c XiANCASTEE DAILY INTELLiaENCER, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, i882. Lancaster f ntelltflencct. TUESDAY KVSMINQ, AUG. 15, 1883. Dersej'g Letter. The Philadelphia Press informs the New York Times that "Dorsey's letter to Garfield is not "an after-thought and an impudent forgery as the Times be lieved." It avows that " the letterwas written and mailed to General Gar field;" and reminds its contemporary that it is dated there a few days before the celebrated dinner at Delmonico's, given in honor of Dorsey, at which he was extravagantly lauded for his work in the presence of a select company of politicians, and no less a personage than the present president, who was clear in his protestation of tha debt his party owed to the man he was thus honoring. But the Press finds that the letter does not damage the fame of Garfield, be cause he did not follow its recommen dations, but did appoint MacVeagh and James to his cabinet. It is true that the letter does not seriously damage Garfield's reputation ; because it only reflects upon him in that it was possible for such a letter to be written to him by such a man. That would of itself be a very damaging thing to make public of any other man who had achieved the presidency, but it is an old story of Garfield. His fame lias been too deeply smirched by his con nection with other men of Dorsey's class to make it possible to damage it much by showing this intimacy of Dor sey's address to him. Perchance the answer to this letter, which Dorsey holds in threatening reserve, may be very un pleasant to thoso who would hold in reverence Garfield's 'memory, but until it is made public they are entitled to as sume that it does not exist. The con nection of Arthur and the Repub lican party with Dorsey is more pertinent for consideration in the light of the revelation of this letter than those of the Star Route trials. It is not possible to efface the fact that Dor sey's position of power in the party, re vealed in the tone ol this letter, was awarded to him at the time ; that the Delmonico dinner and the declarations of its eaters and the connection with it of President Arthur clearly place on record. The editor of the Press himself was one of the invited guests and lent his name to Dorsey's glorification along with a most distinguished company of Republican politicians. They knew Dorsey's work and met to place on record their judgment that it had been of the highest value to the party. It was from this accorded position that Dorsey spoke to the man he had elected lotho presidency by ways that were charged freely not to have been honest ways, and which few can doubt, in the contemplation of his character as since developed, were not honest ways. This man, now freely denounced by the men who then upheld him, in full knowledge of the character of his work, was then the director of the Republican campaign, and still holds the position of secretary of the Republican national committee. A man of his kind was needed to do the work that had to be done to elect Garfield ; just as like men had been needed and found, in the pres ent secretary of the navy and in Robert "V. Mackey, to do the necessary dirty work to put Haves in office after he had been defeated by the people. This letter of Dorsey damns the Re publican party in its revelation of the tone in which it enabled a public thief to address the president-elect of the United States. The men who sustained him then may de sert him now, but they will in vain try to clear themselves or their party from responsibility for him and his base acts. President Arthur may yield him to the punishment of his crimes under the stress of a necessity forced upon him by public knowledge and opinion, as he yielded Guiteau, but he cannot escape the moral respon sibility for the wrongful acts which Ids support, with that of others of influence in his party, gave him the power to per form. Arthur is not a fool ; he had long been a politician ; he knew the methods which Dorsey used to aid the Republi can election cause. Ho exhibited himself in public as his endorser and applauder with this full knowledge ; and now that the public have the same knowledge he had he cannot prove his innocence by turning upon the scoundrel he lauded, associated with and used while his rascality was an-undemon- strated fact. Some of the Republican politicians who sat at that Dorsey din ner may plead the baby act in extenua tion, but Arthur is not one of them; and quite probably Dorsey has the documents to show it, and they may be effective to keep him from the penitentiary. Public opinion is by no means well settled that justice is to be allowed its free course against Dorsey. His counsel asks the jury whether it is possible that the president really desires to "crush" "his friend, his familiar, his acquaintance, one with whom he was on terms of kind ness and hospitality, one with whom he had associated in political life for years, and one for whom, about a month before his accession to the vice presidency ,he had borne testimony as a capable and honest man." That was on February 11, 1881, in New York at the Delmonico dinner, when he claimed to know him well, and few will believe he did not. The presi dent and the Republican party in the honor they then did Dorsey made a blot whi h will notout. ThlBk Over It. The removal of the insane hospital and even of the almshouse from their present location to s place more remote from the city Is a subject that may profitably engage the attention of the board of poor directors, before they enter upon the rebuilding of the struc ture burned down on Sunday. In many counties of the state these insti tutions are located miles from the county seat to great advantage. Their present location spoils the most beautiful part of our suburbs for purposes of private residence. All that nature has done to afford beautiful sites for handsome suburban seats along the meandering Conestoga is interfered with by the loca tion of the asylums for the paupers and the insane. A large and very valuable farm is held by these in stitutions and cultivated at no profit commensurate with the value of the ground for building lots. Of course this subject would have been of more timely consideration before $125,000 were put into the new almshouse, bnt even with that investment it is worth considering whether the county property could not be disposed of to advantage and another site secured where the asylums could be better managed than so close to town. The advantages to the city from adding the many hundreds of acres between the jail and the creek to its available sites for private residences are so great that this subject is well worth general atten tion. At present all this land is un available for such purposes simply be cause of the poorhouse and hospital. Shall we not away with them ? Think over it. And why was the almshouse not in sured ? If insurance is a good thing for private individuals why not for county property ? Here are thousands of dollars worth of property in ashes and no recompense ! Whose fault is it ? Are the men whose neglect is responsible for this fit to be entrusted with the rebuild ing of the hospital ? Is an interview in the Herald Chair man Cooper is credited with expressing the opinion that Beaver has " the Grand Army and the National Guard with him." How did he get them? And where? Who made the contract ? Who is to carry it out? Cooper should be more explicit. Coopeu is reported as saying that ho has made a careful canvas of the Grand Army of the Republic in Cambia county, and that of 24S Democrats in-it 245 will vote for Beaver. Is Cooper an suss or is the reporter ? Edwakd McPiikrson writes a long letter to the Press to prove that the last House of Representatives was not utterly vile. Come to think of it, that House did elect McPherson clerk, sind apologist for it. The road to tbo pension bureau lrom Pennsylvania leads through Don's front door. If Stokes had not killed Col. Fisk he would probably havo remained an unknown and comparatively poor man to the end of his days, but his fatal shot gave him no toriety, and now he is making $100,000 a year. Perhaps Do Quincoy was right when he considered murder ouo or tlio fine arts. When the Philadelphia Times speaks of " Henry L. James " as the late postmaster general, it is to bo presumed that its polit ical editor has gono off on a vacation or else that uuusually well-informed individ ual has " for once " got his tricks mixed. Our contemporary evidently refers to the James whose baptismal name is Thomas, not Henry. Tnc Reading Times says that Mr. Chauncey F. Black, the Democratic can didate for lieutenaut governor, passes more than half of bis time in New York, when it is a well known fact that ho is de Voted to his business pursuits in the township of Spriuggarden, in the county of York, in the state of Pennsylvania, at.d lives there the year round. Ho hut rarely even visits New York, and all his literary work has been performed at his homo on the farm. The question of flags, growing out of the president's new bunting, is an absorb ing one. Secretary Chandler declares now that he knows next to nothing about the new flag, and that it was not his business; while the fact, accordingly to seemingly authentic reports, is quito tho ic verse What his reasons are for wishing to bo clear of it now is matter for inference As a matter of fact, no ono now seems de sirous to accept the responsibility of having brought the flag into existence. This is quito another feeling from what prevailed on the subject all last week, when tho question seemed to bo who should have the credit, and when Secretary Chandler was apparently under the impression that he wa3 in some sort sharing in a special distinction when ho issued the order es tablishing tho new flag in the regulations of the service over which he prcsidos. Important changes are impending in tho administration of Castle Garden, in cluding the resignation of four of the com missioners. Theso officials, as is well known, receive no salaries, but their posi tion is one of no little political importancc Tho commissioners control tho appoint ment of a numerous staff of officers who receive pay, besides which they have tho management of the contracts for supplies for the public institutions ou Ward's island. The famous "Barney liiglin" (said to be a particular personal friend of President Arthur), who has the contract for tho transportation of immigrants' baggage, is ono of their appointee, and " Barney " is a recognized power in de ciding tho political deals at the ward pri maries. The outgoing commissioners will be George A. Starr (Stalwart), George Forrest (Half-breed), Henry A. Hurlbut (Republican), and James Lynch (Demo crat). The reasons which have led them to this step are not divulged as yet, nor is it known who their successors are to be. Henky Wattekson, according to au audacious Louisville correspon lent, is like Dr. Johnson, a great eater ; like a truo Kentuckian, he is a great drinker. The lining of his stomach is never happy nnless it is tugging at the ears of the fiercest whisky. He plays poker, too. It is said that he owes two faro rooms in Louisville $20,000. The sum has never been collected, because they prefer his silence. The report that he " laid down $900 on a single card at Crockford last night" is frequent. There was a time when his arithmetic was not constructed upon the principle that an aee was greater than a deuce, and when buttermilk was on as intimate terms with his stomach as whisky has become. He was a young man than, and had not become a resident of Louisville. 'He is only 42 now. He writaa tint: little, and then nnnn tha in spirational plan. NEWS MISCELLANY. - ITEMS FKOSI THE MORNING MAIL. Tragic Occurrence and. fatal Happenings Victims or Midsummer Madness. Paragraph r Varied Interest. Charles Harris hanged himself because Belle Mercer, his affianced, refused to be reconciled with him. Mrs. Bushee was instantly killed and Miss Minnie Raynor badly injured -by Do ing thrown from a wagon down an em bankment near Reescville, N. Y. Joseph Jones fell through a hatchway in tho brewery at Fifty-seventh street and the East river, New York, and was in stantly killed. John Morris, 88 years of ago, of New ark, is dying, from injuries received by walking out of a third story window at midnight of Sunday, while temporarily deranged. Two white men, named Mooneyand Richardson, fatally shot a negro named Booth, near Satartin, Miss., because he would not let them ride in his wagon. They escaped. U. S. Deputy Marshal Young was fatal ly shot, in tho Choctaw Nation, by two men named Jones and Randall while be was executing a warrant at Jones' ranch. A party is pursuing the murderers. . Walter J. and C. R. Morris " because they did not like the singing" of Henry Hyman, stabbed him and his friend, A. Clute, in the neck at tbo Avon Beach hotel. L. I. Tho state department at Washington has received information 'from Minister Low ell, at London, of tho release of Mr. Mea ney, who was arrested iu Ireland under the repression act. A wealthy resident of Lambertville, New Jersey, knowu as "Governor" Williams, shot himself in tho stomach, at Easton, Pcnna., on Sunday, and died yes terday morning. James Jackson, foreman, was killed by a car attached to a laborers' train ou tho New York, Chicago and St. Louis railroad having been thrown from tho track near Warsaw, Ind. In the samo city C. A. Wetton, auditor of the Dcs-Moiucs & Fort Dodge railroad company, blew his brains out while an officer was reading a warrant for his arrest on a charge of bigamy. It is said that ho had fivo or six wives. The Texas cattlo fever prevails to au alarming extent iu Stcubenville, Ohio, as in the neighboring counties in Ohio and West Virginia. Among the cattlo recent ly brought from tho southwest great num bers have died. A passenger and a freight train collided yesterday on tho Cleveland aud Marietta railroad, near HHgers Crossing, Ohio, wrecking both locomotives, aud seriously injuring many passengers. Miss Josio Carr was pushed from tho caboose, run over and killed. A Little Rock, Ark., despatch says that John M. McCurtin has beon elected prin cipal chief of tho Choctaw Nation, beating Benjamin F. Smallwood, tho anti-railroad candidate by a large majority. "Tho election was very exciting, hut there was no blood shed." Notable Necrology. Etnilo Lasere, a well-known journalist and politician of Now Orleans, La., died on Sunday, aged 80 years. Amimikcncc, Littlo Thunder, a famous chief of tho Chippewa Indians, aud one of the two survivors or tbo Uuster massacre, died in tho Mercy hospital, Chicago, 111., Monday morning, aged GO years. He was known as "a good Indian." Judge William Schley, of New York and formerly of Georgia, died suddenly at tho Uuited States hotel. Saratoga. .Tudgo William M. Levy, of the Louis iana state court, diod at tho 1'itney liouso yesterday. , Col. John II. Brant, one of tho wealth iest citizens of Harrisburg, Pa., died Mon day evening of paralysis. James Tisdalo, of Hartfoid, Conn., as sistant librarian of tbo .National House or Representatives from 1SG4 to 18C7, aud librariau from 1887 to 1872, has died some what suddenly at Buzzard's Bay, Conn. Tbe Yellow Fever. The governor of Texas has proclaimed quarantine against Mexican ports, and authorized tho counties on tho Rio Grande and exposed points to proclaim local quar antine. A telegram from Laredo, Texas, says that, at Matamoras, Mexico, thero wero two new cases and eight deaths from yel low fever in tho twenty four hours ending at 8 p. m., on the loth. Heavy thunder aud rain squalls are prevailing. Twenty-three new cases of yellow fever aud one death wero reported at Browns ville, Texas, yesterday, by Deputy Col lector Goodrich. Cetewayo to be Restored. A dispatch from London says that Cete wayo visited tho queen at Osborne Monday accompanied by the Earl of Kimberly, secretary of state for tho colonial depart ment. It is said that the queen informed him of tho decision of her government to restoro him to his kingdom. It is stated that a British resident will bo appointed to reside at Ulundi, tho Zulu capital, in older to advise him on questions relative to external relations. Tlic Work ol an Inhuman Father. Adam Koch, living iu old South Bethle hem, was arrested on Saturday for inhu manly beating his daughter, aged about eight years. There wero bloody marks upon tho little girl's head aud great streaks across her left arm, back and hips. Koch obtained a bondsman to keep him out of jail, but when tbe latter saw the condition of the child, he withdrew and tbe inhuman father was sent to jail. Hanging a Murderer Already Dying of Consumption. In Silver City, N. M., Elijah Franklin was hanged Monday afternoon for tho murder of Deputy Sheriff Johnson. Strong efforts were mado to obtain a res pite, as Franklin was dying of consump tion, but Governor Sheldon declined to interfere. Franklin had asked for a re spite of thirty days, tho prison physicians having assured him that his disoaso would prove fatal boforo that brief leasa of life expired. A Young man's Singular Death.. At Chester Thomas Toppin, a youug man seventeen years of age, died under peculiar circumstances. He was struck on the face with a base ball on Saturday, tho force of the blow breaking a tooth. Mon day morning he complained of pain in the tooth, and went to a dentist to have it extracted. Gas was administered, but tho tooth could not be drawn, and suffering with augmented pain he went home, was seized with spasms and soon after expired. A Desperado's Hard Fight for Freedom. At Indiana, Pa., Duke Ray, a despe rado, after raiding two houses was pur sued by tho sheriff and a large posse. When brought to bay be flourished a huge butcher knife, and only surrendered when three bullets were fired into his body. He is now in jail, seriously injured. AN AKCHBISUOF'S 8UICIDK. Ha Jumps Overboard from a Steamship on His Way to San Francisco. The Alaska Commercial company's steamer, St. Paul, which arrived at San Francisco from St. Michael's, brings intel ligence of the death, undoubtedly suicidal, of Archbishop Nestor, of tho Russian church. The reverend gentleman, who had charge of tho diocese of Alaska, took passage on the St Paul for San Francisco, which was his permanent place of resi dence. He was missed shortly after leav ing St. Michael's and circumstances clear ly indicated that he had . jumped over-' board. Ho had been troubled for somo time with' rush of blood to the head and had appeared at times not quite of sound mind. He was fifty-six years old. A COAST OX HIS JTOSCI. CoL Bad Jealousy tACalr The most conspicuous man at Atlantic City this season is Colonel Rush Goshen, 4G years of age, 7 feet 8 inches in height and weight G30 pounds. This gigantic sampie of corporal humanity is at' pro sent exhibiting with a circus which is do ing the shoro resorts during the summer. Colonel Goshcu, while at Atlantic, on Saturday, met John Sweet, a showman, ou the board walk, and in settlement of a fued of long standing between them pro ceeded to scatter bis diminutive foe about th'e beach. When tho bewildered showman could gather himself up lie caused a warrant to be issued for the giant, who was taken before a magistrate and held in $800 bail to answer at the September term of May's Landing court. According to Sweet, the assault was entirely unprovoked. The colonel drew a revolver and threatened to shoot Sweet, and followed up his threats by striking the little showman several times over the head and right arm with a cane, inflicting several scalp wounds and severely injuring his arm. Sweet married the divorced wifo of Goshen. Ho says that tho difficulty grew out of the fact that ho now owns a farm near Now Brunswick, Somerset county, N. J., which formerly belonged to tho giant, but which he secured by paying off a $2,500 mortgage on it. The "greatest giant in tbe world " told a different story. Ho alleged that Sweet acted with duplicity and deceit toward him in return for kiudness and assistance rendered him some two or three years ago. Sweet married the widow of Sebastian, a famous circus rider. He was poor at the time, and Goshen offered him and his wifo a home upon his Now Brunswick farm, which they accepted. While he was upon a Pacific tour, Goshen's wife aud Sweet appropriated over $6,000 in silver which he had in the bouse, burned up $70, 000 worth of bonds, took his goat, valued at $100, and his horse and wagon and eloped. Goshen got a divorce from his faithless wife, who subsequently married Sweet, and now appears as a snako char mer at his show. Colonel Goshen further said that while walking along the board- wall: at tue time ot tue assault oweet gave him a malicious grin, aud used the most vulgar language in reference to Goshen's divorced wife and his mother. He said the insult to his mother was more than he could stand, and, drawing a pistol, told Sweet he ought to shoot him, but would let him livo in his degradation. Ho then struck him several times with his cane. After his hearing Goshon left for Cape May to rejoin the circus. It is suspected that a hankering after a free advertisement had something to do with the assault. M'CLURK ON THIS SITUATION. Futtlsou's Klocilou and Democratic Con gressional Gains Certain. New York Herald Interview. Colonel Alexander McClure was a lead er in the bolt of 1872 that endeavored to compass tho defeat of Hartranft. " Curtin and I stayed out," ho said to day. " Grow fell into line again, but he has been vigorously proscribed ever since. It is this policy of proscription against every Republican in Pennsylvania who bas ever dared to show a spirit of independ ence that has mado this present revolt against Cameron rule so bitter and deter mined. No man would dream of being a candidate for governor unless ho had Mr. Cameron's permission to offer himself. Tho Cameron managers can and will beat any man for tho Legislature or Congress who sots himself against them. They don't pretend to regard a party nomina tion if tho candidate is obffoxious. Here is a report that tho independent Bayne has declared that he will support tho Cam eron ticket, and simultaneously comes tho announcement tbat tbo Cameron candi date for Congress in tho Pittsburgh dis trict will withdraw his opposition to Bayne." " Will tho Independents generally pcr- scvero in tbe light t ' "With hardly an exception. This is wuat Mr. coward called an irrepressible conflict. They make no disguiso of their intention to defeat tho Cameron power whatever it costs the party. Tho Iudo pendent candidates, in refusing tbo Cam eron overtures, well reflected tho senti ment of their followers. Had there been a compromise tho larger part of their strength would bave been merely turned over to Pattisou. If there were no Inde pendent ticket in tho field, Pattison's elec tion would be placed beyond a doubt." "At what iiguro do you place their vote?" " At not less than 100,000." "Then you do not think enough Demo cratic votes can be taken from Pattison to offset this secession?" "No. You have been told, what is true, that if there is a probability that Cameron money cau buy any great number of Dem ocrats cither for Beaver or Armstrong there will be a rush of Independent votes for Pattison." "You tbink his election certain ?" "As certain as anything can bo iu politics. Ho will get at any rato many thousand Republican votes in Philadelphia. Tho fact that ho has been chiefly instru mental in reducing the tax rate from $2.25 to $1.93 will insure him tho cordial sup port of many Republican taxpayers, irres pective of this conflict within tho party. Up to the time that he sat down ou the chist, as a disgruntled contractor put it, wo were paying that tax levy of $2.25 and were adding $3,000,000 a year to our debt and wero making no local improvements. Wo now have a surplus of $1,000,000 a year aud we havo constant improvements to show for tbe money spent." " This change is due to Controller Pat tison ?" " Ho mado it possible. Except for the honesty and able management of the city finances in tho controller's office we might still havo been robbed without re course." " Will tho revolt affect tho congres sional districts ?" "The present representation will be almost reversed. Tho Democrats will carry seventeen districts. Tho chaucss are in favor of Brigham, Harincr and O'Neill in Philadelphia, but the result even in these districts is doubtful. A minister's Uoys sprinkle Chloroform Over the carpet and Kob Their Father of 5,000. Some time since a U. B. preacher, liv ing near Harrissville, in Harrison county, Ohio, named Love, was robbed of $5,000. Being unable to And any clue to the per petrators of tho robbery he called in the aid or detectives, wbo astonished tbe rev erend gentleman by producing his two sons, aged respectively twelve and four teen years, as the culprits. The youthful robberSjOu being cornered, confessed their crime, and said that ihey had gone to Bollair and purchased a.bottle of chloro form which on the night of the robbery they had scattered over the carpet of the old man's sleeping room and when this had taken effect they quietly robbed him of the monoy, intending to go West. The little rascals had all tbe money when ar rested and expressed no regret over any thing except tho failure of their plans. An Unmaaagabie Circus none. While Nathans' circus was preparing to depart on Saturday from Atlantic City tho horses attached to one of the wagons be came unmanageable, and breaking loose created no little consternation among tho bystanders. William Massey, a boy, was knocked down and so seriously injured that his life is despaired of. He was cat in the head aud braised about the body. OLD BEEKS AE0USED. THE COUNTY SUETINQ IN HEADING. Sounding the Keynote or tne Campaign Speeches That Enthused the Crowd Black on JeOersonlan Democracy. The annual Democratic "county meet ing," always held oa the first day of the August court, convened in tho court house in Reading on Monday afternoon. There were representatives present from every district in the county, and Chair man William Harris, of tho county com mittee, presided cx-ofiicio aud outlined the plan of the campaign as it is being effectively prosecuted by tho local organi zation. Alter tho appointment ot secre taries, vice piesidcnts and a resolutions committee tbe president introduced Mr. Ermcntront, congressman from that dis trict, who rendered to his constituents an account of the last session and severely arraigned tbe Republican majority for their failure to provide relief to the pnb lie from the oppressive burden of taxation and denounced tho river and harbor bill. He was warmly applauded and hiscourso in Congress met tho maifest approval of his people. Chauncey F. Black, caudidate for lieu tenant governor, who ever since his ar rival in tho city had been tho subject ot a good deal ot social attention and was warmly met by hundreds of the Berks county yeomanry, was introduced as the apostle of puro Jeffcrsouiau Democracy and was received with great applause, but said that ho had come to see rather than to bo heard. Ho pro posed to cut his remarks almost as short as Dean Swift, who, when told to preach briefly in tho prcsenco of the king, anuounccd his text, "He that givcth to tho poor Ieudeth to the Lord," and simply said : " If you like tho security down with the dust." Tho candidate for lieutenant governor said be had no security to offer except life long dovotion to thoso old-fashioned Democratic prin ciples which Thomas Jefferson had crys talizcd into a political system that had been faithfully applied by a long scries of Democratic administrations. Congressman Ermentrout's speech was an appalling in dictment agaiust Cougrcss, but in the first Democratic platform ever promulgated away back in 1800 and doubtless from the pen of Jefferson himself thero were doctrines laid down tbat fairly met tho .living issues of to day, extravagance aud corruption in tho administration of gov ernment. The boss system, tho spoils system and tho shameful waste of public money by such measures as tho river and harbor bill wero tho results of the doctrine and practice of centralization, against which a sound Democracy must bo arrayed. What ever evils exist from which workingmen suffer are tbo results of au assumption of powers by the governing classes tbat tho constitution has never granted them and which every congressman when bo takes his ollico solemnly swears ho will not as sume. The doctrine that that country is governed best which is governed least is as truo now as thrco quartcrs of a century ago and is as truo in Pennsylvania as in the country at large. Our greatest political and social evils result from superfluous and oppressive legislation enacted iu behalf of favored classes. The indulgence of these tendencies to a stretch of power has resulted in the boss system, which would havo been as impossible even in tho Whig party of forty years ago, as it is in tho Democratic party of to-day. Thero has set iu a counter tendency, and ono place where things aro being righted is in Philadelphia, where Pattison stands with " both hands and ono shoulder inside tho gate of tbo city treasury, protecting it against tho desperate gang ot thieves who have assailed it." Mr. Black paid a high eulogy to the candidate for governor, and predicted that tho people of tho statu would call him to be their executive head. Statu Chairiuau IIouscl spoko for about a half hour and waked his audience to a .pitch of enthusiasm, brieily discussing tho general issues of the campaign and im pressing upon tho workers of the party tho importance of close, efficient organization by detail in every school district and town block. He declared tbat if he conld bo assured by tho 7th of September that every Democrat was registered he would be better satisfied than to receive two per cent, on the office holder's salaries, and if he could be assured by the 7th of October that every Democrat had his tax paid and was naturalized he could assuro his party then that Pattison was elected and the effort made from then until November would determine only what the majority should bo Tho resolutions wero then passed aud tho meeting adjourned. They indorse tho representatives of tho party in Congress and tho Legislature, ratify the state ticket, and denounce the extravagance aud inefficiency of tbo Republican Congress. PERSONAL. Jay Goiti.d will oppose tho re-election of Senator Plumb, in Kansas. Ex-Senatok Gkokoe-R. Dknnim, tf Maryland, who has jus; died, used to givo famous terrapin dinners. Mrs. Garfield is being worried by in. numerable invitations to attend Sunday school anniversaries, all of which she de clines. Senatoh Hawi.f.y has gono to Europe. Ho wants to find out just how Brother Hoar felt when he stood on the top of " Mong Bloug" and whistled " Yankee Doodle." Simox Cameron is at Coney Island, and leaves this week for a trip to tho Thou sand Islands, tho Canadian provinces. General Cameron will spend a week in Maine before the election. Kino Ciiakles ofRoumaniaisdescribcd as a handsome man, rather abovo tho middle height, with a severe expression, but animated in conversation and thor oughly well educated. Cardinal Manning has just entered upon his seventy fifth year. His health is still vigorous. On tho day following his recent birthday ho proacbed two sermons and officiated in three different churches. Citaiu.es B. Lewis ("M. Quad "), of the Detroit Free Press, has just completed for J. L. Ashton a new four-act comedy entitled "Tho Limekiln Club." All cf tho well-known characters which M. Quad has created are to figure in it. Nilsson is a pretty woman still. Her blonde hair is crimped and parted a little to ono side a fashion much affected by' tbe women in England at present and then coiled at tho back of her neck ; her dress is cut a little low and shows plainly the 'sinizcr's throat,' which is beautifully white ; her eyes are clear and a bright bine, and sot deeply in her head. CniEF Justice Taney's grand daugh ter corrects the telegranhic item which went over the country on Saturday from Troy, New York, stating tbat " Cather Taney," calling herself a sister of the' late Judge Taney, had been sent in a state of destitution to the Albany almshouse. The woman is an im poster. Chiet. Justice Taney outlived all of his brothers and sis ters, and has no descendants now living of his own name. Prince Roland Bonaparte, a son of Pierre Bonaparte, gets several millions by the death cf his wifo, she being one of the three heinf of the estate of $20,000,000 or $25,000,000 left by ber father, Blanc, the proprietor of tbe Monte Uarlo gambling hell. Roland hadn't a franc when he mar ried, and was only tho second choice of Miss Marie, wbo bad tried in vain to cap ture an Italian duke, of older and better pedigree. To reconcile the girl to the match, Roland's cousin. Prince Napolean, brother-in-law of King Humbert, induced his majesty to confer on the bridegroom the title of an Italian prince. Frightful Fall Down a Shalt. John Waters, a highly respected citizen of Latrobe, fell down Saxman's coal shaft Monday evening, a distance of ninety feet. When found his right arm was cut off at the shoulder, his back was broken and ho was terribly mutilated otherwise. Ho died in two hours, no leaves a wifo and two children. m THE ASYLUM FIRK. Sleeting or Poor Director and l'rlaou In spectors The Front Portion or tho Asylum to be at Oane Kepaired. Yesterday afternoon a joint meeting of the directors of the poor aud tho conuty commissioners was hold iu tbo directors' room to take action relative to tho lato fire at the insane asylum. The joint meeting was deemed necessary, as it was a mooted question whether the necessary repairs to tbe asylum should bo made by order of the county commissioners or poor direc tors. All the commissioners wero present and all tbe directors except Mr Overholser. Mr. Evans, of the board of directors oc cupied the chair. Tho first business done wa3 to mako au inspection of the burned building, and the temporary quarters of tho insane. On their return Commissioner Hildo braud questioned Superintendent Spur rier as to tbe origin of tho lire. Tho su perintendent would give no positive an swer, but believed the building was set ou firo by a braud from Wetzel's barn, though it might havo been tho result of spontaneous combustion, as theio are drugs, rags and other combustibles in tho garret. After an informal discussion it was agreed tbat tho best tbing to be done would be to havo the front portion of the building immediately repaired, aud that meantime temporary accommodations for tho insane should ho found iu other asylums. Dr. Diller Luther of tho state board of charities hero put iu au appearance and was asked to give his views Ho said when a couuty asylum is burned the prac tice has been to make arrangements with some other county asylum to tako naro of the inmates, aud when this cannot bo done they aro removed to the state asylum. The cost averages about $3 per week for board. He asked Steward Brock if ho couldn't tako caro of them, and the stew ard answered negatively. Dr. Luther further stated that private patients whoso board was paid by friends could not bo removed without their con sent, and thoso that had been admitted to tho asylum by order of court could not bo removed without a decree by tho court. Ho supposed about 15 or 20 could be ac commodated at the Danvillo asylum and an equal number at the Harrisburg aud Norristown asylums. After tho county commissioners with drew Dr. Luther asked tho directors how tho insane wero being provided for. He thought it would not do to keep them in tho tramp yard as the strong and vicious ones would bo apt to kill tho others. He and tbo directors then made another tour of inspection. Upon their return tho board again went into business session anuVon motion of Mr. Kreider it was resolved to employ a build er to make tho necessary repairs to tho front building. On motion Messrs. Kreider, Musser and Shultz wero appointed a cominittco to in terview carpenters, masons, plumber.", slaters, &c, to get bids for tho work and report to tho board. The board then adjourned. Another meeting of the directors was hold this morning. IV. II. Z. Gerhard, of tho Hanisburg asylum, was present and stated that thero was no room in that iu stitation for females. It was thought best by tho board to placo all tho patients in ono asylum, and Norristown olfering tho best accommoda tion, was chosen. A list of CO or 70 of th : worst cases was mado out and it was resolved to send them to Norristown this afternoon iu charge of tho directors, Drs. Bolcnius and Roland and half a dozen other attendants. Ou invitation of Dr. Gerhard tho board resolved to visit tho Harrisburg asylum ou Friday next in company with their solicitor and Dr. Diller Luther. John Baehmau, carpenter and builder, was selected to tako charge of tho repairs to the front of the burnt building. Ho will immediately begin work with a larye force of men. This afternoon the insane selected to bo taken to Norristown, consisting of 38 males and 25 females, were put in coaches and taken to tho outer depot of tho Reading railroad aud shipped thence to Nerns town. DKUAIOKK 1TKM3. No Great Dainaga From the Hall. Thero has been a report circulated by the papers and individuals to the effect that we had a wonderfully destructive hailstorm at Fairfield last week. Tho bail iu this neighborhood was uowherd severe ( John Ilarnish's bat would havo held it ail ) ; and of the very small territory visited by it Fairlicld seems to have received the most insignificant amount. Iu fact the fall was so light that many did not see it, aud our largo tobacco aud we challenge the county to surpass us in that was not preceptlbly damaged. From Fairfield youth, about two miles, iu tho neighborhood of Dorsoy's mill and Peach Bottom, tho hail did more damage. Our tobacco farmers do not like such reports to be circulated as it injures the reputation of a neighborhood's crops, by giving tho over tuneful bnyers a new song of depreciation of tho weed. This week will see us cut some of the finest tobacco ever grown hero. The "culled folks" held their annual woods meeting at Arcadia last Sunday, with hundreds present as usual ; about three-fourths of tho number bsing whites. Another picnic was held Saturday even ing and Sunday morning, in the grove con tinguons with Pilgrim's Pathway. P. B.. Shank bas the contract for the new school house to ho built in Fairfield. A good sprinkling of late-rising and hart-smashing city cousins are upon us. KILCUKIST'S HIDINO l'l.AUK. Itiistlcallng In the Lower Kud anil Husking in Ills Lady Love's Smiles. On Saturday evening Officer Suter. of Quarryvillo, received a letter from Chief Deicbler, giving him tho place where he supposed Frank Kilchrist to 1)3 concealed, below tbat place some three miles. Mr. S. on Sunday morning drovo down and reconnoitcred tho ground, camo home and took a posse down, aud after postinea guard around tho house he went in to find his young mangonc just a few hours. Ho had started for Lancaster from whenco he intended to go west on Monday morning, but luckily he fell into tho hands of the police boforo ho could get away. He has been for over a week hiding down iu Cole raine, whero he was brought by a young woman whom it is said he has been court in;. She has made several trips to and from Lancaster for him. Some time last week she left him and went back to her place in Lancaster, aud we suppose she was trying to make it safe for him to get away. Court. On Saturday morning court will meet at 10 o'clock when a number of opinions will be read. On Monday tho regular quarter sessions court will begin. On the list already ont thero aro 179 cases and many havo not been returned yet. COLUMBIA NEWS, OUR REGULAR COKRESroNIIKNcK Kvents Along-tho Snsquebanua Hems or Interest la and Around the liorough I'lcked Up by the Intelli gencer's Reporter. The agent for " Lockio " horseshoe pad, Mr. A. N Eshleinan, of Chicago, is now in town. His business headquarters are Redscker's livery stable office. The fines tobacco about this section of the country is that on Mr. Clark Bostick's place at Fito's Edddy. A dog light at market this morning re sulted in ono of the dogs losing tho top of his head by the other biting it oil. To keep up appearances witb the passen ger depot tho Penusyvania railroad freight depot is also having its woodwork repaint ed. It will be a great) improvement. While painting a hou.su ou Manor street yesterday afternoon, Sir. Ambrose Upp was thrown from an 18 foot scaffold and severely injured about tho back. He was fortunate to escape with such slight in jury. The pay car of the Pennsylvania railroad company arrived heie about 9:20 a. m., to-day. ine boys, or at least a consider able number of them, will he happy to night. Mr. J. P. Staraau is now having placed in his residence- one of Heiso & Kaufiraan'.s patent heaters. Tho radiators will be bronze, with haudsomo marble slab tops. A Delentl.iut Who railed to Appear. Suit was entered yesterday before 'Squiro Frank by Sylvester Dnubar agaiust Christopher Loadcrer for alleged abuse of plaintiff and family. Tho hear ing was to havo been hold last evening.but as tbo defendant did not put in au ap pearance, the hearing was postponed. If he does not appear when uext called, it will bo mado very unpleasant for him. Woods Meeting ot the Coloro 1 Folks. Tbo A. M. E. church will hold a woods meeting in Dunkle's grove, half-a-mile north of Stcelton, Pa. It will commence Saturday, August 19, and continue until Sunday. August 27. Harriet A. Maker, of Columbia, and several other sisters will preside over tho meeting. Everybody is invited to go. Admission to grounds will be : Double teams, 20 cents ; single teams, 10 cents. Presented With u Cornet. Mr. William Markley was tho recipient last evening of a handsome fifty dollar silver cornet, which was presented to him by tho Citizens' cornet band of this placo in consideration for valuablo services ren dered the band. Testing tlio Coliimbit Hose. The Columbia tiro engine was out for practico last evening. A number of sec tions of old leather lno were tested. Two of tho sections burst ; :00 feet of new linen hose will bo received by the com pany in a few days. Tho boys aro enter prising and mean business. Furely I'ersonal. Mr. Wm. Cohen aud family havo re turned from a ten days summering at Lititz. Miss Maggio Hughes, who has beeu vis iting friends here for some timo past, re turned to her home in Georgetown, Pa., yesterday. Messrs. Henry aud Frank Yeutzer havo returned from their trip to Wild Cat falls. Mr. James Wilson has left town on an other business trip iu connection with bis father's carpet factory. Ground to Doatli Under tbo Car WltetiU, Yesterday about 4:80 p. m., while at tempting to jump ou the tender of tho Heading & Columbia railroad shifter, Mr. Henry Wolfe, abrakeman on tbe road, was thrown under it and instantly killed. The shifter, No. 1GG, was running backward, and Wolfe stood in the middle of tho track and attempted to uet ou a step which ex tends across tho back of the tender of the engine. Missing the hand rail at tho time his foot touched the step, he fell directly under the wheels. The cntiro top of his head was ground to pieces, and tho wheels passed lengthwise along his body, almost severing both legs. Ho bad various other cuts about tho faco and body. Depnty Corouer Frank empaneled the following jury, which viewed tlio horribly mangled remains : Henry Fisher, Townscud Stone. Joseph Follcr, Frederick Strnck, Samuel Hippey and Aaron Gilbert, who will ren der their verdict to night. Deceased, who is only 2(1 years of ne, has beeu on this road about one year, and leaves a wile and three small children to lament his awful death. Tbe shrieks of his bereaved wifo and sisters, when they were informed of his death, wero heart-rending. The funeral services will bo held at the residenceof tho unfortunate man's mother, Mrs. Robert Keceh, ou Third street, be tween Walnut aud Locnst, on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The remains will be interred in Mount Bethel cemetery. Driving Accidents. This morning a team belonging to Kep ler's hardware storo and a horse and bugiry driven and owned by Isaac Alowcry, of West Lampeter, collided ou North Queen street, near Orange. Tho wagon was a great deal heavier than tho buggy, which was turned completely around. Both shafts wero broken off and the dasher broken. Mr. Mowery was thrown out, aud besides being badly bruised had his pantaloons almost torn from him. About noon a largo load of hay belong -iug to Percival Barto, of Landisville, was upset on Pi incc street, nearMifllin. Tho cause of tho accident was that the wagon was loaded to heavily on on: side. No ono was hurt, and the hay was gathered up in small wagons and delivered todiffeient parties in the city to "whom it had been sold. CIRCUSES COMINO Van Ambiirg lulling Itarnniu Iu October. A gang of fourteen bill posters aro at work to-day billing aud lithographing the town for tho appearance of Van Amburg's show iu this city on August 29. This show will appear in Strashurg on the 29th, and as it travels by wagon they will have a short drive and a good drive', which will enable them to reach Lancaster at an early hour to givo their street parade. From a letter received from ouo of Bar uum's msn woj learn that the show will positively appear in Lancaster some time in October. The date will not. bo given as yet, but as tho show closes the traveling season in Chester on October 14, they will be here before that. A MISSING GIKL. tilie Starts for Work and la net Agala Ilearu Irons. Theresa Pefler, C03 St. Joseph street, joieA about 15 vears. who worked in No. 5 cotton mill, corner Dnke and Lemon streets, left home to go to work on Tues day. Aug. 1, last. Sbc usually had her dinner carried to her, but ou the day above named, when her mother took her tliuner to her, she was not at the mill and had cot been thero that day. Tho girl was a homo-body never left home except to go to work ; has lived in Lancaster about a year. She caaae, fiom ,Bavaria, Germany ; is about middle height and hat brown bair. She bad ber working clothes on when she left and no' stockings. Instantly Killed by the Cars. -, A woman by the name of Mrs. Robb -L was struck by tho engine of the passeuger train cast, at Wavno station, betweoir r. and 7 o'clock last evening, and instantly killed. She was walking on the south track when struck. Tho body was taken to Downingtown It was not cut up Tbo deceased was a sister of1 Wm. McFaddeo, a track watcaaan on the road. -,
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