Ci LANCASTER DAILY IMTELL1GENCEB, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1882. Uanrastcr r-ntcllificncci FRIDAY EVENING, AUG. 11, 1883. The CemaaailBg Isiie. Nothing more forcibly illustrates the degradation of the Republican machine -in this state than th? low tone which pervades its newspaper organs in their attempted discussion of the issues in volved in the present contest. After six weeks of effort to find a weak point in the armor of the Demo cratic candidate for governor, the most subservient of these journals boldly take up the universal admis sion as to his courageous integrity of character, and attempt to sneer down this commanding recommendation to public confidence and support. It is argued that honesty is such a common virtue, that the admitted possession of it should not specially commend a candi date for public position; that tlie Re publican party is crammed full of hon est men ; that its candidates are alwajs honest ; that no one questions General Beaver's honesty, etc., etc. The object of the men who write and talk in this loose way is to belittle Mr. Pattison in public estimation and to divert attention from the one vital issue of the contest. Ever since the close of the war the Republican party in Pennsyl vania has held possession of the state government, and many of the municipal governments, under false pretences Year after year its candidates have come before the people with same solemn pledges, only to violate them at the first opKrtunity. Under two Republican administrations at Harrisburg legislative debauchery and official iniquity became so shamefully notorious and defiant that the people imperatively demanded con stitutional revision as a means of gov ernmental purification. After failure to control the convention or turn it aside from the patriotic purpose of its crea tion, the corrupt Republican managers and their army of imperiled hench men attempted to prevent the adoption of the proposed new organic law. De feated in this the ring coolly came to the front with earnest protestations of de votion to reform,and thus a new lease of power was secured, to be as systematic ally abused as before. The tide of vil lainy swept on, reaching its highest mark in the riot bill bribery infamy and only being checked by the iron doors of the penitentiary. Thus for nearly twenty years has the great Keystone state been disgraced as no other commonwealth in the Union ever was. Four millions of citizens have been systematically plundered. A great party has been prostituted to the base uses of a few corrupt men. Our legislative halls have become a by-word and reproach. The executive oilice, with its grave re sponsibility and immense power for good or evil, has been the open or secret ally of public plunderers, its derelict in cumbents ignoring alike their conscious knowledge of duty aud their sworn obli gations to the people, and trampling upon their own self-respect, being the ready tools of the designing men who placed them in power. The ballot-box has become polluted until in some places it is an object of public distrust. A partisan press had been subsi dized and enslaved. And now the enemy is determined to secure by any means within its grasp, however repre hensible, control of the state govern ment for four years more. The same tactics are pursued as heretofore. A candidate for governor has been selected who is " satisfactory" to the big boss and all the little bosses, and who has the effrontery to come before the people loudly declaring that he is wholly inno cent of any such alliance with the ma chine. The soldier issue is raised to hide the real issue of honest government, and every effort will be made thus to sneak in at the back door of the public temple. The campaign on the part of the Cam eron machine has been and will be to the end one of false pretences. The vital issue before the people of Pennsylvania today is whether the gov ernment of the state, so long and so dis gracefully prostituted to baso purposes, shall be restored to it. original design conceived by the patriot founders of the commonwealth, or whether it shall continue to be simply a gigan tic wheel in the corrupt machine to which we are indebted for the ruinous political evils of the time. It is there fore of the supremest importance that the leading characteristics of the. guber natorial candidates should be taken into consideration. The essential qualifica tions needed in the next governor of this state are intellectual alertness and ability, inflexible honesty and dauntless moral courage. The coming executive will not be required to face belching cannon, but he will bo compelled con stantly to undergo a much severer test of genuine manhood and patriotism. He must be fully prepared successfully to fight an army of public plunderers, or the people will be betrayed as of old. He must be a man of iron will, controlled by an exalted sense of public duty and immovable alike iu the face of threats and temptation. In a word, he must be a man who has been tried and proved. One who has been weighed in the balance and not found wanting. One who has been thoroughly tried in the public cru cible, and who has emerged therefrom without the smell of fire upon his gar ments. He must be a man who can say "No" with the emphasis of a moral giant. Such a man is Robert Emory Pattison. He is not a theory. He is not an exper iment. He does not come before the people simply pleading acceptance of glittering but empty promises. He stands upon a four years' record in a place of great financial and administra tive responsibility, without a stain and without reproacn. ne has nothing to explain, nothing to defend. He has been indifferent alike to the blandish ments of mistaken friends and the angry threats of corrupt enem es, and has quietly, steadfastly and courageously pursued the plain, though often rugged path of duty. He has always been found at his post early and late. Without os tentation he has been a Gibraltarian rock of defense to the public treasury of the greatest city of the commonwealth. His nomination was the work of no clique or faction. He is not pledged to any living man. His election will mark the beginning of a new and pure era in the politics of Pennsylvania. The State Committee. The New York World, in discussing the condition of political affairs in that state, attributes the lack of harmony and efficient organization in the Demo cratic party in a large measure to the " somewhat pulpy mental condition" of the state committee, of whom a large number " are known to the party only as the private detectives of one man aging politician, or as the confidential heelers of another and the appointment of a state committee has come to be gen erally understood to be a carefully cut and dried process, in which the voters of the party have no part." By way of relief from this condition of affairs, the World recommends that " the state committee should be chosen so as to make : ure that it shall really represent the voters of the party. The simplest and most feasible method of attaining this result is to choose the state commit teeman of each district by election. In that case the state committee would bear more resemblance than it does now to a body of representatives of the Demo cratic party in the state of New York, and less to a board of directors with the power of perpetual succession. It would also cease to bo a nuisance and begin to be a power iu the politics of the party." In this state, where the state committee as a whole had come to bo regarded by the Democracy as a less efficient and useful body than it should be, the new rules of the party have provided for the choice of " state committeemen of each district by election." The rules declare that the members of the committee are to be appointed in such manner as the local regulations of the respective coun ty organizations may determine. And it is important that the organizations should prescribe these regulations at once. While the county conventions and committees are meeting, they might as well determine how the state commit teemen for next year are to bo select ed. Tiie committee will meet for or ganization in narrisburg, on the third Monday in January, 1SS3, aud every county should have its representatives there, properly accredited and duly chosen. The Philadelphia Press is of the opinion that the " chief magistracy should be bestowed with some regard to services rendered the state." We would like the l'rcss to point out what citizen has rendered the state more real service than the controller of Philadelphia, who, when he entered upon his duties, con fronted a condition of unparalleled muni cipal extravagance, grappled with it and put an end to the reckless waste in ap propriations, criminal neglect in the col tection of taxes and hideous and open corruption in disbursement which pre vailed in Philadelphia so long. The end of these abuses began with Pattlson's administration. Similar abuses in the state government will be uprooted by a Democratic administration with Patti son at the head of it. Slender ladiss aro advised to wear flowers of lino kinds, such as jessamine, lilies-of-the-valley aud heliotrope upon their bosoms, or clusters of roses in foliage at their belt. Stout ladies may wear blos soms, more fully matured, while medium sized folk may wear dainty bunches of marguerites or pansies close to the throat, on the left side. Mourning floweis are dull black, such as poppies or hyacinths, with jet and tufts of stalks ; but for even ing, white, full marigolds, with black cherries and a sprinkling or jet arc per missible. The president vetoed three measures passed at the recent session of Congress. The flrfet was the Chinese bill as originally passed. The second was the act to regu late the carriage pt passcugcrs by sea aud the third was the river and harbor bill. The first two were amended in accordance with his views aud subsequently approved. The river and harbor bill was passed over his veto. The brig Armstrong bill be came a law without the president's signa ture under the ten days provision. With theso exceptions the president promptly signed all the congressional acts that came before him. TnEY do not cut off the hair of women convicts in the prisons, aud they say there would bo a tremendous row if they at tempted it. The matron of a New York prison says that she never saw a woman who did not comb her hair onco a day, and the warden says he has " seen many men who never comb theirs but once a month." It is added that ' the most im portant articles about a woman's cell, after her mirror, aro the comb aud the brush," and it is asserted that physicians have given as their opinion that to cut women's hair would increase headaches and neuralgia among them, and would "subject them to colds iu ther heads." An old swindling device in new guuo has been practiced of late with great suc cess on the farmers of Illinois. Sharp Ne. 1 goes to a farmer and makes him an offer for his farm at a high figure, which is usually accepted, and $50 or so deposited to bind the bargain. Then Mr. Sharp's friend comes along and offers $1,000 or more in advance of tho first price. Then the farmer goes to No. 1 and by paying a good round sum, say $500, secures a re lease. The eutcrprising fellow who wanted tho land so badly at the highest figure neglects to come around, and tho farmer is about $450 out, which, of course, is divided by the sharps. A kew terror menaces the hard-working seamstress in the shape of poisoned thread A dressmaker recently admitted into an English hospital was found to have a dis tinct blue line on her gums, with simulta neous symptoms, such as a furred tongue, inflammation of the lips aud general de bilityall signs pointing to the probability of poisoning by lead. For some time the doctors failed to discover the source, when they learned accidentally from a merchant that silk thread, being sold by weight, and not by length, is sometimes adulterated with sugar of lead, Upon questioning the patient it was discovered that it had been her practice, when at work, to hold thread in her mouth, and that she bad done this the more readily with silk, inasmuch as it had usually a sweet taste. The total number of gallons of petro leum and petroleum products exported from the various customs districts of this country during the month of June amount ed to 51,066.264, at a valuation of $4,060,- 5G4. This shows a decrease from the corresponding period last year, when the exports reached 61,966,601 gallons, valued at $5,553,268. For the twelve months ended June 1, 1882, a decided gain is shown over the previous year ; for 1882 the figures are ; 559,954,590 gallons, value $51,232,706, while during the twelvo months ended June 1, 1881, the exports were 397,660,262, valued at $40,315,609: Theso statistics have an interest as going to show the progress of an industry that especially concerns the peoplo of this state which is the greatest oil producing region of the country. Comprised in the statement are those important commercial staples, crude, naphtha, illuminating and lubri cating oils. FJSRSONAIj. Patti will return to the United State8 iu October. Aimee is not coming to America this year. She may visit us during 1883. Biugua.m Young's grave is kept green by the jealousy of his numerous widows. Miss Lucy Rothschild, who lately married Leon Lambers, is reported to have had a dowry of $123,000,000. Col. S. C. Slaymakeu and family have gone to Cape May, whoro they will spend a week or two. Attorney General Gray, of Delaware, was married Tuesday eveuing to Miss Margaret J. Black, of New Castle. The ceremony was private. Ex Governor Davis, of Texas, has an nounced bis intention of running for Con gress iu the Tenth Texas district irrespec tive of party in any way. Senator Hawley. of Connecticut, will sail for Europe on Saturday next, and his colleague, Senator Piatt, will depart for tho Adriondacks. Ex-Governor Tilden, of Now York, arrived homo from Yonkers yesterday in good health. " The rumor of his serious illness was pronounced unfounded aud er roneous." Mrs. GeoroeB. Roisekts, wife of tho president of the Pennsylvania railroad, who is suffering from congestion of the brain, is gradually improving in health. The critical point of her illness is passod and she is now convalescing. Miss Nellie Whitehouse, of New York, will be married to the second son of ex-Collector Murphy, of that city, in Octo ber. Miss Whitchouso comes of age this month and succeeds to a fortuuo of $250, 000. Mr. Wm. J. Florence, visiting for tho summer at Kathleen Villa, Bath, the home of his sister in-law, Mrs. Barney Williams, was never in better health. He begins his season at the Park theatre, Now York, the latter part of October. Mr. TnoiiAS Lb Clear, tho artist, having finished two full-length portraits of General Grant, and a prolilo head of the late President Garfield, is now commenc ing a portrait of President Arthur for the Wnite House. William Ellis, a sculptor, who assist ed Stevens to model the Wellington mon ument in London, and who had executed busts of Mr. Roebuck and other well known men, died of starvation in Sheffield a few days ago. He was fifty-eight years old. 31. Strakoscii is forming, it is rumored, an Italian opera company for Paris next winUr. His leading soprano will bo Miss Emma Thursby, whose objections to ap pearing on tho stage have, it is said, been overcome. The contralto will be Mile. Belocca. Miss Thursby has never yet sang save in concert. " Ouida " has ventured into the field of politics, abandoning for tho moment tho writing of novels. She has just written to the London Times a letter describing the hatred felt by Italians toward Eng land since the bombardment of Alexan dria. She declares that tho Italian press is " hissing liko a million flock of geese." Mrs. Frederick H. Paramore, nee Miss Nellie Hazeltino, whoso marriage oc curred in Philadelphia some time ago, wore a Parisian toilet of soft white crepy material, trimmed with waves of creamy lace, and a white chip hat, covered with canary plumes, at the recent marriage of Miss Lucy Eleanor Barclay aud Mr. Edmond L. McClelland, in St. Louis. M. Pasteur, the distinguished natural ist, is described as a man of low stature and powerful frame spare, angular and weather-beaten. Of humble origin, tho son of hard-working parents, he bears tho indications of his raco and hereditary bias in every lineament of his countenance and every movement of his well-knit, muscular physique.. He is a man of few words, ab rupt but clear in bis sentences, logical and to tho point. Mrs. McCaulky, the wife of the com mandant at the marine barracks, at Washington, is one of the belles at Sara toga. She has a slender, lissome figure, an exquisite complexion, large blue eyes, and brown hair. Her features are of the type sccu in tho old English" books of beauty," and, she is of English paientage. She is brilliantly connected iu tho Old World, her cousins being among the fairest leaders in London society. Sir Garnet Wolseley, who has just gone out to take command in Egypt, is very quick and brisk in his way, with a trim military appearance and great readi ness of adaptation to chango of circum stances. He possesses Napoleon's faculty of taking at a glanco the measure of a man, and knowing how best to use his ability. He has succeeded in every position in which hi has been placed. Liko Sir Frederick Roberts. England's other great general, ho is an Irishman from near Dub lin. Notable Necrology. Hon. Edward Pilsbury, a native of East port, Maine, an ex-mayor of New Orleans, died yesterday at New Orleans of paralysis aged 58 years. William M. Wadley, presideut of the Georgia Central railroad, dropped dead in the street at Saratoga, N. Y. Ho was 68 years old. Judge William M. Levy, associato jus tice of the supreme court of Louisiana aud formerly a member of Congress from tho fourth district of Louisiana, died yes terday at Saratoea. N. Y. Oar Congressman. Philadelphia Record. Hon. A. Herr Smith, of the Lancaster district in this state, is a worthy ally of Holman, of Indiana, in vigilantly watch ing and exposing dubious jobs, big and little, as they lift their heads in Congress. Mr. Smith has proved himself a most valu able member. Not Quite TJaanlmoa. Baltimore Day. There is an almost unanimous concur rence 'of opinion that Keiferis the worst speaker the House has ever had. It would be unanimous bat for (ho fact that Keifer has a vote, POLITICS IN DOG DATS. ASYA1BS IX THK BTATK AUD SATIOX. Stewart' ChaUeege to Ha Treated With Coateatpt-SltaatSoa at Headqnarters SomeBeeeat NonUnattoas. Philadelphia Record. Politics during dog days remains in a quiescent state. Even candidate Stewart's challenge to General Beaver failed to can g more than a ripple on the political sea. At the Republican headquarters the im pression prevailed that the challengo would be treated with silent contempt by tho Regular Republican standard-bearer. ijnairman Cooper declared mac oeaver would not notice the challenge. He claimed that there is not and never was any i-sue between tho rival candidates. The hopeful Geld marshal's face wore an innocent and happy look as he expressed himself. He was about to take his do parture for the seashore, and was in a ju bilant frame of mind in anticipation of a few hours piscatorial sport with Secretary Quay at Atlantic City. " No, " no," said Mr. Cooper, "there will be no joint dis cussions." Seizing his gripsack, duster and cotton umbrella the Delaware county statesmau darted down stairs and disap peared. Field Marshal Hensel, of the Democra tic column, undisturbed by tho flies and heat, sticks to his post in the Girard house, aud occasionally runs out to his home in Lancaster. The outlook affords him a large degree of gratification. When the cool weather sots in a headquarters will be secured on Chestnut street, and the Democratic campaign will begin in earnest. The Republican couveutiou of tho sixth, Pennsylvania district, at Chester, yester day renominated William Ward for repre sentative in Congress. Robert Chadwick aud W. G. Powell were nominated for assemblymen. The convention was intensely Stalwart, the Independents not having attouded the primaries. By the reuouiiuation of Ward to a fourth term the rotary custom is broken, the candidate under tho old sys tem belonging to Chester county. State Senator Everhart audSinedley Darlington, of Chester, were put in nomination, but received short shrift. The nomination of Powell for tho Legislature is said to havo greatly iucensed the friends of Isaac P. Garrett, the present member, who was elected to fill the uucxpired term of his cousin, who died ; Pon ell's friends re sorted to a sharp trick, by which votes were drawn from Garrett and cast for a third caudidate, thus euabliug Powell to slip through. Tho Independents decl.no tho ticket easy to whip. From Beaver to Stewart. Tho Chatnbersbuig Public Opinion, an able aud influential Republican journal, hoists tho Stewart ticket and enters on a vigorous support of it aud the principles it represents. Public Opinion has always been anti-Cameron in tone and was a supporter of the bolters iu the senatorial fight. But its independence has until now been of the reform-within-tho-party sort and it has waved tho Beaver ticket since its nomination, refusing, however, to place Brosius on it for the reason that it did not recognize the legality of his nomination. Col. Guthrie Kefutes a Canard. When Colonel Presley N. Guthrie, of Pittsburgh, commanding tho Eighteenth regiment at Camp Reynolds, was shown a dispatch from Philadelphia saying it was reported he would vote for Beaver, hi3 first remark was : ''It i3 a lie out of the whole cloth." Then he added : " Why should I vote for Beaver ? I am a Demo crat aud coma from a family of Democrats. Is it likely that a man who has been a Democrat for the past twenty years would desart his colors now ? And, more than all, why should I vote for Beaver? We havo nothing in common. Our relations are strictly official. The report is au out rage. I am for Pattison, first, last and ail tho time. Put that as emphatically as you can. I shall not only vote for Pattison but I shall work for him with all the power I possess. Tho wholo story is a lie and an insult." IN UTflKK STA1.ES. St. John Xouiluatod for a Third Term. The Republican state convention of Kansas nominated D. J. Brower by ac clamation for associate justice. Messrs. Johu P. St. John and Solon O. Thacher were thcu placed in nominatiou for gover nor. St. Sohn received 2S7 votes ; Thacher 82 ; J. B. Johnson, 13, aud Johu A. Martin 2. A protest of the anti-St. John men against his nomination for a third term as being un-Rcpublican was thcu presented and tiled with the proceedings of tho con vention. Governor St. John was then called for, and mado a brief speech. No effort was made to make Governor St. John's nominatiou unamious. Tho re mainder of tho state ticket was then nomi nated as follows : D. W. Finney, the pre sent incumbenf, for lioutonant governor ; James Smith, the present incumbent, for secretary of state : Mr. McCabo (colored), of Graham comity, for auditor : Treasure, Samuel S. Howe ; Attorney General, W. A. Johnson ; Statu Superintendent, H. C. Spccr. Nominations for Congress. Ill Ohio John K. Murry, Democrat. Ill Virginia J. Ambler Smith, Itcad justcr. XIX Illinois R. W. Townshcnd,- Demo crat. V Mississippi II. E. Barksdalc, Demo crat. I South Carolina Samuel Dibble, Democrat. VI Pennsylvania Willian Ward, Re publican. VI New Jersey Harris G. Avery, (t if ft nunc kci XVII Illiuois S. W. Moulton, Demo crat. I Kentucky H. II. Houston, Republi can. X Missouri George W. Jackson, Green backer. IX Michigan Byrou M. Cutchcon, Republican. Acnes JenkH' Husband In Office. The husband of Agnes Jcnks, tho noted Louisiana witness, has got a place in the interior department, through tho influence of Senator Kellogg. Canadian Defalcation of IOO,O00. J. S. Hunter, notary, of Montreal, Can ada, has become a defaulter in $100,000. He was appointed six years ago to manage the estate of the late Charles Phillips, and from appearances he has been doing so to his own advantage. It is feared that he has abstracted large sums intrusted to him by others. It is also feared that no part of the amount can be recovered. He held a high social and professional position. Tho President's Flag. The secretary of the navy yesterday is sued the following order : "The flag of the president of the United States shall con sist of a blue ground with the arms of the United States in the centre, and shall be of the dimensions prescribed for the ad miral's flag, No. 1. The flag shall be hoisted at the main of vessels of war while the president is ou board, and shall be carried in the bow of his boat." The Mexican Treaty. The Well and La Abra treaty, setting aside $1,500,000 of fraudulent awards against Mexico, went over in the Senate until next winter through the influence of the claimants. A Girl kuMH Kattie Snake. Miss Hattie Sommers, a petite blonde of Fulton county.aged 16 years, killed a rattle snake that measured five feet. He had tweuty-one rattles, CEDLE AND FATALITY- A BUDGET OF TKAGIO OCCUBKESICBS. The Weary Way or tke Wicked World Murder, Snlclde aad Calamity The Bark Side or Life. At Columbus, Ky., Albert Lower, a traveling salesman, of Detroit, was mur dered by burglars. John Brady and his sister, of Fall River, Mass., were drowned at Stone Bridge, Ti verton, R. I. The younger children were rescued. The house of George Harding, iu Forest City, Minn., was burned and his two chil dren, aged respectively 1 and 4 yevs, per ished in the flames. Emilo Luther, aged 40 years, a cabinet maker, cut his throat with a razor in a fit of despondency at his borne on .hleventb. street, New York, and will very probably die. A construction train on the South Car olina railroad was ditched near Brauch ville, by which Engineer Armstrong was killed and several railroad employees slightly injured. In a collision between a passenger and a freight train on the Iudiana, Bloomington & Western railroad near Springfield, Con ductor James McNarry, of the freight train, was killed aud a number of passen gers severely shocked. Alexander Boyle, while stealing a ride on a freight train, at Williamsport, had both legs cut off aud died soon afterward. He leaves a family at Glasgow, Scot land. Henry Vandemark and John Schoon maker went squirrel huuting at Ithica, N. Y. They separated iu the woods, aud Schoonmaker mistakiug Vandemark's gray beard for a squirrel shot him through tho head. The wounded man died from the effects. Theodore B. Smith & Sou's machine and boiler shop, at tho foot of Essex street, Jersey City, was badly damaged by fire last night. Loss, $35,000. A workman named Grobholiz was fatally burned, aud Conrad Theen, tho foreman, seriously. Jas. Robert Adams, cashier of the West End hotel, at Long Branch, who shot himself on Wednesday morning, died on Wednesday night. George W. Graut was terribly beaten aud stabbed by his two brothers-in law, named Palmer, and another man, named Haley, in Pittsylvania county, Va., a day day or two ago. The assailants fled. Grant is not expected to recover. Paul Tollmcr yesterday shot and killed his wife aud then committed suicide iu Chicago. They had been married two years and leave one child. They had quarreled frequently. Deliberate Suicide at Wilmington, Uel. An Englishman named John Wesley, aged 55 or GO years, unmarried, a resident of Wilmington, Del., for nearly twenty years, deliberately removed his outer clothing and going into the bathroom at his boarding house, stuck his head out of the window and cut his throat with a razor. He was in this position and dead when found, and the razor lay beside him on the window sill. The only reason for his suicide was that he had been out of work for two months and was in arrears for board. He was a machinist by trade, and is represented as having been sober and industrious. Suicide of a Young Journalist. Newton McMillan, a reporter of the Daily Times newspaper of Chicago, shot himself through one of the lungs in that city. He was a young man of much jour nalistic promise, but seems to have suf fered from "despondency because of his inability to gratify his costly tastes on a reporters salary." Tbretr Himself Under the Cars. Edward Clark, patient in the chronic in sane asylum a Binghamton, New York, while working ou tho road near the asylum, eluded tho attendants, aud committed sui cide by throwing himself under the wheels of a freight train on tho Erie raihoad. A Black Brute If anged by a Hob. A colored man from Campbell county, who was accused of outraging a 15 year old white girl, was taken out of jail at Newman, Ga., where bo was taken for safe-keeping, and hung by a party of seventy-five men. Ho was tried by tho crowd and confessed that he and another man had committed the deed. A Funeral Stopped by tlio Coroner. Hie oouy oi Airs. Margaret urcen, oi i Duflield stieet, Brooklyn, was to havo ! been uurieu ou Thursday, but Michael Delahanty, a brother ot 5lrs. Green, in formed the coroner that his sister's death was due to violence at tho hands of her husband, whcieupou the coroner stopped the funeral and ordered an investigation. FATAL EXPLOSION. Four Men Killed by the Premature llcIiun;o of Blast. While a party of laborers were at work on tho West Shoro railroad at Cornwall, N. Y., Thursday evoniug, a blast did not explode, and the men thinking that they had tho hole clcaued out, were about to sink it-deeper, when the powder exploded, driving tho drill through the head of ouo man, brcakiug another man's leg badly, and, it is feared, destroying tho sight of another. Ben Hooper wan in the next cut, and the explosion loosened a piece of rock weighing about six tons, which fell directly ou him, crushing him into a shape less mass. Simpson McCukell had his leg broken in two places, and is not expected to live, and Joo Cascen will probablj lose his eyesight. There were about twenty men in the cut where Hooper was killed, and if they had not run to aid the men where tho explosion occurred they would all have been crushed. The Standard Oil Company. Among tho companies filing their cer tificates of incorporation yesterday at Albany, N. Y., was the Standard oil com pany of New York, with a capital of $5,000,000. Tho incorporators are Wm. Rockafeller, J. A. Bostwick, Benjamin Brewster, O. B. Jennings and Charles Pratt. . Con. Bowet'a Salt far Vantages. General T. L. Rosser has instituted a suit against tho Canadian Pacific railway for malicious prosecution, claiming $100, 000 damages. The suit arises out of tho prosecution of Rosser last winter for taking the plans of the company after ho had left its employment, of which chargo ho was honorably acquitted. Complaint of Hubbell's Contributors. Government employes complain bitterly of Chairman Hubbell's action in sending $10,000 of the money he has wrung from them in the guise of voluntary contribu tions into Mississippi to help Chalmers, the " sore-head," to beat Manning, Demo crat, and Lettlo, straighout Republican, in tho congressional race. Bat It's None of Oar Funeral. Philadelphia Fre. Candidate Black looks as cheerful as though he were not carrying the corpse of the late Thomas Jefferson under his arm. These Democrats have a queer way of con ducting a funeral. Struck a Cheap Lay. Philadelphia Press. Chairman Hensel is warming tho Dem ocratic heart with encouraging reports. Talented as the young chairman is, ho couldn't hit upon a cheaper kind of cam paign work. The Bonnets. The Southern Dental association, in ses sion at Baltimore, selected Atlanta, Ga., as the place for the next annual meeting of the association, KOBE ABUOT THE STOBH. The Qaarryrllle KaUroad Being- Keaelred. Hiram People's -Carp Foad Brad ley Colt JToaad. Through aU the valleys on the streams in which the big flood of Monday went, any number of men can be seen busy fix ing up fences and gathering up the posts, rails and timber ; and a good deal has to be hauled a considerable distance to get it home again, but still more is lost. The road bridge at New Providence was found in Shultz's meadow, at Refton, and was rebuilt on Tuesday, but the heavy rain of that night took it away agaiojtand it was rebuilt on Wednesday. Trains on the Quarryvillo R. R. which have been running only as far as th " Y" got into Quarryville to-day. A large force are at work and they are- only making a temporary job of it ; the road will not ba permanently repaired fora few months. At the Y only the main track will be repaired the balance will be removed to Hesi' sta tion where a new Y will be built. This will do away with several bridges and all the trussle work, will be above the floods and handy to the mines. One of the saddest losses by tho storm is that of our genial friend, Hon. Hiram Peoples, tho jolly fisherman of the county ancl the champion bass catcher. He had built a large pond and stocked it with German carp. It is gone and the fish with it. They were beauties ; many of them full grown and very tame. Whilst Hiram missed the nomination for assembly, and has lost a large portion of his tobacco by the flood, ho takes the carp loss tho hard est Ho has been all along the meadows with his net, and to-day he caught one of them, a large fine one. We hope ho will find more and get his pond rebuilt and restocked. Hiram is a clever fellow and never forgets his friends. The rain of Tuesday night around Quar ryville was very hoavy and the water in Big Beaver at New Providence was within six inches of the height it reached the day before, and undid some of the work that had been done in tho way of repairs, which therefore had to be done over. Joseph Bradly's colt, which was floated out of the meadow on tho Conowingo on Monday and which was supposed to have been drowned, was fonnd some two miles down the stream safe, with only a few scratches. OBITUARY. Death oi an Estimable Laay at tttrasbora;. Mrs. Salome Seymour, wife of Mr. Geo. X. Seymour and daugher of Mr. William Crawford, of Paradise, died on .Thursday morning between three and eight o'clock, at tho residence- of her husband, South Decator street. The fatal disease, typhoid malaria spent its course after an illness of threo weeks. So calmly and quietly did she sink to rest that her husband, and those who wero withhcratthotimehardly knew when she passed from sleep into the sleep which knows no waking. Deceased was in her 30th year. She was an earnest devoted Christian. Her loss is one which, to her husband is irreparable ; but he has the comforting assurance from the knowl edge of her pure, unselfish life, that she has gone to her reward. The funeral will take place Saturday afternoon, service at the house by Rev. E. S. Heany at one o'clock, and at Paradise Presbyterian church by Rev. Gaylord at 2 o'clock. Uoldea Wedding;. Mr. aud Mrs. George Martin celebrated the fiftieth annivcisary of their marriage at their residence at No. 341 West King street. A very largo number of relatives and other invited guests were present. Mr. and Mrs. Martin are both hale and hearty and received their guests with most cordial welcome. The city cornet baud (of which Gcoree Martin, ir.. is leader, and j one ether son. and one grandson of the old couplo aro members), was present and discoursed somo sweet music. After con gratulations had been extended tho happy couplo, the guest were invited to partake ot a most sumptuous collation. Tho fes tivities terminated at a reasonable hour, tho departing guests wishing " many happy returns" to the venerable couple, whose robust health warrant tho belief that they may be spared to celebrate many moro weddiug day anniversaries. l'KNSION AJfPOlMTMKNTS. Tlio Stalwart Have the Lion's Share Lucky Lancastrians. A list of 422 appointments to clerkships in the pension office, tho first batch of the 800 provided for in tho legislative bill, is given to the press. An examination of it discloses the fact that tho Stalwarts con trol the bulk of tho patronage distributed. According to this list of the 422 appoint raeuts, Now York gets 39 ; Pennsylvania 41 ; Illinois 25, and Kentucky 24, and iu these four states tho Stalwart element is fully recognized. Fifteen of tho Pennsyl vania appointments are accredited to Sen ator Cameron and nouo to Mitchell. Re presentative A. Herr Smith got two places aud they aro given respectively to M. IS. Landis at $1,000 and S. W. Shirk at $1,200. J. L. Shuman get a $900 clerkship on Si mon Cameron's recommendation. A Uandsoine Banner. Lancaster Division No. 6. Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias, have just received a large and handsome banner which tbey will hang out at their headquarters in Har risburg next week. The banner is now hangiug across Prince street, at Robert's ball, and will be shipped to Harrisburg to-morrow. It is made of netting. In the centre there is a largo triangular piece of red canvas, on which is painted a very handsome lily, the emblem of tho order. Tho following letters aro of white on the canvas: "Headquarters, Lancaster Division U. R. K. of P." Good wheat. John Sencr, of West Willow, has finish ed threshing the wheatgrownonhisfarm. Ho had over 75 acres planted and it yielded 2,518 bushels of wheat aud 40 bushels of screenings an average of about 33 bushels to the acre. Tho straw is remarkable fine, and has been stacked iu a single stack said to be the largest in the state. The stack was built by Benjamin Rohrer. We hear reports of farmers who expected to average 40 and even 50 bushels of wheat to the acre. We shall bo pleased to give a bearing to any who make a better show than Mr. Sener. The Value of Property In Onarryvlllr. D. F. Lefever last week sold his house and lot in Quarryville to Daniel Bair for $1,800 and tho next day Mr. B. sold the same to St. Clair McPherson for $1,900. Three years ago this property was sold for $1,200 to Mr. Lefever, who offered to sell it for $1,400 a year ago. This is a fair iustanco of the increase in the value of property in that flourishing and growing little town. Thirty Dollars Stolen From at Bureau. During the absence of Hebe Weiler and his family, of Quarryville, on Wednesday evening, some one entered his house and took $30 out of a bureau. Suspicion pointed to a young colored man named George Patterson, hostler at the National house. He was arrested by Officer Sutcr and taken before 'Squire Thompson, who committed him in default of bail to pri son. Arm Cut. Last evening John Gundaker, who is employed at Brimmer's livery stables ac cidentally run his hand through a cab window and had his arm terribly cut near the wrist. The wound is an ugly one and it bled for a long time. Dr. Albright dressed it and Gundaker will be disabled for some time. A DA AT LITITZ Thursday's Bis Excursion t.. uie Ancient Village. The excursion of Trinity Lutheran cob gregatioc to Lititz was the largest which has left Reading this season, aud was un doubtedly the most extensive that has ever visited the old Moravian town. It is doubtful whether a larger excursion ever left Reading. The excursion train was divided into two sections ot eleven and fourteen oars respectively, every car hav ing been crowded with human freight. In some of the cars three and four persons occupied a seat, and many were compelled to stand. Children occupied places in the laps of their elders, and' tha average number of persons in a car, especially in the second section, was estimated at one hundred. The regular train which left at 7:30 a. m., also carried three car loads of passengers bound for Lititz, and the train which left at noon had a similar number, making 31 oar loads of people yesterday at Lititz from this city, or a total of between 2,509 and 3,000. The reporter gives a glowing ac count of the journey bctweon Reading and Lititz, and points out the beauty of the scenery, and some of tho interesting features of the thriving towns through whieh the excursion party passed. At Stevens, formerly Reamstown station, he saw a number of fine tobacco fields aud from this station southward considerable land has been devoted to tobacco. Most of the tobacco appears backward, but the late rains have improved it wonderfully, and the crop will provj satisfactory if not injured by hail. Further on he says Lititz is undoubtedly one of the most favored towns of Lancas ter county for natural advantages and business opportunities, but it is only of late years that the staid old town has ex hibited much life. It hasaroused from its lethargy, however, aud within the past few years some handsome residences have been erected. The crystal spring, issuing from the solid rock at a number of place, the openings in the rock being suggestive of caverns which may rival those of Luray that have made the Virginia town famous is visited by thousands of persons every year. The grove has been much beautified, the locust trees planted some 13 or 15 jears ago having now attained sufficient growth to furnish abundant shade. 'After each excursion train hail been emptied of its passengers yesterday, every portion of the springs grounds was soon taken possession of. Tho children enjoyed themselves iu many ways, and their parents wero pleased lookers-on. Several games of baseball wero also played during the day. Tho Liberty cornet band, Prof. Unger, leader, discoursed excellent music in the morning and afternoon, rendering a full concert programme. Tho singing by the Sunday-school, with accompaniment by the baud, was simply grand. Rev. Dr. Fry was called upon to baptize a child at the spring in the afternoon, and tho per formance of the ceremony drew together a number of spectators. The towu of Lititz came in for a share of inspection, the Moravian church and cemetery being tho chief points of interest. 'Squire Christ kindly uulocked the church and hundreds entered the sanotuary. The simplicity of the graves in the cemetery and the Moravian mode of interment in terested a great many persons. The aes thetic spirit appears to havo even entered this quiet resting place of the dead, as it is noticeable that some Of tho tablets cov ering moro recent graves have been made quite ornamental. The grave of Gen. John A. Sutter, the discoverer of gold in California, is in a corner of the cem etery, in a well shaded, secluded spot. The aged general died in Washington while endeavoring to obtain an appropria tion from Congress, in recognition of his services to his country. His elegant resi dence on Broad street, being on the direct road to Lancaster, was also visited by a number of excursionists. Tho schools for young ladies and boys came in for a share of attention, and the excursionists arrived home shortly before seven o'clock p. m., without a single accident having happened, although the crowded condition of the cars and scramble for seats made many feel apprehensive that there might be serious results. A lady lost a diamond ring on the springs grounds, and a little girl is said to have been seen to pick it up. A liberal reward will be paid for its return to Rev. Dr. Fry, who will deliver it to tho owner. BIO TOBACCO. Hopewell Hopes to Take the Lead. A valued and reliable correspondent writing from Hopewell, Chester county, sends the following encouraging epistle : Eds. Intellioencek : I see many very unfavorable reports iu your columns of tho tobacco crop. I bad the fortune of being in a field of five acres in Hopewell borough, Chester county, owned by E. Kirk and farmed by G. Friandlich, which exceeds anything in tobacco I have seen this year. It measures about forty inches in the leaf, and i as near a uniform size as any field could possibly be. The farmer informed me it is of the Pattison variety, and that be means to take the lead this fall among all growers of tho weed, both in size and quality really intends it to exceed anything that ever graced tho gubernatorial chair. Hopewell has come down through great tribulations, yet is bound to soar above" them all in tobacco culture ; and to all lovers ot the weed I would say look to your interests and give Hopewell a call. Police vases. The mayor had but one customer this morning, a disorderly one, and bo was discharged. Alderman Samson yesterday afternoon held Joseph Murphy to bail to answer at court for assault and battery on William Nicholson. Nicholson had previously k been returned to court for chewing Mur-v phy's ear nearly off. Alderman McCono my this morning committed five train jumpers for ten days each for trespassing on the Pennsylvania railroad. Baseball. The Ironsides baseball club have secured a fine lot near Charlotte street and Har risburg pike. They will at once have a large fence built around it, and people will hereafter be charged to see the game. This is as it bhould be, and if this club had received the encouragement that they deserved they would havo had a lot long ago. Drunk and BUurderly. Julia Reilly, who bad a hearing before Alderman Donnelly of the Seventh ward, on a charge of being drunk and disorderly, was discharged on payment of costs. By the same alderman, Elizabeth Stew art was held for a hearing on the same charge. Large Tobacco Leaves. This morning we wero shown three very large tobacco leaves which were taken from the paten of G. Allen McFet ridge, who resides near the Compass. The largest was 41 inches in length and 25 in width. r Work Kesumed. . f This morning work was resumed oa the new building on East Orange street, be longing to the estate of Jacob 'M. Long, lately deceased. Uood Lack. Yesterday John Shaeffer, John A. Bay- if der, Rober Stableford and Taos. C. Wiley4 went to Safe Harbor. They caught 27' bass and 10 reck fish. Ia Town. Miss Anna McDonnell, sister of General Beaver, is the guest of Mr. Joseph Hou-, Of this city.
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