.3 gf:. 5- P i? ry- iL. S-VT-ii ! . : i " jSv- RL "K' Kv If?' N.wr l ' . i -rS5 -3&i I "A ' J- W ST & P&. IMC fc EM- i1"- &V Ar i 1 gf a. '-: C&& -7-sjfti' S?S?! 'BO.V. tC &r- W?y i& i-ni3sl !- tTwTnffT Trc- --?' -Mfat ldBmrtT. jgva-Kr-g? "v vV -rZ7 - LT Very !. On JS. G. Patterson, of Titusville, stored by tbe state te collect evweww te sustain its cuum against we gtutdud oil company for unpaid taxes. He waa te receive a commission en the amoaatreeeTeredforhiaaerricea. Tbe testimony be cellected: was never used t'zr-3 r3 Ml" and be never asked for compensation. v? Tbe wit of tbe state was decided, essen V tially against tbe state en a case stated, vJ i JUIWI. atrraaA nnnn he't-.WPATl the wurr "" ," ,. j state a counsel ana tee en company. Tbe next public appearance of E. G. Patterson is as a petitioner for the ap- pokitsseet of a Teceiver of the Tide water JPlpe Line company, te the capital took of which corporation he had eriffinally made a subscription, bat had fgVsjet paid for it, until after the decision -'i-- , ,. . m i.u f eta orreinoh flip OS, UW auil uj. me ' e- u -a a ll ...iu. TTa tVien tnnlv irvg" j P13 for hta 8teck' and at once a8ked for the appointment or. a receiver ei mi mi mi oeapany, refusing te sell his stock, though offered a large premium for it. Hk application was heard by Judge Charch, and was refused. Patterson u the i-Met wHnPfts. and his cress ex ($ -aainatien, the salient portions of which we find printed in the I'miaaeipnia Press, threw a flood of light upon the motive of his petition, upon the real par ties behind it, and indicated that mys terious influences had prevailed te make abortive the action of the state against tbe Standard oil company. He testified after naively declaring that he had no objection te if he must that, fan received 7.500 in New Yerk from Mr Archbold, of the Standard company, en April 30th. and that en May 1st he paid for his Tidewater stock about $6,000. In August he received $2,000 mere from the Standard, for which he had written te Archbold ; and that the Standard still owed him $5,000. He wrestled hard with the questions pressed upon him te ascertain the reason for the payment te him of this money. He admitted that he had been employed by the state te furnish the evidence te sustain its suit against the Standard, which had been decided at the time these payments were made te him, and that he bad followed up the work he had un dertaken in that behalf nearly te the end ; but that he had net furnished the state with the results, or that it had net availed itself of them ; it is net clearly determinable from his testimony which of these two things we are te understand. The following is what Was said by the witness when he was get down into the corner as closely as he could be driven by the cress-examiner : I was in the service of the attorney gen eral. I was under a contract with tbe state. Forseme reason or ether, which I don't knew, I never was able te produce tbe testimony, and the testimony was never called for by the state, that i, te take the testimony in the usual aud ordi erdi fery Way. My notice was that I proposed te attack, and the negotiation was as te whether anybody would give as much as there wae in my contract with the state if I would net attack. Yeu sent them word that you wculd make an attack upon them if they did net pay you as much as there was in your contract with the state. Was that it ? Ne : I sent them word that in any ar rangements that they had made with anj body te count me out ; that I was net a party te it. What did they say te that ? Well, then, they said te my attorney, as he reported te me that they wanted peace. Tnen what did you say ? Yeu might as well just come out with it. Very well. The opinion of the court had been filed. Of course, it was very muek te my dissatisfaction. It left nothing in me and I had no part in the preceedinu. and I prepared te reopen it, and I did net. Why did you net? Simply because I was assured that I should have just as much money out of the transaction as my original contract would have paid me. My counsel made the arrangement with Mr. Archbold and Ms counsel. Prem which it is clear enough that Pat terson had testimony that proved te hi worth $14,500 te the Standard oil com ediny, and that they bought it at that after the state had failed in its et collect the tax assessed against It. t is net at all clear why tin- & ttt aid get this testimony, which T.t At-. ,nl1ia f-f ?&, ' -- have been equally valu W3ttzr4 jwwu I cert SSS? ?H6 W u9 ana l it had contracted r previous te the fedSKSr .wltn. rauereeu - .vi-vi r- .- t 2yii," . at t.-nl-T; ith him. Patterson sS'XPs iSBHKiani'e wutiam w net knew wuy s iiiKv- T nrnuniis tuai no uu&j B Vrf-TL a J- l-l...- 1a rlAaa &&&&!: 'the state did net get it or use it; he it noticeably unceitam as te whether its officers had it and rejected t .- rtnfhfi ther MA net. trot. ih. Tin! $$ 3 in thin connection it will be remarked :$T jf that his notice te theStandard company, 78tJ!!i- -1.1.1. .,l..n;i Y,;a CtA raw to-ie thnfc lir ,jk. WU1CU PIWIUWU UU V", ""- " - --. had netbeen a party te any arrangement X and that he would open upon it if he was WN-v-Betnaid for his silence. SW -This is a clear enough intimation that 3f-& n amnfremAnf: hn.(1 hPtP.n m.lflfi 1)V Lllfl i. -. i u w "B .w . ESVraUndRrdcemnany with the Fennsylva kfpnlcials by which the suit of the state &had been emasculated, who ceuiu tnej Fhave been? The pointing is clearl eoeugh te the attorney general's office, r."-V 1.n it- lta 1,a11 t-n 1Q JiitrVier ef-ill f n t he - V-A""?3 fUJO umu i .g, -... - v.. f,"-..;- is Mimmn nnnrfc which is hardlv a lUSLi i-'tiii' Anv.,n aninlnlnn "Riih Ttrhnn it". 1Q rpmpin ibered that a " case stated was made, in which the people of the oil region have heretofore freely declared the case of the state was given way, there certainly is a charge made in this testimony which se bears against the attorney general, or his assistants in charge of this suit, that it needs te be promptly met. Attorney General Pal mar enjoys the reputation of being an honest man, and we believe him te be one who will net rest easy under the imputation made against his office in Patterson's testimony, which we hope new reaches him for the first time. We call upon him te answer and upon the Legislature te Institute a searching in quiry into what has certainly been a scandalous betrayal in some quarter of the interests of the state. We note by the auditor general's re port te tbe governor of the contract made with Patterson m this matter that ft called for tbe payment te him of $3,000 and of ten per cent, commission .- .vt -' -t rt MMlMiW W'mMlitimrmi " Jrf. - - . JTJ " I i."L j .. ' ' w siiBMaBmauiveaiaMy M F - -rr " "a&r comniiena wibe4?$,ew.t It would sem, therefore, that Patterson bad better terms with the state than he afterwards made with the oil company, and the interesting question is, why he betrayed his trust and dishonored him self, as he confesses he did, when appar ently he would have made mere by an honest discharge of his duty; It leeks here, tee, as though somebody bad been interfering'with his work for the state. Gellectleas far the Uf meawealtfe. Gov. Pattlsen, it is stated, is about te communicate te tbe Legislature his views upon the long continued practice of the law and accounting departments of the state In making contracts with outside parties te de work for the common wealth, for a commission, which it is ob vious te the governor, as it has long been te ether people, that tbe state de partments should themselves de. It will be remembered that the great scandal about the war claims collected from the general government for the state by Gee. O. Evans, and for which he and his confederates were paid an enormous commission, arose out of this custom of letting out te speculative collectors the work which properly belonged te the state deparments te perform. Net many years age it will be re called that certain large claims for unpaid taxes due te the state by one of its great transportation companies were vaguely brought te the notice of the at torney general and auditor general by a pair of shrewd Harrlsburg lawyers, and a rnntract was made in the dark with them by which they netted ever $19,000 commissions for work that ought te have been performed by the auditor general and the attorney general. And there are continually in the employment of or under contract with the common wealth lawyers and collectors who are working en a contingency at matteis which properly are the functions of the various state departments. In excuse for this outside business it is argued that the claims due te the state are often brought te the notice of its officers by the outsiders and that they exclusively possess the information and ether facilities necessary te their collec tion, with which they will net part unless commissioned te make the collections. But, as was shown by the Ixtellioex Ixtellieex ci:n, at the time, in the case of the Union transportation company, a proper system of book-keeping in the auditor general's office, and due vigilance by the officers of the state, would have disclosed the liability of the company te the state without any outside aid. In fact, it wis the experience and observation of L-xw yer Olmstead in the auditor general's office and net any facilities outside of it that enabled him te become acquainted with this claim, and in the end he called in the auditor general and attorney gen eral te adjust and settle it, a3 they should have done at the start. Se that, after all, the state get nothing in that case except what it should have had without the payment of the big fee te outside lawyers and without the gross and unwarrantable abatement which was made upon the liability of its debt or. This system of letting out the state's collections leads te jobbery and favorit ism, as well as te useless expense. The attorney general should have such aid as is absolutely necessary te the dispatch of the business of his office and such deputies a3 he requires, and in some cases the as sistance of local counsel is doubtless necessary in making collections and pressing suits, but the contract and per centage system which has tee long pre vailed at Harrisburg in the law business of the state may well be ventilated and abandoned. " The slobbering habit of indiscriminate kissing," is the inelegant way the dis gusted Memphis Appeal phrases its opin ion of the osculatery ceremeny het ween women. Until very recently that extremely ex ex pressive yet wonderfully inexplicable word "chic," was the leading slang phrase of the Parisians. New they have displaced it with one as fully incomprehen sible and mere than equally as odd in or thography. It is "pschutt," and signifies everything that is elegant in diesa, talk and manneis and a great deal meiu. The pschutlevx are the perfection of society and art in Paris, and "chic" is discarded as expressionless. The Heuse yesterday adopted the new rule reported by the committee en rules, and subsequently took the tariff bill fiem the speaker's table.and referred it te a com mittee of conference, consisting of Messrs. Merrill, Sherman, Aldrich, Bayard and Beck en the part of the Senate, and Messis. Kelley, McKiuley, Haskell, Randall aud Carlisle of the Heuse,but Mr. Randall declines te serve. As the high protection ists are in a majority of this committee they are hopeful. The municipality of Alteena is in a bad way and is reaping the fruits of finan cial mismangement in the administration of city affairs. There is a geed deal of business talent up there, but it has left politics te a worse class of men and having sewn the wind the citizens are reaping the whirlwind. When they take a fresh start they will elect better men te the city offices and institute the policy, which has lately worked se well iu this city, of con tracting no permanent debt for temporary improvements and making no expendi tures in excess of the appropriations. State Senater Cooper has failed in his attempt te amend the rules se as te pre vent both Houses considering bills of simi lar import simultaneously. He explained that his design was te save the time of the Legislafure and prevent the tricks of con ference committees. His preposition sub stantially was that the bill which was most advanced in its progress through either Heuse was te be favored. After debate in which the impelicy of making ary change in the rules was argued by Messrs. Gorden, Nelsen, Lee and Herr, the prop prep osition was defeated by 17 ayes te 23 nees, but the vote was net a party one. 0 H In his notice of the recent celebration of Rev. Dr. Nevin's birthday Rev. Dr.' P. S. Davis, of the Jtctunger, has this te say t i-vi-c T'.sr. tvh -v V . . Z&,-az$223?' wmmmimm rziz: M "- "-r- rr.- 'll Trtj short '! gtoeo, when a ma;im laltsii ejdaga ' earn ' loefc bask; upon a well-spent lift, and forward te eternal glory? Thame Ged for the Christian's hope. With all its striking beauty we could never mere than half accept Long fellow's 'Merituri Salutamus.' There is no Christ in it, and at best, only a poet's talk about innumerable stars that fill the sky when 'evening twilight fades away.' " Last year the Erie county jury draw ings went te pet because the commission. era had sealed the jury wheel with gum instead of wax. The whole array of grand and traverse jurors was quashed and justice forced te sit back for three months. At the February term of this year the same causes which recently interrupted our courts postponed the jury trials in Erie ; and new, that new juries have been drawn up there, it is discovered that the commissioners made their drawing illegal because in drawing the names from the wheel they resolved themselves into an examining oemmitte te discuss whether the name drawn should be put en the grand or petit jury, instead of annexing tbe first twenty-four names te the grand jury venire, irrespective of color, religion or politics, as required by law. m PERSONAL,. Milten M. Seurbeer, of this city, ap pointed notary public by the governor, ha3 been unanimously confirmed en motion of Senater Mylin. Mme. Nilsse:? was serenaded by her countrymen in Chicago .the ether night. She caused enthusiasm among them by singing a little Swedish ballad familiar te them when they were toddlers by the hearthstones of the old land. Rev. Rat Palmer, D. D widely known as an author of many very popular hymns, was stricken with paralysis a day or two age, at Newark, N. J., and is very dangerously ill. His golden wedding was celebrated a year age. General Sheridan is said te be already house hunting iu Washington in anticipa tion of succeeding General Sbermannet only as generalissimo of the American armies, but alie, in a measure, as one of the social liens of the capital. Martin I. Townsend te be United States attorney for Northern New Yerk, Jehn Paul, United States district judge for Western Virginia, and Edmund Wad dell, United States district attorney for Eastern Virginia, are the latest presiden tial nominations. " Je " Blackburn " will net say that I have withdrawn or that I am going te withdraw ; but I will say that the speaker of tbe next Heuse will be a Kentuckian, and that I believe that any member of the Kentucky delegation in Congress be his name Carlisle, Blackburn, Thompson, or what net would be willing te abandon his own candidacy if it should preve nec essary te keep the speakership in the state. As for S.-.m ' Randall, he won't have GO votes in caucus." l'OKKIt IM WaSUINUl'ON. Seme of the Congressional 1 Daisy Cutters." Brooklyn Eagle Interviews. . " Senater Tem Bewen, of Colerado, is the best poker player we have in town. Why, the Eecend night he was here, Plumb, of Kansas, and Jenes, of Nevada, sat down with him te a little game, and I am told that he scooped the party te the extent of two or three thousand iu half an hour. But Bewen has lest mero than he has wen during the last few years." "Who are the poker players iu Con gress?" "There are very few who have seats ia the Senate.Old Lapham plays occasionally, and se de Hale and Vest, but as te the ethers it would disgrace the game te say they played at all. These are net the times we used te have when Grant was president." "Is Arthur much of a player ?' "Well, yes ; and I gues3 he is about as 'cagey' as any of them. He will sit up all night ever a game of poker, when nothing else in the world will held his attention. Chandler is a sharp one, tee, and I under stand that he and Congressman 'Dick' Drowley are about the most expert of that set." "What set ? " "Why, the White Heuse set. They tell me that they play it 'blind,' in defer ence te Arthur's wishes, and I understand this has been the most popular way of running the game here this season. In the 'draw' game there is a little chance for skill, but 'blind' poker, in which you don't draw at all, is the most outrageous form of Gambling. But, of ceurs?, you knew all about it" " Who are the best poker players in the Heuse ?" "Jee Blackburn can deal the paste boards with as much grace and celerity as any man I knew of, and will back his hand te almost any limit. Yeung Walker of Pennsylvania is what is commonly known as a ' daisy cutter,' and Springer of Illinois swears by the jack of clubs. 1 lie Western men are by far the best card players. I think Tem Yeung, of Cincin nati and ex-governor of Ohie, is about as smart a one as ever set bis root in wasu ingten, and the man who can bluflf him out of a hand has te get up pretty early in the morning. But the poker playing here just new is nothing te what it was in Albany when Bess Tweed ruled the deck." m Virginia Bridal Costumes. Alexandria Gazette. A bridal coup'e from Prince William county, aged fifty and sixty, arrived en the local train in this city en Thursday afternoon from Washington and stepped at an up town hotel. The bride s hat was of the latest design, large black sun down, with a narrow band of purple rib bon around it, with a white pigeen wing fastened with two red rosebuds and a black lace bow. The veil was of blue tissue. The dress was et the shade of terra cotta. Her shawl was of different shades. Her neck was adorned with a red polka dot handkerchief, fastened with a red bow, and a pair of white cotton gloves covered her slender hands. Her shoes wero low quartered Jeffersen. The groom was attired in black broadcloth, white vest, white tie, yellow buckskin gloves and linen duster. Iu one hand he carried a green umbrella and in the ether an oilcloth satchel, which he said held his bridal lunch. A New County Projected. A meeting of the citizens of Phillips burg and vicinity was held at Petter's opera house last night te take into censid eratien the formation of a new county, from portions of Clearfield, Centre and Blair counties, with Phillipsburg as the county seat. Considerable opposition te the movement was manifested by a num ber of property' owners, upon the ground that it would increase taxation. Speeches weie made, resolutions passed and com mittees appointed, when the meeting ad journed until March 13. m A Clergyman Dies Like a Hermit. William Jarrett, rector of the Grace Episcopal church, Hulmeville, was found dead in his room at Doylestown, en Wed nesday. He lived in a house alone and, net having been seen for three or four days, bis neighbors became alarmed. When his chamber was entered, he was found lying dead upon the fleer. A cor oner's jury feuhd that he died of apoplexy. Deceased was about 72 years of age. He is said te have a wife and children in Aus tralia. He died, possessed of a consider- ' able estate, - A WMVNfH WWP :jstjii-!Cj rr'igjsj"' MONET " -vT.l "" "- " -H! J'?.VVr. wTy- &sl0 'SSirJ f&r jji'.-i.'r. -s- .g '-' y -i AuroexA iw i nxJureiai. msnum. fr Illegal Head; Uput Imftm, taUL UMl te Shew far Memty gpaat A ateMaa'a Criaaa. A renarkablA story of financial ads management and municipal insolvency is told in a special dispatch te the. Timet from Alteena. It is almost impossible te get an Alteena city order cashed, and there is a strong belief among prominent business men that ever $100,000 of the city improvement lean has been improperly and illegally issued. The whole .lean amounted te $150,000. Of this amount $50,000 has been expended in sewers and ether city improvements. By act of April 18, 1873, the city was authorized te bor row from time te time a sum of money net exceeding $150,000, in amounts net exceeding $50,000 annually, te be applied te sewers and ether permanent improve ments, and te issne bends therefer, redeemable at the pleasure of the city after 10 years and payable in 80 years from date, bearing 7 per cent, inter- ess payable semi-annually, unuer tuis aci authority is also given te the city te levy a special tax net exceeding four mills en the dollar, te be set apart as a special fund te be annlied te the payment of in terest en the bends and te the purchase or payment of net less than 3 per cent, of the outstanding principal ; after the 1st day of May, an amount equal te the inter est en all bends belonging te the fund te be applied te the purchase or payment of the lean. The interest upon these bends is payable en the 1st of July and January, and is $10,500 per year. Last July the city failed te meet the interest en them and suit was breugnt by j. ii. Haines & Ce., the National bank of Chester county, and the First National bank of Chester county. Judgment was obtained and mandamuses were issued against the city treasurer. About $1,700 has been paid en these mandamuses. Interest for January has,, also been allowed te go by default, and suits have been begun, te be heard at the April term of court, by all the foregoing creditors. It is estimated that there is $9,000 new due for interests and the costs et suits. The bends are principally held in Ches ter county. The act under which they were issued provided that there should net be mere than $50,000 borrowed and ex pended each year, yet the first year about $110,000 of bends were issued. The money received was spent in some way but no one has yet been able te ascertain anything about the matter. When it was known that the money had been expended coun cils made an effort te find out te whom the excess of bends was issued but failed. An investigation was erdered, but as councils had net the power te compel the attend ance of witnesses nothing was done. The whele lean was expended and illegally issued in less 'than two years. It new is thought that a fight will be made en the payment of all except the first $50,000 of the lean. The issue of the whole lean forces upon the city the payment of a larger rate of interest than the annual taxation en the city improvement fund is prepared te meet. The assessed valua tion of all taxable property in Al Al eeona is about $2,000,000. A tax of 4 mills en this would be about $8,000. All of this amount is net collected. Three per cent, interest en the bends that the city will redeem after May 1 will be about $4,500. It will be seen that the improve ment tax te pay interest falls behind at the rate of mere than $2,500 a year. As the 3 per cent, interest en the redeemable bends will he paid out of the tax collected en the -1 mills rate of the total valua tion, the city of Alteena, after May 1 will have $10,500 te raise, as well as $4,500 te redeem in bends. All this must come out of the permanent im prevement tax, which amounts te only $8,000 annually. Notwithstanding the fact that se much money has been ex pended en permanent improvements, Alteena has fewer permanent improve ments te-day than any city of her size in the state. There is net a street or avenue in the whele city that is paved, and only two of them are partly macademized. The leading streets have sewers, badly con structed, and the citizens along the most of them cannot drain into them. Every ether financial department of the city is as badly demoralized as the permanent improvement fund, except the water fund, which is self supporting. A PASSIONATE HAN'S CRIME. Securing a Revolver in urtler te Kill One Man, But Murdering Anether. A coroner's jury held an inquest iu the case of Charles Pulford, who was shot and killed by Jehn Hamlin, a Swede, at Niles Valley, six miles north of Wellsboro. Ful ford was a resident of Erwin, Centre county, N. Y., hut recently he moved te this state, entering tbe employ of Messis. Bennett & Dimen, lumbermen at Niles Valley. Jehn Hamlin has been at work for some time for the same lumber firm and is re ported te be a man of violent temper. He is known te have made threats against another employee named Leib, with whom he had some difficulty, and, it is alleged procured the weapon, with which he killed ulierd, for the purpose of killing Leib- Last Sunday, beint: under the in fluence of liquor, he renewed his threats against Lieb and was seen lurking about the mil), wheie he expected, according te the usual custom, te find Leib. Failing in that, Hamlin went te Smith's house and insulted Fulford's wife, who ordered him out of the room. He then entered another room, and, taking a bottle from his pock et, invited Fulford, with the rest of these present, te drink with him. They all "refused, whereupon Hamlin drank and threw his bottle behind the stove, and, going of doers, began firing his revolver. Fulford stepped te the deer and re quested him te step, as the noise would disturb Mrs. Smith, who was sick in the house. Hamlin immediately turned and began firing at Fulford. The first shot took effect in the deer casing, but the second struck Fulford in the right breast, passing through the lung and penetrating the heart. Fulford died a few minutes afterward Hainlin was apprehended and ledged in jail. THE POISOM ED LUNATICS. Tbe Nature of the Polaen UnknownIn UnknewnIn mates With a Desire te Km. Anether victim of the Western lunatic asylum poisoning died yesterday in Staun ton, Va., making the sixth person who has died. The ether two inmates who were poisoned have' recovered. Pending an analysis of the stomachs of the deceased by Professer Mallet the coroner's jury is prosecuting its inquiries. Dr. Hamilton, superintendent of the asylum, was en the stand all day. The theory adduced from his testimony is that the fatal drug was placed in the medicine cups after they left the dispensary and before they reached the attendants. This is borne out by the fact that the doses which proved fatal were tonics which are extensively used in both departments of the asylum. The poison employed was of no ordinary kind, judging from the ante mortem symptoms and the postmortem disclosures. As yet the deadly agent has net been determined, nor is it known whether it was employed by a malicious or insane person. Among the patients are several " Guiteaus." who conceive that they are commissioned by Ged te execute men wherever they can and by whatever means. They .are educated asd intelligent and apparently rational upon every sub ject except the destructions of their fel lows. Their mission, they say,' is te kill, im inWL ifci a terearry tbsk CJ- Txoemnriu tthm The total losses by the floods ia tbe Ohie and Wabash rivers are estimated by tbe New Yerk. JfcraW at $8,048,000, of which $2,250,000 falls en Cincinnati and its suburbs, and $1,000,000 en Louisville. Mere than 6,000 dwellings in the Ohie valley were swept away or wrecked beyond repair. The figures given de net include the losses from a suspension of busi ness and trade. Tee - subsidence of the floods is taking place very slowly, and it may be a month after the waters have returned their usual limits before the manufacturers along the river banks can get te work. The inhabitants of the inundated districts suffer terribly, the principal needs being previsions, bed ding and clothing. Frem some of the smaller towns eame appeals for medicines, and it is feared that as the waters subside there will be a prevalence of typhoid and malarial fevers. The Cinninnati Commercial-Gazette prints a detailed report of the losses by the flood at Lawreneeburg, Indiana, which foots up $435,000. Governer Lewry, of Mississippi, re turned te Jacksen yesterday from the Sun flower country. He thinks there will be no overflow of the Yazoo Valley this season. " The banks en the Yazoo, Tal labatchee and Sunflower rivers are above water new, at an average of from four te twelve feet in heightb, and people along the stream feel no apprehension whatever of an overflow." Great consternation is reported in Mil waukee because of an impending water famine, the inlet of the water works being clogged with ice, and only 500,0000 gallons remaining in the reservoir. The water works were stepped from Monday mid night until last evening, when they were restarted,butne water flowed. The supply in the reservoir is barely sufficient for the average consumption of half a day. TRACKING A VA1THI.ESS WIPE. An Irate Hnsban Who Found and Eloping Couple at Trey, N. x. At Trey, N. Y., last October Henry Tayler, then the Jersey City agent of the Singer sewing machine company, disap peared. About the same time his assis tant, Mrs. Geerge H. Morrison, was miss ing. Her husband, an engineer en the Pennsylvania railroad, discovered that two watehes and ether articles had been removed from his house. Placing his two small children in charge of his mother he started en tbe track of the runaways. He was en the point of abandoning his search when he learned the parties were in Tiey. Arriving there he found Tayler in the Singer ofBce, where he was employed. He was wearing one of the stolen watches, and was arrested for larceny. Mrs. Morrison was found working in a cellar shop under the name of Mrs. Tayler. She was foreed te appear in court with the machine agent, who, it is understood, has a family in Jersey City. In tbe court room the irate husband would have struck Tayler but for interference. It was finally agreed that the latter should be released upeu his consent te keep away from the woman. She consented te return te Jersey City, but asserted that she would net live with her husband again. Tayler is fifty years of age and Mrs. Morrison only twenty-three. SALMI MOKSE AliKAIUNKU. is the Passion Play Within the meaning of the Statute? Salmi Merse was arraigned before Jus tice Duffy, Tuesday, in New Yerk, charged with producing the " Passion Play " without a license. Corporation Counsel Andrews said that the only ques tion at issue was whether the Passion was a play or a drama, and whether it was ex hibited or about te be exhibited in public. He should prove, he said, that the re hearsal was a public dramatic perform ance. The penalty for producing a play without a license was imprisonment of net less than three months or mero than a year or a fine of net less than $100 or mere than $500. Merse's counsel moved te dismiss the complaint en the ground that the Passion was net a play within the meaning of the statute. This the justice denied. Capt. Williams, who made the arrest, snore that a ticket speculator offered him a ticket for $5. He did net think any ene paid te see the rehearsal. The justice said he would give bis decision en Thurs day. Mr. Merse has been asked for the use of his hall for a public meeting of these who have seen productions of the "Passion Play" te pretest against the action of the authorities. He declined te permit this use of his ball. A MTfSTEKIOUS SUICIDE. The Self-Destruction of t Wealthy Church Urgan Builder at Allentown. Charles Heintzelman, a well-known citizen and an extensive organ builder in Allentown, committed suicide by drown ing in the Little Lehigh at the water works en Lawrence street, seme time during Monday night or early Tuesday morning. He left the house iu his stock ing feet shortly befere 12 o'clock and must have gene direct te the place where he ended his life, as a thorough search in the neighborhood failed te reveal his where abouts. His body was found in the river near the water works by Daniel Trexler, the superintendent. Mr. Heintzelman was well-known throughout that part et the state as a builder of church organs and leaves a con siderable estate. The coroner held an inquest and rendered a verdict of suicide by drowning. Ne cause is assigned for the rash act. Flames and Failures. Jeseph Q. A. Relles, lumber dealer and hotel proprietor of Ossipce, New Hamp shire, has failed for about $45,000. A. H. Fisher, wholesale jeweller of Springfield, Illinois, has made an assignment and con fessed judgment in favor of the State National bank, for $20,000. His liabilities are $70,000 ; assets, $40,000. Paul D. Haywood, paper dealer of Chicago, made an assignment yesterday. His liabilities are $30,000 and assets nominally the same. One of the members of the re ccntly sus pended Mahen banking company of Lon Len Lon eon, Ontario, has been committed for trial for alleged fraud in receiving deposits a short time before the bank suspended. The receiver of the broken City Bank of ifecbester,Jew lerk, reports that itsiiabil ities amount te $G34,127, of which $130, 000 is preferred te savings banks. It is thought that the depositors may get back about 20 per cent. Bellows & Moere's five story brick building in Albany was burned last even ing. Less, $30,000. The tobacco factory of Myers Brethers & Ce., in Lynchburg, Va., was burned last night. The less is estimated at $120, 000. Wholesale Migration of Pennsylvanlans. Yellowstone- Journal. A colony of 112 families is coming te Custer county in the month of April. This colony is composed of persons from Centre, Blair, Clarien and Cameren counties, Pennsylvania, and every member of the association is worth from $1,000 and upward. An advance committee will arrive here thirty days in advance of the colony and lay off a tract for the large assembly te sojourn in. -Most of these families who contemplate sojourning in our midst are German, and as is well known, the Germans are a thrifty class of people and make geed settlers. -5.- m TaTfW 3 THE DlYfclTCWS; ' mBJMQVMXT STATE TAXSS. The Geveraer iMktag; late tbe syMeaef Celleetieas Under the Uwei 1 861. Governer Pattison has been giving seme attention te the system of collecting delin quent taxes under the law of of April 17. 1861. Yesterday he received a statement from the auditor general's office of the agreement made between E. Gv Patterson and the attorney general, the state treasurer and the auditor general, by which they, en behalf of the state, agreed te employ Patterson te collect evidence te sustain the claim of the commonwealth against the Standard oil company and te show that tbe United pipelines and the American transfer company were indebted te the commonwealth in a sum greater than that exhibited in their reports te the account ing department. By the terms of this agreement Patterson was te receive $3,000 and ten per cent, of tbe gross amount collected from the Standard oil company of Cleveland, Ohie, until the commission should amount te $20,000, and ten per cent, of the amount collected from the United pipe and the American transfer companies in excess et the liability exhib ited by their reports te the auditor gen eral's office. This agreement was never executed by Mr. Patterson, and he has rendered the department no service in any of these matters, nor has he made any claim for compensation or receivedany compensation. The governor's inquiry covered all the recent cases in whieh outside agents have been employed en commission te collect delinquent taxes. He is strongly im pressed with tbe impropriety of paying enormous commissions te unofficial agents for performing the duties which properly belong te the attorney generals. Upen this phase of the matter it is possible that the governor may send in a special message MAIL MISCELLANY. News condensed rrein tbe Morning Journals Governer Cameren, of Viiginla, with the adjutant general and a battalion of state militia, arrived in Norfolk last night. ter tne purpose or making an expedition against foreign oyster dredgers who are depredating about the mouth of thi Rap pahannock river. Marine Gillett, son of a wealthy citizen of Dallas, Texas, and his companion, J. Cbeffey, who recently went te Sweet Water, ia the Western part of that state, te engage in business, were shot and killed there en Monday. Twe men named Watseu and Moere, have been arrested at Heward Lake, Minn., en the charge of passing counter feit silver dollars. The sophomores of Dartmouth college, recently suspended for disorderly conduct, have been reinstated en making a conies cenies conies sien. A man, named Haley, hi3 wife and three children, were nearly suffocated by coal gas in Madisen, Wisconsin, en Monday night. It is believed nene of them can recover. Legrand Perry, a young farmer, living near Meadville, was killed by a dose of medicine in which an incompetent drug clerk had placed cyanide of potassium in stead of acetate of potash. Henry E. Moulteu was found dead in a room of a transient bearding house at Werchcstcr, Mass. He had been dead for thirty-six hours or mere when found. A woman, who occupied the room with him, has disappeared. Moulten was 20 years of age and had been in jail as a vagrant and drunkard. A Murderous Attack at Uit Own Doer. At Cleveland, Edward Tetter was awakened at 5 o'clock Tuesday morning by a knocking at the entrances te bis dwelling. Upen opening his deer he was shot in the left breast by ene of three men outside, all of whom immediately at tacked him with murdereas intent. Though badly wounded, Tetter succeeded in seiz ing a revolver which one of them carried, whereupon his assailants fled. Neither they nor their object are known. Tetter will probably die. A Bohemian laborer has been arrested en suspicion. THAD STEVENS' HA IK. Willing te Part With a Leck from Ula Wig Washington Republican. Jehn L. Themas, ex-congressman and new collector et the pert of Baltimore, tells this geed story : - When I was in Congress I used te be a frequenter of the room of old Thad Stevens. One day, while talking together, a visitor entered unexpectedly. She was a tall, raw boned woman, with ex-bow spectacles en the bridge of her nese and a bulky green giugham umbrella. She handed Mr. Stevens a card with the werds: " Abigail Meecham, Kennebunkport, Me.," and said : " De I have the honor of beholding the Hen. Thad Stevens, of Pennsylvania ?" Somewhat embarrassed, Mr. Stevens ac knewledged his identity and asked his visitor te be seated. " Thank you, no" was the reply," but I wish te say, sir, that iu my quiet home down East I have heard of your glorious efforts in behalf of the emancipated slave, of your heroic treatment of the Southern question aud of your undying hostility te the enemies of my country, and I have traveled hither, sir, te ask one privilege of shaking your band." She shook it. " New, sir, I have ene mero favor te ask. It is a souvenir of this interview I wish te take home with me, if I may be se bold as te ask it, a lock of the great com moner's hair." Old Thad was for a moment mere em barrassed than I ever saw him before ; then he smiled faintly ; he put his hand te his scalp lock and, lifting off his brown wig bodily. laid it upon the tabic, leaving his pate as bald as a billiard bill. "There's every hair en my bead, madam, make your own choice of a lock." Need it be added that the Maine woman did it ? The Centennial Flag Staff. The flagstaff that was placed en the reef of the city hall duriner the Centennial year 187G, was taken down this morning by the men who have been making alterations iu the city hall for the benefit of tbe tele phone exchange. The flagstaff is a very pretty one, measuring nearly 50 feet in length, and though it has for eight suc cesssive years floated the star spangled banner en festive occasions, and withstood the storms of as many winters and sum mers, it Ioeks.to be pretty nearly as geed as new and capable of doing duty for many years te come. Free Lectures. Prof. May Chapman is delivering a c&urse of free lectures in the court beuse which are attracting the attention of thinking people. She is net only a geed speaker but is a professional phrenologist and at the clesa of her lectures she makes a phrenolegical examination of the heads of these in the audience who chose te have their bumps felt. Te night the subject of her lectures is "There are marriages, and marriages that are net marriages." She lectures also te morrow and Friday erening3. leung Felks Concert The fourth annual home entertainment, te be given by the young folks of St. Paul's M. E. church, will take place en Saturday evening next at Fulton opera house. The pregramme will consist of music, recitation?, tableaux, ana. xne concerts given by the young folks hereto fore have been very enjoyable and special efforts are making te have the coming one even better than the former ones.. rt 3 U,,-? J Ji - S: ...-j 7. a .- "i .- " .Tl.J4 - "V.w. I. JWT .--" v c . .fJ'-.xw r ,. - tav j 3fiS -v MM , AflnalMiswsville8ehayIkilIeaat7, eTMedVerBiag; destroyed the shoe store of William Sehattz. Several hundred dollars worth of beets and shoes wen burnt up aad $200 in cash .was also lest. Fer weeks the farmers of Montgomery, Chester and Berks counties have been suffering severely f i im the. onslaughts of chicken thieves Stephen Lessey and Irwin Ladner, of Pottstown, have been held for trial, charged with being the depredaters. At West Chester thieves entered the stables of Heeper, Bre. & Themas, and stele a fine mare ei the Percheren stock. Then they went te the carriage house of Pierce Hoopes and took a carriage te which they harnessed the horse, and, after stealing 15 bushels of clerersecd, escaped. The Susquehanna and Allegheny rail rail read company was chartered at the state department Tuesday. Its length will be 150 miles, te start from near Punxsataw ney, Jeffersen county, and run through the counties of Indiana, Clearfield, Clin Clin eon, Lycoming and Union. Its capital is $1,500,000. David Sansley was arrested en Tuesday at Beading en the charge of having knocked down a little girl by the name of Annie J. McCauley and inflicting serious injuries. He kicked her en the chest and afterwards steed en her body. He was convicted some years age of causing the death of a young woman and sentenced te eight yeais. In Chester, an inquest was held yester day in the case of Jeseph A. Clark, a young man, who died from the effects of a blew en the hcn-1, lt.lhcted by Dennis Green, a young colored man, with whom Clark had an altercation en Sunday night. An autopsy revealed a fracture of Clark's skull and a rupture of a bleed vessel near the temple. Green was committed te jail for trial. About thirty members of the Lebanon elassis of the Reformed church met In St. Paul's Memerial Reformed church. Read, ing, Monday, te hear the report of the committee appointed te make an investi gation respecting the charges made against Rev. Alexander S. Kciser, of Pottsville. Last September Miss Elizabeth K. Miller brought a suit against Rev. Mr. Keiser, te recover $3,000 damage for breach of ef of premiso of marriage. A cemmittee of citizens of West Gosh Gesh en township, Chester county, will apply te the Legislature for the repeal of the special act relating te the public reads or that township passed in 1S5G, whereby the reads are sold out for repair each year te the lowest bidding property holders of the township. The petitioners claim that the system has proven detrimental te the geed of the people, and that the only way te insure the improvement of tbe reads in that township will be te place them all back into the hands of the supervisor, who shall be held entirely responsible. According te the description of their ca pers in the local papers of Easten, the students of Lafayctte college are far from being the best and net quite the worst of their class. The ether night a crowd el" them indulged in a " cane rush" in tbe streets and scared the staid Eastenians almost te death in the net irrational belief that the inmates of the county almshouse were out en a hilarious rampage, and new the citizens are indulging iu very emphat ic strictures and uncomplimentary terms regarding the authorities of the cellege for permitting these nightly cow boy style raids. THE EASrEKN MARKET. Meeting uf the Stockholders of a Nf,w En- terprfre. Fer some time past there has been a movement en feet for the erection of a new market house in the eastern part of the city. There has been considerable talk about it and the piopesition has been received se favorably that about $22,000 in stock has already been subscribed. This morning the persons interested in the matter held a meeting in the orphans" court room. There was a geed attendance) and a great deal of interest was mani fested. Geerge K. Reed was made chairman of the meeting, with Allan A. Herr secre tary. Mr. Reed, upon taking the chair, stated the object of the meeting, with which, he thought, all present were pretty familiar. He was new ready for any motions that the meeting might hce fit te make. J. Fred Scner thought that three com mittees should bp appointed, as fellows : On location, en subscriptions and en charter. This was agreed te, and Mr.. Sencr moved that the chair appoint the. committees. The president thought that the commit tee en subscriptions .should be selected by the meeting, which was agreed te. Mr. Lant thought that the gentlemen who have interested themselves in procuring subscriptions should be retained. Mayer MaoGeniglo moved that the committee consist of five. Beth motions were carried and the following committee was selected i Rev." A. F. Kaul, Allen A. Herr, A. F. Dennelly, Jehn F. Stauffer and Jehn Hoi Hei mau. The chair then appointed the ether enimittces as fellows : Location Philip Gmder, J. Fred Sener, Win. E. Lant. Charter -D. P. Resenmiller, ltebert J. Housten, Lewis S. Hartman. Mr. Housten thought that something mere definite should be known, if could be, in regard te the location of the pro pre posed market house, as persons did net wish te subscribe until they knew where it was te be built and something as te the piece. The chair stated that the committee en location was appointed te find a geed Ieca tien, ascertain tbe price, &c, aud then report te the meeting when action would be taken. He thought that these who subscribed would de se for the purpose of erecting a market house, no matter where it may be located. Lewis I. Hartman and J.Fred Soeer weie of the same opinion and thought ic waa understood that the house should be as near East King street as possible, if net en it, and net tee far out. After some ether short discussions, the meeting adjourned until next Wednesday eveniug at 7:30. vhm the reports of the committees will be heard. ., Step Up und Settle. Elu'er WcJsuampcl'a Torch of Truth. We suppese we shall lese the fifty sub scribers list sent us last spring from the Lancaster daily Examiner office, and per haps a few ether names ; and then after we strike off our list some who ewe two years, the number lets will be considera ble. But that will r.et control our mind. As we are in tolerably geed health for a mau of 75 years of age, aud can still handle types and pull the old press-bar, and serve as editor, publisher, and carrier besides, we arc minded te start in en the fourth volume by the 1st of April, Tired et The New Flan. Mr. Landis, of Lancaster has introduced at Harrisburg a bill supplementary te an act te the read act for Fulton and Salisbury townships extended te Salisbury township, repealing the act se far as it concerns tbe latter. sale of Iteat Jtstate. . Henrv Shubert. auctioneer, sold at sal lie sale yesterday at the Leepard hotel for C. I. Landis. esq., assignee of u. u. Hen sel, a two story brick dwelling and let of greunu, suuaieu no. zee riaat urange street, te G. M. Klice, esq., for $4,320. f 'Where i He ? Information of Timethy wanted at this office. Maleae 4a 'Pj SI 0 '& a - i -m I i X v J e ?i HI v -31 4t TKl " - 2 M ii:-iA Mgrtf MM CKf Zrixi ?!&& & L IK mMMMim v f r ys. rjiB-2i5 .... 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