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MHNI fiiM mm or the Mississippi :
5;fla'tiAr MefiDeueDt within levees, as
'ii.the'rit&t practice, and the ether
Ef JtfiD nnmlnr vd of additional rha.nnp.1fi
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iV for the waters by connecting the river
IVaJeBfC.tt coarse with ether water courses
fclf JeadiDf te the Gulf of Mexico. The
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ietw paw nas se steaaiiy lauea 01 lis
iiZrMt-aiatetu wnnlri f.hinlr that; W. at
W:$ilm0h,)mA 'aaSciently demonstrated its
Haaieqaaey te the occasion. Yet the
jTJnlted "States are new expending
.auuvui in. uuiuub upon lunuur
Attests -'of .this svstem. Mattresses
"Jtttm l AtlJ HU 1 U U
ijWnuB uiiGU witu uiuBU uave
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, pnpiuuea m certain places as part ei me
''-jl'plan, and these mattresses for some days
3K3i? UVO kUfClCU WD I1UIUIU UUDIM11 Ul
ajw nyer as uiey uuab upon it uqwn 10
vif C0 Tue uiKh water has disengaged
L etMm from the banks of the stream. It
:;CMiaDe the Mississippi waters within its
WIV UtUU UHUKB. J.UB UOOUS Will UOlilO
f . vand wash thpm away. Annually acres
f4f hmd fall into the stream. We have
"eK.-,lntm raarWnrr letalv nt enftina fnnnd
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fiS?i:neune in tne river tnau nau eeen
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'SRMUCU OUU UL U uitivcvaiu uu ita uau
'WW aKr wa8 fla11 a mue away irem u wueu
it was laid out a number of years age.
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TteFZ J Tbe effect of the levee system, it is
aldjlste steadily raise the bottom et
:the river; and that would seem te be
tee natural result. An adequate im
prevement of the river would be te
lower its bed se that in an ordinary stage
of water at least, the surface of the river
would be below that of the land. Then
if it is practicable te utilize side chan
nels te the gulf in times of flood, it would
seem te be the thing needed for the relief
of the great river.
What Answer!
Our esteemed and intelligent friend,
ex-County Commissioner Rebert Ment,
gemery, argues without an opponent in
his strictures upon the action of his suc
cessors in office in levying a three mill
tax for the coming year, when a two
mill tax would have provided ample
revenue te pay all the expenses of ad
ministering the county affairs and left a
sufficient balance en hand by April 1,
1884, te pay as much of the county debt,
payable then at the county's op
tion, as it is necessary or proper
te pay in a single year. 'As Mr.
Montgomery suggests, while the
county can borrow money easily at four
per cent., it is net right te make an un
due levy en the taxpayers, many of
whom have te pay 6 per cent, for the
capital invested in their business, while
their tax is collected for a part of it te
lie idle in the county treasury or te be
used by the banks favored with its de
posits for from six te twenty four
months. Blr. Montgomery also clearly
demonstrates that the times are net at
. favorable for an excessive tax levy.
Bat, as we have said, he repeats what no
one ventures te gainsay. The answer of
the commissioners te the criticism upon
their course exposes its own absurdity
and Mr. Summy is net their '' oracle "
when he maintains that it is geed house
keeping te collect tax in 18S2 te pay a
debt in 1884. Commissioner Hildc
brant, at least, does net agree
with his colleagues in defending
the excessive rate of tax, and, in the line
of Mr. Montgomery's suggestions about
the reduction of expenses, he has pre
vailed in his purposes te reduce the item
of printing. But if the commissioners will
apply themselves for eight hours a day
te the task they will discover ether di
rections in which they can economize
than in reducing the cost of making the
public acquainted with where their
money gees. Fer instance, the tipstaves.
A statue of Fulton, made by a Penn
sylvania sculptor, paid for by the state
and te be put into the national gallery in
one of the two niches assigned te Penn
sylvania for the commemoration of her
great men, has been set up in thecapitel
at Washington, though for some unex-
ilained reason there has been a lack of
the elf61110117 0I Iermai presentation
-jjgejpgbelieve, has been the rule in
'these 'casesnd "wbich was improved,
when Maine jaresented the figure of
- William Kipg, Blaine, te "sorely rasp
Ifanachnsetts. te lif own discreditXnd
vttie discomfiture of he senatejg. The
achievements of juf HvSteSXvruve of such
peaceiui cnaracier mat me eloquent
i$&i$p Cameren and the aggressive Mitchell
neSd net have feared te provoke a celli-
wen insetting forth his merits, theuch
there are net groundless claims en the
part of New Yerk te the citizenship of
4T:
Fulton in that state. Seeing that such
resolute effort has been made te rob
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Pennsylvania of Fulton, and te deprive
rFulten of the laurels of his invention,
Jc'ene or the ether of our senators might
fei'Ltfiiid voice te vindicate the fitness of the
; jKwcuQu aim ui praise wiu e&ueiiciiuu ul
?a the artist's work,in formally making pre-
gfejaeatatien te the guardianship of the fed-
l'stalfovernmentef Pennsylvania's first
r taScontributien te the national hall of stat-
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Hn feipnn nmspnf:TTnnRn nf T?pnrsenf.nf ivm
nees net seem te knew what it wants in
4he tariff line ; it would be better, there
fore, for it te give up all idea of settling
the tariff. It would be well te have it
settled as early as possible, but if our
representatives confess their inability te
decide what their own opinions are upon
it, they are net the men who are likely
te make a settlement that will have a
reasonable permanency. The Republi
can representatives seem te think that
they would like te have the credit of
wanting te arrange the tariffs while they
avoid the responsibility of doing it.
They have a bill sent te them by the Re
publican Senate which they will have no
.trouble in' voting upon if they wish.
Set they don't seem te wish it. They
pretend te be anxious and introduce a
.new role of a remarkable kind for the
purpose" of getting held of the Senate
bill.in a shape te suit them. Their Dem
ecratic colleagues oppose the change in
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Seme et the Philadelphia; journals
are berating a lawyer te whem'the eirt
referred the question as te whether the'
Saturday Night presses, which run at
night in a locality of residences in Phila
delphia are a nuisance. The neighbors
complained that the noise disturbed
their rest. The referee took testimony
and reported that the complaint was
just There is nothing te get excited
about in that. Everyone knows that
newspaper presses cannot run at night
in a neighborhood devoted te residences,
without being a nuisance. They should
net be permitted te run there. They
should be operated where people
generally de their business and where
they de net generally sleep. Pee
pie who take their business into localities
where ether people reside, are properly
required te conduct it with prime regard
te the comfort of these upon whom they
intrude. There should, in fact, be a
law prohibiting such intrusion, as com
men decency does net suffice te prevent
it. "What greater outrage could have
been committed for instance en a patient
people than was perpetuated when that
wretched cotton mill was thrust upon
North Duke street ? And that is net an
isolated case in this city of nuisances.
Gov. Pattisex has given fresh proof
of his purpose te carry into state affairs
the methods of close scrutiny and inflex
ible administration of the law which
distinguished his conduct as city con
troller. Heretofore it has been the custom
with institutions getting appropriations
from the state te be given them legard
less of the prevision that the appropria
tion is te be paid in quarterly instalments
upon condition that a sworn statement
of the expenditures and earnings of the
institution for the preceding quarter is
furnished te and approved by the auditor
general and the state treasurer. As a
consequence of allowing them te draw
and spend their money untimely, ether
loose methods have come te prevail
which the governor brings up en a short
turn by announcing that hereafter the
legal requirements must be complied
with.
Marti K Lutiibk is te have a colossal
brenze statue set up te his memory iu
Washington. He will be quite a figure
among the modern men-of-war who aderu
the squares of that wicked city.
Tiik tiger has begun te hunt the French
man in Philadelphia. A reform guardian
of the peer has been sued by an employce
of the institution for trying te intimidate
him while he was electioneci iug for the
radical ticket.
Tnn Heuse at Hanisburg get tired
having the bill te repe.il the recorder's
office slumber in committee and called it
out last night by a decisive vote. Brosius
and Snader of this county voted like little
men te let it where it was.
The navy department is preparing a list
of the naval efficers ou duty at "Washing
ten and the length f time they have been
there. It is presumed that this is prelim
inary te a " general cleaning out." But
really, hadn't somebody better iuquue
whether the secretary of the navy has net
outlived his usefulness ?
The Philadelphia Press is solid and
sonsible in its argument for a Chestnut
street entrance te the new Philadelphia
posteffice. A vast majority of pedestrians
who will walk by the building or te it en
business will go en that side, and te have
left no entrance for them is an architec
tural blunder that no technical canon can
excuse.
The disagreeing doctors aw at it again.
Here is Rev. Dr. Kirkus, an English
clergyman, rector of a fashionable Episco
pal congregation in Baltimore the
church of St. Michael's and All Angels
in which he vigorously attacks the Suu
day and liquor laws as unreasonable and
of no aid te religion ; while out iu Pitts
burgh Rev. Dr. Scevcl has opened fire en.
fashionable society, including mauv -eThis
own congregation, for attencftfg the Patt
concert where two doen ballet girls
kicked through theace in silken ibcen
and fleshly tigjifg.'
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CniCAQO has taken the initiative iu ro re ro
mevJng the unsightly telegraph poles and
,taeir nets of wire in this country, and is rap
idly having laid a system of underground
conduit. This action towards the removal
of a direct cause of the less of human life
will be heralded with enthusiasm and
thankfulness by a public who se lately has
witnessed at several distructive conflagra
tions hew terribly effective a bar a closely
strung network of telegraph wires proves
itself te be in banishing the last hope of
safety te these in imminent peril in the
upper stories of burning buildings.
Senater Cochran would have faced
death with less dread had he foreseen his
immunity from the funereal commonplaces
that signalize death in the public service.
The graceful tribute of Senater Gorden,
reproduced elsewhere in the Intelligen
cer, is marked by all the delicacy of fcel-
ing, sens; Din ty et association and dis
crimination in praise that give value
te mortuary expression. The young
senator paints his dead friend from the
heart rather than the head, challenging
no hostilities, arousing no aggression and
thus succeeds in commemorating all that
na:i lovable and admirable in the life of
his dead comrade.
The bill providing for the publication
by the state of all the supreme court re
ports from first Dallas te Oaterbridge has
been favorably reported, and in its favor
is given the reason that many attorneys
in the state de net own sonic of the most
important of these reports, and that te
secure them costs tee much under the
present manner of publication. There are
certaiuly very weighty reasons why they
should be published mere cheaply,
but if the state relieves them
from copyright restrictions, cannot
their republication at reasonable rates be
safely left te the competition of private
enterprise ? It is a dangereus step for the
state te go into the business of booksell
ing and the state printing department is
at present the subject of suspicions which
should lead te a curtailment rather than
te an enlargement of the functions of that
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Wbat Hav THey te Say ?
iBmTOBS Ihtkixigencbe : I see in the
IhteLugehceb of last week that a cor
respondent, lb. a. W. Hansel, has very
properly demanded from the commission
ers an explanation te the tax-payers of
what they want with the extraordinary
sum of $122,000, which a three mills tax
this year, added te the surplus, which has
Accumulated .the last two vearf. will
make. And that for the purpose of get
ting an explanation a lepresentative of
your paper called en the commissioners
and received the following answers, which
te me as a tax payer, are anything but
satisfactory.
First, they admitted that the average
expense of the county was about $200,000.
Next they said that the balance of ever
$90,000 in the treasury atthe end of the last
year was considerably reduced -since then.
That would seem very natural after paying
the expenses of a month and a halt et tuis
year. They further stated that there must
be deducted from the outstanding tax of
last year amounting te ever $67,000, com
missions' exonerations, building bridges,
street damages, &c. They de net seem te
comprehend, or, I judge, de net want the
taxpayers te comprehend, that all these
items belong te the ordinary expenses of
the county and are included in the $200,
000 which they estimated as the yearly
expense. And te the query whether they
thought it geed policy te accumulate se
large a sum te lie idle se long, they an
swered through their oracle, Mr.
Summy, that they considered it geed
housekeeping ; also that the times
were geed and the people generally are
willing te pay a three-mills tax. Your
correspondent feels safe in asserting that
there is net ene taxpayer in the county
that would be willing te pay se burden
some a tax if he understood the situation;
and, as te ihe times, they are quite the
reveise of what they allege. There is no ne ne
where cither in the country or city that
the complaint of hard times does net grate
upon your ears, and the complaint is well
founded. Take the farmers, who pay the
bulk of the taxes, for example. Truer
they had geed crops this year, but the
greater part of their wheat has been
sold at about $1 a bushel, which scarcely
pays the expense" of raising it, and
they are feeding their corn te cattle that
would net sell new for as much per pound
as they paid for them last fall, and their
touacce, en account ui iue uuprcciauen m
price, damage by hail and iu curing,
would net te-day bring ever one-half what
they calculated en gettiug ; such, verily,
are geed times with a vengeance.
They also say that there is a large por
tion of the county bends falling due April
1, 1881, and with this large surplus they
may, possibly, be able te pay $100,000 of
them then The idea of implying a doubt
as te their ability te pay $100,000 of the
debt with a surplus fund of $222,000 is
supremely ridiculous ! Why, there ought
te be no doubt about their ability te pav
$200,000 instead of $100,000. New, if I
understand the character of the bended
debt of the county, there is no pait of it
due uutil Apiil 1, 1S91, but the county
has reserved the option te pay any part or
all cf it any time after April 1, 188J, up
till April 1, 1891. Theiefoie, as these
bendb only draw 4 per cent, interest, it
bceras te me te be the most ill conceived
policy thnt cenld possibly enter into the
imagination of any eaue mind te thus draw
fiem a long sulfering tax ridden people
$222,000 in excess of the legitimate wants
of the country, and keep it lying idle (se
far as the taxpayer's iutei est is concerned)'
oue and two years in the banks favored
with the treasurer's deposits, te be leaucd
out by them te the taxpayers whom it
has been ruthlessly taken from se long in
advance et the county's wauts. I will
ask the commissioners this question : If
either of them owed a debt net due until
1891, though he had the option te pay it
anytime between April 1st, 1S84, and its
maturity, and only drawing 4 per cent,
interest, would he have beguu Ja3t year
and continued this year te draw money
out of his business te lie idle all this time
and replace it with money that is costing
him G par cent ? I think net. Yet, this
is precisely the situation they have placed
the taxpayers in. Then, why pursue a
course iu the management of ether peo
ple's business that has been confided te
their care in geed faith, that their simple
business instincts would recoil at if ap
plied te their own affairs ? This county
debt is the taxpayers' debt, and as the
great majority of them are a bor
rowing class te a greater or less
extent, in their private business,
and as they cannot borrow money individ
ually as low as the county has this lean, I
cannot imagine why this eiszy' haste en
the part of the cemnjiSbibners ju getting
ready se long ahead te avail themselves of
the first., opportunity te pay it se long
before its maturity. I feel safe iu saying
that there is net a man or woman iu the
county outside of the asylum, save these
three commissioners that will pioueunco
such pfefligate management "geed house
keeping."
Are the commissioners afraid that the
taxpayers are going te squander all they
have in the meantime and will have noth
ing left when the preper time arrives te
pay their county debt with, that they
have constituted themselves a beard of
frustees te take charge of their money
thus prematurely, te lie idle for years that
they may be prepared te get a whack at
this debt upon the first opportunity that
piesents itself?
The commissioners expressed consider
able anxiety te your representative that
the people should knew that they have
control ever comparatively little of the
funds and expenses of the county. This
seems te be a new idea. "Why, there is net
one dollar drawn out of the county
treasury except npen the commissioners'
orders. They held its key and it is their
duty te held itjwith a tight grip. True, the
penal and charitable institutions have in
spectors, directors and ether officers who
manage the details of their business, but
all the expenses are presented by bills te
the commissioners for their inspection and
payment, and it is their duty te scau them
closely and eliminate from them any and
everything that they find te be wrong and
unjust before they give an order for their
payment. I will be frank te say that se
far as my observation extends the officers
of these institutions manage them with an
eye mcra single ie economy than the com
missioners manage their department.
As this communication is getting en
tirely tee long I will only mention the
item of printing for example. ' When the
efficers cf the institutions publish their re
ports they issue proposals and let them te
the lowest bidder. Net se with the com
missioners in publishing their report.
They extend it te all the newspapers in
the county, as a benefit, I presume, (for I
cannot conceive of any otherebject) and
pay them, of course, whatever they sec
proper te charge. In conclusion I will
only say that a tax of 3 mills last year,
when 2 mills was ample, as I clearly
demonstrated then, was grievous enough,
but te repeat it this year under existing
circumstances is absolutely intolerable.
Eebert Montgemeky.
Mrs. Marshall Jewell, widow of the
late ex-Governer Jewell, of Connecticut,
died in New Yerk city yesterday, of heart
disease, at the residence of her son-in-law,
Mr. Arthur M. Dedge, who has thus in a
few weeks lest father, father-in law and
mother-in-law. Mrs. Jewell was pros
trated by her husband's recent death
and has been censtantlyill since.
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The following k fall lifeorfref the k-:
quent eulogy c the late Hear Jehn Coek Ceek
ran, delivered in the Pennsylvania 'state
Senate by Beaater Gorden ":
Mr. President: I cannot refrain a feeK
ing of deep sadness as I contemplate the
death, of Senater Cochran. He 'was long
and familiarly known te me. When, a lad
of 17 years, I began the study of law. I
took my seat at the same desk which he
had left bat a few years before te enter
npen the active practice of his profession.
Frem that time I saw him often, knew
him well and enjoyed intimate association
with him. I witnessed his repeated suc
cesses in being elected te the .councils of
his city. I participated inthe events by
which he was elevated te a seat in this
body. I was present when he was " made
one" with her whom he chose for his
wife ; and I steed by his bed, she still
holding his hand, when the dew of death
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was en his brew.
Sir, death has been very busy iu this
body. When, two years age, I first
entered this chamber I stumbled ever
three newly made graves. Vividly ire
call the awful impression made upon ma
by the solemn words of affectionate tri
bute called forth by that triple claim of
death. Since then two ether sanaters
have passed into eternity, and we are
again assembled, after a humane custom,
te recall and tenderly honor their mem
ory. It was pitiable, sir, at tha last session,
te mark hew death was steadily pressing
upon Senater Cochran. Blessed with a
figure of striking proportions, tall and
straight, with a face ruddy with manly
health, it was sorrowful te see his ste p
grew slew and halting, his face pale and
sad, his spirits low and melancholy. His
friends could net fail te see each day the
evident less of strength, the marked pro
gress of disease, the certain stride of
death. He was hopeful of a favorable
change in his condition. I used te sit
with him in that room yonder, when the
wintry rigor of the day without drove
him te seek the genial warmth of the fire.
There, before the crackling legs, he would
talk of his future. He longed for winter
te be gene, te see the breaking up of the
ice en the river and the budding of the
trots and the springing grass. He longed
for the coming of the balmy days of early
summer, that he might, at his new home
ou the Atlantic coast, catch fresh vigor
from the bracing breezes of the sea.
There was a hopeful light iu his cye as
he thus spoke. But, alas ! for human
hepe and human planning. The lusty
winds of ocean beat against his
weakened frame with unkindly severity
and dreve him te seek shelter in his house
and ultimately en his bed. The deep
meaning of the waves that he had hoped
would soetho his wcaiicd mind, but
chanted his dirge in a threnody of wee.
There by the sounding sea he died.
Spending an August holiday in the neigh,
borheod I was sent for and saw him die.
I had the melauchely satisfaction of
fetching the priest of Ged te minister te
him. One of the severest storms of the
season then raged en our ceabt. The
winds howled dismally and lashed the
deep into frothy fury. Het, fevered, un
conscious, he lay dying. Frem the win
dow of his house I saw the ships far out
steer seawaid and the nearer craft seek
anchoring gieuud. Ged grant that as his
soul then lleatcd out en eternity's bread
sea lie found safe anchoring ground and a
quiet haven of rest.
Oh 1 it was tee, tee sad. The little
child crewed cheerily iu its nurse's arms,
all unconscious of the great deprivation it
was suffering. Fatherless babe, Ged
father thee ! The young wife, until the
direful catastrephe was enacted, steed
bravely by her pest, calm, resolute, un
faltering .in duty, with Christian firmness.
Widowed wife, Ged ba thy speuse ! Net
till duty was ever, net till human efforts
were futile, did she disclose the gicau
burden of her distress. Tears waited ou
toil. Ner, after the first brief paroxysm,
did bhe longcentinuo in unwarranted dem
onstration of grief. A few hours before
the final scene all alone bhe entered the
funeral room and closed the deer
There, kneeling beside the coffined form
that was once her husband, sha communed
for :t space with her Ged. Who would
wiih te intrude en Mich a scene with pro pre
fano vision ! She sought consolation
where alene it was te be found, and, rely
ing upon Him whose arm faileth net and
whose judgment cannot err, she wept her
last tear and moaned her last meanT But
even new I cannot restraic emotion as I
thiuk of that wife ses.sGn widowed, that
child se early erplnfnid. In paying this
tribute tq.thG "dead the virtues of the liv
ing, force themselves upon me. More
heroic constancy, mero wifely devotion,
mere cxemplary fortitude and Christian
resolution, under the most trying events,
were never displayed than by her, se
young, se loving and se smitten. They
fittingly crowned a brie'f married life, in
which fondness knew no cessation, where
duty was devotion, where leve was law,
and where the characters of wife and
mother were decorated and adorned.
These were her virtues, this the character
of her of her the daughter of my
friend, her father.
Sir, I cannot properly analyze Senater
Cochran's life. Let colder natures lay the
rule and draw the line te his qualities. I
cannot de it. I have no "eyes for a
friend's infirmities." He had many esti
mable traits. He was bold and fearless ;
these are the constituents of heroism. He
was kind, loving and sympathet
ic ; these are the qualities of true
manhood. He hated shams, hypocrisy
and cant ; this betokened sincerity. He
was pelite, courteous and tasteful ; this
indicated gentility. He was untiring in
his service of friends ; this is the guaran
tee of fidelity. He was successful alike in
public office and private enterprise ; this
bhewed the man of affairs. Many of you
who knew him well can testify te the ac
curacy of this picture.
Oh ! sir, who can fathom the wisdom
that called him away and has left us ?
" Who by searching can lind out Ged ?"
Let us net cavil it becomes us net. Ner
question it is vanity. But, impressed
with the event, let us take new courage
for duty, remembering that life is short
and labor long. " Brethers, who will be
the next te fall ?" As Thackeray says :
" Then with stout hearts, messmates all,
let us ply the ears till the voyage is ever
and the harbor of rest is found."
Will Net Spcaic te ills Father.
It is said that there fc a boy eight years
of age in Arkansas who has never been
known te address his father cither direct
ly or indirectly. The parents are highly
respected, and are people of seme refine
ment. The strategy of the boy, te avoid
speaking te his father, is mere than equal
te that of both his parent and that of the
ether members of the family, who have
laid all manner of plans te force
him into a single utterance of his father's
name. Upen one occasion they planned
net te get him any beets uutil he asked
for them like the ethers, but this was a
failure also, for he went en through the
snow with his bare feet just as though he
were in calfskin te his knees. He has a
profound respect for his father, and will
fellow him about the farm for a whele day
at a time.
Ex-Controller Taggart, of Philadel
phia, wants $916.66 for a month's pay
while he filled the office te which councils
appointed him and $1,500. for expenditures
in the effort te find out that councils had
no power te fill the office. Evidently Tag
gart's brains are in his' heels.
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The news that Gilbert L. CrewelL the
president of the Empire mining company,
of Utah, has failed, after sinking
his own money and ever $664,000 of money
held in trust ler ether people, startles
business circles in New Yerk. He is very
well known by business men, for he was
cashier of the People's bank for many
years. He leunded and built the village
of Arlington, N. J., and the town will be
crippled by his collapse. There is net
much te be added te these facts. He was
considered a most excellent business man
and had charge of various estates, the
mebt conspicuous of which was the Tall
man estate. He resigned the cashiership
of the bank some time age te take the
presidency of the Empire mining com
pany. Inte this concern he began te put
his money and that of the persons whose
estates he was managing. The chief le?er
by him is the Tallman ebtate, the heirs te
which are elderly women. Their losses
feet up five. hundred aud fifty thousand
dollars. Dr. J. Martin Sims losses six
thousand and various ether persons
mere te swell the sum te $664,000. Of
this money $431,000 were paid out in as
sessments en the Empire mine. This
property is represented te be entirely
wrecked.
Crewell has made a general assignment
of what he has. His failure was first told
te the residents of Arlington,and it created
the greatest excitement. He was conspic
uous in all that made the town its
churches, its schools, and its society gen
erally and he was generally beloved and
respected by all, and no ene there has
aught te say against his integrity or his
character. It seems te have been a most
unfortunate venture all around, and the
case is net sufficiently developed te permit
of any accusations et fraud in the matter.
He invested trust estates in the mine,
which, under the power of attorney, he
seems te have had a perfect right te de.
Naked Murderers in the Canebratteg.
All of the convicts who killed Mr. Gaut,
at Helena, Ark., and escaped the ether
day are at large, excepting the five who
were captured. The ether men are new
hiding in the weeds and canebrakes almost
nude and exposed te every suffering.
They have thrown off their outer clothing
and are even barefooted. The hunt has
been continued since Saturday, day and
night. Saturday night nearly every citi
zen was armed and out at his pest endeav
oring te cut of the march of these despera
does. They were thought te have taken
te the hills, and pursuers patrolled and
searched all day Sunday, but without
effect, except te learn that they were
hiding in the hills and had invaded several
houses begging for feed and drink. Final
escape is almost impossible, as nothing is
being left undene te secure them and rid
the country of such desperate characters.
A reward of $500 has been offered for their
capture.
The convict who shot Mr. Gant is a
TurltitA men nnme! TiTef"! rf lur li-c fnrmO!1 !
crime also being murder. Mr. Gant only
spoke once after the sheeting. When
asked by the superintendent if he was
hurt he answered: "I am killed." Hi3
wife was two miles distant. When hear
ing that her husband was shot she jumped
en a horse, with a man's baddle, the only
means near, and wading and swimming
deep water, she reached her husband only
te - find him a corpse. The scene was
pitiful. An old Irish soldier who witnessed
it said that he shed tears for the first time
in twenty years.
J. he Vagabonds et Faris.
A number of vagabonds in Paris, tired
of sleeping in the open air at this inclem
ent season, have bethought themselves of
the churches as a refuge from the frost
and rain. Getting wind of this curious
practice, the pelice the ether morning
started in search of the culprits, and
belecting the Church of St. Germain l'Aux l'Aux
crreis, from the be 1 try of which the
fatal signal for the massacre was rung en
St. Bartholemew's day, pounced down
upon the offenders at ei ght o'clock. Seme
of the vagabonds were surprised " in the
act of taking an earlybjreakfast in the con
fessionals, ethers -were quietly installed
in the pulpit, while a goodly number were
found peacefully snoring in the gallery
abeve. The entire band was marched te
prison.
DUST TO DUST.
X'uneral et ttebert Asa Packer.
All that was mortal of the late Rebert
Asa Packer was laid te rest by loving
hands yesterday afternoon in the burial
place of his own choice, at Tiega Point
cemetery, in that beautiful country where
the waters of the Chemung and the
Susquehanna join en their way te
the sounding sea. Near the new
and busy town, which he founded
of which he was the animating spirit and
buoyant hope, was laid dust te dust the
stricken form se long familiar and se late
ly dear te all classes of citizens who make
the moral worth and the material devel
opment of that portion of Bradford
county, Pennsylvania, just bordering en
New Yerk and linked te it by the diverse
interests of the great Lehigh Valley
transportation and mining systems. In
the richly furnished library of the stately
home of his creation, equipped with all
that art and refinement could suggest and
well-directed wealth could buy, his en
coffined body lay en Sunday and yesterday
until the hour of burial, te be viewed by
the respectful but never thinning throng
who came from all parts of the country te
take their last leek upon the pale face
they had loved se well and the cold, dumb
lips that had se often spoken
words of charity and cheer. The
little town which he had built, and
whose people were nearly all in the em
ploy, connected with or dependent upon
interests which have greatly developed
under his direction, showed its sigus of
mourning in the closed places of business
and the black stuffs which draped the
doorposts of evcry residence,but the deeper
evidences of grief were manifest in the
rueful countenances, tender speech, and
still mere touching silence of groups which
gathered at every corner and thronged the
sidewalks. It was no holiday in Sayre.
The shops were shut ; the machinery
stilled ; the engines hushed their shrill
voices and the hammers quit their clanger.
Leng lines of workingmen marched te the
home at whose deer no one of them knock
ing had ever failed te find a friend. With
muffled drum and te mournful cadences
of the trombone the band which bera
his name and which his gener
ous purse bad fitted out headed
this most pathetic precession of
the cortege. The country folk for miles
around dreve in their conveyances te the
place which the improvements of their
dead friend had made a landmark of en
terprise and progress in .Bradford county.
Special trains from points between Phila
delphia and Elmira, and ether termini nf
the reads with which ha was connected,
brought the friends of deceased from all
the walks of life te testify their appreciation
of his character in the various relations in
which they knew him. Most prominent,
of course, were the officials, superintend
ents and employees of every grade of the
railroads, transports and mining com
panies which were the subjects of his
enterprise. The institution of learning
endowed by the princely munificence of tbe
father, and which never failed te have the
crenereus benefaction and the patronizing
interest of his sons, was represented by its
learned faculty.' They who knew him
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ardent partibipaat in political affaire wen
there,friends aad opponents igling their
sorrow, for they who' praised his intrepid
enthusiasm and unstinted liberality could
beast as well that he never struck at tbe
back of the fee. The rich were there for
he was of them ; and the peer betause he
never forget them ; tbe old because he bad
reverence for his seniors ; and the young
for he never lest the companionship of a
genial sunny nature ; strong men bad seen
his hand en the throttle of the locomotive
and gentle women had experienced bis
chivalrous courtesy.
Broken columns of fleVere, unstrung
hirps, anchors of hope, cresses laid down,
waiting gates ajar, ships setting sail for
unknown seas, and pillows of peace in
endless profusion steed all around the
catafalque. The solemn voice of the
clergy, of whose church he had been a
patron of rare generosity, read the ritual ;
sweet singers chanted through the cham
bers of a thronged yet empty house the
dirge of death and the hopeful notes of
the resurrection premises. And then, all
tee sadly, the long processieu took its way
out from the heuse that he made home for
all his friends, out from the town he had
built, leaving behind his great unfinished
plans, te lay him low in that narrow in
heritance of Ged's aero, which is all that
man's mortality can in the end lay claim
te.
Between the mountains and the rivers,
along which for generations te come shall
echo and re-echo the notes of these great
industries which the elder Packer founded
and theyeungcr developed and perpetuated,
is his grave ; but the proudest monument
te his memory will be the unchangeable
place he will held in the hearts of these
who knew him but te love him.
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PEBSONA1
Senater Cameren denies that he will
resign and make place for a Democrat.
Gov. Cleveland gives renewed evi
dence of his geed sense by taking fro
quent counsel from Horatio Seymour.
Phcebe Couzzins, lecturer,has begun te
correct "certain mistaken notions about
Eve." It is high time somebody was
doing it. .
JuuaE Black will argue for the freight
discrimination bill be fore the judiciary
general committee of the state Senate en
Wednesday evening.
Ben Butler writes te a St. Leuis paper
that he did net steal a pair of horses in
New Orleans, nor ship te Bosten a coffin
filled with silverware Evidently B. F. is
becoming sensitive te his geed repute.
llev. J. R. Betle, late of the Duke
street M. E. church, this city, is booked
for Grace church, Wilmington, Del., and
Rev. W. C. Robinson, it is said, will be
transferied hence te tbe Twelfth street
church, Philadelphia.
Wyckham Heffjian te be minister te
Denmark ; S. G. W. Benjamin, minister
te Perbia ; Lucius II. Feete, minister te
Cerc.i, and Twight T. Reed, secretary of
legation and consul general at Madrid,
are among the latcbt presidential nemina
tiens.
Ex Senater William Sharen's sibtcr
attempted suicide in a bath room of the
Palace hotel, San Francisce, by cutting
herself iu the breast with a pen-knife. The
smalluess of tha weapon prevented deep
wounds, but cuts were se nnmoreus and
tha lobs of bleed se great that the lady is
iu a precarious condition. The act is at
tributed te insanity. A great effort is
being made te hush up the affair.
Mis Mary Daniels, who presented a
claim for $100,000 damages against the
New Yerk Central and Hudsen River
railroad for injuries received in the Spuy
den Duyvil disaster, a year age, has set
tled for $29,000, the largest sum evor paid
by the company for personal injuries. A.
B. Valentiue, of Benuingten, Vt., received
$5,000 for the death of his eon aud $3,000
for the death of the latter's young bride
both killed in the same disaster.
Dr. Glenn, murdered lately in Califor
nia by a discharged hireling, was a man
of wonderful physique aud bodily strength,
as well as of business enterprise. He paid
out in wages as high as $000,000 in a single
year. In addition te this he owned a
70,000 aero ranch in Oregon, stocked with
30,000 head of cattle, neither land nor cattle
of which he had ever seen. He also owned
a large cattle range iu Nevada. Though
given te large and bold operations he
never lest his balance. Lesses never dis
turbed him nor great profits elated him.
Last summer his finest wheat field took
fire and a $100,000 crop was destroyed
in two hours, but Mrs. Glenn said her
husband slept sounder that night than
she had known him te sleep for months.
SUICIDE.
A Well-to-de Farmer liangs Htiuself.
Jacob H. Kreider, a well-to-de farmer,
residing near Hellingor's tannery, West
Lampetcr township, committed suicide
yesterday afternoon by hanging himself.
He was missed about 4 o'clock in the
afternoon, but his absence did net cause
any uneasinpss until after 6 o'clock when,
en search being made for him his dead
body was found hanging in the barn. Mr.
Kreider had been iu ill health for some
time past, and his sickness affected his
mind te such an extent that he was him
self aware of it, and said mero than once
that he thought he ought te be in an
asylum. He was about 63 years old, was
in comfortable circumstances, had a
pleasant home, and was tha owner of a
line farm. He leaves a wife but no chil
dren. Corener Sniffer being notified visited
the premises and held an inquest, the jury
returning a verdict of death by suicide, in
accordance with the above facts. The
funeral will take place Thursday at one
o'clock.
Telegrams for the I'ollce.
This morning a dispatch was received
from Philadelphia, stating that Frederick
Hilleg left his home in that city, en Sat
urday last. He is five feet three inches
tall, aged 15 years, were dark clothing,
and his friends want te hear of him.
Abraham Heeper telegraphs from West
Chester that he had a six year old brown
mare stolen from him last night, and for
the recovery of the animal he offers a re
ward of $30. A description of the mare
can be seen at the mayor's office.
The K. of F. Fair.
The ladies' fair of K. of P. was well
attended last night. Music was furnished
by Kuight's orchestra. The following
articles were chanced or voted off : Sewing
machine, wen by Resie Westwood ; clock,
Mrs. Geerge W. Fry ; silver watch, Jeshua
Swords : large cake, Mrs. Geerge Anne ;
pf-ir of horses, Miss Mazie Fisher ; large
dell, Philip Bnrngesscr ; necklace and
bracelets, Miss Jennie Vegle ; large dell,
Little Ida Hubcr. The fair will close to
night and a number of ether articles will
be chanced off.
Heavy Tell.
Wm. Palmer was arrested and had a
hearing yesterday before Alderman Sam
son for driving en the Manheim pike and
refusing te pay tell. By skipping around
the gate he saved three cents, but the fine
and costs imposed en him by Alderman
Samson amounted te $7.91 .
Carter en Creameries.
Jehn L Carter will lecture en "Cream
eries " at the meeting of the Agricultural
society, Monday, March 5th, at 2 p. m.
The former notice was ,?,iven a menth tee
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U. s. Tobacco Journal.
As this is the last week but one left te
Congress te destroy the peace of miadaad
happiness of tbe leaf trade, and as the
4th of March will close, at least for the
present, the vexations tax and tariff ques
tions that, te a great extent, have caused
our leaf market te be in a demoralized
state for months past, the leaf trade is
preparing for an anticipated wholesale re
vival of trade.
If the expectations harbored by most
of tbe occupants of the leaf distriet in
New Yerk are only partly realized, the
morning of the 4th day of March will be
characterized by a deluge of buyers front
all parts of the country, who will drain
the market of its stocks and run the prices
of all grades "up te the most astonishing
fisures.
As for ourselves', we don't believe in
any rapid change in the situation, even if
the duty en Sumatra is increased. This
done, some months will elapse before the
effect of this will be felt in our market.
What our market really needs te stimu
late it into life aud prosperity is an ao ae ao
tive expert demand. We mnst clear tbe
markets of the immense surplus en hand.
Fer such the outlook is exceedingly favor
able. The only notable fcatuie during the
week was the sale of nearly 500 cases of
'81 Pennsylvania. The few sales of thia
stock that have been made se far have
been enveloped in se much mystery re
garding tha prices realized that the truth
is almost impossible te state. It is al
leged that some of the tobacco sold was
very fine and realized 23 cents ; ethers
held that the seller was hard pushed and
disposed of part of his stock at 12 te 15
cents.
Outside of these sales of '81 Pennsylva
nia, tue loiiewing was aidpeseu ei
Pennsylvnuia-
-crop, 'su eUU cases, at e
te 13 cents.
Wisconsin Crep '81 250 cases Havana
seed, at 15 te 17 cents.
New Yerk Crep '81 100 cases Havana
bced, at 18 cents.
Connecticut Crep '81 200 cases wrap
pers, at 20 te 30 cents.
Ohie Crep '81 400 cases, at 5 te 6
cents.
Sumatra Market very active The
stock of really tiue is very short and briDgs
high figures. The quotations are from 90
cents te $1.40.
Havana Maiket active. Sales 600
bales. Prices firm.
Duns' Keuert.
Sales of seed leaf tobacco reported by J.
S. Gans' Sen & Ce., tobacco brokers, Ne.
131 Water street, New Yerk, for the week
ending Feb. 26, 1683 :
200 cases 1880, Pennsylvania, 014 ;
112 cases, 1881, Wisconsin Havana, p. t.;
150 cases 1881, New England, 1428 ;
COO cases, 1880-1, Ohie, 5 j6; 100 cases
sundries, 319. Tetal.1,163 cases.
The l'fillailelpnia marker.
Leaf.
Seed leaf. Anethor week gene, and yet
the cigar leaf business remains unusually
quiet. Sales are made cautiously, buyer
and seller acting as if they anticipated
something in the future which would be
beneficial ; there fere goods are sold in
small quantities and as needed for imme
diate wants. Eighteen oighty-eue wrap
pers command mero attention, especially
very line grades. Seme very nice '81
Connecticut was shown the past week ; it
found willing purchasers. Havana seed is
having many admirers. Old binders and
fillers are daily sold at full figures. Su
matra still finds favor among some of our
large manufacturers.
UUB IIOMK MAKKB.T.
Kecent Sales te JLnnciBler lluyers.
Net much has been doing in the local
market since Saturday, when we printed a
rather full resume of the market. Celd,
dry, windy weather, buch as we are new
having, always puts a step te out deer
operations in leaf, aud cenliues business
te the operations of the warehouse.
Atndt & Fringent have benght the
following lets iu C:crnaven during the
past week : Adam Yohn, 2 acres at 17, 5,
2 ; Levi Yohn, 2 acres at 17, 5, 2 ; Henry
Shirk, 1 aero at 16. 5, 2; William
Styer, 1 acre at 13, 5, 2 ; Benj.
Steltzfus 2 acres at 16, 6, 3.
Abr. Altschul has bought the following
in the same vicinity : Ii. M. Arters, 11
acres, at 16, 5, 2 ; Ames Witman, ljacres
at 15, 5, 2 ; Samuel Foreman, 5 acres, at -16,
5, 2 ; Isaac Kauffman, 2 acres, at 22,
5, 2 ; Augustus Herning, 1 acre, at 15,
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Capt. J. O. Wilcox bought J of an acre
from Jeseph Weaver, at 15, 6, 3, and 1
acre at 13. 5, 2.
David R. Buch, of Warwick, sold 3
acres te Mr. Bunzl, at 20, 10, 5, 3 ; Benj.
Leaman, 2 acres, te Shultz, at 19, 5, 3 ;
Jehn Huber, his crop te Lederman, at 16,
5, 3 ; Sheafl'er Brubakcr, his crop te same,
at 15, 5, 3.
Following are late sales in Little Bri
tain : Wm. A. Paxson & Bre., te Sener &
Kreider, 2 acres at 20, 5, 3, and te J.
Gust Zeek, 3 acres at 23, 5, 3 ; James A.
Jamisen te Zeek, 2 acres at 19, 6, 3 ; Mar
tin Eshleman, 3 acres at 17, 5, 3 ; T. M.
Patterson te Sener 6c Kreider, 3 acres at
22, 10, 5, 3 ; Henry Montgomery te same,
1 acre at 18, 9, 5, 3.
Cbas. Neff, of Yerk township, Yerk
county, te Harry C. Moere, 4 acres, at 10
round ; Wm.'Hellinger, of same place, te
same, 3 acres, at 10 round ; A. C. Carman
same place, te same, aero, at 13, 6, 4, 2 ;
R. J, Hess, same place, te same, H acres,
at 10 round ; D. W. Breneman", same
place te same, 2 acres, at 13, 6, 4, 2 ; W.
Legan, of Hopewell, te same, 2 acres, at
13, 6, 4, 2.
The Manheim Sentinel says the receipts
at the warehouses in that borough last
week were as fellows : At D. W. Leng's,
87,000 pounds ; S. M. Leng & Ce.'s, 31,
000, and Reist & Ce., at ReifTs ware
house, 27,000.
Daniel Mayer, who has purchased
largely for Kerbs & Speiss, in this city,
and is new in New Yerk, estimates that
the crop of Lancaster county this year
will aggregate about 40,000 cases, of which
15.000 cases have already been taken by
buyers.
The following sales are reported from
Honeybrook and vicinity ; all te Jehn H.
DeHaven : D. II. C. Scott, 5 acres at 14
cents through ; S. H. Lawrence, 2 acres,
16i, 5, 2 ;Lsaac Styer, 1 acre, 17, 4, 2 ; Gee.
Pittam acre, 16 through ; Wm. C. Engle,
3 acres, 16, 4. 4, 2 ; Gee. Pittain, 1 acres,
16, 7, 5, 2 ; Wm. Urense, 3 acres, 16, 1, 5,
2 ; Henry MGault, 1 acre, 17, 4,2 ; David
Kessler, 2 acres, 16, 4, 2 ; G. J. Emery, 2
acres, 16, 8, 4, 2 ; Jonathan Miller, 1
acres, 17, 10,4, 2; Jehn Coffroth,l acres,
15, 5, 3 ; Wm. F. Legner, 2 acres, 16, 5,
2 ; Jehn Steele, 1 acre, 11 cents through ;
F. Frame, 3 acre, 14 cents through.
Jehn P. Werth, of Chatham, Chester
county, shows two stalks of tobacco, ene
of which contains 12 leaves averaging 30
inches in length, and the ether 13 leaves
averaging ever 35 inches. He claims te
have six acres of the same sort.
Martin B. Eshleman, of Cechranville,
grew 3 acres of Gtessher tobacco that
yielded 6,196 deunds.
Merfield & Kemper received 100 cases
of very fine tobacco en Saturday.
A LArge Egg.
Mr. Henry H. Poff, of Meuntville, has
an egg which measures 6x8 inches, and
weighs 3 ounces. The- egg was laid by
one of his chickens, which is of bat a
I common size. 'Who can beat it ?
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