, M jliii IIH'.HMTtt LANCASTER DAILY, INTELIJ6BKCEB, THURSDAY, JTJlY 27,1882. 'ILancastrr futrlligeitcei. THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 37, 1883. Babesea'a Career. The question as to whether or no Mr George M. Robeson is justly entitled to be called a successful man is opened for discussion in the newspapers. The New York World declares that to " cynical observers " he is a " decidedly success ful man ;" while the Philadelphia Press is of the opinion that " this man is not successful," but that " his career is a failure." Evidently theirpolitical preju .dices are not consulted in these views, since the World is Democratic and the Press Republican. The fact is that Mr. Robeson's character and conduct are so transparently bad that there is no use in his friends trying to cover his failings or of his enemies magnifying them. The World and the Press do not probably differ in their estimation of Mr. Robe son ; they both see in him a successful man in one sense ; their difference being simply as to whether that sense is one which the world generally will adopt. No doubt Mr. Robeson is a man of prominence, for instance ; but promi nence is not success, or great criminals would all be deemed successful men. Some of them no doubt are in the world's view ; for it is not virtue only that wins the laurel crown. Napoleon was iu no sense a virtuous man, but he holds his place as one of the world's great men, chiefly by his merit as a soldier and by the successes that it won him. He is untitled to be called a successful man, not withstanding that he died in exile. ThaV Mr. Robeson is a great criminal few people are probably disposed to deny. That he has achieved his prominence by Jhis crimes is also true. That lie has succeeded iu his schemes is a fact. He has been a cabi net ollicer and congressman and a big trog in the puddle all the time. He is a big frog now. He has amassed largo wealth. His fortune and political influ enceareas apparent as the unscrupu lousness which gave theiu to him ; and still the question is open us to whether they entitle him to be called a successful man. Some observers may say yes. Men who esteem success to be that which fills their purse and gives them power might say yes. Those who think a good reputation and individual weight and consideration to be essential elements in a successful career would certainly say no. Mr. Robeson has large influence in governmental affairs because the gov. ernmeut has fallen into the hands of men of his low degree. He has wealth be- cuim' it has been possible for him to gather it under the shadow of high oflk-e. He is not alone iu this at all. He but followed the fashion of His kind Senator John Sherman is a fellow cabinet officer who did the same. One question arises wilh him as well as with Robeson as to whether ins career has been a suc cessful one. And with many of their fellows, Robeson, being just now the most prominent of the evil doers, has been selected as the object of the in quiry which the newspapers are finding time, in this hot weather, to make as to the elements of a successful man. It U only his luck. He is no worse than his crowd. Iu fact he is better. He is not such a sneak as Sherman. He don't deny his transgressions. He submits in the House to being ad dressed as " liar, perjurer and thief." He has too high a regard for the truth or for the intelligence of his fellow citi zens to attempt to deny these charges. Maybe it shows a very tough skin ; but that naturally goes with a tough con science. If Robeson had beeu a mau of sensibilities he would not have been so noted as he is. The people who boosted him had no use for a man with a con science. It may be that accompanied with a tender conscience Mr. Robeson's natural abilities would havo caused him to rise and shine in holier associations. But it is very doubtful whether he has ability enough to have carried him up, weighted with a conscience. He decided for himself that he could get along bet ter by " throwing conscience to the devil," and we are not disposed to dispute his opinion of the best way iu which to get ahead with such abilities as he possessed. But he would have done better not to have sought to get up so high illegiti mately, and to have been content with the humbler sphere to which his abilities might honestly have carried him. He would not have had so far to fall. He would have been able to hold and enjoy such success as he won. He would not have been pilloried before the public by a journal of his own party, while he holds place as its leader in the House of Rep resentatives, as one wholly unworthy of esteem and as of no. more individual weight in political battle -than the drum major of a regiment. If a man can be deemed successful at whom the finger of scorn is justly and generally pointed, even while he holds high place in the government, then Mr. Robeson is not a proper subject with which to -illustrate the doctrine of the policy of honesty. If he really enjoys the iosition he has gained and the money he has gathered, notwithstanding the disrepute that seasons his success, then, too, he is not a proper subject with which to point a moral ; since happiness is an excellent criterion of success. But if Robeson is happy what a hide he has ! Philadelphia is in quite a state of mind over what appears to be a regular Buttercup conspiracy at the almshouse by which there has been such a general " mixing up " of children that a large percentage of the supposed daddies of the city are put iu a position truly em barrassing. With McKee wagging his epistolary pen in such farious fashion and the mercury cavorting away up among the nineties, the perplexing queries naturally aroused by these dis closures at this time as to just who's who among the infantile population threaten to plunge our metropolis into a season of midsummer madness, the con sequences of which are dreadful to con template. Stewart to McKee " Don't write." McKeb vmu8t have been suffering from a bad attack of toothache when he wrote the slash tiiat for the time has di verted to the Independents the ridicule so lately excited by the maunderings of Cameron and Beaver. Tower lingers in the snug berth of the supervising steamboat inspector iu Now York while Frelinghuysen is having the too of his number nine clad with copper. The result is only a matter of time. Refrain of Guardian Daly, the Butter cup of the Philadelphia almshouse: ' O, bitter ia my cup. How orer could I do It? I mixed those children up. And not a creature knew It." It is said that Don Cameron was asked for the loan of the sticking plaster which he has been using for some time past by the advice of his frionds. Ho suspected that it was wanted for tho loquacious chairman of the Independent committee and so bo discreetly declined ro part with it. There is something wrong iu an eleemo synary system that iu one place permits a poor deranged human being to suffer aud die from neglect and possibly abuse, and in another encourages and abets de liberate schemes to palm off upon unsus pecting husbands tho waifs of the alms house as their own offspring. Reform is necessary. Ox our first page to-day will be found some timely bints for tho scorching hot weather, and their perusal will repay peoplo who are forced lo romaiu at thoir desks or workbenches as well as the small minority who are enabled to indulge in the luxury of summer leisure The great mass of the people belong to tho stay-at-home brigade, and the article which we print has an especial value to them. It is a customarily solemn contemporary which notes that they don't seem to be at all conscious of the hugo joke in it, but they have a balloon down at Cape May which they call the " Captive Congress." It is a great gas bag, fully inflated, and although it is allowed to go up at inter vals, it is tied fast and can't got away just in all respects liko the " Captive Con. gress " in Washington. Ax accident insurance association in New York prints a realistic illustration of an excursion steamboat explosion, in order to invite public attention to tho benefits to be obtained from iusuring in the company. Probably the enterprising advertisers didn't stop to reflect that the " moral " roost likely to be drawn from such a ghastly picture would be "Don't go." Or do they mean to say that a policy iu tlieir company is a sure preventive agaiust the boiler burstiug ? Among some characteristic traits noted by the Baltimore Sun's obsorvant corres pondent at Cape May is that which moves many people at the most expensive hotels, who, at home are glad enough to got a fragrant meal, to turn up their noses at a bill of fare embracing all the luxuries of the season, simply because the menu is not changed every day iu the week, and to complain all tho while that thorn is "so much sameness" in the elegantly served table. Quito in the same line is the free dom with which youug men accustomed to patronize beer saloons and tho free luuch route all the year round, order up the finest mixed drinks and champagnes in the luxu rious saloons at tho seashore, and order their wine at dinner with complete frnrj froid. Many there are and who shall say the same spirit does not animate all ? who, when they arrive, go to a first-class hotel and register in order to havo their name appear as stopping at the bouse, and then go to a cheap-rate cottage for the remainder of their stay. The great Ameri can people are going the whole length of tho string, and don't propose to have the fact overlooked. PERSONAL. CiiexoTsaoJu, the Chinese minister, has arrived in Washington. Secretary Lincoln has returned to Washington and resumed his official du ties. Supervising Steamboat Inspector Tower, of the New York district, has re fused to resign at the request of Secretary Folger, and "he will be removed as soon as his successor has been selected." Prof. Rodes Massie, of Richmond, Va., college, has been elected to the chair of English and modern languages in the University of Tennessee. Ho is a ripe scholar and efficient and popular teacher. Robeson is reported to havo had a re volver in his pocket while delivering his blackguard speech against Whitthorno the other day. and that he had determin ed to shoot Whitthome if the latter offer ed to assault him. " Hon. M. M. Boosius," is what the Gettysburg correspondent of tho Press calls our esteemed follow citizen, the Stalwart Republican candidate for congressman-at-large, who skipped over to the Grand Army camp to revive old recol lections and gather iu such stray votes as he might find lying around. 'OuiDA"i8 in particularly bad odor, it appears, in Florence at present. The other day she was asked whether she would like a certain well known American writer to be introduced to her: " Let me see," said the amiable and polished author ot Moths, thoughtfully : "I think I have read something of his. No. I don't want to be introduced to him. He wouldn't be any use to me, and I never let myself be introduced to people I can't make any use of." Poetic creature ! Mr. Judaii Benjamin in a recent inter view stated that the first year of practice in London yielded him 300, the next year about 400, and in the fourth year his income was 1,000 from his practice, after which it rapidly increased. During these years he largely supported himself by writing leading articles for the news papers. Now Mr. Benjamin according to his own estimate, has just one half of the cases from the whole of England, Scotland and Ireland before the House of Lords on appeal, and at the nresent rate of income he will in a few years, if he is not now, be the possessor of vast wealth. Gen. Grant never swears. Says Mr. Charles A. Dana in the New York Sun. commenting on a story told about Grant in which the latter is represented to have useu an oatn : "in all our acquaintance with him, we never heard him utter a pro fane word. His example in this respect was as consistent as it was conspicuous. Most army officers will swear when they are excited. Gen. Scott used to swear. Gen. Sheridan will pot in an oath now and then to give emphasis to his ideas, and Gen. Sherman can make the air lnrid with his cursing. Not so Gen. Grant. We have been with him in some of the most trying circumstances of his military ca reer and can testify that no cause of anxi ety or of anger has ever drawn any sort of an oath from his lips. PEINCE OF THE CHURCH- AKCHUlSHOf rKKUAWS 2IEW HONOR!!. The Primate or Chicago to lie Elected Car dinal His Personal Characteristics and Work for the Church. Tho cable dispatch from Rome, an nouncing that Archbishop Feehan, of Chicago, would bo elected cardinal, has created considerable excitement among the Catholics of that city. No official announce ment ot the appointment has beeu re ceived there yet, though thero havo been rumors ot uisnop xeeuau a jirewnuoui, and there is no doubt that it will take place. At the house of Vicar-General Conway it was stated that there will be no changes of any importance following upon the elevation of the archbishop. Ho will still remain an archbishop, and will prob ably retain his council as it has been in the past. Until some more au thentic information arrives, the archbis hop will remain attending to his duties as archbishop, and doing just as though no Mich honor were intended him. This title and designation will be cardinal archbishop of Chicaeo. Uardinai roeuan win oe we second American raised to that dignity, the elevation consisting in making him a prince of the church instead or a Lord, as he was when bishop and archbishop. Though entitled to a seat in the cardinals' consistory, to a vote for pope in case of a vacancy, anu to outer similar privileges, he will not be primate of America, even on the death of Cardinal McUloskey, tor the Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore, has the priority, as that archbishopric was tne lust in America. As soou as the consistory meets and no tice is received by Archbishop Feehan of his election, ho will probably start for Rome, where his induction into oluce as cardinal will tike place. His bercttaor red cardinal's cap and cape, will follow him. and on its arrival he will assume it and will henceforth be called " Your Em inence" instead of " Your Lordship," as at present. Archbishop John P. A. Feehan was born in the year 1829, in county Tippora rv. Ireland. He was educated at May nooth college, in county Kildare, about fourteen miles from Dublin, and left for America immediately upon com Dieting his studies for the priesthood. Ho arrived in St. Louis in the fall of 1852, where ho was assigned to duty as supe rior of the ecclesiastical seminary for boys at Carondelet, near St. Louis. Ho was soon after transferred to the church of the Immuculate Conception in St. Louis, where he remained for several years. In tho fall of 1SC5 ho was conseorated bishop of Nashville, with jurisdiction over tho churches and other (Jatnonc institu tions of Tennessee, succeeding Bishop Wheeler, who was the successor of Bishop Miles, the first bishop appointed for len nessee. Under his guidance the church began to grow in wealth and numbers, his influence being felt from the first. New churches were established in all the im portant cities and towns and missionary stations in many of tho more remote districts of the state. In personal appearauco Bishop Feehan is unusually striking. He is over six feet in height, with black hair and a pleasing, intellectual countenance. His voico and delivery are good ; his language is well chosen, graceful and easy, marked by a natural avoidance of complicated utter ances. His sermons are brief, to the pjint, and of a kind which always attracts aud bolds tne attention ot uis auditors. He is regarded as a man moderate in his views, never engaging in' controvcisies, but devoting his whole time to church duties. He is a financier of marked exec utive ability. In December. 1870, the Panal See at Rome appointed him to sue ccod tho late Rev. Thomas Foles as bishop of Chicago, tho appointment being at once approved by the rope. UX PLOSION in a steamboat. Officers and Deck Hands Scalded, One Muu Killed, aud Vive or Six sussing. At about G o'clock Wednesday evening the steamboat Fanchon, for the Atcha- falaya river, when opposite Louisiana avenue. New Orleans, soon after leaving her warf, blew out tho head of her for ward fine. E. Quatreveaux the first clerk who had just gone down on the lower deck was slightly scalded and blown overboard, but was rescued. Dave Harkins, second clerk who was also on the lower deck, was badly scalded. He cannot recover. Mike Foley, first mate, was scalded and blown overboard, but was rescued. The second mate was also scalded. One col ored fireman was instantly killed, and fifteen colored deck hands were moro or less injured. Many of them jumped into tho river. Some were picked up by skiffs but it is believed that five or six were drowned. Nono of tho passengers were injured. The steamboat John II. Hanna, which was just ahead and tho Dadube behind the Fanchon when tho accident occurred, stopped to render assistance. The Fanchon is owned by the same par ties who owned tho John Wilson, recently lost on the Atchafalaya, and was in charge of the same officers. Aftor the excitement had subsided the Fanchon was towed back to the city by tho tugboat Jones, which had been dispatched to her assistance. A YOUTHFUL HCRUEReK. His Victim Jilcs After 113 Days' Suffering. John Foster, the victim of the shooting on April 4th last, died on Wednesday in tho hospital at Pittsburgh, after suffering for 112 days. About 8 o'clock on the evening of the day named he was talking with another colored man in front of Carney's saloon, on Water street, about a quarrel that bad ocourred in the afternoon between himself and a negro named Geo. Jones. While standing in this position, and unconscious of danger, a man who is supposed to have been Jones, walked within three feet of him aud discharged a thirty-two calibre revolver directly at him. The ball entered his back about an inch and a half to tho right of the tenth dorsal vertebra, and passing through the spinal column, avoiding the ribs in its course. Tho wound was of such a. nature that the body and limbs below were paralyzed aud have remained in that condition since. Jones, the supposed assailant, who is only 16 years old, was arrested in Erie a few days after the crime and lodged in jail. where he has since remained. Two other negroes were also arrested for complicity in the offense. Midsummer Politics. The Rapublican convention of tho Sec ond district of Vermont yesterday nomi nated Luke Poland for representative in Congress. He received 191 votes to 125 for Grout, the present incumbent, on the first ballot. The Prohibitionists of Wisconsin are arranging for the nomination of congress men in all tho districts of the state, " which will considerably complicate mat ters." The Republican state convention of Delaware meets in Dover to-day. It is believed that Albert Curry, "Stalwart," of Sussex, will be nominated for governor and Washington Hastings. "Half-breed." of Wilmington for congressman. The "state central committee of " Straight out " Republicans of Virginia met yesterday in Richmond, decided to postpone indefinitely the calling of a state convention, and then proceeded to nomi nate a congressman-at-large and adopt a platform. Rev. J. M. Dawson, a well known colored Baptist minister of Wil liamsburg, was unanimously nominated for congressman-at-large. Death by Drowning. Bernard Murphy and John Shannon wen drowned yesterday while bathing at Pongbkeepsie. MBS. NIBLO'S BABY. AJIOTHKR ATJsBaTOWMC ROMANCE. A Twe-Day Old FoadBni"saId;to Have 1Mb Foisted ea aa Pm cube Mns- The second case unearthed of a baby being taken from the Philadelphia alms house with the avowed purpose of foisting it upon an unsuspecting father as his legiti mate offspring, proves a moro mysterious romance than the one that had the Gal lagher infaut for its wee heroine. The almshouse records show that on March 2d a woman giving the name of Mrs. Ida Niblo, and her residence as 10G Van Horn street, obtained a baby with the under standing that she was to uso it to deceive her husband by a bogus child-birth. A Mrs. Ida Niblo lives at 106 Van Horn street, and claims to have been delivered of a child on March 2d, but she stoutly in sists that she knows nothing of tho alms house matter, and that her babe is of her flesh and blood, and she produces several witnesses who unqualifiedly corroborated her story. The fact still remains that a child was taken iu her namo from the West Philadelphia institution. On the 27th of last February two women called at the almshouse and told one of the officers that they desired a baby only a few days old, so as to use it to de ceive the husband of one of them. One of the women was dressed well and appeared to be able to tako care of herself under most circumstances, and the other was a short, thick-set female. Both women can be easily recognized, as tho official remem bers them well. The finely-dressed woman said her husband was in poor health, that he was anxious for an heir, and up to this time fortune had not brightened tlieir home with a prattling babe. The officer threw up his hands in horror at the project and said such a thing could not be dono unless tho committee on children's asylum would agree to give them a baby. They went off and on the 2d of March reappeared at tho institution with an order to this effect : Colonel Thomas Givo these ladies tho baby I was speaking to you about. P. K. Daly, Guardian. The infant referred to belonged to Mar garet Miller, an unmarried young girl, who had been unfortunate in her loves, and who had given birth to a plump little lump of humanity only three days before. The woman took tho infant and departed, seeming happy in tho possession ot a child with which to carry their plan to comple tion. Who they were or how Guardian Daly was induced to give tho order was not learned, but it was a plain fact, and further, Daly carried the order to Guar dian Marks, who was lying in his bed at homo very ill, and induced him to also append his signature to the discharge. As this made the majority of tho committoe, Mr. Spering was not let into the secret. Matters went on quietly until tho 28th of April, when the satno women returned to tho almshouse with the infant and caused it to ba indentured, the tallest of the two signing her namo as "Ida Niblo, No. 10G Van Horn street." This act was also ille gal, as the law requires that all indentures shall be made to the husband aud not the wife. About tho 2d of March Mrs. Niblo was said to bo ill, and the frequent yells of an infant were heard to proceed from her bedroom. "It's a girl," was whispered about tho neighborhood, and although the majority of the women neighbors were very anxious no one seomed to know much about tho little ouo except a so-called Mrs. Irwin, who said she was a midwife, and performed her functions at tho birth, and a woman whose name is Winebrnnuer, and whose husband is a variety actor under the name of Davenport. After tho birth ot the infant Dr. Kline, of Germantown road and Girard avenne, was called in, and he continued his visits for a few days. Tho strange part of this affair is that the programme which the two women who called at the almshouse informed House Agent Thomas would be carried out was observed in this case in every detail, and they gloated over its' success upon their return to indenture the child at a later period. " Anybody who says that Mrs. Niblo didn't have a baby last March lies," said the so-called Mrs. Irwin yesterday to a Record reporter. " I know all about it, and don't you forget it. I'll swear to it any time, and if that man Daily or Daly, or whatever his name is, says he gave us a baby, holies, too." " Yes ; and I was a hclpiu' around tho house when the baby came," put in Mrs. Davenport. " Don't I know. If they want mo to go down town to testify they've got to buy mo a silk dress, for I haven't any that I can go out in. Mrs. Niblo's mother's got money, and she'll make somebody suffer for these lies, and don't yon forgot it." Another female who helped to mako up the interesting group of women gathered around the reporter volunteered the re mark : " Well, if that baby isn't Mrs. Niblo's I'm beat, and I ve been married over thirty years." The story spread with lightning rapidity, and soon Van Horn street' was filled with little knots of women discussing the momentous ques tion of the birth of Niblo's baby, without knowing what had previously transpired at tho almshouse. Mr. Daly has published a card, in which he says then is no truth in the charge that ho gave the Gallagher baby for improper purposes. It has been determined by tho committee on children's asylum of the board to investigate Mr. Daly's conduct at its meeting to-morrow. Souro time ago. two other women ap peared at the almshouse, having in view the samo scheme as has been successfully practised of late. One was tho wife of a saloon keeper in the northern part of the city, and it was proposed to have a bogus birth while the husband was absent from the city, but the officials refused to givo them a baby. So it fell through. - KILLED WITH A WOODGN LRU. a Prisoner Crashes His Cell-n?ato'a Head wmie He is Asleep. William J. Clark, a prisoner at the Bridewell, Chicago, was found in his cell by the turnkey, stone dead. The murder was committed by a William J. Prindell Clark's fellow prisoner in the cell with a wooden leg. Clark was a cripple an 1 wore a wooden stump below the knee, which he laid aside at night on retiring. This stump, a deadly weapon in the hands of a power ful man, was found in the cell, covered with the dead man's blood, and told the story of the crime. There was no wit nesses to the affair, and, strangely enough, all the other prisoners report that they were not disturbed during the night by any noise. Prindell was under arrest for disorderly conduct. He is not regarded as of sonnd mind. Clark hail been in tho prison since July 17, also for disorderly conduct. ' Too Fond or Ills servant Girl. Charles Long, a German butcher, of Wilkesbarre, was before the mayor on Wednesday morning charged with at tempting to take the life of his wife Catharine. It appears that Long is very mucu in iove witn bis servant girl, otter ing her $50 if she would marry him, which she declined to do. He then made up his mind to get rid of the "old woman," and hence tho suit. Ho was committed to jail in default of bail to an swer at court. Railroad Smasbup. A freight train on the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore railroad was thrown from the track near Brandywine station yesterday morning by the break ing of an axle. Three cars were wrecked, a small bridge was demolished and travel interrupted for several hours. No person was injured. DK1YEN BACK AGAIN. A IUGHT ATTACK BY THE EOTPTIAKS. Their Farces Repulsed by the ltrlllsh Out- potts Arabi's Rumored Readiness to Treat England's Purpose. At 1 o'clock Monday evening a decided attempt was made to surprise the British outposts at Alexandria. Under cover of the darkuess,a force of GOO men approached close to the British lines. When the Thirty- eighth regiment opened tire, tho enemy retreated precipitately. During tho re mainder of the night the Egyptians con tinued moving about just beyond range. The attempt was preceded by reports that Arabi Pasha-was attempting to treat for conditions for bis surrender, and that a Whito flag was flying over his intrench ments. The reports were brobably circu lated to lull the vigilance of the British. Arabi is gradually withdrawing his troops and retiring to Cafr-el-Dwar. It is rumored that be is disposed to negotiate with the British for the surrender of his forces, if tho khedivo can be prevailed upon to guarantee him immunity, and to withdraw tho decree dismissing him from the ministry of war. Ismail Pasha has just returned from Arabi's camp. The latter's proposals are regarded as preposterous. He seeks to have his offences condoned, and on this condition he consents to disarm a portion of the rebels under his command. Major General Alison will not listen to this de mand, and is drawing closer to Arabi's po sition. Arabi Pasha is very popular among tho Ulemas jtnd lower classes in Constantino ple. The Turks believe that if he is de feated ho will destroy Cairo, join the insurgents in the Soudan and proclaim tho independence of Upper Egypt. Some of tho sultan's advisers counsel him to soail a force merely to occupy Alexandria, while others propose the dispatch of a deputation of Ulemas to induco Arabi Pasha to lay down his arms. The London Times, in a loading article, says: "Neither as sovereign, suzerain, nor under any other title will there be room for influence of the sultan in Egypt after the responsibilities of sovereignty havo been cynically thrown aside in the hour of trial. The sultan may have amused himself by forming now alliauoes aud complimenting his new allies with decorations, but it remaius to bo seen what help these sympathizers can oi will give the Porte. England, by acting alone, will acquire and assert her right of con trolling, in future, the country she saved. Those who object to that pros pect have, even at tin eleventh hour, the opportunity of sharing tho labor and obtaining a voice in tho de termination of events ; but, if England is left to net alone, the formal engagement she took when the situation was wholly different will bo abrogated. We must plainly show to tho sultan and to the powers that wo intend to work thoroughly to retain control. When that is done Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues must yield to the compulsion of events. Our command ing naval force and well organized army will insure a stronger government under English protection if tho ministry do not hesitate entering upon a path which lies straight before them." A PICTURE OF KOKKSON. Ills Career In Congress Vlowed from a Re publican standpoint. Tho Philadelphia Press draws this pic ture : He is a R publican, and leading Repub lican newspapers iu all sincerity aro urg ing his distriec to send some ono else to the next Congress. He began his con gressional career iu the extra session throe yeais ago with signal success for a mau new to tho House, but thero is probably to-day not a member among the majority who is less able to count upon the ready suppoit of his party colleagues. Eight months ago it seemed a most successful stroke to namo or aid in naming a speaker of the House. Probably even Mr. Robeson now sees that success in a bad beginning is only failure spelt backward. The committees tbo member from New Jersey was powerful in selecting have hung like a mulstono on the neck of the majority. Able, impressive, frequent, valuable as Mr. Robeson's speeches are, they havo scored no mark on public opin ion, aud on the moro important public questions of the day, on al! but the veriest partisan issues, Mr. Robeson speaks un der tho shadow of accusations which a majority of his fellow citizens believe to be unanswered and unanswerable. This career is then a failure. This man is not successful. After important serv ices to the party and the state, after long public life, his weight aud influence are out of all proportion less than his abilities and energy demand aud make probable. Thoso aro facts, not inferences. Wo aro not dealing in accusations nor pillorying Mr. Robeson as a public plunderer. Wo are summing up his position iu public life. His sincerest friends will probably admit the truth of all that is hero said. Whether they do or not it is true. Nor is the reason far to seek. It is impossible for a public man to retain a wide influence or enjoy weight in public affairs if moral strength bo lacking and character aud reputation do not enforce what tho keen brain conceives and the skillful tongue utters. Such a man may hold office, he may bo at the front of every great debate, he may even aspire to lead a great party and to voice its policy ; but his ulterances will be a3 hollow as the drum at tho lead of a marching column and bis sbaro in di recting it will be the share of a drum major. WOKS OF TOE FLAM 1.3. Soino Uisaaterous Fires Throughout the Country. Two elevators at Markdale, Ont., owned by W. J. McFarland and Hill Brothers, were burned yesterday. Loss, $30,000. A fire at Spring Wells, a suburb of De troit, destroyed several stores and dwell ings, causing a loss of $20,000. The forest fire near Plymouth, Massa chusetts, was still raging yesterday, hav ing advanced five miles in a northerly di rection. Gangs of men were sent from Plymouth to fight the flames, as tho Bloody Pond settlement was supposed to bo in danger. A fire in Camden, Oneida county, New York, before daylight yesterday morning. destroyed all the wooden buildings in the block of Main and Mexico streets, and damaged adjoining buildings. Women and children turned out to help the men in fighting the fire. The cotton dye house and stable at tached to Greenwood & Bault's large dye worksat Oxford and Worth streets, Frank ford, was destroyed by fire last night. Loss about $20,000, fully covered by in surance. The origin of the fire is un known. a .Scoundrel .Lynched. Morton Beckett, committed to jail at Hampton Court House, South Carolina, last Saturday for felonious assault upon a young girl, was taken from the jail and lynched on Tuesday night. 1 Strike of HrlcKinakers. About 250 men employed in the Pullman brick yards at Chicago have struck for an advance of 25 cents per day. The company intends to start five of its eleven ma chines to-day without the aid of the strikers. The Western Crops. Reports from 293 points in the country traversed by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad and its branches state that there is " a large wheat yield, a half crop of corn, aDd the largest oat crop ever known." HCUMU.Y JEATEM BT BUZZARDS. How m Farmer's Vagabond Waaderlaga Came Near Kadlnj; ta a Horrible Death. Abiah Sellers, an aged and demented man residing in Pocopson township, a few miles from West Chester, made a very narrow escape from a most horrible death. Mr. Sellers has on several occasions during the past year and a half absented himself from his home, and has been found as often in quarries, deuso woods, etc. A few weeks ago he went away, and though the surrounding woods and other placss that he had previously frequented were searched, ho was not found. Last week three harvest men engaged in a field about half a milo from Mr. Sellers' home were attracted by the uuusuaily large number of turkey buzzards dying around an old quarry on the edge of a tract of woodland. They went to see what caused the unusual gathering. Upon reaching the quarry they wore horrified at finding what they first supposed to bo a corpse, which, upon closer inspection proved to be the almost lifeless body of Mr. Sellers. The men immediately raised tho living skeleton and took him from tho quarry which camo so near being his tomb, aud carried him homo. Mr. Sellers did not appear to realize what a narrow escapo he had made, and said that he was only tak ing a little nap when thoy woke him up. The State Dental Association's OIHcers. At the session of the Stato Dental asso ciation in Williamsport tho following offi cers were elected for tho ensuing year : President, J. C. Green, of West Chester ; first vico president, C. J. Essig, of Phila delphia ; secretary, E. P. Krumcr, of Lebanon ; assistant secretary, M. B. Mil ler, of Altoona ; corresponding secretary, W. H. Fundenbcrg, of Pittsburgh ; treas urer, G. W. Klump, of Williamsport. A board of censors, consisting of fivo mem bers, was also elected, together with au examiniug board of two members. Cres son was chosen as the next place of meet ing. Wagner's New Opera. The first performance of Wagner's new opera, " Parsifal," was given in tho Wag ner theatre at Bayreuth on Wednesday. The novelty of the stage appliances, the beauty of tho scenery, the enormous num ber ot the performers, and tho almost re ligious inspiration of tho music charmed the audienco and aroused indescribable enthusiasm. Wagner was called before the curtain after the second act aud made a fitting acknowledgment for the recep tion of the performance. SUMJUISit I.EISUKK. People Who Are Trying to Keep Cool. Rev. E. V. Gerhart, D. D., went to Mar tba's Vineyard this morning. Mr. J. Gust Zook and wife, have started on a two or three weeks sojourn, and will visit tho popular lesorts along tho sea coast. R. M. Reilly, esq., went to Capo May this morning. The announcement that ho had chartered a special car is not con tinued at railroad headquarters. Mrs. Annie McTagno is summering at Atlantic City. B. Frank Eshleman and wife are at To wanda, Bradford county, Pa. The picnic of the S. S. of tho 1st Bap tist church, will beheld on Friday, at Rocky Springs. 'Buses will leave tho church at 7 and S a. m , aud 1 p m. Round trip 20 cents. John Lorcnz and W. F. Alrick, of the Penn iron company, this city, are among the late arrivals at the Hotel Albion, At lantic City, where thoy will remain a few days to enjoy the sea breeze aud brush away tho rolling mill dust. P. D. Baker aud wife started from Lan caster yesterday afternoon on a summer tour, to embrace Baltimore and Old Point Comfort, thence by sea to Boston, Portland, Me., Mouut Desert Island, and other points of interest iu tho northeast, returning via Now York. OVKECOMK 1ST THK HEAT. Fatally Strickon While nt Work In the Harvest Field. Henry Stafford, a youug and woll to do farmer of Colcraiu, whilst cutting grain with the reaper on Saturday last, com plained of feelinr unwell, and was assisted to tho house by his workmen, whero ho died on Sunday morning of congestion of tho lungs, tho result of the hot weather. Mr. Stafford was tho son-in-law of W. C. Sheer, of this city, and resided on the old Staflbr.l homestead near Kirkwood, which adjoins tho Shaw placo where the late tragedy occurred and it is only a short tirao'sinco his tenant house was destroyed by lire. The Soldiers nt Gettysuurg. The State Graud Army encampment at Gettysburg held its semi-annual busi ness meoting yesterday. A committee was appointed to urge tho Senate to pass the pending bill increasing tho pensions of soldiers who havo lost limbs. Another committee was appointed to consider the steps to bo taken to provide for soldiers' orghaus when tho present law expires in 1885. It was voted to hold the next en campment at Gettysburg, leaving to tho department commander and council tho power to change to Erie, tho second choice. Tho Pennsylvania reserves hold their reunion, and Captain Jack delivered an address. Ex-Governor Cnrtin was nnablo to lie present. MaTor'it Court. Tho mayor had fourteen cases to dis pose of this morning. A gang of nine young men, ranging in age from 18 to 25, were arrested near Dillersvillo for taking possession of cars on tho Reading railroad. They were committed for terras ranging from 2 to 10 days, tho leader of tho gang being sent out for 15 days. Geo. Tshudy for beating his wife and for drunken and disorderly conduct was locked up for 10 days. One other drunken man was dis charged on payment of costs. Two lodg cis were discharged unconditionally. . Mournful Coincidence. No truer example of the old adage of " the old must die and the young may " can be found than in tho death a short time since of Jane Redman, aged 83, and Dora Eckman, aged 20, the former was tho sister and the latter the granddaugh ter of James Cresswell, esq., of Eden township. They died within two hours of each other and wero buried within a short time of each other. Kicked by a Mule. A ten-year-old son of Bcuj. Shaub, of Camargo, was going through Hawksville on Monday, a stray mule was on the road young Shaub had never read Josh Billings sayings on mules and went too close too his heels, the result was a badly kicked boy,- his lower jaw was mashed to a jelly. He was removed to his home where he lies in a critical condition. Returned from Gettysburg. Geo. H. Thomas post 84 returned from the Gettysburg encampment last evening. They express themselves delighted with their stay at that historic placo, and speak in high terms of the interesting programme of exercises observed on tho occasion. Returned from Kurope. S. S. Spencer and family, who havo been in Europe for somo months past, ar rived in New York yesterday afternoon, and reached Lancaster at an early hour this morning. Reading Firemen at the Bt-Ceatennial. The secretary of -the bi-centennial asso ciation has received from the mayor of Reading a list of nine fire companies which are expected from that city to take part in the parade of Oct. 24. BATTLEJNBERKS. A MlONIoar F1UHT WITH KOIWEKS Thirteen Farmers Repulse a liautl of Ma rauders In Ueretordvllie The Ruf fians Compelled to Retreat. A sanguinary battle with a gang of at least a dozen determined thieves is re ported from the small village of Hereford ville, in tho eastern sectioa of Berks . The fight with guns and pistols at the dead hour of night lasted several hours and re sulted in the wounding of several of tho farmers who were engaged in driving off the intruders. Tho object of the thieves was to rob a rioh farmer named Menno D. Clemmcr, residing a few miles from Clay tonvillo. The thieves first made their ap pearance on Monday night and surrounded tho house. Thoy came in a largo wagon, and it is supposed they are strangers who wero encamped in the hills near Perry villo. Several attempts were made to outer tho house by battering down .the heavy oaken doors, but Mr. Clemmer aroused the neigh bors by sharp firing at the thieves aud they disappeared. Apparently they were unarmed, because they did not rotura tho fire, and it is now supposed that thov had not anticipated such a warm reception. Mr. Clemmer on Tuesday was impressed with tho idea that the thieves would mako a second attack, and he succeeded in get ting a number of neighbors iu the house early in the evening. The neighbors were Jacob Moyer, David G. Clemmer, James B. Funk, Edward Klutz, James- Henry, William Wiegner. Nathan Winner. Wil liam -Ganlman, William Goisler, N. G. Clemmer, Christian Clemmor and Jose phus Gerhard. They were fully armed with guns, pistols and rifles, and were quartered on tho ground floor and stationed at tbo windows in the upper stories. About eleven o'olock a noise was heard ou tho outside and two men halted in frout o tho bouse, apparently wearing black masks. They wero observed rooocnoitor ing about the front and a few minutes later three more strangers appeared. Closely following them wero three moro and finally fonr others arrived, making a dozen in all. Their team must have beon tied somo distance away as it was not seen near the house. The thioves advanced towards the rear part of tho house, but before they reached the house tho fanners inside opened tho doors, rushed out aud discharged a volley at the thieves. Sharp cries of agony and pain followed but none of them dropped. The thieves fell back to tho road and returned the fire, wound ing Wm. Gaulman iu the arm with a ball from a revolver. Tho farmers wero led by Jacob Moyer and they fought with a will. Volley after volley was .fired at u distance of twenty yards at tho slowly re treating marauders and tho lit ing was brisk ly returned. Bullets whistled by freely ,but as they were from revolvers the aim was unsteady. During tho third round James Henry was struck in the left shoulder, in flicting but a slight flesh wound. Tbo night was quite daik aud the farmers kept well together and fired low. Alter at least one hour's fight one of tho thieves apparently the leader of the gang, shunted that if the firing did not cease tho would burn down every stable, bam and bouso on tho place. Ammunition beiug exhausted tho farmers fell back to Clemmer' s house. It was also feared that tho thieves miht have separated and returned to tho hou.so by a flank movement and robbed the promises. It is supposed tho thieves re treated in their wagons, although two suspicious characters wero seen in tho neighborhood on Wednesday. It is also believed that several of them were badly wounded and were taken away in that condition. I'K.VNK FARRELL'S CASK. Aid lor Ids iHstressert Family Contributions Nerded. Tho statement in yesterday's Intkli.i GENt'En of the terriblo condition of poor Frank Farrell, has created a feclhur of deep sympathy for him. and although no appeal for pecuniary aid was made, the following donations for tho relief of his family have been left nt this office and by us banded over to his wife : J. H. B. 85: S. CM. $5. Further donations aic needed, and will be cheerfully received at this office. Far rcll's ghastly wounds require dressing oight or nine times a day, and as the pus discharged from them is poisonous, the operation of dressing them is a dangerous ono, and it is, of course, unsafe for tho wife to wash and use a second time the cloths with which they aro bandaged, lest she, too, suffer from blood poisoning. Persons having old linen or cotton clothes to spare will be doing a charitable act by sending them to Mis. Farrell 444 Lafayette street. Iu the Maine ot liuiuanlty. Kdilors Intkllimgxckk : I am rejoiced to see by your last night's issuo that there is one paper in Lancaster that dares to speak out concerning the terrible state of affairs at tho Lancaster county hospital. In behalf of the unfortunate suffering humanity I thank yon and pray to God that you may go on showing up tho abuses which do certainly exist iu that institution. Tho way many things are done and many more left undone, as well as tbo things that aro permitted to be done thero, aro a disgrace, a shame, a siu before God and man. Agitate the matter and if you shall succeed in bringing about a better state of affairs you will deserve the thanks of every right thinking person in tho land. May God speed the day when all unneces sary suffcriug as well us all crime at our county hospital (and almshouse as well) may ccaso. You can do much to bring about this greatly to be desired end. You have made an excellent start upon the right track. Humanity. July 27, 1882. . - As Othur Son 17s. A citizen of Norristown who has recent ly been to York and Gettysburg, furnishes the Register with the following teflections : " The crops in Montgomery, Chester and Lancaster, are far batter than those iu York and Adams. The ioru in tho former is twice as good an in the latter. The Lancaster fields aro in tassel, aud the York and Adams' fields are weak, sickly short and yellow. The York and Adams reapers are pulled by four horses to cut tho oats, aud women work in the fields. The houses iu Lancaster, York and Gettys burg are built of very inferior bricks nothing to compare to the handsome pressed bricks used iu Norristown. They also lack our handsome market, our lively newspapers, and our pretty girls and women." Excursion. This morning the Reading railroad company run an excursion from this cit y to Atlantic City. It is good for three days and 29 persons left on it from King street station. The Cape Maj excursion over the Penn sylvania railroad at 1 :03, carried live from Elizabethtown one from Mt. Joy and 25 from Lancaster. There wero about 100 excursionists. They were all carried on the first section of the Seashore express. Ueld for Postage. Letters addressed as follows are hold at the pobtoffi ce for want of the necessary stamps : "Herman Ridder, adv. agent 77 West 3.1 St. New York." L "M Selak, esq., York, Pa." r Died la York. Zacb. Smyser, proprietor of tho Penn sylvania house. York, died there yester day morning after a very short illness. Mr. Smyser has many personal friends in this city. - 4 ;;l
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