ujfattiffi''Bvg.n''aanytffrgce LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1882. f Lancaster fntelligenccr. TUESDAY SVKNINO, OCT. 31. 1882. A Harmless Boomerang. We print elsewhere an address pur porting to be issued by tne Pensioners' League, located in tbis city and rejoic ing in John A. waiters as us secretary. We have not heretofore heard or tbis association and we incline to think that it is nothing more than a name. Xor have we the pleasure of the acquaintance of Mr. John A. Walters nor any knowl edge of him. John, too, may be a myth , but we sincerely trust not, for if he Is the scribe who pre pared the address of the Pensioners' League and who invented the institu tion, we would like to meet him, if for no other reason than to urge upon him the propriety of going to school to study the English language. John is too bright a fellow to be so ignorant of the proper way of expressing his ideas ; John has ideas, as his address shows. He has an idea that a Democrat is a very bad man, and another that an Independent Re publican is not any better. He conceives that the issue in this campaign is as to whether men should be bought and sold, or whether the better plan of obtaining their labor is not to hire it. It also strikes John that General Beaver is entitled to the vote of the government pensioners, because he is one himself. To create a political party out of the pensioners, is the particular idea which marks Mr. Walters as a great man, who should be furnished with a first class ed. ucation that his brilliant mind may have its proper effect in moulding the public opinion of the time. Few men would have thought of erecting the pensioners into a party. It is rather a risky busi ness for the pensioners, for naturally if they set up for themselves and fail to carry the election, they will try the gen erosity of the people they have tried and failed to keep out of power. On a super ficial view of the matter it would seem to be a matter of prudence for the pensioners, who have proGted so greatly by the generosity of all parties in Congress, to keep their hands off in the contention of the parties whose friend ship they have had. But if they are not satisfied with what they have rcceiv. ed and are inclined to take from the government and divide up all its income among themselves, they will do right enough to follow the bold banner of Walter's and form an alliance with the regular Republican organization, which has fully demonstrated its aptitude for using the national treasury for individ ual profit. When the Republican spoils men and the pensioners join together with the purpose of helping themselves to what they want,there will, moreover, be full notice given to the rest of the peo ple of the division line upon which parlies are formed, and all the people who are not spoilsmen or pensioners will get upon the other side of the line from them. As there arc a big majority of the voters we doubt- whether tho divi sion line is one that would be advanta geous to Mr. Walters and the Pensioners' League ; and so probably will the pensioners think to whom Mr. Wallet '3 address comes, and it will hardly turn many of their votes to Beaver notwith standing its forcible presentation of the reason why every pensioner should favor him. Of course we understand that there is no Pensioners' League and that it has been created on paper by the ma chine Republican managers to help them to catch the pension vole. Like most of their devices it is a boomerang which will hurt those who use it, far more than those it is aimed at. The citizens of the country, who are taxed to pay the pensions which the liberality of the country provides, are not likely to relish the idea of those who enjoy their bounty assuming to be their masters. It is this very idea which public sentiment is now in revolt against. It has been justly outraged by the undertaking of its public servants to use their places for their own benefit to the general injury ; and the word now is that public ollice must be administered for the general good ; and the pensioners, no more than the officeholders, can be permitted to run the country for their own benefit. , ItSheRld Not Be Necessary. EckleyB.Coxe representing the Luzerne and Lackawanna district in the state Senate, has offered rewards aggregating $1,500 for the convictions of all who in terfere with an honest poll in his district at the coming election. He says that in doing this he is following the example of the Philadelphia Committee of One Hundred. Mr. Coxe's offer is unobjec tionable and commendable, though we regret that he should feel that there was any necessity for it. It does not speak well for our institutions of justice that it should be thus expedient for indi vidual citizens to offer rewards for the detection of offences against the election laws. We cannot deny that such offers are necessary, however much we may affirm that they should not be. Vigilant officers of the law would render "them unnecessary; but we do not enjoy such vigilance anywhere from those who ought U exercise it. The fault runs down from the bench to the lowest officer of justice. There is not that hearty co operation among them for the preserva tion of the integrity of the ballot which is needed to secure it. In our town j ust now we know of the stealing of tax re ceipts and they arc found in the hands of voters, but no one is yet in jail. The stimulus of a reward in money seems to be needed to move the wheels of justice. it is a scandal tnat It should be so. It is a reflection upon every man who is commissioned to keep the peace of the commonwealth within its borders. With good men holding these commissions this scandal would not exist. The laws suffice.but the law's executors are insuffi cient. Con tbolleb Pattison will to night address the citizens of Lancaster at the court-house, and an intelligent and dis passionate discussion of the real issues of the campaign may be expected from the fearless champion of reform, whose words of wisdom spoken in his brief tour of the state have left their impress wher ever heard. The Lancaster Democracy will cive their candidate a rousing re ception, and good results may be antici pated from his visit. ITr, boys, and at them. Pattison will be here to-night. So will the gallant Democracy of Lancaster. Tiieue will bo music along the lino next Tuesday and it will sound sweetly in Democratic cars. Wc learn of an individual, a commer cial drummer it was, who hadn't heard of tho comet until ho got to Lancaster, and he was so sorry he wouldn't be able to see it, as ho had to leave the town the same night ! Democrats will keep a sharp lookout for persons attempting to vote on the fraudulent tax receipts stolen from the office of Collector Voudersmith. A num ber of them have been traced and the holders of them are known. All such might as well know that if they attempt to vote they will be arrested. The discovery of an attempt to vitiate the ballot in this city by tho theft of a large number of tax receipts and their dis tribution among persons not entitled to vote should bo followed up by an effort to ferret out the scoundrels who have under taken tho monstrous fraud and bring them to punishment. The Times points out that there are meu who formerly occupied high seats in tho boss synagogue, who aie now serving terms in the penitentiary fur crimes very similar to this one that has beon traced close to the doors of some of tho Stalwart sub bosses right around home. Sexatoh Coxe supplements the offer of rewards made by the chairman of tho Democratic state committee, by proposing to advance from his own private means a liberal sum to be given to any person who shall expose attempts to corrupt the bal lot by the diversified means so well known to tho return tinkers, ballot-box stuffors and others of their ilk. Mr. Coxe evident ly means business, and it is believed his offer will have tho effect of checking tho vile schemes of fraud and corruption that wcro comtemplatcd by the Stalwart bosses in the Luzeruo aud Lackawauna region. Beaver's campaign of tergiversation still goes briskly on. lie denied ever hav ing said at Doylestown that Don Cameron was "a little man," or rather ho insisted that his remark had rofereuce to his phy sical aud not his intellectual being. He denied tho bitter and unmanly attack he mado on tho Independents in his speech in this city. And now he denies in folo a conversation which is alleged to have taken place during his recent visit to this county, in which he admitted his subser vience to Cameron. Poor Beaver, with his endless evasions and silly drivel about "standing shoulder to shoulder, touching elbows in this fight," presents a moie pitiable spectacle than Grant, who, as a warrior, won the highest honors in tho gift of the American people, and as a citizen lost them all. Mils. Lanotky has had an uufortuiiate in traduction to tho Amciican stage in tho burning of tho theatre in which slio was to have appeared on tho very cvo of her first performance. In contemplating tho disaster that has for a time deprived tho New York public of tho oppoitmiity of judging the dramatic capacity of tho new histrionic star that has so lately flashed upon tho theatrical firmament on tho other sido of the Atlantic it is well to con template iu a spirit of 'thanksgiving tho narrow escape that has been mado from a holocaust such as shocked the civilized world at tho burning of the Brook lyn theatic or tho moro recent destruction of tho Rink theatre in Vienna. Bad tho flames in New York broken out a few hours later, wheu the building wonld havo been crowded with human beings, the sacrifice of life would in all probability have been ter rible, as the fire is said to have spread with frightful rapidity. It viow,therefore. of tho possibility of tho latter catastrophe which providentially did not come to pas?, the people of the country, with full sympa thy for the Jersey Lily's keen disappoint ment, and the heavy financial losses of her enterprising manager, may feel a ccr tain sense of relief in tho thought that it is not so bad as it " might have been." PERSONAL.. Madame Apemna Patti arrived in New York yesterday by the steamer Servia. Mns. Scoville and her child, Bertha, have arrived in Canada. Jay Gould bad a narrow escape from being run over by a moving cngino in the new depot at Rochester, New York, yes terday morning. Mrs. Susan Petit, 73 years of age. has applied for a divorce from her husband, Asa Pettit, 82 years of age, of Christian Hook, Long Island. She alleges cruelty on his part. Col. Samuel Stkong, who is in Wash ington, offers to wager his plantation of 1,000 acres, in West Virginia, valued at $10,000, against $5,000 in money that Gen. Butler will be elected governor of Massa chusetts. Attorney General Buewstek has re cently dismissed his confidential messen ger, who is noue other than the colored man Simms, whoso arrest in Boston as a fugitive slave before the war created such excitement throughout Massachusetts and other free states. Mr. Stanley is in Brussels, tho guest of King Leopold II., under whoso auspices he has for the past two years been carry ing on his labors along tho Congo. He looks worn aud aged, but his youth seems to return to him whenever ho talks about Africa. Miss Annandale, a popular contralto singer of tho Abbott opera troupe, took a doso of morphine in Cincinnati. A physi cian was summoned, but she informed him that his services would be useless. He, however, saved her life. Miss Annandale has been heard in Lancaster several times and has many admirers here. KfTorts to rnmt KiecOoB Fraud. State Senator Eekley B. Coxe has issued an address to the voters of Luzerne and Lackawanna counties, in which he says that it having been asserted that'attempts would bo made to prevent by fraud an honest election in those two counties on November 7, he has determined to offer the sum of $1,500 in four different amounts for information loading to the arrest and conviction of any person guilty of fraud at the polls, or who shall make false or fraudulent returns or commit any other crime against the state election laws. He also pledges himself to aid in the prosecu tion of tho guilty persons without regard to party affiliations. BURNING OF A THEATRE THK .IKKSKY LILLY'S DEBUT CEI,ATKP Mm. Langtry Watching the Destruction of the I'ark Theatre on the JEve or He- Opening Performance. Tho preparations for the evening per formance in the Park theatre, where Mrs. Langtry was to make her American bebut were about completed at half-past four Monday afternoon, when some ouo cried " Fire !" and half a dozen at the samo instant saw flames about the pioscenlum partition on the right looking from tho audience. The cmployeos tried to put out the firo themselves. They first attempted to uso the fire aunihilators that were near at hand, but the effort to reach them failed utterly. Then an attempt was made to get out the stage hose, but the flames spread with frightfully suggestive rapidity. Then tue men rnsnea to tho lire alarm, which connects directly with the head quarters of the fire department. Mean time tho flames had spread like fire in stubbles. Stage Carpenter Henry Clark with intrepid bravery went up into the flies to try and beat down the burning scenes. Ho was enveloped in fire and, finding his retreat cut off, got out on the roof by one of the exits and ran madly toward the edgo in plain sight of the ten thousand spectators who had already gathered in the streets and wore multiplying to a hundred thou sand. The strong wind drove the flames toward him until he was compelled to drop from tho roof to the top of the vesti bule, which covers the Broadway entrance. There he lay stunned, and it seemed as if he must roll off into the street. He was, however, soon assisted by some of the firemen and by spectator, who rnached him from tho luvvor stories tin: building and carried him without fuither injury to tho street. He was dread fully buruod on the face and hands and ha 1 inhaled smoko and fire. Ho was taken to tho Now York hospital. His injuiies were pronounced fatal. William F. Dorau, a scenic artist, after aiding in tho vain effort to extinguish the fire, was driven to the rear of the theatre on Twenty-second sticet, whore he went through a counter part of the fearful exporiouco of Clark on tho Broadway side. Doran was compelled to leap from an upper window. He dioppod on a projecting cornice, breaking his leg in tho fall. He was taken to tho New York hospital, whero it was found that tho fracture of his leg was his only injury. These sceues excited tho utmost conster nation among tho great crowds in tho strcots, among whom tho wildest reports wcro spread. ' At 1:58 tho flames burst out of the roof of the theatre, sending great showers of sparks and flaming fragments of canvass sailing on tho strong breeze westward. Large quantities of theso sparks fell on tho neighboiing roofs and some of them set firo to tho building occupied by Goupil & Co., picture deal ers, at tho southwest corner of Fifth avenue and Twenty-second street. This firo was soon put out. Tho body of the theatre w.i3 a sheet of flame and sent up a great l'ght that attracted attention in all parts of tho city. Part of the walls soon fell over on the roof of tho corner building, tho top floor of which was used as a store room and property room. Tho flames worked thoir way to this room from tho theatro and destroyed tho entire floor. Mr. Abbey first heard ' his theatre being on lire whilo on his way to tho building. Ho at once hurried to the Al- bermarlo hotel, two blocks distant, where Mrs. Langtry is staying, aud informed her of tho unfortunate event. Although tho latter had been gieatly pleasod at tho anticipation of making her debut and was very much shocked by this information, she controlled her fellings well and went out on a balcony of tho hotel to witness tho eoii- flagation, remaining there for upward of an hour. Mis. Langtry had just Ir.tisbod packing her wardrobe lor too evenings performance of " An Unequal Match " when informed of tho disaster and barely escaped losing hor entire wardrobe in tho flames. Tho wardrobo of the rest of tho company, tho elegant furniture which had been specially mado for this engagement the costly sconery, some of which was of satin, haud-pamtcd and embroidered, was all lost, as well as the ordinary parapher nalia of tho theatre and several valuablo oil paintings which were in the box ollica, and which could not be moved. Tho spectators were ranged in a colossal amphitheatre. They wero shown up in tho glare as they stood in tho Cumberland house, tho old St. Germain hotel, tho Now York club and the Fifth Avenue hotel. Boys and men, with baskets and trays filled with photographs of Mrs. Laugtry, pushed their way through, crying their wares. Tho sales of the pictures wcro so rapid that even the dealers themselves wero surprised. Various causes aie given for the origin of tho firo, but it is not positively known how tho blazo did start The theatro was small, but elaborately decorated. It was built in 1874. It had been newly frescoed and upholstered in nrcnaration for Mrs. Tjanirtrv's rl(hnh for 31 rs. Lan The scanery for tho play was costly and j elaborate, especially that for the second act, being painted on satin and hand em broidercd. It was all destroyed. Some of Mrs. Langtry's costumes for the night's play were destroyed, with the.costumos of the company. Mr. Abbey's loss he esti mates at over $100,000, and his insurance is 10,500. The building belonged to tho McComb estate. Mr. Abbey was on his way to the theatro when the fire broke out and he hastened to inform Mrs. Lang try of his misfortune. Sho is now suffer ing from nervousness and disappointment. Ho has secured tho Grand opera house for Monday, when Mrs. Langtry will make her debut in "The Unequal Match." Mr. Jefferson was to follow Mr. Florence at the Grand opera houso on Saturday week next, but Mr. Abbey thought that under the circumstances ho would cancel his dates. Mr. Florence had another week to run from Saturday next, but sur rendered his rights. In regard to tickets sold everything will be made satisfactory. The losses are estimated as follows : C. II. Georgo, mural decorator, who oc cupied a store uuder tho theatre, $75,000 ; Parsons & Scarlett, occupying second floor, tailors, $30,000 ; L. II. Goldsmith, fruit dealer, and Samuel Dunbar, drug gist, $10,000 each, and tho building, $40,- John Leo, a stage carpenter at tho the theatre, is reported missing, and it is thought he perished in the flames. The Corset. American Agriculturist. The temptation to tight laoiug is not so great as formerly, now that tho corsets are fitted by measure, and then fastened in front by steel hooks. But almost every corset wearer would find hor waist ex panding in size, should sho leavo of the corset and. wear really loose clothing. The corset steel is one of the worst features. Tho pressure upon tho stomach and thus upon the nerves back of the stomach results in weakness and general invalidism. Manv corset wearers imagine that the corset is a real support to tho strength, because they feel "all gone" without it. This only shows how much mischief the corset has already done. Their feelings are all unnatural. The muscles of tho waist and abdomen havo lost their nativo power through con flnement If tho toggery worn in the shape of basques and skirts, with bands ftflf WAfftllt.a nnnraoaAa o9 s...mA.t.. l. vrhpn Mm oni-snt: Is vamnxxl --.I 4I. cles sriveu a channn to mAnw n.i,. w power. Physicians havo alwayscondemned u- -.-- :...i:..;i . !.--- . .. uio wuoni, ui unyuuusiai tu ueaiiu, ana IUO best artists have condemned it as distort ing woman's natural form and detrimen tal to real grace and beauty. But there is little hope of these bonds so long as closely-fitted waists, aud especially basques prevail. A 1'AKADOX K.VTLAINtcn. Tho Insincerity or the Tarltr Howl. For the ITULLH1EHCBU. It is said " there is not, at this time, a Republican daily newspaper published in Lancaster county." Who says so ? Lot us see. The 2faio Era has declared with peculiar emphasis "over and over again,'' that the Examiner is edited by a "howling Democrat," and it is not in the naturo of things for a Democratic progenitor to bo get a Republican offspring. Tho 2Tew Era has not only proclaimed this in times past, but it most unqualifiedly proclaims it now. I don't make such a proclamation, neither does any other Democrat that I know of, but the editor of the New Era docs ; and it declares that the editor of the Examiner is not only a Democrat, but that he is ab solutely no Republican ; and; by virtue of his editorial seniority in the domain of politics.be ought to know, especially as he claims to be one of the original bimou pure founders of tho " great Republican party." That seems to establish the fact, without a poradventuro, that tho Exami ner is not a Republican paper. On tho other hand tho Examiner vocif erously and persistently declares that the New Era is edited by a " Revereud Free trader," which would seem to precludo the possibility of its genuino Republican ism ; and, as the political world goes, the Examiner ought to bo entitled to tho ere denco of the public as much as tho New Era is. This question must bo determined, not by what these editors might say about themselves in regard to their own political principles men cannot see themselves as others see them but upon what they earnestly, sincerely aud persistently say about each other, because whor. editors speak of themselves, like other people, they would be likely to " extenuate," which would, of course, not bo the case iu speaking of each other, although they might not " sot, aughc down in malice." Be that, however, as it may, two intelligent and competent witnesses havo solemnly declared that, practically, at least, there is no Republicau daily news paper published in tho great Republican county of Lancaster, which is tho greatest paradox of tho 19th century. Isn't it awful ? This complication, however, does not ignore the fact that there may be a Republicau party iu Lancaster county that fact generally becomes manifest after the votes are counted at the annual elec tions but, to be made a foot ball of, and to be kicked about by a howling Democrat aud a Revereud Free-trader is certainly very awful. What confidence can the " rank and file " place in the "bosses " of tho " machine," when they go outsido of tho great Republican party, aud smugglo in a Democrat and a frco-trader, as expos ers and defenders of a falling dynasty ? Docs it not conclusively provo that tho attempt to alarm the country on tariff issues, and tho peril of tho protection sys tem, is all tho absurdest kiud of " bosh?" As to whether there is a daily Demo cratic paper in tho county of Lancaster or not, is a matter of no very special im portance. Both of tho aforenamed jour nals concede that thero is a "Bourbon" paper in tho county whatever that may mean and that is about as much as rene gades aro wont to concodo " all tho world over." A Bourbon, it is said, is ouo who has never learned a now thiug, aud has never forgotten au old one. Now, through out tho last forty years tho party in oppo sition to the Democracy or at least its leaders and editors have been harping on tho " protection " string, whether it was assailed or not. Bourbon-like, it has never learned a new thiug, and has never forgot ten an old one. Duiiug thoso forty years, aud for forty years proviou3ly, there has never been a national or state election in which the tariff, or protection question, has been a distinctive issuo throughout the country. States have always been, and always will bo pro and con on tho ques tion ; and never, until thoro is a uni formity in the products and manufactures of the ontiro union can there bo a dis tinctive issue. Tho intelligent portion of tho Republican party know this full well, hence they permit Democrats and free traders to edit their journals without tho least misapprehension. Let any industrious, economical, and intelligent voter who has been casting his ballots for tho last fifty years, make a pre cise statement of the losses he has sustained through legislation on tho tariff question ; or, whether it affected our party more that tho other. Thero are Demo cratic farmers, mechanics, manufacturers, professionals, and common day laborers, as well as Republican. It is to bo sup posed that some of these, of both parties, have an intelligent perception of the oper ation of tariff laws, although thero may bo many who have not, and it may not to bo supposed that theso people would wilfully injure themselves besides, tho late sessions of tho tariff commission re veals the fact that all men aro selfish on this question. Sector. Hen' Twenty-Five Thousand Lieutenants Chairman Hensel yesterday put himself in t communication with twenty 1 ivo thousand carefully-selected Democrats. The names of theso had been suggested by party mon throughout tho city and state, and tho majority aro men who have signified a willingness to do all in their power for tho success of the ticket. Chairman Hensel informs this selected army that tho party is well organized, and says that the fact that much of the organization has been done quietly does not lessen its effectiveness. The chairman is sanguino of success on Tuesday next, " and for good and sufficient reasons." But however much may be done by committees, tho chairman says, the responsibility for the final results rests upon individual voters. These, of course, cannot all bo reached, so, to au extent, he will depend on his "twenty-five thousand carefully-selected Democrats." If these, ho continues, will devote to De mocracy the twelve hours of election day there will be no question as to 'tho resuit. Each man is requested to give special per sonal attention to polling the full Demo cratic voto in his neighborhood. l'attison'a Good Taste. iSaltimoicSun. Controller Pattison, tho Democratic can didate for governor of Pennsylvania, has just given an exhibition of. good tasto which is raro in candidates for public office. The Good Will fire company of Altoona, being in Philadelphia in attend ance at tue ui-uentonuial, communicated to Mr. Pattison their intention to tender him a serenade, in reply to which that gentleman returned cordial thanks, but earnestly asked that the intended compli ment bo omitted, assigning as a reason that the Bi-Centennial was an occasion in which all the people of Pennsylvania have and feel an equal interest and ho thought it should not oven appear that festivities uui uonn uivenea to personal or party ends. Mr. Pattison was quite right but he will find few imitators among modern politicians. Tom Burord'H J&cape. Colonel Tom Buford who, somo three years ago, killed Judge John M. Elliott, of the court of appeals of Kentucky, and who was acquitted, but afterward was de clared insane and confined in the Central lunatic asylum near Louisville, escaped iosb ouiu4, Kuiusi w jenersnnviiin Indiana, it IS tllO ODUUOn Of laWVArR that. he cannot be brought back to Kentucky " a.n,"u8ition, as there is no longer a criminal charf'A Strains!-, him ' criminal charge against him. RECENT SENSATIONS. SOJIEOCKKK PHASES OF DAILY LIKK An Actrets Slopes UeLire tho I'erforinanco A i:!uuntlc Young Man'ii Suicide liuir a 1'riaoner Escaped from Jail. As the Ada Gray combination loft their hotel last night to go to the opera house, Miss Nettie Abbott, late of the Union Square theatre. New York, the second lady of the company managed to escape unobserved. She was met at the depot by II. Simmonds, a Now York drummer, and tho couple eloped on the Cincinnati southern train. Miss Abbott left all her baggage. Tho man had been shadowing the company for some time. Her absence was not noticed until tho play was called, and one of tho company had to hastily as sume her role as second lady in " East Lyuno." Escaped rrom Jail In his Wife's Clothes. An interesting story comes from Gaines ville, Ga. While Brit Osborne, convicted of robbery, was lying in jail awaiting a hearing of a motion for a new trial, his hwifo was allowed to visit him frequently. On Saturday night sho asked for aud ob taincd permission to stay all night iu his cell. Next morning tho jailer turned out a person whom he supposed to be Mrs. Osborno. A few minutes later a little child appeared at the door with some articles of clothing and said that Osborno had sent them to his wife. An investiga tion revealed Mrs. Osborne in her under clothes in her cell, her husband having es caped by her strategy. Sho was released. Osborno has not been captured. A lloniantlc Young Alan's Suicide. Tho body of a young man who com mitted suicide by jumping into the Dela ware fc Baritan canal on Wednesday night, has been found on Saturday, at Borden town, N. J. From papers found upon him it is supposed his name is Edward II. Chase, of the parish of Bromsly, St. Loonards, London, England. Mr. Ash nioio, who has charge of the tiuce-milo locks, saw him acting strangely aim went to ascertain tho cause, when lie found that the man had jumped overboard. A large number of cards of different peisons wero found upon his body. He had seven locks of hair, evidently belonging to seven different persons, in his possession. Tho remains wero buried by tho Sons of St. George, of Trenton, this afternoon. A. II. Stephens Leaves " Liberty llall." For forty years, excepting the two be fore tho final fall of the Southern Con federacy, Alexander II. Stephens has resided on his estate,- near Crawfordvillo, Ga., known as " Liberty Hall. " lie has kuown no other home, and his slaves be fore tho war and his tonauts since havo known no other proprietor. Last week, on the departure of the governor-elect to Atlanta, tho great houso was closed up for tho first time sinco Mr. Stephens pur chased it in 1812 nover, in all probability, to be re-opened. Tho mansion is one ol tho hibtoric landmarks, of Georgia, in the spacious dining room have been wel comed by Mr. Stephens more guest than wcro ever entertained by any other Ameri can citizen. Tho library is a large, un pretentious room, packed on all sides with books, mostly on topics relating to the war of the rebellion and constitutional questions. Mr. Stephens' " War Between tho States " was written in this room, which contains every conceivable treatise on govcrmontal affairs and every history of tho struggle that has ever appeared. It is well known that Mr. Stephens is poor. He spends his income on charity ami iu entertaining, and has always done so. While ho is suiupulously exact iu his own personal expenses, ho has little thought of money spent on other;). It is his boast that ho has never turned any one away from his door. His iucomo from his books amounts to but little. He said recently, in speaking of them : "I sold tho copyright of my ' War Between tho States' in 1872. I war, sick thou aud thought I was going to die, and so I sold out alto gether. It is paying tho publishers very handsomely. I understand 00,000 copies have been sold recently. My school his tory pays steadily about $300 a year. The royalty is but 7 cents a copy, but tho sales aro steadily increasing. I have the copyright on "Rcviowers Reviewed " and of course on my new history of the United States, from the first settlement to the killing of Garfield. It has 1,100 pages, and is handsomely printed. It will be sold by subscription, aud will bo sold Iargoly, I think. I control tho copyright of this, of course. Had it not been for tho hopes I had of this book I should never havo thought of accepting tho governor ship. I could not begin to live on the salary tho state allows, and I havo no in come except what I have mentioned." There aro seven tenants on the Stephens ostato of 1,000 acres. Tho property pays but little moro thau the taxes. Air. Stephens is now 70 years old, aud his 2 years' term of office as governor of Georgia will probably end his career as a holder of official station. A Little limicerous nowadays. Philadelphia Times. Tho Stalwarts seem to ho running things in Lancaster county iu tho good old- fashioned boss way, just as if thoro had been no earthquake in Pennsylvania with in the last year or two. Stealing tax re ceipts, and for that matter anything else that was lying around looso, has been considered good evidence of supreme fit ness for a front seat in tho boss synagogue heretofore, aud it would seem that the news of tho conviction of soveral of the leading lights of Philadelphia boss politics for offenses of a similar nature hasn't penetrated that old-fashioned quarter. Out of pure regard for tho welfare of tho bosses tho Times takes great pleasure i n notifying tho benighted Stalwarts of far ed Lancaster that snob things aro con sidered, a little dangerous nowadays. Men have actuxlly been sent to the penitentiary and aro now serving out their sentences for similar offenses, and there is no telling what oven a Lancaster jury might do if some naughty Democrat or Independent should havo the bad taste to insist that the thing was a crimo and ought to bo punished. Vail of Thrco Dwelling Houses. Shortly after 10 o'elork, Monday night, the houses Nos. 430, 433 and 440 North Eighth street, Philadelphia, the fronts of which nad been torn out, and which wcie turned into stores, fell with a tremendous crash. Tho occupants of two of tho houses, tho third being vacant, were caught iu the ruins aud all hurt, though as known not seriously, with the exception of Mrs. Margaret Finney, of 438. Sho was very badly injured, and was taken to the Pennsylvania hospital. Tho accident caused great excitement in tho neighbor hood it being feared for a timo that a number of persons had been killed. Hail as Ilkras Hen's Krs. Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa, wero visited yesterday afternoon by tremendous hail storms. The hail stones in Rock Island are described as "in many instances being as largo as pullet eggs." At Davenport "some of the stones were irregular iu shape and eight inches around by half an inch in thickness." East of Davenport the storm was of wind and rain, and did damage in tho county esti mated at $40,000. Three houses were blown down and a woman was killed, two others being hoverely injured. A Woman Hnrned to Heath. Tho dress of Annie Rvan, a waiter in the diniugroomof tho Witherhill house, at Plattsburg, N. Y., caught fire in the pastry xoom. With her clothes blazing, she ran into the office whero the flames were extinguished by tho proprietor and I guests. She was fatally burued. A CAMXAISSi DOCJK. The Circular by Which the Desperate Itosse are .endeavoring to Influence the Votes of Ifensloner. The following is a copy of a circular that has been sent out to every pensioner in the state. Whenee it emanates is not known. The so-called Pensioners' Leaguo " has never been heard 6T before, and tho identity of tLo alleged secretary is similarly be clouded. Tho card bears the ear-mark of the Stalwart bosses, aud is a characteristic last-ditch dodge. It is a stupid attempt to mislead voters, aud will not influence tho action of a single individual who has ordinary sense and judgment. We pub lish the address as a unique literary production, and as a sample of the sort of reading with which the Stalwarts are flood ing tho state : Hkadquauters I Pensioners' League, ) Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 7, 1882. The board of directors of the Pension ers' League met iu grand session and adopted tho following resolutions : 1st. Iiesolced, That in General Beaver, as a candidate for governor of Pennsylva nia, we recognize a true frieud of tho pen sioner, being a pensioner himself, which fact alone should make us sco our own in terest and laying aside all party lines, work for his election. We should not lose sight of tho fact that our interests can only be preserved by supporting the friend of the soldier. That the regular Republicau ticket is tho only safe guard to our interests in this cam paign. Wo would ask what tho Independents have dono for us as pensioners'.' Not a single act have they dono in Congiess, or out of Congress that should bring them a single voto from our ranks ; and therefore we call upon every pensioner and applicant for pension, aud all friends of the pension er, to rally and work with lie.'it and main for tho election of General Heaver. 2nd. Iiesolced, That wo should not loso sight of the fact that the Democratic party, north and south, is uuited as before the war ; and whilst there may be some Northern Democrats well disposed toward the soldier, remember that the Southern Democrats are in tho majority aud over ruling any good intentions that the minor ity may havo toward-tho soldier therefore, taking these few facts into consideration we should readily see that it is to our in terests to vote aud work for tho election of tho whole Republican ticket. 3rd. Jlcsolved, that we uso our utmost endeavors to bring out our friends at the election on the second Tuesday of Novem ber, in support of tho Republican con giessional candidates. 4th. Iiesolced, That we also give our hearty support to tho candidates in our ssnatorial districts, as theso men will hold over iu office and havo a voice iu selecting a United States senator in 188 1. 5th. Iiesolced, That these resolutions besentbymail to two or more members of our league in every voting district in the state of Pennsylvania. By order of tho executivo committee. John A. Walters, Secretary. THK UK.1IUUUA.T1C AlAM MHKTINC. The itereptlou To-Night to the Uemorratlc Candidate tor Governor. The Democracy of tho city and county will to night have the pleasure of behold ing their candidate for governor, Robert E. Pattison, whoso name and famo as the honest controller of Philadelphia made his recent jonn.oy through the stato one series of ovations. The reception that will be tendered him to-night at the bands of the local Democracy will no doubt com pare favorably with tho enthusiastic out pourings of tho masses that have every where grcotcd him. His manly conduct while guarding tho finances of Philadel phia, tho vain efforts of his political enemies since his nomination to soil bis spotloss character and the clear cut, logical acumen of his deliverances on his his brief journey through tho state, havo created a paidonablo curiosity among the thinking men of all parties to see and hear him whom the ringstcrs of Philadelphia feared and respected. Not only will the Democratic guberna torial candidate address this evening's mass meeting, but theie will bo also in at tendance Philadelphia's young senator, James Gay Gordon, Charles W. Carrigan, esq., of the Philadelphia bar, who has grown old in Democratic campaign ser vice, and W. U. Hensel, esq., state chair man. Tho distinguished party will arrive on tho 7:10 train from Philadelphia, and will bo met at the depot by tho committee of reception of tho Young Men's club and escorted to the barouche iu waiting. Tho escort will then bo formed on Chestnut stieet in the following order: City Baud. Col. Fordney and Staff. Young Men's Club. Can iages containing Robert E. Pattison, Speakers and others. Tho Ward Delegations iu Their Order. Citizens. Tho lino of march will bo down North Quoen to East King, thenco to the court house, where open order will bo formed by the staff and Young Men's club, per mitting tne distinguished guests to enter ' tho court houso at tho hoad of tho line. It must uot bo forgotten that tho scats to the left of the bar, usually occupied by , petit jurors, havo been reserved for ladies : and their escorts. Hunted Vonrn. Some months ago a man named Kline was given $50 by M. C. Ziegler to pay Shindle & Ilershey, tobacco dealers, a bill which Mr. Zieglor owed them. Kline did not pay the bill, but absconded with tho money. Ho was known to be a United States pensioner, aud tho authorities here notified tho pension oflico at Washington to send on Kline's address as soon as ho should apply for his pension. Information has been obtained that Kline is in New Jersey and an officer has been scut on to arrest him. lUrtlutay l'arty. On Saturday Mr. John F. Ilcinitsh at tained his majority aud tho event was eel ehrated by a family reunion. On Monday evening Mr. Heinitsh entertained twenty two of bis young friends at the family res idence, No. 42 South Princo street. Dur ing tho supper Mr. John A. Coyle, on be half of tho guests, presented Mr. Heinitsh with a beautiful gold-headed ebony cano. The festivities were kept up till a late hour. Horse and tfuggy Taken tip. Yesterday morning a good black mare weighing about 1,000 pounds,attacbcd to a buggy made by Jbdgcrly iv Co., of this city, was picked up near Bird-in-IIaud. Tho hitching strap was hanging loose, and it is thought tho mare got loose and ran off. She was taken to the stables of L. R. Rhoadn, at the Bird-in-Hand hotel, where the owner can get his team. m OBITUARY. Heath of Henry Livingston. Henry Livingston, aged about SO years, who resided near the Gap. Salisbury town, ship, died last night of old age. The de ceased was a bachelor, and was well known iu his neighborhood as an upright, honest citizen. He has resided for over 50 years on the farm whore he died. He and his brother lived together at tho time of his death. Ho was an uncle of Judge John I. Livingston. hale of Keal Kntatc. Allan A. tlerr & Co., real estate and in surance agents, sold yesterday at private sale, for Mrs. Susan Crumbaugb, the two story brick dwelling Nos. 14 and 1G, South Prince street, to B. J. McGrann, for 80,500. THE T0BAC00 TKADE. SOUK CKUPS THAT AKK I IIE.HANM. An -Active Local Slarket The 'MO and 'HI Crupa Eat-Hy Sought Altar Sw York and I'hlladelphla Transactions. Tho last week has shown consider able lifo in tobacco circles, and while sales are not really great, there is enough doing to show that when goods can bo bought at fair figures and are of good quality there are buyers anxiously waiting for them. Especially is this true of 'SO goods, tho siojk of which is we believe not nearly as largo in this conntry as some buyers would like to make holders of it bohevo. A considera ble quantity of it has bcon sold during tho past four weeks ; (more than has been re ported.) Most of that sold, it is said, has been sold at fair prices. From the trans actions in '81 of this week, our pre dictions as to its future aro being verified, and when its qualities become known to manufacturers it will bo taken ; for never has there been a crop packed iu this county of which tho drawn samples show better. The only trouble with it is that of fine goods there is not a largo stock, as tho crop of '81 was not a largo one. Buyers aro very auxious to buy out tho short goods of the '80 crop, and pack ers say that they can sell them at fair prices, for it is a well kuown fact th it they were of excellent quality much bt ter than short goods usually are. Among the sales of '80 we have learned of 250 eases sold by Martin A; Fritz of Bart to a New York firm, on private terms, but tho price is said to havo been satisfactory to both buyer and seller. Thero havo beon soveral smaller sales of that crop. In '81 wo notice the iuIh of ;00 cases to a California puty by Dan Mayer. From what we know oi' this sale, it must havo been at good figures, ;u it is a well known fact that Dau had tho goods. Saner & Co. have sold 'MS cosjs U A Sliultz, New York. Tho total salesof the week will foot up over 1,000 cases, which, taken iu connec tion with tho sales for several weeks past, make somewhat of a hole in the stoek of the county. nans' Report. Sales of seed leaf tobacco reported by J. S.Gans' Sou & Co., tobacco brokcis. No. 131 Water street. Now York, for tho week ending October 550, 1882 : COO cases 1881 Pennsylvania, Oj ($ii Jc; GOO cases 1880 Pennsylvania, lU()15e ; 300 cases 1881 New England, 12l():K)i; 200 cases 1881 Wisconsin Havana i'(2ij; 87 cases 1880 Ohio, p. t.; 100 cases 1881, Stato p. t. Total. 1,887 cases. The Ner York Alaricor. T. S. Tobacco Journal. A light business wa done this wek. The loading feature wart a sale of over ."IH1 cases of '81 Pennsylvania by an up town oigar manufacturing firm, who are aN packing tobacco, to a California cigar manufacturer. Enemies of tho '81 Penn sylvania crop hold that tho tobacco was sold low, as the sellers are now using largo quantities of Sumatra. This theory is spoiled by the fact that mora than ,2 ceuts was paid for the stock by the pur chasers This is a figure which under tlm present state of antipathy to the '81 Penn sylvania, must bo considered a high om-. Thero is no doubt that tho '81 Pennsylva nia must betaken hold of by thetrado soon. State and Wisconsin are mostly out of first hands. Connecticut is not an article that tho trade at large invents in. It commands and will-command profitable figures for holders. Thero is nothing but I'cnusylvauia left for the inanuractureis. At high figures Sumatra beats it ; at lower ones, say from 15 to 2!) cents for good and fine, an open market will exist. The sales of the wcck were as follows : Crop '.HI. Pennsylvania G50 cases ; common, 10 to 12 ; liuo, 22. Wisconsin 400 cases ; low, 10 to 1". ; extra lino, 2". Connecticut 20J rasas, mo.stly win; pors at 27 to 32. Ohio 100 cases, 7j Crop '8l Pennsylvania 500 cases, 10 to 15. Ohio 125 cases, 0. Havana Active. Tlio reports of tho disaster in Cuba aro more serious than first anticipated, and iu consequence the market is exceedingly stiff on old as well as new goods. Sales 700 bales. Sumatra Moderately activo. Prices being high, a check to oxteusivo transac tions has been given. Sales 150 bales. Aveiago price, $1.20 ; bighost $1.40. l'hiiadelphia Market. Seed Leaf. 1831 cigar leaf is now be ginning to move, especially medium grade. Fine wrappers as yet find out. few takers ; prices appear too high. Old leaf con tinues to command regular sale in moder ate lots. Prices generally hold steady. Havana. Moving with tho same agree able satisfaction as heretofore,, with prices paid very satisfactory. Receipts for the week 281 cases Con necticut, 303 canes Pennsylvania, 40 cases Ohio, 80 cases Wisconsin, 70 cases Voik state seed, 130 bales Havana, 280 hhils Virginia and Western leaf tobacco. Sales' have been 280 cases Connecticut. 391 cases Pennsylvania, 52 cases Ohio, 02 cases Wisconsin, 30 cases York etate seed, 92 bales Havana, and 33 hhds Virginia and Western leaf in transit direct to man nfacturers. Exported of leaf tobacco to West Indies, 3,219 lbs. ' Hallowe'en. - To-night will bo Hallowe'en aud tho small boy has no doubt long ere this uro vided himself with the historic cabbago head and the pocketful of corn wherewith ho will astonish the unwary property owners. His more mature brothers anil sisters will engage iu candy pulling ami diving for apples, which latter occupation is considered moro amusing thau exhilar ating. It is a timo when good fellowship 6hould nile the hour and is a fitting pre lude to the feast of All Saints which it nshors in. All Saints Hay. To morrow will bo All Saints Day iu the Catholic, Episcopal and Lutheran churches, a festival which honors tho memory of tho angels aud saints", who ha vs passed tbo period of probation, and are in the enjoyment of eternal happiness. Tho feast is an ancient one, but was not adopted in both Eastern and Western churches until tho 9th century. In St. Mary's Catholic church tho masses will ho at 7 and 9 a. m., and the vesper services at 3 p. m. . Cruelty to as mats. Grant Phillips hired a team from tho livery stable of James R. Swayne and when bo brought it back the horse was completely played out and tho buggy badly broken. Air. Swayne mado com plaint against Phillips of cruelty to animals and malicious mischief, and tho accused was held for a hearing before A! detman Uarr. Committed for Court. Louis Morris, who is charged with steal, ing a lot of articles from the house of Jobu Hauser, on Dorwart street, had-a hearing to-day before Alderman McCono my and was committed in default of hlft for court. in Town. Rev. Pater Ignatius Sagcrer, the founder af St. Joseph's hospital this city, bat who hxs been absent fur some months, returned to Lancaster last evening. He speaks hopefully of the hospital and be lieves it will soon bo put upon its feet again.
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