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LANCASTER DAILY EOTEIXIGENCEE, TUESDAY, AUGUST i, 1882.
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TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1869.
The KeUrmeat Law.
TJ,ie United States attorney general
decides that the. new law which retires
all officers of the army at the age of
sixty-four, not only opens the retired
list to them, notwithstanding its Maxi
mum of four hundred is exceeded, but
causes them to crowd out of this limited
retired list officers who are disabled in
the service and who, under existing laws,
wonld be retired for that disability. The
retired list will not be open to such offi
cers until those who now enter it be
cause of their age die rapidly enough to
reduce the over-full list below four hun
dred ; if that time ever comes.
This is not an encouraging prospect to
young officers: The hope of promotion
which caused them to so heartily favor
the retirement of their elders is all gone.
Promotion comes no more rapidly than
before ; the old cripples go out but the
young cripples stay in. The army is as
full as ever aud promotion as disgust
ingly slow ; and disgustingly slow
it certainly is in these piping
times of peace. We can hardly un
derstand how an active and ambitious
young man can content himself in a ser
vice where his ambition is so poorly re
warded. Doubtless, if it was not for the
hope that things will some day take a
turn for the butter, the army would be
left in possession of the dwnes who are
content to live their life with nothing to
do and something to wear. It is not a
good thing for the country that its rest
less and aspiring officers should be driven
from their profession by its emptiness
of honor aud rewards. Rank is not a
very.subtantial thing, but it is a very
effective reward to a soldier, aud an
army is not in a healthy condition while
it js not awarded as a stimulus to exer
tion. It is not a very good practice to
cause it to be earned by seniority
alone. An officer does not deserve to bo
rewarded simply for growing old in the
service, unless he likewise grows in ex
perience and capacity. The presumption
is that age brings these ; though it is
often, if not generally, a false presump
tion. If promotion could be awarded
always for desert there would be no just
complaint of its slowness; for the deserv-
ingare not overabundant. They would go
up as fast as their hearts could wish.while
the undeserving staid behind ; and they
would have no cause to complain of
their being left. If they did not like it
they amid resign and leave a service for
which they were not fitted. It is strange
that tli is sensible way of officering an
army seems to be impracticable. Pro
motion is made to depend on seniority
and no one is retired who is sound in
mind and limb and under sixty four
years of age. These are not the only nor
the best causes for weeding an army.
Evei one knows of men weak in body
and aged, who are more lit to lead other
men tliau those younger and physically
more capable. It is the soldierly capac
ity that should be sought for and re
warded in an army officer. lie does not
need to be crammed with the learning of
books ; he does not need to graduate
with a high number at West Point.
Such acquisitions do very well for
engineers and topographers. But good
generals are made of different stuff;
" they are men like Jackson, Sheridan,
Grant, Custer, Morgan, &c; not partic
ularly bright, but prompt, decided, en
ergetic and ambitious.
Such men are kept in an army best by
such recompense as promotion ; poor
enough in intrinsic value, but full of
satisfaction to their spirit, which feeds
best on the bauble, glory. Men like these
are not so rewarded in the army now. A
few days ago, ina list of promotions, we
noticed the names of four lieutenants
who had just been made captains " for
fourteen years of uninterrupted service"
as lieutenants ; in which rank they had
probably served for nearly as many years
before.
Think of an officer being advanced at
forty or forty-five to the command of a
company of a hundred or so ! It would
do fur a dunghill ; but what would you
predicate of the dash, enterprise and dar
ing of a man content with such a life
reward ? If there was any good in him
worth having by the country he would
have been out of that long ago.
General Do Ilussey has just been
made a colonel as he is about to step out
into the retired list ; and General Weitzel,
who was a major general of distinction
twenty years ago, only now blooms into
a lieutenant colonel.
Tliere is no sense in a system which
keeps unfit men in office in any position
in a country. We ought not to have
them in the civil or the military service.
In the first we get them from unfit ap
pointments ; in the last, from unfit pro
motions. Civil service reformers think
that they would cure all the evils of the
present civil service by making its offices
to be filled like those of the
army, which are now political and
self-evolving. But they might get
rid of one set of evils to rush
nto another ; and they would if they did
not find some other test of merit than
seniority. There is no fool like an old
oue, and and there are plenty of them
in the army; aud plenty of dead beats;
aud plenty of better men who ought to
begot out of that company. There
should be a retired list big enough to
take in all worthy of being so taken care
of ; and there are not four hundred such
in our army. If the undeserving were
cast out there would be plenty of room.
The country should take care of none
but the worthy.
The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph,
the ablest and boldest Republican an
tagonist of Cameron in the state, urges
i-s menus to attack the Ring citidal
by giving careful heed to the selec
tion of anti-Cameron legislators. The
suggestion comes' none too' soon. The
election of an an tiCameron Legislature
will be only next in importance, even
this year, to the defeat of the Cameron
ttate ticket. The overthrow fof; Ring!
power in tue executive -departments caa
lw lest supplemented by.ito downfall in
legislative control. The Democracy
have united the cooperation of honest
O
1st
people of all parties. In making the
Issue of our state -pontics the
overthrow of boss rule and. the spoils
system, and the establishment of an
honest and fair apportionment. Who is
for these things can stand with the De"
mocracy, and where the Independent
and'Democratic Totes can be united on
this platform against Ring candidates
for the Legislature it may and most
likely will be done.
The Democratic pledge of a fair ap
portionment is honestly made and is in
tended to be honestly Kept. This is
what the Independents want and what
they can never get from aCameron Leg
islature. Such an assembly would crucify
them at all cost and eliminate all the dis
tricts in which Independent Republican
ism asserts itself. This would be the
Cameron game if that domination got
the Legislature this year. The Inde
pendents need to watch it carefully.
They can consistently strengthen candi
dates, who are for an honest appoint
ment, to beat those who are not. There
are many counties in the state in which
all the voters who are interested in hon
est legislation can unite to elect honest
legislators.
" Deak Hubbell" owns a copper
mine in Michigan. Copper is the elemen
tary component of bran.
The coldness existing between the two
houses of Congress is quite funny for this
kind of weather. It is not to bo compared,
however, to the coldness of feeling for
Congress on the part of the people.
New York policemen are useful for
some- purposes. Ten of them were detailed
the other night to catch the goats that
wander around and inspect the shrubbery
of the. residents. Twonty-two of the
odorous animals were impounded iu a
single night.
" If I were to be killed on tho plains in
an Indian fight," says General Sherman,
"my wife wonld receive nomorothan
would the wife of a private soldier." The
sly wink is not recorded. Happily for the
old hero he has got passed the point of
being killed in an Indiau fight. That
honor is left to younger men.
FttEXCii political affairs havo assumed a
very interesting phase, tho policy of Froy
cinet's cabinet, favoring a non-intervention
in the Egyptian-English irabioglio,
not even for the protection of the
Suez canal, meeting with opposi
tion. The organs of Gautbetta adviso
President Grevy to summon the president
of the Chamber of Deputies to form a new
cabinet, in which event Freycinet would
be deposed of the greater part of his in
fluence and political affairs tako on a
still more complicated form.
THE TRYST.
White, weird ami ghastly crept the lojj
Over river and moor and coast ;
Each last-moored boat, on the harbor iillout,
Ltotned like a threatening ghost.
The sea lay muttering sullenly.
Under the vcillnginut,
Aud the buoy-bell rung with lis ominous
tongue
Where the tide on the lip of the lock was
flung.
And in gloom I kept our tryst.
For whilo holy griet aud loving trust
With me keep watch together,
I reck not, I, ot sea or sky ;
Our hearts hold tranquil weather.
So 1 know, in the royal right of love,
1 may claim you, and I list ;
So my hand may reach, in its silent speech.
To the spirit, greeting where each meets eau'.i,
la faith I keep our tryst.
"Justice" is the name of a new week
ly paper, the first number of which has
just been issued in New Yoik. It. is pub
lished under the auspices of the anti
mouopoly league, and proposes to " main
tain the principles embodied in tho consti
tution of the United States as interpreted
by the highest judicial authority, the su
preme court. Wo are not radicals, unless
our forefathers were radicals." It is out
spoken against all monopolies, deprecating
the power they have already attained, and
firmly believes in "the rights of the many
as against privileges for the few."
Mn. Caiuat.e happened to bo present
when a number of so-called philosophers
and scientific men were airing their opin
ions. Tho theory of evolution had been
asserted with much confidence, and under
the supposition that he was a sympathizer
and not at all fettered by religious scruples,
ne was cuaueugcu to deliver his opinion
as to Darwinism. Gathering himself up,
aud speaking in a tone that silenced
laughter. Mr. Carlyle replied: "Gentle
men, you mako man a little higher than
the tadpoles. I bold with the prophet
David Thou raadest him a little lower
than Vie angels."
Just now when bilious colic is ono of the
multitudinous ills that flesh is heir to, aud
griping sensations in the lower part of
the human anatomy most effectivo iu com
pelling suffering mortals to indulge
in contortions worthy of the most
finished acrobat, it might not be altogeth
er unwise to follow the proceedings of
Fun Chew, who, being attacked with
colic, shot himself fatally. It cannot bo
questioned that this cure is most effective
to end pain,, but in view of other and
weighty reasons the majority of us would
rather "bear tho ills we have than fly to
others that we know not of."
It looks now as if Keifer's renominatiou
is assured. The news from his district is
to the effect that ho has probably been
successful at the primary elections, and
one interesting feature of the same news
is that the result was accomplished by the
most lavish use of money ever known at
primary elections in Ohio. This was a
part of the fund which Hubbell has got
ont of the elerks and scrub-women and
navy yard laborers and letter carriers. By
the time it has been used to salt Keifer'i
district and Robeson's district and to help
Hubbell get Ferry's seat in the Senate
the party in general will probably wonder
what the fund was raised for.
The Philadelphia Record thus mentions
some prominent characters : Yes ; Steve
Dorsey. the iadioted Star Rontar. i an
ex-United States senator from the state of
Arkansas, the congressman, Jay A. Hub
bell, popularly knowa as " My Dear Hub
bell," who Blesses government employes
for the election oorraption fund, Is an as.
pirant for the United States seoatorship
from the state of MioUgaa. United States
Senator Thomas White Ferry, of Michi
gan, who is an elder in the Presbyterian
eharoh, says- that Mir. Hubbell is a very
bad man. Domey is the original Stephen
of whom the song says :
Lord ! Ladles, never mind Stenhan
Stephen's so decelvin' that the derll won' I be
lieve mm.
FEBSOWAL.
Mb. Bkadlacgh will lecture in America
during the coming fall and winter.
Archibald Forbes, the war correspon
dent, is at Alexandria.
General Sheridan is on a summer
tour through tho Yellowstone country.
Mrs. Butler, aged one hundred and
twelve years, was baptized last Sunday,
in Marion county, Ga.
Emil Meter, who was once President
Tyler's coachman, is now a gardener near
WestChestcr.
Oscar Wilde didn't like Long Branch,
though he was good enough to admit that
there were some pretty girls there.
Henry C. White, a prominent citizen
of Hartford, Conn., died yesterday in that
city. He was father of Lieutenant Com
mander Henry C. White, jr., now sta
tioned at League Island.
Grace Greenwood says that Garibaldi
left a sadly divided family, "The chil
dren of Anita do not harmonize well with
the children of the peasant women, Fran
cesco, still less with the widow herself.
Senator Edmunds denies the report
that he intended to resign. "Because of a
recent domestic affliction he will not at
tend the present session of Congress unless
his presenco is imperatively demanded,
but he has no thought of resignation.
Queen Victoria sometimes gets as
many as forty telegrams a day, and yet
each one nearly throws her into a fit,
and sho nervously examines the hand wri
ting on tho envelope for. ten minutes be
fore sho can summon up courage to open
it. Queens are only women after all.
Miss Kate Pattison, who will accom
pany Mrs. Langtry to this country and he
a prominent actress in her company, is a
beautiful and vivacious young English
lady, belonging to a family of excellent
social rank. Sho has already mot with
marked success in her chosen profession.
President Arthur. Qov. Hamilton, of
Mary laud ; Gen. Beaver, W. U. Hen
sel, and other gentlemen, have writ
ten to the managers of the Grangers'
tri-stato picnic, to be held at William's
Grove, Cumberland county, accepting an
invitation to attend the meeting, which
begins August 21. It will continue in
session four days.
Senator Vance, of North Carolina fre-
auently illustrates his speeches with anec-J
uotes, or, lamer, parauiea, nuiuu uo re
lates in a manner that seldom fails to
bringdown the house, no matter how
much the majority may disagree with him
politically. Speaking not long ago
against a bill which he considered "penny
wise but pound foolish," he said it re
minded him of a kind old man who lives
at the top of a hill in North Carolina. One
day a wagoner came by, and unluckily,
got his team " stalled" at tho foot of the
hill. To the old man's house he went,
asking tho loan of a pair of mules and a
"fifth chain," to help him up the hill.
Said tho kind old man : "My friend, I
have not got a pair of mules or a fifth
chain to save your life. But I am always
anxious to help a mau in distress ; I car
loud you the best fiddle you ever drew a
bow across."
JKFFKKSONIAN DEHOCKAUT.
Letter From Cbauacey Black to the Jeffer
son Association.
Special Dispatch to the Inquirer.
IIarrisburo July 31. Chauncey F.
Black, Democratic candidate for lieutenant-governor,
has written the following
letter, accepting the election as an hon
orary member of the Jefferson association
of Harrisburg :
When the Federalists iu the closing
years of tho lasc century had well nigh
revolutionized tho government established
by the constitution, transcended its most
important limitations and invaded many
of tho fields of power expressly reserved
from its operation, their dislodgement be
came necessary to the preservation of tho
republic. That, like the present, was a
most unequal struggle between power,
patronage, money and monopoly on tho
.one side, and tho masses of working peo
ple on the other. The latter must have
gone down, and all that they contended
for must have been lost in one prodigious
disaster but for the character of their or
ganization and leadership. . These wcro
wisely adapted to the nature ot the con
flict Jefferson, Madison, our own Gallatin
and tLeir devoted compatriots were not
content with merely sounding the alarm.
They called tho pooplo together in their
primary capacity, and urged them to
organize iu close and permanent associa
tions liko the popular committees of tho
revolution, where they might take council
ono with another respecting the public
dangers and the moans of defense. These
were tho "Democratic societies" which
filled tho Federalists with terror by their
bold agitations, and which it was once
actually proposed to put down by tho
strong hand undor a statute to bo passed
for tho purpose.
The first oue established in Pennsylva
nia was formed in Philadelphia in 1793,
with David Rittenhouse president, and a
list of other officers, some of whoso names
are only less illustrious than his. Tho
Democratic societies were, as Mr. Jeffer
son said, tho "nurseries of tho Republi
can principles of tho constitution," and to
them, with the widespread influence of
their discussions and publications, and the
"rousing of the peoplo " by frequent
meetings in small bodies, where every man
had a voice, was due, in no small degree,
the great deliverance of 1800, and the de
feat of tho infamous scheme to exclude
Mr. Jefferson from the offico to which he
had been elected, as Mr. Tilden was ex
cluded in 1877.
The Democratic societies of our day are
called Jefferson associations, not merely in
veneration of the personal character of the
great apostlo of American liberty, but to
indicate our devotion to the body of po
litical principles which is justly known by
the name of him who formulated them in
matchless simplicity, and illustrated them
practically and personally in those two ad
ministrations of thegoveramont which all
men agree ushered in the " Golden ago of
the Republic." The namo of Jefferson
stands, not for a man oaly, but for a faith,
not merely for the revered shade of the
leader, whose fame is cousocrated wher
ever the language of freedom is known,
but for doctrino as certainly and as abso
lutely essential to political salvation as
any for which men ever fought or died. . . .
The hour of our second deliverance from
the Bourbon Federalists, the boss, tho
spoils system, tho monopolist and the cor
rupt ring, with the centralization in which
all have their beginning and their being,
draws near. To this most desirable end
nothing can contribute more directly or
more powerfully than tho establishment
of Jefferson associations in every quarter.
It is the method of Jefferson himself, and
I hope to see the great party of the com
mon people, defrauded in 1776, make it
self ready for the final conflict before it
by the formation witbin its ranks of thou
sands of' these Democratic societies, or
Jefferson associations, which, being close
ly affiliated and in intimate correspond
ence with each other, would keep the
Democratic party democratic and put it
in a posture to meet another electoral
conspiracy like that of 1876-77, as our
forefathers met that 1800-1.
A hemu Killed em the BaUroad.
Bobdkktowx, N. J., August 1. As a
train was approaching Hartford, on the
line of the Araboy division of the Penn
sylvania railroad, last night, Mrs. Mary
Gilliagham, while in the act of crossing
the track, was struck and killed. The
woman was deaf.
FOUB SPUMOUS BABIES.
A TAMKB WIT A sKKHW VAM1LY.
Mrs. Kate Scarlett Reseats Her Hatband
wltb Three Babies Hot Her Owa,
After Attempting Hie Trick with
Use thai Died Before Pre
sentation. Amone the dailv ineroasiuj? list of vic
tims of the Philadelphia almshouse
method of disposing of surplus babies is
John Scarlett, of Wheeling West Virginia.
Mr. Scarlett is a member of a family
hhzhlv respected in their section of the
state, and prior to the year 1875 was in a
fairway of becoming a wealthy and promi
nent resident oi uis uuuvu city, iu tuut
year, however, bo came to Philadelphia
and fell in with a woman, whom be sub
sequently married, and who has made him
the ostensible father of no less than three
almshouse babies, and not content with
this the remarkable wife procured a fourth
infant from a foundling hospital, near
Fifteenth street, which she also palmed
off upon her husband as his own, con
stituting a full quartette of spurious chil
dren. Many years ago Kate Richardson was
one of the most widely known women,
among a certain class of people, in the
city ot Philadelphia. Prior to her mar
riage with Silas Richardson, at present a
resident of this city, she had led an ex
tremely fast life. Petite in figure and of
prepossessing appearance, she was much
sought after, and when 'early in the last
decade she married "Si" Richardson,
much regret was expressed by many ad
mirers. Alter, however, a short and
stormy period of wedded life with her first
husband, she left him and plunged once
more into the life of her girlhood days,
cutting loose from the restraints which her
home life had cast about her. In the win
ter of '74-5, John Scarlett came to Phil
adelphia from Wheeling on busices".
Chance threw him in Kate Richardson's
way, and he soon became infatuated with
her beauty, which was then in its prime.
He persuaded her to marry him, and after
the ceremony they went back to Wkcelius
and lived happily for several months.
Her restless disposition, however, would
not permit her to be long contented
with a quiet domestic life, and early iu
the year 1876 she returned to Philadel
phia, telling her husband that she soon
expected to becomo a mother, and saying
that under the circumstances she desired
to be among her own friends rather than
with strangers. Arriving in this city sho
established herself with an old timo friend
Mrs. Jacob Atkinson, then residing at No.
313 East York street. Her conduct at
this time also was not all it should
have been. Finally, cither to keep
up the deception sho had practiced
upon her husband, or to promote
some ulterior purpose of her own, she
decided to procure a foundling baby,
which she intended to palm off on her
husband as her own. Her friend, Mrs.
Atkinson, was taken into her confidence,
and tho project unfolded to her. Mrs.
Atkinson attempted to dissuade the woman
from her purpose, telling her that it could
not possibly result in any good, and as
serting that it would be impossible to
keep the truth long from her husband.
Mrs. Scarlett, however, had made up
her mind to carry out her deception, and
no arguments were sufficient to
turn her from her purpose. She fi
nally succeeded in-persuading Mrs. At
kinson to countenance her scheme and
lend her assistance in carrying it into exe
cution. A new-born infant was accord
ingly procured from the almshouse and
taken to tho house on East York street,
where Mrs. Scarlett was staying. The
baby was obtained by tho would-be moth
er horself, the forms usual in such cases
having been gone through with at tho
almshouse aud the child dolivered over to
the applicant with tho consent of its moth
er. For a week or two Mrs Scarlett simulat
ed in a measure tho conditions consequent
upon tho ordeal through which sho was
supposed to have passed, and those of tbo
neighbors who wcro on calling terms with
the Atkinsons were led to believe that
Mrs. Scarlett was in reality the mother of
the infant. No physician was at this timo
called in, as it was deemed unnecessary to
complicate the plot by initiating an out
side person into tho secret. Iu a short
timo, however, tho child, which was a
puny little thing, sickened, aud it was
found necessary to engage the service of a
doctor. A physician was accordingly
called in to prcscribo for the infant, but
nothing was at this time said to him about
its parentage. The littlo baby soon crew
j worse and died, a certificate of death being
given by the attending physican.
It would seem as though this experienco
would have sufficed to dissuado Mrs. Scai
lett from her singular project, but on tho
contrary she was more determined than
ever to exocnto her plan. Sho accordingly
summoned the doctor who had attended
the dead child and expressed her desires to
him, asking his assistance iu carrying out
her purpose successfully. Tho physician,
howover, discountenanced tho woman's
project and indignantly refused to havo
anythiug to do with tho matter. The
woman, however, procured tho services of
a friend who obtained for hor a baby
from, a foundling asylum oil Fifteen street.
Better success was had with this child,
and in a few weeks Mrs. Scarlett and her
spurious offspring returned to Wheeling
to gladden the eyes of the expectant hus
band. Some months afterward this re
markable wife returned to tho city under
the same pretext as baforo. and in courso
of time another almshouse baby was added
to the family circle iu Wheeling. A third
was procured later in a similar manner,
and the indulging husband was forced to
find sustenance for a trio of babies, the
offspring of as mauy different mothers,
neither of whom, was his own wife. But
one of tho children survived.
A year or two ago, Mrs.Scarlett again re
turned to Philadelphia,and for a time lived
in a houso on Front street bslow Girard.
She went back to Wheeling after tho lapse
of some mouths, however, and is now liv
ing there with her husband and her alms
house child.
HUimtxi,
AND THE SKNATK
K.U-
He Assesses Both Democrats and Republi
cans. When David Davis was elocted presi
dent of the Senate, he announced that his
deciding vote would enablo the Democrats
to retain the officers of the Senate, whilo
the Republicans should havo the chair
manships and a majority of tbo commit
tecs. In levying assessments, Mr. Hub
bell recognizes no distinction between
Democrats and Republicans in offico. The
uemocrauc cierxs ana doorkeepers ru
ceived invitations to-day to send 2 per
cent, of their salaries to tho Republican
congressional committee. Each door
swinger is assessed $28. Mr. Hubbell will
And tho Senate a barren field so iar as tho
officers are concerned, but the Republican
committee clerks are made to sutler.
Thosowho receive six dollars per diem
as long as the Senate is in session, havo
been assessed on the basis of having em
ployment every day in the year.
UWU1V8 PKMAN Oa.
A Crisis In tbelroa Troubles Near at Maud
At Pittsburgh it appears that tho orlsis
of the iron trouble is near at hand. Thu
National tube works, at McKecsport, em
ploying 1,800 men, being the largest es
tablishment of the kind in the country,
will start up within a few days with non
union men. They have posted placards
about tho works notifying the strikers to
report for dnty to-morrow or consider
themselves discharged. It is said scveiul
nuion menhavo signed a contract to re
turn to work. A report is in circulation
that three other large mills, em
ploying nearly four thousand men, will
start up with noa-uaibn men before the
end of the week.
In Chicago President Jarrett and about
two hundred aud fifty delegates from the
various iron and steel works throughout
the country are here to attend the conven
tion of the Amalgamated association ot
ironworkers, beginning to-day, and last
ing probably a week. The session will bo
secret.
There will ba au election of officers, and
several changes in the constitution will be
made. All seem more than ever deter
mined to stick out for their original de
mand, and feel confident of success. They
state that twenty-three mills havo re
sumed work at their terms, and ouly one
with the non-union men.
BURNING KAGS.
A Philadelphia Warehouse Damaged
Tnreo Men Badly isurned.
At three o'clock yesterday afternoon the
men engaged in sorting rags on tho sec
ond floor of Patrick McNulty's worehousc
625 South Front street, Philadelphia, saw
that a pile in the corner of tho room was
ablaze and endeavored to subduo the
flames. Their efforts proved unavailing,
and the flro communicating to a hirge
quantity of rags and paper stored in tho
apartment, an alarm was sounded. Before
the engines arrived, however, the flames
spread eo rapidly that McNulty,
James Helps and Michael Nealty,
were compelled fo seek safety by sliding
down the hatchway rope. Upon reaching
the first floor tho men were found to bo so
badly burned about the face, breast and
back as to necessitate their removal to the
Pennsylvania hospital. Neally's injuries
wero tho most serious, and he will prob
ably die. The flames communicated to
No. 623, used as a tenement house, and
also to another house on the north, burn
ing the roofs. Tho families living in theso
dwellings became panic-stricken, and re
moved nearly all their household effects.
McNulty's loss amounts to about $1,000,
which is fully covered by insurance The
roofs of thrco other houses, owned by Mr.
Davidson, were damaged to tho extent of
$500.
A fLEKGYMAN-S IlISKOISH.
Priest, I'byelclan, Undertaker and Sextou.
An act of Christian heroism which
ought not to go unrecorded was peformed
last Wednesday eveniug near Newport,
Charles county, Maryland. Tho Baltimore
Sun thus describes it : " A colored man,
Louis Matthews, a victim of smallpox, lay
dead in his cabin. In the room with tho
dead man wore his wife and two small
children suffering from tho same disease.
Of course, every oue avoided tho cabin,
fearing tho contagion. A gentleman of
the neighborhood, Mr. Julian Norris, had
a grave dug about six yards from
the houso, and a cofiiu was placed
near it. Tho Rev. J. A. Cuunane, pastor
of St. Mary's Catholic church at Newport,
who had been- visiting the stricken family,
ministering to their temporal and spiritual
wants, seeing tho utter loneliness of the
family, at ouco took it upon himself to
bury tho dead. Unaided, ho took the
coffin to tho cabin, placed therein tho
loathsome corpse, and, mustering extra
ordinary strength, transferred tho coffined
corpse to a wheelbarrow, conveyed it to
the grave and buried it, performing all
the labor alone. Thus he, who had been
priest aud physician to tho sick man,
became also undertaker and sexton.
There aro heroes who never draw a
sword."
Miscellaneous Mews.
Kate McNair. 3 years of age, was killed
in New York by falling from a fourth
story window.
Captain Samuel Reynolds, over 90 years
of age, was killed yesterday whilo driving
across the railroad at Damclsonvillc,
lihodo Island.
Joseph Miller, aged 37 years, was killed
yesterday by falling from a painter's scaf
fold at tho Cooper institute in Now
York.
W. B. Audrows & Co., clothiers, of
aleigh, North Carolina, havo made an
assignment. Their preferred debts aro
tatcd at $30,000.
; Carleton Hunt received tho unanimous
nomination on tho first ballot as the Dem
ocratic candidate for congressman from
the First district of Louisiana on Monday.
Mr. Hint is the son of tho late Dr.
Thomas G. Hunt, and ncDhew of W. II.
Hunt, ex-secretary of the navy.
New cotton was picked, ginned and
mado into yarn Monday at Saluda factory.
Lexington county, S. C. Tho factory has
telephonic connection across the Congarce
river with Columbia, and as the yarn
started for tho railroad to go to Philadel
phia tho news was telephoned. Tho cotton
wasgroffii on the factory grounds.
The rresident superceding tho Sea Sorpon:.
New York World.
Tho prosident has succeeded tho effete
sea-serpent as an attraction for watering
places. Swift and indignant incredulity
now greets tho trite aud unfulfilled predic
tion of tho great water-snake, aud tho
smallest paragraphcrin tho remotest parts
points tho linger of scorn at tho placo whero
be is said to havo been seen and dis
suades mankind from going there But
there is nothing intrinsically improbablo
in tho announcement that a president has
been seen in the surf, and that offico
seekers who secure rooms long onougli in
advanco may, by dint of early rising and a
good glass (to bo hired on rcasmiablo
terms at tho office), mako him out in tho
offing.
MAYOR'S VUUUT.
iirunkarus Beggars ana Train Jumpers.
This morning the mayor sent one old
drunk to jail for 10 days, and a poor crip
ple to the work houso for 30 days. Two
boys named Frederick and Philip Pryor,
aged 10 and 8 years respectively wcro ar
rested yesterday on the charge of being
vagrants. It appears that those boys
havo a father, who is very worthless and
he compelled the oldest to beg. These
boys wero sent to the Children's home.
This morning Officers Pyle and Gilbert
of tho Pennsylvania railroad police, ar
rested four men at Mill creek for train
jumping and brought them on tho cars to
Lancaster. On reaching tbo depot one of
the men, who gavo his name as George
Thompson, broke away from the officers
and took to his heels. Somo ono in tho
crowd of bystanders yelled ont "thero
goes Lippincott'- aud another yelled PanI
Quigloy. This was enough to create an
excitement and dozens of fleet footed fel
lows started in tho race to catch the noted
jail breakers and get tho roward promised
for their arrest.
At tho Franklin house, North Queen
street, Officer Gill throw his arms around
Thompson and held him fast, and for a
timo was quito elated with tho thought
that ho had caught Lippincott. Thomp
son was taken to tho station house, and
along with his companions committed to
jail for ten days.
Aid for Frank Carrel!.
"J. L. L." of Paradise, sends $2.30
more (his second subscription), for tho
aid of Frank FarreU. This makes $19.50
thus far handed ns. from all sources for
this worthy charity.
Sale or Horses.
Samuel Hess & Son, auctioneers, sold at
nubile sale on Monday, at tbe Merrimac
houso, for George Grossman, twenty head
of Canada horses, at an average price of
$200.50 per head. Tho highest figure
brought was $295.
SALISBURY ITEMS.
rKOUOOB KEQTOAKCOIUCESFOSDKXT.
Successful Harvests personal Notes News
or the Neighborhood.
Our farmers have finished tho wheat
harvest and are now making preparations
for tho oats harvest; somo few have
already cut aud stored away their oats
crop. Tha wheat crop this year was a
very heavy one, tho heaviest that has been
raised for a number of years, and the oats
crop is reported to bo eqnally as good.
Some placos tho wheat averaged nearly 40
bushels to tho acre. Tho hay gavo a
better yield thau was cxpectod, aud the
corn crop is in aucxcallout couditou, and
if nothing uuforsaen oasurs there will bo
the largest yield of corn that has been for
some years. The tobacco is coming along
finely, althongh some ot our growers ex
perienced considerable trouble in getting
tho delicate weed started, hut after it
managed to get a little headway it grew
finely. Wo know of ono farmer who re
planted his crop four times, and then be
iug unsuccessful gavo up the ghost,
plowed up tho ground and sowed buck
wheat therein. Thero is pleuty of tobacco
in this usighborhoo-i that will average 3(J
by 18, aud a great deal has been' top
ped aheady. The potato crop is au ex
ceedingly fine one this year, aud iu fact,
every thing is in such a flourishing condi
tion that wo can soo no causo for tho far
mers to complain about their crops this
year.
Venuor'n Absurif l'redlctlon.
As the intensity of tho hot weather in
creases aud tho atiuosphcro becomes
almost stilling, along comes Vonuor's pro
diction of "snow storms and remarkably
low curves of temperature " for this
mouth, which for absurdity aud iguoranco
perhaps, cannot bo equaled. Not much
confidence has been placed iu these pre
dictions by our fellow-countrymen, who
do not intend to be among tho stay-at-home
brigade and bo fools enough to wait
for this predicted cool weather, but intend
purchasing a round trip ticket from tho
Gap, for tho low sum of $2 70, aud go with
Haverstick & Clark's grand thrco ilay ex
cursion to Atlantic City, on Thursday, the
3d inst. " Every passenger will bo provided
with a first-class seat.
Personal Notes.
Mrs. G. W. Orendorf, wire of tho P. It.
R. company's gonial ticked, agent, at tho
Gap, aud her two sons, havo gone to
Brockton Mass., to spend somo weeks
there visiting friends aud points of inter
est iu tho stato. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C.
Walker have returned from Atlautio City
and E. Enfield Walker, esq., iu company
with Mr. Recce Ilimes havo goio to tho
same beach to spend a fow days. Mr. and j
Mis. John Maclhveagh and their two
sons from Philadelphia and Misses Hattio
aud Minnie McQuconc of Lancaster aro
summering at the Gap Mansiou house.
Mr. and Mrs. II. B. Hershey of Philadel
phia havo just returned homo alter visiting
friends hero for somo timo and Mr.
CIciueut A. Livingston who hails from
the same place, and his family are the
guests of Mr. B. P. Livingston. Miss Sno
Walker has taken a trip to Now York,
and Isaac B. Sweigart has gone to Wash
ington D. C, where ho will bo tho guest
of Mr. Ularcnco Forrest.
O titer lit: HIS.
Tho work of reducing the railroad uiadu
at tho Lia) is rapidly being pushed iur
ward under the foromanship of Mr. Thus.
Waldron, au efficient aud experienced
railroader. They have already removed
a largo portion of thu top crust, and aro
hauling it out as fast as loosened. When
they como in contact with tbo worse ele
ments of tho quicksands tho work will not
be as pleasant and progress as lapid as
at present. The eucinv of the dirt train
sprung a leak on Saturday and had to ba
taken to Columbia for repairs. It icturncd
on Monday morning.
Walter W. Hamilton, aged 12 years,
brother of Mr. II. II. Hamilton, whilo
chopping wood a few days ao. accident
ally struck his right foot with tho axe,
cutting a deep gash several inches
iu length, besides nearly severing his
fourth too of tho same foot. Amos Hare,
whilo loading railroad tics the othor day,
had tho misfortune to got his thumb bad
ly mashed by a tie falling on it. The end
was tqashed .so badly that amputation was
necessary.
Somo fow weeks ago a correspondent,
writing from this neighborhood to tho
New Era, said : "an enthusiastic Demo
crat hero has named his boy baby after
Robt. E. Pattison." That "enthusiastic
Democrat" was our ardent Democratic
friend, Mr. II. Hoover Hamilton and the
other day he received a letter from Gover
nor Pattison iu which ho sincerely thanked
Mr. Hamilton for tho devotion ho had
shown towards him. Pattisou is quito a
favorite among our citizens.
Whilo walking out in tho country ro
ccntly wo met a poor dcludod colored fol
low, who announced himself a "Stalwart
of Stalwarts," leading a poor,' siekly-look-iug
cur, which ho said was named after a
groat Republican soldici-anti statesman by
tho name of Griost. We at onco appre
hended that it was tho mau who deals iu
those trilling editorial ethics seen from
time to timo in tho weakly Inquirer.
The frame of tho nowAmish meeting
bouso at Millwood will soon bo ready for
erection. Tho building when completed
will bo a large, commodious and strong
structure, hut very plain.
A handsome now baker wagon mado its
appearance through this neighborhood on
Monday. It is tho property of Swica
Pradiccr, tho new bakery firm at Para
dise. Joseph Towuslcy, who was killed on tho
railroad at Columbia, on Friday, was bur
ied iu tho Sadsbury burial grounds, on
Sunday.
The festival held at Spring Oaulcti on
Saturday, was a success financially. It
was attended by au iinmonso throng.
A largo ball was held iu Powall's pavil
ion at Christians, on Thursday evening.
The Bcllcvuo church was closed on
Sunday evening for thrco weeks. During
this period the church will be renovated.
Tho Atglcu car axlo works aro again
idle.
1UAKT1C ITKHh.
News From the Siiuilicrn Kuil.
A meeting of the Martic board of school
directors was recently hold for tho pur
pose of filling tho vacancy occasioned by
tho resignation of Miss Annio Montgom
ery, who had boon appointed to teach
Cedar Grovo school, aud also to appoint a
teacher for the Marticvillo graded. Tho
successful applicants wero : For Cedar
Grove, Miss Ada Brown ; Marticvillo
Graded, Mr. H. C. McCaulay.
The 31. E. church, which tho trustees
had agreed to build iu 3It. Nebo is to be
erected with as littlo delay as possible.
The foundation has been excavated and
tho masons havo commenced to erect the
walls. Tho contract of bnilding the
church has been awarded to Mr. Samuel
Jones, of Rawlinsvillc.
Somo of our energetic citizcu.s aio talk
ing of buying tho old church, removing it
from its present sito aud having it for tho
use of our literary societies. The Mount
Nebo lyceum has been held in the public
school house, the uso of which was given
with a very bad graco by certain direct
ors. It is to be hoped that tbo church
will be put to this uss, and every citizen
should aid by takiug stock in this com
mendable enterprise.
The corner stone of tbe new church Is to
bo laid August 17.
Tbe annual celebration of tho Mount
Nebo Sunday school is to be held August
12tb.
July 29 a mile society was organized in
the M. E. church.
A temporauco meeting is to be held iu
tbo 31. K. church, August 5.
THE TOBACCO MARKET.
TKAOK IK SEKD LEAF AND HAVANA
For tho Week Knrtlng Saturdar
lO a. iu.
July 2J,
New York Tobacco Journal.
The market is still asleep aud no chaugo
in tho policy of bayors can ba reported.
Now tobaccos aro not offered at least not
publicly and old tobaccos can only bo
sold as " bargains." The oilers buyers aro
makiug for '80 Pennsylvania are causing
hcait-acho to sellers. For tho lots for
which offers of tweuty cents or moro were
made last winter, twelve to fifteen cents
is now offcrod without a blusb. With tho
exception of a fow parcels of tine 80 Con
necticut, aud very little 'SO state, old
tobaccos have no market figure.
Tho leaf trado is demoralized. For
months and months the greater portion of
tholariie manufacturers have kept out of
the market. Those that came invested
either iu Sumatra, to uso in fine cigars, or
Ohio, or something worse, for cheap
cigars. Sure enough, the tax muddlo has
had a great deal to do with it, but tho
main cause is the non-yielding quality of
the stock offered.
Those that bought ?80 Pennsylvania last
year at high figures have found it to 'no
too costly for cheap and too poor for lino
cigars. Sumatra was offered as a satis
factory substitute in prico not much
abovo tho finest seed leaf wrappers in tho
markets, aud iu color and quality much
superior. The consequence is a market
full of old stock begging for buyers.
If tho new ( '81 ) stock turns out better
thau tho old and holders will nuload at
popular prices, tho old must bo sold at
tho greatest sacrifice.
If the now turns out badly, tho old will
revive aud command somewhat better
figures, but it will also cause an influx of
Sumatra and other foreign wrappers,
which will causo an enormous depression
in tho '82 crop.
Tho sales of the week wore as follows :
Pennsylvania Crop '80 : 300 cases, 12
d)16c.
Connecticut Crop '80 : 200 cases ; com
mon wrappers, 18f)20o.
Ohio-Crop '80 : 301 cases, 4A(u7e.
Havana Market quiet. Sales 400 bales.
No change iu prices.
The Philadelphia Jiltirket.
Leaf.
Seed Leaf Trade iu this branch Is gen
erally very quiet. 3Ianufacturers aro wait
ing positive information from Washington
before buying. Raw material in hands of
manufacturers is light, so that very short
ly you may look for a geueral desiro of all
parties to buy. Stock in hands of deal
ers is excellent, and will fully meet tho
wishes of the trado when needed. Prices
hold steady.
dans' Iteport.
Sales of" seed leaf tobacco reported by
J. S. Gans' Son & Co., tobacco brokers.
No. 131 Water street, Now York, for tho
week ending July 31, 1882 :
150 cases 1880 New England cXfiiloc!
l.'iO cases 1881 New England, 5iQiJ2c ;
200 cases 1880 Pennsylvania. fifml2c :
ISO cases 1880 Ohio, G(w9o : 125 cases
1881 Ohio, 5l(jG : sundries CCil5. Total ,
900 cases.
TIIM I.OCAI. 2UAKKKT.
l'menoct of the Growing Crop.
During tho last week thero has been very
little improvement in tho outlook for the
growing ciop. and tho most sanguine can
not figure out a half crop Some farmers
have abaudoued their fields entirely, and
upon tho whole tho prospects aro very bud
indeed. Farmers aro correspondingly out
of spirits anil are to bo pitied. We do not
think five per cont. of tho crop in now
topped and August is hero. Iu former
years it was nearly all topped, and wo havo
seen it iu mauy cases on tho lath in sheds.
There havo been a few local rains, but hot
sun and winds have soon dried tlicm up.
Holders of old goods aro stiffening up in
prices aud will, if they havo tho back
bone to hold out, get out wholo yet. " 81 "
is pretty well picked up, and it is .said to be
sweating nicely ; there is no doubt of its
qualify if its length is not so reat.
iirumouk mi:ws.
From Our Regular Lower Kud Correspond
ence. Ono of tho Oxford brass bauds, evidently
btiifcriug from a reduced treasury, came
up last week into Fnlton township and
encamped in a woods bcttvr-en Go.-hon and
Eldora. Tho length of their pilgrimage
was thrco days aud the object money, aud
their expectation to Lea "three days
wonder" to tho unsophisticated natives.
Their cancolled-po.stago stamp style did
not seem to impress tho community to a
very llatteriug decree, however, :ia tho
country folks dotect a sham very readily,
especially when it is thrown out an ar bait
for silver quarters, although a letter pat
ronage was tendered tho tony fellows than
they deserved. From tho posing whipper-snapper,
who wanted to sell tickets
for tbo "concert," entitling the holder to
a seat in tho " parkct " circle, aud express
ed his business in tho most ringing, highly
pitched, :esthetic tc.nOs, to the sham police
mau with his sham star, everything was
marked by catch-penny obaiactrristics.
The picnic held at Wrihtsdala last Sat
urday was not as refined as some of our
uico ones had wished. What a pity somo
of humanity is clay and tbo rest alabaster
or mud.
Our yield of wheat will bo enoimous,
from thirty to. forty bushels to tho aero.
Oats is insignificant. The eom may be
good or bad.
X rain last week increased our tobacco
wop ten per cent.
ALMOSr A F1KK.
Narrow Kscapo or Alttek A Son's Coach ,
Works. '
Last nicbt about half-past 11 o'clock
tiro was discovered in the blacksmith
shop connected with Allick & Sou's ex
tensive coach works. West Orango street,
near Prince. Tho tiie was lir.-t seen by
3Irs. ICata McGrann, who, lives near by
and who gave a prompt alarm. Win. IS.
Altick and Georgo Curry hastened to the
shop, aud found, that tho heavy wooden
block, on which fxo anvil rests, hail been
set on flro probably by a spark of
red hot iron which had entered a
crevice in tho wood before tho men quit
work in tho evening, aud had smouldered
for some timo .aud then broke into dames.
When Altick and Curry entered tho shop
the block hail burned tu withiu a short
distance of tho floor aud within a very
short time would havo set firo to it.
Withiu a fow feet of tho fire were piled
five hundred sets of fellows, forty bugiy
bodies and other combustibles, anil iu au
adjoining shed are stored 75,000 or 100,000
feet of seasoned lumber. Tho work shop,
trimming shop, paint shop ami extensive
warcrooms all adjoin and aro connected.
Had the flames gained any headway a dis
astrous firo wonld havo resulted. Being
discovered in time a few buckets of water
Mifliccd to extinguish them.
.Excursion and l'lcnlc.
The Licderkranz singing society, of this
city will bold a picnic at Weise's island,
in tho Susquehanna river. OH Tb'ursdav.
r August 17. They will rua a special train
from this city, to the island, which will
leave at 7 o'clock in tho morning. The
faro for the round trip will be but 81, with
children at half price.
Ninth Want Democracy.
The sterling Democracy of tho Ninth
ward'vill hold a meeting ou Thnrmlav
eveniug at Arnold Haas's saloon. North
Queen btrcet above Walnut, for tho pur
pose of organizing fori tho campaign. Tli.
Ninth ward boys are never behind when
work is to be done in tho iuterest of tho
Democracy.
A