'" lyy raic'ni'jt gJgg - j- aawppBrgamwumunn .w ui.i nmma.y. LANCASTER DAILY INTELL1GENCEB, FBJDAY, OCTOJ3EB 27, 1882. Lancaster intelligencer. FBIDAT EVENING. OCT. 27. 1983. LtaaeattBg Skepkeepers. The Philadelphia storekeeper: do not altogether enjoy the Bl-Centennial, not Withstanding the iBmeuae crowd of peo ple it has broufibt into the city. In fact, they object to the crowd, which has no business in the stores and which prevents people who have from getting into them. Doubtless it isdisgusting to Cnd that an occasion which was looked forward to by the shop-keepers as a harvest time, turns out to be a starvation party. But the shop-keepers have the consolation of knowing that it is a patriotic feeling that leaves their stores unentered. Thepeo pie who have gone to Philadelphia must be credited with a desire to drop . all consideration of filthy lucre, ' and to unite in a pure offering to the memory of William Penn, tho founder of our great state. They have gone from our workshops so generally as to leave them idle, and their hard earned money is spent in testifying their reverence for the great founder. Justus crowds goto the funeral of distinguished and beloved men, to show their respect for his memory, these crowds have gone to Philadelphia to attend the Bi-Centennial ; and it would be quite as much out of place on the one occasion as the other to embrace the opportunity to do shop ping. It may be that this consideration will not bring much satisfaction to the lamenting hearts of the disgusted Phila delphia shop-keepers. It may not be balm to their souls to know that all men" do not think only and always of making money. But if their hearts are open to a lesson, they may feel reproached that while they were looking forward to the Bi-Centennial to Oil their coffers, those who celebrate it did not debase it with any money-making thought. The shopkeepers, whose doors are barred from customers by the crowd, should calm their feelings of annoyance and philosophically contemplate the sit uation. Now that they cannot make money anyway, they can afford to be pa triotic and to give their clerks a holiday and take one themselves : and go out and join the pageant, and get jammed and squeezed along with the throng and eat peanuts and drink lemonade and do all the other things that the people are wont to do who mass themselves together on public occasions and think they are enjoying themselves when they are as uncomfortable as possible. The great and good Wanamaker, we ob serve, lias a special plan of his own to reconcile his business to his conscience and his patriotism to his shop, which he is very fond of doing. He declares that as his store is one of the great attrac tions of Philadelphia, it would be a sin and a shame to close it; and, therefore, at a great sacrificed his feeling to his duty, he has determined that it shall be in full swing on the Bi-Centennial occa sion for the particular delight of the participators in the pageant. We are truly delighted with the dis appointment of the Philadelphia shop keepers over their invisible profits from the Bi-Centennial celebration. There has been no rhyme or reason in the whole performance, and it has not teen of any more benefit to the visitors than to the shop-keepers, for whose benefit It was got up. There has been nothing woi thy to see or hear. The Centennial celebration was grand and beneficial. It was a school. The Bi-Centennial Is a sham of the first water. Pyrotechnics la Cities. The shocking pyrotechnic disaster in Philadelphia has moved Mayor King to issue a stringent order against such displays in the city. He advises lha Hi Centennial committee that their pro posed fireworks exhibition in Broad street will not be permitted to take place. He declares it to be contrary to the acts of Assembly and the ordinances of the city. If this be- so tbe mayor has no option in forbidding pyrotechnic dis plats: but the laws in this legard have been liberally construed heretofore and only such fireworks have been prohib ited as are considered especially danger ous to life r.nd property. The idea of the law has been to protect cities from conflagration and the people from tbe noise and risks of firearms ; it has not been supposed that pyrotechnic displays, which are beautiful and not especially dangeious or in any way annoying, were under tbe ban of the law ; and we do not think they were ever intended to be. "When such displays are made sufficiently faraway from buildings to avoid danger by fire there seems to bo no sufficient reason why they should be prohibited, but on the contrary good reason exkt s for their encouragement in the entertain ment they afford. The fatal disaster in Philadelphia need not, because of its deplorable consequences, work the ban ishment of fireworks. Accidents will happen in everything. We cannot be safe any where. We may be killed in traveling or staying at home. The laws cannot protect us from dangers in our avocations and enjoyments. Firework displays are harmless enough when they take place under proper restrictions and are given with due care. We do not be lieve that we should be forbidden them, as evil things, incapable of being enjoy ed Without too great danger. Mayor King was right in forbidding fireworks on the streets, where they are both an noying and dangerous ; but if he means to forbid tiiem in the great park where every one can witness them with pleas ure and with a minimum of danger, we ' do not think bis discretion is good, if the laws leave Dim any opportunity at all to exercise it. The people who were killed the other day in the park suffered because of the recklessness of the man ager of tbe display who should not have used an iron mortar in such a way as to make it possible that it would explode and be carried afar into tbe crowd. m TnE figures of the Ohio election show an aggregate Democratic and Republican vote of about twelve thousand five hun dred greater than last year ; so that' the Democratic victory is not chargeable by the Republicans to a general political apathy and lack of interest in the elec tion. It was due Jo an increased Demo cratic vote of twenty-eight thousand and a decrease of fifteen thousand in the Republican vote. On the face it seems that fifteen thousand of last year's Republicans this year voted the Demo cratic ticket and that they were joined bythirteeu thousand who did not vote at all last year. There is apparent a clean Republican defection and Demo cratic accession, and of sufficiently de cided character to clearly indicate the current of political movement in tne country. , - Tue turkeys are fattening for a Demo cratic thanksgiving. Tnc Caicago girl will hive to hide her diminished feet. In a Florida town there is a person, whose pedal extremities measure thirty inches each in length. An item was recently published con cerning a family at Logan. Kan., which has lost five servant girls in succession by marriage. Tho Kansas sta'.e commissioner of agriculture has been overwhelmed by letters from Eastern girls asking tbe name of the family and the nearest route to it. Having run "thim Britishers " down, our Celtic friend Hughes can now occupy himself during the remainder of the race in catching up to his fellow-countryman, Fitzgerald. Hughes' highest ambition having been to beat the Britishers, how ever, ho will pei haps he cuiteut to rest on the laurels gained in tbit kuj.pisetl impo.--sible accomplishment. Iju'OUMATIon by tho underground lino is to the effect that tbe bosses, from Mr. Cameron down, arc very much dejected and alarmed on account of the depleted condition of the machine chest and the failure of all efforts to replenish it. It is simply the threatened " business scare" coming homo to roost. Threats, liko curses, have an unpleasant habit of finding their way home. Two more worthies gone to join the great army of broken down pedestrians. Rowell and Hazael, on whom tbe know ing ones had " staked their pile," have been forced to yield to the terrible strain to whioh they were subjected during the past four days. There is a moral in this, bat it has been repeated so often on simi lar occasions that it is hardly worth, while to poiut it to adorn the tale of used-up physical energy that comes this morning from tbe Madison Square garden. The idiotic story started from Stalwart headquarters that Judge Pershing of Schuylkill county, was "out for Beaver," is quietly but firmly denied by that gen tleman. Nobody of any sense ever cred ited the statement for a moment, but Judge Pershing's prompt disclaimer serves the purpose of showing to what straits of falsehood and misrepresentation the desperate bosses are driven in their futile effort to prop up their sinking cause. Pr.usiDENT Airmen calls upon tho peo ple of tho United States to unite in thanksgiving on the 30th of November. And they will do it. It will be 6uch a thanksgiving as the country has not wit nessed for years. Deliverance from the thralldom of the bosses, thcicgeacratiou of the commonwealth, and the restoration of popular self government will bo among the blessings for which the people of Pennsylvania will have ample cause for thanksgiving. And from all appearances pretty much tbe same state of affairs will exist in New York by tho time Thanks giving day rolls around. Ohio has wrought out her salvation and is waiting for her sister commonwealths to join iu the song of praise. PERSONAL. A. Buossox Alcott had another stroke or paralysis yesterday, and was in a sink ing condition last night. Ex-Goverxob Hendricks is so sick that he has cancelled his engagements to speak in Indiana. William W. Cummings, lately chief operator of tho Western Union telegraph company, at St. Louis, died yesterday in Toledo, after a lingering illness. Professor X. A. Williard, a volum inous writer on agricultural subjects, and an authority on dairv matters, died vester day in Little Falls, New York. Father Ryan, tho poet priest, is lectur ing iu Gulf Coast cities on "Atheism end Infidelity Tried at the Tribunal of Reason and Common Sense." General Sir Garnet Wolseley, will enter the peerage of England as Baron Wolseley, and Admiral Sir Bcauchamp Seymour as Baron Alcestcr. Sin Richard Temple, baronet, lately governer of Bombay and Luckno w, is now in Philadelphia, and will remain here for a few days. He is about to return to Eng land to contest with Mr. Herbert Glad stone for a seat in the House of Commons for East Worcestershire. Frank R. Packesham, a graudson of General Edward Packenbam, who lost his life in leading the British troops in tho battle of New Orleans, is visiting New Orleans. Mr. Packenham is attached to tho English civil service and has been on duty iu Honduras. Walt Whitman has been prostrated for several days at his residence. No. 431 StovenB street, Camden. Yesterday he was able to sit up, and he expects in a few days to be upon the street again. The aged poet is suffering from the effects of a paralytic stroke received ten years ago. Rev. Charles Spurgeon, son of tho famous pastor of tho London tabernacle, bas been preaching to crowded congrega tions in St. Louis and other Western cities. He preaches short, plainly worded sermons, with touches of pathos and quaint humor intermingled, and with a dramatic style of delivery. Sir. Fran oath Bohm. The New York Tribune has the follow ing: It is understood in medium circles in Philadelphia that if the late William Penn who landed on " the pleasant shores of Chester" two hundred years, were still in tlesh, he would send tbe following postal card to the Bi-Centennial celebration : Pennsylvania, Oct. 23, 1882. To whom it may concern : Had it occurred to me, two hundred years ago, when I took off my coat and set to work founding this state, that two hundred years afterwards a remorseless machine would stand be tween a majority of the people of Penn sylvania and the realization of their wishes I would quietly have resumed my coat, declining to embark in that branch of bus iness. I do not direct these few Bi-Centennial remarks to any one in particular. But if this shoo fits any gentleman, I know of 110 reason why he should not don it. Thine, W. Pexn. MATCHING TEMPLABS. TUB UKAlfU PAKADKOF THiS'KjUGHTS. A Maipilflceat Spectacle Tblrty-tliree Hun dred Flamed Warrior of theCros la Line Other Mi-Centennial Festivities. Broad, Chestnut and Market streets were again lined with an eager multitude Thursday morning, who jammed the side walks, crammed the windows and clung to any elevation that would give a view of the knights' parade. Forty-two com manderies. mustering thirty-three hun dred men, all clad in the black and white regalia of the order, at a little after 11 o'clock deployed into Broad street, and to inspiring music and throbbing drum beats marched over tho decorated route. All along Chestnut street flags and bunting waved in the breeze, and herd and there red Maltese crosso3 flamed upon backgrounds of white. The line of knights, with its swinging step now seemed a long scroll of black, flecked with white plumes and regalia, aud now un tangled itself into the saving symbol of the woild, composed of living men. All along its length the flutter of richly-emblazoned standards and the glitter of un sheathed swords symbolized the Jerusalem of developed characters and peaceful ro pose by wresting which from the Moslem hordes of vice one may become greater than by taking a city. At tho rear of the procession there clattered a cavalcade of mounted knights, who brought tho hour's passage to an imposing end. Tho fivo divisions comprising the line formed in the streets running off Broad south of Spruce streets, and as the uni formed knights gathered at their appointed places they were the admired cynosure of thousands of eyes. The crowd which lined the unite, which w.i-i down Cueatnul to Third, up Market to Brood aud out to Columbia avenue, was quite as great aud quite as eazer to see as on previous days, but there was a prevailing sense that the coming show was to be more artistic than auy yet seen, and as a rulo there was less frantic pushing and scrambling. As early as 9 o'clock tbe central streets of the city were jammed, and by 11 the sidewalks were almost a solid mass. The procession was an. nouueed to start at 10:45, and it was only 11.10 when the chief marshal's horse pranced into Broad street, and amid the crash of a dozen bands led the way toward Chestnut street. Then there deployed into the thoroughfare forty-two commanderics, all in full re galia. Tbe scene was beautiful and in spiring. Now a commandery would match in broad lines, looking from a dis tance liko a mass of rich black, striped with sashes and feathers ; now a section would become for an instapt a formless mass of moving men, and in another in stant would appear a cross or hollow square formed of knights, each marching iu place and timo, while tho commandery's rich embroidered standard floated trium phantly over the centre As the lino came down Chestnut street, which was stream ing with flags and bunting, with red Maltese crosses here aud there on a back ground of white, the dense lines of people wcro forced back to tho curbs, leaving tho street open and clear. The throngs which crammed the walks and filled the balconies, seats and windows, watched the passing pageant with tho silence of ad miration, their enthusiasm occasionally breaking into hearty applauso as some difficult evolution was performed with ease and grace. Up wide Market and Broad streets tho same denso crowds wit nessed the knights, and the same wave of hand-clapping rolled along its course. The occasional halts along the lino did not break tho perfect alignment and equal distances which were everywhere preserved, and which alone made tbe sym metrical evolutions possible. The mount ed commandery made an effective end to the show, and was followed by a buzz of admiration and a rush to see it pass a sec ond time. R. Eminent Sir B. FiankBrcu- eman, of Lancaster; grand commander of the Templars of the state of Pennsylvania, was in commaud of tho line, aud bis stall' included E. SirWm. A. Morton, also of this city, and E. Sir Robert E. Pattisou, con troller of Philadelphia, who was designa ted as chief of stall. 1 he controller, how ever, didnot turn out. It is said that he was advised by his friends not to appear in the line, becauso his motives might bo misconstrued, and also for fear that sonic of his admirers might attempt a demon stration which would havo becu distaste ful to him, as he could not have acknowl edged tho compliment. The Prcsn, noticing the nuo appearance our local commandery and its handsome of new banner, says : Following St. John was DoMolay, No 9, of Reading, which with Lancaster, No. 13, wiio followed, made together a noteworthy appearance, forming as they marched double crosses and executing other difficult movements. The banners of some of the com manderies were very magnificent and excited much interest. Chief among thorn was a now one recently made, car ried by Lancaster commandery. It was a magnificent sample of silk handiwork, tho front presenting a black background ; a cross woven of the finest Bilk ; tho arms, top and bottom terminating in the passion flower. Tho icscripffion, " Be thou faith ful unto death aud I will give theo a crown of life," extended in a circle around the cross, and on tho reverse of tho ban ner the Beauseaut, or battle-flag of the Templars, was shown. Tho staff bearing tho banner was decorated with rich gold tassels and trimmings, making a very showy effect." Tbe Knights' Keceptlon. No more dazzling scene was ever pre sented in the Academy of Music than was witnessed at night at the reception of the Knights Templar, which was held in that commodious edifice and Horticultural hall, adjoining. The reception was one of the most brilliant events of the Bi-Centennial celebration. The academy was trans formed into a bower of blooming flowers, rivaling in their beauty the magnificence and splendor of a garden of the Orient. Tho corridors were richly festooned with rare exotics,dotted at intervals with groups of cut flowers, which lent delicious per fume to the air. The small chandeliers in the hallways were artistically adorned with a profusion of smilax, mingled with verbenas, tuberoses and other flowers of varied aud brilliant hues, giving to the scene a royal aspect, while the music stands on each side of the par quet circles wero almost concealed from view by tall ferns, mingled with rich pro fusion among clusters of calla lilies, cry santhemums, arranged with tbe most artistic taste. The decorations were the feature of tho event, and neither trouble nor expense was spared to make them elegant and artistic, and there was hardly a spot in the whole building that could appropriately hold a decorative plaut or design that was not occupied by a cluster of rich flowers. The scene on tho stage was dazzling in its splendor, surpassing even the rich decorations of the other parts of tbe building. It was set after the style of an Italian garden, with parterres surrounding the brilliant scene. The costumes were rich and varied, and the brilliancy of the spectacle was greatly enhanced by tbe bright and glittering re galia of tho knights as they whirled arouud iu tbe dance. The proscenium boxes wero occupied by prominent people, including Governor- Hoy t and staff ; Benj. Dean, giand master of the Knights Templar in the United States ; Sir Knight Major Da'id Macliv er, thirtieth degree, a representing the Grand Prcceptory of England; Theodore S. Parvin, of Iowa City; General Charles Roome and J. W. Simons, of New York: the grand officers of the grand comman- deries of New Jersey. Massachusetts New York and Virginia, the members of the Bi-Centennial commission and others. Shortly after 9 o'clock the officers of the grand commandery and the officers of the commanderies ot Philadelphia, with the dis tingnished guests, assembled in Horticul tural hall and proceeded to the academy through a covered bridge, where the visitors wero formally received and welcomed on behalf of the commanderies of Philadelphia and tho grand command ery of Pennsylvania, by Sir George S. Graham. Grand Master Dean responded in a fitting speech. Ho was followed by Mr. Macliver, who made a few remarks, after which a battalion from St. Alban's commandery gave an exhibition drill, eliciting enthusiastic annlause. Tho danc ing then commenced with tho grand march which was followed by Lumbye's waltz, "Ball Sounds." Tho festivities were oontinued until long after midnight. Hor ticultural hall was also tastefully decorated and an orchestra stationed on the stage of the upper hall discoursed music to the dancers there. Other Feature. In addition to the features of tho third day above noted, a bronze statue of Mor ton McMichael was unveiled at the park, near Girard avenuo bridge ; there was a bicycle meet at tho Columbia avenue en trance to the park, there being 400 wheel men in line, and iu the afternoon races took place at tho Gentlemen's driving park, near Belmont ; an archery contest was held on tho sito of tho old Agricultural ball, in the west park, prizes being awarded to the successful competitors ; the singing festival of the combined Welsh choirs at the Allison building was con cluded yesterday, and prizes were awarded to the visitors in the competitive contests ; tho Gormau singing societies gave a con cert iu the afternoon ; there was a regatta over the national course on tho Schuylkill, under tho auspices of the Bi-Centennial association and Schuylkill navy. No Flreworlcea To-night . Mayor King has notifiod tho police lieutenants to instruct the polico in their respective districts to prohibit the setting off of fireworks and to arrest aH persons who discharge fireworks of any kind. The following communication forwarded to Mr. Knight during the afternoon explains itself : Mayor's Office, Philadelphia, Oct. 26, 1883. Edward C. Knight, president of the Bi-Centennial association Dear Sir : You will please be good enough to sup press the pyrotechnic display advertised for Friday evening next. As such ex hibitions are in violation of the act of Assembly and tho ordinanses of the city, I have issued peremptory orders to arrest any person who attempts to firo off any squib, rooket, or any other kind or dis cription of fireworks. Yours, very respectfully. Samuel G. Krso, Mayor. 2'aliroad l'asaenger Traffic. Tho capacity of the different railroads entering the city have been severely tested during the present week. To give an idea of the immense number of passengers entering the city, chiefly to view tho Bi Centennial celebration, it is stated unoffi cially that between Sunday night and Wednesday evening the Pennsylvania railroad company delivered at their Broad street station no less than 224,000 passen gers. Tho ariiving trains after that time and up to last night wero also very heavy adding probably 15,000 more to tho num ber. It is estimated that 90,000 persons have been carried by tho Reading railroad, and that 70,000 arrived at the other stations of the Pennsylvania railroad and the Camdeu and Atlantic and the Narrow Guage roads, and by boats and private conveyances, making a grand total of about 400,000 per sons arriving within five days. The outpour by tho Pennsylvania rail road and other railroad stations commenced at the close of tho Landing day celebration. Tho 11 -30 p. m. train for tho West on Tuesday night was made up in nine sec tions, tho last section getting off at 2:25 Wednesday morning. Up to last night, including the 11:30 trainWost.it is esti mated that 150,000 visitors had departed for their respective homes by this road. There was no doubt a proportionate num ber of departures by tho other roads. THANKHOIV1NG. Tho President' Annual Proclamation. The following Thanksgiving proclama tion has been issued : By tho president of tho United Stales of America. a proclamation. Iu conformity with a custom, tho annual ob.-ervauco of which is justly hold in honor by this people, I, Chester A. Arthur, pres ident of tho United States, do hereby set apart Thursday, tho 30th day of Novem ber next, as a day of public thanksgiving. The blossings demanding our gratitude are numerous and varied. For the peace, and amity which subsist between this republic and all the nations of tho world ; for the freedom from internal discord and violence ; for tho increasing friendship between tho different sections of the land ; for liberty, justice and constitutional gov ernment ; for tho devotion of tbe people to our free institutions and their choerful obedience to mild laws; for the constantly increasing strength of the republic while extending its privileges to fellow men who come to us; for the improved means of internal communi cation and tho increased facilities of inter course with other nations ; for the general prevailing health of the year ; for tho pros perity of all our industries, the liboral re turn for tho mechanic's toil, affording a market for the abundant harvests of the husbandman ; for the preservation of the national faith and credit ; for wise and generous provision to effect the intellect ual and moral education of our youth ; for the influence upon tho conscience of a ra straining and transforming religion, and for the joys of home tor these, and for many other blessings, we should gjve thanks. Therefore, I do recommend that the day above designated be observed throughout tho country as a day of national thanks giving and prayer, and that the people, ceasing from their daily labors and meet ing in accordance with their several forms of worship, draw near to the throne of Almighty God, offering to Him praiso and gratitude for the manifold goodness which He has vouchsafed to us and praying that His blessings and His mercies may con tinue. And I do further recommend that tho day appointed be mado a special occasion for deeds of kindness and charity to tho suffering and the needy, so that all who dwell within tho land may rejoice and be glad in this season of national thanksgiv ing. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my baud and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dono at the city of Washington this twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and eighty-two, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and seventh . By the president. Chester A. Artiiitr. Fred'k T. FnELixonuYSEX, Secretary of State. Where the Government Is. President Arthur, accompanied by Sec retaries Frelinghuysen and Lincoln, left Washington yesterday afternoon for New York. Secretary Lincoln will return to Washington on Monday, but Secretary Freliughuysen will remain away several days longer. The president will remain in Now York until November 10th. Secre tary Folger is back in Washington, and was at his desk yesterday. CRIME AND CAUSALTY. MECT1NU UATU IN VIOXTKNT FOKH. JMnraer and Suicide, Accident and Catas trophe The Trail or Blood That Follows the Day' Fatalities. Thomas March, a young man, who was born legless, hanged himself yesterday in the door of a mill near WilIiamston,North Carolina. C. O. Wallace, representing himself as a pork packer of St. Louis, committed suicide in Houston, Texas, yesterday, by cutting his throat 'with a razor. Thomas Talbot was fatally shot by his wife in Cheyenne, Wyoming, earlv yester day morning. She says she acted iu self defense. Margaret Steele, colored, yesterday killed William Weatherspoon, also color ed, by striking him on tbe head with a poker, at Charlotte, North Carolina. A telegram from Lowell, Kentucky, says that Fountain Tankersly. jr., has poisoned his wife and two children. The wife died at midnight on Tuesday, and the children are in a critical condition. Tank ersly has fled, with his brother, who it is thought piozured the strychnine with whioh tho family were poisoned. Daniel Stephenson, the young son of a widow, was enticed or forced from his home in Christian county. Mo., last Sat urday night, by two men, named Wilson and Inman, and murdered on the road side. At Shenandoah, Pena.. yesterday after noon, Feter, James and Henry Scheetz, brothers, and Timothy Reynolds and Robert Hanna, wcro shut up in Packer colliery No. 3, by the caving iu of a drift. It is not yet known whether they are alive, as working parties have been un able to reach them. Two men wero killed by the explosion of a tug bout boiler, at Memphis, yester day. Maggie Barry, aged 14 years, had her leg caught in tbe spoke of a wagon wheel, at Blackston, Mass., on Thursday, and was so badly injured that sha died in a few hours. - Thnmto fAnnnnl.l OA ..A.a .-if n..A n car repairer on tho Now York & New England railroad, was fatally crushed . by a collision between two cars in Providence yesterday. Charged With Conspiracy to Defraud. J. C. Tiffany, ex-Indian agent in Ari zona territory, was arrested in New York yesterday, on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government of $0,000, and embezzlement and perjury. He gave bail in $u,uuu for an examination. Leaving- His Family lJestituie. A telegram from Milwaukee reports that Joseph Heiser, C3 years of age, a re tired trunk manufacturer, has disappeared with $25,000, leaving bis family destitute. A girl, who worked as dressmaker in his family, is supposed to have something to do with his flight. Kidnappers Arrested. Henry Tyson and Henry Sonburg, of Long Bianch, have been committed to the county jail at Freehold, for kidnapping. two children of .John V. Kolb. The chil dren were found, after a search of several hours, in the attio of tho old Continental hotel. It is said tho kidnappers were actuated by malico towards tho children's parents. Bob Ford Acquitted. At Plattsburg, Missouri, yesterday, tho jury in tho case of Robert Ford, on trial for the murder of Wood Hito, rendered a verdict of not guilty. Ford telegraphed the finding of tho jury to Governor Crit tenden and Chief of Police Speers at Kan sas City. Contraband literature. E. H. Haywood was arrested yesterday in Boston, for sending obscene, matter through the mails. Among the matter on which tho charge is based are certain odorous extracts from Walt Whitman's " Leaves ot Grass." Howell and Hanel Break Down. Rowell and Hazael retired yesterday from the walking match in New York, Rowell because of heart trouble and Haz ael because "his knees gave out." Tho scoro at one o'clock this morning stood : Fitzgerald 431, Noremao 422, Hughes 420, Hart 408, Herty 402, Vint 374. Election Days as Holidays, A copy of a resolution at tho recent Labor convention in Pittsburgh, and sign ed by 470 labor organizations of Al legheny county, demanding that election days be declared legal holidays, in order that the laboring masses may be enabled to exercise the right of suffrage untram meled, was transmitted yesterday to Gov. Hoyt. A Southern Jubilee. Yesterday was "Jubilee Day iu Mem phis, and was celebrated by a parade of military and firo companies ; an address Judgo Clapp on "The South Memphis and her Growth ;" a display of fireworks on tho bluffs, and a masked ball iu the exhibition building. It is estimated that tho celebration attracted fifteen thousand peoplo to 3Iemphis. Army Promotions. Tho army promotions consequent upou the retirement of Major General McDowell were announced yesterday, as follows : Brigadier General Johu Pope to bo major general, and Col. Ronald S. Mackenzie, 4th cavalry, to be brigadior general. Both promotions took effect yesterday. General Pope is at present in command of the department of Missouri. General Mackenzie is in command of tbe district of New Mexico. Dealing In ittarglns. In tho appelate court at Chicago yester day, a decision was rendered upon the legality of marginal dealings on the board of trade. A commission firm brought suit against a customer for a marginal difference on a deal in grain. Tbe lower court rendered judgment for the amount of the claim. Tho appelate court holds "that tho purchaso of grain 1 or future delivery, where it is evident there is no in tention to actually deliver the grain, but to settle differences iu prices in money, comes within tho law against gambling. The aggrieved party has no gronnd of action." Dickson to be Arrested. The attorney general has decided to proceed against Dickinson, foreman of the Star Route jury, for attempting to influ ence tho jury contrary to the order of the judge. It will be remembered that dur ing tho trial, he had informed Judge Wylie that ho had been corruptly approached by Bowen. When the case was given to tho jury Dickson, before they retired, asked the court if he might read a written state ment to the jury on the subject of the at tempted bribery. Judge Wylie directed him not to do this, bnt no sooner had the jury reached its room than Dickson pro ceeded to read his paper, which was evi dently designed to influence the jury for the defendants. This act constitutes a crime under tho law, and a warrant for his arrest has been issued. New Railroads. Tho city council of Wilmington, Dela ware, last night, unanimously passed the ordinance giving the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company the right ot way through Wilmington. A representative of the company stated ibat no extension of time would be asked for, and that tho road would be built within the timo specified iu the charter before April, 1884. At Williarasport, Pa., yesterday, a pre liminary organization was effected for the construction ot the Bingbampton & Williamsport railroad. The capital stock is fixed at $3,000,000. The length of the lino is 100 miles. MOT SHOT FUR rJALF-BKEEDS. A Stalwart Kaaubltea Paper Uses the Tlidea Fraud ma a Campaign Argument. N. T. Commercial Advertiser. Congress met and appointed tho elector al commission, but its aliunde decisions and its declaration of tbe fact that John Watts, being a postmaster in Oregon No vember 7, aud on the same day A. B. Levisee acted as United States commis sioner in Now Orleans, did not invalidate their right to act as presidential electors the statute to the contrary notwithstand ing, did not bring forth a protest from tho papers that are now waxing indignant over a forged proxy at Saratoga Tho fact that Louisiana, on the laco of tbe returns, had given over 0,000 majority for the Tildcn electors, whose credentials wero signed by the representative of the party Hayea afterwards recognized (there by darkening his own title), was calmly ignored by the people who aro shrieking fraud and forgery, when tho electoral com mission deefded that that majority "did not count." Not ono of those papers not one of tho men like Beecher, Wood ford and Curtis, who are horrified by tho late forgery, raised their voice .in denun ciation of tho " great fraud," tho proof of which was clearer and more incontest able than any thing alleged to have been done in Saratoga. Beecher, Curtis and the rest who are now so indignant over an alleged fraud that did not affect the convention's action, abused the Democrats for daring to assume thoy bad the rights. It was left for a petty cheat that in no way influenced the final result 'in a state convention to arouse their fine sense of propriety and indignation. Thoy could coolly and calmly see the ountry on the verge of civil war for more than ono half of the peoplo believed they had been cheated and not one of the present indig nant patriots bad a word to say against the great wrong ; but when a forged proxy is used iu a mooting of state committee, though it did not affect a siugle nomina tion, least of all decide who should till a high oflice notwithstanding tho people, they aro ready to sacrifice tho party ! " Rather let us go down in defeat," thoy now say, " than succeod with au unexcep tional ticket nominated, it is alleged, with the aid of a forged proxy !" What consis tency ! What statesmanship 1 Mr. Tilden had un undisputed popular vote of 4,284, 855 and Mr. Hayes 4,033,950 a clear ma jority of 250,905, and though this majority backed up their claims with evidenco of the strongest kind, the Times and its edi tor refused to consider them. ABOUT TALK1NU. Bob Iluritette (lives Some More Advice to a Tonne Man. Burlington Haivkeye. And one parting word, Telemachus. Don't talk to a man iu a railway car. He is rarely, and if I am the man, never thankful to you. When yon have Buffered from this kind of conversation as I have, my boy, you will appreciate its measure less horrors as I do. Railway conversation is always tire some ; the listener bas to strain his ears to hear ; the talker must strain his voice to speak. If you speak in low tones you and your companion cannot hear each other. If you speak up loud and clear everybody in tho car can hear yon, and that isn't always just what you want. Many a rattling mile over the rail has been tilled with amusement for me, listening to tho shriekiug conversation of two people sit ting half a car length away from mo talk ing over their private affairs to tho listen ing world that couldn't help hearing unless it was stone deaf. Never talk to people on a train, unloss you really have something to say ; then say it and close your shell. Don't, don't, don't talk in tho mere effort to pass away the timo. You will only mako the hours in definitely hoavier and more wearisome. And now that the winter season is coming on, and the lectures will soon begin again, and lecturers will soon travel up and down the land, let me beg of you one personal favor for myscif. If you meet me at tho station or see me 011 the train, don't, for the love of heaven, rush up and introduce a friend " who' is going that way and will be company for me." From that moment I hate your friend and will endeavor to freeze him out. I don't want any company on tbe train. I hate people in the cars. I don't want to be entertained . All I want is a single seat all to myself, just so much as I pay for, and if I could select a traveling compan ion I would choose a deaf and dumb man with his hands tied. Or an Indian cigar sign. I think I would like to travel with an Indian cigar sign. If I can't talk enough every night. to last me all the next day, without wearing out my lungs shrieking on a clattering railway car, I will let the fact be known. Ab, my boy, if some of tho peoplo who have "entertained " mo on railway trains only knew how my glad hcatt bounded in grateful joy when thoy had to get off the train and leave mo alone, they would never syeak to mo again anywhere. Of course, my boy, circumstances and the people you meet, and their ability to on tcrtain and their varying dispositions, will teach you when and where to mako liberal exceptions to these rules. And if you can't tell when a man or woman is tired of you, and doesn't want to talk to you,if you can't sco when your conversation is a bore and your chatter is irksome, then you had better apply for a position as teacher in some asylum for deaf mutes, and learn to forget how to talk and loso your voice as fast as you can. m - The Pay of Actresses. New York Mull. Celia Logan said in her lecture last evening that " in no other occupation does a womau receive such liberal pay for her work as on tho stage. Few and for tunate are tho femalo writers who make $10,000 or $20,000 by a lifetime of work ; but this is not unfrcquently tho net re suit of a single season to the actress." How many actresses are there who can make $10,000 or $20,000 as the net result of a single season ? Miss Logan can easily count them upon her fingers. The truth is, her representation as to the lucrative ness of tho occupation of actresses is misleading. Tho stars of tho stage com mand immense pay, but thero are hun dreds of unknown actresses who almost starve where there is one female star who wins fortune. No girl should bo allured to tho stage by Bliss Logan's representa tion that it is the most lucrative of occu pations for women. Remarkable talent", if not genius, aro essential to the success whioh she describes, and a young woman thus highly endowed should remember that Charlotts Cnshman, whom Miss Logan quotes so freely, once advised a young friend possessed of tbe power to win famo as ah actress to beware of the stage. Unmallable Letters. Lctteis addressed as follows aro held for want of postage stamps : " Mr Caleb L. Myer, 430 Market street, Philadelphia, in care of D. K. Grim's sons." " Johnio Eberline, Locust street, Col umbia." "Rev. J. R. Dillon, 142C Warnuck streets, Philadelphia, Pa." A letter addressed " Miss Mary Schub, Christian street near Sixth, in care of Mr. Adams." In a Queer Place. Mr. John F. Reith, councilman from tho First ward, this morning discovered a keg of powder in the loft above his car' penter shop, on Water street, among a lot of rubbish and lumber. Neither Mr. Reith nor any of bis family knows how it got there, nor what could have been the motive in placing it there. Mr. Reith in vites the owner to come for the powder and tell him all about it. THE JKDIANS. SAVAOK, I.lirKuvKD AND Vl ILI.KD. Bow They AU Knfeyed Themselves at the Ul-Ceateoalal The Carlisle Pupils Seeing theMghtn. There were few scenes in tho great Hi Centeuni.il parade that attracted rooro attention than tho American Indians. Of these there wero several varieties tbe white men who represcated tho .Iudiaua who welcomed Peuu when he landed from the " Welcome ;" the members of tho several tribes of tho " Improved Order of Red Men," a secret beneficial organization numbering many thousands ; the civilized Indians from the Carlisle training school, and the wild savages, iu their native cos tumes, fresh from the far West, and re cently admitted to the Carlisle school. Tho Carlisle ludiaus wero in charge of Captain R. U. Pratt, supcrintecdvut of tho school, assisted by Wm. P. Campbell, dis ciplinarian, and a corps of teachers. They reached Philadelphia Monday afternoon, and were escorted by United States Mar shall Kerns to Lincoln institute, corner of Eleventh and Spruce streets, where thoy were quartered during their visit to Phila delphia. On Tuesday morning they took part in the great parade. CapC Pratt tail special charge of tho wild Indians, niae Navijoes, two of whom aro ons of th. great chief Manuelito. They woro thsir picturesque, native oo tumes and marched afoot. They wero followed by on hundred male Indian pupils of the Carlisle Bchool, dressed iu their bluo uniforms. Next came fifty Indian girls from tho Carlisle bchooi 111 omnibuses, attended by their white teachers. All along tho liuo they at tractedVgreat attention, and received many courtesies from the popuUco. . 'After th parade the Indians visited the Ueaf and dumb asylum, wliero they wore warmly welcomed, ami wore suou on the best of terms with tho mutes the sign language of the mutes andslndiatitt being so nearly alike that they ctultl n-iiiiily converse. On leaviu" tbo asylum, ihcv wjio heart ily iuvited to call again,' and thoy did so on Tuesday cveniug. Thuy wero shown through the building, entertained with pantomime performances, and stories were told in signs by the mutes. In response one of the Indian boys favored' tl( ranter with an Indian dance. Ou Wednesday morning they again visited thnasylum from tho stoop of which they viewed the great parade of that day. After the parado they visited Girard collect., accom panied by Gov. Hoyt, Win. IVnn aud Mar shall Kerns, where they wero handsomely entertained, aud had a royal dinner set beforo them. After dinner soma of the col lego boys entertained them with songs, and tho Indian pupils responded with their school song-J which are loudly encored. The boys tutu went to tbe gymnasium where they en joyed themselves in athletic sports, Un guis returning to the parlor. Later there was service in the chapel, after whioh thu Indians wero Bbown through the college This was followed by a battaliou drill by the college boys, which was greatly ad mired by the Indians. By this timo ball a dozen photographers had arrived aud were clamorous for the honor of takiug photographs of tho visitors. They wero arranged in a group, tho wild Navijoes in front, with Gov. Hoyt, Wm. Penn, tbo trustees of the collego and all tbo teachers and Indians in graceful positions, and then each of the photographers took several shots at them, and no doubt succeeded in getting several grand Bi Centennial pic tures. The party then adjourned to tho bait ground, where a foot-race was pioposed between tho white boys and the- Indians. Three of tho fleetest runners on each sido wero selected, and arranged in line, aud the word " go " was given. Alldaited off like arrows, but it was soon -seen that nono of tho white boys had any businedn with " White Buffalo," who with a zig zag motion soon shot to the front and reached the goal far ahead of tho second best, a collego boy. closo to whoso heels were the two other Indians, with the two other collego boys beaten off. After supper the visitors wero treated to an entertainment, consisting or magi cian performances by a piofessor of tbo black art, and the tricks of the wonderful dog, Major. The Indians iu return saiiK songs, and ""Maggie Looks Standing," made a speech. In the evening the party returned to tho deaf and dumb asylum to witness the night pageant, aud ou Thursday morning took a steamboat ride ou the Delaware. On thoir return they visited several lad a friends of the schools Wau.imaker's great establishment, tbo United States mint and then took passage for Carlisle, reaching homo safely at " o'clock last evening. TUB LilNT SAI 1UTKM. Utacqutcft of the Lute charts Uiliesple. Tho funeral of thu iate diaries Gilles pie, whoso death on Tuesday last was noted 'in these columns, took pi ice from St. 31ary's Catholic church, at 9 o'clock this morning, and was attended by a largo concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends. Solemn requiem mass was celebra ted, with Rev. Charles McKeuna, O. I., a I nephew of tho deceased, ani celebrant, ami Rev. Dr. McCnIIngfa, of' St. Mary's, anil , Father Russell, of Columbia, as deacon and sub-deacon. Schopp's mass was well rendered by the choir, under the leader ship of Mr. B. Altick. Mrs". .Tohn'IHemonr. presiding at the organ. At tbe offortory, Mr. W. B. Altick, sang in excellent style that most' pathetic of Schubert's composition. " Adieu," and the " Benedictu.,' . and "Agnus Dei" by tho full choir also deserves special men tion. Ac tho corioTusiou of tho nns; Ko. Dr. McCnllough, taking Iijs text from Genesis, 25, delivered a hnof eulosry of tho deceased, dwelling on thu many ex'ji-I-Icnt points of bin noble character. Th reverend doctor then proceeded with the absolution of tbo body ofthe deceased, during which tbo choir Bang the psalm, " Libera Me, Domino." At tbo conclu sion of tbo ceremonies tbo funeral pro cession was re-formed jand the remains taken for interment toSt. Mary's ceme tery. Tbe following gentlemen acted an pall bearers ; Daniel A. Altick, J., U. 11. War ner, Luther Richaids, Johu W. Lowell, James MchTenna and Christian Oast. FATAL KAII.rt.OAI ACClDK.NT. A Yobbjc Lancaster Man Killed by the CdM. Mathias Rcsh, aged about 24 years, who resides at the corner of RockLiud and Mid dle streets, this city, was instantly killed at Baby's curve, on the Pennsylvania rail road, a short distance west of Gap station, yesterday afternoon. The young man was employed on the constiuc tion train, drawn by engine 211, which is now stationed in this city. At tho time of the accident his train was lying on a siding, and Johnstown express and the second section of fast line were looked for. When the former train put in au appearance young Resh ran out on the north track to see if it was flagged. Fast lino cams thundering along and before noticing it he was struck. His legs were broken in several places, his head crushed and he was otherwise- terribly bruised. The body was brought to this city on the train which did the killing. The deceased leaves a wife, but no chil dren. Ho had bsnn working on tbe train but a few days. Coroner Shiffcr impmr.elled a jury con sistins of John IJ. Suffer, T. F. McElii gott, David Clay.Gsorga W. Keeno, George W. Bowman, Jeroma Yondersmith, and held an inquest on tho body, the veidiet being in accordance with tho facts givcu above.
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