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LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCE! MONDAY FEBRUARY 12. 183.
ILancaster fntelligenrer.
MONDAY EVENING, FEB. 12. 1883.
Hazen's Unfitness.
General Hazen was placed at the head
of the signal bureau after the drctth of
General Myer, although it was well
known that he was unfitted for its duties
and that he had no particular ability of
anykind te recommend himforrespensible
place. He had been a failure wherever
tried. He had been guilty of the most
pronounced cowardice en the battle
Held. He was recognized in the army
and out of it as a sham and a fraud, a
man of great pretensions and univer
sally peer performance. He, however,
had political influence. We believe that
he had it in both parties ; Mr. McLean,
of the Cincinnati Emjuirer, was one of
his connections and sponsors ; and a
very fit one, indeed, he was for a man of
Hazen's quality. He evidently had the
family traits, being an accomplished
blower and having beyond little less
sense than the original ape from whom
this whole clan cannot be very remotely
descended.
Hazen has been showing his felly con
spicuously ever since he has been in his
present place, lie has done nothing te
raise its n-pute or te continue it. He is
net capable of it. Se disgusted are even
the hard-te-disgust "Washington author
ities with him, that they lend counte
nance te an essay te remove the signal
bureau te the care of the interior de
partment ; a change which certainly
would be for the worse. In the army
there is a better chance for getting com
petent instruments for public work than
there is out of it. Ter army eflicers
have at least education and esprit du
corps ; and there is net a larger proportion
of feels among them thau are found out
side. Hazens are net numerous, and
never would come te the fore if the
army regulations forbidding army elH
cers te use political iulluence te obtain
fatilaces was strictly enforced. As it
is, this order is carried out se speradical
ly and feebly as te be wholly valueless. A
peer devil of a major, who was comfort
ably stationed at Newport barracks
and wanted te stay, Haunted
tee conspicuously his political recom
mendations and was ceurt-martialed
therefer and reprimanded ; but,
nevertheless, every army officer knows
that if he wants am thing the only
way he can get it is te use political in
fluence, aud only the very conscientious
among them decline it.
General Hazen ought te be removed
from his place, but his place ought net
be removed from under the war depart
ment. General Hazen's ability te
further disgrace the country ought te
be put an end te by his dismissal from
his office and from the army.
The (ucstien of Taxes.
The editor of the 1'hiladelphia Jhcerd
claims te find the discussion between
Judge Black aud ourselves, relative te
taxation, toedeep for his comprehension.
We are inclined te believe that he is sin
cere, since he asks us te explain " hew
any tax that may be laid en property,
either real or personal, payment .if winch
is net evaded by fraud or ("ncealmeut,
can tail of being equally or proportion
ately distributed." The answer Sfeuis
quite easy ; we have only te say that a
tax se laid is proportionately and equally
distributed upon the class of property
taxed ; but it is net thereby equally laid
upon all property or all owners of prep
erty. The idea of equality of taxation
which we advanced required an equal
imposition of the burthen upon all classes
of property according te their value.
Anether idea of such equality would be
an equal imposition of the burthen
upon all the people, and net upon their
possessions. But we can see no
equality in taxing only certain classf s of
properly, thus imposing the burthen of
taxation upon the owners of such prep
erty and releasing from it the owners of
ether kinds of property. If property is
te be the basis of taxation, all property
must be taxed equally te make taxa
tion equal ; if men are te be the basis ,
then all meu must bj taxed equally.
What we seek is au equal adjustment
of the burthen of taxation upon the peo
ple ; aud it must be mide equal upei
their manhood or their property.
When real estate is taxed unquestionably
the burthen of the tax is largely shifted
by the owners of the real estate upon its
tenauts and upon these who use its
products. The burthen is widely dis
lributed,but still net equally. It requires
nothing but the statement te show that
wheu a thousand dollar house is taxed in
the hands of its peer owner, while a hun
dred millions dollars of bends in the
possession of Vanderbilt, are net taxed ,
equality in taxation is lacking.
The Figures.
We have collected with some care and
examined with much interest the vote of
the several counties of the state last fall
for county offices, and have instituted
comparisons of the same with the vote
for governor te ascertain as nearly as
possible what variations there were.
Obviously the nominees for whom there
was the strictest party vote were these
for jury commissioner, of whom there
are two te be chosen in each ceun
ty, except Philadelphia, en the minority
plan, se that there is little or no cutting
en this office. In one or two counties,
where the returns en this office were in
accessible, a careful estimate has been
made of the straight party vote, and in
Philadelphia that for city treasurer is
taken, which is probably mere than fair
te the Democrats. The result is that
the Democrats polled for local candidates
throughout the state 357,271 votes
against 355,791 for Mr. Pattison,
while the Republicans cast 352,'JIG,
against an aggregate of 359,332 for Stew
art and Beaver combined. In Indiana
county the Democratic vole for jury
commissioner was largely augmented by
a fusion en the local ticket; with the
Greenbackers, but making allowance for
this and for the liberal estimate en the
city treasurer's vote in Philadelphia it is
very obvious that the vote for Mr. Pat
tison was almost entirely a Democratic
vote, brought out by the Democratic or
rini7!finn nnrl nrdlpfl for t.he TlAmn.
cratic ticket from ten te bottom. Had 1
Mr. Stewart net been a candidate most
of his votes would have gene te Mr.
Pattison and the Democratic majority
would have been larger than was its
plurality.
Tjik Press, which has beeu proving
itself big enough te print the news
and bread enough Je tell the trnth,
allows an " Invisible " correspondent,
writing from Harrisburc, te say in its
columns that a committee " appointed
te ascertain whether certain Heuse offi
cers could net be dispensed with,"" re
ported that all were absolutely required,
and these held in abeyance were sneaked
in by piece-meal, and te-day they are all
in, except two sergeants-at arms, who
will be in in plenty of time te get the
full salary," and upon such allegations
as this he concludes that the cause of re
form at Harrisburg is hopeless in the
Democratic Heuse and has only a chance
in the Republican Senate. New the
facts
lire just the reverse. The
Heuse
officers
did dispense with a dozen
allowed by law and net one of
them has been sneaked in nor filled in
any ether way. The Senate, en the ether
hand, has filled its full quota. Every
officer elected by the Democrats has te
de his work in person, and, as even the
Press correspondent admits, one who
was unfit for his position had te resign
and was neither allowed te hire a sub
stitute nor shirk his duties. This is a
condition of things that has net prevail
ed at Ilarrisburg for many years before.
If the Press wants further evidence of
the sincerity of the Democratic Heuse
in the weik of reform, it can find it in
the dispatch by that body of legislative
business, which is further advanced than
it has been any time for ten years at the
same period of the session. The appre
priatiens committee, which is even mere
liberal than its chairman or the majority
of the Heuse, has already acted en forty
one out of sixty-seven bills before it, and
has cut down the amounts asked for
$1,201,351.
The announcement that the Seventh
legislative district of Luzerne and Lack
awanna counties would b.e entitled te
only one delegate in the next Democratic
state convention, under the apportion
ment of the ne A' rules, was based en a
miscount of the vote for governor in the
election precincts which make up these
districts. A recount shows that they
polled 1,504 votes for Pattison, entitling
them te two delegates in the next state
convention, which
membership of 359.
will have a total
I he Examiner professes fine scorn of
a ' paper constitution." Nevertheless
the Decalogue, Magna Charta and Bill
of Bights have steed the wear and tear
pretty well.
Tueke is a notable lack of popular
orators iu Ceugrus at this particular time.
Rr.D Bank, N. J., refused te ceutract
for a water supply. Red Bank, N. J.,
had three big fires ou Saturday. Red
Buik, N. J., will live aud learn.
Seme of the. clerks in the jury commis
sioner's efticc, New Yerk, have becu de
tected iu au elaborate scheme of receiving
large fees lrein rich citizens te have them
lcleased friun jury duty. Anether argu
ment for lettinc no man escape his share of
jury service. Call Grant, Vanderbilt and
Gould !
Very proper exception has been made
te the style of the new five cent coinage
because the words "cents " nowhere ap
pears en it ; and the point is se well
taken that its coinage has been stepped
until the defect can be remedied iu the
dtsin. People who have specimens will
de well te held ou te them. They may be
rarities some of these days.
New Teiik city has geed cause tomevo
for the substitution of the salary plan for
the fee system for public offices. Its
county clerk makes $100,000 a year aud
the register $75,000. These grossly ex
cessive salaries are net only iuerdinatc
compared with these of president and
chief justice, but they make the offices the
stake of political gamblers and their ad
ministration a cess peel of corruption.
The fee system must go.
The example of Lancaster county set
ting aside its jury because the jury com
missioners had net been properly qualified
has reached Erie. Last week the matter
was brought before Judge Galbraith : ex
amination speedily satilied him that there
had net beeu a legal drawing ; the findings
of the grand jury were set aside ou the
same grounds as it was done here, a new
venire was ordered and a graud jury and
fifty traverse jurors ordered drawn, with
the ten days' notice te jurors for the
fourth Monday in February.
THE BLIND SriNNEIt.
Like a blind Spinner in the sun.
1 trend my clays ;
I knew that all the tlfreads will run
Appointed ways :
I knew each day will bring Us task,
And being blind, no mere I ask.
Sometimes the threads se rough and last
And tangled flv.
1 knew wild storms arc sweeping past,
And fear that. 1
Shall tail, but dure net try te And
A sater place, since 1 am blind.
I knew net why.bnt I am sure
That time and place.
In some great labric te endure
l'ast time and race
My thre ids will have; se, lrem the tirst,
Though blind 1 never lclt accursed.
l!ut listen, listen day by day.
Te hear their tread,
Who bear the finished web away,
Ami cut the thread.
And bring Ged's message in the sun,
'Theu peer blind Spinner, work la done !"
Tueue is evidence that Oscar Wilde's
mission te this country has net been in
vain. Net only has he induced some of
his followers te adept the orthetic knee
breeches and gaudy colors in which he re
velled, but he seems te have infused into
the state of New Yerk newspaper reporters
a degree of poetic excellence that is as
charming as it is useful, as demonstrated
by the Sun's representative, who in telling
of the " friendly bout " between Mace
and his distinguished pupil, Slade. the
Maori, proclaims that poetry and pugil
ism may go nana iu nana, since the
" counters were stepped, all as rapidly as
rays of sunshine glint through the spokes
of a swiftly-revolving wheel." This
should be one mitigating influence te
deter Oscar from scoring the American
people tee roughly because of the treat
ment the untutored plebians rendeied
him.
The Philadelphia Bulletin, which we
have learned te regard as geed authority
in these matters, is of the sensible opinion
that by this time the Legislature ought te
bave arrived at some fixed principle re
garding appropriations for private chari
ties, ever which there is such wrangle
and scandal every session. "The state
is net responsible for their support
at all. They are local and private in their
real nature, and the communities that
have established them should support
them. Sentiment is sentiment, aud law
is law. The Legislature should be gov
erned by the bread principles of state law
and state policy, and net by touching ap
peals te the tender feelings of its members
in behalf of any private and local charity,
no matter hew deserving it may he."
The New Yerk Times (Rep.) makes the
following acute observation : " The
ether day the Tribune began a quite tee
perfectly beautiful leading article with
the question, ' Is the Seuth no mere civil
ized than Russia ?' The occasion for this
trcmeudeus question was furnished by
certain stories of atrocities inflicted in
Southern prisons upon convicts, most of
whom were negrees. The 'Tribune did
net have the slightest doubt that thes-c
stories were true as indeed they preb
ably were and it drew the conclusion
that a country iu which convicts are bru
tally treated cannot be called civilized
It se happened that ou the next page of
our ouermously esteemed contempo
rary was a long account of atrocities said
te have beeu perpetrated upon convicts in
the stale of New Yerk. Naturally the
Tribune does net make the inquiry ' Is
New Yerk no mere civilized than Rus
sia'?" for it is much simplier te attack
abuses iu the Seuth than abuses at home,
and, besides, the majority of the convicts
in New Yerk prisons are white instead of
colored."
PSRSUNAlj.
Tnoi.Leri: left his family a personal
estate of $130,000.
Jehn C. Bullit is talked of as a prob
able candidate for mayor of Philadelphia.
Wm. E. Dedge died ou Friday, Marshal
Jewell ou Satui day ; Dedge's seu is mar
ried te Jewell's daughter.
CiiAitLEs Mackay, LL. D., the English
lyrical poet, is just recovering from a long
aud dangerous illness.
ift'T. Themas Sands, aged 82, a retired
cajnaiu of the United States revenue ser
vice, died at Annapolis yesterday after
noon. Emeky Si'EEit, representative- iu Con
gress from the Ninth district id' Georgia,
will be nominated by the president for U.
S. attorney for the Northern district of
that state.
Auaih Pasha, iu exile, languishes in
luxuriant case at Ceylon, while his wife, a
beautiful Egyptian, leads a festive life iu
Paris, and his childien.are suifering from
want iu Egypt.
Gamhetta was descended from a chim
uey sweep aud of him, at the age of 9, one
of his schoolmasters wrote : "Leen Gam
betta is a dirty little pig of a violent char
acter, but intelligent and witty."
Miss. Yeung, of Cincinnati, has sued for
a divorce lrem Mr. Yeung, alleging that
he loves his deg mere than his wife aud
has bought for his favorite a cellar worth
$1,500.
Rev. Rus&ei.l Jennines, aged eighty,
of Chester, Conn., recently took a bride el
twenty-live, signalizing the. event by giv
ing 35,000 in shares of $5,000 te seven
Baptish churches ia the vicinity.
Edwin Beeth appeared in Berlin last
eveuiug as Othelle. After the performance
he was presented with a laurel crown
amid storms of applause. The presenta
tion was accompanied with a coiuplimeu
tary address.
Bosten Ceihjktt, the man who killed
the assassin Beeth, has become a religious
enthusiast and says that he has beeu di
rccted by Ged te inllict daily corporal
puuishmcut upon himself as a penance
for having taken human life. He is
engaged iu cattle business in Kansas.
Wayne MacVeagii, as attorney general,
decided that Apelliuaris water was
au artificial water, aud therefore
dutiable. Secretary Felger says it is
a uatuial water aud must come m free of
duty. Moieever, he has refunded $90,000
of duties paid under Mr. McVeagh's de
cision. James Payn, the well known novelist,
will take the editorship of the Cerntill
Magazine upon the retirement of Mr. Leslie
Stephen in June, while Jehn Merley sue
eeeds Mr. Grove in the editorial chair of
Macmillaii's Edmund Yates has some
idea of publishing a volume made of the
resollectiens of his literary life.
Bisuer Lee, who was one of the revis
ers of the New Testament, and who is
famous for his learning and piety, is rec
tor of St. Andrew's church iu Wilmington,
Del. A peer woman of the parish, iu
telling of a charitable visit from the bishop
said : And then St. Andrew himself
came te see me."
Miss Charlette Adams, the writer of
a bright article ou "Artists' Medels" m
the February Century, is a young girl of
twenty-three. She was born in the United
States, but went abroad at an early ase,
and, having an accomplished mother,
enjoyed many sociable advantages. At the
age of twenty she had written a book,
spoke five lauguages easily, and was a
contributor te the magazines.
Lehne is a man of commanding figure
and of exceptional beauty of countenance.
Tall, bread shouldered with easy move
ment ; his head is thrown back with a cer
tain dauntless grace that has in it the un
conscious expression of a fine character.
His features are fine and strong, especially
his brew aud chin ; net only is his abund
ant hair golden but his eyelashes are of
the same hue, long and curling outward ;
he has deep gray blue eyes.
Lesses Uy Fire.
A fire in New Yerk city last night de
stroyed the six story building Ne. 18
Spruce street, occupied en the first fleer
by Brown fc Smith, leather dealers, en
the second fleer by the Bell printing press
company, en the third fleer by the Great
American engraving and printing company
and en the upper floors by the printiug
warehouse, of F. Wessels. The rear
building occupied by Hepper & Ce.,
dealers in galvanized iron, fronting ou
Beekman street, and Ne. 20 Spruce street
adjoining also caught fire.
A building at Ronueut,New Yerk,owned
by the Cernell steamboat company and
occupied by the officers of that cempauy
the Rhiuebeck and Kingsten ferry com
pany, the Steny Cleve and Cat skill Moun
tain railroad company and the Kingsten
city railroad company also of storehouses
of Geerge Teller jfc Brether leather mer
chants, and Cresby,Sabler e5 Ce.,hardwaro
dealers, was destroyed by fire yesterday
morning. lue Cernell steamboat com
pany's icehouse en Rondout creek contain
ing 2,000 tens of ice, was also destroyed,
and the steamboat City of Catskill was
burned te the water's edge. The losses
are between $150,000 and $200,000,
INDIAN FIGHTS.
TWELVE APACBE SCALl'i TAKEN.
Current A'ewa of the Day Accident and In-
clileut- Crime and Calamity The
Way of the World.
Reliable information has been received
of two fights with Apaches en the south
side of Pagigechic river, in the feet hills
of the Sierra Madre mountains, iu Chihua
hua. The fights were between Apaches
and citizen soldiers of the town of Temo Teme
sachi and surrounding district. Last fall
Governer Luis Terrazas authorized the
people of that section te orgauize a com
pany et citizen soldiers te pursue, tight,
capture, kill and sealp marauding Apaches
On January 29 the company surprised a
camp of Apaches. A fight, short aud
and quick, ensued, iu which twelve Indian
scalps were taken, thirty-three Indians,
including men, women and children, were
made prisoners, aud lifty horses, with
saddles and bridles, aud thirty-eight pack
horses, leaded with previsions aud equip
ments, were captured.
It appeared te the citizen soldiers, from
the quantity of previsions, arms aud am
munition captured, that a large band of
warriors belonging te the captured party
was temporarily absent, and consequently
a hurried inarch was heguu te reach Tem Tem
esachi in safety with the prisoners and
supplies. The citizens were overtaken by
a superior number of Apache warriors,
who attacked the company savagely. The
citizens fought desperately aud finally
succeeded in holding all the prisoners, but
lest six of their own men aud had a few
wounded. The citizens took four scalps
and the Indians recovered teu of the
thirty eight laden horses The company
reached Toniesachi, 313 miles west, en the
right bank of the Papigoehic river, with
sixteen scalps, twenty eight old and young
prisoners, the war horses aud twenty
eight auimals laden with previsions and
arms.
IHlSU12LIANKOU3 .NEWS
General Iutelllgeuce lu Condensed Ferm,
The Valley zinc works at Cleveland,
Ohie, were destroyed by fire. Less, $10,
000. A. N. Curiy was shot aud killed by
Geerge Wilcox, his father-in-law, at Bax
ley, Ga.
Ceramauder Francis Merris, United
States navy, is dying at Newport, R. I.,
of Blight's disease.
A lire at Asteria, L. I , destroyed a
large portieu of Lunsick's oilcloth manu
factory. Less, $23,000.
Mrs. Rebbie, of Banks township, Carben
county, while insane, committed suicide
recently by jumping into a well.
Burglars robbed a savings bank in
Wyaudette, Mich., of $2,500 in cash aud
fifteen city bends, en which payment has
been stepped.
Brown & Hoag's Heming mills, and
Higley & Jehnsen's paper pail manufac
turing establishments at Medina, N. Y.,
were burned lately. Less, $18,000.
Sam Massfield, a lad, while out gun
ning near Macen, Ga., was accidentally
shot by another lad, Wyche Naughie, and
died from the effects thereof.
Ferbes, Barstow & Ce., lumber dealers
at Clveland, O., assigned te E. P. Shel
den, who gave bend for $23,000. The
failure is a sequence of the latu flood.
James Wilsen was held at New Yerk for
trial, charged with swindling by going
around visiting clergymen aud asking for
charity en the strength of forged recom
mendations. The 3 year old son of Mrs. Patrick
Beylo, of New Castle, Lawrence county,
fell head foremost into a boiler of het
water and was scalded te death.
The clothieg of Susie Bixtcr, aged G
years, took lire accidentally while she
was attending school in New Cumberland,
Yerk county, and she was burned te
death.
Hen. S. L. Ciecker, of Taunton, Mass.,
has died at the Hetel Vondemo, Bosten.
He was piesiilent of the Taunton locomo
tive weiks and the Crocker copper man
ufacturing company.
Emanuel Lenhart was arrested en Fri
lay night in OugreEsa, Kalamazoo county,
Mich. He is suspected of being the mur
derer of Jacob Bealtman, who was found
dead en Thursday in his hut in the weeds
in Menree township.
Jehn Day fatally shot a young man
named Freeman while he was eloping with
Day's daughter at Rexana, near Charlette,
Min. The father pursued the levers ou
horseback armed with a nlle, aud fired as
soeu as he overtook them.
A lire at Mcraphiss, St. Clair county,
Mich., destroyed the grocery stere of N.
Jarvis, It. S. Deland, A. M. Hedges and
A. I J. Sutherland and the furniture store
of J. B. Chcssall. Jarvis lest everything,
but is insured. The ether parties get out
their goods. Several families, who were
living ever the stores, were burned out.
The poaleffice was also burned. Less,
$10,000.
TUESTtiESS OF WEATHE1C.
l'erllti from Floed in Cincinnati.
" Fer the first time within the memory
of the eldest inhabitant " navigation en
Lake Michigan is reported te be entirely
cleed. Iu many places the lake is covered
with ice several feet thick for a distance
of 23 miles from shere.
There has been a snowfall of 10 feet S
inches at Watertown, New Yerk, this
winter, and very little of the snow has
melted away. It snowed hard nearly all
last week alen;; the line of the Reme,
Watertown & Ogdeusburg railroad.
Railroad travel iu Canada is greatly
obstructed by the deep snow. At Wing
ham, Out., the drifts are reported te be 13
feet deep.
In Newport the military barracks are
Heeded, and nearly two square miles of
the city is under water. People have
becu takiug coal aud previsions in beats
all day te the inhabitants, delivering them
through the second and third story win
dows. All the houses and factories en the
river front in Covington are flooded, and
the water is iu the second story of them.
Nearly ten miles of the river front at Cin
cinnati is under water.
The floods iu the Ohie river and its tri
butaries increased during Saturday night
and yesterday. At 1 o'clock this meruins:
the water at Cincinnati had reached the
highest point since 1832, being 12 feet
above the danger line. Thousands of peo
ple crowd all the bridges watching the
flood. A rise of three feet mere is ex
pected. All transportation wagons in the
city arc employed in removing goods from
danger. Tiie water through which they
pass in going te the suspension bridge is
ever their axles. Passencers between Cov
ingten and Cincinnati are compelled te
cress the water at the Cincinnati approach
te the suspension bridge iu beats or vehicles
All railway freight business and nearly
all express business west and north has
been stepped. The Ohie & Mississippi
transfers passengers by omnibus four
miles down the river, and thence by
steamer makes connection with Aurera,
Iud. The Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St.
Leuis & Chicago uses the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton lines te reach its ewu
line in Indiana. The Cincinnati, Wash
ington & Baltimore gees out from the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton depot. At
West End the people are trying te save
the cattle from the inundated pens. The
difficulty is very great, as beats have
te be employed and the cattle
must be led out ene by ene.
They often get frightened, break away
and go back into their pens. All mill
Creek Valley for miles north from the Ohie
is a bread sea. In the city from Pearl
street down te the river front the ere'atest
activity and excitement prevails. The
fire department ifl pumping out the Pearl '
street cellars te enable merchants te save
goods. The river invaded a house adjacent
te the suspension bridge where unslaked
lime was stored along with quantities of
resin. The heat from the lime set fiie te
resiu. Engines have been at work ou this
fire aud it centinues obstinate, but net
violent.
News Frem the Morning Mails.
McPike & Jehnsen, horse aud mule
dealers, of St. LeuiS, have suspended, with
liabilities of 30,000 and assets at $75,000.
The eau.-e of suspension is the failure of J.
II. Whitson & Sen, of New Yerk.
Charles D. Seebach, a bartender, drew a
pistol and fired en a crowd of boys who
were snowballing him en Sixty first street,
New Yerk. The bullet struck Jehn Noon Neon Noen
an, 0 years old, Inflicting a fatal wound.
Nine stock" cars were wrecked en the
Lehigh Valley railroad, above White
Haven, last night, by a broken wheel.
Twenty head of cattle were killed. The
read was blocked for nine hours.
Peter Ryan, aged about GO years, who
bears a rather bad character, murdered
his wife in St. Leuis by smetheriug her
with bed-clothing. He acknowledged the
crime, but gave no reason for its commis
sion. He is under arrest.
The Mutual Union telegraph lines have
beeu leased te the Western Union tele
graph cempauy for 999 years. The con
tract for the lease was signed en Saturday
at special meetings of the directors of the
companies in New Yerk.
At Lamar, Barten county, Me., J. A.
Derau shot aud killed his f-ithcr-in-law,
M. M. Smith. The latter was in a store
when Deran entered and demanded his
child, which was living with her grand
father. Smith made no reply and Derau
drew a revolver and shot him dead.
A great bridge is new under construc
tion for the Sioux .City & Pacific railroad
across the Missouri river, 20 miles north
of Ceuucil Bluffs, Iowa. The piers are of
ired filled with concrete masonry, and the
superstructure is also of iron. The bridge
will be 1,000 feet in length and cost nearly
$1,000,000.
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COLUMMA NEWS.
Frem our Vegular Correspondent.
At the Republican ward meetings en
Saturday eveuiug the following ticket was
ittled : First ward Council, J. A. Min
ieh ; school beard, A. Wilsen ; assessor,
B. F. Clepper ; constable, Jehn Gilbert ;
judge, William Fasig ; inspector, Martin
Hiukle, jr. Second ward Council, J. E.
Mifflin ; school beard, Dr. William G.
Tayler ; assessor, William Boyd ; con
stable, Henry Fisher ; judge, William
Cellins ; inspector, Themas Waters.
Third ward Ceuucil, Themas Edwards ;
school beard, Daniel Stape, sr. ; assessor,
Dauiel F. Gehu ; constable, Edward Cas
well ; judge, JohnKeesy ; inspector, Wm.
Gilbert. The conferees who were ap
pointed by the several wards cheese Jehu
Shenbcrger for chief burgess and Chris
tian Strawbridge for high constable.
Seme Destructive Fires.
This morning at 8:10 o'clock the paint
shop of B. F . Stener's reel works was en
tirely destroyed by fire. Geerge Finka
bine, a lad of fourteen, who was employed
at the works, was the cause. It is a prac
tice te dip the castings of the reels iute a
tub of paint while they are at a moderate
heat. Finkabiue had allowed an iron te
become very het and when he dipped it
into the paint it caused the latter te ig
nite. The boy was burnt about the hands
in trying te extinguish the flames, and,
wheu he found this te ba impossible, be
came frightened and ran home, net stop step
ping te give the alarm of fire. Wheu the
flames hurst through the windows it was
discovered by one of the employees. A
geucral alarm was sounded.
By the whistles of P. R. It. engines the
fire department arrived promptly, but tee
1 tte te save the structure. Steady streams
of water saved the adjoining properties,
where a large amount of valuable goods
was stored. The less by the lire is net
heavy, as the burned building w.n only
an old frame structure.
The flue, old Ualdemau mansion, in
Yerk county, near New Cumberland, took
tire from a locomotive spark lodging iu
the cornice en Saturday, and iu a short
time it was in ruins. It was built iu 1830,
by Cel. Jacob S. Haldemau, of Harris
burg, at a cost of $18,000. The rooms
aud halls were eleautly fitted up and
there Cel. Haldcman resided teu years,
until the day of his appeintment as minis
ter te Norway aud Sweden.
Obituary Metes.
Jacob Rupley Eby, who died at Harris
burg, yesterday, was a native of Columbia
aud was in his 07th year. His father was
an extensive miller and he himself learned
the carpenter trade. He engaged in the
erection of public works, went into tl'e
lumber business and then became a grocer
in Harrisburg and accumulated wealth.
He was largely interested iu many of the
industrial establishments of the city, being
a stockholder and director of the Harris
burc car and machine and feuudry works
and was also connected with ether leadiug
industries. He was president for several
years of the First National bank and
likewise of the State Agricultural society.
A young son of Mr. Ficd. Friend, of
Union street, died en Sunday meruing of
scarlet fever.
lioreugii Kiidgnt.
Prayers at St. Paul's at 4:30 p. in., te
morrow. Richard Gere, Independent cau-
aiciate ler uurgess. me sailor property
withdrawn at 84,400. E. A. Becker's
coach pheps sold te Harry Nelte, jr.
Henry Haeffncr, P. It. R., fi.igm.iu. had
the right side of his head and ear badly
tern, Saturday night, by the explosion of
a signal cap. Bethel revival services con
tinue. St. Jehn's Lutheran church festi
val, Feb. 15, 10, 17. The newly arrived
Shawnee lire bell weighs 800 pounds.
Mrs. Martin Irwin buried at 10 a. m. te-day.
Adam Redenhauser iroue te Elizabdtb Elizabdtb
tewn te move two big safes. River rising.
Band serenades postponed en account
of the weather. Mr. J. U. Kaulfman has
returned home from Williamsport. Miss
Maggie Wilsen returned en Saturday
evening from an extended visit te Phila
delphia. Mr. B. B. Keller, formerly
superiutendeut of the Shawnee rolling
mill here, but la te of Philadelphia, has
gene te Flerida.
MI. NEBL) NEWS.
Frem an Occasional Correspondent.
On Friday evening the regular session
of the Mt. Nebo lyceum was held. After
transacting seme miscellaneous business,
the question, " Resolved, that the Indian
has been unjustly treated by
the white man," was discussed iu
an interesting and spirited manner.
The question for the next meeting : " Re
solved, That Napolean was a greater mil
itary genius than the Duke of Welling
ton," is expected te draw out soma inter
esting historical facts.
After a lingering illness Mrs. Rebecca
Clark died last week at the residence of
her son-in-law, Albert Hagen, of Mt.
Nebo. Mrs. Clark was an exemplary
member of the Presbyterian church antl
was respected and beloved by all who had
the privilege of knowing her. In her
death her children has lest a geed parent
and her neighbors a true friend.
Mt. Nebo has a boy aged 17 who claims
te have lilted 450 pounds. Next ?
Au Entertainment at tlrace Church.
The young people of Grace church will
give a literary and musical entertainment
at the church this evening for the benefit
of the church.
i:oceverlng from Ilia Tnurlex.
Mr. A. N. Basch, of 517 West Lemen
street, who received severe injuries from
a fall a week or two age, is rapidly recev-
enm'
SPREADING THE GOSPEL
THE LANCASTER CITY BlIfLK ."JUClKlX.
Sixty-Sixth Anniversary Inierenclnj; Service
at Hie k-renbyierlan, Moravian, Trinity
Lutheran and .Ien Churches.
The sixty sixth anniversary of the Lan
caster city Bible society was celebrated
last evening. Iu accordance with arrange
ments previously made, services were held
in the Presbyterian, Mei avian, Trinity
Lutheran aud Zieu Lutheran churches,
and that the friends of the cause might
be enabled te work in unison it was re
quested that no service! be held iu the
ether pretcstant churches, and this request
was very generaily complied with, the
congregations of the ether churches
meeting with the churches above named.
At tue PrenuterUl'i Church.
There was a full attendance at this
church. The services were ceuducted by
Rev. C. Riemeusnyder. president of the
Bible society, assisted by Rev. J. Max
Hart, of the Moravian church, aud Rev.
C. L. Frey, of Trinity Lutheran. The
services opened with choral and congrega
tional siugiug, after which President
Riemensnyder read the 19th psalm and
offered an invocation. Anethor hymu was
sung and President Reimensuyder read
the following report :
The Auuunl Kenert.
In presenting this sixty-sixth report of
our society it becomes us te be truly
grateful te Ged for what has beeu accem
plished by the American Bible society
since our last anniversary, and for the
aid, however small, which we are permit
ted te give in behalf ei its great work.
The American Bible society, te which
our society is auxiliary, was organized in
181G. Thirty five local societies united iu
its formation.
The first president of the society, in his
announcement of the event says, " There
was net a single dissenting voice in the
convention, though it was formed from
different denominations ; they all seemed
te bi of ene heart and of ene mind. The
whole proceedings clearly discovered the
divine agency aud even some from among
theso least affected could net help crying
out aloud, 'This is none ether thau the
work of the Lord.'"
The first address te the people of the
United States closes with these words :
" In such a work, whatever is dignified,
kind, venerable and true, has ample
scope ; wnile sectarian littleness and
rivalries can fiud no avenue of admission.
Come then, fellow citizens, fellow Chris
tiaus, let us join the sacred covenant.
L.et no ueart ee com, no nauu oe idle, no
purse reluctant. Come, while room is
left for us in the ranks of theso whose
toil is goodness and whose recompense is
victory.
The society is strictly unsectarian.
Seven different denominations of Chris
tians arc repreesnted in its beard of man
agers. "It labors te circulate the Scripture
among all classes impartially, its alfairs
are mauaued without denominational bias
or control."
The society has attempted, at three
different times, te supply the people of
the United States with Bibles.
The first attempted general supply was
in 1829 when our population was only 12,
800,000. The next was iu 183G, when it was 20,
500,000. The last was in 18GG, when it
was nearly 37,000,000. And new the
society has uudertakeu a further supply
of the United States, when our population
reaches nearly 53,000,000.
That such a supply is greatly needed
appears from the following statement of
the managers :
" During the last year the whole num
ber of families visited was 711,03(5, of
whom 111,932 weie without the Hely
Seriptuies, and 81, 993 were supplied, iu
addition te 4(5,430 peisens net included iu
these families." But the work of the so
ciety is net limited te our own ceuutry It
extends te all our missionary stations in
remote heathen lauds. The Bihle has
been translated iute eighty different Ian
guages and dialects. The Rev. Dr.
Chamberlain, a missionary in India, rep
resents this work as absolutely necessary.
He says: "Tlie Bihle must be
translated, piiuted and scattered every
wheie, or no missionary work
could be done. A missionary without the
Bible ! As well try te cook without lire or
heat ; as well try te sail a ship without
water ; as well try te propel a steamer
without steam ; as weil try te breathe
without air. If the printing and henevo heneve
lenfc distribution of the Bible cease, while
yet the nations are arrayed iu hostility te
Christ, then let it be announced te the
world that the soldiers of Christ's king
dom have laid down their arms. Let it,
cease, and all the powers of darkness will
rise and claim the victory as nearly wen."
But it will net cease. Forty million copies
of the Bible have been published and diss
tributed iu our laud ami among the people
of many ether lauds. Aud this work is
progressing mere extensively today thau
ever before. New, as professed follower:;
of Christ, should we net be profoundly
thankful for what this seeiety has done in
the past, and for the encouraging prospect
of still greater achievements iu the future?
Aud should we net give it our most
cheerful and generous support ? Is net this
ear solemn duty? Is it net our blessed
privilege ?
I submit herewith the treasurer's re
pert :
S. S. High, treasurer, iu account with
the Lancaster City Bible Society :
Te cash in hand nrlult: treasurer i
y.-, .v;
J e emu received lrem i. s. imtgic, ler
Jliblcs sold
Te cas.li received lrem I). C. Haverstiek
ler ether IJible-
Te cash received ler ether sale et lliljle-t
Te ca-sli received lrem Moravian church
Te cash rreeivel lrem St. l'aul's Ke-
termed chinch
Te easli received lrem Fitst Kelermed
Te cash received iieui rresbytcrian
cliurclu...
Te cjwh received Iiuiu Olivet llupUst
Te ctsli received from Trinity hulLeruii
church
Te cash received from St. .Jehn's Lu
theran church
Te cash received lrem anniversary col
lection at Moravian church
Te cash received lrem anniversaiy col
lection at 1'resbytcriuu chinch
Te cash received lrem unjiiveis-ary col
lection at Zion's Lutheran church
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Total receipts)...
By cash paid J).
$:. .17
C llaversticlc ler
printing .5 ;.,
Te balance In treasury $;ii3 hi
The above report is somewhat incom
plete. One church made au appropriation,
but had net reperted te the treasurer
when he prepared his statement.
And then, tee, we have en this evening
of our anniversary, union meetings in
four churches, and it is hoped that the
combined collections will considerably in
crease the amount.
Respectfully submitted,
C. Reimknskydek.
President Lancaster City Bible Society.
After the reading of the report Revs. C.
L. Frey and J. Max Hark made olenuout
appeals in behalf of the society, and these
were followed by the liftinjr of a collection.
during which the choir sang a line offer
tory. The services closed with the dox dex dox
elogy aud a benediction by Rev. Riemen
snyder. At the Moravian Church.
At the Moravian church the attendance
was large. The servics were ceuducted
by Rev. J. Y. Mitchell, D. D., of the
Presbyterian church, assisted by Rev. M.
Frayne. of the Olivet Baptist church, and
Rev. J. C. Hume, of the Presbyterian Me Me
eorial chapel. The services opened with
a hymn by the congregation, followed by
prayer by Rev. Dr. Mitchell, who then
read the 19th psalm, and the annual report
of the president of the Lancaster city Bible
society as printed above. A hymn
was sung by the congregation, after
which Rev. Hume delivered au address,
commending the society te the considera
tion of all interested in the spread of the
Gospel. He was followed by Rev. Frayne
after which a collection for the benefit of
the society was lifted. While the collec
tion wa- beiuu taken up the choir sang
the anthem " Guide me, O, Theu great
Jehovah," the sole part heing taken by
Miss Jennie Potts. A hymu and the dox dex dox
elogy were sung by the congregation and
benediction pronounced by Rev. Dr. Mit
chell. At Trinity Lutheran.
Sci vices very similar te the above were
held at Trinity. Lutheran church. They
were conducted by Uev. Sylvanus Stall, of
St. Jehn's Lutheran church, assisted by
Rev. Dr. Grceuwald, of Trinity, Rev. C.
E. Houpt, of Grace Lutheran, and Rev.
W. C Hobins-eu, of the First Metho
dist Episcopal. The 308th hymn was
snug by the congregation. The 80th
psalm was read aud prayer made by Rev.
Stall who theu read the above priuted
auuual repeit. Interesting addresses were
made by Revs. Houpt aud Robinson ; a
collection was lifted, an anthem was sang
and the services closed with doxology and
benediction by Dr. Gieemvald.
At Zieu Lutlierau.
Services similar te the above were held
at Zieu Lutheran church, ceuducted iu
the Germau lauguage by Revs. Meister, of
St. Stephen's, Mayser of Zion and Dahl
man of Sc. Jehu's Germau Itefermed, all
of whom made interesting addresses in
behalf of the Bible canst. The attend
ance was unusually large aud the collection
quite satisfactory.
A HUI.O KOKKEKY.
ATluel ISeei Thriii;li UugelKHU-T Hetel lu
ISntiitl ly L.i;lit.
On Friday afternoon about 4 o'clock, a
thief entered Hagelgaus' hotel, East King
street, and, ascending te the second lloer,
ransacked the reiuns which were net
locked, kicked a pauel out of the deer that
was locked leading from the hall iute a
back room, crawled through the opening
thus made, ransacked a large mahogany
sideboard, only one drawer of which was
locked, broke open the lock by hacking
away the weed of the drawer aud stele
therefrem 0 or $7 iu I". S. paper currency,
about -3 iu old copper cents, a Mexican
half dollar, an epau faced silver wateh, an
open faced uickel watch, a geld pencil
case, a'geid charm in the form of a beer
ken, and worst of all. a lock el hair which
had beeu cut from the head of Mr. Hagel
gans' dead wife. The thief also stele
several pounds of smoked sausage found
hanging iu the room, and then decamped
with his booty.
The police were at once notified, but
they thought best te keep the matter quiet
as suspicion rested ou certain parties.
Ellbrts were made te find them aud also
te secure the stelcu property. The silver
watch was found at a junk-shop en Middle
street, where it had beeu sold by the thief.
It is new in the hands of the police, but
nothing else has yet becu leceveied.
OUK niE.llltEItn.
'I he Legislative Ue legation in Town.
Senators Mjlm aud Stehman and Rep
resentatives Snyder, Landis, Bretius,
Suader, Eheriyand Hoevor were. in town
today, and at 10 a. in. met the committee
of the Lancaster bar, which has the salary
bill in charge, iu the law library room,
and hea-d argumenti; iu its favor. After au
interchange of views it was agreed that
the delegation should arraugc for a meet
ing of all the members fiem Lancaster,
Luzerne, .Schuylkill aud Berks, aud the
lawyers would trv and scenic; the attend
ance of persons fietn these counties iu
terestcd iu the passage of the bill.
After the meeting iu the court house,
the members of the Legislature were met
by the piiseu inspectors aud taken te the
county prison, wheie they took a leek at
tiie institution iu order that they might be
enabled te vote mere intelligently en the
proposed bill te be scut te the Legislature
ia legard te thn sending of long term pris
oners from !'ns f-eunty te the Eastern
penitentiary. Alt -r their work was fin
ished at the prison, the members were
brought back te town antl they left for
Harrisburg at. 1:13 p. in.
The inspectors held a meeting after the
legislators had left aud passed a resolution
urging thu members from this county te
de their best te secure the passage of the
bill allowing long term piiseuers te be
sent te Philadelphia.
A discussion theu took place between
the members as te what shall bodeuo with
Bummer's hall, but no defiuitc action was
taken
Tiie Ueunls Case.
In ceuit te-day was piesented the order
of Gov. Pattison staying the execution of
tue warrant ler .Jehn 15. iJunuis requioi requiei requioi
tien te Missouri aud Judge Patterson theu
dismissed the habeas corpus case and re
manded Dennis te jail te await, the dispo
sition of the cases against him for forgery,
affr which he will b.i deliveicd te the
Missouri authorities.
This afternoon Sheriff High I ilged a
detainer with Prison Ke per Btirkhelder,
te detain .lehu B DenuN, whatever dispo dispe dispo
s'tieu mav be made of the prosecutions
ajaiiist hiin, se that he may have posses.
s ou of him under the governor's warrant.
An Anonymous Contribution.
During the morning service at the Pies
byteriau church, yesterday, Uev Dr.
Mitchell read a letter which had been sent
him sigutd, "One who is net a Pieshy
tcrian," containing a $10 note which the
writer contributed in aid of the Presby
terian mission school at Sitka which had
been se graphically described in a lecture
recently delivered by Dr. Jacksen. Dr.
?iIitchel! has handed the money te Miss
Dale, treasurer of the home missions, by
whom it will bj appropriated te the use of
the school as the donor requests.
funeral r .HilHIn Elliett.
The funeral of Mifllin Elliett, of PrevU
dence township, who died en Thursday,
took place yesterday. The interment was
made at the Clearfield M. E. church, aud
Rawliusville ledge of Odd Fellows, of
which deceased was a member, attended
the funeral in a body. The deceased was
well known iu the vicinity in which he
lived, and was something of a Replican
politician. He was 08 years of age, and
leaves a wife and several children.
Jflre at Sate Harber.
Last night an old frame dwelling house,
situated along the railroad track, in Safe
Harber, was destroyed by fire. It was
owned by C. J. Rhodes and was unoccu
pied. There was nothing in the buildiug
except three very goad row beats, which
were owned by Theodora Patterson, of the
iron works ; Mr. Jenes, of Norristown,
and Abraham Hess. They were valued at
6100 and were destroyed. The lire was
the work of an incendiary.
A aliening JMan.
Chief of Police Dcichler has received a
handbill with a photograph of Jehn B.
Barker, 37 years old, 5 feet 11 inches high,
weighs 180 pounds, black hair, mustaebe
and imperial, who was last seen iu Phila
delphia January 3. One hundred dollars
reward will he paid for information of his
wheicabeuts.
Argument Court.
The special week of argument court be
gan this morning with both judges present.
Several cases were argued and consider
able current business of miner importance
was transacted.
Surety of the l'eace.
Jehn Craig, colored, has beeu held by
Alderman A. F. Dennelly en the charge
of turcty of the peace, preferred by Peter
Weeds.
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