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LANCASTER BATLY INTELLIGENCES, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9. 1882.
ILamastet Jntelltgencet.
SATURDAY EVENING DEC. 9. 1882,
A Spasm or Virtue.
The United States Senate is employ
ing itself with a discussion of the mat
ter of political assessments. Senator
Beck wants a committee to investigate
the assessments levied upon the govern,
mens clerks, and Senator Hale wanted
to include in the inquiry the campaign
contributions made by everybody. Mr.
Beck ascribes part of his anxiety for the
inquiry into the oppression of the clerks
to the fact that the president recom
mends the passage of a law for their re
lief. It may be doubted whether Mr.
Beck is greatly influenced by Mr. Ar
thur's recommendation. He has suffi
cient inspiration to action in his own
conviction of the evil for which he seeks
a remedy. He admits that its passage
by a Democratic Congress in 187G has
been ineffective to suppress the wrong
it was aimed at. He wants to try again.
Mr. Hale agrees with him that the evil
is a great one and should be remedied.
He seems to believe that no one thinks
otherwise ; and thus, although Mr. Hale
himself has had the credit of a different
conviction, based upon a speech made
by him in the Senate a year ago, in
which he failed to record the deep harm
of political assessments that filled his
soul.
No doubt they must, be a bad thing
as the partisans of both parties now
agree in denouncing them. Possibly this
unanimity springs from the fact that
there is no present need of them, the
election being over. Perhaps the Dem
ocrats are opposed to them because they
can't levy them and the Republicans
because they have no reason to. We are
rather skeptical as to the honesty of the
conviction expressed on both sides that
politicaLcontributious invited from po
litical officeholders are an unmixed evil
and should be abated forthwith. We
remember that Senator Marcy was the
author of what has been since received
as a political axiom, that to the victors
belong the spoils. We understand that
elections have come to be costly things
and that a great deal of money
may be legitimately expended in a can
vas. It seems clear to our comprehen
sion that the officeholders who profit by
the success of their party are proper per
sons to be invited to pay its necessary
cost : on the plain principle that
those should pay the piper who enjoy
the dance. And it seems that any such
party beneficiary who receives his profit
without being willing to contribute his
share of its cost is a proper person to be
invited into the economical paths of
private life.
That these apparently obvious proposi
tions at present seem to be so far from
obvious to the congressional understand
ing as to be unanimously ignored by all
shades of political opinion there repre
sented at the present time, may be re
garded as somewhat surprising ; but it
only demonstates how far our unsophis
ticated rural comprehension is apart
from the exalted congressional standard.
No doubt Congress, having passed a
law which it finds ineffective, f-hould
tinker it if it thinks it can mend it.
We are truly sorry that it has been
forced to the conclusion that its effort
thus far has been ineffective. It could
only be so through the united lawless
ness of those in power ; chief among
whom is that president who so ardently
desires the law to be amended, according
to Senator Beck ; no doubt that he can
find himself so stoutly bound hand and
foot by its provisions that he cannot
breakaway from obedience to them. It is
seemingly clear but we speak diffident
ly, in view of our evident failure to com
pass the full length and breadth of this
question that the president could pre
vent any assessment upon a government
employee and could forbid his removal
for non-payment of any sought to be laid
upon him. It is commonly supposed to
be the president's prerogative to appoint
and remove our public functionaries.
And it is also supposed to be his
duty to carry out the laws Therefore,
when Congress enacts that political as
sessments shall not be made, and the
president sajs they shall not be levied,
it seems that they should be effectually
stopped, and that there is not the slight
est reason for the president or Senator
Beck bothering to demand additional
legislation to patch up a defective law.
On the other hand, however "frozen
facts" seem to upset this conclusion ;
for, as Senator Bayard said, Senator
William Mahone was conspicuous
in the late convass in exercising
the political guillotine upon all the
Virginia federal officers, who failed to
keep time to the music of his baud.
And the guillotine worked to perfection
under William Mahone's behest. He
had but to order, and the obnoxious
heads fell; and this while not he, but
Chester Arthur, was president.
This is evidently a bad state of affairs.
Even if the law of Congress against po
litical assessments may be of doubtful
wisdom, there is no doubt that it should
be observed by good citizens, and espec
ially by good senators and virtuous pres
idents. Under the circumstances it
seems that Congress is wasting its time
in debating the amendment of this law.
The only remedy is to get a president
who not only does not profess to believe
that the spoils of political victories be
long to the successful party, but who
does not really believe it and who has
the backbone to sustain his word with
his act.
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The Ged Time Coming.
The Philadelphia Press is distressed
at what it affects to believe is the cold
reception by the Pennsylvania Demo
cratic press and party of the suggestion
that " the Democratic candidates for
speaker of the next House of Represen
tatives hold a caucus to determine how
many of the present offices can be
abolished." The suggestion was not
that they " hold" such a caucus, but
that they call one. And there is no such
Kftk of approval of this suggestion as
the Press represents. We fear that it
has been groping through the grave
yards so exclusively of late that it has I
neglected to notice the very general ap-j
proval by the Democratic party ami its
journals of all suggestions in favor of
"economy and reform " as the policy of
Democratic administiation. Upon this
live topic the press of the party and those
ambitious to receive its official favors are
fully awake. To be sure, and as is right,
there will be some variance as to the
best means of accomplishing the reforms
upon which all are agreed, and whether
the necessary caucus to consider them
shall be called in exactly the way that
has been suggested, or in some other, is
not material to the issue.
It is enough to know that every one
of the candidates for speaker, to whom
this suggestion has been made by the
Intelligences publicly and privately
declares himself to be in favor of the
ends sought to be reached. Messrs.
Faunce, Sbarpe, Ziegler, Jenkius,Amer
man, Hasson, McCrum and Walker arc
all understood to be not only in favor of
a prompt dispatch of legislative business,
an honest and impartial apportionment
of committees, a policy of retrenchment
and reform, a lopping off of all sinecures
and supernumerary hangers-on to the
House, but in their canvass for speaker
they are opposed to trades and huckster
ing upon other offices and with candi
dates for them.
For a party in control of one branch
of the Assembly to have reached this
point is a great step forward. The
Press may content itself with the assur
ance that in good time the abuses to be
eradicated at Harrisburg will be specific
ally pointed out, the sinecures to be
abolished will be duly designated, effec
tive means will ba found to convene a
Democratic caucus to consider them,aud
vigorous measures will be adopted to
abate them.
There seems to bo a general protest en
the part of the New York clergy against
the proposed representation by a dramatic
company of the sorrows of Gethsemanc
and the agonies of Calvary. Eminent di
vines of all dmoniinatious regard with
horror the threatened "Passion Play."
Nothing funnier has been reported in
recent news than the fire at a vegetable
soup factory iu Orleans county, N. Y.,
which was extinguished by promptly pour
ing on 1,000 gallons of cider from a tank
that was near at hand. In this cold snap
that was a cheerful kind of coaflagiation.
As might have been expected some of
the famous historical paintings in tho ro.
tunda of the capitol at Washington havo
been injured by the Iato fair held there.
Fortunately the harm can bo repaired.and
it will not have been suflered in vain if it
prove- adequate warning against the ill
taste and gross impropriety of desecrating
that building with such shows.
The divided skirts and tho hygienic pet
ticoat having proved hopeless failures, and
tho Woman's dress reform association ol
London will offer prizes this winter for a
design intended to do away with the in
conveniences of the present styles, with
out making too marked a departure from
" tho distinguished characteristics of
femalo attire." The problem is behoved
to bo a difficult ono to solve.
At last and after a romantic course of
legislation the government gets the legacy
of $950,000 devised to it by tho late Joseph
L. Lewis, and it will ba felt in the next
monthly reduction of tho federal debt.
The incident of a private individual making
such a bequest to the government has no
parallel iu this country, and the interest
attaching to it is enhanced by tho curious
efforts ot conspirators to steal it by trump
ing up a bogus widow of tho deceased.
There has been promptly reported to
Congress a bill providing for two cent let
ter postage. Tho present rate was estab
lished under Filmore's administration and
the time has certainly como for a further
reduction. Ten letters arc now sent to
one of that day, aud the postal burden has
become au immense consideration in busi.
ness transactions. Three cents per half
ounce and in a large proportion of cases
for a quarter ounce is very far iu excess
of the ordinary freight and express
charges. The government should do bet
ter by its patrons.
The " great American desert " has
long been eliminated from our maps aud
now that iucxhaustiblo springs have been
found by tho government artesian
well diggers, such arid lands as exist iu
our western domaiu may bo artificially irri
gated whenever tho rostrietion of the graz
ing grounds more favorably situated will
warrant tho expense. Large acres of
pasture lands, on which grass grows
though water does not run, cau bo sup
plied with wells for watering stock by
reason of tho success which has attended
tho recent government experiments in this
direction.
Notwithstanding tho action of tho
Ohio Republican board of canvassers in al
lowing tho congressional certificates to
those who were equitably entitled to
them and tho refusal of the board to split
hairs over returns made out differently,
but all intended for the same person, it
seems that in one district the Democratic
candidate, Jonathan H. Wallace, who was
elected by 15 majority, was deprived of
his seat and his certificate was given to
McKinlcy, Republican, becauso 23 votes
intended for Wallace were ballots
which bore irregular ve.sions of his name.
This case may afford tho Democratic
House an opportunity to do equity.
The Philadelphia Pres$ expects, to see
Democratic valor come and go beforo tho
proposed contest of J. W. Bosler for tho
seat in tho Senate to which Capt. S. C.
Wagner, of tho Cumberland and Adams
district, was elected. As Wagner had a
majority of 137, against the most des
perate efforts and lavish expenditures of
the opposition, ho can contemplate with
complacency the exertion of his opponent to
prove affirmatively that many irregular or
unlawful votes cast for Wagner. But
when this shall have been done, if it ever
comos to pass, Bosler's troubles will only
begin. Fortunately these contests are
investigated judicially and abundant op
portunities will be afforded the Democrats
to show where Bosler's money did him tho
most good. Wo have had several of these
election contests in these part?, and the
result has invariably been to increase the
majority of tho elected and contested
Democrat.
SWEPT BY FLAME.
BKAUIOIIU'S KIKKV VISITATION.
A Conflagration 1 hat Con tbo Iowa a Hun
dred TIionand Dollar oteaot Cur
rent Happenings.
Early Friday morning a fire broko out
in tho Emerson block, on tho southeast
corner of Mechanic street and Public
square, iu Bradford- The building was
three stories high, occupied on tho first
floor by .T. G. Habernig, tailor, and Brad
burn fc Co., dealers in wall pajer. Tho
upper stories were devoted to offices and
private rooms. Everythinc in this build
ing was destroyed, rue loss is about sju
000, on which there is an insurance of
$20,000. Tho Bradford house, Park hotel,
Anderson's billiard room, Lindslcy's
" oyster bay," Freeman & Drew, furni
ture dealers ; the Lapierro house and An
drews' saloon on tho south were also de
stroyed before the firemen succeeded in
stopping tho flames in this direction. In
the meantime the tiro had extended alone
Mechanio street, destroying Chatterson's
grocery store, a meat market, a sewing
machino depot, a millinery storo and a
tailor shop. The flames were checked at
Train's livery stable Pompton hall,
across Mechanic street from tho Emerson
block, was on tiro several times, but tho
building was saved. Iho rlorcnco hotel,
on Corridou street, iu tho rear of tho La
pierro house, was also on flro at different
times. Tho hotel was saved from cutiro
destruction only by the greatest exertions.
Tho loss is estimated at between 75,000
and 100,000. There is only ono-third in
suranco on tho ruiuod properties. All of
tho merchants occupying stores from
whoro tho lire was stopped to Congress
street, on tho south sido of HKiin street,
moved out tb h gt'ods and their loss by
dauiagu and pdieiiug i ojumJi tabic. The
water works proved almost a complete
failure and steam engines saved the town
from total destruction. -A touiblo g:ilo
was blowing during the progress of tho
conflagration.
During tho despciato light at tho La-
pierro house, where tho progress of tho
llanics was checked, members of tho
Johnston and United hoso companies were
working with three sections ot hose, when
tho front of the building fell and some
thirty mcu narrowly escaped from being
buried under tho ruins. Two of them,
George Quade aud Pit Casey, were struck
by tho falling debris, but they were not
seriously injured. A lady residing in the
Emerson block, was rescued with great
difficulty, and taken to tho St. James
hotel, lier condition is considered critical.
Thirteen buildings were burned. A
plumber from Buffalo, named Black, was
lying at tho Lapierro in a stupor. He
would havo been burned to death had ho
not been rescued by the firemen.
It is uow said that tho Producers' Pe
troleum exchange tho now organization
have made arrangements to purchase
the Emerson corner, where tho tiro origi
nated, and erect thereon a handsome and
substantial brick building. Many of tho
owners of tho buildings burned being out
of town it is impossible to obtain an accu
rate list of insurance. Owing to tho lack
cf water, the bitter cold weather, and the
inflammable character of the buildings it
was thought at one time that the whole
southeast portion of tho city was doomed
and hundreds of families and business
firms bundled their household goods and
merchandise into tho streets and paid as
high as forty dollars per load to have
them hauled to places of safety. Several
of these burned out are already talking of
rebuilding as soon as tho weather will
permit.
t'ircs :it Oilier l'laces.
Henry Waterman's large cheese factory,
near Elgin, 111., was burned on Thursday,
loss $10,000.
D. G. Tutt & Co., wholesale grocers at
St. Louis, were partially burned out Fri
day. Loss, $10,000.
The keg and box factory of C. W. Gray
& Co., at Chattanooga, Teun , was burned
Friday. Loss, $0,000.
Tho steam barge Josaphino was burned
Thursday night at Havcrstraw, N. Y.,
with 100 cords of wood. Lois, $20,000.
The upper story of F. B. Torroy's brass
foundry, at Bath, Me., was damaged by
lire Thursday. Loss, $10,000.
Tho dwelling of General Schuyler Ham
ilton, on tho Merrick road, two miles from
Jamaica, L. I., was destroyed by fire on
Thursday, and most of tho furniture.
Loss, $10,000.
A lire at Barkersville, N. Y., on Thurs
day night destroyed tho store and post
office kept by Nicholas Shaul, and the
woodenware works of W. W. Monroe,
together with other buildings. Loss, $10,
000. .
Firo Friday in tho basement of the
four-story brick building No. 83G Broad
way, New York, occupied as a men's
furnishing goods store by Edward A.
Newell caused damage to that block
amounting to $12,000.
A firo occurred on Friday in the Wiley
block, one of the largest business houses
iu Columbia, S. C, which was nearly de
stroyed, with most of the contents of the
stores of C. P. Jacksou & Co , John H.
Wiley & Co., and C. II. Baldwin. Total
loss. $00,000.
Tho paint shop aud car shed of tho
Richmond & Danville railroad company,
on the south side of James river, opposite
Richmond, Va., wcro buined on Friday
night, also ono passenger coach and ex
press car. Tho foundry was also damaged.
The total loss is about $10,000.
A fire occurred on Friday at East Sag
inaw, Mish., at tho works of tho Saginaw
barrel company, destroying the factory,
saw-mill, drillhouse, a largo quantity of
the products of the works and about two
million feet of lumber. The loss will ap
proximate $175,000. Ono hundred and
fifty men are thrown out of employment.
tWty Utrlit Panic Stricken by a Flro.
A fire occurred in tho five story building
Nos. 307 to 311 Canal street, New York.
The four upper stories were occupied by
tho Manhattan suit and cloak compauy,
aud tho ground floor by Whitfield, Powers
& Co., dealers in hosiery. A fireproof
party wall confined tho flames to No, 807.
Fifty girls at work in tho two upper
stories were panic-stricken, and were
saved by great exertions. Tho damage,
which is about $70,000, is divided as fol
lows : The Manhattan suit and cloak
company, $35,000; insured. Whitfiold,
Powers & Co., damage by water, $20,000 ;
insured. Damage to building, $15,000,
also insured.
Flro in n 1'ow.ier Works.
Fire in tho boiler houso of tho powder
works of Hazzard & Co,, near Ashland,
Schuylkill county, spread so rapidly that
the boiler, engine and dry houses wero
burned down before tho fl.imes '.could be
stayed. Tho magazine, containing 800
kegs of powder, narrowly escaped. Tho
loss iu about $1,500.
Pews Miscellany.
Tho 2-yoar-oid daughter of Mr. Robert
Jayne, of Crabmeadow, L. I., was choked
to death by swallowing a 2 cent piece,
Rev. D. L. Boddio whilo lcmovicg from
bis late residence, eight miles cast of Vi
enna, La., on Thursday fell from a loaded
wagon and was killed, the wagon passing
over his neck.
Homespun won the dash of 1 J miles on
Friday, at Charleston, S. C, in 2:20, with
Bonnie Kate second ; Jim Nelson won the
mile heats race in 1:49 j, 1:53, the first
heat falling to Constantma in 1:51 L and
Colonel Sprague wou the dash of 1 J miles
in 2H)4L with Fair Count second.
In the Sturla case at Chicago tho prose,
tion introduced rebutting testimony, in
cluding that of Dr. Jewell, who declared
that Miss Sturla was medically insane,
but legally sane and responsible for the
murder of Stiles.
G. Scott Hughes, of Baltimore, was ar-'
rested at Oxford, Mich., on Thursday, by
a detective from Baltimore, on a charge of
forgery. Hughes, left Baltimore last July.
He had married since his arrival in Mich
igan, and was living in comfortable style
at Oxford.
Lynch Law in Lonlalana.
On Wednesday night the jail doors at
Bastrop, La., were broken down by a de
termined body of indignant men, and two
prisoners, Tom Robinson and Bill Cephas,
were taken out and hanged. Public opin
ion is in sympathy with the lynchers, no
desire to find them out being manifested.
Last Saturday a negro named Wesley
Andrews endeavored to murder a white
man named McDowell, three miles from
Bastrop. The negro had been captured,
and reports aro that Judge Lynch settled
hiscaso. Indulgent juries have aroused
tho people, who aro determined that out
rageous crimes shall not go unpunished.
Robinson and Cephas wero tho negroes
who shot young Curry in the Gum
swamp, in Morehouse parish. Curry is
still alive.
Kvery Fasaenoor on a Train Injured.
Tho passenger train which loft Macon
for Montgomery, Ala., ran off the track
ono milo cast of Georgetown, near Eufau
la. Tho main train was thrown ono hun
dred yards from tho track down an em
bankment. Every person on tho train,
except tho cngino crew, wero moro or
loss severely injured. Mail Agent
Wiley Harris' Express Messenger F. M.
Foles and Train Hand Nathan Williams,
wero badly hurt. Tho iuj urod passengers
wore sent to a hotel at Georgetown, and
modical aid was procured.
Five Men Killed in a Collision.
A passenger traiu and a freight train on
tho Chesapeake aud Ohio railroad collided
at Stretchers' Neck tunnel, near Hinton,
West Virginia, on Thursday evening.
Both trains wero wrecked. Henry Aucar
xow, tho engineer, aud Patrick Gcehan,
tho fireman of tho freight train, and Wm.
Cooper, tho firoman of tho passenger train
wero instantly killed. B. R. Thompson,
conductor, John Madden, engineer, and
tbe conductor ot tuo sleeping car, anu an
unknown nowsboy wero fatally injured.
Several othors wero injured loss seriously.
Frozon to Death.
David Knox, a highly respected citizen
of Florence, near Pittsburgh, aged 50, was
terribly fnjzen Thursday night. Ho started
to walk from Burgettstown to his home, a
distanco of five miles, and early next
morning was fount? lying in the road ono
milo from his destination, apparently dead.
Both his logs were frozen to tho knees,
and his arms wero frozen above the
elbows. At noon he died.
Fall from a Fire Escape.
J. E. O. Snliivau, of Hopkinton, Mass.,
whilo testing his newly-invented fire escape
at tho Central Hotel Providence R. I., in
the presence of 1000 persons, lost his hold
on the rope and fell from the fourth story
of tho hotel, receiving probable fatal in
jures. PERSONAL..
Maksiial MacMauon is seriously ill.
Butlbr's official majority for governor
of Massachusetts is 11,014.
LonKE and Louiso havo started from
Victoria, B. C, for San Francisco.
General Sidney Burbaxk, United
States army, retired, diod on Thursday
night at Newport, Ky., aged 74 years.
Oliver Wendell IIoLUEa,jR.,has been
appointed by Governor Long, of Massa
chusetts, to be justice of the supremo
court iu place of judge Lord, resigned.
Mr. Henry Teneyck WniTE, tho hu
morist of tho Chicago Tribune, was mar
ried yesterday to Miss Fanny Driscoil, the
poetess of Wisconsin.
Prof. Swixo, of Chicago, thinks that
John Calvin was a failure. It is a pity
the public cannot have tho benefit of Cal
vin's opinion of Swing.
Mrs. Langtry authorizes a statement
that no breach cxist3 between herself and
Mrs. Laboucbere, rumors to the contrary
notwithstanding.
Major Elwood Grist gives notice
that " wo aro not now, havo not been re
cently, nor do wo proposo to bo in tho
future, a candidate for any office either by
election or appointment."
Miss Vickie Barnes, of Evorett, Bed
ford county, becamo tho botrothed of
Albort R. Wcavcrliug, of tho same place,
and when it was found she was about to
dio she becamo a bride only fivo hours bo
foro she was a corpse.
Governor Hoyt, Hon. Jeremiah S.
Black, Worthy Past Lecturer Whitehead,
Prol. S. B. Hcigcs, Col. V. E. Piollot aud
other eminent persons havo been invited
to talk to tho Grangers at their winter
meeting in Harrisburg next Tuesday.
TnE Prince ok Naples, heir of the
king of Italy, sustained such a shock when
the attempt was made, in his presence, on
his father's life, that he was threatened
with a norvous trembling, which, in was
feared, would turn to palsy. Ho has only
lately got entirely over it.
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, United StateB
minister to Spain, arrived home last eve
ning accompanied by his wife, both in ex
cellent health. Although there was no
public demonstration the venerable states
mau received a cordial welcomo from a
large number of neighbors and friends. It
is cold weather for Hannibal's dress
coat.
Nilson will be rapturously welcomed
in San Francisco. $20,000 worth of seats
havo bcon sold, aud upon her arrival little
girls are to strew her pathway with flow
ers to her rooms in the Palace hotel. Tho
Danish consul, tho consul of Sweden aud
Norway aud other distinguished citizens
will go out on the road to moot and wel
como her.
Miss Anna Dickinson, who has been
rusticating in Honesdale, Wayne county,
has accepted an invitation from a number
of tho leading citizens of that town to
give a public reading of her play of "Au
rolian," aud has designated Tuesday, De
cember 12th, as the date of the event
Miss Dickinson tells tho Honesdalers that
she has reason to feel grateful for the
kind treatment she has received in their
" beautiful and hospitable town."
A UEARTL.Es!! MOTHER'S VKI9XK.
Driving Her Nine-Year-Old Daughter, Suff
ering With Small-Fox, Out Into
the Might.
In Baltimore tho residents of the houso
No. 2G2 Hamburg street discovered a
child, named Susan Green, aged nine
years, lying in their yard and suffering
with small-pox. Tho case was at once
reported to the health offico and Inspector
Brown was dispatched to the scene. Upon
entering the yard he encountered a pitia
ble spectacle. Lying prone upon her
back was the little sufferer, nearly naked,
her only covering being a few filthy rags.
Tho ground was frozen hard, while under
and around the child there were several
pools of water, which were covered with
ico. Tho child was benumbed by the in
tense cold and unable to utter a word
when placed in the ambulance and
removed to tbe quarrantine hospital.
Upon inquiry it Was learned that the
neighborhood, upon discovering that tho
child had the small-pox at once sent her
out in the cold to find a shelter wherever
she could and it is thought the child wan
dered about until, benumbed by cold, sho
entered the yard to seek refuge and fear
ing to ask admission to the houso fainted
from exposure. The mother, upon being
told of the case, remarked that she had
"no time to fool with her," that she had a
" place out at service which paid her bet
ter than looking after a child with the
small pox." The case has caused some
excitement in the neighborhood. The
health commissioner will prosecute the J
motuer to tne mil extent ot toe law,
FIVE MEN HANGED.
A F1ELU 1AY FOR THE iSXKuUTlOSEK.
Confessing a Mnrder on tlio Gallows A
Chinaman Says Good-ly and Prom
ises to Return.
Nearly three hundred persons witness
ed tho execution in the jail yard at Perry,
Ga., Friday, of William Porter, a negro,
for tho murder of William Swift, a negro
boy, on Tuesday, October 12. Tho gallows
was erected in tho jail yard. No effort
wa3 mado to obtain a respite. Porter was
resigned to his fato and died easily. On
the day of the murder Swift left Macon on
foot for his homo in tho town Porter
met him on tho road and they traveled on
together for a short distance when Porter
dropped behind. Then, according to his
own confession, ho followed Swift and, at
a moment when tho latter least expected
harm, struck him on tho head with a stone
crushing his skull. When found Swift
was unconscious, but ho recovered suffi
ciently to give the name of his murduicr,
and then dice!.
Tho execution of Charlci Guhlav, alian
Charles Paul, for the murder l Kvo
Thompson iu January hint, wan witnessed
at Donaldeonville, La., by a largo crowd.
Tho condemned spent tho night in prepar
ing for death. Ho slept but. little. lli:i
aged mother leinaiiicd iu the cell all night
with him, and they conversed calmly in
French. Friday moruing Gustuv received
communion, and was accompanied to the
scaffold by a priest. IIo confessed hits
guilt before the rope was adjusted, and
said that he was prepared to die. Tho
dro, H at 1 o'clock, and his death fol
lowed quickly, his neck being broken.
Tho woman quantified with I 'au I, aud on
tho Sunday following, while she, accom
panied by her littlo daughter, was going
to Laudty'a plantation, -aiieie fahe was
employed a-i a eook, Gust-iv met her,
struck her on the faco and attacked her
with a knife.
Edwaid Couyciv, a negi.-, was hanged
in tho jail yaul at Swaiusborc Ga., for
tho murder of another negro. The execu
tiou was private. Several largo cracks in
the jail walls wero boarded up and no one
wituessed the hanging except a minister,
tho officials and tho newspaper repicsjmta
tives. The condemned minuted the
scaffold with a firm step and showed no
signs of weakness as the knot mi tho noose
wa3 arranged under his ear. lie died
with very littlo struggle.
Hong Ah Duck was executed at San
Rafael, Cal. The murderer was au in
mate of tho penitentiary and October,
1880, he stabbed to death a fellow Chinese
convict, Ah Mow. Tho condemned be
haved with tho utmost nonchalance on the
scaffold, bidding those present, good bye,
and promising, in a jocular manner, to
return. His neck was broken by the
fall.
Tho gallows in the jail yard, upon which
Albert Sander?, colored, died, at Charles
town, Mo., was surrounded by a large as
somblage, tho execution being public.
Tho man had murdered Moses Winj
also
colored,
morning ;
Ho took iho
mil died easy.
sacrament
the
Koubcit in tho Street by Daylight.
Another of tho highway robberies which
have become so common in Washington
occurred about three o'clock Friday, after
noon near the corner of Eleventh street
and Massachusetts avenue, in tho heart of
tho city. Tho victim was a young lady
teacher in ono of the public schools. The
assault was made by two young negroes,
ono of whom held tho young lady securely
while tho other robbed her of her shopping
has which contained her money. Roth of
tho thieves escaped.
TBfcSCUODLS RIKI.'.S l'Ali:.
A K'lio Ulh;ilay of
J'retty
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Tho fair being held i:i Miss Gooigic
RuudeH'r, school, Duke and Chestnut
streets, of which mention was made iu
last evening's Intellhjencei:, was well
patronized last evening. Tho display .f
goods is quite attractive. Tables have
been improvised by placing board.", over
tho tops of tho desks, ou the north and
south sides of the room. Rzl. white and
blue tarlcton, tastefully arranged, affords
a suitable ornamentation. The tables on
ono side aro tilled with a great
variety of fancy goods, made by
tho pupils or contributed by their friends,
while on tho other side the tables are
laden with fruits and confections. On the
teacher's platform is the postofiictywLieh 13
a source of amusement to the young folks
and of revenue to tho orgau fund Beside
it stands tho fishpond. Although no
"miraculous draughts" of fishesliave been
taken from it, some very funny specimens
have been hooked. Ono of tin; classrooms
is used as an ice cream saloon, the other
as a lunch room. The fair last night was
opened with a speech by Prof. Buchrle,
and there was excellent music by tho
school under the leadership of Mr. Kevin
ski, tho pieces sung being Upiden and
the Geography Song. Tho fair is being
coutiuued this afternoon and will close
this evening, on which occasion it is sup
posed all the directors will bo present.
Anniversary JJlect!o:..
Tiio annual election of tho programme
for tho anniversaries of the Diagnothian
and Gocthnaus literary societies of Frank
lin and Marshal college, was held this
morning with the following result, :
DIAGNOTHIAN LITERARY SOCIETY' :
Salutatoriau G. A. Swedes, Cumber
land, Md. ; Orators : J. N. Bauman,
Zwingle, la. ; J. Q. Adams, Shamokin,
Pa. ; F. E. Shrodcr, Lancaster, Pa. ; J.
W. Brown, Lancaster, Pa. Eulogist : E.
E. Potterlield, Falling Waters, W. Va. ;
Annivcrsariau : C.D.Moycr, Freeburg, Pa.
GOETHEAN LITERARY SOCIETY :
Salutatorian O. P. Stcckcl. Orators :
C. R. Ncff, Centre Hall : M. W. Maueb,
Hellorstown, Pa. ; G. Ri Mussolman. Sla
tington. Eulosrist : M. H. Mill, Poet :
N. C. Heislcr. Eastou, Pa. Gosthean Ora
tor : G. C. Stahl, McEwcnsville, Pa.
Election or Bible Society Officers.
At tbo annual meeting of the dircoiois
of tho Lancaster City Bible society con
sisting of tho church pastors exofficio
and elected laymen in tho First Reformed
church last evening, tho following wero
elected officers for next year : President.
Rev. C. Reiraensnydcr ; vice presidents,
Rev.Sylvanus Stall, Rev. J. Max Hark ;
treasurer, Mr. S. S. High ; secretary, Mr.
D. C. Haverstick ; corresponding secrc
retary, Hon. D. W. Patterson.
Arrangements wero mado for the anni
versary of the society on Sunday evening,
February 11, 1893, Tho regular meeting
will bo held iu the Presbyterian churclu
and Rsvs. Rcimoasuydcr, Hark aud Ilonpt
were designated as speakers. A meeting
will beheld on the samo evening in the
Moravian church to bo in charge of Revs.
Stall, Robiuson, Mitchell and Frayne.
Preparing tor Christmas.
Our merchants and shop-keepers have
made great preparations for tho Christmas
holidays. Their shelves and counters aro
piled high with Christmas goods, and
inany qf the show windows are filled
with tho most attractive wares and fab
rics suitable for presents. Tho excessively
cold weather of to day and yesterday has
covered the plat.s.glass fronts with frost,
which in s'jtno measure, obscures the
beauty within.
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Keys Found.
A ccntlcman found a bunch of keys on
North Queen street this morning and
handed them to Policeman Shay. A tag
attached bears the name of W. L. Palmer.
The owner can have them by calling at
this office.
Court or Common neci.
BEFORE JUDGE LIVINGSTON.
Joseph Lamer vs. Adam C. Groff. This
was au action to recover $157 alleged to bo
duo tho plaintiff for labor done in the con
struction of au ico houso on tho premises
of tho defendant iu Lampeter township,
and also for hauling ice, leaves, and doiusr
other work. Tho evidence of tho plaintiff
showed that tho parties never had any
settlement, and tho ico business was in
partnership. Tho defense asked for a uou
suit on tho ground that tho suit was
wrongly brought, as it should have been
brought in "account render" and not iu
assumpsit. Tho con it allowed tho non
suit.
KEFORE .IUDGI-: l'ATTEUSON.
The commonwealth of Pennsylvania for
tho usn of John Blank vs. Goorgo Lcutz,
principal aud Charles A. Green aud R. H.
'l'rubaker, sureties, action on a consta
bles bond. The evidcueo for tho plaintiff
Hhowed that in tho year 1SS0 .John lilack
owned a propeity in tho Sixth ward, this
r;ity, which lin leaded to Win N. I'raily ;
who It-It. it owing $12 for tent. Mr. Illack
hinsil liiady hcfiiio Aldeiiiian Wiley.L'sntz,
who wan then countable of the hixth ward,
nerved this MimmoiiM, and 15!.i::s: obtained
judgment. Kziieiiti'iu w;c iii.iauil and
uivcii to Lent, to li-.vy on iJiaoy'n propsity.
This ho Ksfitncd to do an'i Brady roow
moved away fio;n town, iilack lo?.'. bin
money and claim that it : by tiwiu of
thn oilieer'rt iji:gh;;:ii:s. l.-id. i, th: Uii:
lOfUHcd I.O M;IVI) tll; i-S'-KltU'lU 'III Ui:
ground that Brady had no av;ju;;U::tt::U,
and hecaiiKo ho would not levy ;i i.zf.-o.
tion uhcio lb'; defendant l.al v.i "-'1 lu
exemption law ; I.eritx al-.ocmte : : A ui.
Brady had leinoveil from bin ;ul..r.k zwi
although he had nerved this hiir;i .''. ;--.
had no light upjn tho is'iuitig o: an aiii
execution to follow Brady. After ln-ariii;;
ufgumcuf on this paint which warf clearl..'
of Jaw, Ihi. coutt dine; ii.i .- .diet for the
plaintiff, which was taken for $1,000.
amount of bond for the commonwealth and
$!i;.07 la favor of Black
Divorces GranUi.'.
Tho following parties were divoseed :
John 11. Loweiy, of Eail, from Eliza
beth L'lwery ; cause, adultery.
Henry W. Saylor from Cathcrino Sajlor,
of Washington borough ; cause, de.-crtion.
Next Week's Courr.
Next week the adjourned term of No
vember quarter sessions court will bo held
with Judge Livingston on the bench.
Thero are about thirty fivo c.ises on tho
list for trial, among which aro those of
tho young men of this city charged with
ar.ou.
i;ilMMUNICATi:i.
ila It tlio Same Jolly Tar.
Lancaster, Dec. 9, lsSS.
Editors Intelligencer. Will you or
some of your readers please answer a ques
tion or two upon which though "wo aro
merely lookers-on in Venice," wc want to
bo set rijjht :
Is tho Examiner editor, John A. Hies
tand, the samo John A. Hiestand who so
admirably filled tho lato naval offico under
tho Grant reiu, and who used to have
such a holy horror of Bourbons and Cop
perheads, and no p;. inpatliy with the
Democratic party, &e. ?
If so, why is ho now m painfully agi
tated about the Pattisc-n cabinet, and so
extremely solicitous about tho future of
Chairman Ilensel ?
Wo thought both of tho above gentle
men were member of tbe Democratic
party.
A.
1 raid hi fore, wc only ask
an
" OcTsmEi:.''
Criticising tlic (Jrllli-.
Editors Intelligencer : I havo just
read a criticism on Modjeska's ' Adricnno
Lscouvrour " in the Lancaster Examiner
of the -1th inst. Was their dramatic critic
out of town, or why did they allow their
circu-?, r.cg"o minstrel or Buffalo Bill critic
to take hi place ? Why the follow don't
know any moro about genius or talent
than ho does about stage diamonds ! The
artiel" smells of pc-anuts and sido-shows.
W.
New York, Dee. 9, 1882.
TliK IIIIUIOKS.
31ertli;i; tif Hie Ilotmi'opathic Society.
Yesterday at the ofiico of the president,
Dr. Hucbner, of this city, tho Ilouuepathic
medical society of this county held its
regular bi-monthly meeting. The attend
ance was largo and tho discussions were
animated. Following a
vailing acute diseases,
no marked features,
no epidemic.-', the
chronic diseases was
rcsumo ot pro-
which showed
there being
ihseuh'aioa of
entered into.
1 he question yf the uosodes was taken
up and it was shown that since their in
troduction, it lias become more and moro
evident, as has long been maintained by
homoeopathic physicians, that most chronic
complaints are traceable to the suppres
sion of, and at all times bear a eloso rela
tion to, skin diseases. Hence, the use of
external applications was deprecated. A
number of very interesting cacsof chronic
diseases were reported by memheis, alter
which tho society adjourned to meet again
iu January next.
SU:CN DEATil.
An Ol.I jllaii JJles In a Wagon.
Shortly after noon to-day Wm. Devcrter
died very suddenly in a wagon. For six
or savan years past the dcuaascd has been
employed by John P.Schanm,pIumbcr and
gas litter on South Queen street, as a
driver and laborer. When he camo hack
from dinner to day he loaded two copper
kettles on his wagon and started for the
Reading depot in the Stevens house, in
tending to tend them by express. The
team was next soon by several men as it
was coming up over tho platform, bjlon-i-ing
to tho depot on Water street. No
driver could ba seen aud tho hono
was stopped. Mr. Devcrter was fouid
lying on the iloor of the wagon unconsci
ous. Tho wagon was driven to Mr.
fachaum's store, Mr. Dcvciter being care
fully held up by several men. Upon a: -riving
there, Dr. Carpenter was sent for,
and he pronounced the man dead. The
body was then removed to the late resi
dence of tho deceased oa Rockland street,
near Low. His death was probably caused
by apoplexy.
Tho deceased was over CO years of age,
and was twico married, having a large
family of children by both wives. He
leaves a widow and a number of children.
Au inquest will be held on the remains.
"Scenes From Nature Wonderland."
Tho above is tho subject of the second of
tho Y. M. C. A. free cour&e of lecturos for
the winter of 1882-3, and will bo dcliveiei
in the Y. M. C. A. hall on Mondayiivening
next by Mr. Walter P. King. Tho lecturo
will be elegantly illustrated by means of an
Oxy Hydrogen microscope and tho screen,
and will present a number of new and in
teresting views from animal and vegetable
life.
.nklo HpraUicil.
I. B. Iliiiehart, stage carpenter at tho
opera house, while walking around in tho
cellar of the building yesterday 'stumbled
and fell, spraining his ankle. He is scarce
ly able to walk to-day.
Shipment orilone.
Fiss fc Doerr shipped to New York on
Saturday morning from their stables,
twcnty.fivn head ofdraqghfc and driving
horses.
Henry Weill shipped to New York 14
head of big draft horses and some driver?.
COLUMBIA XEW8.
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KKIiLXAS WIKUWI'UMIKm;!,
HveutH Along the !uequeliuuu ItiMiin t
Intejot In anil Arvund tliv lturu:i;li
1'icktv! Up by the Iiitolli
IcncorV Keportor
Market was well attended this morn
ing. Tho outlet " has about 4 inches of
ico on it. It is uow ready for the skatets.
The funeiat of the late Jacob Groft will
bo held ou Mouday morning at nina
o'clock.
A number cf very handsome coache.t
for tho Chicago & Atlantic raihoad passed
through hero this morning.
Tho dog that feeds ou chickens w.n
abroad again last night. This time h
raided Mr. M. Backenheimer's chicken
coop.
Tho office of tho Western Union tele
graph company is having sorao improve
ments mado on the interior, with a view
of keeping out the cold.
A P. R. It. brakeman named Edwaid
Roe had his right thumb mashed at Diller
viile, lii.st night, while coupling freight
cars.
Chiistiau Weiiinsr, Iato a Reading &
('olumbia railroad brakeman, has be u
promoted to be conductor of tho Coliiin
bi.i shifting crew.
1 1 f y !(' ni' n rnhifltri l.i will perform hi"
!. Tiurtday :v'r.5ij', instead of on jlns
d .j, is a. Un lwt r !. The play ii in
V'.-k 'sit U'f-Cfey.
('.'.: y.v.'f.r.iv .:tz it'jii't'i; team r. i
vit '.i ',ij-.5''.-.i j'.:w: jtvtrday alt-.-W.".
' '.' ;', vr i'iJtd with botth s
v s-..';w.f-;: a.vJ
htrr t:i.ny of which
;x .: rati ;;ir move.
njpiy, 1,'JJ; total,
.ub-iJ, VfiVi; Miriptv,
H.;..t ('it Ii'ivrnV t
waid, i ;vi -, 41 . te
Y'Ji. '.V .w.ii.i. I.,
28, 'M ; total il,r,::.
Orat.d total, 8t,7:l
Ir.crtwf over Octol :i. '.I 070
Joseph Coie.eoloreil, . .hi.,!: arid d s
ordcily anaiu yestenl.iy lit- a-s.uilted a
eoioied icau named Philip Dohey, who
eutcicd suit against him beforo 'Squitc
Frank. This old offender will spend the
next ten days in tho county jail.
An employee of tho Henry Clay furnace
named Georgo Wiley, lost a pocketbeok
yesterday morning, which contained about.
$20. Ho cannot afford tho loss, aud a
good deed will bo done by tho lindcr leav
ing it at tho Spy office, where the loser
can recover it.
Former Columbians Hiiini uy it, cam.
Three employees of tho IV-nii'a railroad
weio killed iu the neighborhood of Fifty
second street, Philadelphia, yesterday af
ternoon. They all occurred within a short
time of ono auothcr. A track foreman
named Geary had b.rh Jogs cud off by the
cars, and died shortly after the accident
occurred. Tho second victim was an en
gineer named Daniel E. Devlin. Tin; io
maining unfortunate was Adrian G. Lind
say, brother of William Lindsay, of this
place. He was throwu from his train
and mangled in a shocking manner. De
ceased removed from Columbia to Harris
burg about three and a half years ago.
At the orphan asylum iu McAUistcrvilU-,
Franklin county, Pa., aro his two chil
dren. Tho remains will bo interred in a
Philadelphia cemetery on Monday. Iiis
brother-in-law intended bringing tho body
to Columbia for burial, but itwassocut to
pieces that it was deemed best to bury id
in the city iu which he was killed.
The Meeting of Council.
At tho regular meeting of council last
evening all tho members wero present, ex
ceptPfahler, Smiles and Kisiler. Ti.o
iiuanco committee reported as follows :
Balance at ilate ollastieport iZfi", t
iteming oi auiiiioritiui
ICcnlingot piano
Transient market rent
Annual market rent
Salcot bonds
Interest on bonds
Hersliey, collector lSTD
llocklii-j, collector 1931
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ISaianoe on hand Dec. 8, Is8i j:isi:i ".
The requost of tbe committee for au
thority to tako up $2,000 moro of the
percent, bonds with 4 per cents, was
granted. This will make 610,000 of thu
$18,000 to bo refunded. Repairs to the
opera houso wcro reported ; also, tho lay
ing cf tho crossing at Front and Mill
streets ; repairs ou Front street below the
Susquehanna .rolling mill ; progress of
Cherry street repairs ; Thomas Martin's
bill of $30 damages to potato patch I
opening of.Mapie street was ordered to be
paid, Mr. Essick, tho owner of the yard,
to make no other claim for damages. Tim
finance committee was directed to settle
up the tax dnplicato of 1830 as soon as
possible. The burgess was diiccted to
stop pavement washing in cold weather.
Several bills weio ordered to bo paid and
claims collected.
A OUUMKKN tiArtC
Xliey Attack Alderman Vomieily ami nro
Arrerited.
Yesterday afternoon about four !. k
a gang of drunken men, strangers to this
city, visited Alex Hood's saloon, behavid
iu a very disorderly manner, and when ie
monstrated with assaulted the proprietor.
Mrs. Hood ran for Alduimau Alex Don
nelly, who was not far off, and
as he approached Hood's they
camo out and assaulted him, b:at
iutr find kicking him and injuring him
seriously. Ho escaped from them, and
ran to the station houso for help. C'iiii f
Deichlcr, Alderman Donnelly and Davis
Kitch, jr., went iu pursuit of the traug
and caiue up with them ou E.ut King
street near Middle. The chief
drew his revolver, and after a
struggle live of the party were
captured and locked up. They gave th-'r
names as Robert Manning, Wm. Daly.
Thomas Ross, Patrick Nulty and Chai lis
Harris. Last night another of the iai'g
who called at the lockup for lodging was
identified and locked up, and this niotni: g
two others were arrested at Beck's saloon.
Co. K.-' 13'J.i Hs't P. V.
Wednesday, Dec. 13th, 1882 will bo the
2Dth anniversary of the battle of Fm!ci
icksburg, Va., which event will bo celc
bratcd by a reunion of the above company
which took part therein at the Golden
Hone hotel, of Eugeno IJauer, Eisl
King Rtrect. A history of tho company,
compiled by Serg't Geo F. Spreiiger, from
his diary, will bo read. The members of
the company as well as tho olliceis oi the
regiment iu general arj expected to at
tend. HIku l'rlcei!.
Butter and eggs this morning were h-ld
at stiff nrices. the former selling generally
at 58 cents a pound and the latter at 40
cents per dozen, though some wa? bought
at a few rents less. The high price is not
owing to any failure in the crop in cither
the dairy or the hennery, but is caused
solelv by the increased demand for these
articles for the Christina festival.
Saved From Drowning.
Yesterday Emanuel Swopo broke through
the ice on the Concstoga at GraefTs Land
ing, and was rescued from drowning after
considerable difficulty.
W'QPE'y Directed.
A letter is held at the Lancaster post
office addressed " Messrs. Jo1?. Koch A:
Son, Kearsey postofficc, Pa." Thero is n
such postcftice.
P very young man in Lancaster U invited to
it.'e the new styles of fine neckwear just re
ceived by Williamson Foster tor the holi
day trade. Call early and get the first choice.
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