LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCE K TUESDa , JANUAKY 2. 183.
SUurastcr Intelltgcncrt.
TUESDAY EVENING, JAN. 2, 18e3.
The Speakership.
The Democrats of the Ileuse have de
c ared their confidence in Mr. Faunce
by naming him speaker by a large ma ma
jer.ty. By his parliamentary experience
hi is the best qualified man in the Heuse
t j preside ever it, and this was a priir.i priir.i
CDUsideratien in naming the speaker. It
h a place of great difficulty, which re
quires knowledge and special adaptation
of character te successfully Oil. Net
long age the Democrats, being in a
majority, selected an inexperienced man
for speaker, and suffered severely for
it. They will net thus suffer under
Mr. Faunce, whom we de net doubt will
discharge his duty properly in all its re
lations, and in accord with the pre
neunced spirit of the party and the
times. It does net require a great deal
of sagacity te keep a public man in the
straight path in these days. His course
is plainly marked out for him, and then
is no crooked turn in it. -In the present
revolution the people are up. Democracy
has asserted itself. There is no danger
of present trouble from bosses. The vig
ilance which is the price of liberty is
aroused, and the rights of the people are
reasonably safe in any intelligent hands.
There is no politician se dull as net te
read the popular impulse and te recog
nize its strength, nor se obstinate and
foolish as te refuse te heed it. Even
Senater Cameren has come te appreciate
it, and when he is taught everyone else
must have learned. The Republican
senators did net even venture en a cau
cus ; which has heretofore been a fun
damental party institution and the
fulcrum of the bosses. Though
the Stalwart senators are in tin
majority they did net assume te coerce
the votes of the Independents upon the
theory, which has all along been held te
b9 a political axiom, that it was their
political duty te yield te the voice of the
majority of their party associates. What
ever may be the outcome of the ltepub
lican taugle in the Senate, the people of
the slate may congratulate- themselves
that their interests are safe. It does
net particularly matter te them whether
Stalwart or Independent irets the
upper hand in the struggle in the
Senate. A Stalwart chairman will be
as innocuous as auy ether. The claws of
the bosses have been cut, and for the
nonce they are as innocent as lambs.
It is really wonderful hew the wild beasts
have disappeared from the forests, and
hew peaceful the adjacent pasture fields
arc in which the shepherds tend their
ilecks. The wolves have put en sheeph'
clothing and sheepish hearts and don't
ask for anything mere than sheers1
pasture. The shepherds are having an
easy time of it.
Unjust Accusations.
The day's chronicle h full of thu re
cord of sudden deaths. Commissioner
Baldwin dies in the street and another
Philudelphiau dies at bin table while
speaking of the death of Baldwin, his
friend. The dean of the diplomatic
corps dies in the White Heuse, after at
tending te his duty of making the Xew
Year presentation of the diplomats te
the president. Gambetta's death, though
net se unforeseen, still comes withsud
dennesste enforce the impression of the
exceeding uncertainty of life.
Mr. Baldwin's death was particularly
sad, since there is no room te doubt
that it was immediately caused by the
mental anguish te which he ha3 been
subjected, under the charges against
him, which were in their graver accu
sations unjust te him. He was net only
net a bad man, but he was really a geed
one, with honest intentions and an
earnest desire te de his official duty.
He was chargeable with mistakes,but neL
with dishonest intentions ; his death ges
a great way in his defense ; for a man
witha nature .-te sensitive te reproaches
as his is seen te be could net well have
been the persistent wrong-deer
that he was charged with beimr.
His death furnishes a needed warning
te these who are ever ready te charge
evil upon their neighbors and te believe
it of them without sufficient cause.
One of the great evils of the day is the
habit of defamation which is current.
It naturally runs strongly along in polit
ical circles with the reform movement
which is new en a high horse. Se much
evil doing lias been uncovered in official
quarters that it is readily believed te
exist everywhere. The cause of reform
will be injured by unjust aspersions, and
there is need of greater discrimination.
The newspapers especially will be sure
te come under the harrow of an indig
nant public sentiment that will make
them smart, if they are net mere careful
te be sure of their spicy items of per
sonal information before they print
them.
The death of Gambetta is assumed te
lessen the chance of the stability of the
republican government of France,
probably because he was its recognized
champion. But if it is se lightly founded
that the death of one man can at all
affect it, then it was tee lightly built te
liave been of long endurance had he
lived. The French people are net trusted
as geed republican material, since they
have failed te cling te their repub
lican liberty when they had it in posses
sion. Quite possibly the dissolution of
the French republic only awaits the
man and the hour ; but both arc likely
te be sometime in coming.
P. Gray Meek, who has been selected
as the clerk of the Heuse, is an excellent
choice. He is the editor of the Belle Belle
fente Watchman, one of the best news
papers in the state, and is a man of much
force aud geed judgment. He may be
relied upon te see that the duties of his
office are discharged efficiently and hen.
estly. He is a much superior man te the I
. .
ordinary run et legislative ellicers, and
will adorn the clerkship rather than fce
adorned by it.
jtAmbetta died lrem the result of a
pistol shot wound lninenand, mysten-
euslv received. It is said there was :i
Tcnmnn in if. sr.mfiwhfirfi nnrl if-, is f
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improbable, as great men are weak men,
and French great men particularly.
PERSONAL,
Mi:. W. H. Vaxdebbilt will sail en
Saturday next for Havana. He has told
an interviewer that it is a kind of Gilpin
excursion. He is en pleasure bent. i
Governer Butler's " inauguration
dinner " will be given by the Massachu
setts Democratic state central committee .
en the 8th intant, the anniversary of the
battle of New Orleans.
Maurice Peirsen, the young pupil of
Cabanel, whose death is announced, was '
ene of the most premising rising artists of
France, and was held m high esteem ny ,
an uis icnew proiessienai cemniucs. (
Bjerksterne Bjokxsen believes
that j
1ia will livft te a. verv old aire. His famiiv
is noted for longevity. His grandfather
lived te be one hundred years old aud re
tained all his faculties te the last.
Senater Legan, after making a three
hours' speech the ether day, attended a
dinner party, and then, at midnight, was
of the lightest, brightest and most grace
ful of dancers of the lancers.
Miss Mitchell, daughter of the ex
senator from Oregon, is ene of the most
beautiful young ladies in Washington. At
a recent german she were a combination
of white satin aud tulle looped with clus
ters of snowballs.
Prikce Aiusl'eawa expects te sail from
San Francisce te Japan en the 9th inst.
He summed up his impressions of Araer
ica for the bencht of a Chicago reporter,
with the remark : " Yours is a great coun
try and we have only the little island of
Japan."
Miss M. C. Themas, of Baltimore, has
wen at tne university of Zurich the de
gree of doctor of philosophy, "sumina
cum laude," the highest honor ever grant
ad there. She received her elementary
education in Baltimere and afterwards
graduated at Cernell university.
Gen. W. II. Ecter, who died at Tex
arkana a few days age, was a man of im
portance en New Year's day just twenty
years age. Then he realized, as he tied
up his wounds, that with Barnes and Mc
Nair, he hat? just routed a grand array,
chasing thousands through the cedars of
Stene's river.
Princess Louise has regular features, a
fine complexion and superb shoulders, and
has little or no resemblance te the old
royal family, but a geed deal te the house
of Saxony. She has quick wit, line in
slincts, is very iiupulbive and very self
denying. She has as decided a talent for
housekeeping as for the line arts, in whose
practice she excels.
Mm:. Nilsson's tour west of the .Mis
sissippi certainly has been successful. On
her return from San Francisce she was
given a reception at Denver aud that re re re
coptien was outdone by a later wclcome
at Kausas City. " See, the singing hero
ine comes !" might have been marked in
red ink across the issue of the Kausas
City Times, which gave up a whole page
te the chat about the prima denna.
Sionei: Yerdi, the veteran composer,
intends te feuitd at Busscte, in his native
statoef Parma, a hospital for the relief of
the suffering peer. The nearest establish
ment of the kind is at Piacenza, seme
miles away, and Mek or injured people en
their way thither have frequently died
from exhaustion. The new hospital will
be called the Ospedale Verdi, and will be
supplied by the founder with the neces
sary furniture, appliances, and medical
stoics.
t'LEVJiLAXD IN OlfrJCE.
The Inauguration Ceremonies at Albany
The Executive's AailrenH.
The inauguration of Governer Cleveland,
of New Yerk, at Albany, drew a large
number et spectators te the capital Mon
day. It had been announced that the for
mality of cards of admission would be dis
pensed with, but ihe throng in the budd
ing was se great long before the hour set
for the inauguration, that a cheek was at
tcmptedJiy a Jato and imperfect issuance
of the ticket necessitated the cm.
pleyinent of an additional force of
policemen, but unsuccessfully. At 10
o'clock the corridors and lobbies begau te
fill and a grand rush was made for the
Senate chamber the seanc of the proposed
ceremonies. Knets of policemen were
stationed at, every elevator aud stairway
and at each of the several entrances te the
Seuate chamber aud its galleries, but
despite the efforts looking toward discrim
ination the assemblage was imposed with
the previously promulgated idea of infor
mality, aud as a consequence countrymen
with pantaloons in boettops cinshed p.tst
the bewildered deiirguaids, while the
latter were parleying with well-known
senators, assemblymen and officials, who
in many cases gained entrance only after
uuimpeachable proofs of identity. At 11
o'clock the galleries were crowded, the
aisle steps being utilized for scats. The
lloer of the chamber at this time was also
well-filled and the space allotted te the
incoming celebrities was being trespassed
upon. There were present many bnlliaut
ly dressed ladies. Miss Cernell, Mrs. Adju
tant General Famswerth and daughter and
ethers were seated en the left of the pres
ident's desk. Auditor Place, Attorney
General Itussell, Superintendent of Public
Works Dutcher, Docter David Murray,
Secretary of the Beaul of Kegeuts ; ex
Adjutant General J. B. Woodward, ex
Judge Advocate Gcueral Charles Hughes,
W. S. Bissel, Governer Cleveland's law
partner, and prominent senators and mem
bers of the Assembly were also scattered
here and there. At ten minutes past
eleven o'clock cries of " hats off"' wure
heard in the main corridor aud policemen
quickly niade a passageway through the
swaying crowd which blocked up themaiu
entrance. Superintendent ei the Capitel
Eaten appeared, conducting Rev. Geerge
W. Dean, chaplain of the Senate, who
was clad in an Episeepaliau robe. Behiud
them came Governer Cernell and Gever
nor-elect Cleveland arm in arm, followed
by their respective executive aud
military staffs. In front of the clerk's
desk the parties separated Governer Cor Cer
nell advanced te the right aud Governor Governer
elect Cleveland te the left. The chaplain
mounted te the president's desk followed
by the governor:;, the staff being se dis
posed that the aids-dc-cainp met in the
centre of the lloer, thus forming an ollipse.
All this was neatly effected, aud the scene
as the chaplain elfered prayer, was im
pressive. The gay uniforms of the new
staff, duplicates of these of the old, were
worn with grace and dignity, and the per
sonnel of the incoming compared favor
ably with that of theso whose oflice was
new expiring. At the conclusion of the
invocation secretary of state, Jeseph B.
Carr, advanced and administered te Mr.
Cleveland the oath of office. Mr. Clove Cleve
laud made a firm response, aud became a
governor.
SMaure.1;.
Sevouiy-One
Deaths in
Week.
Uuliimore Last
Sinallpe is said te be very prevalcut in
the castcra and southern sections of Balti Balti Balti
eoeo, but is confined principally te locali
ties bordering en the river freuts. Seventy-one
deaths from smallpox were
reported for the week ending last Satur
day. Monday a case occurred in the city
jail, aud after a meeting of the beard of
visitors, ever three hundred prisoners con-
uueu ler miner euen.es were discharged.
The general impression is that the preva
-uw w& - wf a. vivujvj TTUiu uifi.i . I iri-ii
leuce et tne disease is owing te the ineffi
ciency and negligence of the health
department.
Au .Editor' Accidental Heath.
Selma, Ala., was shocked by the sudden
death, Monday morning, through an ever
"ose el chloroform, of jur. Harry W.
MS11' " CUlter 01 IIIO jyermng
Ifll A. 1?i . .-
J-imcs. lie was a brilliant young writer
and was regarded as ene of the best local
editors in the Seuth.
A WOMAN'S CRIMES.
liOKlilliLK UEATHBtU CONFESSION.
Aotinewledglug T hat She Killed Her Flrat
uu-tband, her Child, a Mae, and Tried,
te Kill Her Present Husband.
Mrs. Emma Stillwell, who lies en her
deathbed in Waterford, Ohie, has made a
most remarkable confession of crime. She
states that she assisted in the murder of
her first husband and child ; that she at
tempted her second husband's life, and
that she killed a transient boarder in the
family. The confession, which was taken
down from her lips, is se horrible that but
for corroborating testimony it would seem
mero like the faucy of a diseased mind
than a story of real life. The invalid,
Emma Stillwell, arrived at the home of
her husband's father, F. M. Stillwell, at
Waterford, Nev. 13, suffering from lung
disease, accompanied by her infant child,
nine months old. Her condition rapidly
becoming worse, her husband, a freight
conductor en the Chicago, Burlingteu &
Quincy railroad, at Ottumwa, Iowa, was
telegraphed for and arrived home en the
seventh. On the Sunday following the
wife informed him that, knowing herself
te he a dying woman, she had a confes
sion te make, and imploring his pardon
related her horrible tale.
She said and has repeated the statement
since, that before her acquaintance with
her husband she was married when fifteen
years old at Maryville, Nedbury county,
Me., te Ben Swigert, te whom she had
two children, Iu Marcu, leif, assisted
by her brether, Chester Heard, and her
mother, she murdered her husband, whom
they believed te have had considerable
money. They were arrested for the
crime, but were discharged for lack of
cvidcuce, the general belief being that
Swigert came te his death in a drunken fit.
After the death of her husband the family
kept a bearding house at Maryville for
seme time, and a few months after the
first murder the same trio murdeicd a
transient boarder, whose name she was
unable te recollect. She told what dispo
sition was inade of the body, saying that
it was thrown into a deep ravine near the
town where it was found nearly a year
later, but that they were unsuspected of
the crime.
She married her present husband, thou
a brakeman en the Kansas, St. Jee and
Council Bluff's railway, in January, 1878,
the family seen after removing te Rule,
Nebraska, where she confesses that in
May, 1880, she strangled their fourtcen-months-old
baby named Gertrudc, by the
assistance of her aunt, a woman named
Betsey Sumstine, for the reason that it
was sickly and she thought she would
have mere liberty if it was dead. She do de
scribed hew the horrible deed was accom
plished, the aunt making a strong tea
from peach leaves, which she poured down
the baby's threat, while the unnatural
mother held the baby, assisting iu its
death by strangling it with her hand.
Mrs. Stillwell further informed her her
rifled husband of making three different
attempts te take bis life, the object being
te obtain a small insurance he was carry
ing in her favor, and related details which
leave no doubt iu his mind that his life
was saved each time by the merest acci
dent. The husband bere the terrible
secret as long as he was able. Then en
Tuesday last four of the best men of the
neighborhood, including a minister and a
justice of the peace, were called in aud the
confession repeated te them, the wife
signing the statement. The mother of
the woman received fatal injuries in a
railroad accident in March, 1881, while
traveling from Itule te Ottumwa, the
wife sayt, for the avowed purpose of con cen con
cectiug a plan te kill her present bus
band.
A letter was received by Mr. Stillwell
from Chester Heard, the woman's brother
dated December 20, in which he expressed
the utmost anxiety te knew if his sister
was dead, and if she had told anything
about him, saying he could nut rest until
he heard. The woman is very weak aud
can scarcely speak abeve a whisper, and
when lequcstcd te lcpeat her story te a
correspondent was greatly alarmed, fear
ing that officers weic present te arrest her.
Upen being assured that they were friends
she again related her story and declared
it te be true in every particular.
SHOT ilVA POLICEMAN.
1 .-(changing Shots With Vcllew-Ullk-ci-H r
the KusK '.TiviLiis' Victim.
At 12 o'eleck Monday night a mau ap
peared at the Tenth district station house,
Philadelphia, te which Officer Jarvis, the
victim of the Rusk twins, belengs, and
calling the sergeant of police eutside in
formed him that a man en Frent street
had presented a ceuple of revolvers at his
head aud asked him if he was a policeman.
Upeub.iiig told no he replied : " It is
geed you are net." The sergeant warned
the officers aud before they reached Frent
street they heard shots fired. Sub-officer
Mulvey was fired upon and only saved his
life by dropping down behind a hurse
trough. I he efhears hastened te the spot
and, a3 they approached, bullets began te
whizz about their heads. They fired in
return, Officer Mulvey's shots wounding
the niau.in the back and leg. The officers
eventually succeeded in surrounding and
overpowering the man, who was found te
be Jehn Ceughlhi, who gave his residence
at 211 Jeffersen street. He was taken te
the station, aud, being feuud intoxicated,
was put into a cell and locked up, it being
thought thai Ins wounds wero net danger
eus, ceughmi is ituewu te the pelice as a
do?jt.'iate character. About ene ye.u- age
he aud " Reddy " MeCarty wure arrested
for the part they took in a stabbing affray
at Second and Master streets, in which
four or five men were wounded.
It is iuoie generally believed, however,
that Mulvey was mistaken for Officer
Jarvis, en whose beat he was and for
whom he was acting as a substitute. The
report, it is said, get around that Jarvis
was sufficiently cured te rcsume work.
A MUROKltEK lUOlSlSKU.
Xaken I'ren the Jail at Tazeweil Court
Heuse and Middled With isuliets.
Information has just reached Abington,
Va., that Bluferd Smith, colored, was
taken from the jail at Tazewell Court
Heuse last Saturday night by a mob aud
riddled with bullets. On Saturday, Do De
CMiibcr 24. Smith and a young white man
Chailes Kinser, had a dispute about a
woman. The negre drew a knife and
slabbed Kinser several limes. Although
fearfully wounded Kinzcr made a desper
ate effort te defend himself. He drew a
pistol and followed the assailaut some
distance, but fell te the ground from the
less of bleed aud died shortly afterwards.
Smith attempted te escape, but was ar
rested by Mr. Jenkins, the editor of the
Jeffersenville Z'imcs. The murder created
intense excitement and threats of lynching
tne negre were ircciy indulged in. Satur
day nighc about half-past one" a mob
visited the jail. While seme of their
number attracted the attention of the
jailer the balance of the crowd secured
their prisoner and made off with him.
The wife of the jailer discovered what had
been done and followed the crowd a short
distauce, firing a pistol in her efforts te
slop the mob. Finding that they were
about te be frustrated, the lynchers emp
tied the contents of their revolvers into
the body of the murderer. Three balls
struck Smith, producing fearlul wounds.
The negre survived until 5 o'clock Sunday
morning, when he died.
A YOU SO ItlOTitDIt'fc CKUIK.
Centesslnjj te the Corener That She Dronueu
Her New-ltern lniant.
Maria Keyser, aged 21, a handsome
young woman is employed as a nurse in J
the family of Levi Dierolf, Leng Swamp1
township near Mertztown. Monday morn
ing the dead body of a newly-born male
child was found in a creek near Dierolf 's
house. Dr. Wertz made a hydrostatic test
aad found that the infant lived after birth.
The coreruer and his jury visited Dierolf s
heuse and went up stairs te Miss Keyst-r's
bedroom. When the dead body of the
child was shown her she became deeply
affected and made a full confession. She
said she had become a mother before day
light ; that she was alene at the time ; that
she walked about two hundered yards te a
creek and threw the child in the water ;
that it lived from the time it was born
until bIie threw it in ; that she walked back
te the house and went up stairs unassisted
and then went te bed, where she still re
mains. She w,ill be arrested when 6he can
be safely removed. She makes no state
ment as te the paternity of the child.
1WN1U IN A CHUlOJH.
The Werk of Seme Mischievous Uejh With
a Cannen Twe Feet Leng.
During the height of watch-meeting
services iu the Cotten street Reformed
Evaugelical church at midnight, at Read
ing, a panic was caused by au explosion
in front of the church. A shower of
broken glass fell en the congregatiea
and iu a few seconds the audience room
was filled with smoke. The congregation
was very large, consisting mostly of
women and children. They shrieked in
alarm, because at the first explosion the
church was shaken aud the front windows
were smashed. Order was finally restored
bofero any ene was tramped in the excito excite
ment. It was subsequently learned that
about twenty mischievous young men had
backed up a cannon twe-aud-a-half feet
long with a two-inch bore quite near te
the front of the church. They then leaded
the cannon with two pounds of powder
and fired it. Owing te the force of the
overcharge, the cannon was hurled with
terrible force acainst the church, crack
ing the wall, shaking the building aud
smashing the windows. Seven of the
offenders were arrested and placed under
bends for court aud warrants were issued
for the arrest of thirteen mero.
A Ulsantceus New Year's Sulute.
At Bethlehem Samuel Heuscr and sev
eral members of Liberty fire company met
at the hosehouso of the company before
midnight Suuday night, for the purpose
of firing salutes in honor of the birth of
the New Year. Ilouser was armed with a
Springfield rifle. Several leads had been
shot off after 12 o'clock. The rille was
leaded for the fourth or fifth time and Mr.
Ilouser went out of the house te fire it.
The rille explode! aud Mr. Heuser is
minus several fingers from the left hand.
The stock of the rille was shattered into
spliuters aud the barrel was split and
twisted. The llesh was tern from Mr.
Ueuser's left hand aud his fingers blown
away. A surgeon amputated a portion of
the baud.
He mentions JJaldwIn and Dlea.
Samuel R. Lentz, 71 years old, died
suddenly at the dinner table at his resi
dence, 1324 Jeffersen street, Philadelphia,
Monday. lie was an invalid and had been
seated at the table but a few minutes,
when, after making a remark about the
suddenness of Commissioner Baldwin's
death, he suddenly leaued back iu his
chair, became uncouscieus and died befoie
a physician arrived. Mr. Lentz served
one term as alderman of the Fiiit ward,
where he was feimerly in the grocery
business, lie served as a deputy collec
tor of delinquent taxes under several re
ceivers of taxes and was recently reap
pointed. Twe years age he was partially
disabled by an apoplectie stroke.
Kllled by a ffallins Window Sash.
Monday morning a daughter of Perry A.
Cenner, of Lackawanick township, this
state, aged 11 years, was scut by her
mother te the house of a near neighbor te
borrow a household utensil. The neigh
bors were net at home, aud all the doers
being locked the child raised a window
and was partly through the opening when
the sash fell, striking her en the back of
the neck. The blew broke her neck, and
when the mother, alarmed by her long
absence, went te leek for the child she
found her lifeless body hanging te the
wiudew.
A fatal Accident.
At Pottsville Christian Bjssler, thir
teen years old, seu of Gabriel Res&ler, a
St. Clair carpet weaver, met with instant
death, Monday morning, while playing
with seme frieuds at a gin iu use atashalt
en Mount Hepe. The boys had weuud
the gin up, and while allowing it te run
down young Besslcr was struck by the
handle and knocked down. II U head
struck a rock se violently that his skull
was fractured, and he died before he could
be carricdhome.
Suicide or a MitHsnclninetts !uyer.
Mayer Samuel Calley, of the city of
Salem, whose term of effiee expired Mon
day, committed suicide Monday afternoon.
He weut home about 13 o'clock and told
his family he was tired and would retire
te his room aud rest. His daughter went
up stairs later te call him and feuud his
lifeless body hanging te the banisters of
the back stairs. He had served two terms
as mayor and was about fifty years old.
WiTe murder In New Jersey.
Information has just beeu received at
Eaten, of a murder committed at Oxford
N. J., last week. Ou Thursday lastChas.
Feley and his wife, who kept a liquor sa
loon at that place, quarreled while intox
icated, aud Feley struck his wife with a
blunt instrument aud theu threw her
down stairs. Mrs. Feley was unconscious
until Saturday, when she died. Feley is
in custody.
lllack italletj iv in.
At New Haven, Conn., City Clerk
James P. Pigatt and Auditor Jehn W.
Lake, who wero elected at the lale city
election, and whose election was contested
by Jehn II. Whiting, who claimed the
clerkship, and Chas. Kimberley, claiming
the position of auditor, ou account of the
" black ballets," were ou Mendivy sworn
into office without opposition Kimberley
delivered the keys te Lake without pro pre
test. Influx or Chinese Women Denied.
F. A. Bee, the Chincse vice consul, de
nies the report of the influx of disreput
able Chincse women into Washington ter
ritory from British Columbia. He says
euly ene woman has se far entered this
country, and she was the wite of a Port
land merchant, since the restriction law
went into force. He reports 20 Chincse
arrivals and 5,000 depar turcs.
The Ferd Urethers Flee Frem Husten.
Tiie Ferd brothers, who bocaine involv
ed in a scrimmage at llerticulturall hall,
Bosten, en Saturday evening, did net wait
te be arrested as their manager agreed
they should, but left en the train for New
Yerk. It is net probable that the pelice
will think it worth while te bring them
back.
Tne Stock Yard.
The receipts of cattle, lierse3, hogs aud
sheep at the Lancaster stock yards from
Jan. 1st te Dee. 31', 1882, as reported by
Mr. James Stewart, proprietor, and Mr. J.
J. Keenan, superintendent, wero as fel
lows :
7,820
Cattle, 30,172 : horses, 2,920 : hess.
sheep, 0,028.
Unpaid Itecerds.
Ex-Recorder J. P. Geed, having retired
from public effiee aud being desirous of
closing up his official business, has left all
unpaid papers recorded by him at Aldor Alder
man Spurrier's office, where these entitled
te them can obtain them without extra
costs, provided they lift them at once.
Sent Out.
Alderman Barr sent five drauks te jail
for 5 days each.
TOBACCO NEWS.
CONDITION OF THE HOME AIAKKKT
Trade Dull and Dealers Nervous New Yerk
aua Philadelphia Markets The Su-
. matra Scare.
The condition of the Lancaster market
is practically unchanged. There are but
few foreign buyers here aud transactions
are comparatively light. The sales in this
city for the past week were between 200
and 300 cases of 1SS0 and 1S81 leaf. It is
reported that Mr. A. Cellins, ef Marietta.
has sold his packing of 1880 te Messrs.
Spingarn, ou private terms. These are
the euly sales that have beeu reported.
During the late term of damp weather
our farmers took from the poles large
quantities of the "St leaf. Perhaps one
half of the crop was taken down, and a
zoedly proportion of it has been stripped.
They are waiting for customers, but the
customers are waiting te see what Con
gress is going te de relative te remeviug
the revenue tax from domestic tobacco
aud placing a high import tax en foreign
tobacco. Our home glowers and dealers
are especially nervous regarding Sumatra
tobacco, and many of them insist that a
prohibitory tax should be placed upon it.
The sentiments contained in the memorial
presented by the tobacco dealers of this
city ae largely shared by dealers and
growers throughout this ceunty,aud indeed
interested parties in all tobacco growing
sections. They fear that the fine Sumatra
leaf will drive the ecaiser American lsaf
out of the mat het. Ilammerstein, of the
New Yerk Tohicce Journal , is the leader
in the crusade against Sumatra. In a
speech made before the New England
tobacco growers and dealers at Hartferd
last week he said :
"And new that the old time duty of 10
per cent will bedoneaway within January
next, the importations of Sumatra already
designed for the United States in the
mouth of Jauuary next will perhaps be ue
less than 10,000 cases. Small, flimsy aud
diminutive looking as this Sumatra leeks
it is streug enough le strangle the tobacco
culture of the United States ! Yeu will
be naturally eager te knew :
"Why his Sumatra tobacco taken such
firm held in this country ? and
"What means must be adopted te crush
its approaching supremacy iu the leaf
trade .'
''The causes which brought about the
success of Sumatra in this country were :
1. Its line colors and line texture.
2. Its cheapness compared with fine teed
leaf wrappers, ene pound of the former
being equal te four of the latter.
3. It needs no resweating.
4. It is bought re weighed.
.1. It saves wages.
"But this tobacco has no quality. Its
geed leeks sell it. The American smoker
as a whole is totally obvious te the quality
of a cigar. He smokes because he is used
te smoking, lie is nervous and restlcrs
by nature When he cats he eats quickly
aud without; enjoyment ; he smokes nerv
ously without pleasure. Therefore as long
as a cigar leeks palatable and does net
eause him any inceuveuience, he is satis
fied. A geed looking bad cigar attracts
him ; a bad looking line cigar he abhors.
Give him a handseme cigar and tell him
it is imported aud he'll go into extacies
ever it, though the cigar may have been
made iu Kalamaze with mustard seed
for fillers."
The New Yerk Tobacco Leaf takes a
much mero hopeful view of the situation.
After summing up the importation of
Sumatra tobacco for the past year it says:
"The aggregate of these figures is atritle
ever a million pounds!, and we appeal te
grewc-s if it is net ludicrous te be con
cerned about such a small item in view of
the fact that our cigar and tobacco manu
facturers are annually using about 80,
000,000 pounds of seed leaf. Multiply the
comparative wrapping capacity of Suma
tra by three or four, as may suit, and what
docs the whele thing amount te ? Why,
the talk and scare seem absurd te rational
people.
Ge en with your work of raising geed
seed leaf, gentlemen growers, aud you
need net trouble yourselves about any
foreign competitors Sumatra, Havana,
Mexican or Seuth American. Keep t6
gcther in the association you have formed
aud you are and will be masters of the
situation against allcemers.
'We judge Congress will be reluctant te
perpetrate se gross a breach of interna
tional comity as te levy a duty of ene
dollar a pound en tobaccos coming from
ether countries than Cuba, and leave the
Cuban tobacco duty at thirty-live cents a
pound. Natieual legislation must be con
sistent. "In the internal revenue taxes the grower
will find rather than iu competing tobac
cos, the main seurce of their present
grievances. The demand for their pro
duct the past year has beeu unsatisfactory,
net en account of Sumatra tobacco, but
because of tax burdens, appprehensien
aud agitation, because recent growths
have net been quite up te trade require
ments, and because, moreover, this has
been the regularly alternating off year in
the tobacco markets of the world. Last
year seed leaf sold iu New Yerk te the
text of 130,0 cases ; this year the sales
will net exceed, probably, 93,000 cases,
and the records heie for Ui past ten years
show similar fluctuations."
Uana' Kepert.
Sales of seed leaf tobacco reported by J.
S. Gans' Seu & Ce., tobacco brokers, Ne.
131 Water street. New lerk, for the week
endiue Jan. 1, 1883 :
1,300 cases 1S80, Pennsylvania, 8'(rtU;
130 cases 18S1, New England, 15()20 ;
200 cases 1881, Ohie, 37 ; 100 cases sun
dries, 318. Total, 2,030 cases.
NKW YOICK MAKKKT.
Fur the Week Kndlne Saturday, December
30. lO A. at.
U. S. Tobacco Journal.
Just as the old year is about te die the
trade seemingly begins te ceme te life.
A geed speculative movement has set in,
which certainly shows that there exists
confidence in the future of the market.
While the transactions were net very large
inquiries were numerous. Fer old stock
especially a strong demand is shown, and
wherever old goods are offered at reason
able figures a buyer can be secured. It is
claimed that these transactions are net
remunerative te the sellers. But when
ene takes into consideration the stagna
tion iu manufacturing circles and the
inroads Sumatra has been making, the
prices obtained are better than was te be
expected. There exists every reasonable
prospect that very seen a high duty will
check the Sumatra doluge and ence mere
cenfine the demands of the trade and
public te seed leaf and Havana ; but as
long as heavy importations like theso at
present being received continue te arrive
we predict that of all the '81 tobaccos in
the market only the absolutely fine will
bring anything like a profit te the packer,
while theso holding inferior grades will
surely meet with great less.
The sales of the week consisted of the
following :
Pennsylvania crop 18801,500 cases, at
8 te 14 cents.
Connecticut crop 1880250 cases, wrap
pers, p. t.
Crep 1831300 cases wrapperi?, af 13 te
27 cents.
Ohie crop 1881200 cases at 32 te 7
cents.
Sumatra A heavy business has been
done, sales numbering about 400 bales.
Dark and large goods still rule as high as
$1.33 te $1.40. Medium grades can be had
at $1 te $1.20.
gavana Market active Exclusive of
a transfer of 1,200 bales, about 300 bales
changed hands. Prices firm.
The Philadelphia Karkct.
Seed Leaf The amount of goods sold
at this time is exceedingly limited ; all
grades of cigar leaf are bought euly if
actually in want. The stock in the hands
of manufacturers is fast being used up, se
that the settlement of the tax questieu
must inake what is termed a " boem'' iu
demand, when such action is officially pro
mulgated. Prices are fairly steady. Seme
packers desire te see hew the 18S2 crop of
Pennsylvania leeks ; if net held tee high
by farmers it cm be sold.
" Havana tobacco is llewiug in from Ha
vana, but moving out much slower than
usual.
LOUliT I'KOCEEDINUS.
What Wan Dane tilt Morning Kllclirl-t
lieu a New Trial.
Court met this morning at 9 o'clock,
with both judges present.
Elizabeth (Juiuu, of this city was di
vorced from her hiubaud, Wm. Quiun, ou
the grounds of desertion.
Elizabeth Myers, of Eden township,
was divorced from her husband, II.
Franklin Myers, ou the grounds of deser
tion, cruel treatment, &c.
MaryE. Harner, efManheim, was di
vorced from her husband, Samuel Harner.
en the grounds of desertion.
Godfrey S. Stengley, a disabled soldier,
was granted a license te peddle.
Iu the case of Frank Kilchrist, who was
convicted of rape upon Lizzie McCIarreu,
the rule for a new trial was made absolute
aud a new trial granted.
The tavern license of Emanuel Zimnier
inau was transferred te Frank G. Carpen
ter. The license of Frank G. Carpenter, in
Elizabeth township, was transferred te
Jacob W. Diehm. That of Hcury R.
Eberly, of East Cocalico, was transferred
te James W. Lape.
Jeseph Snyder who was arrested ou
process in Yerk, was ordered te pay the
costs of attachment and enter into new
bail for trial at court. He is charged with
assault aud battery aud at the last court
failed te appear.
The court revoked the order made July
10, 1877, disapproving aud rejecting that
portion of North Lime sticet, between
James aud Lemeu, at which the Lancas
ter cemetery extends into it, aud adopted
that part of the erigiual plan submitted
by the city engineer, which was disap
proved by the court and which lays out
aud straightens this street, as laid ut aud
submitted by the city engitieer ou the
original plan.
Mrs. A. II. Resenstcin was declared a
feme sole trader, and is entitled te her own
soparate earnings.
.
TENTH ANNIVCKSAKY.
The New Helland " Clarien" Celehnitea Un
Olrthduy.
Gee. II. Ranck, esq., editor and proprie
tor of the New Helland Clarien, celebrated
the tenth anniversary of his paper en Mon
day by giving a dinner at his residence te
the employees of the oflice aud their wives
and M. D. Mull, esq., editor of the Voice,
and 13. II. Burkhelder, editor of the Guid
ing Star. Cevera were laid for sixteen
persons aud the tabic decorations of
pyramids of tropical fruits entwined
with evergreen and smilax pre
sented a handseme appcarance The
menu was ample aud was discussed by
the guests with much fervor. When the
after-dinner speeches wero in order a
happy incident eccurred. Mr. I. V Mil
ler, foreman, arese aud presented Mr.
Ranck with an elegant plated deer plate,
with his name beautifully engraved upon
it. It was a complete surprise te the
editor, who returned his thanks,
however, with a few appropriate
remarks. Iu celebrating the eighteenth
anniversary of the Clarien Mr. Ranck
had geed reasons te observo the
day in some such manner, as it has, under
his careful management, grown te be a
local newspaper second te none iu the
county outside of Lancaster. And it is te
dell' the infant socks aud put ou beets the
coming year, by being enlarged and put
ting mero labor en the editorial aud local
department introducing uew features in
the way of news that will tend te make it
a county ppcr, as it tis new the pappr
most sought after in the eastern end. We
congratulate Mr. Ranck upon his success
and hepe tne future may grew still
brighter.
DJtDMOKE.
Wedding Kt'lln in Hie LenerEnil-A Cen
.tenarlau Dead.
Our neighborhood's great social event
for this winter was the marriage of Miss
Lizzie Drenuen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James Drennen, te Mr. Wm. J. Ankriin,
en Thursday of last week. The ceremony
was performed at 4 o'clock in the evening
by Rev. Mr. Turner, of Little Britain,
assisted by Rev. Jehn Galbreath, of Chest
nut Level, and the large number of friends
present cau testify te the geed work being
very well done, indeed. After congratu
lations came the elegant and seemingly
never-ending supper, of which about ene
hundred aud fifteen or twenty partook in
such alarming quantities, that dreams of
turkcy-beucs, oysters, cakes, fruits, &c.,
must have been numerous.
The young ceuple received an unusually
la go number of beautiful presents, com cem
prrsing almost everything geed te use and
faiirtosee, lefcween a pincushion and a
silver sorvice.
Besides the above, since last writing, we
have bad Themas Scott and Clara Rutter,
and William Penuy and Mary Beckius,
married, te all of whom, of course, has
come much happiness.
Our eldest resident died last week. Her
name was Mrs. Hannah Brown ; her resi
dence in Fulton township near Wakefield;
her age one hundred and three and net
quite enc-lutlf years. Thanks te her
wonderful health and powers of locomo
tion she has kept out of his reach for a
long while, 'but Old Death caught up at
last.
The J..iederKranz, Sociable.
Last evening the Liedcrkranz held their
usual New Year's seeiaOle, and the at
tendance was very large. In the early
part of the evening a line concert was
given which was listened te and enjoyed
by a large audience. The following was
the programme .
PARTI.
I.icdcrkranz Munch I'. I.essu.
ORCHESTRA.
JaU Clier Ilutteu
l.IKUERKUANZ.
IJUS3 Sole : Thu Monks et Old S. U lever
MR. H. MELMNUER.
Dcr Frolio Wandersmann E. S. Engelheri'
QUARTETTE.
PART 1 1.
Dcutschland's-Iiinper A.ir F. Aht
IilEDKRKRAN'Z & ORCHESTRA.
Mcin I.uojield Couplet
MR. WM. KOEULER,
Keujalir's Sliiisch Unllinsen
ORCllE-jTRA.
Dcr Abscbicil K. .S. Knclbcr '
QUARTETTE.
Leibcslrcudeu Walztsr Dr. Veerater
HEDERKRANZ.
After the concert the dancing began aud
was kept up until a late hour.
Death of a Fermer Lancaster Ceunlian.
.). J. Smith, of the firm of J. J. Smith
& Sen, manufacturers and dealers iu phos
phate and chemicals, died at his residence
in New Windser, Maryland, en Wednes
day last. Mr. Smith had been a resident
of our county some years age and from
here moved te New Windser, where he
engaged in the manufacture of fertilizers.
He was a man of pleasing address and
geed business qualities. He leaves a
family, and a host of friends both in this
county and his own state te mourn his
less.
m
Cene East.
Miss Alice Curry, of this city, accem
panicd by her sister, Mrs. Fielding, of
Philadelphia, left Lancaster at an early
hour this morning for Tariffville, near
Hartferd, Conn., where they will here
after make their home.
THE ASSEMBLY.
A IltD LETTEK IN THE SOCIAL KOSTEK
The Stevens Heuse 'jrliruiigetl Willi Twe
Hundred Merry Maker. Who Speed
the Fleettuc Ueur te the Music
el the Dance.
The annual assembly at the Steveus
house last night was the centre of ene of
the most brilliaut social gatherings that
has occurred iu Lancaster for a long time.
Looked forward te with eager expectancy
by these of the community who never
emit the opportunity of sharing in the
pleasure et this event, and who comprise
seme of the highest elements of Beciety
here, its accomplishment may readily be
conceded te have fully met the anticipa
tiens alike ei the management aud et tue
two hundred or mere guests whom they
se royally entertaiued during the fast
tleetiug hours of a night that will lenjj" D0
remembered as one of unalloyed pleasure.
Early in the evening the streets were
thronged with coaches running hither and
thither in various quarters of the city,
aud all having the Stevens house as their
objective point. The arriving guests
alighted at the West King street cntrance
of the hotel, aud a curious crowd had
collected areuud the deer te catch a
passing glimpse of what was going en.
Upstairs the scene was all gaiety and ani
mation. The large dining room had been
cleared and transformed for the uonce
into au ideal ball room. A platform for
the orchestra had been erected en the
King street side, and this was draped
with tlags, while the chandeliers were
gracefully festooned with smilax and ether
trailing plants. Several rooms were
roserved for the use of the quests as dress
ing apartments, and as rapidly as they ar
rived they were escorted by seme of the
iudefatigable cemmittee en reception te
these improvised toilet chambers, the ar
rangements in this respect as in all ethers
being admirably designed as regards,
convenience and efficiency.
Shortly after nine o'clock, aud while
the guests were still arriving, Tayler's
full orchestra struck up the grand promo premo prome
uade march, which was Ird by J. L.
Steinmetz, esq., master of ceremonies.
The soene en the fleer was
at this time most inspiriting, the ele
gant toilets of the ladies as they mingled
seme of them iu vivid contrast, yet withal
in perfect harmony in respect te taste and
Tidiness, forming a perfect kaleidoscepo
of beauty of which the cye never wearied.
It is prebable that in all the previous his
tory of Stevens heuse assemblies, the
dressing of last night has never been sur
passed. Delicately tinted silks and satius
aud ether fabrics of softest texture, gar
niturcd with laces and flowers, set
off many a graceful form te its
best advantage, while diamonds aud
ether gems gleaming at fair threats or en
symmetrically rounded arms gave added
brilliancy and richness te a scene that
could net but impress the spectator as the
highest development, of fashion's mystical
art. The company included the best
known aud most distinguished of Lancas
ter's society people, both of town aud
county, together with a sprinkling of
guests from New Yerk, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Bosten, Ilarrisburg, Downing
town aud ether places. Altogether there
were perhaps two hundred ladies and gen
tlemen present and a netable feature of
the occasion was the number of married
peuple who entered into the spirit of the
occasion with a zest scarcely inferior te
that displayed by the youngsters apparent
ly net yet out of their teens.
With hardly a cessation the music con
tinued from the time lha grand march was
had until half past, three in the morning,
the hour when the last quadrille was
danced aud the company finally dispersed.
The veluptuuiis symphonies of Strauss
aud the soft cadences of Waldtcufel, ren
dcied as only Tayler himself knows hew,
furnished almost uninterrupted inspira
tion te the graceful figures that floated
areuud the room in the poetry of motion,
while ever aud anon the sharp accentua
tion of the quadrille lent variety te the
pregramme, aud furnished the opportuni
ty for these who gain mero of pleasure in
the measured movements of the lanciers
than they are able te find in the mazes et
the waltz.
The tables were set in the bread, seuti'
hallway of the hotel, which leads from the
dining room te the corridor, en which the
parlor opens. There were perhaps eight
or ten tables, all groaning under their
weight of geed things, and from 10 until
2 they were kept constantly set, and the
tiicd dancers were afforded opportunity of
refreshing exhausted nature from the
viands afforded by the following
MENU.
OTSTKRS.
Raw. Fried. Eecalnncd.
Chicken CreqiiutUM.
Chicken hul'id.
:em.
Cell Turkey.
Celd limn.
Celd Teiifi'if.
'Jermjtl Rett.
icrs.
VauUIa. Bisque.
Water Ice.
FAVIT.
Oi aiius. Bananas. Uruicfa
CeIIcp.
A novelty in the menu cards, which
were very handsomely printed iu colors,
was that each had an imitation
wish-bone stuck through the top of it, thai
looked for all the world like the genuine
article iu place and held by a small silk
bow. The card was handsome and unique.
During the entire evening the parlors
were open for the accommodation of the
guests and thither many had receurse
when tired of dancing, or else whiled away
the happy hours in promenading the cor cer cor
diders, while the occasional pepping of a
champagne cork off in the direction of the
tables lent merry accompaniment. te the
strains of the music as they issued forth
from the heated ball room.
The numbers of the last quadrille and
the flnaljerder te ' 'promenade all" sounded
at half-past three and terminated
what was a thoroughly delightful social
event, thu success of which is due te the
following able beard of managers :
Messrs. Samuel H. Reynolds. J. L.
Steinmetz, Samuel II. Price. P. Eck.
Slay maker, B. J. McGrann, J. E. Malone,
I). G. Eshlenean, S. "W. Aitick, Chas.
II. Lecher, 15. F. Brcneman. Dr. Henry
Carrenter, W. J. Ferdncy, R. A. Malene,
James M. Bmkc and Mayer Jehn T. Mac
Gonigle. KN1UUTS -Olf FVTUIAH,
lu&tallatlen ei Ofllcem.
The following officers-elect of Laucastcr
ledge, Ne. 3, K. of P., were duly instal
led for the ensuing term last evening by
District Deputy Grand Chancellor J. B.
Markley, of the southern district of Lan
caster county : P. Ch., II. II. llolten ;
Ch. Cem., Jehn L. Vegan ; V. Ch., Jehn
A. Gable ; Prelate, C. V. Lichty ; M. of
E., Jehn Baruhart ; M. of F., Chas. II.
Brown ; K. of R. and S., Dr. M. W.
Raub ; M. at A., C. Heward Campbell.
This ledge is in excellent condition.
Number of membership, 290 ; amount
paid out for relief during last six months,
$24-1.00 ; amount of funds invested and in
treasury, $5,802.62. The order through
out the state is growing rapidly in its
membership.
Ilald rer Court.
Jehn Kinder, sr., and Jehn Kituler, jr ,
have been held in bail for court by Alder
man A. F. Dennelly, te answer the'eharges
of carrying concealed weapons aid feloni
ous asault and battery preferred by Ber
nard Kuhlman. ",.
ICeiueiabered, their Teacher.
The Brick school, of B.trt township,
presented their teacher. Miss Mattie K.
Martin, a very fine glass set en Christmas
as a token' of their esteem.