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LANCASTER DALLY INTElLlGENCER, THUKSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1882.
Lancaster f ntelligenccr.
THURSDAY EVENING, OCT. 26. 1882.
A Man Fit to Be Governor.
One of the marked characteristics of
American political life is the desire of
the people to meet every candidate for
their suffrages face to face. They want
to see for themselves what manner of
man he is. They want to hear him
speak, that they may take their own
measure of his ability to grapple with
the public questions of the day. They
do not always demand that he shall be
exceptionally gifted with oratoricu1
powers. He may be plain of speech an:1,
brief in utterance ; but they must at
least see him, that is the great point.
No candidate for governor has ever been
presented to the citizens of Pennsylva
nia who has excised greater curiosity in
this respect than Mr. Pattison. Nom
inated for the highest office in the gift
of the people at an age when most men
are only getting fairly started in life,
that fact alone intensified the natural
public curiosity in regard to him. Be
sides, although five years an occupant of
a place of vast responsibility and of a
supreme importance to the taxpayers of
the first city of the commonwealth, he
was but little known in the state at
large. He wa ; a new man ; he must
show himself and make his own impres
sion. Mr. Pattison has -responded to
this call to the extent that bis official
duties would permit, and the result has
been one of unmixed popular satisfac
tion.
It is not necessary, even if it were
possible, for a gubernatorial candidate
to meet all the people; to visit every
town and county ; to spc nd three or four
months on the railroad or turnpike ;
to exhibit himself daily and nightly in
an undignified swing around the circle.
The man who does this loses more than
he gains in popular respect and confi
dence. Hesoons runs himself out aud
becomes a sort of campaign nuisance.
His efforts on the stump grow ruinously
monotonous. He occupies the position
in the public eyo of a political tramp.
Unquestionably this is General Beaver's
unhappy plight to-day. He is -much
weaer at this time with the people than
tie was three months ago. Mr. Pattison
has wisely pursued a different course.
His characteristic announcement that
he would not neglect the duties
of one office to seek or secure
another was in itself an illustra
tion of the mau and his principles that
was worth thousands of votes to him.
He recognized the fact that the people of
Philadelphia had the first claim upon
him aud frankly declared that he did
not propose to ignore that compact, even
to make sure of going up higher.
In order to meet these somewhat con
flicting obligations Mr. Pattison has put
himself under a pressure that few men
could stand. lie has made two exhaust
ing journeys to the borders of the state,
traveling in all upwards of two thousaud
miles, and made more than a score of
speeches aud addresses, and this within
theunprecedentcdly brief period of eigLt
days ; and another flying trip of this
Character will be made during the pres
ent week. In the intervals between this
extraordinary campaign work the Demo
cratic candidate returns to his desk in
the controller's office and performs a
prodigious amount of labor in order that
no public or private interest may suffer
in consequence of his brief absences.
This is the kind of fidelity to duty which
the people can appreciate, especially at a
time when the cabinet of a national ad
ministration is scattered over the coun
try engaged in various political schemes,
its chief law-officer neglecting momen
tous public interests to help save from
deserved ruin an odious and corrupt
domination which he has publicly de
nounced with the utmost severity.
In his bearing towards the people Mr.
Pattison has exhibited the same exalted
sense of responsibility that has always
characterized him. In this particular
his visitation to distant parts of the
state has been, indeed, a revelation, as
discomfiting to the enemies of reform as
it has been encouragiug to its friends.
Instead of seeing a vain, immature and
untrustworthy young man the people
have beheld a calm and even stern-faced,
sober-minded, deeply earnest citizen of
affairs, seemingly oppressed with the
weight of responsibility which rests
upon him, and discussing, only with the
utmost gravity, the keenest intelligence,
the sincerest motives and the loftiest
patriotism, the great issues of the day.
His set speeches and impromptu ad
dresses alike all breathe the spirit of un
selfish and unfaltering devotion to duty.
His earnestness and honesty have been
manifest in every look and word. His
fearless courage as the champion of ad
ministrative reform has been inspiring.
He has spoken right from the heart and
his words have gone straight to the
mark ; they are echoed back from every
hill-side and valley throughout our long
disgraced and plundered commonwealth
as the imperative demand of the hour.
He has made no attempt at oratorical
display ; he has not flattered the people
with vain words; he has not avoided
vital issues aud dealt in glittering gener
alities and meaningless platitudes. He
has summoned the people to battle in
defense of their right and shown them
that he.is lit to lead simply by pointing
to the record of what he has done. In
every way Robert Emory Pattison has
proved equal to the emergency. He has
been weighed in the balance and not
found wanting. He is pre-eminently a
man fit to be governor of our great state
and the man for the hour.
The Republicans of Xew Hampshire
are following the example of their
brethren elsewhere in agreeing to dis
agree about the support of their ticket.
Mr. William Chandler, naval secretary,
lias fixed up the machine nominations to
suit himself, and those Independent Re
publicans who are not conteut to having
him do their work for him have met and
resolved that they will vote for the Dem
ocratic candidate in preference to Mr.
Chandler's. Evidently the Republican
leaders in the several states, while re
taining the control of the Republican
machine, are destined to comprehend
(hat the machine without its full quota
of voters at the ropes will not run suc
cessfully. If the party voters would
always understand their power and ex
ercise it, the people would never need to
complain of their bosses, who would
learn good behavior fast enough if they
were made to realize that any other kind
would not pay. The Republican voters
in their effort to redeem themelves are
about to smash their party ; if ihey had
exercised a little gentle but steady
persuasion during the past twenty years
they might have accomplished their
purpose and saved their party too.
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The Democratic difficulty over the
state Senate candidacy in the district
formerly represented by Mr. Wallace
has bten happily settled by the accept
ance of the nomination by Mr. Wallace,
and the acquiescence of the other candi
dates in this solution of the difficulty.
Senator Wallace goes back to the scenes
of his early triumphs and the state will
be a gainer by his mingling in the legis
lative councils.
Secrktakv CirASDLEK will not take
charge of the Repnblicau congressional
fund. He is willing that all the glory that
can be won for his side in this campaign
shall belong to Mr Ilubbcll. Mr. Chandler
is a far-neeiug man.
Ex-Statk Sexatok Buttekmem), of
Eiie, created a sensation in that town on
Tuesday night by making a speech at an
Independent meeting and declaring for
Stewart for governor. Buttorficld has
regarded hiliicrto as a Stalwart of Stal
warts. The Bearer hat seems to have been ef
fectually shot. Following its mysterious
disappearance from our own streets comes
the announcement tliat tho manufacturer
out in Pittsburgh has any quantity of it
that he is willing to dispose of at a dis
count. Aud no wonder.
lr our esteemed contemporary tho
Examiner is seriously in earnest in its
inquiry " Who is Pattison ?" we advise
it to ask' tho thieving contractors whoso
raids on Philadelphia's strong box have
beceu checked by the fearless controller.
The thieves have found out who Pattison
is, an:l they have learned to beware of
him.
Jin. Jon G. WniTTiEn playfully said
that the vorses road at tho Chester, Penn.,
celebration of the landing of William Penn
(the work of a country farmer boy just
euteiing on his sixteenth year) weie not
iuteuded for publication, being the sort of
thing which should bo "hushed up among
one's friends." He asks a Boston paper
to do justice, however, to the poor boy
who painfully concocted them, by correct
ing two eirors as printed there.
It seems as if tobacco were destined to
universal empire. The latest sign of the
times wis furnished a fortnight ago in
England when a Croydon evangelist in
vited the people to attend his seivice in
their working clothes and smoko their
pipes if thoy pleased. This example would
probably have proved more contagious if
the experiment had not been cut short by
the evangelist's arrest aud sentenco to pay
afiueot 40s. aud costs for usiug abusive
language to a womau.
The bitterness existing between the
two Republican factions in New York has
had tho effect of letting in the sunlight of
truth on the monstrous fraud by which
Hayes was seated in 187C. The New
York Commercial Advertiser, whoso Stal
wartism is of tho simon-pure variety,
brands as hypocrite.? Becoher aud Curtis,
who hiva bolted tho Republican ticket
because of forry practised in obtaining
Folger's nomination. It justly csks why
these hypercritical gentleman condoned
the presidential steal to which the fraud
iu the Now York Republican convention
was as a molehill to a mountain. When
rogues fall out honest men are likely to
get their dues.
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PERSONAL.
Adelaide Phillips' funeral took place
yesterday, at King's chapel, Boston.
Colomil Branch, mayor of Polkton,
N. C, dropppd dead j csterday while hold
ing court.
Alexander Ciufmax's "Called to Ac
count'" company' disbanded yesterday at
Atlanta. Ga.
Moxsi.-sxon. CAi'Ei. h-; lived in Rome
since last summer, n i 3"d he will not
return to England.
Strauss, the famous composer, who has
been identified with v senna, is going to
take up his abode in Paris permanently.
Lord Beaconsfield's heir has not yet
given evidences of succeding to anything
that his renowned uncle possessed, except
his property.
Professor P. M. Balfour, lately de
ceased, bequeathed $1,000 to his friend Dr.
Michael Foster, of Trinity college, Cam
bridge, to be applied to tho promotion of
scier.ee.
Miss Gabiuelle Greeley has begun
making improvements on the Greeley
swamp at Chappaqua, and has given a
plot of ground to the Episcopal society of
that village, on which to erect a chapel.
Sir Henry Peck's dairy at Ronsdon,
Devon, is entirely of marble floors,
shelves and tables with a fountain in the
centre, and is decorated with painted
tiles. AH the adjacent appointments are
on the Fame plan.
Marie Prescott, tun actress, at New
York, procured a warrant for the arrest of
Ernst Hervier on charges of criminal libel,
theft and perjury iu tho recent suit by her
against the American news company.
Hervier gave bail to answer.
Mrs. Senator Mahone somo time ago
took a party of friends on a tour of tho
departments in Washington. When thoy
reached tho first one it was after 2 o'clock,
when the public is rigidly excluded. " You
can't be admitted," said the janitor. "I
am Mrs. Mahone," responded the lady.
The doors did not come open they flew
open.
Rev. Thomas Guard, a highly esteemed
Methodist pastor of Baltimore, lately de
ceased, wrote to one of two sisters who
had gone to California. He meant to ad
dress tho younger, but made a mistake in
the name, and so sent tho letter to the
elder. After considerable correspondence
he made an offer of marriiiw o.iH n an
cepted by the wrong woman. He got re-
icaacu, uui wan never successtul iu the
other quarter.
A 5Iotber Killed White Saving Bcr Child,
Mrs. Caroline Wright, residing near
Wilmington, N. C, saw her child on a
railroad track and a train rapidly ap.
nroachincr. She hurried to r!n srtnh nnri
Bad tOSSed tho child nafnltr intn n difnli
when the locomotive struck her, dashing
uer urams out ana tossing ner bouy a dis
tance of thirty feet.
THE TEADES' DISPLAY
A GB V"D FKATURE OF THE FESTIVAL.
A ProcesalcD of Induitrle That Occupied
Four Hoars In Passing The Tableaux
on the Streets.
The graud parade of trades' display day
which has been looked forward to with so
much interest, took place Wednesday after
noon, and proved as fine a demonstration
as was ever given in Philadelphia, occupy
ing four hours in passing a given point. The
many staiius along tne route and every
available elevated place wherefrom to
view the pageant, as well as the sidewalks,
were crowded, but notwithstanding tho
immense throng the best of order pre
vailed, the "people good-naturedly aiding
the police to prevent pushing, The dem
onstration was under the direction of
Chief Marshal Walter G. Wilson, to
whom great credit is duo for the admirable
and systematic manner in which he ar
ranged those details upon which the
success of such an affair always depsnds.
In the performauco of bis work Mr. Wilson
was assisted in a large measure by his
chief of staff. Mr. Sylvester Bonnaffon.
The line, composed of fourteen divisions,
commenced moving shortly before noou.
Tho first division was under command of
Major Wm. A. Delaney, tho post of honor
both in division and parade being as
signed to tho Pennsylvania railroad com
pany. Tho fifteen hundred employees of
the great corporation were preceded by
a military band. The men wore neat
uniforms, aud marched in excellent style.
In the middle of the detachment
another band was placed. Following the
railroad employes camo tho Adams express
company with four decorated wagons,
drawn by four horses each, while tho
Union Transfer company bad two wagons,
eight horses and four men. The vehioles
were piled with trunks as an illustration
of the company's business. The Baldwin
locomotive works had threo large engines,
mounted upon trucks, each drawn by
thirty horses, in the line, together with
several wagons exhibiting tho various
branches of tho firm's business. Two
thousand employes of the works followed,
and then came the exhibit of W. C. Alli
son & Co., car builders, who had six
wagous, twenty-six horses and a large
number of workmen. Tho rear of tho
division was occupied by the Knicker
bocker ice company, whose thirteen hand
somely decorated wagons, in charge of
thirty uniformed men, attraeted general
attention.
The second division was entirely made
up of the Wanamaker exhibits, the firms
represented being Wanamaker & Brown,
John Wanamaker & Co., aud John Wan
amaker.
The third division, under the marshal
ship of Albert J. Phillips, was led by rep
resentatives from S. F. Phillips' harness,
manufacturing establishments. One of
the wagons contained a wooden horse,
mounted by a jockey, and upon another
figure a handsome set of harness was
placed. The watchmaking firms came
next, those represented in tho liue
being Hagstog & Thorpe, and tho Lan
caster watoh company, the latter of which
made an extended turn-out of 15 wagons
and 28 men. Upon each of the wagons
were large pictures of the operations of the
principal departments in the manufactory
at Lancaster. A noticeable f gure was thr.L
of Father Time, mounted on a dust and
damp proof watch, which was painted to
represent a bicycle. A particular feature
of this part of tho division was an old
Conestoga wagon, a fitting representation
of transportation in tho days before rail
roads. This lumbering old wagon, it is
said, was ruu for thirty years be'.ween
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh in the old
times, and carried the heaviest load, 10,
013 pounds, ever hauled across the Alle
gheny mountains with six horses. It is
now owned by Samuel Gingerrick, of Lin
caster, who prizes it highly. It was drawn
by six horses and was driven by
James Booth, of Lancaster, 84 years of ae,
and an old stager of the Philadelphia aud
Pittsburgh lino. The old feed box hung
from the tail board, and a battered tar box
swung from tho running gear.
After this came tho varied industries of
Pennsylvania, comprised in fourteen dis
tinct divisions. All tho results of Ameri
can brain and brawn, which have at once
lightened life's toil and enlarged life's re
sults, trailed their instructive length for
fivs hours through the same eagr lines of
sight Peers and bright decorations as had
made the day before so noteworthy. In
the army of workers and the array of their
work were fourteen thousand men, one
thousand wagons and two thousand horses.
This parade of rclalities was supplemented
in the evening by a series of illuminated
allegorical tableaux, drawn through bix
miles of streets brilliant with electric
lights, chemical fires and Chinese lanterns.
This pageant, representing historic events
iu Pennsylvania's history and lengthened
by tableaux significant of India's mythol
ogical epic, Wiis received with i.?ore won
der thau applause by a million or more
people, who had waited its appearance
through three hours of .standing weariness
or seated discomfort.
A most praiseworthy featuro of the
day parado was its formation. To wheel
fourteen thousand civilians in line, all in
order and all on time, to hold them in im
pressivc form and send them on a march
of miles without a break, is a problem
wnicu might cave puzzled tho best drill
master who ever studied martial ma
chinery. But the problem solved itself
with very easy execution, and the
triumphant result was due simply to indi
vidual willingness and intelligence. Every
man in the trades' procession, from brick
layer to prosperous merchant at the
bead of his employees, mechanic,
clerk, laborer and capitalist, felt that
ho was posing as a factor
in Pennsylvania's greatness and as
an active contributor to her prosperity.
The line was a living, moving treatise on
political economy in tho broadest sense of
that term. There were farmers, bread
makers and bread consumers, workers
and hirers, manufacturers, exchanges of
produce, manual and skilled laborers,
builders, transporters in brief, all who
grow, all who make, all who carry, all
who trade, all who consume. Borne in
review before tho throng was almost
every kind of mechanism, from an anvil
to a watch movement, from a sewing ma
chiuo to a cambric needle, from a burglar
proof safe with tides grim and defiant, to
an open piano, 'with attuned strings,
vibrating harmony. There was every
thing to make life comfortable, from
Persian rugs and other imported textures,
to home blaukets and home calicoes. Tho
array of industries was not dull as a whole
though there were some stictches of ice
wagons, baker's carts aud coal trucks
which .could not be called picturesque ;
but as labor is dull, while all the things it
conquers are invested with glamor of
victory, so tho parade was colored through
most of its length with all tho beauty
which art can weave and industry make
perfect.
Tfcc Night Pagflaut.
In the evening the city's swollen popu
lation for three hours was forced to be
content with watching itself, as it rushed
from scattered square miles ot houses into
condensed linear masses,-packed along tho
route of the mystic pageant. Two fringes
of humanity bordered tho highway from
Broad street and Columbia avenue south
to Christian street, and branched eastward
on Chestnut and Market streets. Tho
high walls which make chasms of streets
weie everywhere .iliac::? vath lights shin
ing on fluttering uzz and streamers which
gave a ribbon of glittering color as a
relief to the black strings of spectators.
Over all the city, glittering with gayety
and humming with excitement, tho ronnd
moon shed her calm r.nd gentle'
scheen, and from her surface the
fall face of translated Penn looked down
upon his people with patriarchal and be
nignant approval. The pageant, so long
in coming, gave its best effect from afar.
Away up Broad street, between its bor
der of black coats, white faces and glitter
ing decorations, the throng which surged
against the bise of the public buildings
could see a mist of smoke and bright
gleams of lights, while a roaring buzz of
satisfaction and faint strains of music
floated to the ear. Seen nearer, tho pa
geant was to pgpular appreciation neither
a disappointment nor a glory. It was a
surprise to Philadelphia, and was received
by the throng with more curiosity than
manifest emotion. An accident to tho
lights and a consequent break in the line
somewhat marred the show's debut ; but
the tableaux were successful enough to
make their repetition in future popular
celebrations more than probable.
The Ul-Centennlal nail.
The reception in the Academy of Music
in the evening was by far one of the
greatest events of tho kind that has ever
taken place in the handsome cdifioe. The
most extensive preparations had been
made to render tha vant a brilliant one,
and add to the charming features of the Bi
centennial celebration. Entering tho
door a handsome figure of Terpsiohoro,
rising amid a profusion of calla lilies,
ferns, and growing flowers, was presented
to the oye. The chandeliers, too, were
handsomely adorned with floral decoration
aud spheres of fragrant flowers fell from
tho radiaut lights, which reflected their
brightness on the brilliant costumes be
low. Light-textured silks seemed to pre
dominate on the daucing floor, with
enough other colors of richer tints to
brighten and diversify the beautifus spec
tacle. The decoratious, however, wore
not elaborate, but they were arranged with
artistic taste and elegance, Half con
cealed from view by tall ferns aud rare
exotics, Carl Sentz's orchestra aud mili
tary baud were placed one on oaeh side of
the parquet circles ou stands which had
been specially constructed for the occasion.
A number of figures representing mytho
logical characters wore located around tho
dancing floor, dividing it from the circle.
They were surrounded by tali ferns and
evorgrcous, profusely mingled with roses,
verbenas, acasias and other popular deco
rative flowers. From amid the flowery
circle thoy discoursed music to the devo
tees of the dance as they whirled around
in tho Torpsichorcan revelry, whilo the in
numerable lights of the magnificent chan
deliers shown resplendent ou tho brilliant,
dazzling scene below, made up of the
rich and brilliant hues of the costumes of
tho ladies, and presenting an imposing
spectacle. When the curtain arose the
most magnificent scene which presented
itself during the whole celebration was
exposed to view. All tho persons who
took part in tho pageant iu the early
part of tho evening wcro assembled
on the stage in tboir unique aud grotesquo
costumo. Away up iu tho snow
clouds stood the Goddess of Liberty, sur
veying the merrymakers below as they
whirled through the waltz. The whole
stage was transformed into a bower of
blooming flowors whose righ fragrance per
fumed the air of the apartment. Rising
amid tho profusion of flowers were a
dozen or so of beautiful chandeliers located
along the edges aud exquisitely entwined
with wieathes of smilax, broken at inter
vals with tube roses and verbeuas. In the
centre of tho tableau stood a representa
tion of Penn, surrouiidod by the mystic
figures denoting the various characters
which were presented in the street
exhibition. Calcium lights, threw
their brilliant rays on the scene of
splendor, greatly enhancing its beauty.
Tho tableau was the chief attraction of
the cveuing. Tho spacious edifice was
thronged from auditorium to dome,
fully o.DOO per.sous being in tho building,
prominent among whom were mauy of the
gentlemen who have bad the cele
bration in charge. The dancing did not
begin until midnight, when the devotees
of Terpsichore commenced the festivity
with J. Gungl'e waltz. " Marion." Tho
dancing was continued until the small
hours of the morning, when Broad street
was thronged with handtsomo tqnipages
awaitiug to convey the moru fortunate of
the participants to their residences. J.
Bertram Lippinott acted as floor mana
ger, assisted by a number of aids.
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CttlitlllS AM UASUAl.ilfcil.
Tlio itay'n ISuclset of Trsgle kbiiik.
Johu Aiken, of Moycrsvilie, Hies., was
shot dead on Tuesday night at is own
door by Edward Jones, who is now in
custody.
Mr. Edgerton's handsome residence near
Goldsboro, F. C, was burned on Tuesday
evening, and George Howard was fatally
burned.
Dennis Durst, aged 63 years, residing
three miles of Cumbeilaud, Md., yester
day committed suicide by blowing out his
brains with a shotguu.
Tho family of John llciutzelnian, living
near Manor Station, Allegheny county, fled
to a barn on Monday night to escape his
brutality. While there one of them, a 15
year old girl, poisoned her illegitimate
child.
Colonel William F. Redman, owner of a
mine in tho Moquito district of Colorado,
yesterday had both cys toru out and one
arm blown off by a preirature explosion of
granite powder. Ho w.U probably die.
Tne party who havo returned to Owen
Sound, Ont., from their search for the
bodies of the victims of the Asia disaster
report that all the dead bodies which they
came across had been robbed of their valu
ables, in some instances even their shoes
being taken off.
John O'Dounell put poison iu a rabbit
prepared for supper at Frankford, Ky., on
Tuesday night, intending to kill his mother,
sister and two brothers. Their lives were
saved by a physician, and yesterday he
took arsenic himself and died. Ho had
been on a drunken tpree.
HOMOKIMU judge SHAKSnuOU.
HI Iloaith Pevents Him From Accepting
the Compliment of a Banquet.
The supieme court finished the consid
eration of tho case of the Western district
in Pittsburgh. Tho members of tho Alleg
heny county bar tendered Chiof Justice
Sharswood a complimentary banquet in
view of bis retirement from the bench, but
his honor stated, that his health was so
bad that he would be compelled to forego
the excitement of such an occasion. The
members of the bar were determined to
have a formal leave-taking, however, and
after the last case had been argued, Mr.
Georgo Shiras advanced to the front and
delivered an address, in which the ability
and fairness of the chief justice was highly
complimented. Chief Justice Sharswood
replied at some length, and was not al
lowed to leave the room until he had
shaken hands with all the attorneys pres
ent. Municipal Klection at Baltimore.
The annual election for members of tho
First branch of tho city council was held
in Baltimore on Wednesday. The Demo
crats had regular tickets iu each of the
twenty wards ; the Republicans in all the
wards except in the Eighth, Ninth and
Seventeenth, and the United Labor party
except tho Ninth. In the First, Sotond,
Third, Fifth, Sixth and Eighteenth wards
the candidates of tho United Labor party
were indorsed and voted for by the Re
publican. The Democrats elected their
candidates in seventeen wards, and the
Republicans in three (Eleventh, Four
teenth and Eighteenth), a gain of three
Republicans, the last council being com
posed entirely of Democrats. The total
Democratic vote was 24,495 ; total opposi
tion, 18,144.
BEAVEB HATS.
.SELLING Til EM OFFAT A DISCOUNT.
The Hatter to Cooper's Committee Aux-
ions to Unload An Unprofitable
Campaign Investment.
A special dispatch from Pittsburgh,
says :
That tho boss campaign is in desperate
straits is an open secret. The campaign
assessment robbery has been practised
with unprecedented vigor in this city and
elsewhere, and the collecting agents of
Boss Cooper have been given every assist
ance in tquceziug his victims to that
extremity. But notwithstanding this
fact the canvass lags for want of means.
C. L. Magea is now East looking after
funds to meet the desperate exigencies of
the last days of the campaign, and it is
freely confessed that, unless his mission
is successful, Beaver will fall behind Pat
tison in the vote in this county, while tho
issue between Beaver and Stewart is be
ginning to take on a measure of uncertain
ty. One of the most coiiviuoing evidences of
Stalwart disappointment has just been de
veloped here. It will be remembered that
early in the canvass Chairman Cooper,
General Beaver aud other great party lead
ers brought their powerful minds iuto con
cert to decide upon a uniform hat to -be
worn by the Beaver clubs. After mature
deliberation and careful canvass a tilo was
agreed upon and Harry M. Geary, of Phila
delphia. appointed as hatter to the Beaver
party. Mr. Geary at once began the manu
facture on an extensive scale of "the cam
paign regulation hat, as approved by tho
Republican state central committee."
Circulars were issued, voluminously de
scribing the style, giviug the prices and
other particulars of tho matter, and tho
announcement, that "officers' -hats, with
gilt cords, 25 cents extra," gave additional
interest and a business aspect to the affair
that was charming.
The enterprise that began so hopefully
did not prove profitable, however, for, like'
Field Marshal Cooper's Labor contingent,
Land League effort and other diversions
into the realms ot" commercial politics, it
fell still born. Mr. Geary, credulous aud
contented, entered upon bis part of the
agreement with characteristic energy.
Beaver hats were made iu great quantities,
and the shelves weie lumbered with their
accumulation, but the customers came
tardily and liko angels visits, "few and
far between." New circulars were issued
and blank orders forwarded with importu
nate letters, urging purchasers to come to
tho front, but tho trado was dull and tho
goods failed to find a market.
At last, driven to desperation, Mr.
Geary made a final appeal to retailers, of
which the following is a sample. It was
mailed in an envelope upon the corner of
which was printed in italic capitals,
" Headquarters Republican state com
mittee, Philadelphia," and the accompany
ing circulars and forms were so numerous
that " duo 3 cents" formed a conspicious
sign over the direction, while tho over
weight stamp balanced tho thing :
' Dear Sirs : We aro under the im
pression we havo got too much stock iu
Beaver hats ready for delivery and are
willing to make some sacrifice and soil
some to those who havo already received
and handled the goods for less than cost.
You have no competition and we will
deliver you the goods hereafter at $1.75,
or $21 per dozen. Please send orders and
we will ship with promptness. Yours, &c,
" Harry M. Gear v."
KDISUJV, THIS KLKCTK1CIAP.
Trials and Triumphs or tho Wizard of Meulo
Far.
Baltimore Day.
Tom Edison, the electrician, has so
many patents iu the office at Washington
that tho examiners have sot aside a por
tion of the model room for his exclusive
benefit. There has been a gieat deal of
nonsense written about Edison, as about
every man who sprang into fame with a
bound. He was born in the state of Ohio.
His parents were very respectable people
whogave him the benefit of a fair education.
They afterward removed to Port Huron,
Mich., where they still reside. From his in
fancy Tom displayed the greatest loudness
for mechauics which isstilladistiuguishing
trait iu his chaiacter. While engaged as
a newsboy ou tho Grand Trunk railway bo
acquired a knowledge of telegraphy, with
which pursuit he was identified for a num
ber of years. After wandering about the
country for nearly a decado he finally
drifted to Boston. For tho first time in
his life ho found congenial society and bo
came associated with tueu who could ap
preciate him His telegraph confreres
never understood him. Some regarded
him as " loony," others as a visionary ex
perimenter who would die in the alms
bouse, while everyone agreed that he was
a strange fellow. There was another point
upon which they agreed also. He was a
phenomenally clever telegrapher. There
probably never was an operator in the
business who could receive " press reports"
with greater ease or copy them in more
graceful or legible style than Edisou. But
he couldn't "send" at all. His ability
as an operator was purely that of a "re
ceiver." It was about this time the writer
first mado his acquaintance. I think he
was tho most unpirpossessing boy I ever
saw. His appeal ance not only indicated
the last stages of that terrible decay
known as "hhabby genteel, but it went
further. Ouo might havo been pardoned
for thinking him a tramp. He would
wear a- shirt for two weeks without a
change. Then he was never known to
spend a cent, and that got him into bad
odor ; so finally poor Edison became a sort
of social pariah. He got his meals at cheap
restaurants and lodged in an attic. Ho re
ceived a salary of $110 a month, but what
he did with it nono of us could imagine.
He never seemed to have a penny and
always wanted to borrow a quarter or so
until tho next pay day. We boys thought
him miserly and disliked him accordingly,
asses that we were. We couldn't real
ize that he breathed a different atmos
phere from us and lived iu an ideal world
of bis own creation. Meetbim where you
would, be was always figuring industri
ously with pencil and paper, and gazing
into vacancy with a far-away look in his
dreamy eyes. Redressed shabbily because
in tho world where he lived appearance
went for naught and he had no money to
spend in fashionable dissipation, for the
reason that it was all speut in experiments.
I have said that he went to Boston.
There he met snch men as Moses G. Far
mer and other electricians of note, who
saw in the rapid unfolding of his genius
the young giant who would revolutionize
the whole system of telegraphy ; and he
did it. By means of his quadruplox in-,
strument, which quadruples the working
capacity of a wire, he has enables tho
Western Union telegraph company to
meet tho growing demands of tho country
aud at the same time to furnish better and
cheaper service by reason of less construc
tion and all the expenses pertaining
thereto. The company pays him a yearly
salary of $5,000 for tho option of having
the first bid at any new invention. But
the privilege ends there. If they wish to
purchase they must outbid all others.
m tm m
A Craiy Frenchman's Crime.
An inquest was held in the case ot Mrs.
Mary Hanley, the wife of a police officer
who died from wounds inflicted upon her
by Louis Dubourgue, the crazy French
man, in New York, on the 10th instant.
The jury found that tho deceased came to
her death by a stab wound at the bands of
the prisoner, and think, had tho grand
jury fully investigated a former charge ot
stabbing an officer, the present occurrence
would have been impossible. Dubourgne
; . .- '1 o know nothing of the crime,
u .- v-.umittcd to the Tombs,
ABORE's METHODS.
Trying to Replace m Falthla! PoMmtstroa
With en of Ilia Heaeanen.
Rev. Dr, Vaughan, of Manassas, secre
tary of tho Virginia Metodist conference.
called at the White Uoujo on Monday and
requested the president not to permit the
removal of Mrs-L. A.Pine, who for nine
years has served as postmistress at Manas
sas to the entire satisfaction of every one.
The history of the case is interesting.
Gen. Mahone demanded the removal of
Mrs Pine becauso her brother, Mr. George
C. Round, a lifelong Republican, would not
surrender his convictions and support
Mahone candidates, and asked the ap
pointmentof Samuel Martyn, who does
not live within fifteen miles of Manassas,
aud who never iu his life got a letter oat
of that postoflice. A petitiou was for
warded to Washington asking tho reten
tion of Mrs. Pine, signed, with but two
exceptions by every person having busi
ness at the Manassas postoflice. Not
withstanding this, in obedience to tho
demand of Mr. Mahone, the order was
issued for tho removal of Mrs. Pine, and
the commission of Martyn as her successor
was made out and reached Manassas this
morning. When the Rev. Dr. Vaugean
made bis appeal to the the president, ho
told him that the unanimous feeling of
tho people was against tho removal of
Mrs. Pine ; that her performauco of the
duties of theoffico had been unexceptiona
ble and thoroughly efficient. The presi
dent replied that all he know about it was
that he had been told her brother was
opposing his administration. Dr. Vaugnan
said ho did not eomo as politician, but
only to respect the wishes of the peoplo of
his town, but he knew that Mrs. lino's
brother, Mr. Round approved of every act
of the administration except in itsad
hcrenco to Mahone. The president then
said he would look into the matter fur'
ther.
MKS. LANUTKfS lfEIIUT.
The Sale tor Moats at Her rirt Appearance
at the 1'ark Amounting to About
910,000.
Tho sale of tickets for the first appear
ance of Mrs. Langtry in America on Mon
day evening next at the Park theatre was
conducted at tho Turf Club theatre, cor
ner of Madison avenue and Twenty-sixth
streets. Tho theatre was filled with ticket
speculators. Mr. John H. Draper was
the aaotioneor. Diagrams of tho Park
theatre were lowered from tho flies and the
salo began.
" What am I offered for the privato box
ou the left of the stage ?" asked Mr.
Draper. Tho right box is reserved for Mr.
Abboy and tho auctioneer.
"Fifty dollars" was the first otter and
tho price was ruu up to $330, whon the
box was knocked down to Mr. Charles
Windom.
The dross circle and upper private boxes
were bought up at $50, $4P and $10 each
by speculators. The choice for orchestra
chairs were Bold for $17.50, and, with but
two or three exceptions, all of tho seats
wore bought up in rows by speculators at
prices ranging between the choice price
and $3.25. The dress circle seats were
sold rapidly between a choice price of $11
and $3, and the gallery seats were sold
uniformly at $2 each.
"This salo beats anything sineo Jenny
Lind," said a ticket broker, and one of
tho managers of the sale placed the ag
gregate sales at a sum between $3,000 aud
$10,000.
SALE OF A CIRCUS.
The Property of the Majbury. Pnllman aud
Hamilton .Show ac Auction.
Sheriff Rowan, of Columbia, S. C, as
receiver, has sold the wild animals, horses,
wagons, aud trappings of the Maybury
Pullman and Hamilton circus company,
which went to pieces in Columbia a month
ago. The sale netted $5,080. Twenty-one
draught horses woro sold at prices ranging
from $28 to $130, and 11 property wagons
with contents, were sold for sums ranging
from $25 to $75. The elephant Emperor
brought $1,025, and two smaller elephants
$500 each. A pair of lions went for $450,
a jaguar for $20, a hyena for $G0, a South
American llama for $30, a zebra for $400,
three monkeys for $50.
Sells Brothers bought most of the ani
mals aud tho largest part of tho circus
wagons, furniture, &c. Frank Thompson
secretary of the Cincinnati zoological
garden, purchased the jaguar aud llama.
With the amount netted from tho sale
and the amount realized from a for
mer sale the circus company has gone for
about $10,000, less than one-third of its
real value, and less thau half enough to
cover the indebtedness of the concern.
The Pullmans say that the show could be
put on tho road again with an entirely
new outfit for $30,000, but Home estimates
place the original cost of tho oirous at
$65,000.
NUHINATINU COMVJSNTION9.
Kepnbllcan Deadlock In the Sixteenth Dis
trict. Two of tho Tioga conferees reached
Bradford Wednesday afternoon, when a
protracted session of the Republican con
gressional conference of the Sixteenth
district was held and thirteen ballots
taken, each one standing 9 for McCor
raick, of Lycoming, and 9 for Brown, of
McKcan. The situation was thoroughly
discussed, but there being no indications
of weakening of either side the confer
ence adjourned until to-day.
Nothing was done at the meeting of the
Democratic judicial conferees of the
Twelfth district at Harrisburg. The
conference developed a great difference of
opinion as to whether a nomination should
be made, and an adjournment was taken
until next Friday at . Lebanon. It is said
that if the nomination is tendered to
Judge Harvey, of Al lento wn, he will ac
cept it.
The Greenback Labor party of the
Nineteenth district at Gettysburg has
nominated Joseph G. Yale, for Congress.
George Knight, the Actor, shot
While "Baron Rudolph" was being
played Wednesday night at the Arch street
Theatre, in Philadelphia, Mr. Enight,
while acting in the burglar scene, received
a severo flesh wound on the left cheek
from a pistol shot carelessly fired by one
of the company. The victim fell, stunned
fur a moment; bnt quickly recovering his
senses motioned the curtain to bo dropped.
Ho was assisted from the stage and tho
wound found not to be of a dangerous na
ture. Tho prompt application of remedies
revived him sufficiently to finish the piece
without the audiencq being aware ot tho
realistic scene they had just witnessed.
Amorlcan Architects,
Tho American Institute of Architects,
in session at Cincinnati, has elected the
following : President, Thomas U. Walter,
of Philadelphia ; Treasurer, O. P. Hatfield,
of Brooklyn ; Secretary, William R. Ware,
of New York ; Trustees, E. T. Littell. H.
M. Congdon, A. J. Brewer and J. C.
Cody, all of New York ; Secretary for
Foreign Correspondence, J. M. Ulark, oi
Boston.
The ninth annual convention of the
Woman's National Christian Temperance
Union assembled yesterday at Louisville,
Ky. The devotioual meeting was con
ducted by Mrs. Hannah Wnitall Smith, of
Pennsylvania.
Brutal Murder at m florid Farmer.
Mr. McMillan, a prominent farmer near
Sandford, Fla., was mmdered Tuesday
night. His head was cut off, and his
body, with a large iron pot tied to it, was
thrown into a well. A neighbor, named
Newton, and his wife, have been arrested
for the crime. Great excitement prevails,
andtbo citizens threaten to lynch the
accused.
ALMOST MTT1MO UN A MAT.
An Unclaimed Kellc or Fashion at Oel-
BMaios's and an Unpaid Kill at Danlap'a
New York Sun.
A letter enclosing a bill from DunUp
for a new $8 silk bat, and addressed Ut
William R. T:vi, the Wall street vete
ran, was scut- bv ui.nl several days ago by
Mr. William IV t tit, of the importing
house of John Pettit of 240 Pearl street.
Sir. Pettit had bought the new hat to re
place one that Mr. Ti avers had rat on,
more or es at Delmonico's, a Fifth
avenue.
Mr. Pettit it a slender, dark youug man
fastidious in hi dress. He takes his meals
at Delmnnit'o's The night the bat wa
sat on be went into the diuiugrsom and
set the hat in a ehair at one of the tables,
at the same time running his cane tbrougk
the rungs of the back. Then he sat dowu
on the opposite side of the table, and pick
ing up an evening paper, read it while he
waited for his dinner.
While he wa thus engaged Mr. Travers
sauntered in and began to talk with friends
at a table iu froiitnl Mr. Pettit's. It should
now be underhtood that this iaMr.Pdttit's
narrative. Mr. Travers laid' okl'Jof the
back of the chair on which thn hat was set,
and beeau to drag the chair toward him.
Ha continued to drag it with him when be '
crossed over to speak to a lady at a third
table. Then he suddenly wheeled it around
and sat down. It was at this point that
the hat was rained.
All the waiters looked around "at the
noise, and Mr. Pettit glanced ap fiora his
paper and over the top of it at Mr. Travers.
. Mr. Travers, fearing that something had
happened, pot out ot tba chair, aud, turn
iug half round, looked down anil saw that
it had.
Picking up the wreck carefully, he
handed it to Mr. Pettit. "I almost sat
on your hat," he remarked withawuniog
smile. i. ,
Mr. Pettit says he waited for an arJoiogy,
which Mr. Travers did not ofler. Then
Mr. Pettit walked over to the clerk's of
fice, and handed him a disreputablo look
ing hat, said:
"That is left iu your euro for Mr. Travers.
whenever he chooses to claim it."
Some days later Air. Pettit consulted his
lawyers with a view of BUiug Mr. Travers
for the value of the hat. " If Mr. Trav
ers," Mr. Petit said to a Sun reporter
yesterday, "had apologized or had offered
to mako the loss good, why, of course I
should have accepted the apology aud said
no more about it. I have heard, however,
that Mr. Travers is not that sort of a
man. Tho hat which he said he bad almost
sat upon was, as a matter of fact, broken
in two places and ruined. Tho crushing
in of tho crou could be heard twenty feet.
Indeed, it was the noise that" first at
tracted my attention to Mr. Travers. In
view of the fact that Mr. Travers did not
apologize, but went from table to table
joking about the incident, I determined to
sue him. I sought Evarts, Southmayd &
Choatr, who are counsel for oar firm, bat
was dissuaded from the attempt to re
cover damages by the lawyer's remark:
' It would give Mr. Travers more satisfaov
tion to brag over being sued for t8thaa
you wonld get by making him pay it.'
Afterward I sent Mr. Travers a letter,
enclosing a bill for the hat I bought to "
replase the one he spoiled. The note
read :
"IT. A. Travers, Eq.
Dear Sik : The hat which you sat upon
is now at Dehnonico's awaitiug your dis
posal. - Tho enclosed bill for a duplicate
also awaits payment.
Respectfully,
" Wiliiak Pettit."
" Mr. Travers paid no heed to this let
ter, and I have now let tho matter drop.
I can stand it if he can."
Mr. Travers was at the Racquet club
when the reporter called. He was sitting
upon a wicker sofa in the dressing room
hunting through a file of the Su. A
peaked jockey cap, striped with bars of red
and white Bilk, was perched upon his gray
hair. A smoking jacket enveloped bis
chest, aud his legs were niufHad up in a
gray blanket.
"Ob, ytF, about Mr. Pettit's hat!
It's all a joke,' said he, looking up from
the file o: papers ! " It's all a joke, that's
all."
PennxylvanlM'it future.
lhilMteliiiu American, Kcp. '
Pennsj Iv.mia under Governor Pattison
will be a Republican state purged as by
fire from the defilements which bave arisen
under the Cameron rule, and with her
forces set to ellect the great reforms iu
our political methods for which the times
aro calling. Heietofore our commonwealth
has been a dead weight in the way of these
reforms Fur tho future she will bo tho
foremost in demanding them.
The Suit Against tha Telegraph Company.
The trial of the action brought at New
York by the people against the Metropo
litan Telegraph and Telephone company,
to compel the company to remove its poles
and wires in Wo-t Twenty-first street,
and to award damages, was concluded
yesterday. The jury was unable to agree
and was discharged. The case will be
tried again.
'Way Ahead ot the Alphabet.
, 1. llllUUI2lllliil X ICS9
The Line-aster Examimr thinks t'Chair
i man lleuKel's Lancaster county Demo
cratic committee naa teach Republicans
the alphabet of bossism." Lancaster Re
publicans, however, bave graduated from
the alphabet and are well along in the
third reader of the art.
Close Checker Playing.
In the checker championship' contest
yesterday at Boston between James Wylie
and Charles F. Barker, the games all re
sulted in a draw. The record now stands :
Barker, 1 ; drawn, 5.
TUB riBK DB.PARTMBNT.
Arrival of The Mew Truck A Parade Hng-4
gested.
The Hayes truck, which was recently
Eurchased by the city fire department
as arrived. It was unloaded at the freight
depot this morning and taken to the Em
pire house, its future quarters. The truck
has been fully described in our columns
before. It is a beautiful machine and is
fully equipped with ladders, hooks, axes.
&c. It is a great deal heavier than the old
oue and has all the 'attest improvements.
There are ladders enough to reach aoy dis
tance necessary. The machine was seen
by many to-day and greatly admired. A
trial of it will likely be made to-morrow
when tho manner of erecting .the ladders
will bo shown.
A suggestiou has been made by a num
ber of citizens that is considered a very
good one It is to bave a parade by the
entire ucw department. The horses aud
men employed have not bad much brl
work to do at fires lately and the apparatus
ail looks very welL No department in
the state has a finer lot of stock, and if all
were put upon tho streets by the chief en
gineer for ;i short parade on some Saturday ,
afternoon the citizens would have an op
portunity of seeing how well everything is
cared for by tho firemen. A now truck
completes the department, and very
creditable display could be made.
Our Own Broslus.
Columbia Courant.
We hope to hear that the "Old Guard '
has given an old fashioned majority for
Marriott Brosius. Republic.!)! bhould
take an especial pride in' gating him a
good send off, for there is prcxidrutial
timber there, which mayr be fashion d
into shape at no distant day. Gnitb-M,
and Lincoln, arose from th:: rai.lt.---t i;io
people, and why may not our own liiosius
attain the same exalted position they did.