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8ATTJBDAY BVKNINQ, AUG. 20. 1869.
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The summer vacation season is nearly
over. To some it has brought neither
r.$st nor recreation, and life's round of
sober duties will be kept up unremitting
ly. But most people in towns and
cities have bad at least a few days "off,"
while.others are happy in anticipation
of an early temporary release from cares
and work. The American people now
adays carry a heavy pressure all the
year round. Nervous energy has become
a national characteristic. We are bom,
live, move and have our being in an at
mosphere heavily charged with mental
and physical electricity. As a nation
we can no longer tolerate slowness in
any form. We think quickly, speak
quickly, act quickly, and often die sud
denly, organic and hereditary disease of
the heart having become one of our
commonest ailments, Were we to
be deprived of the railway and
the telegraph we would almost die of
suppressed energy. We could never en
dure the old-fashioned, quiet and easy
way of getting on. And this spirit is
not confined to the great cities, where
life's friction is constant and exciting.
It pervades town, village and rural life.
Many farmers are to day going at apace,
relatively, quite the equal of men in
Wall street. Not content with making
the slow but sure progress of their
fathers, they are determined to get rich
within a few years, and to this end they
often bend their physical energies and
strain their financial resources beyond
all safe limit.
Living under such conditions it is weil
that our people have almost universal ly
adopted the plan of breaking the daily
routine, for a longer or shorter time, as
circumstances will permi;,aud at least
once a year. And this period of recrea
tion is more and more every year com
pletely given up to idleness and pleasure.
A few years ago only a small number of
people, comparatively, visited the moun
tains and the seaside. Now the hills are
dotted with great hostelries from Vir
ginia to Maine and hundreds of thou
sands of health and pleasure-seekers
visit these resorts between June and Oc
tober, while the Atlantic coast for
five hundred miles is an almost
continuous stretch of sea-side re
sorts, and there is a steady stream of
travel thither from the beginning to the
close of the season, at limes severely
tasking the facilities of the transporta
tion companies. Then a multitude of
city people adhere to the old fashioned
and healthful idea of a month in the
country, and thus they are thickly scat
tered in every direction. As the season
w.we3 and the nights become cool the
tide flows pretty much one way and in
a little while we are all in our old places,
studying, working and fulfilling the
duties assigned us.
There can be no question that all
those who have wisely improved their
vacation are the better for it, mentally,
physically and morally. Men and
women can dissipate anywhere, abroad
as well as at home, audit is too true
that many make recreation a farce and
come home in a worse condition than
they went away. This is particularly
true of the two extremes, those who
" rough " at the shore or in the woods,
and the ultra-fashionables who are the
helpless victims of dress and etiquette.
Men and women, too, who are confined
within doors all the year at home will
recklessly expose themselves in the sun
and on the water all day, having what
they absurdly call " a good time," only
ti be followed often by serious illness.
Professional men, totally unused to such
perilous experience, will stand for hours
in deep and chilling mountain streams,
making exhibitions of themselves for the
benefit of the wily trout that
refuses to be taken in. Many more
people give free rein to suddenly
awakened appetite and gorge them
selves day and night, until outraged na
ture resents the ill-treatment in her own
emphatic way. But these are the ex
ceptions' and not the rule; the
foolish blunderers fall by the way
side, while the great army of pleasure
seekers march happily along, returning
to their homes refreshed and reinvigor
ated in mind and body. Every one
should try and thus break life's monot
ony, and if only for a few days. It is a
demand of our nature that should be
complied with cheerfully and regularly.
It makes us better, happier and stronger,
Spragae's Hlsrertaaes.
Ex-Senator Sprague defends his Rhode
Island home with an armed force
against the intrusion of the " mutual
friend" Moulton, who thinks he has
bought the estate at a sale lately made
by one Chaffee, who claims to have au
thority iu the premises. Mr. Sprague
claims that he had none and that the
alleged sale was no sale. Who is legally
right we do not know, and probably no
one knows much better. The Sprague
affairs are so inextricably tangled up
that perhaps even a Philadelphia lawyer
would not make a much better fist at
straightening them out than the New
England lawyers have. Ben Butler
has been having a band in the
business, but he seems to have retired
for the present, as he has not been lately
conspicuous, if Benjamin finds the job
of disentanglement too big for his pow
era we may conclude that the trouble is
of goodly size ; for Butler is an adept iu
the deft work required in the business.
One thing is certain, and that is that
Sprague has the public sympathy in his
troubles, and if he should shoot a few of
the fellows who have been deviling him
for years it is likely that a jury would
find some justification for him, even if it
was not just the thing for him to do.
Governor Sprague has shown himself to
be a good square man in days when he
had the power to. make the exhibition
and to benefit his kind. He has lost his
fortune and his wife. The latter lid
dance was a good one, but ho has had a
great deal of trouble and annoyance in
making it; He has had more than his J
share of calamity, and merits sympathy
accordingly.
The way of transgressor is indeed
hard. Congressman Harris, of the
Fourth New Jersey district, will, from
present indications, have leisure to pon
der the truth of this adage in enforced
retirement; for bis constituents seemde
termined to keep him home on account
of his vote for the river and harbor
plunder. His district comprises Hun
terdon, Somerset, Sussex and Warren
counties, and has ordinarily a Demo,
cratic majority of about 4,000. After a
desperate struggle in the convention last
week,-Harris succeeded in obtaining a
renomination. But, his troubles were
not yet over, as the sequel will show.
The Hunterdon Democrat, one of the
most influential papers of the district,
openly refused to support him after the
convention, and the ranks of the bolters
have now been reinforced by the Clinton
Democrat and the Warren Democrat,
both staunch Democratic papers, the
latter hoisting the candidate's name at
the head of its columns in the following
style :
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Congress.
HENRYS. HAUHIi.
: PLATFORM The River and Harbor Bill. ;
Domccrats who can swallow both the :
: candidate and platform have tho privilege
; ot doing ho Tliey go together
This is as it should be.
man escape.
Let no guilty
The ''voluntary contribution" act costs
tho Virginia clerk $74 out of his annual
salary of $1,200.
The Hirains aro having a high old time
of it in our neighboring town of York,
where Stalwart Young of the Dispatch
has sued Independent McNair of the Re
publican for libel. No matter how the
case ends tho victim will be able to exult
ingly shout ,k How is that for Hi?"
Tin; girl with the big hat was con
spicuous by her absence iu last night's
audience, and this was to bo com
mended ; but the obnoxious person who
crowds into the IaBt seat in the row a min
ute or two after the curtain has boon
raised and then crowds out to "see a man"
after each act was on hand as usual.
The objection to this sort of thing
is not wholly confined to irascible
people with pet corns or lovely
women whoso dresses must necessarily
suffer by the crushing process to which
they aro bubjected ; but the suggestion
that " reform is necessary " is a general
one and bbould be made particularly em
phatic now that we are on tho threshold
of a low season.
The government employees at Wash
ington are being subjected to a second
bleeding. Mr. Jay Ilubbell's leechos hav
ing dropped off, the state committees have
got a chance to affix theirs. Another 2
percent, appears to bu the average de
mand, though Mahone, with the rapacity
of a Turkish pasba, shows how much bet
ter tho thing could bo done by making a
levy of 5 per cent, on the salaries of all
Virginians in office. The circular of the
Cameron committee in Pennsylvania is a
curiosity iu its way, begiuuiug with its
address of a female clork as "Dear Sir'
and ending with the suggestive assurance
that the committee is authorized to state
that the " voluntary contribution" de
manded 18 iu this case " will not be
objected to iu any official quarter." The
designated contributor is persuasively re
minded that she " will esteem it both a
privilege and a pleasure" to furnish her
due share of the sinews of war for a battle
involving among other things " that ie
presentation in Congress which will de
termine its Pennsylvania's political
standing." The victim, having already
given her $18 to the funds of the congres
sional campaign committee, may naturally
want to know how much it takes to secure
" that lepresentation," &c, which will
enable her to retain her placo.and whether,
after all, tho position is worth its burdens.
PERSONAL.
Edwin Booth: will speak English and
the supporting company German during a
tour of Germany.
Isabella, ex-queen of Spain, has grown
tired of tho Freeh capital and is going
back to her old ream.
Oscar Wilpe is announced to lecture
soon at Capo Mav. His subject will be
" Love."
Mr. E. Dwyer Gray, the imprisoned
Irish journalist, has unanimously been
voted the freedom of the city by the cor
poration of Limerick.
R. J. Bukdette, the Dawkeye humorist,
who is summering near West Chester, is
said to be looking for a location in that
vicinity to build a residence.
Senator Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia,
is the largest taxpayer in the city of
Atlanta. He owns $263,400 worth of real
estate and $GC,000 worth of personal
property there.
Herbert Spencer has gone to the
Catskills in search of rest and quiet. He
will go thenco to Canada and probably to
Chicago, returning to the East probably
iu September.
James Gordon Bennett has bad the
pillars in front of his Newport residence
ornamented with bronze owls. They are
really gas lamps, the light streaming from
their eyes having a weird effect. " There
are six of them, two being placed at each
entrance,
Dwid Dudley Field has a country
scat at Stockbridge, Mass., and he has at
various times purchased over fifteen hun
drcd aoies of land in the neighborhood, iu
order to keep out the march of modern
improvements. His latest purchase is
$10,090 of lailroad stock, which he took in
order to keep tho road from coing near the
town.
Princess Dolgourouki, morganatic
widow of tho late Czar, recently left Kis
sengen, where she bad expected to spend
tho entire season, very abruptly, on bear
ing of the impending visit to that place of
the Grand Duke Vladimir, whom sho re
gards as her bitterest foe. Her troubles
and sorrows are beginning to show their
ravages upon her beautiful face and
form.
Congressional Nominations,
Indiaua Sixth dish ict Luther Benson,
Dera. Missouri Fourteenth district L.
H. Davis, Dem. Alabama Fourth dis
trict John W- Jones, Rep. South Care
lina Third district D. W. Aiken, Dem.
Texas Tenth district John Hancock,
Dem.
Characteror a Mayor's Political Beaven.
Mayor Buckley, of Hartford, has sued
the Register of New Haven for libel, claim
ing $2,500, because tho Register said that
Buckley's ladder to his political heaven is
made up solely of lager beer and whisky
barrels.
FOUL PLAT SUSPECTED.
A SUPPOSED NEW JERSEY MYSTERY.
Clrcnnsstanves Which Indicate that Widow
er MeGrath, or Newark, Waa Poisoned.
The Coroner Investigating the Case.
The county physician is investigating
the death of Thomas McGratb, of Newark
who died on Wednesday morning under
very suspicious circumstances. McGrath
was a widower, posseised of considerable
property, and was about to be married.
The latter fact was very displeasing to
certain members of his family. On Tues
day afternoon he went to a lawyer's office
and made bis will, and, it is said, wax
accompanied by members of bis family.
That night he was taken with cramps in
the stomach, vomiting and purging, and
by one o'clock Wednesday morning he
was dead. A physician in attendance
thought his death was duo to cholera mor
bus. The funeral was to take place Fri
day, when a relative appeared before the
county physician and made such state
ments that the latter mado a post-mortem
examination and found sure indications of
poisoning. The funeral was held, but the
body was placed in a vault. The post
mortem will be continued, as it is nos cer
tain whether McGrath was poisoned or
not. An inquest has been ordered.
Warnings to Workingmen.
Pittsburg Post
Wc should think existing industrial con
ditions in Pennslyvania, especially in Al
legheny county, would deter Democratic
workingmen from giving aid and comfort,
cither directly or indirectly to the Camer
on machine. They have certainly not for
gotten the appeals of the manufacturers in
1880, that "Garfield's election means
higher wages and steady work ; Hancock's
election means lower wages or idleness."
That is the way it was put by the manufac
turers, who were devoted partisans of the
Cameron machine. How has this pledge
been kept? Let existing labor conditions
answer. Thousands of workingmen aro
idle, and the pinch of want is beginning
to bo felt in some quarters. Wages have
not kept pace with the increased cost of
living, although the bountiful harvests give
promiso these conditions may bo improved
in tho future.
Remembering these facts, wo cannot see
how Republican and Democratic working
men can be induced to como to tho relief
of tho Cameron machine. It is undoubt
edly in distress because pcoplo will no
longer submit to its corrupt and tyrannical
rule ; but it should look for relief only to
thoso who havo profited by its long posses
sion of power. Certainly not to tho work
ingmen, who have been deluded by promises
and whose present idleness is proof of the
way these promises have been wrecked by
the very men who arc at the head of the
Cameron machine in Allegheny county.
Wo mako no class appeal for the votes of
workingmen. Let them vote as their
judgment commands ; but it is a duty to
warn Democratic workingmen against a
repetition of the same sort of trickery and
falsehood by which they were defrauded of
the honest expression of their sentiments at
the elections of 1878 and 18S0.
Cooper's Ulan.
Harrisburg Patriot.
Mr Cooper's assertion that Beaver " has
the Grand Army of tho Republic with
him " is likely to put that society on its
mettle. It is an organization which claims
to be entirely non-political and it is not at
all likely to take any action publicly .or
secretly which will make it the partisan
of any candidate for public office. Such
a course would disrupt and destroy the or
ganization. It is therefore plain that Mr.
Cooper docs not hold that card and it is
also equally certain that he miscalls his
hand so far as tho National Guard is con
cerned. The democrats in that body have
no more idea of assisting Mr. Cameron to
pull his chestnuts out of tho fire than they
have of using their arms to establish a
monarchical form of government. Col. P.
N. Guthrie, of Beaver's brigade, voiced
the sentiment of the democratic soldiers of
the National Guard tho other day when he
declared that he would vote and work for
Pattison and tliat tho reirort that he would
support Beaver was "a lie and insult. "
As for the labor clement, Mr. Cooper's
faith in its credulity and gullibility is likely
to be shaken before the ides of November
shall have como. The working people hate
boss rule with a perfect hatred ami now
that they arc told by the stalwart chairman
that by throwing away their votes on a
labor candidate they will insuro tho elec
tion of the candidate of the bosses they
are fully forewarned of the pitfall into which
corrupt and designing men would lead
them. They will probably resent the impu
tation upon their intelligence and fidelity
with as much indignation as tho democratic
soldiers of tho National Guard.
Owned by the Machine.
Doylestoivn Democrat.
Pennsylvania has been cursed long
enough with machine rule. For fifteen
years a combination of political janizaries,
as tyrannical as their namesakes which
once dominated Turkey, have controlled
our State, and all the counties where their
power reached. Their rule has been offen
sive, insolent, corrupting. The greater
bosses have dictated nominations, while
their lieutenants put them through at the
ballot-box ; neither Constitution, nor law,
standing in 'their way when they wish to
count the votes for their nominees. They
can always figure up the returns to suit
their chief: and they snap their fingers at
the good-natured voters while they swindle
them. For fifteen years they have taught
the doctrine that public office is not a pub
lic trust, but a perquisite to reward parti
sans, and a place where the holder is to
make money. Their preaching and prac
tice have reared in our State a race of pro
fessional politicians who nave grown rich
without work ; are clothed in purple and
fine linen, and fare sumptuously every
day. Many of them have jumped up sud
denly from the slums to brown-stone
fronts ; from the driver of a garbage cart
to a four-in-hand. Plundering the tax
payers is probably the least of their of
fending; they have debauched our politics
until it fairly stinks with corruption.
One would naturally suppose we have had
enough of this sort of thing, but the boss
es themselves do not think so. They ask
the burdened taxpayers to give them a new
lease of power, and put forward Beaver to
catch the votes.
A Scandal that Drew.
Boston Courier.
The venerable clergyman arose slowly
in the pulpit, and glancing around on the
thinly settled congregation said in an em
phatic tone, in which there was more of
sorrow than of anger : "My boloved
brethren, I am in hopes that there will be
more present noxt Sabbath, as I will then
have occasion to reveal a scandal which
has long oppressed my heart. It concerns
the members of this church very deeply,
and no one who has a regard for eternal
happiness should be absent." When the
benediction was pronounced tho handful
of pcoplo slowly dispcrced, but behold
how much good seed a few can scatter.
Tho next Sunday the sacred edifice was
packed. There was, indeed, hardly
ureatning room wnen the white haired
sago once more lifted bis head above th 5
pulpit cushions, and a sileuce of death fell
upon the expectant throng. He stood a
moment looking upon the unwonted
scene and then bis voice in silvery ca
dences broke tho hush of anticipation.
"Dear friends," hesaid, " the scandal I
would reveal is this : You will gather in
this place in crowds to hear mischievous
gossip, but will not listen to the explana
tion of the inspired word. Now, my
children, I offer my resignation. I am
going to Europe for six months, and. I
shall pay my own expenses.'1 But no one
of the vast multitude took the lesson to
himself ; he applied it to his neighbor.
Important to Democrats.
Election this year occurs on Tuesday,
7th of November, 1882. Polls open at 7
a. m. and remain open continuously until
7 p. m.
Voters must be assessed and registered
two months preceding ",the election, this
year on or before Thursday, September
7th. Voters who have not paid a State or
county tax within two years next preced
ing the election must pay on .or before
Saturday, October 7th. Wednesday and
Thursday, September 6th and 7th, are the
final days for assessing and registering.
On each of these days the assessor is re
quired to be at the polling places in his
district from 10 a. m. until 3 p. m., and
from 6 until 9 p. m., to perfect his list.
Any elector has the right to examine the
list and and require correction by adding
qualified voters' names or striking off dis
qualified ones. In case of neglect or refu
sal by the register the court is required to
issue the summary process to compel cor
rection. Every person added must be assess
ed. Naturalized citizens must produce
their certificates, and the register record
them. Persons intending to be naturalized
may be so registered, but certificates must
be procured on or before Saturday, October
7th. The list is required to be exposed at
the polling place from and after August
7th, for examination by electors.
Cameron's Overthrow Most Be Complete.
New York Times, IJep.
It is well understood that there is a very
widespread irritation among Pennsylvania
Republicans at the offensive and selfish
dictation of Cameron. The feeling extends
far beyond the ranks of those who are now J
avowedly independents, and it is among
these disaffected but hesitating voters that
the Independents should be at work. They
will find the minions of their adversaries
already in that field, sparing no effort, ne
glecting no occasion, lavish in promises and
everywhere active to hold wavering and
discontented Republicans loyal to their
present master. The Independents should
be no less active and zealous to fill these
half-hearted converts with the full meas
ure of faith and carry them in triumph into
their own fold. They will not be true to
their great opportunity and the cause of
political freedom and reform if they con
tent themselves with merely defeating
General Beaver. If Cameron is over
matched by a narrow majority he will live
to renew the fight. His overthrow should
be made so disastrous and complete as to
leave him among the heaps of slain on the
field, politically dead beyond all hope of
resuscitation.
Camerouism Doomed.
New York Tribune,) (Rep.)
The plain fact is that there are two Re
publican tickets in the field, and there are
not enough Republican votes in the State
to elect more than one. Indeed it is a fact
that a first-class Republican ticket, satifac
tory to both Republican factions, could be
elected over Mr. Pattison, the Democratic
candidate, only by hard work. No party
can breed a quarrel like that which Mr.
Cameron's management has caused in
Pennsylvania and not lose strength by it.
In addition to this, there is Mr. Pattison's
independent reform record, and the fact
that thousands of Republicans in Phila
delphia have voted for him as controller,
and have seen no cause for regretting it.
What they have done once they will find
it easy to do again. It is absurd to say,
therefore, that General Beaver has any
chance of being elected. He could not be
if the Independent ticket were out of the
field. He simply blocks the way.
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Labor's Best Bepresentatlve
Wilkcsbarrc Union-Leader.
Labor's rights are to be assured only
through the honest and effective adminis
tration or execution of existing laws, and
legislative or constitutional amendment
when such administration or execution
proves existing laws unfair or unproduc
tive of the results sought to be attained
in their enactment.
For this, labor wants voice and influence
in the Legislature ; and where in all Penn
sylvania is there a man better fitted and
more likely to assure them such voice and
influence than ho who at the present time
represents this district in the State Senate
Hon. Ecklcy Brinton Coxe ? Insisting,
as is his duty, upon the absolute rights of
capita, he insists also, not only upon the
rights of labor, bnt on the decision of all
disputes between the two in a spirit of the
greatest possible generosity to the latter.
The workingmen of Luzerne are to-day as
well, if not better, represented in the Sen
ate than they would be by any other of its
citizens.
Paying for their Fan.
On Thursday evening and last evening
nine of tho young men charged with being
engaged in the disgraceful brawi near
Green Cottage on Sunday last were heard
before Alderman Patrick Donnelly. Seven
of the gang were discharged on payment
of costs, this being their first appearanco
before the alderman. Two others wcro
discharged for want of evidence against
them. There are six or eight more of
them yet to be beard.
Patent Granted.
A patent has just been granted to Alfred
H. Comp and Geo. E. Marsh, of Mount
Joy, for an improvement in land rollers.
The novelty iu this invention consists in
placing a scraper diagonally across the
roller, and in so attaching it that it can be
raised or lowered to any extent that may
be desired. The patent was secured
through Wm. R. Gcrhart, solicitor of
patents, of this city.
Tho Bis Beaver Bridge.
County Commissioner Summy this
morning rode down the Quarryville rail
road to the Big Beaver bridge, recently
destroyed by tho flood, for the purpose of
inspecting the material saved from the
wreck. It has not yet been decided
whether the bridge will be rebuilt by the
turnpike company or the county.
Gone Fishing.
Thirteen of George Pontz's hous
painters started on a fishing excursion
this afternoon. They go to Safe Harbor
in a 'bus, will remain thereover night and
return to-morrow evening. They are
well provided with bait, tackle and pro
visions, and all the other adjuncts neces
sary to successful fishing.
Kxcarsloa to LaBdlaTille.
During the campmeeting' the Pennsyl
vania railroad company will run excursion
trains to Ltandisvillo as follows: Leave
Lancaster at 8:45 and 0:50 a. m. and 1:55,
3:15 and 0:30 p. m. Returning will leave
Landisville at 0:20 a. m, 12:10, 2:30, Gand
7 p. m. Fair for the round trip 30 cents.
Good Tobacco.
John Ebert Bismarck, farmer for
Michael Landis, West Hempficld, showed
us yesterday some specimen leaves of a
three-acro crop, that measured 31 by 24
inches. He says the field is full of such
leaves.
sale or Ileal estate.
Henry Shubert auctioneer and real es
tate agent sold at private sale on August
25th, the property belonging to Hariett
Sweeny, situated on the south side of
Church street No. 115. to Margaret Dosch
for $1,700.
Loss Settled,
Bausman & Burns insurance agency
yesterday settled the loss on tho almshouse
barn, the adjusted amount being $5,000,
and to satisfaction of all parties.
COLUMBIA NEWS.
MOB BF.GOXAK COBBKSPONDKMCK
Events Alone the Sasqaefcanna Items
of
Interest In and Around tne Borough
Picked Up by the Intelli
gencer's Keporter.
One of the dealers in watermelons here
has found it to be very profitable to send a
vendor into the county with them.
A runaway horse startled the pedestrians
on Locust 6treet this morning. He turned
the vehicle over Third street, where he was
captured.
Two freight cars of the Reading & Col
umbia railroad were thrown off the siding
in the rear of tho Continental hotel yes
terday, at 1 p. m. Both were broken by
the accident.
A mau jumped off the Port Deposit
train this morning, and lauded fairly
against the switch-tender, Mr. Jesse
Wolfe, knocking him down. No person
hurt, though Mr. Wolfe was consider
ably surprised at the sudden collision.
Almost as Fatal Accident.
While atfempting to jump from a Read
ing & Columbia freight train yesterday,
at the Shawnee siding, Christopher Wei
mer was thrown violently to the ground
and nearly rolled under the train. The
escape was a very narrow one.
Died In York County.
Mr. John Moore, a former resident of
Norwood, near Columbia, died at his late
rcsidenco in York county yesterday, of
infiamatiou of the bowels, at the age of
43 years. The burial will take place to
morrow at 1 p. in., at Moore's graveyard,
near Norwood.
Fine Furniture.
Mr. John Musscr, sou of Mr. A. J. Mus
ser, upholsterer, is just completing the
upholstering of a handsome black walnut
parlor suite. Tho workmanship reflects
great credit on tho young gentleman. Red
plush is the material with which the fur
niture is being covered.
To Make Muvlc by the Sea.
Mr. Will Mathiot left this morning for
Atlantic City. Ho was at tbat place about
two weeks ago, when ho was offered the
position of piauoist at the Albion hotel.
The gentleman is a line performer on that
instrument, as ho is on the organ, and bo
will give abundant satisfaction to his em
ployers. Personal Mention.
The family of Dr. L. S. Filbert, of Phil
adelphia, is visiting Mr. Samuel Filbert
on Walnut street.
Mr. Harry Sample, one of the pillars of
the Citizens' baud, is lying at his residence
quite ill.
The Rev. J. P. McCurdy, of Frederick,
Md., will fill the pulpit of the Presbyte
rian church to-morrow.
Mr. William Patton and daughter,
Josie, and Mr. William Clark and daugh
ter returned boms last evening from
Ocean Grove.
Mr. Howell Michael returned yesterday
after a pleasant visit to Capo May and to
friends in Philadelphia.
Having returned from his summer vaca
tion, tho Rev. C. S. Gerhard will occupy,
as usua?, the pulpit of Trinity Reformed
church to-morrow morning and evening.
TUE MlMSTBKXd,
Opening of 'the Season at Fulton Opera
House.
The opening of the amusement season
at Fulton opera house last evening was in
respect to tho number and character of
tho audience all that tho most captious of
managers could desire, the hall being
crowded " from pit to dome " by a bril
liaut audience, who manifested their en
joyment of tho performance by frequent
laughter. While the entertainment was
not by any means ono of even merit,
it embraced so many good features that
criticism was tempered and tho thing
as a whole made a go. Notably ex
cellent was Mr. Young's "Bonnie Sweet
Bessie," which was given in strong, robust
tenor that is not frequently heard on the
minstrel stage, his voice possessing withal
a sweetness and purity that fell pleasingly
on tho listener s ear. some of the humor
ous songs were old and might with profit
give way to newer and better ones. Fresh
jokes iutcrlarded at frequent iuteivals
with some of ancient and fishlike flavor,
together with the " Irish Patrol," a side
splitting performance, completed a first
part that had much to commend it, but
which a little judgment could materially
improve. Tho best things in the olio
were the song and dauce acts and
the clogging, George Wilson's very funny
act, tho Clipper Quartet in a number of
amusing songs, aud the juggling and bal
ancing of Naoni, a truly marvelous per
formance. A lor.g-drawn.out and dreary
act by Schoolcraft and Coes came near
exhausting tho patience of the audience,
but tho last act, an alleged burlesque of
"Patience," was distressing, and utterly
devoid of a singlo feature to redeem it
from positive dullness. Messro. Barlow
and Wilson aro great favorites in this
community and tho less attractive features
of last evening's bill suffered by contrast
with the general excellence of the per
formance The season is young yet and
the judicious managers will no doubt take
tho earliest opportunity to bring the en
tire performance up to tho high standard
that characterizes it iu so many of its fea
tures. From Lancaster to Mttle Bock.
Mr. Georgo S. Landis, for a number of
years past connected with the Intelli
gencer, will leave to-morrow night at
11:10 for Little Rock, Ark., where he has
accepted a lucrative position on the Ga
zelte. Mr. Landis is a skillful practical
printer and a ready writer, as bis contri
buttons to the columns of this journal
have frequently attested. He will bear to
tho far West the best wishes of a host of
friends, and will no doubt infuse in bis
new work the same ardor and energy that
havo been his characteristics here. Our
young friend has been an earnest and vig
orous Democratic worker and will find the
political atmosphere of his new home en
tirely congenial. His route will bo to
Pittsburg, Columbus, Indianapolis and
Chicago, thence to St. Louis, where he
will take the Iron Mountain and Southern
road to Little Rock.
The Cucumber Campaign.
The returns are coming in slowly, but
it is yet too early to prognosticate the re
sult. George Dillor, of Leaman Place,
was first heard from, having entered a
Pattison cucumber 13 inches in length, 11
in girth and weighing a pounds. J. 11.
Kauffman, of this city, next showed one
of the Beaver variety 11 J inches long, 11
inches iu girth and a little heavier than
Diller's. And now comes B. F. Reed, of
Bart, with another Beaver measuring U
inches injengtb, 12 in girth and weighing
3 pounds. It will be seen that Pattison
is away ahead in length, but Beaver has
theadvantago of rotundity and weight.
Stewart has not yet been beard from.
Perhaps his friends are on a still hunt for
a 4 pounder.
Arrested for xtlbei.
Hiram McNair, editor of the York Re
publican, tho organ of the Independent
Republicans, was arrested on a charge of
libeL Tho prosecutor is Hiram Youug,
editor of the Dispatch, the Stalwart organ.
The libelous publication grew out of a
rather bitter controversy which has beeu
in progress between the two papers for
some time, which bad its origin in party
differences. Charges of dishonesty were
published by Colonel Young against Mc
Nair, and he retorted by making similar
charges against his rival, and adding im
putations of immorality. The event
has created considerable interest in tho
community.
FBOUABLX A FATAL. FALL..
! Moant Jov SManllr Hurt flthi
IteaseofNews treat the Boroaga.
On Thursday afternoon George Shires,
aged 43, of near Geyer's mill, Rapho town
ship, while in a fir fell from tho porch of
his dwelling. His head struck a board
and he received an ugly gash in his head
about six inches long. He is subject to
epilepsy and not long since broke four of
his ribs by a fall. Dr. John J. Ncwpher,
who attended him, has poor hopes of his
recovery, as it is feared that lock-jaw may
set in at any time.
While a countryman named Hoffman, of
Rapho, was selling produce in the vicinity
of the woolen mill on Friday morning, bis
horse, which was frightened at tho steam
whistle, started off on the run. The ani
mal becoming unmanageable would have
made bad work had not an employee of
tho woolen mill caught tho horse. No
one was hurt.
For the second time this season the mar
ried nine measured their strength at the
bat with a club of young fellows on Fri
day afternoon, on the ball grounds adjoin
ing the passenger station. In the first
game the married men came out victorious,
but this time they lost the game, as will
do seen uy tnis score oy innings
12 3 4 5 6
Married 2 0 2 0 0 1
tingle 3 0 o .1 0 4
8 9
0 5 H
4 2-20
Umpire Clayton HoUman.
Time of Game Two hours.
George Stealy, the young man who was
injured by the driving accident on Thurs
day evening, an account ofwhichappeared
in yesterday's Intelligence lay un
concious for some time at tho house of
Peter Shickly, close by tho scene of tho
accident. He is slowly recovering and
will be able to be removed to-day to his
home at John Engle's, Rapho township.
JohnB. Shelly, of the Red Lion hotel,
was the happy recipient of two. beautiful
bouquets, John H. Masterson, of Mastcr
eonvillo, was the donor.
S. SI. Yutzy, principal of the borough
schools, arrved iu town last eveniug. Tho
schools win oe opened on Monday.
MissMysaE. Brenner, of Philadelphia,
is the guest of Miss Nettio Ricksecker.
C. E. Reed, assistant postmaster is tak
ing bis summer vacation in New Jersey.
The Millersville base ball club will play
a match game of ball this afternoon at this
place.
If the weather is fair Sunday will be a
big time at the colored camp. We propose
to tell Intelligencer readers all about it
on Monday.
Sterne's meeting house which has been
furnished will be dedicated on Sunday,
Sept. 17th.
Rapho public schools will be opened on
Manday, Sept. 18th.
On account of camp at Landisville there
will not be any services at the Church of
God in this place next Sunday nor the
following Sunday.
POU 1ICS AT HOME.
Meeting ol the Sixth Ward Club Resolu
tions Adopted.
An adjourned meeting of the Sixth
ward Pattison club was held last evening
in the Schiller house. There was a goodly
number present, but not as many as
should have been there. Included iu the
business of the meeting was the unani
mous adoption of the following resolution
presented by Geo. S. Landis :
Resolved, That wo, tho Democratic
voters of tho Sixth ward, do hereby renew
our faith and pledges iu the old Democrat
ic party of Pennsylvania and the United
States.
sThat we see in tho nomination of Hon.
Robert E. Pattison as our candidate for
governor, and tho others on tho ticket
with him, men of intelligence, men of in
tegrity and men of well known and ap
proved political opinions, well worthy
tho admiration and support of every hon
est voter in the state ; aud in whoso elec
tion wo fully recognize the ultimato over
throw of corruption, pardoning board
frauds, treasnry steals, and the use and
influence of our civil service as the means
of political success.
That we will as individuals and as a
club use all honorable means to accom
plish this desirable end, that " honest ef
ficient and economical government" may
be once more established in this state the
Keystone of tho Federal arch.
After tho transactions of all business
G.S.Landte,wbo now holds tho ward offices
ol city executivo and county committee
man, after thanking thoso present for
past honors conferred, stated tbat his re
moval from town would necessitate his
resignation of both thes;; cilices. The
placing of substitutes to these cilices was
then taken up and resulted in the selec
tion of Mr. W. V. Couner for county com
mitteeman aud Mr. Henry Reineer as city
executive committeeman and Mr. Landis
was instructed to present these two names
of his substitute: to the proper commit
tees. TUB CAMPMEETING.
Many New Arrivals at JLandlsville The Ex
ercises. There was a constant stream of new
arrivals at the Landisville campy ester
day. Rev. S. W. Nail conducted the
morning exercises, which began at 1)
o'clock, and read the lesson from the 1st
Psalm.
At 10 o'clock Rev. W. J. Grissinger, of
.Newport, i'erry county, preached from
Romans i., 1 6. The themo of the dis
course, which was an excellent one, " The
Gospel, a system of theology civeu by
God to man."
Prof. A. T. Paim, of Harrisburg has
taken charge of tbo musical part of the
exercises. Already quite a large choir
has been organized, and very fine music
is produced.
The afternoon service was very interest
ing throughout. At 3 o'clock Rev. D. A.
L. Laverty, of Harrisburg, preached an
ablo sermon from 1st Cor. iii 22, 23.
Thome "Tho Christian's Property."
At C o'clock prayer meeting was led by
Rev. Lockwood, of Columbia. At 7:30
Rex. Nail, of Elizabethtown, preached to
a large audience and made a very strong
appeal to sinners, using as bis text, Heb.
x, 89, "God the Father designed the
salvation of tho world."
Rev. G. W. Soilhamer, of Lancaster,
followed with a feeling of exhortation,
and invited sinners to come to the altar.
Throughout the day there was some
very fine singing by the choir, let by Prof.
Palm, of Harrisburg.
The musical and song service consisting
of about ono hundred select voices will
take placo on Sunday afternoon and is ex
pected to bo very fine.
Mice.
A Barn Burned by children.
The Now Holland Clarion says: "The
barn on the property of Andrew Caldwell,
near Scrufftown, which is farmed by Cyrus
Miller, was burned to the ground, with
all its contents except the live stock, on
Wednesday evening. Children playing
with matches in the barn was the cause of
the fire. Five tons of hay, tho crop of
two acres of wheat and about one hun
dred bushels of oats were butned. The
intense heat considerably damaged his
growing tobacco crop, as it was in close
proximity to the building. The loss to
Mr. Miller is great. We were unable to
ascertain whether there was any iusurancc
upon the building or contents."
An Early Morning Fire In New Holland.
Between three and four o'clock this
morniug tho large washhouso on the
premises of II. M. Weiler about one-fourth
of a milo south f New Holland was
burned to the ground. It is thought to
have been tho work of :io incendiary, as
the family had no fire iu the house for a
week or more. The contents were all
destroyed.
THE QUARTER SESSIONS.
KEGVLilK TEKH OF AUGUST COUBT
Drawing to a Close The Last Day of tee
Term Cases that Were Disposed ot.
Yesterday and This Morning.
Iu the case of Albert Arndt, charged
with being a tramp, the jury rendered a
verdict of guilty. He was sentenced to pay
the $1 fine and cost and undergo an im
prisonment of 10 days.
Frederick Leidenberger, convicted of
cruelty to animals, was sentenced to pay
a tine of $10 and costs.
It was Charles Fritz not Fritsch
against whoa a true bill charging hiss
with fornication and bastardy was return
ed by the grand jury. The similarity in
the sound of the names caused the error.
As will be seen from the context of a
paragraph in Friday's paper the verdict
against Barton Yohn, tried for fornication
and bastardy was "guilty," instead of
not guilty as eroneously printed yesterday.
He received the usual sentence.
Friday Afternoon. Com'th vs. Charles
Fritz of this city. The defendant was
charged with fornication and bastardy
with Ida Ruttnr.
The defense did not deny that the child
was theirs, but presented proof to show
that a not pros bad been entered at the
January session upon an agreement be
tween the accused and prosecutrix in which
Fritz had paid all the costs on two in
dictments against him for seduction and
fornication and bastardy and had given
bonds to the poor direotora that tho child
Bbould not become a burden upon the
county. It was also proved that the de
fendant's mother has assisted to support
the prosecutrix and her child since Janu
ary. The defendant asked for an acquittal
on these grounds. The court decided that
the prosecutrix being underage was not
competent to give a release. Tho jury
rendered a verdict of guilty.
Com'th vs. Cyrus Feller, Jacob Feller
and Jacob Seachrist, assault and battery.
It was alleged by the commonwealth tbat
these three defendants passed tbo house of
Jacob McElhaney, in Elizabeth township,
on the 28 of March, on their way home
from a flitting. After they were past
about 200 yards they returned aud going
into MoEIhaney's yard made assault upon
him and beat him. The defense was that
McElnaney started the fight by hitting
one of the defendants. The others went
to his assistance, when MeEIbaney's wife
and family came to his rescue and hit them
with stones and other things. On trial.
The grand jury returned the following
bills :
True BRls Jacob B. Bachman, larceny;
Kate Goll, keeping a disorderly house ;
Henry Doman, burglary.
Ignored The following assault and
battery cases were ignored : Joseph
Murphy, with Wm. Nickelson for costs;
Wm. Nickelson, with Joseph Murphy for
costs; Elizabeth Bender, with Bridget
Heisleman for costs; Kate Gall, with
Emma Doll for costs ; Emma Doll, with
Kate Gall for costs ; Lillie Doll, with
Sarah J. Hinder for costs; Sarah Hinder,
with Lillie Doll, for costs.
Charles Herring plead guilty to assault
and was sentenced to two and half
months imprisonment.
Saturday Morning. In tho case of Joe
Fetter, Cyrus Fetter and Jacob Seachrist,
charged with assault and battery, the de
fense called a number of witnesses this
morning. The jury rendered verdicts of
not guilty, with defendants to pay all
costs.
Verdicts of not guilty were taken in
the following cases for waut of evidence :
Jacob B. Bachman, larceny ; John Schoen
berger, playing games of chance for
drinks ; Jacob Strunip, fornication and
bastardy.
The flue of Elizabeth Malsch.
This morning Dr. Geo. A. King, Robert
A. Evans and B. F. Montgomery, who
wore appointed a commission to inqnireinto
the condition of Elizabeth E. Maiscb, who
at the April sessions, was acquitted of
murder on tho grounds- of insanity and
taken to tho insane asylum, made their
report. They stated that they had ex
amined t!io physicians and persons in
charge of the hospital, and have como to
the conclusion that Mrs. Maisch's reason
has been restored a:d she has been of
sound mind for two months. The report
was filed.
Com'th vs. William Caldwell, colored,
of Sprin:;vilIo, Mt. Joy township. The de
fendant is but eleven and a-half years old
and was ch:tn;td with stealing a watch
from Samuel Walter ; tho watch was re
covered from tho defendant's mother to
whom he had given it. The defense was
that tho boy had found tho watch while
playing with some other children. The
jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
The above was tho last case for jury trial,
and the panel was discharged.
liesrrtlon and Surety of the Peace.
Shortly before 12 o'clock the surety of
tho peace and desertion cases were taken
up.
The fiiht case was tbat of William
Sebum, of this city, who was charged by
his wife Maggie Sebum with desertion
surety of the peace. She testified tbat bo
has done nothing for her support since
June 1st. On trial.
Tne Grand Jury.
The grand jury heard cases all forenooa
and their final report was brought in this
afternoon too late for to-day's paper.
A SPECK OF 8CAHDA.
A married Woman and a Yooag Girl Eles
Wnn the Minstrels.
When Barlow, Wilson & Co.'s minstrels
arrived in Lancaster, yesterday, two of
tho company had with them each, a
woman picked up in York. After trying
to get quarters for them at one or more
hotels the women were taken to a private
boarding house on Water street, where
they passed the night. Late last evening
a respectable gentleman from York ap
peared before Alderman McConomy and
stated tbat one of the women was his
daughter, the other a young married
woman of York, and tbat they had bees
persuaded by the minstrels to leave their
homes and run away with them. He made
complaint of disorderly conduct against
them and they were arrested. Tho women
were also arrested and taken before Alder
man McConomy. The married one showed
a good deal of contrition, and professed to
bo anxious to return home, but the
younger one seemed very angry that she
bad been captured, and it was only on
being threatened with imprisonment that
she consented to return with her father to
York. Both women deny any improper
intimacy with the minstrels. As they be
long to respectable families their names
are withheld.
MISTAKEN IDENTITY.
Supposed Jail Breakers Arrested.
Yesterday Chief Deichler and Officers
Cramer and Lemon, from information re
ceived from the Harrisburg autorities, ar
rested at Ziegler's hotel, East King street,
two men supposed to be Andrew Russ and
James Madden, who broke out of the Har
risburg jail a few days previous. When
arrested the men gave their names as
Frank Strine and Thomas Ryan. The
Harrisburg authorities were notified and
Simon Duey, warden of the jail, carao on
to take the prisoners back to Harrisburg ;
but as soon as he saw them he declared
they were not the men he wanted, al
though they pretty nearly answered the
description of the missing prisoners. Thy
were thereupon discharged.
Hal eti
Samuel Hess & Sob, auctioneers, sold at
pnblie sale on Thursday, August 24tb, for
Martin & Hess, 30 head or cows at au
average price of 148 per head.
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