LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCE! MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5. 1883. ftaucastct litfelligenrer. MONDAY EVENING, FEB 5.1883. The Prohibition Amendment. The state Legislature is asked te pro vide an amendment of the constitution which prohibits the manufacture or sale of intoxicating beverages. xuiw amendments having this object in view have been framed for its considera tion. One drafted by the constitutional amendment association and one by Judce Agnew are substantially alike, save that Judge Agnew proposes te put vinous products under the ban as well as brewed, fermented, distilled beverages. The Heuse committee en constitutional reform, having heard the advocates of the proposed amendments, has de cided te recommend the full dose of prohibition suggested by Judge Agnew, and te add te it a sweetening of its own in the shape of a prevision that all dam .., envri frAin the amendment by owners of real estate, whose premises have been for live years used for the vending of intoxicating beverages, shall be compensated therefer. It would net take many such amendments te make the proposed constitutional reform appear very clearly te be anything but a reform. The amendment may have been honestly put en by the Heuse committee, under the sincere conviction that the owners of tavern stands should net be deprived of their valuable franchises without compensation. P.ut if the people are te be deprived of the enjoyment of their beer, wine or whisky the tavern owner will have no reason te complain of uu ust treatment in the deprivation of his revenue. The constitution may just as properly take this from him :is it may take away tlse citizen's drink ; and even mere se ; for the tavern enjoys its license net by right but by the concession of an annual privilege for which a charge is made ; while the citizen's privilege te drink whisky, beer or wine comes te him because is a freeman, entitled te de as he pleases, se long as he does net interfeie with the equal right his fellows have te the quiet enjoyment of their lives. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is the guaranteed right of every American citizen. It is a right which secures te him the privilege of depeiting himself as he pleases, se long as he does net annoy or injure his neighbor. lie may drink what he pleases and eat what he pleases. The constitutional reformers de net seek te deny him this privilege di rectly, but undertake te make it impossible for him te exercise it by for bidding the sale te him of beer, wine and distilled liquors. They attempt tee much. Intoxication is, no doubt, an evil te the individual and the state. In toxication should be prohibited and pun ished. The drinking of intoxicating liquors, which in some cases results in juriously te the state and which, in few cases, is beneficial te the individual, should be discouraged. It si euhl be made expensive, as one way of discouraging it. It further embarrassed its sale in smaller might hi' still by tei bidding quantities than a pint or quart. And yet again by its consumption en the prehibitin nremises where it is sold. All these aie practicable measures. They de net in terfere unduly with the liberty of the cilimi te drink what he pleases, but they provide hew he shall drink certain tilings se as te protect his neighbor against annoyance from him. Undoubtedly the numerous liquor saloons tempting the passer-by te quaff at their alwas attended bars, de pro vide unnecessary facilities for t he drink ing of unnecessary leverages. There is no need of thrusting liquor se conspicuously and conveniently under the notice of the public. Tuese win. want it will net be oppressed by being put te a little inconvenience te get it. It might be a gecd idea te make them climb a Might or two of stairs by for bidding the saie of intoxicating bever aces below the nurd uoer : ana another geed idea, as exhibitedat. the Centennial, would be te forbid the consumption of it while standing before a bar, or ether - wise than while decorously seated at a table. We should lii glad te sec the Legisla ture exercising its wisdom in controlling the sale of intoxicating beverage.1. There is no need of a constitutional aim nd ment for this purpose ; il may de all that ought te be done te regulate the sale of drinks ; and the majority of the people themselves hardly haw a moral right by a constitutional amendment te say that the minority shall net have the opportunity te buy whisky if they want te, without going out of it. the state te de A Doubtful Reform. The Aye, Yerk's new and sprightly Democratic paper, very properly calls attention te the remarkable features of a proposed civil service reform measure introduced at Harrisburg, labelled " an act te improve the civil service of Penn sylvania." It proposes te create a com mission te examine applicants for em pleymentin the clerical and subordinate portions of the service of the slate, ex elusive of laborers, workmen, and these appointed by and with the consent el the Senate, and te secure their promo tion en the basis of fitness. Te carry out its previsions there is te be a commission made up of the lieutenant governor and two guberna torial appointees, of opposite parties, who are te get $2,000 a year, and have an examiner at :i salary of $3,000 per annum, a salaried stenographer, cepjiM, and messenger, and te draw upon the state treasurer for the necessary expenses of the commission. And what is all this about ? The few clerkships in the offices of secretary of state, auditor general, stale treasurer, secretary of internal affairs and a few ether departments, numbering in all some fifty, accountable te a half a dozen different chiefs. Teeiect a commission te select their subordinates and te take out of their hands the appointments of their clerks is felly. These slate elliceis are responsible for the manner in which their offices are administered and genei ally select their subordinates with thU view. Te absolve them from this re Bpensibility and te surround them with men net of their acquaintance and pos sibly net having their confidence would be unjust te the state and te its officials. Besides, it is by no means certain that tee long continuance of subordinate officers in place at Harrisburg is the best thing for the public service. The state has net suffered from frequency of changes there. Our Increasing Population. The learned president of the Londen statistical society, Rebert Griffen, has put out a portentous paper, forecasting the certain deem of the human race, " through lack of the means of subsist ence, in case it continues te multiply at its present rate without any enlargement of the resources upon which it depends or any change in the economic methods that new prevail." He easily figures out that at the present rale of increase the population of the world will ere long require mere te eat than the world can raise. People who are net familiar with the tricks which figures can be made ie play may be alarmed at these predic tions. But their fears are groundless. The scientific people are always at this sort of thing. Seme years age somebody destroyed the world in fancy, by setting fire te the Pacific ocean. Anether has demonstrated the certain extinction of the race by the irresistible conclusions which fellow from the fact that every man has had two grandfathers, four great" grandfathers and ether ancestors in pro portion. GrifTen's scare is net much better founded. In our own country, which he uses te illustrate his apprehen sions, the production of feed supplies lias increased as rapidly as tiie population ; we have a large surplus te send abroad, and the waste constantly going en here is something tremendous. But the de velopment of our agricultural resources is insignificant as yet in comparison with their possibilities. The most closely tilled sections of this country are net farmed up te anything like the capacity of the ground, and altogether they are a small area compared with the vast domain which is as yet almost virgin soil. Fer a century the in creasing productiveness of our lands will keep pace with any possible increase of population here, but the time must come when greater thrift and be ter household economy will in part come te the relief of our resources and te the support of the teeming millions. China and India support vast populations en less expanse, and while we will net get down te their frugal rice diet and bird nests banquets we may reconcile ourselves te simpler fare than ten course dinneis long before the gloomy period prognest i cated by Griffen, when for lack of breadstuffs the people will be driven te devouring each ether. But, mean while, his statistics will serve a geed purpose if they direct attention te the inevitable necessity for some change in prevailing economic methods. Tin-: discovery made in this county that certain panels et juries were im properly drawn because the jury com missioners had net been qualified befeie 'filling the wheel, has extended te ether counties of the stale. In Adams county, te which the scend trial of Ce1p, the Ceyle's ferry homicide, had been re moved from Yerk, the district attorney, finding the jury drawn for the term te be defective in the same manner as lately happened here, had the ease and the court put off. The same thing hap pens in Yerk and doubtless will run ever the state, te the annejance of bench and bar, at a season when ilie most juiy trials are usually disposed of. It is a mere technicality of course, but technicalities, being the soul of the law, must be complied with. Tin: gieutid hug is getting hi.-, wetk in. Tin: Jubilee singers have been hauled up in New Haven ler giving a Sunday concert in violation of a statute of 17S0 This is going a geed ways back for the 1 iv,-, but New Haven is a very old place. Watch out for Wiggins' big i.Leiin which is te shake the continent fiem .stem te stei n the latter end of this week, lie has staked his .eputatien as n weather prophet en il, aud he will have it hen: en time or bicuk a trace. Se.mi: eutti prising people in the Western cities have been tryiug te compete with the postal depattinent iu delivering mail matter mere cheaply, but their illegal competition with the government business has been suppressed by the authorities, It is a pity some body does net undertake te compete with the gicat American navy. Tn i: consummate perfection iti the de velopment of chcek which the Amnieau newspaper lepeiter has attained is net only displayed upon the stafe as a unique creation of a fanciful imagination, but is met with in the transactions of the day with such painful reality that no restraints of propriety or decency may be placed upon the incpressibie uemsgathcrer. A case in point is that of one of these terri ble young men, who have invaded Wash ington for the purpose el remorselessly gathering items, who went up te the British legation when the maiquis of Leme was entertained aud entered with out invitation. He shook hands with the English minister, the maiquis, and en gaged in conversation with the mcmbeis of the maiquis' staff, until he was cold shouldered into the background, wheie he made an accurate aud exclusive deserip tien of the refreshment tabic. Mu. Woxe Chike Foe, who some years age became known through the lectin en he delivered in different parts of the coun try, has demonstrated that if his native land docs net make rapid strides in the way of improvement her representatives in this land have been touched with the magic wand of progress, and he has started in New Yerk a Chinese newspaper, te be issued weekly. Mr. Foe will no doubt, appreciate the need of improvement upon the facilities he possesses te pieperly con duct his paper, as he will write his editor ials with a pointed stick and then have them reproduced m the shane he writer, them by photo-lithography. All of which will incline the Celestial editor tecritically compare American and Chinese ways with a view of bringing down te easier use the sixty-five thousand hieroglyphics that ue te make up his language. GREAT FLOODS. BIANV DISASTROUS ISCRDATIONS. Westeru Pennaylvanla Flooded-Great Lew of Property Uuslness Much In terfered With Otner Late EveeU. The ice went out of the Neshannock river, Lawreuca county, en Saturday night, accompanied by very high water. The audience in the New Castle opera heuse had te be taken from the deer in carriages, the water being two or three feet deep around the building. 'I ravel en the Oil City & Chicago, Pittsburgh & Lake Erie, Pittsburgh & Western and the Erie reads are entirely suspended; the water putting out the fires in the locomo tives. Twe county bridges and the New Castle railroad bridge were tern away. Half of Oil City was inundated, the people being rescued from their houses in beats and en rafts. The Derrick office is at the mercy of the waters and its publication until the storm subsides will be impossible. The fires in the pumping heuse of the water works wcre put out and Oil City's water supply cut off. The bridge at Titusville was taken away with a number of boys who wero standing en it, two of whom wcre drowned. Ne trains can reach Titusville. At Mcadville the city was flooded, and ever two hundred families were rescued bv beats. kVll country bridges are down. Live stock by the hundreds have been swept away. The large French creek bridge was destroyed. Timber and rafts valued at $30,000 wcre lest in the Clarien river. The large bridge ever the Alie gheny at Emleuten was carried away, with a man named Itess en the top of it. lie Ueated te Parker City, where he was rescued by ropes let down irem the bridge. The destruction of life is small, but the distinction of property along the Alle gheny river will reach 8300,000. At Pitts burgh about forty coal beats and barges, aud two steamers the Medoc and the Cera wero tern loeso by the ice and either broken te pieces or carried away, entailing a less of $100,000. At Akren, Ohie. The damage by the flood aggregates $50,000, of which the Ohie canal company probably loses $20,000; the Valley rail road company, $10,000 ; the Akren sewer pipe company, $3,000, and a private heuse $10,000. Saturday night in the southern poi tieu of the city it was feared the upper basin would give way, emptying Summit lake into the lower basin and flooding the entire valiey through the business centre of the city. Hard work all night averted this finally, but the factories along the canal all suffered, the danger especially threatening Themas Phillips & Ge's paper mill and King & Arrastieng'a varnish works. The water entered the burning kiln at Alex andria's fire bricks works, generating steam that exploded it, causing consider able less. Lecks 19 and 20 of the Ohie canal were washed away entirely and ethers were badly injured. Iu the Sixth waul, at 5 o'clock, Sunday morning, the iee and wa'cr gorge near Whitmerc, Rob Reb Rob insen & Ce.'s works broke suddenly, and thice families wcie with difficulty rescued. The stieam stiuck thote mills of the Akren Sewer pipe company, injuring both considerably. All the families in the Cuyahoga Valley and the northern part of the city lied from their homes Saturday night, the lain fell in torrents. Iho Valley railroad bed was washed in many places Irem Cantou te Cleveland, and all the trains were abandoned. At the Staudard Oil Works, Cleveland. The fire at the Standard oil works is ncaily exhausted. The secne of the con llagratien resembles chaos, and a gentle man well mienned in such matters says it will take two j ears te lestorcthe works te their condition of two days age. Colonel Payne, treasurer of the company, thinks that no nioie than 50,000 barrels of oil were burned, and says the less cannot be stated until the flood subsides and a care ful examination is made. The tire is still burning in spots, and last night illuminated the wrecks of ten leeeiviug tanks, twenty te thirty stills and ether smaller works, mostly enumerated last night. Three hundred thousand dollars is probably a moderate estimate of the company's less. The great iloed reached its highest point at neon, when the river was ten feet higher than at the ordinary stage, and the Hats, ceveicd with lumber yards, eleva teis, iron works, machine shops, Heur mills, packing houses, factories of various sorts and lailread freight houses weie meic or less submerged. The water is receding but the cannot be ascertained. It is estimated that 23,000,000 feet of lumber and from 11,000,000 te 15,000,000 shingles have been washed away. The Valley rail road is under water for miles, and its bridge, near Woighleck, has been washed away. The New Yerk, Pennsylvania & Ohie old ficight heuse is four feet under water, which reaches within a few inches of the fleer of the new freight house. The cars are under water te the iloeis. The company refuses ircight for the picsent. Twe mills of the Cleveland paper com pany, containing about forty tens of mau ufacturcd paper, are in water nearly te the top of the first fleer. Schooners and steamboats were rudely tossed about, but most of them rode through with little injury. The lower central way-bridge is broken, the approaches are gene aud the draw is turned. The district all about presents the appearance of a lake dotted with chimneys, reefs and lumber piles securely auchered. The Infirmary farm, en the river's edge, is submerged. The freshet is the most destructive ever known there. The damage can scarcely be Jess than $1,000,000. and may be greater. The rain ceased at 3 o'clock ycsteiday morning, and the weather turned rapidly cold. Itulu Wrought by i'loe.: sit ltrndferd, I'll. Five hundied houses aleus; Pearl, Glebe, Roylston, Florence, Pine, Main and ether streets wcre inundated by the flood of Saturday night. The lower part of the city was submerged in some cases te the depth of ten feet. Five bridges were swept away, aud several houses along the banks of the creek wero badly damage or totally destroyed. Eighty-five families en the flats between Bradford and Tarpert, living in one-story houses, had te flee for their lives, leaving all their effects, and many of the houses were swept away. It is impossible te estimate the less at this time. The waters are new subsiding, and no further damage isfeaied. A HAD UANG. Sew V.,rK Hurglars Operating for " Spert." The fire department and police of New Yerk city have been annoyed for mere than a year by false alarms of fire. On Saturday detectives arrested nine young men, whose ages laage from 17 te 28 years, and the prisoners have made con fessiens showing th?t they net only sent out false alarms, but committed burglaries as well. One of thci.i, named McCabe, is an expert leekmaker, and he fashioned keys te fit the doers of several stores where ethers of the conspirators were em ployed. McCabe was the leader of the gang. It appears from the statements of the prisoners that " whenever false alarms were sent out several of them would go together, McCabe usually superintending the expedition and sending out the alarm. Occasionally they would leave packages of false keys and notes for the foremen acknowledging that it was done for sport." McCabe said "he began te send out false alarms iu 1877." Hughes, another of the prisoners, said that, " in September last, Horatio Courtney, his cousin,-being employed as a clerk in the silk-house el l . b, Wheeleck, en Canal street, it was agreed that a bur-' glary should be committed en the jewelry establishment of J. W. Brooks, in the rear of Wheeloek's. Courtney obtained the keys aud McCabe made duplicates. Over $1,000 worth of jewelry was stolen and disposed of in Philadelphia, Washing ton and Norfolk, Va. The police found Courtney tied te a chair in the store, where he said the burglars had bound him, and his story was believed." THK HEr.NOLU'S STATUE What Progress the Sculptor Is Making With tne Philadelphia Memerial. Philadelphia Times. Jehn Rogers, the sculptor, who is widely known from his popular groups illustra tive of the civil war, and of domestic scenes, is new engaged en the largest work he has ever undertaken, the eques trian statue of Gen. Jobs F. Reynolds, ordered by the Reynold's memorial asso ciation of Philadelphia. He has yet two years in which te carry out the commis sion, which is net tee long for a work of such magnitude, but the model is already well advanced. After its completion at least half a year will be required for the process of casting the statue in bronze. A lecent visitor te Jlr. Rogers' studio at Stamford, Conn., thus describes the work : "Te the casual observer the horse and its rider appear te be in an advanced state, but Mr. Rogers says he has scarcely made a beginning en them. The size of the work is colossal, and stands ever twelve feet hich. The horse is a model of beauty. All that is noble in the form of that animal is embodied in the plaster, the idea being te show a spirited horse as he would be likely te appear when startled by the booming of cannon and the excite ment of expected conflict with the enemy. The general rests gracefully in lm saddle, acceutred in the habiliments of war, his head erect, with face turned te the right, his right arm uplifted and index finger pointing, as if te emphasize seme com mand. The features show the fire of earnest determination aud eagerness for the fray, and the horse, sympathizing with the wishes of his raaster, has every muscle strained and is in readiness for aught that shall be required of him. Mr. Rogers has departed from the rule many sculptors seem te have adopted of depicting the horse partially or wholly at rest, as, for instance that upon which W-yshiugten sits in Fourteenth street, New Yerk, aud has succeeded in creating an animal which is, te all intents and purposes and se far as meulders' im plements guided by the hand of art, can make it, alive. He has also produced from photographs a repesentatien of the face of the deceased general which will unhesitat ingly be recognized. Like all the works Mr. Rogers has executed this is a study of itself a speaking likeness of the mau recalling vividly the historic field of Get tysburg, whereon General Reynolds gave up his life." TUK LOST STEAMKK TAUU.Ha. Iteacue KetuseU by the Keeper or a Life Saving .station. A dispatch from Empire City, Cab, says, en Wednesday afternoon, when the first news of the wreck of the steam col lier Tacoma was received requesting the assistance of life beats te rescue the men en the wreck, a crew of eight volunteered, and proceeded that night after dark te the life saving station at Cape Gregery, nine miles from here, where they arrived about eleven o'clock that night, and informed the keeper of the station of the wreck that they came as a volunteer crew, and that the tug Escort would be oil the station at daylight te take them te the wicek. The men theu proceeded te put the beat in condition for the trip, and launched bur, and with the keeper in charge went about two miles te practice the crew. Shortly after the tug arrived. The keeper new re fused te go out. (fr te allow the men te take the beat. Three of the men get a small beat from the lighthouse keeper aud went off te the tug and in formed the captain of the situation. The keeper's only excuse for such conduct was that he would net go without an experi enccd crew. Captain Hill, of the tug Fearless who lcttirnedfrem the wreck en Saturday, thinks that if a life beat and a gun for throwing lines had been at the place of the disaster all the lest en the Tacoma would have been saved. A HAT KII1.I. OF MOLASSES The Trie:: Twe Scamps Played en an AC- nummecliYtlni; Ocrin in lireccr. Jehn II. Ven Dehleu, a German grocer at Washington and West Eleventh stieets, New Ye:k, changed a $10 note for a Strang r en Fiiday, and, iu doing se, dis played a large roll of money. Soen after waid two jeun men entered the store and said they had made a bet as te whose hat would held the most molasses. li Det's neddings te me," said Dehlen, "I knew neddings about such pisnesscs." But the young men were net te be put off. They said they would pay for the molasses. The grocer grumbled ab'-ut ' voelishnesses " as he took the hat they wanted him te fill, and went te the rear of the store. As he returned with it te the man who held out his hands for it he stepped between the two. The ene who took the hat said : " Well, hew much docs it held ?" Befere the astonished grocer could an swer he was seized from behind, and at the same moment the hatful of molasses was clapped en his head and pulled down ever his eyes. Blinded aud bewildered he could make no lesistancc while his money was taken from him, and when he get the hat off and ran out en the sidewalk drip ping molasses, his dcspeileis were geno. He lest $274 and the molasses. ISIS Fire In naahville. A fire in Nashville, Tennessee, yester day morning, dsieyed nearly a whole block of buildings, occupied by the fellow ing firms : Dichl & Lord, ale bottlers ; the Capital warehouse ; Dudley Brethers & Lipscomb ; Lewenstein, hides and produce dealer ; Lewenstein & Hirst ; Allen's liv ery stable; W. Weitzel's machine shop ; u. It. Weed's leundry, and Byrnes Bres., grocers. Mere than forty horses were burned in the livery stable, and two fire men were dangerously injured by the fall ing of a wall. The capital warehouse was lull of cotton and tobacco, all of which was destroyed. The less is estimated at $200,000. Kuilreuti Accident?. Twe Lake Shere freight trains containing in all seventy-one cars collided yesterday three miles east of Lapertc, Indiana, and two oil cars exploded setting fire te the wreck. The shock was felt in Laporte. Ne lives were lest, the train men jumping off befere the crash ecurred. The disaster is said te have been caused by the conduc tor and engineer of the cast bound train mistaking their eidcrs. A construction train en the Chesapeake and Ohie railroad ran into a hand car near Odis, Kcntucky,en Saturday evening, kill ing Scott Webb and sevcrely injuring four ether men. Wg Jewelry Kebuery. The jowelry store of Stephen Themas & Brether in Charleston, Seuth Carolina, was rebbed early yesterday morning of diamond', watches and ether valuables te the ameuufc ofabeut $10,000. They left le hind the tools with which they opened the safe. Killed by a Lunatic. Geerge Mahen, a patient in Bellovue hospital, New Yerk, under tieatment for alcoholism, yesterday killed with a chair Michael Kellacher, a fellow patient suffer ing ft era the same disease, and wounded Jamu Conners, an attendant. CnnisTiAN K. Ress still has his hones that he will some day see his long lest boy. PERSONAL,. Walcott eats his last brace of quail to day. "Kit Carsen" has been arrested in Indiana with a peck of counterfeit geld coin in his possession. Geerge W. Williams, said te be the most accomplished literary man of the colored population of the United States, has completed the second and final volume of his " History of the Negro race in America." Senater Wisdom was offered some time since the presidency of the Georgia & Pacific railway, and he will new accept it. He declined the place theu with the understanding that he would accept if net re-elected te the Senate. Shxater Ferry, of Michigan, has net only thus far failed of reelection, but fi nancial bankruptcy has overtaken him and the suspension of his lumber firm with $500,000 liabilities darkens hi.s politi cal prospects. Miss Anne Hoever Ferney, second daughter of the late Jehn W. Ferney, was married yesterday at St. Stephen's church, Philadelphia, te William Weaver Fitler. The wedding was strictly private en ac count of both bride and groom being in mourning. Vincent the fugitive state treasurer of Alabama, has been seen iu Nashville. He had shaved off his whiskers, and was re cognized with difficulty, but when he was spoken te " the recognition was mutual." Vincent said he had shaved " because warm weather was approaching." Mary Clemmer Ames says that when the total abstinence women called en Gar field te ask him whether he intended te exclude wine from the White Heuse, his manner was cold and ungracious, as though he felt their presence te be an in trusion and their plea an impertinence Arthur was the pink of politeness. He gave each woman a flower, tee, and as he went out "she felt happy,howevor it might be with the temperance cause." Akciikr, the famous English horce jockey, was lately married te Miss Nellio Dawsen, daughter of the well-known trainer. The event was celebrated at Newmarket with imposing ceremonies. Telegrams were rcceived without number from the British nobility aud gentlemen of the turf. Lord Hastings presented a roasted ex te the peer and the bridegroom accompanied it by a gift of 1,000 leaves of bread and 1,000 pints of beer. The public all ever the country took the warmest in terest in the occasion and showed it has as much concern iu the affairs of a successful jockey as in these et a great statesman. Kefusea the Fees. The Harrisburg correspondent of the Philadelphia Sunday World writes the following : " Mr. Cassidy has had a chance te make a clear theusaud outside of his salary since he became attorney general, but he could net see hew he was entitled te the money, and resisted the temptation which was set before him. Among the counsel of the Standard oil company in the recent suit of the commonwealth against the corpora tion was Cassidy. He was considered an able lawyer, and as this great monopoly always empleys eminent legal talent, they employed him and gave him a substantial fee. Soen after he took possession of the office he was surprised te be informed that a check had arrived for him amounting te ever nine hundred dollars, and that it was from the Standard oil company, aud in tended te pay the commission iu the case, the attorney general being entitled te five per cent, of the amount collected from companies which have appealed fiem the settlement of the auditor general te courts. Cassidy refused te take the money, stating that he had received a fee as counsel for the Standard and could net take money new from the same corpora tion iu the same case as a law officer of the state, especially since he had earned noue of it. The check was sent back with the instruction that it be turned into the state treasury. In declining te ac cept the money Cassidy did net fellow in the foetstep.s of his predecessors, who ap piepriated commissions earned by these whom they succeeded as attorney general. Cassidy is free te say that he favors the abolition of the fee system se far as it re lates te officers of the state. He would rather have a fixed salary even if it should net icach the amount new received by the attorney general in fees and salary. Governer Pattison is said te he in accord with the attorney general in his views of the fee system." the devil's auction.' i lin Large Amllence at It Production. On Saturday night the spectacular piece entitled "The Devil's Auction," which is said te have been written by Charles II. Yale, comedian, aud James Maflir, the old pantomime clown, was produced at the opera heuse befere a tremendous audience Leng befere S o'clock the heuse was full, and by half past eight standing room was scarce. The gallery will seat about 330 people yet ever GOO saw the show from that eminence. Messrs Gallagher & Gil mere, proprietors of the Graud Central, Philadelphia, are the managers of this show. They sent the party out en a venture aud the play has been se success ful that it will be kept en the read. The piece is a very peer imitation of the "Black Creek " aud there is little in it. A great deal is pantomime and the acting of Maffit and Bartholemew was very geed . They introduce a number of new tricks and specialties. A ballet was seen at different times in the evening, and, although there was but a dozen women iu it, they gave satisfaction as their dancing was very geed, and they were attractive in appearance. MIle Elisc led the party and her tee danc ing was excellent. Of the specialty ar tists the Ronaldes were the best. Their grotesque acting was received with thunders of applause. They are a won wen derlul trio and have bcen seen here before. Ashley and Hess gave an exhibi tion of roller skating and deserved their warm reception. Their introduction of the Jumbo policemen was a real novelty. The La Verde Sisters appeared in songs' and dances and their act was entirely new. Their songs were fresh, but the orchestra was se very bad that it was impossible for them te render them well. One of the pair suffered from a sevcre cold, which interfered greatly with their act. During the presentation of the piece a party who were stationed en the gallery persisted in hissing, and although there was seme peer acting it was in bad taste and the offenders deserved te be thrown out. As it was the efficers wcre unable te control the gallerj' audience en account of its size. On a whole the pioductien of the piece was a success and the party will ceitainly draw money anywhere they ap pear. They left for Ceny, P., en a special train at 5 o'clock yesterday morn ing and will at ence make for the West. lteilef ler Germany. Henry Wolf, treasurer, and C. Matz, president, of the German relief fund, of this city, sent te-day a draft for $301.45 te (J. B. Richards Jc Ce., Ne. el Broadway, New Yerk, te be forwarded by them te Karl Frederick Ven Lsvokew,presidont of the Germau Reichstag, for the relief of the Germau sufferers. Divorced. Frances A. Hart, of Providence town ship, was divorced from her husband, Mortimer S. nart, en the grounds of de sertion, by him. Increused Mall Fatliltlei. A new pouch for mail matter west of Alteena has been put en fast line west, leaviug this city at 1:40 p. m. THE TOBACCO MARKET. TJIADE IN SEED IJSAF AN!) HAVANA. Fer the Week Ending satarday, February 3, IO A. M. Iu ew Yerk The Lecal Outlook. U.S. TobacceJourn.il. Iu point of sales the past week has proved the largest se far this year. At this period of the year all sellers ae anx ious te avoid publicity as much as pessi ble, as, in their estimation, reports of large transactions are apt te reuso the grower's latent avarice and make him balky when low figures for his crop are offered. The general reports from the tobacco growing districts are te the effect that growers are "te stiff" entirely, and that nothing but a few mero months of total neglect en the part of the buyers, com bined with as little information as possi ble from the main market, would reduce them te a state of pliability and elasticity, mentally, as well as physically. Certain it is that our reports of figures of the sales of the week are net at all calculated te instigate any desire en ihe part of the grower te obtain extraordinarily formida ble prices. The few hundred cases of '81 Pennsyl vania sold at p. t. Malicious people prob ably will claim that if growers of '82 Pennsylvania also get p. t. they ought te be amply satisfied. The market figures for '81 Pennsylvania are as fellows : Packings from weak, demoralized packers 9 te 1H cents ; packings from time abid ing, stubborn packings, 13 te 25 cants. The remnauts of 'SO Pennsylvania sell at biudcr prices, viz., G te 11 cents, with an exception for an occasional geed wrapper let at 14 te 10 cents. Fer line packages of '81 Connecticut aud Wisconsin ITavanna seed there was a geed inqairy, sellers realizing prices which they claim te be ruinous, but which, in our estimation, may be termed very salisfacteiy under the circumstances. If '81 Connecticut wrappers bring from 20 te 30 cents in lets of 50 te 153 cases from jobbers, under the present stagnation in manufacturing circles, it doesn't at all leek as if the bottom is about te drop out of business. An encouraging feature of the market is the sudden geed demand for expert to baccos. The buyers for foreign markets cama iu with unusual pretensions. It was net the low common fillcry stock they were after ; line wrappers or leafy low grades they demanded, and would have bought by several thousand cases at from e te 8 cents. The market net being do de moralized sufficiently, their purchases only numbered about 1,200 cases of '82 Ohie. If our maiket could be relieved from its immense suiplus by an expert business, it would brighten the prospects of all en gaged in the leaf business considerably. The sales of the week were as follow fellow follew ing: : Pennsylvania crop '81, 230 cases, p. t. Crep '80, 300 cases, at 0, 8, 10, 12 and 14 cents. Wisconsin crop '81, 250 cases Havana seed, at 15 te 17 cents. Connecticut crop '80, 330 cases; sec ends, 12 cents ; wrappers, 20 te 30 cents. Ohie crop 'SI, 1,400 ca-.es ; 0 te 8 cents, for expert ; 121 cents for line wrap pers for home use. Sumatra Market moderately active. Sales 200 bales. Prices unchanged. Havana Market active. Sales 700 bales. Prices firm. Guns' Kepert. Sales of seed leaf tobacco reported by J. S. Cans.' Seu & Ce., tobacco brokers, Ne. 131 Water street, New Yerk, for the week ending Feb. 5, 1883 : 400 cases 1880, I'eunsylvania, 0,14 ; 200 cases 1881, Pennsylvania, p. t. ; 202 c.i--es Wisconsin Havana, 3t22 ; 133 cases 1881 state, 1011 ; ISO" cases 1881, New England, 12&221 ; C4 cacs 1831, Ohie, 5c. Total, 1,181 cases. Tlie I'hlladelphln Market. l.uit. Seed Leaf Beginning te meve with mero spirit; aud has the ring of tangible profitable business. Wrappers are daily sought after. Pennsylvania 1881 is new decidedly better appreciated, and is fast assuming the position where it belongs. Connecticut and Havana seed have their favorable dail inquiries. All have some what stiffened in figures Fillers of all grades meve out iu very nice 3ized lets and at lull piices. Pae.keis are bejiiniiins te leek after the 1S82 crop, and will buy if net held tee high by the farmeis. They say Pennsylvania is fine. We shall knew after a while. Sumatra is receiving a large share of patronage from seme of our first chi"js manufacturers. Havana moves off in very nice lets at usual figures. Wlnic it Cestn te K:i1he Tobacco A New Yerk State Tobacco club, by a long and careful comparison of the state ments of all thu best and largest produc ers in the Chemung Valiey have estimated that the total cost of raising an acre el tobacco in that district is $133.75. Figur ing ou the basis of an average yield of i,:iuu pounds per acre, the tobacco costs eight and uiuc-teuths cents per pound. The fact is thus shown that in that part of the state of New Yerk tobacco cannot be t-rewn for less than nine cents a pound and sold at profit. This estimate is for the cost of grewiug the large seed leaf va rieties, and net of the hybrid tobacco or the domesticated Havana seed. A Hint le the Wise. Let every farmer who keeps stock make a water tight cistern iu which te save all the liquid manuie made in the barnyard. Save the liquid manure thereby, aud be benefitted by it. It is the essence of man ure, and is immensely valuable if it can be properly saved and absorbed by dry muck or seme similar material ready te be ap plied in an unvailable form. Don't let liquid maniue run away te waste as we have frequently seen it luuning into streams from the barnyard . Lecal Tobacco market. The damp, foggy weather which has lately prevailed gave the tobacco growers a fine opportunity te take their tobacco from the poles and prepare it for strip ping, and most of the growers new have their crops in presentable condition ler examination by the dealers. The iucreas ing activity in the New Yerk market, and the new very generally entertained belief that Congress will fritter away the few remaining weeks of the season, without doing anything that will greatly effect the tobacco market, either for geed or ill, has given heart te dealers, and they new manifest a hotter disposition te buy them at any time previous dm ing the season. Quite a number of them from abroad are new quartered in Lancaster, and make almost daily trips te the country in search of bargains. They say they are net buy ing much, and aie very reticent in making kuewn the prices at which they purchase. A number of sales, however, are re ported, the prices ranging from 14 cents te 25 cents for wrappers, G te 10 for sec onds and 2 te 4 for fillers. At a few of the warehouses in the city there were some deliveries during the past week, but the quantities wcre small, and the few dozens of wagons en which the leaf were brought te town were in striking contrast with the long trains that struggled for precedence in unloading last year and year before last. Iu old tobacco there has been a few hundred cases sold, principally of the crop of 1881, and all en " private terms." M:iIe el Ke:iI Estate. Ilciny Shubcrr, auctioneer and real es tate aent, sold en last Saturday evening, at public talc, at the Kev stone hotel, a oee-stery brick dwelling house belonging te the estate of Sarah Hoever, deceased, situated Ne. 224 West Walnut street, te David Markley, for $090. DKMOCKATIC PRIMARIES. Candidates Pat In Uencral Nomination. On Satarday evening the Democratic voters of the several wards of this city met at their respective voting houses and put in general nomination candidates for ward officers and school directors, from whom a ticket will be made up at the primary election en Saturday evening next. There was no excitement in any of the wards, though at some of them there there was quite a large attendance. Following are the names of candidates presented : first ward. Common Council B. F. Montgomery, S. K. Lichty, M. J. Weaver. Jehu Reith. Assessor M. W. Raub, David Reese. Constable A. G. Pyle. Jeseph Mills. Judge James McElhene. Iuspecter Thee. Trout. City Committeeman Jehn Schautu. second ward. Common Council Jehn Echteruacht Simen P. Eaby, II. E. Slaymaker, J. B. Kaufman, A. J. Dunlap, Themas Me CLiren, Fred. Brimmer, Richard M Reilly, Jehn R. Russell. Alderman William J. Forduey. Assessor Simen W. Raub, William Lewars. Constable James Dennelly. Judge Rebert Clark. Inspector Antheny Reilly. City Committeeman .Tames R. Don Den nelly, A. J. Dnnlap. third ward. Common Council Charles A. Yeung, Jehn M. Eberly, Harry Lind. Jacob Reiker, Henry C. Keller. Assessor Win. T. AVvlie. Constable Ed. Peffer. Judge Adam Obleuder, jr. Inspector Adam S. Rhoads. City Committeeman B. Frank Lemen. fourth ward. Common Council Matthias Wilsen. David H. Bartholemew, James Praupley Albert Rengier. Assessor 1). W. Dictriek. Constable Wm. H. Heheureubrand, Isaiah McKillips. Judge Lawrence Falk. Inspector Jehn II. Neinier. City Committeeman Edward Jeffries. fifth ward. Select Ceuucil Jehn Stark. Common Council Henry Gerhart, Jefui Kress, O. B. Shertzur, Philip Berugesser, Abraham Erismau. Assessor Antheny Metzreth, jr. Constable Samuel Lentz, Fred'k Kis singer, Philip Fisher, W S. Sliultz. Judge Wm. Simen. Inspector E. S. Kress, Gee. W. Alia bach. Olty Committeeman Wm. B. Strino. SIXTH WARD. Common Council Charles F. UeitzeU sr Geerge B. Willson, Chas. F. Rengier, William Jehnsen. Assessor Chas. R. Frailey. Constable Martin Daily, Abraham Evans. Judge Jehn B. Sener. Inspector Adam Mishlich. City Committeeman Henry Reincer. seventh ward. Select Council Gee. Berger, jr., Henrv. Snieych. Common Council Fred. Arneld, Philip Dinkelberg, Frank Everts, B. Frank Adams, Jehn Pryer, Michael W. Reilly. Assessor Jas. R. Garvin. Constable Jehn Merriuger. Judge Wm. McLaughliu. Inspector Geerge Kuhlmau, Jehn T. Knapp. City Committeeman Fred Aruehi. Jehn Kegel. EIGHTH WARD. Common Nye, Benj. II. Adams. , Council Peter Dichl, Jcssa Huber, Adam II. Trost, Jes. I. .1. Hartley. Mielmel Sh:il!ir. Oscar E. Krieir. Assessor Jehn A. Bradel, Win. Shultz, James Huber, Christian Frailey, si, Jehn Kirsh. Constable Gee. Shay, Jehn Gill. Judge Lee Jacobs, Fred. Glasbrehner, Jehn Staley, Samuel Huber. Iuspecter Jehn Myers, ('. T. Dough erty, A. J. Keller. City Committeeman Jes . II. Cant, Wm. Lorentz, sr. NINTH WARD. Select Council Philip Zeeher. Common Ceuucil Miles Fitc, Juhu Mr Killips, Geerge Stormfeltz, D. S. Swteten, II. B. Springer. Assessor David Zeeher, Geerge Sheet. Constable Francis C. Cunningham, Jehn Herr. Judge Jehn Heek, Jehn Nixderf, Jeseph Arneld. Inspector Charles Smith, Charles Brown. City CommitteemanJeseph Arneld. SCHOOL DIRECTORS. The following candidates for school di rectors were named : Adelph Albert, Second waul. H. W. Harberscr, Fourth ward F. W Haas, Fifth ward. William Jehnsen. Sixth ward. William T. Jeffries, Sixth waid. Edward Krcckel, sr., Eighth wanf. Jehn Lcvergoed, Sixth ward." Dr. D. McCermiek, Fourth ward. Peter McConemy, Fifth ward.v S. II. Metzgar, Second ward. Adam Oblender, Third ward." Jehn Ochs, Feuith ward. II. Z. Rhoads, Second ward. R. A. Smith, Fourth ward. O. B. Shertzer, Fifth Ward. Adelph Schott, Fourth ward. Gee. W. Zeeher, Sixth ward. Retiring un-mbcrs. Declinations. Adam II. Tresr, put in nomination by his friends in the Eighth ward aa common councilman, declines, en the ground that his business calls him out of town fre quently, thus preventing him from at tending council meetings regularly. Isaiah McKillips, who was placed in nomination for constable of the Fourth ward, declines. Jehn Kirsch dcclines te be a candidate for assessor in the Eighth ward. Unclaimed Letters. List of unclaimed letters remaining in the postenico at Lancaster for the week end ing Feb. 5, 1883 : Ladie's Lit.Mxs. Sam'l Allen, Misu Louise Gerhardt, Mrs. Anna Geed, Miss Clarrie Guistwite, Miss Ellie Hemshcr, Mrs. Anna M. Hiukle, Miss Ella Kautl man, Miss Grace McDonald (2), Miss Gertie Myers, Mrs. Emma Smith, Miss Millie Snyder, Mrs. Jehn Stewart, Miss Katie Strigel, EmmaZug(2), Miss Elmara Zeek. Gent's Lint. J. B. Andersen, W. L. Brosius, J. L. Chad wick, W. II. Claydeu, Jehn Dougherty, Gardner & Ce., Gee. W. Heugh, Walter Kendig & Ce., Wm. McGregor, David Meyer, J. O. Newton, Albert Parker, Sam'l B. Price, Jno. A. Riffel, J. W. Ruth, Gee. Roup, Henry F. Rush, Fred. Slienk. Jac. Saeucr. Spent &; Ce., Jac. Stepp, Jue. K. Widder. Jac. Welfskill, Harry E. Wolf. KAII.KOAU ACCIDENT. A Alan and Women Injured. About 7 o'clock this morning, a short distance cast of Harrisburg, a milk cart in charge of James Cox, was struck by the locomotive attached te the Steelton ac ac ac coeodation train and crushed te pieces. Mr. Cox was thrown from his seat and very seriously injured. He was taken te his home en Tenth .stieet Harrisburg. About 5 o'clock yesterday afternoeu, Lizzie Horgaii.efC'jate-villo, while walking en the track a short distance east of that borough was struck by a locomotive and injured very severely internally. She wa.i carried te Ceattsville, where she lies in a critical condition.
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