tetfs&&!tt&s&&a&aaw LANCASTER DAILY raiiSLUttfcNCJSK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1882. Uducaster Sntelligencer. TT7E3DA-J B7KNINQ NOV. 21,HE8a, Wat It ShewfY. The Philadelphia Press does not make uracil headway in ils undertaking to show that the present depression in "the iron and steel industries is due to the Democratic suocess in the election?, ''resident Coit, of the Reading iron company, whose jndgment is as good as that of any man in the iron business,' says that over-production is the cause of1 the depression in the iron manufacture, and that it would have come much sooner but for the stoppage of the Pitts burgh mills. He saw it coming months ago and so did other shrewd observers. Mr. Allison, treasurer of the Allen town rolling mill company, gives alike opin ion. It is one so patent on the surface of things that it is not possible to con trovert it. The result of course will be a reduc tion of production. The price of labor and raw materials will fall and manu factories that cannot make their product as cheaply as others in the business will go out of operation until an increased demand comes that will put up prices high enough to enable them to go to work again. How long this stel de pression will last is the interesting ques tion. The iron trade has many such ups and downs, and for the last few years has had them in every year. It may be that there will be a recovery before the win ter closes, while some persons think that we will be on the down grade. fora num ber of years. It is not probable, how ever, that we have yet reached the long descent that is certainly held in the womb of the future. We are likely to pitch up and down for sime time yet before reckless discounting of the future wrecks us entirely. The good times are not over yet by any means. Hut those very good tinws that tho Bessemer steel rail manufacturers have had are over for all time to come. They will never again be able to get twice the cost of their product. It was manilest long ago that the time would soon come when they could get but a fair profit on 'their manufacture ; and it was only the dishonesty and stupidity of railroad managers that gave them the great har vest they had. Old railroads, Hush with money, ordered rails immediately when they might have waited a couple of years and got them at their own price. New railroads, organized to make their con struction companies rich, needed rails at once to make their jobs successful. This was the hay-making time of the stel rail mills, and they improved it. They can alfnrd to take a rest fora while. But they do noi need to do it while they can get forty dollars a ton for their rails. There is a good profit on the manufac ture at that, and probably at a consider ably lower figure. The representative of the Edgar Thomson steel works, who is reported elsewhere, is careful not to deny that steel rails can bo made at forty-two dollars a ton ; a quasi-adrais sion that warrants the suspicion that a considerably lower figure would not stop a manufactory so favorably situated and with so good a plant as the TSdgar Thom3on,and these were the rails that were selling a year or so ago at ovei sixty dollars, when their cost was no greater than now. It is clear enough that the steel rail manufacture does not. require a duty of twet?ty-even dollars a ton for its production. The Court and Corporations A bare majority of the supreme court judges have decided the case of the state against tho Standard oil company ir. favor of the company. It is notable that cases in which corporations are par ties are apt to result in the decision of the law of Pennsylvania in favor of the corporations by a majority of our su preme court. Among the four judges making tho present decision Judge Sharswood is the only one whose judg ment will have great weight with the people; while the three dissenting judges, Sterrett, Truukey and Gordom have been in the habit of taking a view of the relations between the people and corporations that is in accord with the spirit of the day and one that is certain eventually to be vindicated in the court. The Democratic member of the supreme court, just elected, may be relied upon-to be in sympathy with this spirit, which has placed him on the bench ; and in future we have a good assurance that in the adjudication of suits between the state and the corporations that are the stale's creatures the interests of the peo ple will not suffer. There is no need to follow critically the argument of Judge Paxsonin deciding the case of the Standard oil company. It does not apply to the case. It may be a very good argument upon the facts as they are arranged to suit it. But it does not cover the issue between the state and the Standard oil company That corporatien has an immense capital upon which it has reaped immense pro fits; and nearly all of these profits have been essentially made in Pennsylvania, out of the unfairest possible manipula tion of' a Pennsylvania product. The Derations of the company outside this state have not yielded it its enormous winnings ; we can not call them earn ings, audit may not lc legally correct to call them stealings ; and yet it has been by a worse practice than highway rob bery that they have been'gained. Justice to the people would require the confis cation of all the Standard oil company's property in the state and the imprison ment for life of the men who have gath ered it; and we cannot even get the tax that the state levies on a corpora tion of its creation. Major Ryan, of the fencibles, whose escort to tho inauguration the governor elect declined, seems to be a little net tled at it, and writes a letter to show that on all the occasions upon which his troops danced attendance upon governors and presidents, elect and inaugurated, they paid their own way. We under stand Mr. Pattison to assert nothing to the contrary. What he objects to is the pageantry and display on the simple oc casion of a citizen taking the oath of civil office. And he is right. - Ryan should subside. Concerning campaign Cash. 3 The VhUelySi&Evtning, Telegraph makes a gooi point .when it speaks of, theirresDonilbilitv iitaelied to the finan cial maaageient tjrtolu?caKiampaignf and the duty of those who fie entrusted with such funds to demand ah audit of their accounts. Obviouslv there is no occasion for such a public 'audit as the ' day evening by Alexander L.Parruh. It 1V7 .. 7 .,(X inem,,i, ..c i.n seems that the two men farmed conjointly, Telegraph suggest:?, insomuch as the mtaicll jen. a bani from -Pafrbdx in amnngeinent of political campaigns is a j wuich to 8tore jj3 cropg Parrieh sub private matter, and many contributors i sequently nailed up this barn and detained to the fund have a- naturaband .eaUreiy proper aversion to having their subscrip tions made nublic. Moreover, nominees of a party who are elected to office shouldl not know the extent of their obliga tions to such contributors, lest their of fieial action be suspected of being con trolled by8iichroonsidenition3.' Burtliat the chairman of a state committee should collect and disburse funds with out any accountability, is an anomaly, and it might subject such an officer to suspicions from which an honest man would be glad to , be relieved. Hereto fore there has been no proper authority provided for such an audit, and in Dem ocratic state campaigns it has been the rule for the chairman to retire a consid erable loser, no one but himself caring to know how much, and he being hope less of retrieving hislo33es. In the future re-organization of the party, under the new rules, provision for such an audit will be made. As to the Democratic campaign just closed, out of which the committee came with no deficits, we are authorized to say that the chairman is perfectly willing to have his accounts scrutinized either by an audit ap pointed by the new committee or by a committee of the voluntary contributors who raised the funds. For there were no contributions of which the committee is ashamed, aud they were applied to no uses for which those who gave them have any occasion to blush. A Fit Appointment. It is a matter of common rumor that the governor elect has tendered the sec retaryship of state to Malcolm Hay, of Pittsburgh, and that Mr. Hay holds his acceptance of the place under consider ation, awaiting the formation of Mr. Pattison 's cabinet, and the communica tion of the other names to him, as would obviously be the proper thing for him to do. Whether Mr. Hay accepts the place reported to have been tendered him or not, the governor elect has shown a nice sense of the fitness of things in conferring this appointment. Not only was it a graceful and propsr thing to thus recog nize tho foremost friend, on the floor of tho convention, of Mr. Pattison's lead ing opponent for the gubernatorial noni ination, but, what Li much more to the purpose, Mr. Hay is eminently qualified for the place, and if such consider ations are to weigh he richly merits, distinction in lm party. But Mr. Hay's appointment also indi cates a grade of administrative council lors which must be maintained by equal ly fit selections. It is nl too much to assert that the best men in the f.tate for the other places, within Mr. Pattison's appointment would not elevate the stand ard of popular expectations raised by Mr. Kay's nomination. He is entirely tit for the higher post of attorney gener eial, and he will not be expected to make the personal and professional sacrifice involved in his acceptance of the secre taryship except to become an effective part of an administiation of which all the elrments would as fully satisfy the popular demand as his own appoint ment. The Warren county authorities have not returned to the state department the vote polled there for the Democratic can didate for congress-at-hirge. That does not alter the case. Elliott got them. He is entitled to have them counted for. him. His total vote in the state is "&J, 8j, and not 3ol,0i3 as leported from Harrisburg. According to the present out-look the Republicans may muster 103 out of 401 votes in the next electoral college. They may beat the Grecnbackers and Prohibi tionists. It is said that the commnuity most dis consolate over Mr. Pattison's election is that made up of the inmates or the eastern penitentiary. Davy Mouat, unmindful of what cold days these ara for 30G-ers. is, nevertheless, striving for a pardon. The returns as far as made up show that the next Nebraska House of Representa tives will consist or 45 straight Republi cans, 28 Anli-MonopolistB, 18 Democrats, and 9 doubtful. In the Senate are 17 straight Republicans, 7 Democrats, C Anti Monopolists and S doubtful. ubiiuu mo campaign air urosius in formed his Independent friends that he was in full sympathy with them "in the speedy application of tho best practicable remedy for existing abuses in the civil ser vice as well as in all political manage ment." Sinco tho campaign is ended Mr. Brosius can 'afford to be more definite. Horr Smith is waiting to hear upon what issue his ccxt contest is to bo waged. A NusiHEn of important federal appoint ments were slated several months ago by Cameron, and doforred only from consid. crations of expediency until after the elec tion. These appointments will compel Cameron to show bis band at an early day and it is not doubted by his friends that he will wield Arthur's patronage more vin dictively now than ever before. A. Wilson Norris is expected to craw a prize in Phil adelphia and Maj, John M. Pomeroy in Cbambersburg. Bishop Tuigg, of litigious notoriety. Tt .... At . seems to nave come out ahead in bis en. counter with Father Sheehan, the recalci trant Allegheny county priest. Father Skuehan, after a disagreement with his bishop, not receiving his salary, brought suit to recover over $3,000 of it, alleging that a contract had been' made with him by the bishop. The lower court decided in hs favor, but in the supreme court Judgo PaxBon haB just hold that there was no suoh contract as would sustain the action, and therefore reversed thojudg. xnent. CBIMINAL CALENDAR : . r ! i-. A. MAM KILLED FOR AXUAP OF CORN Tfcfe Bratml Miritct of s Feor Pragr Bow a Physician IVas 1'ald Some other Tragic Happening. Andrew J. Mitchell was brutally mur dered in Goochland county, Va., last Fri- ! MitoheU's crop or corn for an alleged debt of 140, Mitchell, who is -poor, being in actual need of food for his family, hired a team to get bis corn from the barn to market. Upon arriving at tho barn the driver of tho team was warned by Parrish who said he would shoot him as readily as he would Mitchell. Soon afterward Mitch ell came up, and as he reached the door of tho barn Parrish walked up from behind and without warning, shot Mitchell in the back with a shot gun, inflicting wounds from which he died in a few moments. Much excitement prevails in tbo neighbor, hood at the unprovoked crime. A Pnysletsn bliot and Kltleit. Dr. Henry Willis Basse tt. a prominent physician of Huntsville, Fla., aud for several summers resident physioian at Blount Springs. Alabama, was shot and killed by Levi Esslinger, a farmer. The trouble crew nut of an account between the two for Bassett's professional ser vices. In the quarrel Bassetr, who had been drinking, threatened to cut Esslin ger'c throat, at the same time running his hand into his pocket. Esslinger immedi ately drew a pistol and fired, tho ball passing through Bassett's left side. Ess linger made no attempt to escape and was arrested. Hnrrtered Ills Friend For Love. Claud Lester, an Englishman, aged SO years, who formerly worked in the neigh borhood of Niagara Falls, but who has been in the United States for a year, re turned on Monday, went to the hon.so of bis former employer, a man named Smith, called Smith's son, aged 10, out, shot him and immediately afterward shot himself through the head. Both will probably die. They were good friends and no motive can be assigned for the deed. Lester claims that be was impelled by love for the boy and a desire to bo always with him. Doable Tragedy In New York. Guiseppa Pellets, aged &yeais, of Bax ter street, New York, instantly killed his cousin, Francesca Ro'ooscia, a married woman with whom he had been criminally intimate, and then shot himself in the head, inflicting a fatal wound. The mo tive for tho double tragedy is wrapped in mystery. An Editor Sued fur LiUal. William M. Derr, editor of the Lebanon County Independent, a weekly paper, lias been arrested and held under $5,000 bail to answer the chargn of libel preferred against him by Joseph Funk, who was recently a candidate for tho office of asso ciate law judge. A Fount; Snitch Tender Killed. John D. Kerns, aged 15 yoais, switch tender on the West Shore railr.'.ad at Cornwall landing, Now York, was run over by a construction train on Sunday morning aud killed. Another Sane Man Conliuod. Captain Martin Luther Smith, another alleged lunatic, who has been confined on Ward's Island, New York, ha?, been de clared sane by three physician1; who ex amined him in conrt. TSJAT MIRACULOUS CUItiS. Mr. IlnfiTiiian Ann .Something to Say to a Fiilthlc $3 and Prversn ueneralion. Gossip continues concerning the mi raculous faith cure of Richard Huffman, who for years was crippled in such a manner that he was compelled to crawl upon his knees with tho aid of crutches and for a year past was nnabie to get about except in a wagon. The follown g letter was received by the Daily llcvi ter, in Washington, Pa :' " Bsntletsville, Pa., November 20. In noticing the account of my restora tion I seo many misrepresentations. As ths people are too faithless to bolieve that the days of miracles are with us they aro likely to err. I correct some of tho mis takes mado by yon, who are too much surprised. Oh, ye faithles" ut:il preverse generation. One has it 'almost mira cle.' It is altogether a miracle. Christ never does a half-way job of this kind. But what seems to me so strange is that you editors are so faithless and pieverse that you publish this : That I arose and walked, to my great surprise. Ha ! ha ! Why should I be surprised, who had faith to expect tho blessing to come ? for I was expecting it. It is the faithless (and pel verse people who aro wonderfully sur prised. I oeg of you to correct this in your next issue and let it not appear so wonderfully wrong before ministers, law yers and doctors more than this, before your God, oh ye of little faith. " Richard Huffman." STANDAKi Oil, TAX. Tho Corporation Sot Liable for Tax nn Its Stock. The litigation between the common wealth of Pennsylvania and tho Standard oil company was terminated Monday by the supreme court reversing the judgment obtained against tho latter for corporation taxes and penalties. The suit was begun over a year ago at the instance of the state treasurer and the auditor general claiming83,145,541.64tobodue. The oil company appealed from the assessment to the commou pleas of Dauphin couuty, where tho case was argued before Judges Simonton and McPherson. The govern ment there abandoned its original claim but maintained that the state was entitled to $790,042,20. Tho judges after consid ering the argument, rendered a decision in favor of the government for taxes duo amounting to $ji,bui. This sum was swelled by interest, penalties and attorney general's commissions to $33,277,5!). From the decision of tho lower court giving judgment for this sum, both tho common wealth and the oil company appealed to the supremo court. The former, upon the ground that all of their amended claim was due, and tho latter, that tbey were not liable for interest on penalties, no suf ficient demand having been made upon them. The opinion of the supremo court was written by Justice Paxson and favors the Standard oil company upon both ap peal?. Judges Gordon, Trunkey and Ster rett dissent. HOW TME.T "SJSTTLKl) IT' A ICctoree Soundly ThraMied for a lioslslon inuFootitace. Considerable excitement has been occa sioned among the sporting clement in Pittsburgh over tho result of a ten-mile foot race, which took place last Saturday between Ted Johnston, of Alleghony, and Mike Pbelan, of Wheeliug. The raca was for $500 a side and was won by Johnston, bat Pbelan, who camo in about a quarter of a mile behind, claimed a foul, and Eph Morris, ex-champion oarsman of the United Slates, who was refairo nrim! to reserve bis decision until Monday after noon . The parties mot in an alderman's office to hear tho decision, which Morris gave in favor of Pbelan. Tho friends of Johnston turned on Morris, and after locking tho doors set upon bin; and pun ished him veiy severely. Severe! pistols were drawn, but were not used, anil final ly, after police assistance had been called the assaulting parly withdrew. Morris was pretty badly used up, but it- is thought his injuries aie not of a dangerous character. Large sums of money were put upon the race and a great deal of bad blood has been engendered at tho result. PBB8UNA1. - GCVEBSOn-ELECT CLEVELAND Of New York has resigned his mayoralty of Buf falo. Ex-Govfjisoh Joel PAiuaaPbt Now Jersey, is dangerously ill at his homo in Freehold. Rey. Hentiy Wai;i Bkecheu has finally won his case in the Wilkinson breach-of-cou tract procacdiugs. Henry James, jr., is somewhat lightly referred to by the London World'ss of tha "tepid, invertebrate, ca5taiu's.b:cait " sort. Sesatok Becu is known anywhere within fifty miles of his cslobrated blue grass farm in Kentucky as "Jim Beck, "a man whose splendid hospitality is famous. John Rcssei.t. YorcG will soou return from China. It is averred that the climate does not agree with his wife and that the mission is not entirely agreeable to Mr. Young. Longfellow's study remains just as he left it. Not a book nor a piece of furni turo has been moved. The poet's gravo at Mount Auburn, as yet, is only marked by the flower-wreaths daily plaoed upon it by loving hands. Bhave Beau, the Indian murderer, who was hanged in Montana the other day, went to the scaffold in black trousers and a linen duster. The full dress suit will to longer be fashionable on such occasions. Brave Bear will bo remembered as a re former. PnoFESson Hnsitv Dnii'Eii, the astron omer, died in Now York yesterday. He was born in Virginia in 1837. He was professor of physioloy in the University of the city of New York, but devoted a great deal of his time to astronomy, hav ing built tho Draper telcsoope, tho largest in the United States. Ho wa3 the sou of John William Drapsr, tha chemist and physiologist. Dr. II. L. Getz, of the class of 1874, Jefferson medical college, has been elected to tho choir of physiology in tho College of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago. Dr. G. is an old Lancaster county boy,sou of Levi Getz. He is at present a practicing phy sician and surgeon in Mat shall ton, Iowa, whenco ho has been called to Chicago by the distinction conferred upon him by tbo medical institution named. WHAT IKON MBS SAY. The UenrcMlon Not Duo to 1'olltleal Causes. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Press, collecting the views of iron men on the present depression reports that H. W. Allison, treasurer of the Allentowu roll ing mill company, said : Tho result of the election has, in my opinion, nothing to do with tbo dullness and present de pression in tho iron trade. Over produc tion, in shorS, is the caaso of the trouble. Had it not been for tho susponsion of manufacturing at Pittsburgh during the summer, the tailing off of orders and tho reduction in prices would havo been felt very much earlier in tho year." President Coit, of tho Readiug icon company, stated that tho present troubles have no political significance whatever. ''We foies iw the present condition of affairs early last summer, and since then wo havo been preparing for it. Had not tho great iron strikes occurred in Pittsburgh and throughout Ohio, Chicago and Milwaukee, the present difficulty would have occurred long ago. The truth is, there is an over production of iron in tho country, and prices have dropped so very Ijw tiiat the trade hai actually been unrerannerative for roaie time." A rcpre cntativo of the Egdir Thorn son BU'rt works being interviewed paid that " to outlook is certainly very blue. Prices arc very low, and, really, they are no orders at any price. Since the first of tho month our output has bnan reduced to two-thirds of onr capacity, and it is tlri same at tho Cambria works.'' " But do yon think thetc ii a possibility of a shut down ?"' "You may depend upon it that we will not bo among the first, to shut down. Time will he others to do this bfora we do. It is n question of tho survival of the fittest, or rather the fattest." " Tho fattest pockotbook, you mean ?" " Yes, tho most, nvjaey, and tha more others shut down the better it will be for us. ' " Havo ion ?:' you s'jM as !ir,y as 12 per " N," interrupted another gentleman in the office, vo have never gone below " Could you s?ll ar. &and keep yonr works in operation '.'' w. asked of' ths gentleman mentioned. ' That deperrlu, ' was the answer. " If wo could gee cofco down, and oro down, and wages down, hut, thou, as I havo said, it depends. But you cau surni'so as well as wo can." THK F1CIIUKA.UMK lKTEUKUrTfSU. flow a "Sacred Concert." was Stopped in a Now JSnslaud Town. Tho court room in New Haven, Conn., was crowded Monday morning. The ar lested sacred concert singers, 3Ianager Peck, of the opera House, and tho manager of the company were tried for a violation of the statute of 1874, which provides that "every person who shall bj present ai any concert of music, dancing or other public diversiou on Sunday, or ou the evening thereof, shall be fined $4." Tho grand opera house was crowded Sunday evening. Fully 2,000 people were there aud others had to be turned away. Tho singers had warbled down on the programme to "Talk about your Moses" or a little further per haps down to "A Great Day," whon De tectives Reilly and Brcner arrested two of the male singers and Managers Peck aud Dwiuncll. Clark Peck, Ageut Scales and Manager Dwiuuell were each fined $20 and costs. They appealed to tho supremo court. The perlormers Richard W. Marks and William P. Forbes wore dis charged. MSIGUBOICIIOOD NKWS. Lato Event Acroti the County Linen. The average salarios to be paid men ou tho Beading Active baseball nioo for 18S3 is $100 per month. Prof. R. 31. McNcal, principal of tho Wiconisco, Dauphin couuty, high schools has been appointed superintendent of tho public schools of Dauphiu county, which position was mado vacant by tho death of Prof. LaRoss. Tho Pennsylvania stool company at Baldwin paid $121,200 among 2,700 em ployees Saturday. Stcelton has an artesian well GS0 feet dcop and still going down. William D. Alexander, Oxford, Chrstor county, expects to. obtain about G,000 heads of cabbage from his largo patch. He shipped 4,000 fine heads to Reading last week, to be converted into sour krout. Over in York Michael Schrum was charged with profauity and was flnod for four oaths amounting to $3.08 with costs of prosecution. Tho United States government build ings whioh havo been in course of erection sinco 1873 in Harrisburg aro almost com pleted. Tho teachers' iustitute of Lebanon county assembled Monday to remain in session nearly all week. 225 teachers am expected. Dr. Higbeo is ameng i!.o speakers, nelen Potter will leet.i ili-s Watson, of the Lebanon const-rv i ..- oi music, will furnish music. Lloderkrans Concert. The Lancaster Liederkranz will give the first of their winter series of concerts and sociables on weunt-sday evening of next week, Thanksgiving eve, in Schiller hall. A full programme has been prepared. P0MTICALvP0INTS.v ACCqCMISB FOR OAMVAlO IU.1U , y ft -J Where the PnXR1eUne'Mony r,uH-Oirr-nor Fattloit's Characteristic Good Seoce. Phliad'a Evening Telegraph, 1ml. i:e. One of the reforms which must not bo overlooked in this era of political regene ration is that effecting the financial re sponsibility of campaign managers. The supposed deficiency in the accounts of the New York Stalwart committee is a strik ing illustration of the prevailing loose methods. Large amounts of money are paid into the unseen treasuries of jaarty management, but the distribution is some thing very few individuals know anything about. Think of it. The aggregate ex penditure by state committees every year is something enormous, and this is greatly added to quadrennially by the national committees. What becomes of this money, amounting, in a few years, to mil lions of dollars? Who gets it? Is it all spent legitimately? What becomes of the unexpended balances ? There is no reason why thceo questions, and all kin dred one?, should not be openly answered. If managers, who have doue nothing they wish to conceal, nothing they aro ashamed of, or are afraid to have known, would de mand a public auditing of their accounts, tho sheep would not only soon bo separa ted from the goats, but tha " crooked" manipulator of fund?, "-agents;" and voters would be driven from the field. There is a fine ohar.co here for some ambi tious state chairman with clean hands to lead in a long ntcdul reform and make himself " solid " with all friends of re form. JSO fLSS AXU FKATHKIM. ' Nor Ildyonetd Itarrins the l'ooplo'a Way. Philadelphia Inquirer, Rep. Governor elect Patsison long ago con vinced bis fellow-citizens that he had cer tain very decided convictions, and also the courage of them. Uu has again shown tho manliness aud independence of his character iu his letter to the adjutant and secretary of the state fencibles, a mili tary organization, the officers of which teudered him the services of tho battalion as an escort from his home to the capital, on tho occasion of his inauguration as governor of Pennsylvania. Very courte ously, but very decidedly, Mr. "Pattison declines this proposed honor, basing his declination upon the ground that simple and undemonstrative inauguration of pub lic offices is most in accord with the spirit of republican 'institutions When General Garfield was inaugurated the soldiers were every where, and even senators and representatives wero kept out of tho capitol by presented bayonets in the hands of jogular soldiers, who had no business there. Member after member as ho mado his way into the Scnato or House, protested against tho prosenca of armed troops in the capitol, and demand ed to know by whose orders the people's representatives were kept out, of it. Thero should he a reform iu this matter, and tho next president inaugurated should ba1 permitted to tako tho oath without tho tawdry raree-show and the presence of armed soldiers surrounding 'the capitol. Sir. Pattison has set an example of re publican wisdom which should be follow ed closely by prospective prsidents and governors. Xotivu to the " Kays." Philadelphia Ledger, Xnd. Governor-elect Pattison's public acts thus far appear like notices served on ' 'the boys" that tho r coaoraical principles of n.'inuni.stnuiori that have prevailed in tbo routrollev's office are to be continued " on the hill" at Harriibarg. Ho hai started out right, and, if ho holds to it through out his four years o administration, will havo tho governor's chair (since he will be ineligible for reelection) with as good a record as ttsat ho has won while in the servico oi tbo city. There are few raon of his age with a bettor past, or a more promising future before them. Liken HI Idea. Pittsburgh Leader, Kep. We like Pattison's idea. Thera i no reason why a Pennsylvania govornor should go into office with the fuss and parado of a king going ta his coronation, aud tbo bills for inauguration expenses vo been steadily growing into a ereat ?c?ndal for the past twenty years. Whoa Hoyt went iu the bills amounted to many thousands of dollars which the Logistaturu after much haggliug agreed to pay. CONDITION OF THE LOCAL TKADK. ltctter Times Anticipated WliOn tlio Tax Shall be Removed a Feir jKrcent Sales Keported. At List t! c buying of '82 has fairly com menced. During the last week there has been a considerable amount taken, and most of it at privato figures. Enough is known to assure our readers that tho prices havo been good. We know positively of a lot of four acres in Dm more, at 22, 11, 8 and 4 cents. i:i tho same township, aud in Fulton thero havo becu several large lots sold. Mr. Siricklor, of Washington borough, is reported to hive sold 12 acres at 20 cents through ; Tobias Hershoy,4 acres at 23 cents through, and M'v-ral others have sold their crops at from 10 to 20 through. As yet comparatively little of the '82 crop has becu stripped, and it is not likely that there will ba auy general move ment of it until after tho holidays. Then, if Congress shall show a disposition to abolish tho tax on tobacco, we may look for such a revival of trade as has not been seen for ycais. Iu tho old tob.icco, especially tbo 'SO crop, there have becu numerous sales, aud as tbo quantity iu market grows smaller tho quality is said to be a great deal bet ter than it has ever been credited with being. Tho quality of the fine wrappers in it aro excellent, whilst the fillers are said to bo among tho liest ever raised in the couuty. Thero would be no difficulty in making sales of '81 if packors would break packings to sell out certain grades, but as thoy will not do this, sales aro slow, but in all probability their day will soou bo here, for, in the estimation of packers, they uover put up a better crop, l'hltadelputa Seed Leat market. Handliug of cigar leaf tho past week has boeu tardy aud unsatisfactory, and confined to the crop of 1881, which is now claimed excellent in color and quality. Theso remarks aro intended especially for Pennsylvania leaf. Dealers hold prices firm, while manufacturers claim prices asked' too high for manufacturing, pur poses. Old leaf is being sold gradually at full figuaes, whilu Havana soed of various grades seems to receive the first call from buyers generally. Sales of Sumatra in creasing. A Havana Moving steadily at full prices. Cnaplstu McCaue'8 Lecturo To-iuslit. Chaplain C. C. McCabe, IX D., is to deliver his now famous lectuie, " The Bright Side of LifeinLibby Prison,"-at the Duke streH M. E. church this oven ingat7:T -'clock. One who has heard him uys Jh- uhaplain is a humorist;; ho is .in .it -.to- ; ho is a forcible and pleasing speaker, tr-tving the power to carry his bearers from uproarious laughter into tea rs of sy n pa thy and sorrow. Lady Pedeatrteaa Ou Sunday last two young ladies one of whom resides in this city and the otherm Elizabethtown walked froaa Eli2abeth- i. T.on4atar a, diataaoe of 22 miles. uinu - - - -- --.. Thov commenced their tramp at -nine . . 3 , - J. Vlli. at- K n 'tti O'CIOCK a. m. auu um w.w ... ,". "" They say they could Jiavo walked ten miles farther without being fatigued. I COLUMBIA SEWS. From Oar Hegaur Correspondent. The borough assessors aro now at work. Mr. ElmertGiasuaere, of Philadelphia, "is visiting friends here. MissSue Blake, of Washington, D. C. is the guest of friends on L'jcust street. -Mr. George Schroederisa;a!n in Colum bia." He has been at the office ot the Keely stave works iu Spring City for some timo past. This evening a large surprise party from this place will go to Marietta. There has been more sociability between the people of these two places this wiuter, than has been,tUo case for soma years. Keep it up. - ' . ." a Sliui Market. , There-wa a small attendance at market to-day, aud as a natural consequence busi ness amongst the merchants was rather dull. Columbia is again laboring under one oi its pano-lisal dsill spell, now long-it whTooutinno is' a very hard quas tion to answer. Thrown From a llnsgy. A runaway accident on Union street, this morning, resulted iu a severely cut head to the occupant of the vehicle, a young man named Farrel and residing near Mt. Joy. He was thrown from the buggy against a hitching post. The horse was stopped a short distance from the scene of the accident. The Fair. It is to be hoped (hat tho pooplo of Col umbia are not losing interest iu the Grand Armory fair. The attendance last even ing wan not very large. Tho articles chanced off were a blue bad coverlet, to Miss Lillio Evans ; a silk tidy to Miss Annie Fendrich, and a lambraquin to Mr. Andrew Musser. Although so many things were sold on Saturday night, plenty still remain. The York Jubller. A canal boat will carry the Wrightsville delegation to York to-morrow at 13 ra., to enable them to participate iu tho Demo cratic jub'ilee of the evening. It will start from Budding's wharf. Tickets can be had at the post office, provided they are not held back like some other little Demo cratic papers during the last presidential campaign. The boat wilstop atjHellam on the way to York. Taxes for the trip can bo paid on the boat, if they are not exempted. The Merry War." A small but very appreciative audience greeted. the appearance of J. II. Haverly's opera company ra the " Merry war,- last ovening. It was a good performance aud warranted a better house. The costum ing was superb. Nothing finer has ever been seen in tho opera house. "Nick of tho Woods" will doubtless draw a largo audienca to-night to the opera house. Columbians seem to b'J partial to such plays. A band of Indians accompany tho troupo aud appear in the play. The prices of admission are as usual. Urand Knoampment, I. O. O. F. Tho Grand Encampment of the Iudo pendent Order of Odd Follows of Pennsyl vania met in semi-annual sessiou yester day afternoon, at the Odd Fellows' hall, Sixth and Cresson streets, Philadelphia, with Grand Patriarch John W. Stokes in tho chair. The 'following officers were nominated, to be voted for several months bunco : Grand patriarch, Joseph E. Mc Cabe, of West Bridgewatcr, Beaver county ; grand high priest, Heury W. Bailey, Philadelphia; grand senior warden, Alfred Fackenhall. of Doylestown : graud scribe, James B. Nicholson, Philadelphia ; grand treasurer, John b. ileiss ; graud junior warden, Wni. A. Withcrup and Dr. S. Hastings Brown ; grand representative, F M. Rae, M. Richards Muclcle j'repre roseatative to r.lm i'i!'- association. C. W. Tyndall. Officers Klected. St. Michael's C. B. U. of this city, on November 20 elected officers for the ensuing year as follows .- President Wm. J. YTidinycr. Vice President John A. Bradel. Secretary Oscar E. Krleg. Treasurer John Frit6ch. Standing or Finance Committee Wm. Shultz, A. Dusel, Louis Long. Andrew Heidig, Joseph Neimer, John Connelan, Andrew Kray, Edward Haas. Janitor Wm. Weber. Tho society, accompanied by tha City band, serenaded Chas. Zecb. proprietor of the Girard house and a member of tho society and John Fritscb, treasurer of the society. ALMOST CUf.K THt: VAKb. A Careless Driver Naved by the Wisdom oi Hie Mules. This morning as a countryman, whose name was not ascertained, was driving a six-mule team at 3Iellinger's crossing, on the Quarry ville railroad, ho mado a narrow escape from being crushed beneath an ap proaching train of cars. His mulesweie on the track when the train was seen to approach, only a few rods off. The driver plied the whip in hopes of being able to clear the tiack before the cars reached him, but tbo mules, wiser that he, turned quietly around and got off the track just as tho train came whizzing past them. "Across tho Continent" at tho Opera House. Oliver Doud Byron, with his " dramatic cyclone." entitled "Across the Continent" played to a good sized audience in Fultou opera nouso last evening, inis particu lar "cyclone" consisted of sensational probabilities and improbabilities incident to a border play, in which gunpowder and knives and Indians are urougnt out ra generous profusion. Mr. Byron and Miss Kate Byron were all that couId.be expected iu their roles, and the audieuce, lenient iu their judgment, gave unstinted applause to each telling feature of the play. Sent to Jnll. Louis Coulman, a young scapegrace, who has frequently boon in bauds of the police was arrested by Railroad Officer Kautz this'morning. Coulman has pre sisted in visiting the waiting room in tho Pennsylvania railroad depot, and spending the night thore, sometimes sleeping on the settees and sometimes ou the floor. Jvj peated waruiugs and ejectments having failed to scare him off. so ho was at last ar rested aud taken before Alderman Mc Conomy, by whom ho was committed to the county jail for ten days. 1IOK3K AND BDGOY STOLEN. Lloerat Reward Offered for Their Kecovcry. On Monday evening, Nov. 20th. thieves visited the premises of Daviu B. Graham, in Paradise township, ami stota therefrom a gray mare about nine years old, a Ches tecfiefd buggy and plain set of black har ness. As will be seen by tho advertise ment in another column Mr. Graham offers a reward of 850 for the recovery of the property and the conviction of tho thief or thieves. Vnaaliable Letters. The writers of letters addressed to ''Mr. Richard Joseph, Interior Department, Washington, D. C." and " Miss Katie Fritz,;Button Department of Strawbridge & Clothier, Philadephia, Pa.," neglected to put postazo stamps ou them, and they aro detained at the postofiice. Ilrank anil Disorderly. Aldermen Spurrier this morning com mitted George Atlee and Mary Weise, for, thirty days each, for drunken and disorderly conduct. . Withdrawn. The mill property, belonging to E. M. Staufler, in Drumore township, which was offered at publio sale on the 20th inst. was witnarawn at ?v,wi, NOVEMBER SESSIONS 1 TUi: WHEELS OF JUvriCK IN -MOTION. The jtegular Term oi Criminal Court The Koervoir Rapo Casv uu Trial Monday ofUrnoon Commonwealth va. Frank Kilcbrist, rape. The defendant was charged with having committed the crime upon the person of Lizzie McClar- rcn, at ine city reservoir grounds, on tbo r.iiiui of July 20th last. The girl was called and she testified that at the timo Of the commission of tUU act she was between 17 and 18. years of age. Oa that night she met Kilchrist and tTacker" Tamanyat tho reservoir ground; they stripped her of her elothing, taking oil" her shoes also ; Kilchrist then threw' her down, and while Tammy held her bauds and icet the former committed the act. Wm. 3Inuroe aud Wai. Mullen ware also present aud they and Ta'mauy also outraged Iter ; they held their bauds over her mouth when sho cried " murder ;' they 8.1-pi her there uutil 3 o'clock iu the moiiiin- whon thoy all then kit ; she was very wotk and started for home leaving her bhoej and put of her clothing behind ; previous to the c3iumiasiou of tho crime Kilchrist poured whisky down her throat while Tainany held her ; thoy , threat ened to kill witness while giving dicr tho whisky ; during the night a young man named Wagner also eame aud committed the $ame act as the others. CroM-Uzainlnstlon. On cross examination the witness said she stole away from homo ou tho evening of this affair at 5 o'clock ; she went to the Pennsylvania depot and saw Kilchrist. Mullen and Muuroe ; Munroe walked away with her, and Mullen afterward walked with her to St. Josoph'tt hospital, and afterwards she weut to tho reservoir grounds with Mullen and Muuioe ; thero she met Kilchrist aud Tamany, who had tho whisky ; when they undressed her she was under the; influence of lquor-bat she tried to keep her' clothing on ; on tho night beforo this affair the witness mado au engagement with Munroe to go to tho reset voir on this uight ; be said he wanted to show her tho water works ; io did not kuow his intention ; when Ftho crowd left her, Mullen said, " Now. you can lay thcio and die." Thomas Daily testified that ho saw the girl pass tbo Pennsylvania depot ou this night. Mullen said ho was going to tako her out aud asked witucss to go along but he refused ; witness saw Kilchrist after wards aud he admitted having been crim inally intimate with tbo gW ; he also said that Wagner was as bad as tho others, and that he (Kilchrist) tand T.imauy got tho whisky. Sirs. McClarrou tho mother of the gkl testified to tho bloody condition of tho bed clothing where the gn 1 slept. Tho morn ing bhu was covered with mud, blood, &c. She was inabadconditiou aud said that whisky had been poured into her and sho was hurt ; on Monday she first told moro particularly about the affair. The girl's father also tostiuud to her couditiou when she came homo upon tkat morning ; she afterwards told htm or Monday that she had Viau outraged. Dis. it. M. Boleuius and Oliver Roland were called and testified' to the girl's con dition when she was taken to tho county insane asylum. She was very violent, threatening to kill herself and o thors. Her physical coudition showed the results of oxcesnivo intercourse. Having St. Vitns dance, and iu consequence weak minded, sho would, in the opinion of the doctors, be easily iufiuenced. At tho hospital tho girl told a straight story of the crime com nutted tu her. Kvlnence oi the fttUcc Officer Daily testified that Kilchrist told bihi if they would gel Mullen he would " squeal," and if tho court would be easy with him (Kilchrist) he would " squeal." Chief of Police Dicchicr corroborated Daily aud also testified that they did not arrest Kilchrist for two weeks after thit affair ami then only with great trouble. The .: m:i mou wealth here closed. The Defease Wni. .Monroe, who is also charged with this offence, was tho first witness. He testified that on this night he met Mullen aud the girl at Duke and Chestnut street ; tbey aski-d him to go along; they walked out Orange street to Plum, then to Grant street and to the reservoir ; witness turn ed to go back and tbo girl caught him by t!ie sleeves and asked him to go along as tbey wcte goiug to have a picnic : witness laid his h ind on the reservoir fence ami tho iirl caught him asd pushed him towatd the uati ; Mullen bad gone iu ; tho girl asked where the whisky was i-ho had sent for; Tamany aud Kilchriot were theto then and the latter drew a small battle of whisky from his pocket ; Mnllen t"ok it. aud then the girl took it from him ; he told all to turn their backs while she drank ; she tnen told witness, Tamany and Mullen to go away ; she was with Kilchrist and she took off some of her clothing ulJ then laid down puUing Kil christ with her ; Mullen afterwards went over to the girl ; witness did uothing and soon went home ; Wagaer came after wards but witness did not see him do any thing ; no force was uei with the girl and she did not resist. - Tuesday morning. In. the cxe oi com'th vs Frauk Kilchrist the defence called Edward Wagner, who is also accused of this offctiM'. lie testified that ho and Mullen wont out to the reservoir on this night about 1'2 o'clock, but did not seo Kilchrist, hut saw Munroa ; did uoi say to Thomas McCIarren, a brother of the girl, that what ho saw tho parties do to the girl was a horrible affair, aud that had sho been his sister he would havo killed them ; hut did say that it was horrible and told Mullen that they ought to take her borne. Wm. Munroe was re-called aud he denied baviug told auyone that a mark on bis cheek was mado by Lizzie McCIarren biting him. It having beeu testified that Lizzie Mc CJarreu bad several times boon au intaato of tho "House of the Good Shepherd" in Philadelphia, Il?v. A F. Kaul testified that it wai a reformatory institution. 31 r 3. M.try Monroe testified that alter 1 this affair the girt's fathor told her. to ask Uis daughter woero tUe hail Oeeu job Sat urday nhiht; sho told witness she had beeu to St. Joseph's hospital, tho rolling mill aud the reservoir; this was on Sunday morning ; sho was drinking vinegar and said she had been drinking liquor ; the girl had been around all afternoon and did not complain that anything had been done to her ; tho parents of tho girl told wituess that they had sent her to tho " House of tbo Good Shepherd " becausy she btayed out lato at night. ' ' ' Mrs. Catherine llowacter testified that she saw tbo uirl running over tho commons on the Monday after this allair ; she told witness that she heard Tamany wai in Pittsburgh, and that if sho had the money she would go to him. Mrs. Hiram Daily tcsiilied that tin giil told her that she pitied tins young meu who were arrest e i for tbia offense, as she did not think it was lightthat tbey should be locked up : if mio could sua would co away wliere her father could not get her. Joseph Murphy tesrllied that the girl's father said to him if be would swear to certain things in this &io he would have a friend in tho rolling mill as long as he Jived ; lie also sid if his daughter would not swear sh had been rn ished he would cut the h;de ulf her. Several witusjos tetfiticd that the? saw Lizzie McClamn iu the neighborhood of the Duku street bridge on the uibtof tha alleged outrage ; she told Ihc.in that her father had abused her aud chased her away frern home. -' U Jnmes Kilcbriat,a brother of the accused,
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