hanged to-day, as sentenced, his case having been carried by a writ of error to the supremo court of tho United States, where argumont will be heard in November next. The body of Kilgour, tho murderer of Gardiner, who shot Marshal Bryant whilo Bryant was trying to arrest him, at Cairo, III., and who was shot by Bryant, was found yesterday about fifty yards from the sceno of the fight. It is supposed he died soon after the shooting. Savarro, au Indian policeman, killed a Western Indian at the Southern Ute agen cy, iu Colorado, on Wednesday. As it is feared that tho friends of tho dead man will retaliate on tho white settleis, tho comniauder at Fort Louis has been notified to warn the latter. James and Ernest O'Grady, who belong to a gang of horse thieves, were arrested iu a cave, three miles from Glen Falls, N. Y., after a desperate encounter, tbe thieves firing several shots at the officers. Other members of the gaug are being pursued, and there is considerable excitement. Leonard Knippenberger, a private of Company I, Second artillery, committed suicido iu the guard bouse at Fort Mc Henry, by shooting himself with his mus ket, lie was on guard duty at the time. He was a good soldier, but had been drink ing heavily of late. The present was his fourth enlistment. His skull was shat tered by the shot. In Williamsport Mrs. Emerson Knittle attempted to commit suicide by swallow ing half an ounce of laudanum and blue vitriol. The prompt application of res toratives by a physiciau rescued her from death. Tho reason for the rash act was the refusal of her husband to allow her to attend a civic demonstration in Lock Haven. This is not tho first time sho has attempted her lifo, as sho is in tho habit of threatening to commit suicide whenever she is not humored in whatever she may desire. PATAI. EXI-J.OS1UN OF MKEWOK.KS. A Little Girl Meets a Horrible Death by Eire in cnicago. Iu Chicago Mrs. Coulter used the lower floor of her building for a toy shop and the upper one as a residence. She shared the home with her four children, of whom Katie was the youngest. In anticipation of the Fourth Mrs. Coulter increased her small stock in trade with a supply of fireworks, which sho stowed away under one of the counters. Earlv Tuesday morning a gentlemau en tered tho store to make somo purchases of hreworks, and Mrs. Coulter reached, under the counter to obtain the articles. No sooner had she obtained them and placed them ou the counter than an explosion oc curred underneath. Fireworks began ex ploding in all directions, and the room was soon filled with flame and smoke, which rendered entrance almost an impos sibility. An alarm was promptly responded to by the fire department, but before the engines arrived the dry frame building was already wrapped in flames, croatiug an immense conflagration. All this timo little Katie bad been left asleep in one of tho second story back rooms. As quickly as possible some of the firemen entered the building and began searching for her. In ouo of the front rooms on the floor was found tho charred remains of the unfortu nate child burned almost to a crisp. Evi dently tbe little one had been disturbed in its sleep, aud becoming suffocated in its efforts to reach the stairway had been burned to death early in the course of tho fire. Her flesh was burned to a crisp on tho arms and limbs, while the trunk of her was literally cooked. A Drunken Man's Fatal Obedience. Thomas Gardnor, proprietor of a store in Williamstown, N. C, whilo a party of young men, who were all more or loss under tho influence of liquor, were in his store, gavo a gun to a mau named John Dorsey with instructions to shoot the fiist man who loft the place. Shortly after re ceiving tho orders Dorsey shot and killed Leroy Crofton, a resident of Hamilton, N.C., be being the first to leave the building. At tho time of firing tho fatal shot Dorsey was intoxicated. How Gnlde Taylor Died. Jayraan Taylor, a guide aud fisherman, near Bolton, Lake George, is supposed to have fallen from a ledge of rocks and rolled into tho lake, as no water was found in his stomach. He was seen on the rocks with his boat partly on shore by a passen ger on a steamer that was passing. He was found at the point where he was last seen. A jug of cider and four whisky bot tles were in tho boat, with only one drink of whisky left in the bottles. Torn About Fair Flay. PhUaUcIphia Times. General Beaver yesterday called around to see how Pattison runs the controller's office. Some time, perhaps, Pattison will call around to see haw Ttfinver rims t.hn Agricultural college. THE STATE CAMPAIGN. FREEARING TO PATCH UP FEACE. Doa Cameron' Conference With. HU Lieu tenants la FMiadelptUa. Senator Cameron arrived in Philadel phia from Washington yesterday after noon at ono o'clock. A conference was held between Mr. Cameron, Secretary Quay, Chairman Cooper, Collector Hart ranft, of the custom house, General Beaver and Marriott Brosius, at the St. Cloud hotel at three o'clock. The purpose of tbe senators visit was, first, to discuss and arrange a line of action for the state committee at its meeting ou Wednesday, next with reference to an effort to compro mist: the difficulties between tho Stalwarts and tho Independents, aud second to con sider changes in the heads of the post office and custom house. George S. Lelaud, a clerk in the custom house and president of tbe Republican committee in Quay's ward the Eighth bad been pressed for the postmastership to succeed General Huidekoper, whose civil service propensi ties aro not exactly the thing to suit the Stalwart people. It was not uutil yestcr dny, however, that the matter attained the dignity of a subject of formal con sideration by Mr. Cameron and bis lieu tenants. The proposed change in the custom house, by giving Collector Hart rauft the Mexican mission and appointing Chairman Cooper to General Hartranft's place, had also been published and talked about. The early part of tho conference was devoted to the question ot tormuiating a plan of compromise with tho Independents to be submitted through tho state com mitteo at its meoting uext Wednesday. Thero was but ouo plan that seemed to find favor, and that was Chairman Cooper's proposition to hold primaries and let all Kepublicaus who voted Tor Ueneral Garfield vote to decide which ticket shall remain in the field. Mr. Cooper grow eloquent over his plan, and said it was the fairest that could be offered. If tho Indo pendents did not accept it they would ac cept nothing. He held that they would either havo to accept it or allow them selves to bo put in tho position or desiring the defeat of the party by tho election of a Democratic ticket. Senator Cameron listened to Senator Cooper's argument, but did not, iu the early stage of the meet ing, express any opinion. Gen. Beaver gave bis views of the situation, based upon what he bad learned iu his tour of tho state. Ho thought the importance of tho Independent movement was largely exag gerated. Outside of Philadelphia ho saw little of it. Iu Philadelphia, his impres sion was, tho newspapers made more of tbo thing than theiu was in it. This brought from Secretary Quay a fow words of caution. He said thcie was no concealing the fact that theie was con siderable disaffection. It was well for them to recognize that fact at tho outset. It was not the Iudependonts alone that mado the present outlook appear unpromising for tho Beaver ticket. The labor vote would make trouble. Ho was in favor of Senator Cooper's plan, but doubted if the Independent committee would accept it. Chairman Cooper said if they rcfuso it then the blame could rest on them. Fred Magce gave a favorable account of things in Pittsburg and thought tho Independent strength would dwindle uutil election day. Still he wanted to see harmony if it could be brought about. After tho conference Candidate Brosius said that ho had calied to see General Beaver and did not know that Senator Cameron was to be there. Questioned as to the proposition which has been sug gested for the voluntary withdrawal ot all tho candidates ou tbo Beaver ticket to allow the state committee to arrange for a compromise, he said he could mako no statement ou that point. Ho preferred to speak of tho state committee's authority under the present circumstances. " That resolution passed by the stale convention of tho 21st of Juno," ho said, " in my judgment is very plain. It places tho whole matter iu tho hands of tbo state committee, gives that body full power to act, limited only by what is not honorable and fair. The committee is to be the judge of its owu acts, and thero is uo other constituted body that can under that res olution sit in judgment over it.'' As to the result of tho confeienco Mr. Brosius said that no plan had beeu adopted, although he added that what tho confer ence had done would perhaps facilitate the work of tho state committee. TIIK HEW DEMOCRATIC KU1.KS. As Viewed by a Journal That Was Opposed tn Rules. Cliambersburg Valley Spirit, l)cin. The now rules for tho government of tbo party adopted by our state conven tion last week will, wo think, prove iu tho main acceptable to the party, although wo doubt tho wisdom of increasing the number of delegates from two hundred and fifty-one, tho present representation, to probably four hundred and fifty, some two hundred more than at present. If, however, a convention of this size proves too cumbersome on experiment it may be l educed ; our preference would havo been for ono delegate for each 1,500 Democratic votes, or for a fraction of such votes amounting to 750 or moro. Tho now rules give our county five delegates ; the ratio wo suggest would not have increased tho representation. Very properly sena torial delegates have been abolished ; they have rarely made even a pretense of rep resenting tho sentiment of tho majority of the voters of the district which gave them place, as was evidenced in last week's convention by the delegate from this sen atoral district who while ho may have by his vote uttered tbe wishes of the threo thousand Democrats of Huntingdon coun ty gavo himself no concern about tho de sires of tbe fivo thousand Democratic voters of Franklin. The campaign work in futuro will be more vigorously prose cuted, wo trust, by tho organization of the executive committee. Wo expect nothing but good results in general to follow the adoption of these regulations. A HIDDEN TREASURE. The Secret Hoard of tiold and Silver. Jano and Susan Shaw, two old maiden ladies, lived for a number of years very quietly at 1,044 Spruce street, Philadel phia. Jano inherited an estate worth $60, 000 from her brother Charles, with tho understanding that she should pay her sis ter an annuity of $50. Jane died in April, 1881, leaving everything to her sister for life and then the other legatees. Susan followed her in April of this year. She left her property to the same relatives as Jane, with ono exception. Charles S. Forsyth, who was executor of both wills, whilo making an inventory stumbled across four mysterious chests in a cup board of the Shaw houso. They were opened after great trouble and they were found to bo full of silver and gold. No mention had been made of them by the sisters and their existenco was never suspected. A carriage was called and the mouey taken to a bank. Two men were employed fivo hours in counting it. It amounted to $21,800. Mr. Forsyth credited the monoy to Susan's account. Objections were interposed, however, by the residuary legatees under Jane's will. Testimony was produced before Judge Ashman, of the orphans' court, to show that Susan had exhausted means in investments made shortly before her death aud could not therefore have any title to tho monev. Jane, it was testified, had been of econo mical habits and lived far within her in. come. After considering all tha facta Judge Ashman awarded the money to Jane wuMn a vouivw. PERSONAL. Bnoerus smilingly stopped up and said he would take sugar in his'n. Ex-Congbesshan L. A. Mackey is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Assembly in Clinton county. Charles Stewart Pabnell's brother owns in Alabama the largest peach orchard in the world. Bismarck is quoted as saying that he never in his life knew General Ignatieff to speak tbe truth. Judge Black is reported from Chicago as having said that Hancock and Blaine will likely be the presidential candidates for 1884. President Aktuuk's portrait is to be painted for the White House by the artist Lo Clear. The artist should mako the bronze medal 306 an expressive feature of it. Oscar Wilde, who lectured in Louis iana and Alabama last week, won most applause by complimenting the South as tbo home of beautiful flowers aud beauti ful women. Piiok. A. N. Raub, fomerly of this county, is to be congratulated on the sue ccssful graduation from his normal school at Lock Haven, this year, of 78 persons, after rigid examinations. General Simon Cameron is of the opinion that tho Democrats have not nomi nated the strongest ticket they could havo placed in the field. This is important if true. L'ol. Wm. McMicnAEL, Independent candidate for eongiessman-at-largo says : " I will refuse to entertain all propositions, and will not withdraw under any circum stances. Wo will be elected, and it would be sheer uonsouse to surrender our advant age." . Senator Vance telegraphed the dual advent to tho Baton Rouge Capitolian Ad vocate: "Hip! hip! hurrah for this age of progress, railroads, telephones, electric lights and twin babies ! I am doing as well as could bo expected under the circum stances." Dr. Wickersiiam is the subject of the Press sketch of " Pennsylvania cele brities" this week. It is written by Mrs. S.L. Oberbollzer, who iu the conclusion of it says : " He tuairied early in life, soon after he became principal at Marietta, a beautiful bud of womanhood, Emerine O. Taylor, of Chester county, daughter of Dr. Isaac Taylor, deceased. Of their large family only four children survive : Corriue who married and resides iu Lancaster; Harold, who superintends a large pub lishing house in that city ; Dora, who ac companies her father to Copenhagen, and an 'airy, fairy Lilian.' Dr. Wickersbam and Miss Dora started for Denmark June 20, where Mrs. Wickersbam aud Miss Lilian expect to join them in the coining autumn." Mr. Pattison had a call at his office yesterday from Gen. Beavor.and when tbe latter hobbled in on his crutches, Pattison arose from his chair and grasped him cor dially by tho hand. " I'm glad to meet you general," he said. General Beaver replied in tho same strain, and then said " you have been keeping very quiet, Mr. Pattison." "Yes," said the controller, " I havo. I haven't been officially notified of my nomination, aud besides, my duties to the public as controller confine me to my desk. After all, general, I guess tho people of Pennsylvania will have to decide between you aud me on tbeir own ac count." "That's all right," replied tho general good naturcdly ; " that's all right, that suits me. I want to have a manly fight." After another interchange of greetings he withdrew. Two Train-Wreckers Caught At Poplar Bluff, Mo., one Brown came in and informed the sheriff that he was one of a gang of live, who had entered into a conspiracy to rob the train at Hen drickson, on the Iron Mountain railroad. The gang failed to appear there, but were beard from at Sheffield's mill, six milos distant, and the sheriff was dispatched there and captured two of the robbers. Two others escaped. Tho robbers weio armed with revolvers. Several parties are in search of tho remainder of tbe gang. The prisoners refused to give their names. m m Chairman Hubbell on Assessments. Chairman Hubell, of the Republicau congressional campaign committee, writes again to Mr. George William Curtis to say that assessments are not compulsory, and he will not select a test case for trial. He proposed to keep it up, and says $5,000 has been taken out of the interior depart ment up to last night. THE PRAISES UP BUTTER. Miss Blanche Kevin's Letter to Buchanan. Guardian lor July. On oue occasion Miss Blanche Novin, now iu Florence, Italy, working on a statue of Ueneral Muhlenberg, designed for the national capitol at Washington, and a young lady who was quite a belle, were making a visit to Miss Lane at Wheatland, the residence of ex-President Buchanan. With his usual gallantry Mr. B. complimented them highly on their powers of attraction, but afterwards quali fied it by saying "while they could fassinate gentlemen, bo didn't believe they could cook a dinner or make a pound of butter." Miss Blanche declared she could do both, and to convince him that it was as easy to mako a churning of butter as to get into a gentleman's heart sho would make ono and send him. Accordingly when the camo home she took the milk bucket and went into the cow yard, and after experi menting awhile to get the milk into tho bucket ( quite an art by tho way, as under the operation of a tyro the milk is very apt to go every way but in tbe bucket ) she accomplished it, milked tho cow, strained the milk and set it to cream, skimmed it, scalded the churn, put in tho cream churned and worked the butter all with bcr own hands, and sent it to Mr. Buchanau with the following little jeu d'esprit : My muse had better clip her wings, It is a dairy-maid who sings, A humble song of humble things. Not ot an interesting story. Not ot an ancient border loray, Nor vet of man or woman's glory. I leave unto a mightier pen. Such vaunting of their icllow men. But stait not, haughty critic, when My lips all unabashed shall utter. Words which would put you in a flutter. Tho theme I'm singing of is butter. There rises lirst before my sight. The milk so loamy, lrothy. white, Fresh from the cow in bucket bright, Which soon to yellow cream doth turn. And then with dainty kind concern We skim, anil put it in the churn. Cruchingly, munchingly, Round it goes. Throwing and tossing the cream in si flutter, Splashing and dashing, Eacli dron it throws. And suddenly turning it all into butter. O butter, butter ! good and pure, When nicely dipped and salted, yott'ic A special blessing I am sure, For butter hath a luscious tuste, And at what table it is placed. Improves the bread it huth embraced. What wretch was he, with taste unstable Who flrst suggested we were able To drop it from the dinner tabic. Good gracious me ! What won't men do, To form somo fashion that is new. What won't men what won't women too. By people wise. I've heard it said. E'en that " the staff of Hie Is bread," Then butter is the golden head. In humble gratitude I sing. Tbe pleasure it doth ever bring. To almost every well cooked thing. And whensoe'er you tako your seat, This butter which I send to eat, 1 hope you'll And toth good and sweet. Dear Mr. Buchanan. Stargeon Rilled Gennrn ITreiner alanffhtared his larira sturgeon this morning and it weighed 6G pounas alter ail tno ias naa oeen taken out, It was sold in steaks. THE POLICE FORCE. WHAT THE MEMBERS COMPLAIN OF. Resignation ol Several Uood OBcers Com plaint that the Salaries Arc Too Low. Officers George Cramer, constable and police officer of the Second ward, B. Frank Leaman, police officer of the Third ward, have resigned their positions on the city police force. Both have been excellent officers and are highly Bpoken of by the mayor, who bas not as yet accepted their resignations, and holds tbem under ad visement. Police Officer and Constable John Mo Devitt's suspension for 60 days for mis conduct expired on July 1, but owing to his failure to settle bis account of collec tion of taxes tbe suspension is continued. The Policeman's Lot Is Not a Happy One. There is a complaint among all the offi cers of the force now that they do not receive salaries for the work they do. It has created considerable dissatisfaction among them. This may have something to do with tho resignation of somo of them. When councils met on Wednesday even inh Councilman Cochran, of the 6th ward, offered a resolution to the eflect that the city police shall hereafter bo paid $50 per mouth instead of their present salary ($40). This resolution was quickly laid on the table where it now is. This action put a damper on the policemen aud in a conver sation with several members of tho city police force this morning a reporter of this paper was enlightened in regard to the duties of au officer. There aro nineteen members of tbe city police force, including the chief of police. Half of tho forco is on duty every day and night and the chief is on at night. One shift of officers goes on duty at 7 o'clock in the morning. They all servo until 4 o'clock the next morning, when six of them are relieved and three are kept on until tho new shift comes on at 7. During tho night as well as the day timo the officers must report at the station house at differ ent times and between these hours they are expected to go through tbeir wards if not assigned to other duty. Every Sat urday evening between 7 and 11 and upon holidays tho whole force is on duty and receive no extra pay for it. They must be out iu all kinds of weather and are ex pected to be on tho move. For this work tbe officers receivo $40 per month, out of which sum they must pur chase their uniforms. Tho men re quire two uniform suits in a year and some purchase three. The goods used in this manufacture aro of the best quality. About every two years the officer is obliged to purchase an overcoat, which can not be had for much less than $30. In case of an officer's clothing been torn in making an arrest, it is his loss. Tbe offi cers are at all times expected to look neat and clean, and they do, for there is no finer looking police force in the state than that of Lancaster. Tho men say that they are unable to get along with their present salary which, counting 30 days in a month, is but $1.33 per day, or $1.29 with a month of 31 days. Of course, many officers have made considerable money over their salaries out of cases in which they have acted. This business i3 not as good now as heretofore, and even when in its prime there were men ou tho force who made but a few dollars in a month for arrests. Tbo officers think that a remedy for all this would be to pay them a good salary, say $60 or $65 per month. This would give them sufficient to live upon, and they would no doubt be satisfied to turn tho fees which they receive from arrests, &c, over to the city. As it now is they say they receive an insufficient salary and there is little chance to make much over. A Uood Kunuer. Officer Bankson H. Smith is earning tbe title of champion runner. Yesterday he chased an escaping prisoner from the Reading railroad coal schutcs to Diller ville, at which point be overtook him and gobbled him up. This morning while tak ing a prisoner to jail the fellow broke away from him and rau like lightning out Plum street, but Smith overtook and collared him and landed mm safely in jail. Mayor's Court. Tbo mayor had four cases of drunken ness before him this morning and in flicted tho usual sentence of fine and im prisonment. One vagrant was d iscbarge 1. STRA3BCRG NEWS. Our Regular Boroagb Correspondence. At the present timo the position of our town council is a veiy unpleasant ono. The laying out of streets,' and giving tho irrade for paving havo caused much dis satisfaction. Those who havo already laid their pavements according to the grade givcu tbem upon application do not think it right that they should bo compelled to tear them up, or change tho grading. Viewers havo been appoint ed for the respective streets, who aro property holders aud own prop erty along the streets. Tho town council instead of beginning at oue end or tho other of tbe borough and grading right straight through, have begun work atdif ferent points along the street, and after a short picco of pavement has been laid, take the grading of that a : a criterion by which to lay the remainder. It does not ap pear fair. A more satisfactory way would be to appoint three men of intelligence from somo town or city, havo them lay out our streets and give us tho grading for each, mon who aro not property hold-. ers, or related m any way to those living in the borough so that thero will not be tho least chance to charge disingenuousnoss, and even if such a cry should bo heard, they would be deaf to it and our town would soon be ono of beauty, with streets that would bear the criticism of all. The sanitary arrangements of our little town aro as yet very crude. On walking past flourishing butcher shops our olfac tories wero greeted with au uube.inblo odor, which, on inquiry, was found to ariso from a slaughter house. This bas been a glaring evil for years. Its influence is felt to such an extent as to cause prop perty in its immediate vicinity to seriously deteriorate in value. The neighbors havo time aud again complained of the nuisance, and at one time a petition was circulated for tbe purpose of doing away with the cause of offense, but this course aroused the ire of tho proprietors to such an extent that the neighbors thought best to discard this plan and wait for better feelings to assert themselves. But tho slaughter bouse still stands in all its glory, a fertile source of annoyance. Arm Broken. Benjamin M. Stracban, aged about ten years, son of Mrs. Hannah Stracban, re siding at No. 27 East German street, yes tcrday whilo playing with some of his young companions, fell from a pile of stones and broke his arm very badly, tbe elbow joint being dislocated and tho bono sus taining a comminuted fracture. JLr. Geo. A. King was sent for, reduced the luxation and set tho broken bono. A somewhat singular coincidence in tho case is, that Dr. King bcinir unable, at the moment, to get a surgeon to assist him, called in Rev. Mcister, pastor of St. Stephens' church, who rendered the necessary aid with more than usual skill, having himself, when a boy, suffered an accident of a precisely similar character. Woods Meeting. On Sunday July 16th a woods meeting will be held in Hess' woods, at Quarry ville, by colored people of this city and other places. A number of well known ministers will be on hand, and Rev. M. M. Diggs will have charge of the choir. These affairs are always largely attended and a special train will be run down from this City. BUZZAKD CAGED. THE NOTORIOUS ISAAC ARRESTED. He is Taken at Colombia, Trala Rider. Uroogfct to Jail ogaixed a Ike Welsh Mi criminal. Yesterday Officer Kennedy,of Colombia, arrested a party or tramps at that place for stealing a tide on a freight train. They were taken before Justice Frank, who committed them for five days each. Among them was ono who gave the same of Milton Smith and when Officers Ken nedy and Pylc took them out to the jail in thu city "his morning Underkeeper Smith at once recognized his alleged namesake as the notorious Isaao Buzzard, who was one of the ten desperate cou victs who escaped from that institution on tho 24th of May List. " Hello, Ike." said the underkcei - r as soon as he saw the new arrival, "Wiu-io's your commitraentl?" "You'll find ono there for me, I guess," was the prompt response of the celebrated convict, who i nl not yet understand that ho was lull recognized. He was very much tanned ; his handsome little black moustache w.w shaved off close, and be wore cheap but respectable citizens clothes. To his confident assertion that tbe "Mil ton Smith" commitment was for him, Underkeeper Smith unswered, " No it ain't," I know you," and he had Buzzard taken in and confined in one of the strong est cells in the prison from whish he has not escaped up to this writing. His only comment on the situation was, " this is a d d bitter pill." It is said that when he and his associates were arrested, another train rider fled, who is believed to have been one of tbe convicts, as they mostly travel in pairs. Who will get the Reward ? It will be remembered that tho prison inspectors ottered a reward of 30 for each of the escaped convicts. R. R. Officer Kennedy, who u a now man and of course did not know Buzzard when he arrested him claims this reward, and says that when he got to the jail door this morning and Buzzard saw that he must go in ho admitted that he was the man and told the officer be could mako tho reward on him ; but that as he was green he did not know how to pro ceed, and moreover he thought Ike was only giving bim taffy. But as ho was in strumental in returning him he claims the reward. Keeper Burkholder will refer the matter to the prison inspectors at their next meeting. THE FLlUdT OK THE rUGlTlYES. A Kali Account ot Their Wanderings. A representative of tho Intelligknckr had an extended interview with Ike Buz zard in the prison this afternoon. Ho is confined in a cell on tho north side of the jail on tho lower tier and quickly rose from the cot on which he had been lying to speak to the interviewer. He shook hands warmly and in reply to tbo question : When did you get back?" answered cheerily "This morning." " You mado a short stay ?" " Yes, but it wasn't my fault that I came back so soon." It was noticed that ho was much tanned, his moustache was cropped close and his side whiskers were being started. Ho looks well and enough changed to deceive even Officer Pyle, to whom he is said to have hinted that theic was money in him, if Pyle knew it Being requested to give a detailed ac count of his movements since he left the Burkholder house, Buzzard promptly re sponded with " the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." Uo said he did not propose to "give away" any of hiscomrades.aud of course was not pressed on this poiut. In response to a joking suggestion ho intimated, too, that he was tired of jail breaking. The story of his trip was then told as follows : Over the Wall. " Of coursa you know how we got away 33 well as I can tell yu. When we got into the reservoir grounds Sliko Lentz left us. The rest of tho party all stayed to gether. We struck across the poor house fields and went down tbe creek to the Old Factory bridge. There we crossed and broke up into squad... Three ot us Lip pincott, Ehtnan and ir.vself traveled across the country east about five miles. I hadn't prison clothes on when I left. We never saw any party after us and stole no horses. Somewhere around Lampeter we stayed iu a rye patch till it was dark. That night we struck across the country and laid tip iu a woods next day. Tho second night we made tho Epbrata moun tain. While there I sprained my ankle. At that place I opened up com munication with 1 Mends aud obtained $50 from them. My lame leg kept me there for a week. Then wo went to Allen town, traveling ou a 'Puliman palaco coal car ' on the Reading road by uigbt- With our money wo bought clothes at Allentown and went up tho Lehigh Valley railroad to Wilkcsbarre. We were not working at any time, bu'. takiug in tbe country. Fiom Wilkesbarre we came across the country ou freights to the P. & E. road and down it to Marysville. Here we boarded a train uti the Pennsylvania railroad and went clear out to Fort Wayne, Ind. Ehmau hurt himself on the train and it was some time before we got straightened out to travel. Then he . wanted to come homo and as we had stuck together all this lime Lippincott and I camo East too. We were put off now and then, and about 100 miles cast of Fort Wayne wo lost Lippin cott. He failed to board the train we got ou and wo have not beard from bim since. We came along without anything special happening us to Columbia. We intended to get oil there and go out into the coun try. Ehmtn was to go into town to-night, i get some money and we would take a r fresh start. If it hadn't been fortbat we wonldn't have come so near home. When we were taken from the train Ehman jumped off and got away. During our travel we saw some of the others of our party. We camo acros-i brother Abe and Paul Quigley just wheru of course you will not ask mc to say." TAKKM IN, A Meanonlte Farmer From Lancaster En joys a Novel City Exaarleaee. Heading News. Samuel Neuswenger, a Mennonite far mer of East Earl, Lancaster county, met with a novel experience in this eity on Thursday. He was walking on Peun street, and near Tenth and Penn was ac costed by two strangers. One stated that he was from Pottstown and the other was profuse iu bis questions and offered to pay Neuswenger if be would distribute adver tisements tbrongb New Holland and that section of Lancaster county, mese ad vertisements were sample cloths on cards. They invited him into their place on tbe second floor, northwest corner of Fourth and Penn streets. He accompanied sharper No. 1 up stairs, and when once inside be was offered tempting chances to win at cards. Soon after sharper No. 2 casM in and bet $10 on a card, and of course won. Neuswenger was then induced to bet $15, which he lost. Afterwards he met some of his friends among them Philip Rufe, D. C. Coleman and H. Heidenrelch, who returned with him to tbe place. They met tbe parties on the pavement, and after a brief parley, succeeded in recovering Neuswenger's money. A New Holland Boy. Allentown City Item. Mr. Aaron B. Hassler, who graduated from Muhlenberg college last week, will to-day leave for his Home in Lancaster county. His numerous friends in this city sincerely hope that his future may be -bright and prosperous. V H
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