LANCASTER DALLY INTELLIGENCER TUESDAY, JANUARY 9. 1883
?Laiicastcr Intelligencer.
TUESDAY EVENINQ, JAN 0. 18e3.
Concerning "Scrub Women."
It is reported from Harrisburg that
the new chief clerk of the Heuse, Mr.
Meek, Jias appointed but six pages,
though he is authorized by law te name
fifteen, and that he has reduced the num
ber of scrub women en the pay roll from
one hundred and fifteen te sixty-five,
thereby challenging the Democratic
caucus te supplement his proposed re
forms with such action as will lop off
enough superfluous offices te save the
state $10,000 and the Democratic Heuse
some credit. 1 t may be doubted whether
the reduced number of pages is sufficient
for the wants of the Heuse, but if the
new chief clerk proposes te appoint the
smaller number, and te only add ethers
when their services become indispensi
ble, he has done wisely. That the con
tingent lunds of both Heuse- have been
lavishly spent, if net stolen, under
pretense of employing women te
clean the legislative halls and com-
mittee rooms, can be easily demonstrat
ed. Fer the session of 1ST0 the only
recent one of which we have at hand Hie
figures in detail Chief Clerk Shurlock
reported te have paid out of iiis contin
gent fund $3,195 te 112 women, in vari
ous amounts, for cleaning the Heuse of
Representatives hall and committee
rooms. As the session lasted 1-0
days or 128 exclusive of Sundays
this amount would have paid, at
the compensation allowed, the ser
vices of 50 women for work every night
of the session, including Fridays and
Saturdays when there was seldom any
session held. Besides this seven Heuse
janitors weie paid for the session, at
the rate of $G per day each a total, in
eluding their mileage ,of $G,G4S 2e. New,
an ordinal y court-house as large as that
in this city is managed by :i single jani
tor at $00j a year, and he has little
enough te de. Te say that seven janitors
are required for the Hei.se of Represen
tatives alone with its hall, three or four
committee rooms, basement, cloak
and wash luems and oil women beside-,
e.-ery night in the week, whether a bes bes
sien is holding or net, is te admit that of
the money thus alleged te be spent much
is stolen.
Twe janitors can easily de all the
work for which under Republican dis
pensation fceven were paid, and twenty
women, even between Gaud 7:30p.m.,
can easily keep the Heuse chamber
clean. The sixty-live proposed te be put
en the list could be divided into three
gangs, each having two nights work per
weak. -Mere than this will only be in
the way of each ether ; and an observa
tion made the ether evening while this
processor cleaning was in progress showed
that fifteen women swept the chamber
in a half-hour. In view of these well
known facts Democratic officials are
bound te keep down the expenses and
the number of employees and the Heuse
caucus should support and supplement
their efforts. Moreover we trust some
resolution will be introduced into the
Heuse requiring all employees te be at
Hnrrishurg and lender the services for
which they draw pay, or in their failure
te de se that no warrants 1j allowed
them. In times past many of the suber.li
liale places have been filled by substitutes
hired at from S3 te $1.5n per day while
their principals get $0. There must be
a vnuine house cleaning.
Rivalry of Corporations.
A Philadelphia correspondent el the
iVui; IJra, for whose disinter"s'.ediiP.s
it vouches, writes te excite public appre
hension of the evils threatened bj the
advance of the Vanderbilt pew.-r and
capital into th" coal and railroad inter
ests of the stat', and predicts an abrm
iiig condition of things because ' a Man
hattan railroad king has set nis feet in
the heart of Pennsylvania, and is buying
up lands, preparing te ship and sell coal,
intending te crush down and crowd mit
all opposition and sell coal at s'icii prices
ni he pleases."
Tie reliability and disialeredtedu-Hs of
this orreqe:ideut may be gauged by
the fact that, in attempting te de
scrib the condition of things which lias
stimulated the construction of new rati
reads te thePcnnsylvania bituminous coal
fields, he sas: "The great Pennsylvania
railroad has extended its line into that
region, has furnished cars as rapidly as
possible, has ceufined itself te the legiti
mate functions of carrier, doing juslice
te all Our own Pennsylvania rail
road can provide all transportation facil
ities necessary." Taesa statements are
notoriously at variance with the truth.
Had the Pennsylvania railroad company,
with the great advantages it alieady
possessed, in the way of constructed
lines, bjeu able and willing te " provide
all transportation facilities necessary"
in the recjatly developed coal lield,
" doing justice te all " the new line
would never have bjen built. Frem the
rivalry of great corporations the public
has far less te fear than from the undis
puted supremacy of one. Every con
sumer of coal in this county gets his
fuel cheaper by reason of the fact that
Lancaster Iras two rival railroad s stems
bringing it te our market. The Penn
sylvania, railroad company, with a mo
nopoly of advantages in the Clearfield
rcgieivabused them ; and with a monep
ely of the line from the east te the west
ern part of the state has maltreated local
shippers. Ilence the necessity for a rival
system. The public will welcome it,
fully conscious that in the competition
of the capitalists lies the protection of
the people.
m-1 m
"First Assistant Postmaster (i:x
erai. Fraxk IIatten is a thrifty per
son who proposes te mingle the dispen
sation of country peslmasterchips -with
the publication of a Republican news
paper in Washington. Accordingly
every Republican member of tin
Heuse has received a package of le'-
ters, partly printed from a Iithe
graphic plate, and partly written, te
gether with a request from Mr. Halten
that the members addressed should sign
their names te the enclosed le'trs and
return them te him te be sent irem the
office of tire HqtuMlcan or the postellice
department, te the postmasters te whom
they were addressed, in behalf of his
newspaper enterprise. As the congress
men are mainly dependent en him for
official favors and patronage, he no doubt
fancied there could be no refusal of h:3
demand, which, all in all, i3 about the
most impudent that has yet been made
by Republican offices. Mahone's cheek
must pale by the side of this Iowa speilsman.
A repekt comes from liarnsuurg
that there are anticipations of the ar
rival and sojourn there of a Vanderbilt
railroad lobby and a Gould telegraph
lobby. This will be an excellent year
for lobbyists at Harrisburg te get them
selves into the penitentiary.
Delv.vlv must go.
Tun sudden
corner.
rise in corn is due te a
" Feil ence '' the " scrub women
at Harrisburg will be expected te scrub.
By mistake the outside pages of today's
Intelligencer are dated Tuesday, .Tau.
10, instead cf Jan. 9
It has Just bscu discovered that the
clerk of the supreme court at Washing
ton nsts as much from his fees annually
as the salaries of such presidents as Wash
ingten, Jeffersen and Jacksen ameuutcd
te. Reform is necessary.
Tire cautroller in Milwaukee seems te
have a level as well as a stubborn head.
Last year the city departments were duly
notified that the appropriations wcre ex
hausted but they kept ou steadily sit"1'
ing money and contrasting debts t .
met out of this year's appropriations. The
controller sensibly objects te this kiud of
housekeeping and refuse ta allow tin.'
grab.
Tin: Tobacco Leaf, iu its auun.il trade
review, notes that 18S2 opened with an
estimated bteck of seed leaf en hand, in
cluding the crop of 1SS1 and all preceding
growths, of 331,478 cases. There wcre
consumed and exported in the last twelve
months, 237,533 cases, leaving a surplus
en hand of 03,923. Nearly or quite all
estimates are resolvable into the conclu
sion that 200,000 cases will cover the pro
duction of seed leaf in 1SS2, allewauce
being made for increased acreage and di
minution of weight aud size by reason of
protracted dreuth. 1SS3 will apparently
be cemmenced with 37.533 cases less than
the year 1S2, which circumstance, from
every point el view, affords a geed pros pres
pect. The entire quantity of Sumatra
tobacco received at the pert of New Yerk
last year was 1,031,41G pound!!.
Tin: accomplished idiot who corresponds
with the New Yerk Tribune from Bosten
writes te that paper as fellows :
Butler's discovery that Massachusetts'
illiteracy is greater than that of a majority
of the state; is a geed specimen et the
slander and roerbacks with which this
extraordinary state paper abounds. By
reckoning in the illiteracy of his ewu im
mediate aud peculiar supporters, the fiesh
Irish immigrants and the Canadian French
in the mill towns (" the Chinese of New
England,") General Butler has managed
te put Massachusetts below Iowa with her
German aud Swedish immigration in peiut
of illiteracy. The fraud has been prompt
ly exposed, but the governor has for tire
moment get the laugh upon his state.
This was probably all he wanted.
It would be interesting te have the
Tribune man tell where the " fraud " is
in Butler's calculation, aud wiry he should
net count all the people of Massachusetts
in hi.s enumeration of its illiteracy.
Tun Philadelphia American is in error
when, in speaking of the action of the
Heuse at Harrisburit it says : "The Dem
ecrats declined te make a move toward
retrenchment and reform, and instead of
dispensing with numerous officials, as
had been assured by the chaiiwan of
their stale committee, Mr. Hcnsel amongst
ethers it was perfectly practicable te de,
they held en te the holes and filled them
with pegs. Indeed, we de net tee that
there was the sign of a new order of things
iu any of the Heuse's pieeedure ; perhaps
it may be different when the new governor
gets seated. " Although Republican
Houses have for years past invariably
filled seme sixty places at the very out eut
sat of the session the Democrats have thus
far only filled a dozen, and are consider
in hew many of the ethers can be dis
pensed with, with fair piosrvetsof lopping
oil" half a hcrc at least.
i en a long tune it lias been disputed
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that the New Yerk Tribune was making
money, and the lack of any dividends de
clareu upon its stock was cited as
proof that its business management and
heavy investment in a big building were
unprofitable. Yesterday the association
met and declared a dividend of 23 percent.
Frem the registry of stock it appeared that
Whitelaw Reid held 73 shares in his own
name and 43 mere iu the name of his wife,
while his brother-in-law ewned 20 shares
mere, the family thus owning altogether
143 out of the 200 shares. The remainder
are held in small lets, and in nearly half
the cases by estates. The report 6tated
that, "with the exception of a lean of
$100,000, the new building had been en
tirely paid for out of the profits of the
current business." Though coming tee
late for the relief of seme el the "estates "
owning Tribune stock the new.' and the
dividend will be welcome. It leeks as
though it had been held back se as te de
preciate the stock and let the Reid family
gobble it up.
i-rczsn te IJcatn.
Henry Buck aud a few neighbors, the
latter part of last week, went te Broad Bread
head's creek, near the Delaware water
gap te hook fish through the ice. A ten-year-old
son of Mr. Buck desired te
accompany the p3rty, but was refused.
After the party started, the lad, thinly
clad, followed them, and after running
five miles caught up, unobserved, te the
wagon in which Mr. Buck and the ethers
were driving. He seated himself en the
rear axle until the wagon had gene three
miles further, wheu he was discovered
half frozen. The party administered
whisky and took the lad with lhcm te the
river. They made a bed of brush and put
the boy in a blanket and covered him
with an overcoat. Then they left him
and wcrrt fishing. When they returned
the boy was numb aud unconscious. Tbc
child was taken home, but he died the
next day.
G. Mourns DecGnTT, senior meniber of
the firm of Doughty & Kapella, shipbuild-'
ers, en Petty's Island, died of dropsy en
Saturday. He was 04 years of age.
POLITICAL POINTS.
THE JIOCSK AT UABKISBLltO.
Sleek Starts Seme Kcferrng Will the Heue
Fellow ? Seme tioed Advice Ter It
lreceeUrns of Congress
llarrisljurg Dispatch te trie Ti:n:.
Chief Clerk Meek has caught the reform
infection. He has made his selection ei
pages and scrubwerneu and the effect is
great disappointment among the various
applicants. Theuumber of paces employed
at several past sections has ber-n fifteen,
but Meek has chosen only six, iu the be
lief that they wi'i be adequate te the ac
commodation of the officers and members
of the Heuse. The number of scrub
women has been reduced from 115 te G5.
By this stroke of reform Meek will reduce
the expenses of the Heuse about $2,500 in
a session of one hundred days. If the
Democratic Heuse caucus should ratify
the action of the committee en reduction
of offices the total reduction of expenses,
including that projected by Meek, will be
about $10,000.
Democratic Opportunity.
Pett-vitlc Standard, Deni.
With some pcople prosperity is a mere
searching test of the true elements of char
actor than adversity is. The same thing is
true of political partie3 Sometimes the
surest way te kill a political party is te
put it in power. Te day the main rcliance
of the Republican party is en Democratic
blunders. It remains te be seen whether
this expectation is well grounded, or
whether the Republican leaders will be
disappointed in their balief that the Dem
eeratic party will speedily demonstrate
iu iueapicity te successfully overn a
gicat country. In the orgamz.Uien of the
Legist iture the Democrats, at the very
ou'.-et, will be e i ri'-r '. ! a j vsmeii of
practical reform, e:i which t'l-y will hj
compelled te show their hands The uuin
br-ref -ib rdii.atenlliclu's'iMiillv appoint
I e i te dance attendance te 'lie Legislature.
ought te he cut down te at least ene half
its ordinary proportion. Under Republican
rule this has become a shameful abuse.
Tiie Senate has -IS officers te attend te the
wants of fifty members, nnd iu the Heuso
the proportion is almost as large. . Every
session of the Legislature mcu have been
named for many of these subordinate
positions, who have never even visited
Harrisburg except te draw their pay ; or
who have farmed their positions out te
substitutes, who were glad te take the
contract for little or nothing, aud then let
the work take care of itself. Still ethers
com te Harrisburg te pass the winter,
leafing around the hotel?, and bravely
drawing their pay, in utter disregard of
the duties they are supposed te perform.
The Democrats in the Legislature must
grapple with this form of public robbery,
with tire epeuing of the session. It is a
question which admits of neither compro
mise nor postponement:. It will be a dif
ficult question te handle satisfactorily, for
it is safe te suppose that each member has
two or three iucheate statesmen en his
Hands who insist that thay shall be pro pre
vidtd for at the public expense. A law
should he passed at ence limiting the
number of ompleyrs iu either Heuse.
Tne position of resident clerk should be
made a permanent ene and the appoint
ment of all the officials who have in charge
the care of the oapitel building and the
comfort and convenieuce of the members
should be ves ted exclusively in him. It
would certain! y be a great relief te mom
bars of the Legislature if the regular
scramble ei" n.i-... -is and folders could be
avoided ; and while a few aspiring states
men may go home vowing vengeance be
cm. se they have net been permitted te
feed at the public crib, yet every Demo
cratic representative will se strengthen
hrmsclf with his constituents by such a
policy that he can afford te disregard the
giewls of the soreheads.
I'rccccHllii-s lu l'eth Heus-rt-i Ve-itcril.iy.
Iu the United States Senate Monday Mr.
Merrill presented a petition from the
Philadelphia beard of trade complaining
that the report of the tariff commission
prepped a lower rate of duty upon sugar
than upon mol issc, and asking Congress
te irevidc otherwise Mr. McDill, from
the Comniit'.ce en public lands, reported a
bill te previde for the determination of
controversies about titles te land derived
from the United States. The bdl te pre
vent the use of the oapitel for ether than
legitimate purposes was reported and
passed. The bdl te afford relief te Con
gress and the departments in investiga
ing claims was discussed, Mr. Brown, of
Gee-gin, speaking at length iu support of
the bill. At two o'clock the prasidanrial
succession bill caure up in e.djr, and Mr.
Beck spoke rn advoe'.cy of its
parage.
Messis.
After further d:scus.-.ieu by
Dawes, Sherman, Blair, Jenes of Flerida,
Ingalls, Edmunds and Hear, pending a
motion of Mr. Edmunds te recommit th
bill, the Senate adjourned.
In the Heuse, a number cf bills were
introduced under the call of states, among
them the following : By Jlr. Andersen, of
Kansas, "te create the postal t-jlagrapli of
tire United States ;" by Mr. Rubrustm, of
New Yerk, te i educe leUer postage te ene
cent, aud by Mr. Fisher, et Pa., te limit
the coinage of stand rrtl silver dollars te
the requirements of the people. Mr
Muriel), of Mame, risiug te a question of
.......Vft-j .
5 pnvrlegc, etlcrcu a resolution ler the ap
J peintment of a special committee te hives
litigate the charge inade ou the fleer that
Jehn Bailey, chief clerk of the Heuse, was
acting m the interest of the Washrugteu
gaslight company, aud iullueuciug con
gressional action. After sorne debate the
resolution was adopted. A bill was re
ported and referred appropriating $30,000
for participation in the Hamburg exhibi
tion, in July next. Tue shipping bill was
taken irp aud debated by Messrs. Reagan,
Dingley, McLanc. Candler, Gueuther,
Caunen and Murch. The bill then went
evor until te-day, aud the Heuso ad
jeurncd.
Tragedies or Dally I Alt.
James Rowland, a wealthy and promin
ent citizen of San Francisce, was drewued
in the bay en Saturday night.
At Cheney, Washington territory, en
Sunday night, a Chinaman, accused of
murder and robbery, was taken from jail
aud lyched by a mob of eighty men.
Andrew Jacksen, colored, charged with
atfempting te feloniously assault a young
woman, was taken from jail at Heudcrseu,
Texas, en Sunday night, and hanged.
Ex Collector Calvin A. Gilbert, aged G7
years, of Syracuse, New Yerk, was strick
en with paralysis en Sunday afternoon,
while sitting near. the stove at his home.
His wife found him " with his arm resting
en the stove badly burned and dead "
A freight engine en the New Yerk Cen
tral railroad ran into the caboeso of a
freight train at Niagara Falls, N. Y., yes
terday, killing Daniel Rehbins, a brake
man, of Tewanda, and injuring Frank La
meut, the conductor. The caboose was
burned.
At Williamstown, Massachusetts, a re
spectable farmer, named Donahue, has
personally applied te the authorities for
his committal te a lunatic asylum "en
acceuut of au irresistible desire te kill
someone." Seme years asje Donahue re
ceived a blew en the head, from the effects
of which he never recovered.
Seme Disastrous fire.
The two upper stories and reef of Tele
graph block rn Detroit, was burned out
Monday evening by a lira which started
at -the feet of the elevator. The nibt
telegraph operators in the Western Union
office, 53 in number, had their cscape by
tne stairway cut ou, out an were rescued
by the fire ladders. M. S. Corbett, night
chief operator, was severely burned is the
fire.
The house and barn of Henry C. Hew-
ard, in Easten, Maice, were burned ou
Sunday. Edwin J. Heward, supposing
bis sister in the house, rushed back te
save her and was fatally burned.
An incendiary fire in the suburbs of
Macen, Ga , en Sunday night, destroyed
$23,000 worth of property.
A tire in Minneapolis, Monday morning
burned out three stores. Less, $23,090.
THR J.O.VT STKA3IEK.
Little te be biived el trie CUy u: Draescla or
Her Carge
The less of the steamship City of Brus
sels is complete, only portions of the masts
appearing above the water mark where
the disaster occurred. The rescued pas
sengers and crew reached Liverpool and
most of the former are new quartered at
the Railway hotel. Many of them are suf
fering from the shock aud also from ex
posure, as they had no time te save any
thing from the sinking steamer, and many
were clad in the lightest of clethiug. De
what he could the captain of the Kirby
Hall could give little assistance beyond
shciter, and the passengers wcre almost in
iu danger of starvation until a pilot-beat
appeared with previsions. The rescuing
steamer, en acceuut of the low tide, was
obliged te remain eutside the bar until
alter 7 o'clock, when all were landed at
Woedsido aud subsequently transferred
across the Mersey te Liverpool.
Te the coolness aud presence of mind of
Capt. Land aud his officers, aud the ex
cellent discipline of the crew, is ascribed
by the passengers the small less of life.
As one of the seamen said te a corres
pondent, " It was the coolest thing you
ever saw nr thrs world.' A passonger,
Mr. Skinner, states that he observed only
one instance of confusieu, aud that was
when a cowardly pilot jumped, despite all
erdi'is, into the first beat launched.
This se :ir ieii tin- captain that he
called upon the crew te pull him out.
All the proceedings were conducted se
smoothly that net until five beats had been
le.vcrcd did the passongers realize the ex
tent of their peril. An instance of this
is given by another passenger Mr. Siegel.
lie was awakened by the crash and arose,
but hearing nothing further he returned
te his berth. He was seen aroused again
by the call La "man the beats." He was
saved in the beat commanded by the
purser, which contained 30 persons. But
for the thick fog it is believed all could
have been saved, unless, as bolievcd by
seme persons, some of the crew who took
refuge in the rigging wcre struck and ren
dered insensible by parts et the ship's
tackle as she sank. O.ie man was found
dead clinging te the rigging. The fog
wa3 se dense that it was dangerous for the
beats te move about quickly Capt. Land
was ene of the first picked up,
although he, with Chief Engineer Tedd,
was the last te loave the rigging. When
rescued, the captain was in the act of
passing a life buoy te a drowning comrade.
A boy named Hamilton was rescued, hall
drowned, clinging te the mizzen cress
trees. The two Italian steeragc passen
gers who were drowned seem te have lest
therr presence of mind and jumped over
board without awaiting te see what could
be done for their safety. The persons lest
Mr. Cenner the quartermaster, Mr. Cor
coran, the steward, Yeung, second officer,
Weeds, Carpenter, Quina, lamp cleaner,
Malcolm, fireman, Smith, able seaman,
McLced, able seaman.
The purser of the City of Brussels says
that the fog was 30 deuse that the order
te step the engines was given half an
hour before the collision occurred ; the
Messr3. Inman say the machinery had
been stationary 4t minntcs. The steamer,
however, according te the Kirby Hall's
captain, although tire cngiucs were net
running, was moving ou with the tide
with such impetus that the crash could
net be averted, although steam was
put en in the attempt te cscape
the danger. The captain of the
Kit by Hall also says that he re
versed his engines as seen as he heard
the whistles of the City of Brussels. He
also states that his vessel was hardly
moving at the time of the collision with
the City of Bru-sels, and was feeling her
way te an anchorage. Tbe whistle was
blown continuously, and a strict lookout
was kept en beard the Krrby Hall. By
the collision the main compartment of the
City of Brussels was cut into and the
bulkhead was shifted, thus accounting for
the speedy sinking of the vessel.
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LANUTUV AND UKKHAKT.
The Jerr-vy I-lJj'ii Artmlrt-r Defends Mil At At
tentleuH te Her.
The arrival in Ciiicage of Frederick Geb
hard has excited mere than usual interest
in Mrs. Langtry, and stories of all kinds
have been set afloat regarding the two.
Mrs. Langtry occupies rooms 3, 5 aud 7 at
the Grand Pacific, and Mr. Gebhart occu
pies rooms 133, 133 aud 137 at the same
hotel. Although Mr. Gcuhard arrived in
Chicago at eleven a. in., en Friday, Mr. F.
A. Schwab, Mrs. Langtry's busiuess man
ager, says that he did net meet Mrs. Lang
try until four o'clock Saturday afternoon,
at Haverly's. Saturday afternoon an
unusually large house greeted her and she
met a cordial reception. Mr. Gebhard
furnished the following letter te the
press :
" Sir : Siuce my arrival in Chicago, I
have been made the subject of newspaper
articles, in which my habits, appearance
and intentions have been referred te at a
greater or less length. I should net heed
theso articles if they concerned no ene but
myself, as I am satisfied that the portion
of the community whose geed opinion is
worth having does net attach the slightest
importance te stories containing a grain of
truth te a ten of falsehood, and in seme
iustanccs set afoot by persons who have
formed their impressions of me
through a keyhele, and intercept intercept
e 1 errand boys te read the addresses
of letters intrusted te the lads for
delivery. Unfortuuately they reflect
upon a lady whose friendship I am proud
te possess, and who is as painfully sur
prised as l am that in a country where
chivalry aud independence are supposed
te exist, every day should be marked by a
new and cearse invasion into her private
life. My attentions te Mrs. Langtry are
such as any gentleman shenld, without
comment, be privileged te pay te any lady.
Mrs. Langtry is hore in the company of
her husband's sister, dwelling in a public
hotel, and the object of such scrutiny as
nene but a person of irreproachable char
acter would court. A little reflection
would, I am sure, suggest te most people
that many of the remarks made in rela
tien te my acquaintance with Mrs. Lang
try, a stranger iu a strange land, and en
that acceuut the mere dependent upon
congenial friends for a few hours' relaxa
tien alter her duties te the public have
been performed, are scarcely in consonance
with justice, kindness or decency.
Your obedient servant,
Frederick Gediiard.
TltAtiEDI IK A DAX.Ij KOOM
The 1'rempter Stabbed te DeathSubsequent
butclde el tbe Murderer.
A ball was in progress in Bedford county,
N. C, en Saturday night. While the
dancers wcre in the midst of a quadrille
Idclle Read stepped up te Scott Clayten,
who had consented te call out the
figures, and told him that he was
net calling them right. Clayten
considered her tone rather pert, and
replied somewhat indignantly, although
theso who were near by affirm that he did
net ufe ungentleraanly language. Among
Miss Read's admirers present was Arms
tead Barksdale, and he chanced te ever
hear Clayten's remaiks. The girl had
hardly resumed her place among the
dancers before Borksdale went up te Clay Clay
eon and called him te account for his
remarks. Het words passed, and then
Burksdale drew a knife and stabbed
Clayten, cutting a horrid gash from the
right eye te the back of the neck, severing
the jugular vein and causing death. Seme
of the partisans of the two men took up
the quarrel and a melee ensued, in which
no one was fatally hurt. Barksdale es
caped from the scene uuebscrved. Wed
nesday morning early he went te a saw
mill and borrowed a guu from an ac
quaintance, saying he wished te sheet a
rabbit. Instead of doing this he went te
a neighboring house and shot himself in
fhe bewels. He died at 5 o'clock.
PERSONAL,
Let M Meiuur.L, of Maine, was re
ported iu a dyintr condition last night.
Jehn W. May, chief justice of the mu
nicipal court of Bosten, was reported
dying of acute pneumonia last night.
Hesut Bingham, president of the Mer
chants' national bank of Savannah, died
yesterday at the age of 71 years.
Cai'T-Jeweu., of the U. S. steamer
.Tuuiata, hound for the East India squad
ron, is dangerously ill of typhoid fever.
Matthew Fjiankux Whittier, only
brother of Jehn G. Whittier, the poet,
died en Sunday in East Bosten, at the age
of 70 years. IIe was the author of the
"Ethan Spike" letters.
Mil. Gewe.v, it is reported, will with
draw from the Rjading railroad manage
ment as seen as he ge;s the concern out
of the bauds of receivers ; he will resume
his law practice, and Vauderbilt will select
his successor, who may or may net be
Rebert II. S.iyre.
W.M. M. Evaiits was handsomely enter
tained en Friday night with a dinner
party by Teny Diexel, with whom he i3
associated as ene of the trustees of the
Peabody educational fund. The compli
ment was extended te Mr. Evarts in re
turn ler 'lospitalities which Mr. Drexel
received aem his guest while in New
Yerk.
jhadam:: LanusTiNi: JNilsmix was pre
vented from singing iu concert at St.
Leuis, en Saturday night, by a sub acute
inll animation of the larnyx . Six thousand
dollars worth of scats had been sold. She
was prevented by the came cause from
singing in St. Jeseph ou Thursday night,
disappointing a $3,000 house in that city.
She left St. Leuis en Saturday evening
for the milder climate of New Orleans.
Gex. Buti.ek was the leading guest at
the Bosten diuner yesterday, commemor
ative of Jacksen. There was a great deal
of talk about the similarity in character of
Jacksen aud Butler, which is interpreted
as grooming of Butler for the presidential
nomination. Butler himself spoke of
Jackseu, attacked with virulence, bitter
ness, injustice and personal vituporatren
as enunciating this dectrine "which,"
said he, " in this day I adept for ene ;
net that te the victors belong the spoils,
but that the government belongs te its
friends."
Makshali. F. Polk, the defaulting
state treasurer of Tennessee, arrested in
San Antonie, Texas, was released ou a
writ of habeas corpus en Sunday night.
He claimed that his name was net Polk,
but Tate. Telegrams were sent te the
Tenue3see authorities " for full descrip
tion and instructions," but no reply was
received, hence the release. After his re
lease a telegram was received irem the
governor of Tennessee telling the detective
te held the man, but it was ten late. Polk
( for several persons who saw the arrested
mau are confident of his identity ) took
the train for Laredo.
JlAVIOWS MATTERS.
1ViSic Interests the Village en tue mil.
At the late meeting of the Maytown
lyceum Miss Sieger was elected secretary,
as the regular officer could net attend.
The president delivered his inaugural. The
question fixed for next meeting i- that
" The Seuth should be paid for emanci
pated slaves," te be debated en the affirm
ative by Captain Haines and J. P.
Albright, en the negative by W.
G. Edwards and J. D. Luckey.
Mr. Terry was chosen correspondent.
Answers were given te the following re
ferred questions : " Which ocean contains
the mere salt, the Atlantic or the Pacific,
and why ?" Answered by Messrs. Edwards
and Terry. Why does water begin te
frceze at the bottom?" Answered by
Mr. Luckey. " If we had no atmosphere,
would we have no laud?" A II. Al
bright. "Dees it pay te keep Xmas holi
days?" Answered by Miss Seager. The
answering of Miss Eagle's question was
deferied untrl next meeting. Debate was
next iu order. Judges, Messrs. Terry,
Graybill and Ramsey. Question " Re
solved that the signs of the times indicate
the downfall of the Rspublic." This was
discussed in the affirmative by Messrs.
Witiuer and Luckey ; en negative, Messrs.
Albright and Herchelth. Judges decided
in favor of the negative. This was fol
lowed Dy a reading by Miss Heff'er, sub
ject "Mark Twaiu visits Majra " This was
followed by the reading of the paper by
the editor, Jehn M. Eagle. Sentiment3 were
discussed, and no further busiuess en
hands the society adjourned.
Tewu Trlile.
James A. Hendersen and Ephram nofif nefif
man have returned te Philadelphia whero
they are attending the college of phar
macy. A runaway herse was captured en Seuth
River street, en Friday last. The buggy
was capsized, and the men thrown out.
Happily no one was hurt.
On Sunday evening the 21st inst. there
will bean election for Reformed church
officers. Elders, ene te be elected, Abra
ham Sleadt and Jacob Roathtruek ;
deacons, Levi Rutherford, David Denisen;
trustees, Henry Haines, Jehn Fletcher.
The Memery or Ilev. Thompson.
In the Duke street M. E. church, en
Sunday, Paster Robinson announced the
recent death of a former pastor of the
church, Rev. Chas. Thompson, and sug
gested the propriety of an appropriate
expression of sentiment en this sad occa
sion, whereupon J. B. Geed, esq., Dr.
Wm. Compten aud Walter A. Haldy were
iustructed te prepare such a memorial and
have drawn up a preamble and resolutions
reciting the sad event and testifying "that
in expression of our feelings ; therefore in
the death of Rev. Chas. I. Thompson the
church has lest auable, zealeus aud faith
ful gospel minister ; our own society,
whom he for three" years se faithfully
served as pastor, a friend whose name has
beceme a household word ; his family, a
kind and affectionate husband and father;
and the country, a loyal and patriotic
citizen. That we shall always cherish his
memory with grateful and heartfelt affec
tion, and while we sincercly sympathize
with the bereaved family and offer our
unfeigned condelenco te them, wc at the
simc time rejoice together that we de rret
mourn like thes3 who mourn without
hope."
a Bis Chicken Shew.
The clarion note of the blithsome chan
ticleer i3 heard in the neighborhood of
Shoenberger's Excelsior hall. The poultry
show opens en Thursday but the birds
are beginning te arrive. There will be
1,200 entries, and, all in all, it will be
the biggest poultry show en record.
Gram: Fex Chase.
There will be a grand fox chase from
O. P. Brnbaker'r hotel, New Helland, en
Thursday, Jan. 13, 1883. The large white
tailed fox will lie let loeso at 1 o'clock p.
m. There will also be a wild turkey
dinner.
Convocation et Marrlaburj;.
The clergy of the convocation of Har
risburg are in session at St. Jamas church,
this city, and pnblic services (with ser
mon) will be held en Tuesday, Wednes
day and Thursday evenings.
ISEAEL
"ITS COGKEGAT10N Is TUE UEAKT
OF KATlOS."
Lfcturi-, by Kev. Saiu'J ai. Laskl. Delivered
Dec. 0, 5G43, A. A!., llefure the
Hebrew Congregation el Lancaster.
My fiieuds ! ene of our most remarkable
poets aud philosophers in his jjreat work
called "The Source of Truth." gives
plausible utterance - in the following
words : " Israel among the nations is
like the heart in the human body." With
ether words : " Israel is the corner cerner cerner
steno of all nations."
By this theme we wilt try te coaviuce
you of the truthfulness of this assertion,
and hew far and in what respect Israel is
the cerner-steno of all natieus.
In science the heart is a muscle, a
pumping apparatus, lu the popular usage
of the term, however, it contains a treas
ure of sentiments of love, affection, bore,
courage, faith, etc. Therefore, if it w
maintained that Israel is the heart of
nations, the term was certainly used iu
a figurative sense This, however, is no
idle self glorification ; it is bacd upon the
following facts :
As the heart is located iu a dark and
mysterious cavity, and speaks neverthe
less iu clear and imprcEsive accents, se is
Israel a nation which speaks au obscure
and mysterious language, yet clear aud
intelligible te the millions. Although we
attach no value te misgivings and pre
sentiments, and are well aware that the
mysterious dispositions of the heart are of
no value opposite the impressions of ex
perience and reason; although we also
:new well hew little the heart .ie s tell
of what transpires eutside of us, and
frequently Is joyous aud cheerful while
our dearest and nearest friends suffer aud
even die ; or hew efteu de wv feel s-ad and
depressed without outward cause for such
feeling ; and yet wemustmaintatu : '-And
the wise heart is a mephct."' ? voice,
though mvsterieus, :s important.
Hurl te the family that listens less te
voices fi-'ia without and mere te the
whispeis of the heart. Hail te the man
who listens less te : he voice of the world
and mero intcDtly te the voice of the
heart, which promotes justice, beuevo beueve
lence and benignity. Hail also te him
who pays less attention te forms and ob
servances from without, and mero te the
voice speaking from the recesses of his
heart.
Did net Israel, the lutirl cf nations,
speak the same obscure aud mysterious
language, aud yet se clear and lustrous ?
Our great prophets have spoken iu mys
terious finurcs, se that ou ene side they
were looked upon as visionary enthusiasts,
while en the ether the profeuudest truths
were presumed in their words, and spider
web of mysticism were based upon them.
Iu ceurse of time, however, it was ascer
tained that they speke of the me.it sublime
ideals of man, th j hope and light of man
kind. And our conception of Deity hew
obscure aud yet hew clear ! He is the
Ged whose traces arc clearly percop&ible
everywhere, and still seen nowhere ; who
is exalted above all existcuecs and -is still
revealed in the smallest details thereof ;
the Ged who lives and work and ii in all
things and yet is the living, indivisible
and all-wiseDeity.
As the heart isthe fountain of life, "Fer
from it geeth forth life," se is Israel
among the nations the fountain of the
purest and me-st ouneblrug religieu ; idea.
In order te appreciate tire services of
Israel it will net suffice te compare him
with man in his present state ; wa must
leek hack into the status of the nations of
antiquity. We must compare what tlicjr
were and what they are new. Wc must
knew tlu contrasts in beliefs, conception's
and manners, iu Israel's and the heathens.
This prompts us te exclaim "I slspt, but
my heart did wake " The nations slept,
but the;r heart, Israel, did wake.
Man was captivated by follies el idola
try. He worshipped net only the cosmic
phenomeua of nature, and the works of
art, but even the animals, and degraded
himself below the irrational crvatures.
And hew were they worshipped ? Net,
indeed, by sacrifices which de net olevate
and cnnoble mind and heart, but by puri
ty and chastity, human victims, innocent
chiidrcu perished upon their altars. Alse
then it was tnie iu Israel as the Midrash
suggests: "My heart wa3 awake te
worship the only Ged." Mau was oppressed
by the three fold evil of despotism,
slavery and caste, under the erroneous
impression of diie necessity, in which
change is impossible. But Isi:i:l the
heart of nations was wide awake (L'geala)
in his hope of " redemption."' And hew
manifeldly did Israel incorporate the idea
of freedom ? He appointed tue Passover
feast as a meuumeut of redemption and
liberty. IIe appointed the Sabbath a pro pre
test airain-,1 slavery. He established pie
ccpts and ebscrvauccs te liberate man
from the slavery of passions aud vices.
When mau was yet deeply submerged in
rude and barbarous habits no benignity,
no mercy Israel, the heart, was wide
awake " te virtue and humauity."
This higher life in Ged, liberty and vir vir
tue as it emanated from Israel, courses
new through the veins of civilized na
tions ; revolutionized social relations ;
raised aud pressed man onward ea the
path of progress and enlightenment.
Hew much of the great and go jd could
he effected if only theso who honestly
cling te Israel's cause would feel a iiure
intense inspiration for it ? Ther.i is no
doubt that their hearts are yet larire
eueugh te accomplish the best intentions
and most netable exertions of our best
men. Newhere should peace and cunceid
reign mere universally than iu Israel, who
has ene Ged, ene altar of piety, ene law of
truth, ene hepe, and one mission. Re
form is net identical with destruction.
The belief in ene Ge.l is net sufficient
for Israelrit must be connected with the
practical works of the priestly ' mission."
The privilege of being beru of Jewish
parents does net liberate man from the
slavery of passions and vices. A m iu is
net a Jew because he is born of Jewish
parents. A man is a Jew if he beiieves ia
tfib religion of Israel ; if his moral con
duct and practical Charity are Jewish ;
if he co operates with theso who support
and sustain the institution which preserves
aud promulgates Judaism ; and that is
" the congregation " A man is a-Iew by
his frce will and cheica and net by the ac
cident of his birth. It is high time that wc
understood that, and separate the grain
from the chaff. We have decidedly tee
many camp-followers that de us no geed,
but a great deal of harm, and yet their
false prophecies are of no avail, for truth
will and must conquer.
Net the utterance of a premise make'-.
the principle valid, but the fact, the deed
alone, and for that reason it is most bind
ing en every member oflsrael te de his
duty toward promulgating among ether
natieus Jewish thoughts and Jewish prin
ciples, and support and sustain our con
gregation the institution which has and
always will preserve Judaism, the true
and old nursing mother of all religions.
Ami if all, well te de Israelites, es
pecially, de net assist in promulgating
a congregation tue uoen auu heart
of Israel's existence what have we te
show te the world at large of Judaism,
or Israel's charity, religion and benevo
lence, if wc de net fundamental!' establish
irr our midst, that institution which has
bscn from time immemorial the beacon
light the watchman of the seafaring man
of all nations" Israel's holy congrega
tion," " the heart of nations."
We want all our brethrea.and sisters te
share in the blessings of religion, a3 well
as te further its interests, that we may no
mero have te point te ear glorious past te
jus ify our claims as a chosen poeplo, but
be able te found them en our present ex
alted state as well. Were it even that it
should be established for this one purpose
alone we ought te held it our sacred duty
te use our best endeavors towards bring
ing it about. And if succ3ss attend
our endeavors aud I cannot for a mo
ment doubt that it must ultimately
result from them what a great satisfac
tion would it afford te all of us, and
hew greatly would we feel eunelves re
warded ; and we would, tee, deserve for
it net only the everlastinggratitude of tire
entlre Jewish community, but of all our
Christian brethren, tee. Let us tlreu
unite for the uebla cause of religious edu
cation Let all opposition te it cease new
and forever and all will be well with us.
And what ought te be the heart of
Israel ? The ancient rabbis said " The
holy One blessed be He. i3 the heart of
Israel."The Thera should be Israel', whose
first and last letters (Lev.) signify
" heart." Thus we see hew truly Judah
Halevi said : "Israel's congregation is the
heart of nations." It is our duty te obey
the injunction : " More than all that is te
be guarded protect thy Jieart, for from it
ceme the issues of life." And thus we
may hope, with the blessing of the eternal,
the Israelites et Lancaster, with their
many neble women and nven, who are
anxious of calling this congregation a re
form congregation, will, of course, find it
easy te watch ever the heart of nation ,
and at the same tirne will net fail of mak
ing a deep aud lasting impression up m
the hearts of their own children.
Israelites ! take courage aud be linn,
and you shall see the salvation of the Lord
a truly Hebrew congregation " the
heart of nations." Amen.
DKU.llUKK DOlMiS.
I'rngrcM of I'.tulH n t lie Lewer Knil.
iicpiuar Ceirt'-i'iinii in.c.
Weilc has been suspended for the winter
at the tower being built at Chestnut Level
church. It premises te bu a snliV, substan
tial affair and will add r.e little beauty te
the line old church. It will stand, also, as
an evidence of the progressiveness of the
congregation and its energetic pastor.
We are having se nr my weddings that
it is impossible net te miss chreiiichny;
some of them at the tirae of occurring.
Week befere last we missed te notice that
of Mr. Wm. Hepkins and Miss Breeke.
Last week united Mr. Wm. Ferre and
Miss Mary McPhcrsen. Next ?
A hog-pen is a thing that is nut :is siuci-p
tible of imprevemeuts as a mewing m.i
chine or many another thine, but we have
ene here constructed upon ;m entirely
and a somewhat purctical idea. The floor fleer
is made of fence rails or poles, placed
seme distarrce apart. Iu the autumn,
should the farmer be undecided which of
his hogs te kill and which te " keep ever,"
he only has te threw them into the pen,
te settle the question. The best ours
ledge, and the small peer ones fall through.
Theso that remain are fattened and killed,
and these that have beeu liddLd an I
feuud wanting, secure a respite. The
only serious objection te the plan is that
all but the large ears of corn go through,
also ; but the hogs auea learn riot te make
two bites at a nubbin.
Mr. Jeb. Hawk"old his tobacco te Shiik
for 18, 0, and 3. Wa arc stripping with
both hands.
SElOUBOKHOuni KKUS. '
Kveurs Arresa the Ceuuly I.lue.
Peter Devlin, a tunnel-head mau at the
Piiemix iron company's blast furiiatv,
while blinded by steam stepped into thu
open lift well and fell about seventy f et
and was instantly killed.
Jehn A. Hitler, the alleged default' r of
the defunct ilarrishuig City bank, wln
fled in 1STG when the institution closed :ts
doers, has returned te the city . 'IV,
suits for false prelense weie bieuI.t
against him by the depositors of tin bai k,
and true bills were found in 187 at the
Aprrl term ei court. Mr. Bigler stalls
that he has voluntarily returned te stand
trial upon these charges if the suits aie te
be pushed.
The following wcre vcnterday elected
officers of the Reading & Columbia rail
read company : President, G. A. Nichols.
Directors, J. B. Lippincott, J. NHIutrh
insen. Henry Lewi?, Frederick Liuer, li.
V. Williamson, Themas Baiiiiig.ud:ni-,
F. B. Gewen, William Latilun r ma I,
Jeseph B. Alternus, Francis W. Uhrsf,
Eckley B. Coxe, Philip Arndt. Secretary,
Heward Haneick. Trea8Urer,.Iehu Welch.
Trie lrirst Srrk (Ircncr.
In answer te the inquiry. ' Who were
the first silk culturists iir C'ite-ter county.
Pa , "the Sunday Biipatch, of Phil tda'l
phi.i, replies as fellows : " This is a
question we cinnet answer. The cultiva
tion of .-.ilk by raiding silkworms, etc., was
a matter of interest in Pennsylvania as
early as 1731 Iu 1703 it was announced
in Londeu that ene hundred journeymen
silk threwsters were engaged te ee te
Pennsylvania and New Yerk. In 1770 a
filature was set trp in this city. Elizabeth
Taverner, from Chailcsten. S. C, sunn
silk in Frent street, abeve Arch, in 17-
In 1770 the Ameiican philosophic il
society, addressing the Assembly at d
asking for the protection of the silk
manufacture, represented that oue woman
in Chester county had ever thirty thou
sand silkworms. But her name is net
stated. Sixty four families in Pennsylva
nia had already commenced te raie si k
worms. Very probably seme of them
were living iu Chester county. This ..t
tempt te produce silk, like sevetal etlnis
which originated about the s.inm time, was
a failure. In 1773 the silk society gave a
premium te James Miliheuse, of Che.-aei-oeuuty,
for raising a large quautity of
cocoons, in which enterprise he was si:r
passed by Widow Stencr, of LancaMn,
who produced seventy two thousand eiht
hundred."
linmallabre Letters
Letters addressed as fellows arc held at
the postefflce for want of stamps :
"Mr. Gilch, 121 Popleton Street, Baltt
mero."
"Mrs. Amasiash Geed, Greene, Lie.
Ce. Pa."
"Mrs.Uee. C. Lemen, G13 13th street,
Washington, D. C."
"Clinten Wire Cleth Ce. Cliute ,
Mass."
"Miss Katie Cellins, Yerk Furnace,
Yerk co. Penna.
Three of the abeve letters have a one
cent stamp upon the envelope. It requues
a three cent stamp te carry a sealed en
velope. Hand OMcpr Kirctetl.
At au election held en Friday evening,
January 5th, for officers of the Lancaster
City cornet baud, the following gentlernru
were elected : Leader, Geerge Martin ,
Couducter, Ferdinand Weber ; President,
Cliax. C. Deunclly ; Vice Presidanr, Cen
rad Rclim ; Treasurer, Ames C. Cast ;
Secretary, Henry IliucM, Trustees, Peti-i-Hahn,
Geerge .Martin, jr., and FJerenca
Rchm. After the adjournment there was
a sct-'JU anil specchmaking and mirth
prevailed u a late hour.
Ileal tntate sale.
Henry Shubert, auctioneer, sold at pub
lic pale last evening at the Ceqier house,
for J. II. Ceylc, eq. trustce te sell, a ene
story brick dwelling, .situated en the west
side of North Water street. Ne. 30. be
longing te the estate of Patrck O'Keefe,
te Martin DeutBcber, for $910.
Kale or Hemes.
Samuel IIcss & Sen, auctioneers, sold at
public sale yesterday, for Daniel Legan,
at his sale and exchange stables, this city,
10 head of Canada horses, at an average
price of $236 per head.