I .mi. iii'nn i-n i 'irHfiiiriri"1"'!'!"!'!! i m nun-- i iSj!,lj'' LANCASTEB DAILY INTfaiGENCEB, THUKSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1882.. J. fcanrasfci tnteUcocncft THUBSDAY BVEN'd. 3BPK 21. WBO. Tke NemiuUen T .JMger. Tbe secretary of the treasury bas re ceived the Republican nomination for governor of New York by a very narrow majority ; but be bas not yet been elect ed governor ; and will not be if ordinary wisdom governs the Democratic conven tion. The nomination is weak. It is directly opposed to the public sentiment, which demands freedom from the affilia tions which gave Folger tbenomination. He carries the Stalwart administration on his back and is further handicapped by the obnoxious influences which are typified by the support of Jay Gould. Why he desired a nomination which would not give him the hearty support of his party is a mystery ; for he can hardly wish to be nominated to be de feated, and he cannot reasonably hope 'to be successful except by the aid of a Democratic blunder as serious as that which the Republicans committed in erecting his standard. It is tbe flag of " bass rule " that they have raised ; and it is a flag that the voter will not follow. A tew weeks ago tbe candidacy of Wadsworth was proposed by the clement which sought Cornell's overthrow. It was proclaimed only for the purpose of drawing support from hint and with no intention further. Wadsworth would have suited the purjiosc of the men who have nominated Folger still less than Cornell ; for he is an honester and more straightforward man. Judge Folger has the reputatiou of crookedness, gained in tbe days before he ascended the bench, and when he was an active and un scrupulous politician. This judicial re tirement has thrown a shadow upon the old-time estimate of him, but ho has not changed his spots and is still recognized by those who supported him for gover nor, as a proper tool for their dasigns against tho people, should power be placed in their bands. The anti-administration Republicans are marshaling their strength in conse quence of a matured plan instituted by Blaine and of which tho faithful have been advised. Tho strength of Governor Cornell in the New York convention was du3 to his having bren accorded th" position ot the anti-ad ministration can didate, lie was beaten by a few votes, and the administration cannot stand many more such victories any better- than it can endure such as it has achieved in the regu lar nominations of its party in Penn sylvania. Here its ticket is sura to be beaten, and there scarcely less sure. Gov. Cornell would not have been a strong candidal e before the convention, without thebaptiseinentof Blaine; nor would lie have been a strong candidate before the people. There are very weak spots in his record. He is not a chain pion of i ight, except as expediency makes him so. It will probably turn out to have been a good thing for the Blaine clement that it failed to achieve the re sponsibility of his nomination. Mr. Blaine evidently seems to poach upon the Democratic preserve in mak ing up his party. Not an honest man himself, he is loud in honest professions. Having no antipathy to monopolies, which have been kind to him, he discov ers that tbe tide is against them and swims with it. He and his arc against political bosses and strongly for popular sovereignty, in profession. Tiieir honesty is in inverse order to the loudness of their proclamation of it. But it sounds well and is likely to pay well. Blaine is against Mahono now strongly ; much more strongly thau when he was in the cabinet and in a position to hurt him. His followers atttend him in this trick. The Philadelphia Press, once a Mahone organ, now bas no good word for a leader who has not in the slightest degree changed the order of his proceedings ex cept to crawl into closer affiliation with the Republican administration and pro claim himself an ally of Arthur, who has the offices at his disposal. Arthur's friends caunot run along with Blaine's friends. The two packs will not hunt together. The Republican party, being in these two factions, is not in trim to dispute the brush with the Democracy ; and to them it seems certain to be awarded. The Battle in Philadelphia. In relation to tho ccunty judge ship, public sentiment was defiantly disregarded by the Republican conven tion in Philadelphia yesterday, and the incompetent and unpopular Briggs set up for another term ; this being done, too, in the face of the protest of almost the entire Repub lican membership of the bar. In the congressional and legislative districts the machine went straight ahead wherever it could, and where it found this impossible resorted to its usual method of putting up masked candi dates ; in a few cases the Independents and reformers won the fight, but as a rule the nominations are in the interest of the Cameron power. So be it. Now that the machine has done its work the people will do theirs. The Committee of One Hundred will scrutinize carefully Keim's nomination for sheriff, and the renomination of Judge Briggs. It will also review tho entire legislative Held and with sweeping effect. The Democrats have a brilliant opportunity and it is earnestly to be hoped that they will wisely improve it. Our excellent state ticket, growing in strength ever' day, is already sure of a heavy vote in Philadelphia beyond the regular party line, and this can largely be increased by trie selection of a first-class Democratic local legislative ticket throughout. Give us clean and strong local nomina tions in Philadelphia and the great bat tle will virtually be won. TriE Massachusetts Democracy have unanimously nominated General Butler for governor. He is thus fully rehabili tated in the Democratic ranks and will receive the hearty Democratic support. When a candidate on other occasions there was a Democratic contingent which refused to vote for him, not hav ing yet forgiven him his offences against tbe party, which were many and griev ous. But old things have passed away, and in the presence of the vital issues of the present, in which General Butler is in unison with the .Democratic voice, and in view of his energetic and forceful championship of the principles we main tain, he was tbe fittest man to lead the Democratic battle in Massachusetts where it is waged against so fearful odds. General Butler has an intrepid courage in political and civil battle that is almost superhumanJIe is a man among ten thousand to lead a forlorn hope in the courts or before the people, although in physical combat ho never gained much glory. He has almost limitless resources and his efforts always tell. He is not afraid to risk defeat, and can snatch a victory when a man of ordinary clay would sink back appalled. He may not bo elected governor of Massachu setts, but with the popular issues now at his command he will come nearer than ever to achieving a result which he has evidently set himself to accomplish before his days of battle are over m i a Tub Democrats of Pittsburgh are to be congratulated upon the nomination of Mr. nopkins for Congress. He is not only the strongest candidate that could have been named, but it is eminently fitting that, after having courageously fought so many hopeless battles,he should now be given the place of honor when the long-intrenched Cameron bosses, with Russell Errett at their head, arc about to be routed and crushed by a popular uprising. lu two years Mr Hopkins made an enviable national reputation in the House, and upon his return to it he will at onco take high rank in that body. m Tub piano makers, having listened all summer to tho banging of piano in city and couuty, are now on a strike of their own Tiik blind pool iu which Gov. Cornell was interest doesn't seem to have panned out so much of a political success as it did in a financial view. Tiieue aro now living in the United States 291 persons who were bom at sea under the United States Hag. Most of them must bs pretty phi. ! Tuk refusal of tho Archbishop of Paris to allow the body of a man killed iu a duel to bo taken into any Catholic church, or to let a priest conduct tho ftiucral rites anywhere, is regarded iu Paris as an im pouaut religions blow at duelling. A young telegraph operator at Oil City got somo points early on tho recent rise j iu oil, went in heavy aud cleared $40,000 in two weeks. This leads like a ready made cut-to order item, but the lato terrifio upwaid pace of the crude product gives it just enough of the flavor of probability to make it piquaut. The Now York Sun observes that among Englishmen of education aud ability, and who carry tho load of cxteu- i sivo affairs, tho tendency is toward in 1 creasinir abstemiousness. .inH Miat total abstainers aro growiug pretty nu merous. It is a tendency which wo com mend to the thoughtful attention of our men in public life. Statistics show a largo iucrease iu the number of immigrants settling in Texas. This is duo in large part to tho wiso policy of the southwestern roads. In order to induce immigration into tho interior of Texas the railroads aro carrying immi grants to any point in the state without extra fare. That is to say, it costs no more to go to an interior settlement than to Galveston. The rumor that Arabi Bey will bo banished to the United States to live on the bounty of American Laud Leagues is probably tho mental outgrowth ot somo fierce Hiborian whoso zeal outruus his discretion. Tho American Laud Leagues will have abundant opportunities for using their money in keeping up tho fight against English opposition in Ireland Irishmen tho world over' aro famed for having larger hearts than purses. Since tho invention of cigarettes, or smoking mado easy, tho path of tho small Doy anxious to apo manhood has been rcn dored less thorny than hitherto. It is now proposed to assist tho rising genera tions in their eagerness to become men by somo such invention as whiskyrottes, which will mako strong drink when takon for tho first timo moro palatable Thn maguitudc of tho field that this thought suggests might appal the hearts of even tho stoutest inventor. Betrothal rings have altered uoticoa- uiy in snaps aud settiug or lato years. A puro whito diamond, tho only suitablo gem, is under-set in short claws so that thostouo hidos tho sotting completely. Polished gold is preferred to Roman gold. Tho shank is oval and tapers from tho gem. There is neither enamel nor engrav ing on its service, and inscriptions aro cut insido as the purchaser may ordor. It is but an old fashion revived, and one which will bo liked. Iu the last thirty years wedding rings uavo changed twice in styles, from tho narrow, double circlet to tho polished oval, and lastly tho plain wide, flat band, which is now also profor able in polished gold. Tho London Society has tho following to say of a nondescript factor iu society whose portrait will ba readily recognized : " A poor relation is the most irrelevant thins; iu nature a nieen nt imnnrtinnni- correspondency; an oJious approxima tion ; a haunting conscience ; a preposter ous shadow, lengthening ito the uoontido of your prosperity ; an unwelcome romem' brancer ;- a perpetually recurring mortifi cation ; a drain on your purse, a more in tolerable dun on your prido ; a drawback upon success ; a rebuke to your rising ; a stain in your blood ; a blot on your escut cheon ; a rent in your garment; a death's head at your banquet ; Agathaocles'spot ; a Mordccai at your gate ; a Lazarus at your door ; a lion in your path ; a frog in your chamber; a fly in your ointment; a mote in your eye ; a triumph to your enemy ; an apology to your friends ; the one thing not needful ; tho hail in harvest ; the ounce of sour in a pound of sweet. Ex.MiNiSTEB Chbistiancy has received a decree of divorce from his wife on tho ground of the latter's desertion. FOLGER BEATSGOHiyELL A. MAUHIaTE VICTOR IX JMCW VOKK- Artaar's tetsry of tho.Traaiury Metnl- MUd far Governor, Attar m KxcfUac StrngC- at Saratoga. When the New York Republican state convention at Saratoga met again at 4 ri. m. Wednesday, it dragged through foojr wearisome hours, half given to contests of a local interest, and the other half to speeches, introducing candidates' for gov ernor, all absolutely without interest in a body whose whole life pivoted on tho struggle over the organization and the nomination for governor. With a shrewd ness led off by Bliss, tho Folger party voted down tho report of the Folger com mittee on credentials, unseating the Sene ca delegation where both sets were for Cornell. It was a little touch, but a neat one. The speeches were all mediocre or worse State Senator Pitts, for Cornell, made, perhaps, the best. The air was full of rumor which met and crystallized at two points the Wadsworth strength' had been secured in great measure by Folger, and Cornell's friends had made no progress in establish ine a working arrangement with Wadsworth's forces which contained a strong sharo of men whose dislike of Cornell made them prefer any course to a vote for him. Bad air, bad speech-making, and a long day's session had sunk the convention to absolute weariness and the first roll-call for governor went by in lax inattention. The long roll, twico tho length of Che Houso at Washington, ran on without interest. Vote after vote fell closo upon tho estimate of tho past two days and the roll call of this morning. Wood had been withdrawn. His strength added to Folger's raised tho vote of the secretary of tbe treasury to 223, three fourths of it from tho groat cities of tho state. Cornell came behind with ISO votes, and his tally, added to Wadsworth's sixty-nine, made an exact majority of tho convention. Two lesser candidates, Stariu and Robinson, bad nineteen aud six each. The convention settled to a second bal lot with all tho signs of a long struggle. Men on the outer skirts of the crowd lit their cigars. The close, dense mass of del egates stretched themselves at ease and the clerk droned on from couuty to county. Tiicro was a cbangoal Broomo, whose del egates voted for Cornell, and hero and there a vote for Folger onco oven a vote for Stariu. A stir rippled over tbo convention at each change, but tbo vote closed with no alteration which couuted on tho final re sult. Changes began to come. A man in Queens changed from Wadsworth to Fol ger. It was a break at a point where a break would nominate Folger. Miller left his seat and hurried to the Oneida aud St. Lawrence delegations, where Wadsworth's chief strength lay. aud the administration leaders gathered in a group at tho head of another aisle, Smythe, Sharpe and tho rest. Tho convention straightened liko ono man. Tho rows of whito faces under the gaslight left now as ono man and another jumped on a chair, waved his hat aud hoarsely shouted a chaugc. Folger's tally mounted a vote at a timo. It looked like a break. Miller came rushing up tho aisle, waving his arm, and throw himself into this rushing current of shouting delegates. Hammer ing chairman and hoarse and bewildcicd secretary a change of a vote, aud tho con vention hung at dead pauso liko a ship be fore it falls on another tack. In tho mid dle of the hall a black bearded six footer waves a great black bat iu larger circles and shouted, " Anothor chansro !" It. was eight moro from Starin to Cornell, and another of Stariu's counties followed. The convention devolved into a bowling mob. The big, red-faced chairman went to pieoes, the clerk lost all run of the score, the aisle filled, tho wall aisles were ono thick mass of swaying men, with here and there a 'man screaming frantically for rec ognition, arm, head, hat, body, umbrella, cane, voice all yelled aud waved and hammered and shaken. The closely-placed seats would break up in groups of excited men around some man dancing on his chair seat, and then settle back as tho rows of men sank back in their seats. Shouts, cries, yells, cheers, half sentences aud whole ones, weak voiced men in a hoarse, dumb show, and strong voiced ones iu explosive staccato syllables " Mis ter Chairman " over and over again. The traditional break iu a couveutiou is a rout the stone is pulled out of tho arch and tho wholo thing tumbles. Tho break last night was a pitched battle fought through an .hour, ono voto changing at a time, the tally swaying now this way now that. Folger slowly narrowing voto by voto the gap that separated him from a majority. and Cornell rising by leaps and bounds until in ono crazed five minutes tho two were not ten votes apart. Starin had already been withdrawn, Tho slender, quiet-voiced old man who had presented Wadsworth, his voice utter ly drowned in the hubbub, struggled through slow minutes to auuounco that Oneida changed cloven votes to Cornell, but by this timo nothing short of a fog whistlowas to- be hoard in tho din of shouting men. and it was only when ho bad crowded down within a yard or two ot tbo cuairman that he was understood. Wadsworth still remained in tho field aud held a few votes for Cornell while Folger's strength mounted ; but. long after ho had passed a majority man were still changing their votes to Cornoll, aud Hinging into the breach ono voto after another. It was over at last. A red haired young man on a chair shouted a change from Cornell to Folger, half a dozen more came, none followed, but Cor nell held his vote, and Sharpe, high in a chair, managed in a lull of the tempest to suggest quiet before tho result was an nounccd. Tho convention slowly became still. Tho result was announced. Folger had 201 votes, within one voto of tho strength his managers claimed if a break came. Cornell had 223. and Wadsworth l'J, cast by alittlo squad of impracticable muepenacuts. llie motion to mako tho nomination uuauimous camo from United States Sen ator Warner Miller, who had been 1h .in. tivo leader of tho Cornell faction, aud after it uau neon adopted a recess was takon until morning. Work or tho Flames. T. D. Wane's foundry, St. Hyacinth, near Montreal, was burnt! viv.tnri-nr. Loss, 10,000. Oj.U. Show's woolen mill, at Wales, Hampden couutv. Mass.. was burned vo terday. Loss, $50,000. A fire which originated last night iu tho Boston warehouse at Now Orleaus resulted in daruago estimated at 100,000. A llrO VPstlM-tllMT -if. ItrSnnnnnnKe' Xllnn gutted tho livery stablo of Wilson & Stiick- laua, ami cianiagoa tne adjoining property. Loss, 10,000. ' A dwelling honsn anrl farm lm',u:n. otYTicdby Joseph Racino, St. ; Anne des Flaines, near Montreal, were burned yos tcrday. Loss, 10,000. Melville's Recont'ou. It is generally expected that Engineer Melville will arrive in Washington on Sat urday. Atclogramwas sent to Irim, but uo response has been received. Members of tho reception committeo say that Mel ville has expressed somo doubt as to the propriety of his accepting a public recep tion on account of recent family troubles, but they have overruled the objection on the ground that it intended to honor others as well as Melville. The reception will be held in the parlors of the Ebbitt house, the army and navy headquarters in the city. -FKBSONAIk Sbnator L. Q.GL IitXAB talks of spending the balance of his days as a jrb feasor in the University ol; Georgia. -' Sir Garnet Wolsklkt, calls war cor respondents of newspapers ' those newly inventod;curses to armies." JomrSuEA, who was once worth 15, 000,000, is now living iu comparative poverty in a rude cottage near Soda Springs, Cal. Walter F. SutoMASTsn, president of the Lehigh telegraph company, died yes. terday in Allentown. of congestion of the brain, after one day's illness. Clark Mills, the well-known sculptor, was yesterday at Washington, D. C, stricken with paralysis. It has benumbed bis brain. Harvey Chack, one of tho pioneers among cotton manufacturers in Rhode Island, died yesterday at Valloy Falls, aged 85 years. Prince Leopold has a morbid aversion to being thought ill, and to this the "in spired " paragraphs which have appeared announcing his improved health are due. Dr. J. G. Holland's widow and two daughters still occupy "Bonuicastle," the stately mansion built by the dead author five years ago on tho St. Lareuco bay. Oscar Wilde took a trip among tho New York brokers tho other day. The brokers made fun of him, and Oscar took a note of it for his forthcoming book of America and tho peoplo ho has met here. Mr. Si'UROEON docs not seem to have much sympathy with tho idea that drunk enness is a disease. He recently declared it to be "in itself an awful sin one of the worst of sins, in short ; a dreadful crime." Meissonier's famous little painting which Mr. Ruskin recently sold for somo 30,000 has bocomo the property of Dotoer Bey, who is well-known in Paris as an art collector. Professor Evangelinus A.' Sorno clks, tho venerable professor of Grcok in Harvard college, is dangerously ill. Ho is a nativo of Greece, but baa beou a resident of this country for many years. Rev. II. M. Kieffer, of Norristown, well known in this city, lately received a call from Emanuel's Reformed church, Hanover. He is said to have declined the call and will remain with his congregation at Norristown. Mme. Helena Mod.jk.ska, and her hus band, tho Count Bozcuta Chalapowski, were welcomed by Oscar Wilde upon their arrival at the Clarendon hotel on Monday. Mme. Modjcska says that iu Loudon the Lord Chamberlain cut a good deal out of her "Camillo." BjOllJiSTKliNK B.IOICNSON will hi mil eelc brate bis twenty-fifth jubilee as a poet. Ho has uol produced auy now poetic work for many years, having been completely absorbed in political agitations resulting from a conflict between his views and those of King jDscar of Sweden. Congressman Ckaio, of Massachusetts, lives at Now Bedford in an old-fashioned, but largo and elegant Gothic houso, of an almost cloister-like appearance. It is sur rounded by widespread lawns and winding paths, aud shaded by a grovoof huge elms whoso lofty branches meet iu a leafy arch abovo tho roof-tree. Within there is no showy. display, hut in furniture, books and pictures a quiet, simple eleganco reigns, bespeaking at onco tho wealth, culturo and sturdy common sense of the owner. Artemus Ward's grave, near Bridge ton, Mc, is marked by a plain maible slab on which are the inscriptions : "Charles F. Browno. known to the world as Arte mus Ward, died at Southampton, Eng land, 1807, aged 33 years." And beneath this Hue : " His memory will always bo a sweet and unfading recollection." These words wero copied from the letter sent to tho sorrowing mother by Mr. Milior, tho English gentlemen who cared for tho son iu his last illness and closed his eyes when ho ceased to breathe. VIIIFX-S' PUGUT. Iu Jail and Without Money. Major Phipps is still the gcueral topic of conversation among tho Hamiltonian?, and tbe moro tbo extent of his peculations is becoming known tho more horror stricken are the citizens that such a fraud could have been perpetrated in a Chris tian city. Tho phase of tho affair which strikes tho Canadians as being most cruel is tho probability that tho helpless poor in tbo Philadelphia almshuuso must have suffered extreme privations through his villiany. To say that anything particularly new has transpired iu tho caso, would bo stat ing an untruth. The major is still in dur ance, and seems to feel much better thau when in tbe uptown colls, where ho was compelled to pass the first night of bis incarceration, all reports to the contrary notwithstanding. He has kept his mouth closed so far, and it is probable that he will continuo to do so to the end of the chapter. Not ono word has passed his lips implicating tho guardiaus of tho institution, and, it is said, that his legal advisers and himsolf aro in hopes that they will be able to prevent extradition. Counsel for tho commonwealth of Pcnn splvania, however, from tho peep they had into. the caso, bolievo that there is abund ant evidenco to convict him of tho chargo of forgory, and soud him back to tho United States a felon. Mr. Georgo W. Harkins, who has been in Hamilton con ferring with Mr. Carscallou (Phipps' Ca nadian counsel), loft for Philadelphia. It was rumored on tho streets that it was not so much the defenso of Phipps which brought him hero as to watch tho interests of others implicated in the almshouse rob beries. Detective Bell, Piukurton's man, feels very proud of the part ho bas played in tbo .arrest, and purposes remaining until after tho hearing of the case, which takes placo next Tuesday. It is tho intention of tho Philadelphia newspaper men to remain uutil after tho ovent. A correspondent had a conversation with tho officer who searched Phipps' baggage after tho arrest, and was assured that tho wholo sum of money and notes would not amount to over 55. Mrs. Phipps is still staying at tho Douiiuiou hotel, and spends a good portion of each day with her hus band. A correspondent says : " I have just cotno from tho jail aud you may depend upon it that Phipps duos not intend to peach." ULAINK'S UOAIBSUKLL. Dintuuy Among the Supporters of JMitfioue The Stratghtout Republicans Kfjolced. Tbo determined stand taken by Mr. Blaino against Mabonei.sm. in Virgiuia, appears to bo causing tbo Coalitionists iu that state some trouble. They act as if they wero hurt, and tho feelings they en tertain for Mr. Blaino aro voiced in a very bitter double-leaded editorial in thoiVa tional Republican, in which ho is denounced as a Bourbon recruit, and wherein it is claimed that he has placed himself in op position to Senators Frye, Hale. Blair, Rollins, Hoar, Dawes, Morrill, Ed munds, Hawley, Piatt, Anthony, Aldrich, Sherman, Conger, Sawyer, Allison, Windora ; to General Grant and to tho administration,inoluding every cabi net officer, all of whom aro placed in the category of staunch frionds of the anti Bourbon movement. On tho other hand friends of tho straight-out-Republican movement are correspondingly elevated in spirit on account of Blaino's outspoken friendship. The interview, in which the ex-secretary of state gives his views on the subject, is to be printed in pamphlet form by the straight-out-Republicans, and will be circulated through the state. It is claimed that Blaine's utterances will change many votes, THE NEW BORGIA. - v - S --- "' UlVCfCi STKYCUWHZ FOR (JCKJINB. ( - f . t Tke TarrlMeOUaea witk WbtoSi A oat Sally Stary, a jaaerUIA Waaoaa taPataraan, U Cbarsed. There was much excitement yesterday at noon in front of county jail in Paler son, N. J. A big constable was endeav oring to persuade a little old woman to accompany him into the jail, but the little old woman refused. After expostulating for a few minutes the old woman tried to get away, and attracted a crowd. Tho constable then seized her by tho arm, and, with the aid of the deputy warden of tbe jail, forced her into the portals of the jail. The constable handed the jail warden a paper from Justice Elias Van Ness, of Lit tle Falls township, instructing the warden to keep Mrs. Sally Story until released by duo course of law, she "having been charged by Mr. Joseph Feest with the murder of his wifo. Tho little old woman was Aunt Sally Story, ono of tho best known characters in Passaic county. Al though tho commitment charges the ac cused with but one crime that of poison ing Mrs. Feest tberoisa probability that there will be other charges preferred against her, for tho people who livo in tho neighborhood of Aunt Sally's former dom icile tell somo very ugly stories about her. Tho death of Mrs. Elizabeth Feest took place on Friday of last week, and a rumor was soon spread that she had been poisoned by a powder given her by Aunt Sally Story. This rumor reached tho ears of Coroner Newcombc, aud .bo proceeded to Little Falls to investigate. He was there informed that Aunt Sally had uot only poisoned Mrs. Feest, but that some years before sho had poisoned a woman uatned Mrs. Maud ; that a short time be fore this tiiuo she had poisoued a woman named Maggie Story, aud that tho bus baud of Aunt Sally had died under very mysterious circumstances. Tho coroner called ou tho couuty prosecutor, Mr. Eugene Steven-sun, aud laid the mattcis before him. Witnesses wero sommoncd and a jury empanelled to inquire into the causo of the death of Mrs. Feest, and tho inquest was beguu at Rider's hotel, Little Falls, on Tuesday evening. Joseph Feest, tho husband of the dead woman, testified that on Friday ruoruiug lust his wife took a small portion of a ponder which site said Mrs. Story had given her. aud she died within 10 minutes alter. Ho produced tho remainder of the powder. Ho said his wife aud Mrs. Story were nut at all intimate. His daughter Mary, aged 11, corroborated her father's story. Mrs. Hal lie Story was ucxt allowed to testify in her own behalf. She said she was sure she had had no stryehniue in her house for four or five years. Shogavo Mrs. Feest a quinine powder. In her judgment Mrs. Feest died from bciug overworked aud half-starved. Dr. Kceler testified that when he was called to see tho deceased woman bo sup posed she had died of malarial convulsions and gavo a cortilicato accordingly ; after ward ho heard of somo of the neighbors stories, and on testing powder loft in tho houso found it was strychnine ; an autopsy of tho body showed that death unmistak ably resulted fioin strychniuo. He gavo a kitten four drachms of tho fluid contents removed from the stomach, and it died iu a few minutes with all tbe symptoms of strychnine poisoning ; another kitten died from two drachms of tho fluid coutents. Tho inquest was thou adjourned uutil to morrow night. Mrs. Feest's body will bo exhumed aud examined. i XII K COMET'S I'l.UNGK t'roftwior Itustt Think tt Must Fall Uu;ul loiig Into the Suu. Professor Lewis Boss, of tbe Dudley ob servatory, Albany, is now in Washington on hjs way to Santiago de Chile, where ho is to observe the transit of Venus. Prof. Boss said, couccruing tho comet now to be seen near tho sun : " I havo scarcely a doubt iu my own mind that we aro actu ally witnessing a return of the great comets of 1843 aud 1880. I believe that the peri helion passage will bo found to have occur red somo hours previous to Greenwich mid night of tho 17th, and that the orbit will be found to bo elliptical, with a period of less thau three years. Wo may, therefore, expect tho comet back again in 1884, if not sooner. At each fresh plunge into tho solar atmosphere tho comet, which at this time is moving with the enormous velocity of 370 miles per second, will be impeded in its flight. The result of this will be to mako tho intervals between successivo re turns continually diminish in length. Hotter and hotter will become the mad flight of tho splendid comet under the all powerful and increasing attraction of tho sun. At last and as I believe beforo tho closo of the present century, the comet on somo of its recurring approaches to tbe sun, will meet low down iu tbe solar at mosphere an obstruction too great to be resisted. " It will then fall headlong into tho sun and vanish from tbo catalogue of comets forever. This catastrophe may occur next year or somo years later, but I boliovo it must come sooner later. I am moro in clined to believe that tho destruction of tho comet will tako placo suddenly rather than by a gradual w.isting away. It is oven possible that this event may occur without our knowledge, but if we aro for tunate enough, somo timo when tho comet is on its homeward journey to tho sun, wo shall watch him gradually approach ing tho great luminary of day until cast iu bis rays, and then we shall watch iu vain for his emergence. This may seem to be a bold prediction, and I may have made some error whose existence I do not now suspect. If so I shall bo glad to havo it pointed out. and at all events shall watch for tho first rudo elements of tho present comet which are yet to bo com pleted with fervent interest." If this proves to bo a return of tbo Gould comet of 18S0 it will not long remain iu view. By tho 5?Cth of September it will bo about twenty degrees west of tho sun. It will then be only one-tenth as bright as on tho 10th of September. Ou October 10, its distance from the sun will bo about forty degrees west, and it will bo only one fifteenth part as bright as on tho 10th. It will probably still be seen iu largo tele scopes, though to best advantage in equa torial latitudes. Short as this period of visibility will probably be, it ought to be long enough to enable astronomers to reap an abundant harvest of observations, which shall settle tho form of the orbit within narrow limits and determine with certainty whether tho hypothesis of Professor Boss Iks true. Tho observer of the now comet at the naval observatory says : "It was a very prorainout object, rising about half au hour before the sun aud to tho soutbwaid of it at ten or twelve degrees The comet was very plainly seen with tho naked eyo after sunrise. About G a. m. it was easily followed with tho telescope. This is tho third instauce in a huudred years of the observation of a comet in broad daylight with a meridian instrument." Gone AVlth. a Handsomer Man. A. sensation was created at the depot in Reading by an elopement case, iu which II. P. Galapin, a music professor, aud Mrs. Henry Roppium, an attractive woman, both of Williamsport, wero tho chief actors. It appears that they left that place together about three weeks ago and havo since lived at a Reading hotel as man and wife. They had with them a two-year-old child. The police found tho couple on Wednesday. The woman drove to the depot alone, where she expected to meet Galapin. Instead she met her hus band. She shook her fist in his face and vowed that sho did not love him. She got on tho next train for Williamsport, with v.. tbo husband m pursuit. As no warrant had been sworn out tho police could not arrest her. She is about twenty-seven years old. f a A I.ONO STRUGGLE KHDRD. The Old Scale Slgaad by the nmaarsti Iroa Workers aad Maaalactarera. Tho last act in the long straggle at Pittsburgh between the iron workers and the manufacturers took place on Wednes day, it being the signing of the old scale by the manufacturers. The joint confer ence committee of both parties met soon after 10 o'clock, and, with the exception of an hour's recess for dinner, were in continuous session until 5 o'clock in the evening. When they adjourned, aside from verbal agreements, there was nothing to show -for the conference, except the fol lowing memorandum : u ":We, the representatives of the Amal gamated and Western iron' associations respectively agree to the starting of all mills in the first, second and sixth Amal gamated districts, open tbe exact schedule of wages paid in those districts during the year ending June 1, 1883. We further agree to refer back to the second district for adjustment all questions of boiling, nail plato heating, nail plate rolling, the scale of weights and lengths, and repairs to nail machines ; also, that tho column of prices on pago 11 of the scalo ending Juno 1, 1882, pertaining to knobbing, pig metal,' be stricken out and nothing in serted instead." The abovo was signed by representa tives of the Amalgamated association and the executive committee of the Manufac turers' association. Ono of the verbal agreements was that since the Wheeling scale for making nails rules in Pittsburgh and tho West, tho question of weights and lengths and tho paying for repairs on nail machines by tho firms will havo to remain in abeyance in tboso placos until settled in Wheeling, whon it will be ac cepted in othor districts. Thore was a strong impression among manufacturers that their committee would either not sign tbe 'scalo or that thoy would secure, by signing it, somo mod ifications iu tho powers of tho mill committeo aud a guarantee from tbe Amalgamated association that they would prevent further troublo from the nailers in tho Wheeling district. Nothing was conceded iu either case. In the words of Secretary Martin, '"Thestriko is now ended, and wo sincoroly hope that all parties directly interested will now bury tho hatchot, and go to work with a view to avoiding any recurreuco of a similar contest." Tho strike at tho rolling mill iu Spring -iielp, III., is practically at au oud, aud the mcu will return to their work iu a few days. It is stated that tho men desire to wait for oUicial confirmation of tho actiou taken at Youngstowu, Pittsburgh aud Wheeling, but tho mills will flro up again on Monday. Ttttt UAKSUALL UN ConEICOH. What He SayM of tbe Keri.HtuuIetl Dictator. Tho Independents of Butler county held a meeting last evening in the open air to measure strength with tho Regulars, who hold their meeting in the court house, where they had a crowd. They complain that thoy didn't havo a fair chauco at the Regulars. Colonel Duff was the first speaker, but be did not speak long, aud Colonel McMichael followed him iu a speech that brought somo applause. Tom Marshall was tho last speaker beard. He said ho had coico up to open the Republican campaign in Butler county, because it was the homo of his boyhood, tbe county into which his father had brought his wifo and eleven children aud his household goods in an old broadwheel wagon away back in 1820. Something tho peoplo here know, ho had always been a Republican. Ho was a Republican beforo General Beaver was born, and nobody know it better than tho people of Butler county. Sixty years ago, whon ho knelt with his ten older brothers and sisters while his pious father prayed, ho had heard a petition offered up that tho shackles might bo stricken from tho slavo and all men mado equal beforo the law. Upon that platform ho was here to speak to-night, because there aro moro white slaves iu .the country to-day than thero ever wero negroes in America. For a recent instance ho detailed his experionco at tho Ilarrisburg convention, where he went as a delegate for Major Brown, another Butler couuty boy. He found that Brown had an honest majority of tho convention, but tho first day in Ilarris burg ho met a long, tall man with rod hair, ono J. D. Cameron. This red-haired man said to him : "lean tell you who will Lo supremo judgo.'' " Who ?" " Rawlc, I promised it to him last win ter and he will get it." "Look into your hearts," thundered tho orator, "question your manhood, men of Butler county, and say if any red headed dictator shall give away your votes before you cast them." NKUS A1I8UKL.LANY. Short Items Culled from tbe late Mall. Joseph Falkner, a boy, living two miles from Charlotte, N. C, was yesterday caught iu a belt in a mill-wheel and killed. Georgo L. Dollolf, 24 years of age, was drowned yesterday at Exeter, N. II., wuilo bathing. Ho was a graduate of Harvard. Thieves cnteied Charles E. Smith & Co. 's jewelry shop, at North Attleboro. Mass., on Tuesday night, taking $20,000 worth of stock. The fourteenth annual reunion of th Society of tho Army of tho Cumberland opened yesterday at Milwankeo, Gen. Phil Sheridan presiding. Iu the four-oarcd raco yesterday at Lawrence, Kan., tho Centennials won tho tirst prize, tho Modocs second, Pawtuckot third and Hillsdale fourth. Tho Forest Rivers of Salem, Mass., won tho four-oared working boat raco yester day at Point of Pines. Lee won the sin gle scull, one-third of an inch ahead or Hosmer, in 20:16. Fireman Andrew Keult and Brakcman Henry Snyder wero killed yesterday on tho St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba railroad, near Atwator, by a collision of freight trains. The undertakers of tho state, in iicsuon at Uarrisburg yesterday, formed an or ganization aud adopted a constitution and by-laws, aud then adjourned to meet at Philadelphia May 8, 1883. At Fairfield, Me., on Tuesday night, during a thunder shower, tbo houso of Timothy Osborne was struck by lightning. His daughter Mabel, aged 22 years, was killed and bis wife prostrated. Hiram Baker, of Brooklyn, N. Y., com mitted suicido ou Tuesday night by taking carbolic acid. Ho had been ill for some timo and was despondent at tho thought that he would not recover. ltoltlne Urlg8. A number of tbo members of the Re publican judicial convention in Philadel phia seceded, and held a meeting, at which resolutions were adopted to tho effect that the nomination of Judgo Briggs was not binding ; that ho has no just claim to the support of the party, and recommending Republicans to refuse him their support. A, committeo was appointed to confer with tbo Republican city campaign committee of the members of tho bar opposed to Judge Briggs, and with tbe Committeo of One Hundred. Close of tbe State Fair. The state fair at Pittsburg closed Wed nesday evening. As predicted on the opening day, tho exhibition has been .&- successful than that of last veer. It is nnderstood that tbo next fair will ' held in Philadelphia. aWPKlMS YKBSUS KKKETT. Probability of the Foraser's Elec- IMB. Pittsbugh Lcailer, Bt-p. As a general thing there seesas to be considerable amount of satisfaction among the Independent Republicans in consequence of the noraiaetiea rof Mr. Hopkins by tho Democracy for congress man in the Twenty-second district, not that they like Hopkins more bat the love the major less, regarding him, as they do, as an exponent of bossisra. The idea is "anything t squelch Cameron or his heachmeo," even if it lets the Democrats have a whack at the publie offices in the grand old commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Luuf interview .with a romisent Inde pendent to-day ho Ktid : ' "Tho nomination of Hopkins by the Democrats was tho wisest thing they ever did." . ' Why? "The manufactuiers 'will tell you that when he was in Cougiess he attended to their interests better tbau they haveevor been attended to sinco." What do you thiuk of his chances of election ? "I thiuk thoy are good. I havo uo bnore doubt that ho will be elected than !- Tsaew tlb!ms 4a nrftSST " Will the Independents vote for him ? "Not as a party, but believe that many individuals iu the party will sup port him,- There will, however, be no for mal endorsement of Hopkins by tbe Inde pendents." Will the Independents put up a con gressional candidate iu tbe Twenty second district ? "I think uot. Thero bas been a movement on the part of cor tain persons to, get Col. Schoonmaker to run. but it was a ntovo of the party ad tbe wholo, but now that Hopkins is nominated aud tho Independ ents are tolerably well satisfied, I don't think Schoonmaker would accept." How about a Democratic congressman and the tariff question ? " I consider that any man from Penn sylvania, no matter what his politics may be, must naturally be a tariff man. Ah an evidence of that I would recall 'to your mind the fact that when Randall had tho appointing power ho mado excellent ap pointments ou tho ways and means com mittee, aud on the subject of tariff I be lieve all partios in this stato havo a pro diction to pull together. Did Hook seek, the nomination V " No ; he did not want it particularly. His ambition is to beuoino governor. I knew from private conversations I have had with him that ho did not hunt nor wish the congressional nomination. ! Au JSxtraortlluary Cane. Harvey .Robinson, of Greenville, O., died from tbe effects of melanosis, from which ho suffered since last spring, turning perfectly black. He was born 'of whito parents, nis case is one of tbo most re markable on record, but ono other being known and that was in England. Dr. Fall, of Cincinnati, has lieen telegraphed for aud ho aud Dr. Langdon, tbo patholog ist of a Cincinnati hospital, aud other physicians will hold a post mortem exam nation. TIIK CITY UCHOVKilVV.. tieuerot Nominations lor the Aaeeiubly. General nominations for Assembly were mado by the Democrats of tho several wards of tho city last evening, and in all of them the names of Eliiu G. Snyder, of tho Ninth ward (present member), and C. A. Oblender, Eighth ward, wero pre sented. Tho primary meetings will tako placo on Saturday evening between tho h'jurs of 0 aud 8 o'clock, except iu tho 8th ward, where tho election will be hold from 3 to 8 p. m., when tho candidates will bo chosen, the one receiving tho high est consolidated vote being tbo nominee. Tho meetings will bo at tbe customary places in the several wards. In the Eighth it will be at John Pontz's saloon on Dor wart street. It is tho duty of all Demo crats to attend theco primary meetings and vote for tho candidate of their choice iu order that the nominee may represent the sentiment of the paity. Iu the Seventh ward last ovening after tho routine business of placing the names in liouiiuatinu and selecting officers to conduct the Saturday night primary bad been completed, a campaign Pattisun club was formed, with a large roll of members, and a committee appointed to report at a special mooting rules and permanent offi cers. A Fattlaou Folo. ' A correspondent signing himself ''Dem ocrat" sends the following account of a polo raising at Cambridge : On Saturday evening, September lGtb. the Democrats of Conoy township erected, a magnificent Pattison pole at Bainbridge.. It measures ono hundred aud four feet, above ground, aud makes a splendid ap renanco. A large crowd of the dauntless. Democracy from all parts of the township were present. Tho Falmouth band en livened the occasion with their sweetest music. Many feared that so large and heavy a polo could not be .raised, but tho Democracy, so often bcatee in- late ycai. yet uevor discouraged, always ready for now fight with the common enemy, was not disappointed tho polo went up amid the smiles and cheers of tho merry crowd, and now proudly overlooks tbe town and surrounding country for miles around, ffilltffr llm ttoMinlf t!t:ftfc thn rinmfWrMv ! K not dead, but is that living party whicn at """H. tbo present timo so terribly disturbs the caso aud comfort of tho Stalwart bosses, especially tho big boss of Conoy, whoso " vest picket" ol lato received such a largo hole that many ol tho voters are falling out. I'oiice cases. Alilcrmiii McCouomy had before bim this morning tbrtte boys from Mount Joy arrested for tiaiu jumping. Two of tbem paid the eo.sts and were discharged. Marculius Giiupy, charged with trespass ing on tint property of Henry Stouter and injuring hi fruit trees, had a hearing be fore Aldvnnaii S.tiusou and was discharged ou payment of 5 line and costs. JohnGiuloy, arrested for drunken and disorderly condact, was sent to jail for 3') days by the same magistrate; Wm. TIioiiiikoii, alias Texas Jack, who had just been released after serving a term in the ooiin!.y jul, was arrested this morning near tho centre of the city, iu tho airiest kind of a costume, having uothiug on him except a pair of heavy boots on his feet and a strip of blue muslin around his loins. Ho was taken to the lockup, and on being questioned as to his scanty attire he said ho never intended to wear clothing again, as it was only a harbor for virmin, with which the jail and lockup id overrun. Daniel O'Noil, for drunkenness and begging was arrested aud locked up for a hearing. Mayor MacGonigle Lai four drunken customers beforo him this morning, two of whom were discharged on payrneut of costs and two others lined $1 and costs. Argaateot jCoar. Thero was no court yesterday afternoon, but it met this morning' at 9 Some cm rent business was transacted aud scveraK guardiaus appointed. Argument was heard iu tho exceptions to the auditors report in the estate of F. A. Muhlenberg, deceased. In this case Henry A. Muftlenberg and Gustave A. Endheh; of tke Readier bar were engaged, and on motion, 'they were admitted to practice in our courts this morning. 'U
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