LANCASTEK DAILY INTELMaENCER, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1882.
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8A.TUBDAY EVENING, JULY 8, 1882.
JSrMfO Bnllaleg Bids.
Manifestly some reform is necessary in
the manner of inviting proposals and
letting contracts for bridges around the
commissioners' office. It will be remem
bered that several weeks ago bids were
opened for the building of a bridge over
the Little Conestoga at Groff's mill,
Manor township, on the Blue Rock road,
and the bids were as follows: Isaac
Hackman, $4,500 ; John Kreckel, $3,
400 ; Davis Kitch, $1,675 ; E. McMel
len, $1,397; Albert Breneman, $1,089;
W. (3. Kneezel, $1,247.00 ; Hugh Keogh
& Co., $1,375 ; Conrad Shaeffer, $3,570 :
Joseph Licht, $3,880. The lowest bid
der to whom the contract was
let, Breneman, did not come to
time, nor did the next lowest, Kneezel ;
by the time it came around to Keogh he
bad found other work and would not
take it ; McMellen, who was $30S above
the lowest bid, said the bridge could not
be built for his bid of $1,397 and so it
fell to Kitch at $1,075. He was willing to
take It and to furnish the necessary se
curity, but, as he had in the meantime
taken the contract for lighting the city
lamps, be was unable to do the bridge
work himself aud proposed to turn liisj
contract over to McMellen . After some
discussion this proposition was declined.
The majority of the commissioners, Mr.
Hildebrant protesting, th en awarded the
contract directly to McMellen at Kitch 's
bid, giving him $1,675 for a work which
he, himself, had bid to do for $1,397.
It may be that the lower bids for the
bridge were entirely too low and a vari
ance among the bidders between $1,089
$4,500, shows woeful miscalculation
somewhere. Possibly the contract has
still been lei cheap enough, but in view
of the many scandals attaching to coun
ty bridge building, and the prominence
of McMellen in them, Commissioners
Myers and Summy should have paused
before awarding to hiui a contract at
$278 more than his own bid for it. It
would have been far more creditableaud
satisfactory to have invited new propo
sals.
The system of straw bidding exhibited
iu this case ought to be a warning to the
board to hereafter accept no bids unless
accompanied with security to do the
work or a forfeit. There is too much
jugglery under the present plan of irre
sponsible bidding by parties who only go
in to sell out.
While the extreme and demoralizing
prevalence in New England of divorce
without Scriptural cause is under dis
cussion, it may be well to remember that
staid Pennsylvania is not blameless. Our
laws on this subject admit of a good
deal of laxity in their administration.
The courts of this stat: are allowed a
wide discretion, and many of them ex
ercise it loosely. It is practically as easy
perhaps to get a divorce in some parts of
Pennsylvania as it was in Indiaua when
the free divorce system there was the
scandal of the whole country. Our own
county has held out inducements for
strangers to its jurisdiction to Hit hither
and tarry only long enough to
obtain the freedom from matrimonial
fetters which they could not secure else
where so cheaply. We recommend to
our esteemed friends, the judges of the
local court, to scrutinize more closely
the divorce depositions read to them,often
hurriedly and at the tail of the session.
Unless they bear down a little more se
verely with the tests of the Scriptural in
junction and of a sound public morality,
the barristers who indulge in the divorce
business will feel emboldened to make
" cold feet " an adequate cause to dis
solve the matrimonial estate.
Thk proceedings of Congress yester
day were enlivened by au exhibition of
blackguardism on the part of a defender
of the administration, the exact nature
of which the public cannot know because
the language was too dirty to be report
ed. For the same reason it is to be ex
punged from the record. This does not,
however, seem to have been sufficient
reason for Mr. Butterworth to have re
frained from indulging in it, nor from
persisting in it after he had been warned
of his offense against decorum aud de
cency. Nor is even the poor apology
offered for Butterworth that he was
drunk. That sometimes explains, if it
does not excuse, these congressional
episodes. But if the language was ut
tered why should it be expunged ? Why
not let it stand as a monument of dis
grace to the filthy-tongued mem
ber who uttered it ? The shame
is not in the record of these
things but in their occurrence ; and
nothing is more apt to make members
reckless of their speech and regardlessrf
the dignity of their office than the re
flection that they can offend decency and
yet spare themselves the disgrace of
having it recorded against them.
One report from Philadelphia has it
that although Rawle breathes slaughter
and talks brimstone against the Inde
pendents, offers his money, wagers his.
influence and stakes his family pride in
the battle to death against them, he
must go. Fred Magee is reported to
have arranged that A. M. Brown, whom
the builders of the Harrisburg ticket re
jected for Rawle, shall go on when
Rawle gets off ; and that thus the sulk
ing West will be placated. On the other
hand that single organ of the lost cause,
the Stalwart Bulletin, announces with
an ex-cathedral air that this proposition
has never been even mooted and that the
bosses have pretty well made up their
minds " that the Independents will de
cline to have anything to do with any
suggestion tending towards harmony."
And so, in this prevailing conflict of
intelligence, we can only wait for the
meeting of the state committee on Wed
nefday to discover how far Mr. Brosius
and bis colleagues in their late confer
ence with Cooper and Cameron " facil
itated" the work of harmony. It is in
conceivable that Mr. Btown, after being
kicked around like an old shoe at Har
risburg, should be willing to lend himself
to the scheme ascribed to the versatile
younger Magee.
It has been nearly six months since
our esteemed contemporary, the New
Era, first vouchsafed the apology for a
bill of $211.50, paid by Commissioners
Coble and Bushong, for blanks used in
the quarter sessions office, that the pay
ment of such a bill by the county was
made in accordance with " a judicial
decision." We have repeatedly asked
to be referred to that decision, thus far
without eliciting anything more judicial
or decisive than Clerk Urban's allega
tion that Judge Livingston checked oft"
for him certain blanks on a list which
the judge said that the county ought to
pay, and that he told Bushong the com
missioners would "make no mistake" in
paying this bill of $211.50. Tho board
of county auditors, who have been in
quiring into this matter, as well as into
many other abuses in the court-house,
pointed out repeatedly in this journal,
are understood to lie about concluding
their labors. If anybody can furnish
them with a "judicial decision "justify
ing that $211.50 bill, or the $1,800 paid
McMellen as "very liberal compensa
tion " for rearranging tho prothono
tiry's papers,or the big bills of Barnes &,
Iluler for bill files, such apologist had
better be getting in his justification
very soon. Otherwise the public will
anxiously wait to learn whether tho au
ditors take the same view of this " very
liberal compensation " to tho jobbers as
the judges have taken.
A ruiiLisncD biography of the llub
bel family conveys the information that
the congressional Assessor of Blackmail
conies from a strain of Bedouin birth ;
that his ancestry was subsequently
mixed with the blood of brigandage aud,
later still, with a race of Danish free
booters, who landed upon the shores of
Britain about bG, took St. Edmund, the
king, prisoner, but offered him his life
and kingdom if lie would forsake Chris
tianity and reign under them, and when
he refused they tied him to a tree and
shot at him with arrows dud at last cut
off his head. This historical course of
the Hulibel lineage fully explains the
tendency of its scion to make the pages,
scrub-women and even the employees of
the Indian training schools stand and de
liver theirtwo percent, to the corruption
fund.
Some very " young Republicans "of
Philadelphia want both tickets drawn
off and a new one made by a new con
vention under the new rules, "or, if this
be found impracticable, or the following
be deemed preferable, that the conven
tion to be called in accordance with the
above suggestion, shall select from the
nominees of both, or either of the wings
of the panv the candidates for the
various offices to be filled at the coming
election." These remarkable proposi
tions and tho remarkable language in
which they are couched suggest that
their authors are liable to be suppiessed
by a vigorous enforcement of tho legal
prohibition against the public exposure
of ' monkey veal."
Bekmn is wickeder than Paris, and the
Bismarck boys aro the wickedest of the
lot.
While tho Stalwarts dally tho Inde
pendents grow bolder and increase thoir
demands. Now they ask that Don Cam
eron shall resign from the Senate as one
of the conditions of peace.
John Cessna thinks it could all be
settled if Don Cameron would only assure
the people that ho would not again bo a
candidate for tho Senate. Cessna evi
dently has a notion to roll up his pants
and go for Cameron's place.
Aldeuman Bill McMullen, of Phil
adelphia, and his Fourth ward retainers
had a jolly ratification meeting last night
and flung a Pattison banner to the breeze.
"Mnlly " has at least sense enough to got
in out of the wet.
It seems that when Mr. Butterworth,
of Ohio, wants to defend tho administra
tion adequately he has to retort to tho
language of the brothel, the ladies gallery
must be cleared and the record expur
gated. Buttekwortii is said to have killed his
chances for re-election by his obscene
speech in the House yesterday. He might
emigrate to China aud rise to tho rank ot
major general in tho regular army of that
celestial kingdom, where the stink pot
modo of warfare is not yet extinct.
The following twelve counties of Penn
sylvania have no Baptist church : Snyder,
Lebanon, Juniata, Perry, Cumberland,
Adams, Franklin, Fulton, Bedford
Forest, Elk and Cameron. While Somer
set, Clinton, Monroe and Pike have only
one each. Theso counties represent a pop
ulation of more than 300,000.
The prohibition amendment which has
just been carried in Iowa does not forbid
anything but tho making or importing of
intoxicating liquors for sale. They can he
made in any quantity for the use of the
maker, or to give away. They can be
brought iuto the state for the same pur
pose. Such an enactment leaves loopholes
through which demoralization is expected
to crawl.
Notwithstanding a semi-official denial
that Minister Lowell has resigued, the
Washington correspondent of the New
York Commercial reiterates his reliable
assurance that Minister Lowell has placed
his resignation in tho handsof tho president
to be accepted at his pleasure, and that
the Republican political element among
tho friends of Ireland, ( more especially
the Laud League ), has within a few days
past been making itself effectively felt,
though in a quiet way at the White House.
Moreover, it. has been represented to the
president by tho Republican managers
tha it will be difficult, if not impossible, to
carry the New- York election this fall if
Mr. Lowell is not recalled. They even
put it statistically, alleging that to keep
him iu London until next November
would be worth 20,000 votes to the Demo
cratic party, and that would suffice to
eleot their ticket.
Recently compiled statistics indicate a
rapid development of the telegraphic sys
tem in Europe. The length of line in
Russia, that country of magnificent dis-
tances, is 50,090 miles, whioh is More than
any other country baa, but England, with
little over half that length of line, far ex
ceeds in the number of messages sent,
which in the last year amounted to 29,
820,445, while Russia reached only 7,298,
422, or hardly one-fourth tho number. Ger
many leadB in tho length of wire, having
169,910 mUcs to her credit, over whioh 16,
312,457 messages wero sent last year.
Fraoce.with 125,263 miles of wire, heut 19,
S82.628 messages and is second only to Eng
land in this branch of the service Austria
Hungary sent only about half as many
messages as Germany, but the figures,
which aro lutorestiug, show a very general
growth of this moans of communication
throughout tho countries of tho Old
World.
Tiik growth of tho production and trade
in oil presents some figures calculated to
startle tho most hardened student of sta
tistics. In 1859 when Col. Drake first
"struck it" at Tilusvillo, 2,000 barrels
wero produced which suld at $20 a barrel.
Last year tho pioductiou reached tho
enormous quantity of 26.950,813 barrels,
and tho estimated amount of oleaginous
wealth on hand is 30,000,000 barrel. Tho
average daily production is 80,000 barrels
and tho consumption 71,000. Our export
trado is fast increasing. Iu the first five
months of this year tho foreign demand
was 158,630,482 gallons compared with
123,407,242 iu tho same timo last year. Tho
value of the total shipment last year was
$40,315,609, which was greater than that
of tobacco, woodcuwaro, irou and steel
manufactures, or live auimals, and second
only to cotton and cereals. Its homo con
sumption has also increased in proportion.
Since tho first oil woil wai opened in 1859
tho product of tho wells havo added $1,
500,000,000 to the wealth of the United
States iu tho value of tho crude oil and its
products. To day tho product of theso
wells lights tho cathedrals of Europe, tho
mosques of Asia, the pagodas of Japau and
even the huts on Africa's sunny soil. Its
expoits aic over 1,000,000 gallons a day.
FKHSONAIi.
John Gilueut, tho veteran actor, is
very sick at his homo at Manchester, Mas
sachusetts. Ex-Senatou Ckewkll, of Maryland,
has been chosen by tho president as coun
sel for tho government befoio tho Geneva
award commission.
Judoe Chakles C Nott, of tho U. S.
court of claims, is dangerously sick at his
father-in-law's residence, at Williamstown,
Mass., from a recurrence of an old com
plaint. Inge ksoll"s lectures against Christian
ity havo been translated into Japanese,
aud are said to be having a largo circula
tion principally among tho young students.
Certainly Japan has had enough misfor
tune without this.
Candidate Marriott urosius was in
West Chester yesterday, to attond the
funeral of Mrs. Hannah S. Kent, a relative.
In the afternoon a number of citizens
called upon him and were introduced by
William M. Hayes, whose guest he was.
Mr. Brosius went to Philadelphia late yes
terday afternoon.
Ex-Governor Curtin, wheu shown tho
item in which he is quoted as deprecating
tho nomination ot Pattison, declared it to
be a mistake aud unjust to the candidate
as well as to himself. Ho believes the
nomination of Pattison to bo iu harmony
with the general wish of the party, and
that Pattison will receivo a full party voto
with large Republican accessions, which
will insure his election.
Alexander McEwen, a financier of
London, has brought suit for $50,000
against the Philadelphia and Reading rail
road company. Mr. McEwen claims that
he has rendered Gowen, valuable assistance
in introducing the deferred bonds and 5
per cent, consols, and for his assistance
was to receive pay. In addition to this
he wants to receive a commission for
placing certain amounts of both of tho
loans.
Queen Victoria's favorite servant,
John Brown, has about tho best time in
the spring, as the Queen's salmon fishing
on tho Dee is at bis disposal, and her
majesty's stretch, which extends from In
vercauld bridge to Balmoral bridge, is one
of the finest on the river, and contains
many excellent pools. Brown has enjoyed
excellent sport during tho last month, tho
river having been in capital order. On
one day he landed fourteen Hue clean sal
mon. Mr. Moodv, the evangelist lately met
about 100 gentlemen in London to confer
as to future plans. There wero present
representatives from many towns in the
kingdom, as well as from London. Mr.
Moody said that ho bad in band sufficient
invitations to keep him hard at work in
Great Britain for tho remainder of his life
and he was urged to return to Chicago at
onco. Ho proposed, however, moving
about Scotland for a short time, and then
visiting Paris for a fortnight.
James G. Hill, a West Philadelphia
tinsmith and a noisy Independent in poli
tics, made an epistolary assault of an
illicit amatory character on tho wifo of C.
P. Jones, a Stalwart custom house em
ployee. Mr. Hill will henceforth take less
interest in politics and love. The cow
hide welts on his head and legs are nearly
as thick as Candidate Beaver's crutch. He
now knows that there is nothinc in the In.
dependent platform to justify one of them
in coveting his neighbor's wife.
Jay Gould has marvels of beauty in his
botanical gardens at Irvington on the
Hudson, and all the people up that way
celebrated "the Fourth " by accepting his
invitation to look how he has spent hun
dreds of thousands in transforming
swamps into masses of fragrant bloom,
rivaling the glories of tropical gardens and
the sweet Btnells of the vale of roses, with
crotons from tho Fiji, cacti from Brazil,
palms from Asia, pitcher plants from Mad
agascar, marantas from tho Amazon val
ley, ferns from the East Indies, camellias
from Japan and rhododendron from along
the Gangps.
PnrNCESs Soulouque, daughter and
only child on the Empress Soulouque of
Hayti.has arrived in New York. She left
for Now Haven, accompanied by her maid,
and will bo the guest of cx-Unitcd States
minister to Havti Bassett. Thence she will
visit Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and
San Francisco. She travels under the
name of Madame Lubin, neo Faustin,
the former being the name of her husband,
the Duke do Petrionville, who died at
Port-au-Prince about fourteen months ago,
and tho latter being the namo of tho late
emperor.
Rev. W. W. Hicks, -who has ridden into
notoriety on the shoulders of Guiteau, be
gan his public career as a minister of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and went to
India as a missionary ; returning ho bo
came a Congregational minister in Brook
lyn. Then ho became pastor of the Lee
Avenue Reformed (Dutch) church in
Williamsburg. Next he turned up as a
Lutheran or of some other denomination
in Charleston, S. C, where he drew groat
crowds. Then ho went to Florida, and
got back into Methodism in some shape.
He entered politics, and became connected
with the educational department of the
state government. Came North as a
tump speaker on the Republican plat,
form. Now he turns up as an " independ
ent" minister in Washington.
THE STATE CAMPAIGN.
ODK CANDIDATE AT IIUMK.
With Honor Among their neighbors.
WolUborou tiazclto.
Wo auuro tho Democracy of the Htate
that in nominating Mr. Elliott for con-grossman-at-
largo no mistako w;ts made,
aud to the victory, which now scorns cer
tain, his nomination will in no small do
greo contribute.
Uepubllnans will Vote lr Hint.
Philadelphia Tliucw.
Chauiieoy F. Black is to bo felicitated
upon tho cordial indorsement with whioh
his nomination is received by his neigh
bois, irioHprclivo of party. Already a
number of KepuhlicaiiH ol York, including
Home of tho leading business men, havo
pronounced in his favor, aud tho head of
tho most important industrial establish
ment in tho couuty says it is tho duty of
cvory Republican in York county to voto
for him. It is a safe rulo to inoasiiro a
man's worth by tho estimate of his neigh
bors, and if Candidate Black's oaso is to bo
thus disposed of his election is already
practically assured.
No Fouling Willi Itronliix.
American.
Neither Mr. Rawle, Mr. Davies nor Mr.
Green can imagine, wo should suppose,
that their present candidacy has anything
in it of value or seriousness. What Mr.
Brosius' ideas are, it would bo impossible
to say ; his acceptance of the Harrisburg
nomination, under all tho circumstances,
was a performance of such sort thai; his
views of political action may not bo dealt
with offhand.
IHKD KICU.
A I'uuper With 21,000 on Iuh i'erson.
About a week ago a seedy, travel worn
tiamp appeared at tho Westmoreland
couuty poorhouso aud applied for longings.
Ho gavo his namo as John Henry Ithem
berg. Tho steward took him in but said
ho must tako a bath. The mau demurred
at first, but filially consented. When he
disrobed for the bath ho laid aside a bag of
gold coin, and then uubnckled several largo
belts tilled with greenbacks aud Gorman
and American securities. Tho noxt morning
ho was taken sick, and the physician pro
nounced his disease typhoid fever. Ho
grow rapidly woise, and Steward Gray in
sisted that he should make a will. He re
fused, saying that ho would not dio. On
Monday he expired, aud ou tho following
day was buried in the German Lutheran
cemetery iu Greensbury. Tho authorities
have since ascertained that tho dead man
has friends in Germany, lie was a misor,
and did nothing but beg and board money.
The gold, greenbacks, aud securities fouud
ou his pci son amounted to about $21,000.
Attempts aro being made to inform his
relatives in Germany of his death.
EDUCATIONAL.
Pennsylvania School Teachers Convention
Tho third and last day of the state
teachers' convention was devoted mainly
to executive business, Superintendent N.
H. Schenck, of Cameron county, read au
interesting paper on the science in elemen
tary schools. A class of eighteen pupils,
averaging ten years of age, of Pittsburg,
gave a remarkable exhibition of rapid
work iu arithmetic. Last night an address
was made by David G. Hill, president of
Lewisburg cullege, on the organization of
colleges, and Dr. J. H. French lectured on
teachers institutes. The following officers
weio elected for tho ensuing year : Dr.
N. C. Shaeffer, of Kutztown, president ;
Professor J. P. McCaskey, of Lancaster,
secretary, and John Morrow, of Allegheny,
treasuier. Williamsport was selected as
tho place for holdiug tho next stato con
vention. Tho convention then adjourned,
normal School Motes.
In our list of tho graduates of Millere
ville normal school, who aro to speak on
graduation day, tho namo of D. It. Baer,
of Millersville, was omitted. Mr. Baer,
who is one of the leading members of his
class, will speak on tho subject of " Tot
tering Thrones." M. G. Cocklin, of Cum
berland county, who was to speak, has
withdrawn from tho class aud gouo homo.
Mr. Sauford, the valedictorian, has been
elected a member of the teaching force in
tho normal, his duties to begin noxt
term.
The fiual examination ot the senior
class will begin on Tuesday, 12th inst. ;
tho alumni exercises will be held on tho
19th ; commencement on the 20th.
STOOD THE TUST.
An Incident at the State Teachers Meeting.
At tho stato teachers meeting in Potts
ville, the Pittsburgh superintendent exhi
bited a class brought on from tho West to
illustrate the peculiar system of instruc
tion in use there. Tho average ago of
children is less than ten and a halt' years.
Many of them were never before away
from home over night. Au illustration
was given of the facility with which the
children could read music. One or two
exercises were sung by note, the children
all keeping time. They wero under the
immediate charge of Miss Phillips, a
teacher in tho school. Miss Libbio An
drews, a girl nino years then read an es
say which she wroto on tho cars. Another
girl read a half-minuto essay on Longfel
low, after which each boy and girl recited
a brief stanza from his most familiar
poem, and closing with the " Psalm of
Life," ono stanza being given by each
pupil, except the last, which was rendered
by the class in concert. Then followed
specimcus of newspaper readings. Prof.
Buehrle, of Lancaster, who has criticised
the Pittsburgh methods pretty severely
through tho press, sent up a paper with
the request that it be read. Prof. Lucky
took the paper aud called out " Julia
Washington." A bright colored girl of
about eleven responded to the call, and
she was given the paper. She read at
once naturally and freely.
THK AKSIY OFFICKKS.
Prospective Retirements Under the New
Compulsory Lair.
Washington, D. C., July 8. Major
General Irwin McDowell, commanding the
military division of the Pacific, will bo
placed ou the retired list in October next
under the provision of tho compulsory
retirement bill. It is generally un
derstood that Major General John
M. Schofield, who is at present
without a command, will succeed General
McDowell in the command of tho division
of tho Pacific. General W. T. Sherman
will be retired in February, 1884 ; Lieu
tenant General Sheridan in 1895 ; Major
General Hancock iu March, 1888 ; Major
General Schofield in 1895 ; Brigadier Gen
eral John Pope in July, 1886 ; Brigadier
General Oliver O. Howard in 1894 ; Gen
eral Christopher C. Augur in August,
1885 ; Brigadier General Georgo Crook in
1892.
Michael Davitt will leave New York
for some place on tho sea coast, to-day, to
endeavor to recuperate his failing health.
Beaver's speeches, according to one of
his Republican critics, show a lack of tact,
particularly in some remarks at Norris
town, which wero inspired by the same
traits which led him to solicit Mr. Camer
on's favor for the governorship in 1878 :
to misrepresent the people in his district,
in 1881; to serve slavishly with the
" 306," at Chicago ; to tako Mr. Camer
on's parlor-caucus nomination for
senator in 1881 ; to post off to Washing
ton, at New Year, 1882, to ask Mr. Cam
eron's purposes concerning his candidacy,
and, for a good many years, to sustain,
with his personal and political force, the
wasteful and worthless "state college,"
MT. JOY NEWS
M attkks and things in tu at town.
Soroush
Her
Uriels Personal Folate Death of
C. Mssley Hotel Kenned
Law and Order League.
Laud owners of Mt. Joy and Rapho
townships havo granted or sold the right
of way to a foreigu oil pipe lino.
The stockholders of the Lancaster Eliz
a'jethtown and Middletowu turnpike com
pany held tboir semi-annual mooting at
tho Hod Lion hotel on Monday.
W. F. Heed, postmaster at this place,
has made considerable improvement in the
arrangement of the boxes and has added
18 lock boxes to their number.
Among tho Industries.
The coach works have been photo
graphed. Tho steam roller mill has stopped
ami during their idleness needed repairs
will bo made. Tho Root plow works are
doing the samo thing just now.
Tho grey iron castiug company will
during the summer build an addition to
their works to facilitate increasing busi
ness. Miss Jennie Kiuehart had the end of
tho middle finger of the right hand cut oft
by tho machinery at the woollen mill. Dr.
Harry dressed it.
I'ersonals.
A.J. Uhafiner. Clayton Myers aud Fred
Spek, of Philadelphia, are in town
Miss Laura Cassel will spend tho summer
in tho near South, visiting the Luray
Cavern, Koauoko, Norfolk and other
points Jacob Garmau has returned to
bis now homo in Auburn, Ills Mr. J.
Howard Swart z and wife, of Harrisburg,
aro visiting Irieuds hero.
Death of a Mennoulte Preacher.
At au early hour yesterday morning
Rev. Christian Nissley died at his iesi
donee, near Newtown, Rapho township, a
few miles bouth of this place, in tho 88th
year of his age. For years he has been
identified with tho Mcnuoiiite church,
preaching for them until tho last tbrco
years, when enfeebled health rendered it
impossible. Sinco tho split in that de
nomination he helil to what is known as
the "Old Mennonites," by whose services
lie will bo buried on Sunday morning at 0
o'clock. Preachiug will tako place in the
largo barn ou his farm aud the interment
will be made iu tho burial ground near by.
improvements at the Ked Lion.
Mine host, Mr. John B. Shelly of the
Red Lion hotel, during the past lew
weeks has had tho lower story of his hos
telrv insido repainted, rcpaporcd and re
paired, and contemplates extending the
improvement turougnouc tuo enure uumi
incr. For vears past this town has been
advancing as a mart for tho sale of cattle
and horses and the Red Lion is the drover's
resort ; to facilitate this growing interest
Mr. Shelly has added to tno convemenco
of tho hotel several largo drove yards,
platform scales, etc.
The Law aud Order League.
Some timo auo it was noted in tho In
telligencer that a Law and Order
Leaeue bad been started in this borough
Its first active step was mado during tho
Fourth of July celebration, when tuo rep
resentatives of the organization appeared
before 'Squire McFaddcu and brought suit
against tnree young men ironi opnunviue.
for drunkenness on the streets. On Thurs
day evening they had a hearing and weio
nncd S2.2o each by tno magistrate, xnc
league has also notified tho tavern keepers
that they can not sell "candy auu cigars
on Sunday. Tho barbers, too, have been
notified that they must close on Sunday.
THAT SHAKPJKK.
Mr. JSby Corrects Sonie misstatement.
Elizabethtown, Pa., July 7, 188?.
Eds. Intelligencer : My attention
has just been called to an article in your
dailv of Wednesday tho 5th inst., headed
"A Bold Sharper," in which there are
several misstatements concerning myseu.
Mr. Dcnnison came to my place on Satur
day, after having tried at several other
places to get some ono to tako him to Mil
ton Grove, and paid mo for taking him
there, saying he wished to seo
Mr. John Balmer, but did not
state what was his business
there. You say "Addison Eby and John
Dennison called on Balmer and presented
a note for $1,800." Mr. Dennison did,
but I did not present any note and was
not within hearing distanco of them as I
knew nothing of their affairs until I was
called for by the parties. You say they
referred to a letter which thoy had seut
him on Friday, " I know nothing about
any such letters and did not refer to any
letter. You further say " thoy threatened
to institute legal proceedings against him"
I never threatened Mr. B. as I have no
interests whatever in any of the notes. You
also say "tho gentlemen interviewed
"Squire John II. Zeller, of Mount Joy, on
Monday noon. They tried to keep reticent
about tho affair, &c," while tho fact is I
have not been to Mount Joy for several
weeks, and havo not eecu 'Squire Zellcv
for some weeks.
Yours &c.
Addison Eby.
JUAKIKTTA MATTERS.
Gleanings Prom the ' Times '
Ister."
and "Keg-
Prof. I. S. Geist has been re-clcctcd for
the twenty fourth consecutive year prin
cipal of tho high school of Marietta.
In Marietta, on Thursday evening, Mr.
Jacob S. Cormaony and Miss Otila Grimes
were married, tho ceremony being per
formed in tho Presbyterian church by Rev."
J. McElraore in presence of about 150 in
vited guests. They havo gone to Cape
May. Mrs. Jennie McDonald, of Mari
etta, was bridesmaid, and Mr. Will Griest,
of this city, groomsman.
Speaking of Marietta marriages, by
tho way, our esteemed and lively con
temporary tho Times of that place is at
perfect liberty to make such uso of the
Intelligencer's chronicle of theso happy
events as it may find necessary or conve
nient. But our Jenkins suffers untold
anguish when he finds one of his greatest
efforts" credited to another source. Vide
tho Times' account of the Villee-Roath
nuptials.
KKW HOLLAND NJSWS.
Clipped and Condensed from the Clarion.
As Mr. Martin Ranck, residing about
three fourths of a mile east of town was
in the act of getting into his buggy in
front of his residence, his horse became
restless and started off before he was able
to get in. Mr. Ranck in his efforts to
stop the horse, got entangled in the lines
and foil between tho wheels, ono of them
passing over him. He was cut and
bruised quite severely about the head and
face, and bad his back and ankle sprained,
rendering him unable to move about much
up to this time.
While Harry B. Musscr was endeavor
ing to set off a triangular pin wheel on tho
Fourth of July it exploded just as Mr. M.
was giving it a start to spin. The palm of
his hand and his fingers were terribly
burned.
While bathing at Blue Ball with a num
ber of companions, young Samuel Rich
wine got into a deep hole, and would have
drowned bad not Martin G. Weaver
plunged in after him and pulled him out
just in tho nick of time.
Owing to the little difficulty that the
snuff mauufacturer, Demuth, of Lancas
ter, had with the internal revenue officers;
the snuff he sends out to merchants must
be in stamped jars, and must be retailed
out of the same. For that cause Diller&
Roland were last week compelled to re
move a jar that had been used for selling
snuff from in the same store for upwards
ot one hundred years, as Mr, Aoram
Weaver, who is now in his 83d year, re
members seeing the same jar contaiaing
snuff when he was a lad and came to the
store with his parents. Mauy a pound of
snuff was sold out of it, but it had to go
and a new one takes its place.
OBITUARY.
Death of a Prominent Citizen.
Amos Griest, an old citizen of Eden
township, died at his residence near Quar
ry ville, last night. Mr. Griest was born
and raised in Little Britain township, in
the neighborhood of Eastland, and was a
cousin of Elwood Griest, esq., editor of the
Lancaster Inquirer. He was married to a
daughter of the late Jacob Eckmsu. His
wife, a son and five daughters survive
him. He was about 70 years of age and
had been in feeble health for some time.
He was a kind husband and father and a
good citizen.
Died or ills Injuries.
John J. Black, the conductor of 1S7
freight cast, who was thrown from the
top of a car and run over at Radnor sta
tion, on tho Pennsylvania railroad, on
Thursday last, died of his injuries yester
day afternoon about 3 o'clock. His death
took place at the Pennsylvania hospital,
whither he bad been taken for treatment.
His remains will be taken to Harrisburg
for interment. Mr. Black was a single
man 28 years of age, was a popular rail
road official and had a wide circle ot
friends in Harrisburg, where his family
reside, and also along tho line of the rail
road. Found Dead In Ued.
Chistiau Miller, whose home is in Mil
lersville, but who has been an inmato of
the insane asylum for some time, was
found dead in bed this morning. He had
been suffering from paralysis for some
years, and ho has always beeu unwell.
This morning when the officers went
around he was found dead. Ho was about
05 years of ago aud leaves a family.
Coroner Shiffer being notified empan
eled a jury, viewed tho remains and ex
amined witnesses, after which the jury re
turned a verdict of death from apoplexy.
Dr. BoIeniuB acted as coroner's physician.
THE Y. M. C. A.
A Project to Wipe Out the Debt The Excur
sion Season.
A scheme adopted some time ago to re
lieve the Y. M. C. A. library of a debt of
87,000, with which it is burdened, is slow
ly but steadily progressing. The plan is
to place the entiro property owned by tho
association in the hands of trustees,
and raise the money necessary to
pay the debt by subscription. About
ono half the sum ueceBsary has been sub
scribed, and circulars setting forth tho
proposed plan have been addressed to
leading citizens, some of whom have hand
somely responded. It is hoped others
who may feel an interest in tho cause, will
be equally liberal. No subscriptions will
bo regarded as biuding until the whole
amount shall have been subscribed.
In view of tho forecoing arrangements
tho'Y. M. C. A. will not run their usual
excursion this year, but D. C. Haverstick
and Robert Clark havo mado arrange
ments with tho Pennsylvania railroad
company for a special excursion to Atlan
tic City on Thursday the 3d of August.
A Needle Aaken Iroiu Child's Poor.
Littlo Edith Thomson, not yet a year
old, daughter of Wm. Thomson, watch
maker and jeweler, South Viiie street, has
beeu lamo for two or three weeks
past. Yesterdey Dr. Davis made an ex
amination of the child's foot and discov
ered that tho lameness was caused by
some foreigu substance. Making an inci
sion he took from the foot a rasty needle
about an inch long. U is not known when
or how the necdln got iuto the foot.
Escape and Itecapture.
Thi morning Constable John Gilbert,
of Columbia, started for this city with a
prisoucr who bad been committed for five
days for being drunk and disorderly.
When the train stopped at Rohrerstown
the prisouer walked to tho platform and
jumped off. The officer followed him aud
caught him after a short chose ar.d iu time
to bring him to Lancaster on the noxt
train.
Heroes Suspended.
The Natious.l Trotting association an
nounces the following suspensions, by
order of the Lancaster county agricultural
park, for failure to pay entrance money :
J. R. Hammond, of Philadelphia, and
thob. in. Maud X. ; George ftcattergood,
of Philadelphia, and the g. m. Jennie L. .
G. L. Collins, of Trenton, and the s. g.
Magnolia.
Sent Home.
Henry G. Lance, tho boy who had one
leg cnt off and Another broken by the cars
at Marietta, on May 7th, and has since
been an inmate of tho Lancaster county
almshouse, was sent to his home iu Pitts
burgh this morning by tbo authorities.
His broken leg is well and the other is
healed, so that, he can get along on
crutches.
Held tor Postage.
Letters addressed as follows aro held at
the Lancaster postoflice because they are
unstamped :
Henry P. Gablo, paradise Hill, Ashland
county, Ohio.
Selver & Denny Man'f. Co., Salem,
Ohio.
Davids. Mussehnaa, Williamson, Frank
lin county, Pa.
Lancaster Ilolei Walters.
Samuel Allen, Henry Burgess, James
Waters, George Priudle and John Waters,
all well-known colored hotel waiters of
this city, havo gono to Atlantic City, to
work at the large hotels of that place. A
number of colored women from this place
have also gone there.
Excursion to Gettysonrs.
At a meeting of George II. Thomas
Post No. 84 G. A. R., held last evening, a
committee was appointed for the purpose
of making tho necessary arrangements for
an excursion to Gettysburg on July 24tb,
whore a state encampment of the order is
to take place.
Fell Prom a Tree.
Fivnk Anthony, a little boy from Wash
ington, D. C. who is stopping with his
grandfather, John Hood, on Middle street,
while climbing a pear tree yesterday, fell
to the ground, a distance of some feet.
Ho cut his leg badly and was otherwiso
bruised.
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Kuuaway Horso.
A horse belonging to a countryman aud
bitched to a covered wagon, frightened at
tho new market house ; running around
he broke off the shafts and other
wise damaged tho wagon, besides break
ing tho harness. He was caught on Duke
street.
51 ore Damages Paid.
The following additional damages,
caused by the opening of East Blariou
street, have been paid by the county com
missioners: E. H. Kendig, $50; W. S.
Shirk, $75 ; Rt. Rev. J. F. Shauahan for
St. Anthony's church, $325.
Still Unknown.
The body of the man who was killed
near Ranck's on Wednesday evening has
been buried at the almshouse. No one
called to look at the man, and he was not
identified.
Drunk and Disorderly.
Frederick Hildebrand and his wife, ar
rested for drunken and disorderly conduct,
were taken before Alderman Samson and
committed for three days to the county
prison.
COLUMBIA NEWS.
Ot'K KEGULAlt VUKUE9PUKDKNUIS
Wrifhtsville is to have a post of the G.
A R
The roofing or the Pennsylvania railroad
j ot has been completed.
a fc Mug was done at the special raeet
. ,:,. school board last evening. It
ingoftbft T,Cet to-night to take action
adjourned to . -0mtmcnt of the tax col
regarding the ap
lector. tho river interferes
The fast rising of . Nrfdge piers. It
with the building of the t. , this sum
is desired to construct evei. nm
mcr, and to make repairs oa otlK. , 4AT in
.There is a slight improvement . -ho
the condition of Mr. John Wagwr, y
was attacked wuh hemorrhages jretetda
at noon.
Services will bo held iu the E. E. Luth--eran
church, to-morrow. None wili be-
held in the Presbyterian church, as no
minister was -enred to preach.
A raspberry leotival will be held in the
M. E. church i irlors, on Wednesday even
ing July 12. loo ci earn and other refresh
ments will b .seived, Allans invited to
attend.
A country w.mimii this morning, in front
of the Coin mb.i national bank, was only
pulled from in Iront of a passing team in
time to escape being run over by it.
Pithing at the Darn.
Ex-Sheriff Strine and Deputy Sheriff
Strine spent part of yesterday fishing be
low the Columbia dam.
Mr. Jacob Barr yesterday caught a 5J
pound shad wbila fishing in tho river at
the dam for black bass.
The Stove Works.
To Mr. Jacob Sneath, of town, has been
awarded the contract for erecting the
buildings of the Keely btove works.
The workmen of tbo Keely stove works
who came to Columbia on the Fourth to
see the town, are much pleased with it.
The rain made it a poor time to go sight
seeing. In and Uut ot Town.
Miss Minnie Oilman is entertaining the
Misses Mattie aud Lucy McClellan, of
Altoona.
Mrs. Bernard Malone and daugliler nave
arrived home, after a lengthy visit to
Jersey shore.
The Rev. Mr. Humpries, of the Metbo
dist church, will return this evening from
a short trip to Ocean City.
Miss Grace Yinglmg has left town t' s
spend tho8umraer at Bedford Springs a jd
Frostburg, Aid.
On Mnnrlav mornmir Wm. 1. '
.riven.
.,... !-.: . '
esq , win leave ior Diimuiiriir, - acre, on
Tuesday morning, he will ere, 'for
Halifax aud Newfoundland. ue win
absent on the trip thieo wes
Assaulted and Da ay Treated.
While coming up the TvJe Water canal
towpath last uigbt abor.t 11:30 o'clock,
the driver of a boat t eam wa8 attacked
about fivo miles belo w Wrights ville, by
three roughs, and bar'.iy injured. His left
cheek was laid open to the bone by a fear
ful gash fiotn a kni fe, and he was severely
beaten about tb 0 head. Ho was only
saved from a waise punishment by assist
ance arriving from tho boat, the crew
having been a'.armed by his cries for help.
No cause is a ssigned for the dastardly out
rage, and tb e ruffians are entirely unkown
to their victim. Robbery could not have
been the object, as a silver watch which
he wore was not taken. Tbo whole affair
is a mystery.
"PCOIUSM" JN KAKT.
A Square ana Fair stand up right.
A paragraph in the Bart correspondence
of tliiajourna', June 7, was caculatedto
give the impression that at a quarrel on .
the preceding Saturday evening "the y
Knox family, Newton, Elwood, Will and
some of tho females or tho family" set
upon and over-teamed Morris Evanson. a
young man of 16 or 13, who is of peaceable
disposition while his antagonists ' are old
hands at the business, especially where
talk will avail."
Mr. Geo. Knox and his son Newton, who
are respectable and reliable citizens of
Bart, inform as that the itom was unjust
and exaggerated, that the quarrel between
Evanson and young Will Knox, only.arose
out of an ill feeling engendered by Evan
son's own uiisbebavioui, that the fight was
conducted in fair play between the
two young men alone, of about the same
age, and if Evanson got the worst of it he
had also the worse cause ; that the Knoxes
are not " old hands " at pugilism and only
resort to self-defence when necessary to
maintain their rights.
The Intei.i.igenceu takes great pleas
ure in printing th's correction concerning
what at most seems to havo been a boy's
squabble not to be dignified by nowspaper
discussion nor neighborhood gossip
The Horse Market.
No horses were shipped to New York
to-day, and the market is somewhat dull.
Merchants' Excursion
to Coney Island and New York, July J,1882.
Bound Trip tickets, uooU lor three days, only
$4.50. Train leaves Lancaster, King street, at
4:00 a. m.. Columbia 4:C0 u. in.. Monueim 4:35,
Iiltltz 4:45 and Kphratn at 5.04. See circulars
tor particulars. . 1y 8,10,1517,19.1
Kxeorslon to Atlantic City.
Messrs. Haverstick ft CI irk will, on August
3, run an excursion over t lie Pennsylvania B.
K. to Atlantic City. The round trip tickets
will be sola at three lolIars, good lor two
days. Theso centlcmcn nro both experienced
managers and a first-class trip may be looked
for. Mr. Haverstick was formerly one ol the
Y. M. C. A. excursions.
The members and IrlciHs of Urace Lu
theran church, ami the public interested, are
requested to note tbat the excursion to Lltltz.
annoauccd lor Thursday, July 13, has beeriF
postponed one week, until July 20, owing to a
misunderstanding of dates.
KelJglons.
There will be a patriotic sermon at the First
Baptist church on Sunday evening, by the
pastor.
JtfJiVIAI. WOTtVJW.
" B aehapalba."
Quick, complete cure, all annoying Kidney
Bladder and Urinary Discuses. I. Druggists.
Depot, John Black.
Colden's Lieblg's Liquid licet and Tonic In
vigorator win euro indigestion, dyspepsia or
loss of appetite. Ask for Valdcn's, ot drug
gfats. jyl-lwdeod&w
Srilou'b curb wiix immediately relieve
Croup, Whooping Cough and Bronchitis'. r
sale at Cochran's drug store, 117 North Queen
a treet.
When you feel out ol horts, havo the blues,
melancholy, etc.. It most bo indigestion that
ails you. Brown's Iron Bitters cures it. For
sale at 11. B. Cochran's drug store, 137 North
Queen street. jyS-lwdftw
Are Xob Troubled
With conscientious qualms ?" asked a Irlend.
You look troubled." "So, I am." said the
sufferer; "but it U with the toothache." "More
lool, you." replied tho comforter; ge it pull:
cd out, and buy n bottle r SOZODONT, and
preserve the good teeth Irom a like, calam
ity." ii'3 lwdeoc&w
Shuoh's Catarrh Rxuut a positive cure
for Catarrh, Diphtheria and Canker Houth.
For sale at Cochran's drug store, 137 North
Uuccn street.
Is your hcilp lull ot dry, husky scales and
little pimples? Dr. Benson's Skta Cure will -i
cleanse your scalp and remove all scales amPr
tenderness within six days. Try It, for it to the r
best head-dressing ever used. l per package
at all druggist". Jy3-lwdw
It is a tooiisn mistake to conrbaad a remedv
or merit with quack medicine. We nave used
Parker's Ginger Toalc with the happiest re
sults for Dyspepsia, and Debility and know it
to be a sterling health mtoraUve.-Z7me.
JuMmdeodJteow
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