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LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1882.
Hancaster Jntelligencer
THURSDAY EVENING DEC. 21, 18B2,
fccheel-Becfc Officials.
Senator Pugh proposes to amend the
Penaleton civil service bill by requiring
old as well as new officers of the
government to come under its harow.
There does not appear to be any good
reason why present officials should not
undergo the examination declared nec
essary (or all new officials. To be sure,
it may be said that the officials who are
now in office have demonstrated their
capacity by the work they have done.
As they are kept in office the
presumption is that they are com
petent, else they would have been
discharged. That ought to be a first
rate argument, but unfortunately it is
not worth much. Little can be predicat
ed of the fitness of the present officers
by the fact of their retention in office, be
cause they are retained, as they have been
appointed, for reasons foreign to their
fitness. But if wo could admit their fit
ness we still could not concede thatthoy
should thereby be remitted from
the civil service examination pro
posed for their successors: because, if
they are fit they will pass the examina
tion with flying colors, and they and the
public alike have the satisfaction of see
ing the examiner's seal set upon their
fitness.
But that is assuming, again, that this
examiner's seal is to bu accepted as
meaning all it says. It is admitting that
when an applicant passes out of the hands
of the examiners with their endorsement,
he is qualified in every way to be an
officer of tho government. Wo do not
believe that the examination will
have any such virtue. It is very
doubtful, in our judgment, whether
the examination will have any other re
sult than to reject the men fit to be offi
cials and accept the unfit, in about equal
proportions. That is about the result of
the winnowing of the West Point pro
fessors and of tho professors in col
leges generally, and it is not likely
that the Dorman Eatons of the civil
service commission will have any better
luck. They will never discern the na
tural capacity which the stale needs in
her servants ; not the moral stamina,
energetic impulses and honest aspira
tions which are comprised in her de
mand. But if a mess is to be made of
the new appointments, let us have the
old mixed in the same pot. If the
Unite 1 States is to have for its officers a
set of men qualified to be school teachers
and nothing else, let us have the same
gauge of qualification run through
the entire list. Do not let us put
the old fellows to shame by giv
ing them subordinates who can spell
every word in tho dictionary, and parse
every parsablo sentence in tho presi
dent's message. If our officials are to
be stamped as possessors of a liberal edu
cation with a fireproof knowledge of all
the arts and sciences, let us stirl away
up with a college president as president
of the United States, college professors
at the heads of all the departments, and
college graduates straight away down to
the bottom of the list ; and so wc may
be happy and prosper.
The Iron Market.
The Pittsburgh meeting of iron man
ufacturers is reported as having been a
more cheerful gathering than the gen
eral public would have supposed it
would be in the present condition of the
trade. The manufacturers expect a
better demand for their product in the
new year, and they have good reason for
their hope. There is nothing in the
condition of the country to create the
opinion that its enterprises are going to
collapse at an early day. Tiie railroad
activity has been unduly stimulated by
the speculation in stocks, and is unduly
depressed now by the condition of the
stock and money market. But gener
ally the trade of the country is in a good
condition, and is likely to be so for .)me
years to come.
The Pittsburgh meeting fixed the price
of bar iron at two and a quarter cents
per pound, which is somewhat more than
the present price of the Pittsburgh mills.
The card rate of the manufacturers docs
not seem to control their prices, being of
use chiefly to fix the wages of labor. The
Philadelphia mills last month fixed the
price of their product at two and n -half
cents a pound, when they were not able
to get that figure. -They seemed to be
afraid to confess what they were soiling
iron for, and preferred to put a price
upon it that they could not get, even
though it compelled them to pay a higher
rate of wages. There was not much
good seuse in that policy. It is not one
probably which animated the Pitts
burgh meeting in fixing the January
price of iron at 2 cents. That price
will be as likely to be below as above the
Pittsburgh market when the new year
opens. There is every reason to be
lieve that manufactured iron has
touched its lowest price for the season.
The Ilarrisburg Telegraph makes the
eminently wise and very practical sug
gestion that if the Legislative Record is
to be published and it must be vastly
improved to be tolerated the pasters
and folders can be dispensed with
by having the Record mailed from
its publication office. This is true. Two
boys at $5 a week can thus do the work
that twenty men bave been paid about
that many thousand dollars for. Any
publication can be mailed most promptly
and with least expense from its office of
publication. One thing that makes the
Record useless, as it has been published,
is the delay in its distribution, caused
by the present system of pasting and
folding. The Democrats of the House
must abolish the pasting and folding de
partment. The Republicans of the Sen
ate will not dare to continue it
Judge Siiabswood was the recipient
. of a deserved compliment from the three
hundred Philadelphia lawyers who 'in
vited him to a dinner last evening, at
the foyer of the Academy .of Music.
Judge Sharawood has been recognized as
the chief justice of the supreme bench
not only in title, but in fact Injudicial
learning, and in the firm and honest ex-1
predion pf his opinion, he has been what
a judge should be, and he has well earned
the approval of the people in his constant
conduct.
If there is any such item in the au
ditor general's report for this year as
$1,000 paid to Chief Senate Clerk Thcs.
B. Cochran for taking care of the state
property during the recess, as there was
in the report of 1SS0, it should be in
vestigated.
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Oil's down again, bat we observo that
a couple of banks have gone up.
The annual report of the public printer
shows that daring tho fiscal year which
ended on the 30th of June last the ex
penses of his office was $2,035,159, which
is 410,219 laigcr than in any previous
year.
The reports printed of the gigantic
thefts of trusted bank officials who were
tempted by their passion for speculation
areastiikiug commentary upon the de
generate stato of public morality that
renders such c: inies possible.
One ol the reasons comm unicated to us
why beer is now really worth a dollar a
barrel more than it was recently is that
the hop crop was poor and that the price
of hops is exceedingly high at tho present
time. We stand corrected on this point
sssuining that a fair proportion of the beer
sold really contains a legitimate quantity
of hops.
TilK feet of tho unwary verily stand in
slippery places to day, and the injunction
comes with special emphasis to take heed
lest yo fall. It was just as easy as you
please to take a sudden and uucomfoi table
seat upon the pavement to-day and tho
same condition of things will continue to
night, though thoughtful people will
sprinkle their sidewalks with coal ashes
or sawdust.
Mrs. Lajcgtisy is receiving as liberal ad
vertisement as any actress who has ever
visited our shores. First wc had tho
quarrel between the fair amateur and her
chaperon, Mrs. Labouchero ; now wo have
this samo Mrs. Lab. suing in the Virginia
courts to be divorced from a man whom
she says is not her husband. All of which
serves to further stimulate tho public cu
riosity, and invito the shining shekels to
the coffers of tho Lily and her enterprising
mauagcr.
Somebody or other always has a " big
claim" out around Pittsburgh. Wheu tho
hilf-brced Indians aro nob claiming tlio
ground on which that city stands, or
83mobody is not claiming a slice of the
Economites' property, Chris. Mageo is
sure to be claiming 12,000 Republican ma
jority. Now that the progeny of tho In
diana woman ' Straight Back" aro
found to not own Pittsburgh, a lot of old
Pittsburghers have got together and dis
covered that they own tho ground on
which stand tho Uuitsd States capital,
tho Whito House, treasury, navy and
other government building?, and hundreds
of fine dwellings and business houses in
Washington, as well as thousands of acres
of landinGoorgotown,D. C, Maryland and
Washington county, Pa. Besides this vast
amount of real estate there is said to ho
considerable money in the bank of Eng
land belonging to tho claimants ; and, of
course, eminent counsel have been pro
cured to eject the president, Congress and
the Euglish government. Hoop, la !
PERSONALS,
Mme. Jaxausciiek, when bliu gets her
picturo taken, insists on assuming her own
poses, will not allow the photographer to
touch her and lets the drapery tako caro
of itself.
Ex Govekxok Seymour has recently
picscntcd to the state library the original
of a deed of land in this stato mado bv
ueorgo Washington and
and witnessed by Tobias
George Clinton
Lear and I)e-
Witt Clinton in 1730.
William Castle and Emma Abbott
have beeu photographed as Paul and T7r
ginia, and also in an embrace as Iiomco and
Juliet, in the balcony scene. Their faces
necessarily came very close together, and
Miss Abbott jocosely inquired of the aitist
if he could photograph a kiss.
Iokd Derby's surplus income is esti
mated at $700,000 a year. He has lately
been buying property around Loudon. He
is childlcs?, and has only one brother and
one sister, who is married to a man com
paratively poor. Lady Derby has 620.
000 a year jointure from tho late Lord Sal
isbury. Ross J. Alexander, tho lato Democra
tic candidate for Congress in tho Seven
teenth district of Ohio, has sent a letter
to tho chief clerk in the office of the
secretary of state, in which he expresses
the opinion that ho is ontitlcd to tho
certificate, as he was the person having
tho highest number of votes for represen
tative to Congress at tho timo tho votes
were counted in tho secretary's office.
Dr. Updegraff, being dead, not being a
person in his opinion.
Mr. Wiiittier has thus gracelully ex
pressed his gratitude for one of the pres
ents he received on bis recent sevouty
fifth birthday: "Mr. John G. Whittier
hastens to acknowledge the beautiful gift
from his friends of Mr. C. W. Sauderson'a
fine water-color painting. Such a testi
monial on his birthday is gratefully ap
predated, and the picturo itself, on his
walls, will pleasantly recall memories of
rambles by trout streams musical in New
England woods, and bring the warmth
and greenuessof summer to winter days."
John Greenleaf Whittier, the aged
poet, is tall, straight and slender, and his
forehead is very high, rising massively
into a region of snow-white hair. Tho
face and bead in appearance are almost
Semitic. His religion and his habits are
those of tho Quakers. The writer of this
paragraph remembers hearing Bayard
Taylor (.with ruddy rugged face) and
William Cullou Bryant (with cheeks still
boyish and with an elastic step) saying
several years ago that they feared they
must soon lose whittier ; but they are no
longer with us, while the Quaker poet
seems as fresh as the roses that little
schoolgirls daily take to his home.
Abolish tfat Faatars and Folder.
Harrlsbunr TeleoTann.
Chairman Hensel is alive on the subject
of reform, and adopts P. Gray Meek's
suggestion that the pasters and folders bo
reduced in numbers, and that the men who
draw the salaries should be compelled to
do the work. The, TelegrapJt can suggest
a much better, plan if the Legislature
earnestly desires reformation in that par
ticular. And it is to have tho Record
mailed from the office of publication as
soon as published. This can readily be
done, and for about the cost of a single
paster and folder, and with satisfaction
to the public. The trouble with the
Record heretofore has been that it was not
mailed until sometimes as touch as two
weeks after its delivery on the hill.
A NIGHT FIRE.
A. HJU BLAZE lH fHlLADKLFUIA
Proper! j Valued at 8370,000 Consumed in a
Flro Starting no One Knows How
Pobltc Buildings Threatened.
Lofty, blackened walls, llame-scarred
and gaunt, masking great heaps of debris
within their confines, are all that were
left Thursday morning of the six-storied
Goldsmith' ball, on Library street, below
Fifth, Philadelphia, destroyed by fire
Wednesday evening. Heaps of bricks
blockade a side court leading from Library
street and an entangling mesh of fallen
telegraph and telephone wires gird Li
brary street telegraph poles and ensnare
the feet ot horses and pedestrians, while
fragments of charred signs and cornices
show the ruin the flames have made. Ad.
jacent buildings with blackened cornices
and partly burned roofs indicate
further tho narrow escaps they
bave made. Two hundred and
seventy thousand dollars would probably
coyer the loss that was mainly inflicted in
half an hour's time. Old firemen who
wero exposed to tho great heat said they
had experienced few Mich horrid scenes.
At one time tho flames wero so fierce and
the wind so strong that apprehensions
wero felt for the post office building, the
old Philadelphia library, now occupied by
the central news company and adjoining
the postoffice at tho northeast corner of
Fifth and Library streets, and for tho
American hank noto company's head
quarters, in the former Mercantile library
building at the southeast corner of Library
street, tho venerable Philadelphia dispen
sary next door below on Fifth stieetand
valuablo properties occupied by insurance
companies on Walnut street.
It was nip and tunk bMwrca tho fire
men and the Hauler, with the dds decid
edly favoring tho destroyer far a long
time. Goldsmith's hall was put up in
1851 iiiid was bix stories in height, with a
frontage of iifty-seveu feet on Library
street and a depth of one hundred feet,
but had a wing subsequently attached in
tho rear five stories in height and about
twenty-four feet square. The Library
street front was brown stone. As far as
it was possible to make such a structure
it was designed to be fireproof through
out. Jacob Uaehnlcn was tho owner and
erected tho building. At a calculation
based on tho onhanrcd value of the prop
erty since it wa3 put up it was worth
$100,000 yesterday.
E. C. Mark!cy & Son, pi inters, who
have had contracts to do work for councils
and public departments, had an office on
tho first floor of 422 and carried on busi
ness on tho fifth and sixth floors, over all.
A. C. Farley, manfacturer of blank books,
paper tablots, envelopes and other station
ery specialties, was tho lessee of the five
story building in the rear. The hands
employed by Lehman & Bolton and
Markley & Sou were still at work,
about quarter beforo seven o'clock last
evening, when American District Officer
Hess and two citizens, who wore passing
along Library street, saw smoke in the
narrow alllcy adjoining Goldsmith's hall
on tho east and traced it to tho back wing,
occupied oy Jir. r arley. An alarm was
given instantly and tho work people ran
down the stairways to Library street and
escaped. Watchman James Morgan was
on the fifth floor at the time and could not
reach the stairs on account of tho blinding
smoke, which had already p;urcd into the
front building. He descended the fire
escape on tho cast wall and was helped
down by .Letter-carriers uarrcttand iilow.
Word was (cut to to the central station,
but the alarm was not mounded until a re
serve ariivcd. Tho tlinies spread with
almost lightning rapidity. Mounting
through a rear hatchway they burst into
every floor simultaneously, so it appeared
Tho first alarm, at 0:45, had scarcely
sounded belore a great red mass ol lire
was visible above tho roof Eilorts wore
mado atonco to remove samo of tho fur
niture and safes from tho first flojr of
fices. The iiromen found a poor water sup
ply to stait with. Every niiuuto of delay
increased tho danger and tho forco of tho
flames, which shot forth from every win
dow on tho eastern side of tho doomed
building. At G:52 and G:50 additional
alarms wero sent ont and all the extension
ladders were sent into Library street and
reared against tho flaming structure.
Firemen mounted the roofs of the post
office, the American bank noto building,
a two-story saloon across an alleyway and
on Walnut street buildings, and attacked
the firo on all sides, but without any pal
pable effect. Tho fire grow fiercer every
minute. At ten minutes past 7 o'clock it
had lull possession of Goldsmith's hall,
and it became a question whether it would
not sweep everything before it up to Fifth
street. Tho i oof of Wal titer's military
hall saloon, 412 Library street, smoked
and the cornico and back part of tho roof
named up. 1 no iiremen, glad to escape
from a furuacu temperature, scrambled
down from the roof of tho two story
building and flung streams against Wal
ther's establishment that Hew iuto steam
as they struck the heated bucks.
A dense crowd of spectators spread over
Independence square and tho back steps of
tho custom-house, neighboring house
tops and other points of vantao and
gazed at the li-iy spectacle. Tho wind
ironi tho cast-.r.wd blew before it apeifect
storm of embers and sparks. It seemed
to be literally raining lire. Tho back part
of the roof of the dispensary, which
touched the burning building, took firo,
but tho flames were soon stifled. About
quarter past seven o'clock it wan percep
tible that tho eastern wall was about to
tumble. Engine 20 and truck B were
moved back a few yards and the hosemen
withdrew to the shelter of tho postoffiro
wall, whence they kent un tho attack.
With a frightful rumble and crash the wall
of tho back building dissolved and when
it tumbled took down with it the floors
of tho front building and about half of tho
sido wall. Ten minutes afterward au
other big slico followed. Tho souud was
liko a thunder peal. The flames mounted
higher thau ever as the floors tumbled in,
but this was only momentary, and then
the firemen felv. that their . adversary
would not got beyond control, as they had
feared. Eighteen engines wero throwing
a delugo of water into the blazing crater
by this timo. Hundreds of telegraph and
telephone wires which had hindered the
firemen wero broken loose from their
fastenings on the building when the
roof fell and hung in confusion in Library
street.
The lircmen finding ihat the streams
had got into the basement threw many
streams through tho wiudows, whence a
fierce heat, generated by printer's ink,
chamois leather, etc., flamed in many col
ored tongues. Water had but littlo effect
upon it, and it burned sullenly, with occa
sional outbreaks of energy, for hours, long
after the remainder of the building was iu
ruins and the fireman wero resting from
their labors, and the spectators, who had
Decome chilled through after tho fire bad
subsided, had dispersed and joined the
throng of Christmas pedestrians on Chest
nut street. " Well, that was the quickest
work I ever saw," ono of tho bcimmed
firemen said as he looked up at the totter
ing walls.
While the conflagration was at its
height and threatened to extend across
Library street to the post office, the clerks
and carriers began the removal of records
and mail matter to the front of the build
ing. Some of the janitors of Walnut
street buildings also became alarmed and
packed np household goods and piled them
in tho entry ways ready for flight, iu case
the flames came their way.
Estimate or the Losses.
Jacob Haehlen's loss on the main and
rear building is estimated at 9100.000, on
which he has an insurance of $50,000.
Lehman & Bolton are probably the
heaviest losers of any of the tenants, their
loss Demg about 7o,0UU, wsucn is said to
be nearly covered by insurance. E. C
Markley & Son's loss is from 140,000 to
$45,000, on which there is an insurance of
$30,000. The loss of A. C. Farley & Co.,
is estimated at about $40,000, on which
there is an insurance of $30,000, while
E. G. Haehulen & Co.'s loss is about $15,
000, covered by insurance. Lehman &
Bolton a few weeks ago put in a newptess
at a cost of $17,000.
Markley & Son, who have the contract
for printing the sheriff's posters, had
been engaged during the day in preparing
them for distribution and had a large
number on hand. In the hurry a few
were removed to the Central station Wed
nesday, bnt the larger part of them was
destroyed. This loss will probably cause
many of the sheriffs sales to bo postponed
for some time.
Great care was necessary to guard against
the showers of sparks. At the north
east corner of Fifth and Walnut streets
the awning in front of Joseph Sculitz's
saloon was in a blaz?, but one of the men
employed there succeeded in putting out
the flames.
Engine No. 1 broke down at Tenth and
Market streets while responding to the
first alarm and lay a wreck, with all her
wheels smashed, right in tho car track.
The cars had to be derailed to get around
the obstuction.
Flames Ragln.; Elsewhere.
Tho farm building3 of E. C. Hawkes,
at Charlcroont, Mass., were burned Wed
nesday, with 150 sheep, 50 calves and a
quantity of hay and grain.
Tho hospi alof the Sistcis of Charity,
at Big Rapids, Mich., was burned Wed
nesday, and a valuable library, belonging
to the estate of the late Father do Conick,
was destroy od.
Au incendiary the at Morristown, N. J.,
Wednesday morning, destroyed a large
barn and outbuilding belonging to Sena
tor Raudolpb, also a new steam ditcher,
lately patented by biin and built at an ex
pense of over $6,000.
THE SHAKSWOOU BANQUET.
Bench and Bar Unite In Honoring the Re
tiring C'lild Justice.
Philadelphia Times.
Three hundred Philadelphia lawyers
harried home early yesterday afternoon to
put on a few extra touches of toilet and
don their black dress suits for the compli
mentary dinner to retiring Chief Justice
Sharswood, which was to take place a
little later in the evening at tho Academy
of Music.
The preparations Lad been made on an
elaborate scale and every essential detail
had been attended to in advance. Tho
foyer or concert hall of the academy, on
the second floor, a fine apartment, with
classical outlines and Corinthian pillars,
was selected as tho scene of the banquet.
The large lobbies and corridors ap
proaching it were wainscoted their entiro
length with tropical plants. No foliage
was introduced in tho banquet hall,except
four delicate and elegant palms, which
wero placed in the four corners of the
room, on standards between doable pil
lars. Tho table at which the guest and
other members of the bar sat was at the
head of the room, extending across its
whole width, and was elevated a few feet
above the three other tables, which were
ranged in the direction of the length of tho
room.
Tho space between tho elevated table
and tho tablo which adjoined it lower
down was filled up with lounded banks of
natural flowers, principally roses in fall
bloom. In the middle of the centre table
was a large figure of justice, with her
scales, cat in ice. Some twenty or more
floral designs and pyramids of fruit were
placed at different points along the tables.
In front of each guest wero six wine
glasses of various colors, several china
plates, small buttonholo bouquets and
decorated guest cards and menus.
A Toast to tho Retiring Jndge.
Tho dinner was tendered to Chief Jus
tico Sha:swocd by tho entire bar of Phila
delphia as a recognition of tho eminent
qualities with which he has adorned the
highest judicial bench of the common
wealth, from which he is about to retire,
having served tho full term allotted by
law. Eli K. Price, tho oldest memhor qf
the Philadelphia bar iu active practice,
sat besido him at tho banquet. Mr. Price
examined Judge Sharswood in 1831, when
the latter was admitted to tho bar.
Iu the speech which he mado Justico
Sharswood gracefully alluded to this fact
and complimented the " laborious, useful
and honorablo career" of tho venerable
counsellor and fiiend of his early days.
On the titlo page of tho menu was
printed tbo priucipal toast of tho evening,
reading: "Our guest. Closing a judicial
lifo with legal learning and adorned with
the integrity of judicial virtue, we tender
our chief justice this tribute to character
istics which bavo ennobled the jurispru
dence of tho commonwealth of Pennsylva
nia." As Judgo Sharswood rose to respond to
the toast, which was offered by Henry M.
Phillips, who presided, cvory ono stood up
and ehecr upou cheer resounded, whilo
tho banqueters waved their napkins or
throw them into tho air. Judge Shars
wood was apparently deeply affected by
tho reception. Ho responded in an ad
dress so forcible and interesting that it
ovoked round after round of applause.
He introduced many amusing reminis
cences of the change which had taken
place in the practico of tho bar since his
entrance, and alluded particularly to tho
progress of other events which had oc
curred since it took him seventeen dayB to
reach Uarrisburg by way of Reading and
thirteen days to get back again by way of
Lancaster. He took occasion towards tho
cloao of his remarks to say that he was sat
isfied that the supremo judges were over
worked, and to recommend that legisla
tion be invoked to lighten their burdens.
He believed that tho seventy seven law
judges in the stato wero enough and,
therefore, without an incrcaso of judiciary
suggested an intermediate court betweeu
the common pleas and supreme bench.
Otner Toasts and Speakers.
Tho other regular toasts of the evening
were : " The Supreme Court of Pennsyl
vania," responded to by Justice Paxson ;
".The Federal Jndioiary," by Judge But
ler; "The Bench of Pniladelphia," by
Judge Thayer, and" Oar Bar," by William
Henry Rawle.
Afterwards there was a number ol im
promptu addresses, among them one by
Serjeant Ballantine, tho English barrister,
who was among the guests. Among the
other judges present besides those who
spoke were Judges Sterrett, Trunkey,
Biddle, Hare, Mitchell, Hanna, Ludlow,
Peirce, Allison, Fell, Finletter, Yerkes,
Elcock, Green, Ashman and Briggs. Be
sides the judges, nearly eveiy prominent
member of the bar in the city waspresent.
The credit for the successful arrangements
for the banquet is largely due to tho com
mittee having the matter in charge and
especially to the labors of Thomas J.
Dichl, its chairman.
Marshal McMicbael Confirmed.
The Senate yesterday confirmed Clayton
MoMichael, of Philapelphia, to bo marshal
of the District of Columbia ; J. C. Ban
crolt Davis, of New York, judgo of tho
court of claims, and Comraodoro Edward
It. Calhoun to be rear admiral.
Bombarding aa Editor.
The trouble at Opelika, Alabama, con
tinues. The houso of B. II. Heiser, editor
of the Times, was fired fifto ' on Tuesday
night. Ten buokshot crashed through his
bedroom window and buried themselves
in the opposite wall.
A CUBI0US CASE.
MltS. LABUCCHEKE AMD MB. HUEOX
Seeking a ittvorce JTrom m JKan Wtf Se
Mays is Mot OsrButlMiid-A Mysteri
ous Visit to Klcbmond.
A rather singular case has just been de
veloped in Richmond, Va., growing out
of a divorce suit which, when it becomes
known to the public will be likely to at
tract very considerable attention in con
nection with the Langtry Labouchere
gossip. About December 4 there
arrived in Richmond by a train from
the North a lady, accompauied
by her maid and Messrs. Dunning and
Fowler, attorneys, of New York The
party stopped at one of tho leading hotels,
and the attorneys immediately sought a
conference with tho law firm of Messrs.
Carrington, Hooper & Davies, gentlemen
of high standing; there, to whom it was
made known that tho lady who accom
panied them was Mrs. Henrietta Pigeon, of
Liondou, England, whose husband s name
is Richard Pigeon, but who has sinco been
identified as Mrs. Henry Labouchere. The
objeotof their, errand to the law office of
the Richmond firm was stated to be to
seek a divorce for Mrs. Pigeon from her
husband. A bill was prepared and filed
in the Richmoud chancery court. In that
paper it is-stated that the cause of the de
sire for a legal separation between Pigeon
and his wife is that tho former deserted
the lady and treated her cruelly. Tho
plaintiff made affidavit to these facts, aud
further alleged that she was married in
London in July 1864, and that the fruit of
the union is a son who is cow 15 years old.
The bill further sets forth that
the whereabouts of Pikeou, tho de
fecdant, is unknown to the plaintiff.
In accordance with the laws governing
divorces in that state a publication has
beeu made setting forth that Henrietta
Pigeon, through her next friend, C. J.
Carringtou, biings this suit tor divorce,
and calls upou him to come Joiwatd and
defend his interests. The btrauuer paid a
liberal retainer's fee to the Richmond
counsel to represent tho case, with the
understanding that when the divoieo is
secured for Mrs. Pijreon that a still larger,
though by no means exorbitant, sum will
be paid. Mr. Hooper, tho Richmond at
torney who prepared Mrs. Pigeon's affida
vit, describes that lady as rather inclined
to be stout, a brunette, about 40 yeara, cf
pleasant manners and decided culture.
The lady remained with her attorney until
Dec. 7, when tho party left for Washing
ton. In an interview with a newspaper re
porter on that or on tho following day,
Mrs. Labouchere's attorney stated that
there was no truth in the story that a rup
turo had taken place between that lady
and Mrs. Langtry. Continuing tbo con
versation the gentleman who represented
Mrs. Laboucheio said that his client had
como to Virginia to attend to somo laud
interests she bad in the state. An inves
tigation at the time failed to discover tho
presence of Mrs. Langtry's chapcrono in
Richmond, but J lis. Pigeon was there at
the timo it was reported that Mrs. La
bouchero was absent from New York.
When Mrs. Pigeon lclt tho city it was
with the understanding with her legal ad
visers that she would return in February
next, when it is expected her case will bo
called in the chancery court. This suit
has brought to light a feature in the Vir
ginia divorce laws not generally known
there, and that is that a party to such a
proceeding need not necessarily bo a citi
zen of tho state. Mis. Pigeon, iu her bill
claims to bo a resident, but the time could
not have been if more thau 28 hours' dsne-
tiou. Tho discovery of that oversight iu
the law, ofcouise, would recommend that
state to citizens of other states who de
sired to be ideated from the mani.ige
bonds.
A KKUTAL FJUMT.
Two i'lou l'ou tiding Kach Oticr lor t'ooe
otS250.
A prize fight took place Wednesday
morning about twenty-fivo miles from
Pittsburgh on tho Fort Wayne railroad.
The principals wero John Gilsono, a
Swede, and a German named Reiseu
houscn. Tho two men worked together
in a mill on tho South Side, aud consider
able bad feeling had becu engendered'
owing to the uncertainty as to which was
the better man. They agreed to 11 ht for
$250 and they cam a together at eight
o'cloclr iu tho morning. The first round
was a kock-dowu for tho Swede. Iu
the second round they both fought
for all thoy wero worth. There was
no science displayed, but they struck each
other right and left and battered each
other's frontispiece in a terrible manner.
Tho round was finally settled by tho Ger
man knocking tho Swede down. Tho
third, fourth and fifth rounds weio all
knock downs for the German. The sixth,
seventh and eighth rounds were knock
downs for tho Swede, which made them a
tio. In the ninth round they both carao
to tho scratch promptly and this was the
hardest fought round during tho whole
battle. They stiuck at each other as if
they were blind, and the round was called
a draw. Tho German bad the sido of his
nose nearly torn off by au upper cut and
the Swede received two very bad cuts
t abovo tho eyes.
Tho men were very weak when they
came into the ring tor the tenth rouud.
After fighting about four or five minutes
they stopped and asked to have the blood
rubbed off their faces, which was done.
Then a conversation took placo between
tho backers and the men and it was de
cided to s'op tho fiht, as tho men were so
weak they could scarcely stand. They
shook bauds and tho Swede said to tho
German : "I think wo will meet asain.
and if wo ever do one of us must win."
Two Disgusted luglll8tK.
The order prohibiting tho match be
tween Sullivau and Elliott, on Friday
evening next, in Chicago, has caused
much disappointment jn sporting circles,
it having been anticipated that" tho contest
would bo ono of the most interesting
of the kind which has ever taken
place in Chicago. Both Elliott and
Sullivan are very much disgusted
over tho state of affairs. It causes a pecu
niary loss to both of them. " Parson "
Davies, Elliott's backer, feels very much
mortified over tho matter, having made
extensive arrangements for the meeting,
besides being a loser in a financial way.
Sullivan left for New York very much an
noyed at the interference with the match.
He said : " It's a sure thing I could have
knocked out Elliott, and I wanted a chance
to get at him. The match couldn't come olf
in any other western city as I'm engaged
to appear at Joo Coburn's benefit iu New
York. I don't know when I'll getaebanec
to do up Elliott."
VBIENDS IN MEED.
One of Fllr.-John Porter's Staff Defending
Bis Former General.
At a secret session of the society of
army and navy officers, held iu Cincinnati,
Captain Monteith, a member of Firz
John Porter's staff at the second battle of
Bull Bun, defended General Porter's
conduct. He, Captain Monteith, in re
viewing the character of the order from
Popo to Porter, which Porter is charged
with disobeying, took the ground that
i-orcrr, wongo not ooeying to tne letter
did obey the oider in t-pirir, and that sub
sequent events prove that Porter showed
great wisdom in exercising his own dis
cretion. The officer who brought the or
der traveled nine miles in bringing it, and
reached Pope at 7:50 p. m and such was
the character of the country they travers
ed that it required them, doing their bast,
three hours and twenty minutes to make
their trip. Porter's first impulse
was to literally follow the order.
His staff, however, advised a rest
and, as it was, the march was
made in less time than it would have
been made had not tho worn-out army
been allowed to rest until 3 o clock. Cap
tain Monteith said that when the joint
order was received its requiiements had
already been met, and in the event of a
mistake tho responsibility rested on Mc
Dowell. He denied that Porter's attack
on Longstrcet lacked promptness or vigor.
Captain Monteith was given a voto t.f
thanks for his speech. He was introduced
by General J. D. Cox, who had been a
violent literary assailant of Porter.
IliON AM) STEEL.
Jlaiters ot Intorestla aianulaetoxlns; Circles.
The Western Iron Manufacturers' asso
ciation met Wednesday in Pittsburgh, and
was attended by representatives of all the
principal cities of tho West. Reports
wero leceived from all sections, showing
that, while prices wero low, trade was
" fairly good," and tho prospects for next
season " exceedingly bright." It was de
cided that ths- card rate of 2J cents on
nails should not bo changed, but that the
selling rate be 2 cents. This is cxplaiued
to mean not a reduction, but au equaliza
tion, "as many manufacturers have been
selling for less than that aud none for
more," and it wiil not effect the market
for wages. A resolution was adopted
urging Congress to pass tho tariff com
missioncrs' bill this season.
The superintendent of the Suih Chi
cago rolling mill says that, " as the re
duced prico of steel rails orders como in
freely, and the mill will start soon iuoider
to retain their customers, even though
they make no money."
The steel mills "of tho Licawauna
coal and iron company, at cranton. aro
again. working with : foil force, "and
have orders m hand which will insure
operations continuously lor tho coming
year." Tho rail department will open
next Monday afternoon,
Tho trouble iu Singer' r steel Mill at
Pittsburgh has been settled, tho nielters
accepting a reduction of $1 per tou and
their helpers a reduction of 7 per cent.
UUUEL.TY TO A SA1I.OU.
Boutcti and Left Swaying t tlio Wind'n
Mercy In a Sturm at Sen.
Captain Robert Wiltbank, of the brig
autiue Daphne, lying at Wilmington, Del.,
was arrested yesterday aud pnt uuder
bonds for a hearing on Saturday before
United States Commissioner Bell on the
charge of atrocious cruelty to Frederick
Lealto, a colored seaman. The prosecutor
says ho shipped as steward of tho brig
Senorita, of which Wiltbank was captain
and his brother Bartholomew first mate,
in January last. While on a trip from
Aspiuwall to the island of St. Andicwsthe
Wiltbanks took every opportunity of tor
menting Lealto. IIo was struck and
knocked down aud beaten by tho captain
and his brother and pounded with belay
ing pins several times during tho month
of April.
One day ho was put in irons, gagged
with a belaying pin aud bound so that he
could not struggle, and wa then loft
dangling in tho rigging duriug a high sea.
Ho prayed for mercy, hue was not releas
ed until the storm abated. He was thou
covered with blood from his wounds. His
persecutors contiuued their abuse daily
until St. Andrew was reached on May 3,
when he was left ashore and tho brigan
tiue left, lie could got no lcdress through
tho Amcucan consul and hid toiemain on
the inland four mouths. Loalto declares
that during that tnuo tlio Sju-irita arrived
aud ho h.ard that. Wiltbank, having mado
money out of a wreak, had taken a new
vcss-tl ::id appmtfid Bartholomew mister
of tht Sjuonia. LDalto came to Philadel
phia in September, but not fit.diug Wilt
bank a.tiled aain for Cuba On his ro
turn ho learned that tho D.iuphme was at
Wilmington and swore out a wan ant for
Wiltbank's arrest. Tho latter was a
prisoner about six years ago for ciuelty to
a sailor.
a summation Kxri.oii::.
Fount ot foul l'lay Ulsslpateil by tlio Open,
injj ot it Uravo
Tho borough of Womolsdorl was qnito
excited over tku disinterment of John L.
Leiningei, who was supposed to have died
of foul play. A number of witnesses were
examined by Djputy Coroner Kintzsr,
J. G. Seltzer, esq., representing the com
monwealth. Tho wituesses testified to
the uiiusui oventa at Lsiuinger's houso on
tho night of his death how ho had
jumped fioui the window and iuto the
creek ; how his aged housekeeper had
dragged him out of the water during tho
mosc bitter cold wetaher, aud how tho
neighbois had loaded him up on a wheel
bairow aud hauled him hoii:-. and when
they ariivcd there ho w.i; iband to b-j
dead.
Tho body wjs dug up aud Lsiniuger
was found to have been b;t:i.;il with his
oveicat ou. Dr. W. Murray Weidman
found a contused wound on tin: scalp, but
thcio was no fracture of the skull. There
was no evidence to show any foul play,
becausn the wound was received by fall
ing from the window. Tho vcrdiot of the
Jury was that Lininger died of exhaus
tiou, aouto pneumonia, delirium tremens
and exposure He was reinterrcd.
Sutclrio of an Insane Woman.
A horrible suicide occurred at tho Cen
tral insane asylum iu Columbus at au early
hour Tuesday morning. When the lady
attendant arose she discovered that the
door to tho room occupied by Mrs. Cath
erine Stoutcnour, a patient from Craw
ford county, was open and the patient
misbing. Ono of tho windows was
found to have been opened, but it
was not at first thought possible for a
person to have escaped. Au investigation
soon disclosed tho fact that this had been
done for down on tho ground, GO feet
below, was found the mangled body of
the insane suicide. iho patient had
forced her litho form betweeu tho bars
which arc only five inches apart and'drop.
ped from tiio fourth story. Her insanity
partook of tho melancholy type, and there
had never been a suspicion that she would
ever attempt to harm herself.
Tlio Greenback i'arty IllMtolved.
Tho national committe of tho Green
back Labor party met Wednesday in St.
Jjouis, and considered a proposition by
Mr. Do La Matyr " for the dissolution of
the Greenback parly, the calling of a na
tional convention of all elements opposing
tho Republican and Democratic parties
and tho organization of a now party under
a new name." No ono but Mr. Harper
opposed tho proposition.
Beer Going Vf.
Tho Western broWcrs' association met
yesterday in Chicago and elected John H.
MrcEvoy, of that city its president. The
object of tho meeting is to consider the
expediency of advancing tho price of beer
" to correspond with the advance in the
price of hops and other ingredients." A
voto was taken on a preliminary proposi
tion, which iudicated that an advanc: of
SI per barrel will be agreed upon.
A Revenue
Officer Shoots nan.
Revenue Agent Wagner, at Huntsville,
Alabama, telegraphs to Washington that,
on the morning of the 19th inst., Deputy
Marshal Goodwin, while seizing an illicit
distillery near Attalia, was set upon by
two armed men in charge,'" whereupon
Goodwin fired killing oho man and wound
ing tho other. A coroner's jury found
that Goodwin's act was "justifiable homi
cide." A frlnccly UUr.
John Q. Buchtel has sold $200,000 worth
of stock in the Buckeye works at Akron,
O.. to Lewis Miller and his three sons, in
order to make an additional gift of $100,
000 to Buchtel college. The gift will be
formally tendered on January 18, which w
the anniversary of the founding of the
college.
A Town Attacked by Brigands.
A dispatch from Matamorus, Mexico,
says a band of 40 brigands mado a sudden
attack upon the town of Ahuacatlau jos
terday and, by a display of firo-aira.
overawed the inhabitants, who fled terror
stricken to their homes. The brigands
seized aud bound the mayor and justice,
and the aldermen, and carried them off
captives, intending to hold them for a
large ransom.
Five Men. Killed.
A special dispatch to the JVeiM from
Huntsville, Tex., says : " During a severe
hail storm Wednesday night. Dean's
Milling house, bix miles from that place,
was blown down, instantly killing Albert
Dridcn and four negro women who had
sought shelter in the building. Three or
four others were slightly wounded. There
were 10 persons in tho building at tho
timo of the accident."
An Army UIBccr Iu Trouble
The war department yesterday ordered
a court martial, to meet at Jeffenon bir
raeks, Missouri, on tho 4th proximo, for
the tiial of Captain II. 11. Brews, of tho
Fourth cavalry, on charges of "disobrdi
ccce of orders, fraud, conduct unbecoming
an officer and a gentleman, and conduct
subversive of good order and military dis
cipline." By advico of friends Captain
Crews recently sent in his resignation, hut
after further consideration, withdrew it.
J S'JAl&r: ALL. AKOVMI.
A storeroom Foand Upon Last Night
Kobbory Suspected.
At a late hour last night and an early
hour this morning.thcre was quito a scare,
wo might say several scares, on West King
strsi't. Private tYnv' nii Erisman, iu
making his rou-id.-, discovered that tlio
front door of M. II. Bash & Sou's cloak
store was unlocked. Ho of courso sup
posed the stoic had been uihbcd, or was to
bo robb.-d. m ho kept a c1mj watjh over it
and examined all adjacent premises. His
intrusion set the dogs barking and tho
noise mado by them alarmed tho wholo
neighborhood. As daybreak approached and
no thieves appeared tho watchman tiied
to lock tho front door, tho key being in it :
but the key was so much bent that it
would not go iuto tho keybolo from tho
outsido. Seeing a light in the kitchen of
Mrs. Albright's boarding liouso, adjoin
ing Bash's store, tho watchman rapped
loudly at tho door, and ;:k(;il to bo let io,
he wanting to borrow a hatchet to straigh
ten tho key. The barking or tho dos,
the rapping at tho door, and tho demand
for admittance, frightened Mrs. Albright,
and as she had just arisen from her bed for
the purpose of Iookin - alter her fires,
she was not at any rate, in
the best trim to receivo visitors, so sho
stoutly refused to open tho door. Tho
watchinau then went to tho Cooper house,
borrowed a hatchet, straightened tho dor
key, locked the store-door from tho out
side and went homo. Tho greatest t.caro
of all was when Mr. Bash c.imo to open
his stoic in tho morning and found that
some ono had been there before him :rnl
carried off his key. He, of course, sup
posed robbers had stolen hundreds or
thousands of dollars' worth of his lino
costume's. Ho examined his stock with
many misgivings, but a earful investiga
tion showed that nothing wan raissim; ;
and then ho recollected that on leaving
tho store last night he had, while It is
thoughts weio busy ou other mattcis,
neglected to IojI: the front door. Hut
"all's well that ends well."
IN MlCIKTV.
Tlie AiiroachluK Stevens Houe Assembly.
A feature of tha approach ing hol:if:iy
festivities will bo tho giaud annual a.ssim .
bly of which previous mention has bun1
mado iu theso columns, aud which v.-ill
tako placo at tho Stevens house on New
Year's night, Monday, January 1, 18:;.
The invitations wero issued to-day. They
aro haudsomely engraved aud bear
tho names of the following well
known citizens as managers of tho
affair : Messrs. Samuel II. Reynolds,
J. L. Stcinmctz, Samuel II. Piice, 1. Kck.
Slaymaker, B. J. McGraan, John E. M.i
lone, D. G. Eshlcman, S. W.Altick, Chas.
II. Loeher, B. F. Breneman, Dr. Ileiuy
Carpenter, W.J. Forduey, 1C.A. Maloue,
James M. Buiko aud Mayor John T. M; c
Gonigie. With such a formidable Hit if
names at the head of it, there can be no
doubt the assembly will prove one of tlu
most brilliant and successful social events
that has ever taken place in Lan
caster, and wc understand that m st
claborato preparations are under way t
make tho affair outshine any previous
undertaking iu the Hue of local festivity
in Lancaster. The number of invitations
sent out exceeds four hundred, aud it is
expected the guests wiil tepresuut tho
most fashionable society of t'tc city aud
county with a large atteudauce from
abroad. Tbo price of tickets admitting
gentlemen aud ladies has becu placed at
five dollars, and the number of subscribeis
thus far is sufficient to iudeinniiy the pio-
jee'ors and assure a large aud brilliant
gathering at the steveua houe on New
Year'r, night.
i'HE KUO.NuMIlEa.
lienry .Lively Visit to tne Settlement.
Editors Intklmgenckk. I wish to
correct a misstatement or two into which
you wero led in thu publication of an ar
ticle on tho Economites. which appeared
in your paper on the 10th icst. I bad five
uncles who belonged to tho Ecouomiro
society, some ot whomjo:ned it in 1805,
and spent their lives thcie,. while some oj
my other relatives after spending somo
time with tha society left it. My recent
visit to the Economite society was not tor
tho purpose of receiving auy money Irom
them. I have no prcuniary claim air.tmst.
them, and am not interested in this suit
of Elias Speidel against them. I believe
that Speidel & Co. are not entitled to any
thing, as their ndatives forfeited eveiy
thing when they left tho society, and I
would regard it as a sin and a shame to
disturb theso good, old people who havo
lived for so many years in a quiet, religi
ous way. My recent visit to their s"ettlr
ment was for the purpose of seeing the
placo where my relations lived and died.
Their graves were shown mo by one of tho
sisters, and I brought home with mo as a
memento some grass plucked from tin in.
I spent a week among these people and
received the kindest attention, and the
best of everything they had. They t-Id
me very decidedly that I was their guest,
and must not think of paying for any
thing JIenkv Lively.
3AboiC. t j
fclccliuii and Installation.
At a regular meeting of Goodwin Coun
cil No. 10, R. S. and S. M., held at Masn'iiu
hall, on Wednesday evening, December
20th, the following officers were duly
elected and installed by D. 1). G. M. W.
J. Forduey, for tho ensuing Masonic
yiT. L G. Master John HnlL
D. I. G. M, Joshua L. Lyte.
P. C. of W. Dr. Jno. R. Morris.
Trcas. Cbaa. A. HeiniUb.
Recorder Hugh S. Gara.
Grand Repreaantative Wro. J. ,Ford
ney. ThoT.I. G Master-elect stale thefol
lowing appointments :
Capt. of Guard Joel S. Eiby. ?
Marshal E. Oram Lyte. .
First Keeper of Temple Chas. , A. Fon
Dersmith.
Heralds 1st, Henry E. Carsoa ; 2d,
Dr. Geo. R. Wclchans ; 3d, M. M. Sour
beer. Sentinel Geo. Lutz.
Organist Adam Oblender.
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