LANCASTER DAILY IKTEillGENCER MONDAY AP1UL ie,..H3. u 14 Lancaster fnteHtgencit. MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, X883. Ib a Passion. a . Mr. Smith, of the Philadelphia Press, should take Greeley's advice and go west, if he desires te indulge in the style elwritiag which be affects when Hugh TTsntinffs. of the New Yerk Commercial Advertiser, Is his subject. These two editors clearly de net' love each ether-, they stand apart and growl and glare and swear at one another in a manner which might be decorous in a pair of wild cats in the Recky Mountains, but which is unbaeMatng inabrace of ordinary city tabblea.JTJtreuble which eventuates in se much cursing started with the decla ration of Mr. Smith that Itoscee Conk Cenk ling ,had declared "in substance that Hayes' administration became respecta ble in the light of Arthur's. Cenkliux having been Arthur's god-father his de claration signified a terrible back slid ing of the infant president from the true Stalwart faith. Mr. Hastings, who knew Mr. Smith in Albany before he was im ported te enlighten Philadelphia, took occasion te remark that his character for veracity and decency was net geed ; we believe be even pronounced him a deg. Mr. Smith then called the dictionary te his aid, and exhausted all its remaining terms of opprobrium upon Mr.Hastings ; publishing at the same time a retraction of litel printed ever Mr.. Hastings' name a half century age,in whicli Mr.Uastings is made te describe himself as a very bad man indeed. In fact he draws se very dark a portrait of himself that it is t-asy te believe him when he says he did net write it ; for no man of geed sense would ; and Mr. Hasting lias never been accused of lacking that. He did net enjoy a geed reputation during the many years he spent as a lobbyist at Albany, and no doubt Mr. Smith can truly say many ugly things of him ; but i.e does net select the most effective dint in his armory when heaccuses him of what would make him out te be a feel as well as knave. In fact people when they get mad are generally injudicious in their ways of cooling themselves off. They in wardly feel like smashing the " kepf of the fellow who angers them ; and they are always the maddest when the lis creditable truth is told about them, for then they are hurt the worst. The editor who permits his reader te see that he is in a passion greatly detracts treni the force of what he says. When he thinks he is delivering his weightiest blows he is in fact doing no execution at all. The hurling of epithetB is tee natunl te an editor te be esteemed as an effective mode of denunciation. Mr. Smith may be quite irreproachable, but lie could show it better with the ejection of fewer adjectives against Mr. Hastings. Ne doubt it is a great pleasure te him te call his enemy names, but it is a costly j Meas ure te one who conducts a journal that should aim te enjoy a reputation as a dispassionate critic of men and things. A Loese President The Philadelphia Times says that the President went te Flerida net in search of health, hut en the hunt of peace of mind ; that the singing of the Stalwart wasps was making it uncomfortable for him in Washington, and se he took lef uge .among the mosquiles of the ever glades. It seems that Mr. Arthur has been grievously disappointing the Stal wart politicians as whose creature he was elevated te the vice presidency. He declines, for some reason, net yet well understood, te manage his show for their benefit. There is no reason why there should be a breach be tween the president and his old friends, ether than the supposition that Mr. Arthur has a correct id: a of his high " duties and prerogatives, and considers himself net te be the president of a faction of a party, wnen in nice he is the presi dent of the United States. Mr. Arthur ajs going through the threes that every man of geed sense and independence of character encounters, when he is trans ferred from the-party traces te the dis charge of high executive duties. .Naturally Mr. Rescoe Conkling fails te note the transformation when his old follower becomes his ir s- ident; naturally Mr. Arthur's political associates consider themselves abused when they are net preferred for office te these who were net Stalwart politicians like themselves and Arthur. Just hew they can expect a sensible Republican president te perpetuate the division el his party in two factions by giving all the offices te one they de net demonstrate. Certainly they cannot prove their case by such weak trash as that which the Press attributes te Conkling. The latter may have said, as the l'rcss declares, that Hayes' administration becomes re putable by the side of Arthur's; but if he did say se, he need net be proud of the lack of discrimination exhibited in the remark. Instead of being smartly, it was very stupiuiy, said, it needs no discernment at all te knew that Arthur's has been a far mere respectable ad ministration than the wishy-washy, colorless and thoroughly contemptible one of Hayes. And the mere independ ence of the dictation of his old party as seciates shown by the president, the stronger will his administration become. He has shown an aptitude in judging the character and qualifications of public servants, which seemed te require only the independence of which he gives signs te enable him te de, what no pres ident has for a long time done, which is te leave his office regretted by the people. The Democratic Heuse at llarrisburg needs te brace itself up aud henceforth refuse any leaves of absence except for extreme cause. Its members are new working en the extra fifty days and they have no right te absent themselves in such numbers as te make the Saturday sessions a farce. The rules should be rigidly enforced. In the time left a great deal of important work can be done, but It will net be done if members absent themselves in numbers from se many sessions. The Democratic press of the state should prepare itself te black list these who are absent without geed ex-Case. Nailed te the Counter. We have repeatedly called -Uie atten tion of the Philadelphia Press te the fact that the special Harrisburg cerres. pondentef its Sunday tissue is reckless of the truth. In his letter printed yes terday he again illustrates this'eharac teristic by the following paragraph : Governer Pattison demanded of State Librarian Little that he should discharge Assistant Librarian JoseDh R. Orwig. te make a place for Jehn C. Everhart, and te the credit of Mr. Little be it said he pesi tively refused. Gov. Pattison demanded of Scheel Superintendent Higbee "that County Superintendent Davis, of Clarien county, Bheuld have a place in .that de partment, and Mr. Higbee yielded te Bfie demand. Messrs. Everhart and "Davis are Ilflmrv-MtR anA Gnv. Pattison demanded that they have places simply because they are Democrats. Beth of these statements are false, as he could have learned had he consulted the persons best qualified te inform him State Superintendent Higbee and State Librarian Little. We have the author ity of the former for the statement that the motion te appoint a Democrat te the first vacancy in his office and his selec tion of that most admirably qualified per son, Superintendent Davis, were exclu sively Dr. Higbee'sewn. Governer Pat tisen made no demand whatever in the premises ; en the contrary, he assured the state superintendent of his willingness and his desire that he should feel Entirely free te consult only the interests of the educational system of the statc,as he saw' them, in the selection of his subordi nates. And State Librarian Little says that there is net a word of truth in the story above related about him : but, en the ether hand, he has been assured by the governor that he shall feel at liberty te select his own assistants and retain them while they discharge their duties satis factorily. While some of the members of Gover Gover eor Pattison 's own political party abuse him for net compelling the dismissal of Republican office-holders and the substi tution of Democrats, it is hardly the decent thing for Republicans te falsely accuse him of doing the contrary ; and the Press will de itself credit by correct ing the misstatements it has helped te circulate. .Tudgk Livingston deserves credit and he will never fail te get it from this journal for his plain talk te the con stables in the matter of their duty about violations of the liquor law. If they will observe his directions the hotel and s.i s.i s.i loeu keepers will net have much occa sion te watch each ether. The con stables and court will take care of them both. Ben Butler writes In.-, in view of the tendeucyef political parties te take their presidential candidates from pivotal states like New Yerk, Ohie, Pennsylvania and Illinois, he has no special hopes or ambi tion te be a presidential candidate. Invitations are being scut te the differ ent governments of the old world te at tend the czar's coronation, if it takes place. Apropos of current events the cards uin.il seem te the illustrious dignitaries who re eelve them like elegant invitations te their own funerals. A Pittsuukeii butcher has mysteriously disappeared, aud net the sliglicst clue is known te his whereabouts. He may have inadvertently fallen down Hcrr Most's threat while the agitator was trying i cenviucn him that Germauy was right in prohibiting American perk. The Democratic county committee of Fayette en Saturday nominated II. J. Gilmero for the legislative scat vaatcd by Dukes. He wen by a combination en him of the friends of all the ether candi dates against Hill, who is said te be the f-jfrerite of Tem Scaright, a friend of Dukes. The Capilan Francassa, of Heme, has a satirical sketch, which really is net a bad summing up of the situation. It represents acre;vucd head no matter which poring evor a letter just received. He has tilted the symbol of sovereignty slightly ever en one car, aud is scratching his head iu per plexity while he murmurs: " Iuvitatien te oeiouation imperial cousin hum m no, net if I knew it I'll send my mother in law " Mavek Hariusen, after his re cleclien lately at Chicago, said that he had been traduced during the campaign by the as sertion that he gave free rein te vice and was determined te show that he did net countenance the disregard for the law se picvalent in Chicago. Saturday hu put his premises into effect by ordering the police te clee every disreputible house and saloon en State street, en Wabash avenue and en Clark street as far south as Polk, which is nearly ene mile south of the business centre. A WIHTRT 802JHET. A Itubin said : The Spring will never conic, Anil 1 Hlmll never care te bullil uiiln. A Ue-mbusli said : These frosts lire wearisome. My sap will never stir ler sun or ram. The round Moen said: These nights are fogged and slew, 1 neither care te wax nor care te wane. The Ocean 8 ilii : 1 thirst Irem long age, l'ccause earth's rivers cannot flji the main, When Sprlnjrtiuiecame, red Keblnbuiltanest, And trilled a lever's sons in sheer dell? lit. Gray hour-frost vanished, and the rose with might Clothed her in leaves aad buds el crimson core. The dim Moen brightened. Ocean sunned liis crest. Dimpled his bine, yet thirsted evcrmeie. Christina Q. Jiessetli. During the past ten years 3,544,458 immigrants came te this ceuutry. Their occupations were recorded as fellows : Professional 22,893 ; skilled laborers, 393 444 ; agents, 834 ; bankers, 293 ; cooks, 2,8j0 ; farmers, 311,799; grocers, 2,185; hotel-keepers, 1,157 ; laborers, 807,510 ; merchants, 00,488; servants, 124,809; shepherds, 1,434 ; all ethers, 58,830 ; oc ec oc cupatiens net stated, 34,503; without oc cupations, 1,721,3d. Of the total num. ber Euglaud, Ireland, Scotland and Wales supplied 1,013,979; Germany, 970,742; Sweden, 277,558; Norway, 131,438 ; France, 64,962, and China, 156,000. About CO per cent, of the whole number were males and the balance, 40 per cent., females. A great many deductions wisa and ether, wise may be made from these figures. According te Professer Mezzereff, the Nihilist leader and head chemist of the dynamite party, England is in n weful condition, her only salvation being the 1 : :: .-- 7 total rriinauishment of her power eyer Ireland Unless tails it done ahe is te be "lefi a mass of ruins. Londen is te be de streyed by dynamite and chemical fire,and a vcritable pandemonium is te be created en land. Every English man-of-war and all the merchant marine flying the English llag arc te be blown up. Nothing but the final independence of Ireland is te be the limit of this warfare. Professer Mezzereff professes te accomplish much in the way I of compelling England te give up Ireland, but there is such an unpleasant' tendency among the leaders of the revolutionists te tell talcs full of sound and fury relative te their puissance that this learned and san san guine chemist may ba considered as loud mouthed and empty as Herr Most or O'Donevan Ressa. FEATURES OF THE STATE PRESS. The Delaware county Recerd finds fault with the legislative absentees. Funeral reform is the worthy cause championed by the Carlisle Herald. The Pettsville Chronicle has been con. vinccd that spring is at hand by the ad vent of the circus pester. Nothing that the Tort Alleghauy lie porter knows of can prevent the Demo crats from electing the president in 1884. The Easten Exjiress fears that the Leg islature does net appreciate the necessity of speedy relief for the state supreme court. The Scran ten Republican thinks the Heuso ought te adept a rule refusing te admit te the pages of the Recerd any speech net delivered en the fleer. The Bollefento Democrat concludes that the governor was surely mistaken in veto ing the bill making the pay of assessors uniformly $2 per day. The Bellofento Watchman bolieves that the Tilden count-out will be avenged in 1884, but net with him as the Democratic Btaudard bearer. Apropos of French cuisine the Wilkes banc JtcceiM observes that "if it requires a hankering after .snails and auglowerins te make a people polite, we prefer te be rnde for a little while longer." iue wiiKcmiarre Union-Leader proves by figures that if lucre is anythiug wrong at all in the Democratic apportionment bills, it is that they de net concede te the Democrats an much as. but te concede te the Republicans mere than, they are en tilled te. PERSONAL. Puesidknt Akthuk arrived at St. Augustine, Flerida, en Saturday, and will probably remain there until Tuesday. Sr.niETAUV Feiikk has geue te New Yerk, but expects te returned te Washing ten en Wetincsdaj'. Rev. Dn. Charles B. Boynton, formerly chaplain el Congress, is reported te be dv iug at the house of liN son in-law,in Mount Auburn, Ohie. J. R. Partridge, U. S.minister te Peri', arrived m JNew ierk en batnrday morn ing. He will go te Washington en Tues day and report te the state department Right Rev. Jehn Tuigg, bishop of the Reman Catholic diocese of Pittsburgh, was stricken with paralysis en Saturday, and was believed te be in a dying condition last night. Jay Gould is about te retire te privale life, having made a fortune estimated at $100,000,000, and his place iu Wall street is te be taken by his son, Geerge J, Gould, a young man of 23 years. Princess Louise, who arrived at New port en Saturday, in the British wai vessel Tencdes, aud went te Bosten by rail, remained iu doers yesterday, owing te tue latigue el a tempestuous voyage. Shu and the marquis are expected te leave Bosten Mm evening by the Grand Trunk railroad in a special train. - ,. Religious uelcuratlens. The 230th anniversary of the landing of the Jesuit Fathers in Maryland, and the eurh anniversary or the organization of the Prevince of Marylaudby the Society of Jcs'is, wero celebrated yesterday in the Jesuit churches throughout the prevince, which includes Massachusetts, New Yerk, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and the District of Columbia. A solemn high mass was eelebrated and an apprepriate sermeu preached in the new church of St. Francis Xavier, in New Yerk. In Baiti mere Archbishop Gibbens celebrated pontifical high mass iu the church of Igna tius, Rev. William F. Clarke preaching the sermon. Iu Bosten commemorative services were held in three churches, these in the church of the Immaculate -Concep tien, wuicu was ucautilully decorated with plants and silken hangings, being especially notable. Bishop O'Reilly, of Springfield, preached the sermon. The anti-Polygamous Mermen confer ence, atKirtland, Ohie, closed yesterday with religious exercises. Down en flgeeii Sheeting. The society for the prevention of cruelty te animals in Cincin iiati recently caused the arrest of several persons for sheeting live pigeons in a tournament. A test was made of the case of one of the defendants, and a de murrer was filed.' Judge Higley, en Sat urday, even tiled the demurrer, deciding that the word " animals," iu the statute, included every living dumb creature, and that the word "torture" and "cruelty" included every act of emission or neglect whereby unneccs-.iry physical pain or suffering is caused or permitted. He was satisfied that the allegations made in the information were sufficient, if sustained by evidence, te constitute a crime under fie laws of Ohie. . Concerning f'jstcra. The oy.ter planters of Priuce's bay and the lower aherc of Slatcn Island, New Yerk, are much agitated by an attempt being made in the state Legislature te give the prepei ty owners along the shore possession el the oyster beds aud riparian rights beyond low wate- mark. The con troversy, it ia said, involves the possession of oue of the most valuable oyster tracts, and the sole possession of hundreds of 1 1 inters are at stake. " The largest oyster ever taken from Raritan bay" is reported te have been caught off East Point, nearKcypert, a few days age. The mollusceus monster is as sorted te bate measured Qh bv 3 inches, and weighed 2 pounds. Its age was esti mated at 13 years. Fall or a Iarj-avWall. While a leaded ballaswg train en the West Shere railroad was passing through Newbcrg, N. Y., en Saturday, about 50 feet of a.grcat stone wall en the cast side of the track,near Third street, was shoved out, and fell iute the side of the City hotel, damaging the building. The engine of a train was also damaged, and the ten der thrown into a ditch. The wall was built en ground formerly reclaimed from the river, but the builders neglected te put piles under the foundations. - mother and Child Drowned, At Dubuque, Iowa, Mrs. H. Zeipprecht, wife of a well known druggist, together with her little boy, was found drowned at the bottom of a well. It is surmised that the boy fell in and the mother went down te try and save him. ' A DESERTED-BRIDE- DESERTED BX HJEB IjOVEB. The lw Iavekcd te Brlag BlarOMk- Laaav 2Tws BrencU By Kieij DheetlsB. At Wilkesbarre a heartless villain who deserted his lady love en the eve of their marriage has just been captured and ledged in the ceuntv fail. The facts of the case, which is exciting a great deal of interest there and inHazeltP.n, where the parties are better known, are as fol fel lows : Some three years age Jehn MoGrea MeGrea dy. then a resident of the lower region of this county, while visitinc the home of bis kinsman, Patrick Burke, in Hdzleten, met Miss May Ratchford, Mr. Burke's step daughter, a young lady of prepesses sing appearance and only sixteen years of age. The friendship thus commenced seen ripened into leve and he became her ac cepted suitor. The day of the marriage was set and great preparations made, bat when the day of the wedding arrived McGready had fled te parts unknown. The young lady was almost heart broken ever the sad disappointment and has been in a precarious condition ever since. When the truth became known McGready was severely censured, and had he been discovered at the time he would undoubt edly have suffered bodily barm' at the hands of Miss May's friends. Mr. Burke, the stepfather, at once re solved te fellow the fugitive at all costs. Detectives were employed and no expense spared te fellow his tracks. About a week age the detectives ascertained that McGready was at Rondout, N. Y. A rc rc quisien was obtained, and yesterday he was arrested and taken te Wilkesbarre. Mr. Burke says he will spend 85,000 in the prosecution of McGready. Ittl'KNTANOE AFTER AIAKKf AUE. Nellie Hubbard Obtains a Divorce Frent tier Flebelau tiasband. Gossip concerning the elopement of Nellie Hubbard, the youngest daughter of ox-Governer Ilubbard, of Connecticut, with Frederick Shcpard, her father's coachman, seme years age, has been re vived by the discevery that Mrs Shepard has tired of her illiterate husband, and has succeeded in obtaining a divorce from him. Shepard was a progressing young fel low, of geed habits when in the governor's employ, but se unlettered that Miss Nellie, then a young lady of eighteen, undertook the praiseworthy task of teaching him te read and write. While thus engaged she fell in leve with the handseme coachman, and in March, 1879, they were secretly married at Westfield, Mass., during the ex-governor's absence from home. When first informed the marriage, eleven days after the ceremony, Governer Hubbard sought te keep his daughter at home, but, upon her persisting in her declaration that she would live with the man of her choice, hu disowned her, and it is said that her name has never since been mentioned in his presence bueparu secured a position as clerk in a shoe store, and for two years the ex coachman aud his aristocratic wife lived happily. During this time a girl was born te thorn. Shepard then remeved te New Haven, where he started a livery stable en money furnished by his wife and friends. He succeeded admirably in this business, and lived with his wife in a pretty little cettage and in geed style, but here the first trouble came. He attended diligently te his stable, and Mrs. Shep ard, who had shut the doers of society against herself by her escapade, and was left pretty much without resources of amusements, began te tire of luru. lie nccame jealous of the attentions she received from ether men, and the diffeicnccs between them increased, until a few mouths age they separated and have since lived apart. The ground en which Mrs. Shepard obtained the divorce is said te be abandonment, though Shep ard is still passionately feiid of her, and has been confident that ahe would return te him. It is net thought that cx-Gev. Huhbard will allow his daughter te return te her old home. sews etjcs. Stirring Kvents nt Heme nud Abroad. An English vessel with a cargo of dy dy namite has sailed from Antwerp for Eng land and the police are cognizant of her mevement. Gottleib Schlect, a wealthy German, who had shown symptoms of insanity, escaped from a watcher in Chicago, two months age and disappeared. On Saturday morning his body was found in the Chica go river. Frederick P. Batcheldcr, a'yenng mem ber of the firm of Batchelder & Sens, of Maiden, Massachusetts, went te Montreal last week en business, and left there en Tuesday en his return home. He has net been heard of since. In Rochester a woman named McNa mara, 70 years old, was found dead iu a tenement house. Her skull was broken and there were several bruises en her head. A hammer was found at - her side en the bed. A mau named, Buchle, living in the same house, was arrested en sus picion and a search is being made for bis wife. In New Yerk yesterday, the police, acting under instruction, " rigidly" en forced the Sunday law as far as they were able te de se. At the Atlantic Gar den, iu the Bowery, the employees were arrested, but released en bail, and return ed te work. The Pacific Garden was closed by the police. Saleen keepers generally admitted no persons net known te them. The secretary of the state beard of health of Indiana, has announced that the small pox has assumed "alarming proportions" in that state. It is opidemie iu many towns in the eastern and southern portions of the state, while scattered case.i are report ed in ether sections. A FATA I.. 1-1KK. Three Men Horned te Death In an fewa Hetel. At Alibia, Iowa, about 4 o'clock Sunday morning the Atlantic house, a small frame hotel kept by G. Reams, was burned, and thrce men perished in the flames. They were Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railway section hands, named W. McGill, Charles Quillan and Carl Specgal, all single men, aged 30, 23 and 52, respect ively. Companions sleeping in the same room with them were awakened by the fire, aud thought they had awakened the ethers before they descended te the first fleer, which they did just in time te save the Reams family. It was net known that any had parifhed until the bodies of the men were seen iu the ruins. Mr. Reams was badly burned in trying te save some of his valuable?. The house was worth about $000. Matthews' saloon ad joining the hotel was destroyed. A Swift Klde te Death. An Italian laborer named Levi, in the employ of the Lehigh Valley railroad company at Delane, Carben county, to gether with a party of fifteen or twenty men and women, bearded a hand-truck for the purpose of visiting Mahaney city. The little car was run by gravity, the grade between these points being very heavy, aud when they reached the Phila delphia & Reading crossing at Mahaney city the brake chain broke. Their speed rapidly increased aud the party became badly frightened. A coal car had been cenpled te the truck, the uraKc ci wuicu was le ee usea in case el emergency. It proved effective in slightly reauciug tue speeu et the band-truck, which by this time had reached the Phil adelphia & Reading depot, where many of the members of the party jumped off and were scattered around the track, but none of them were seriously injured. The car rushed en and at a point a short dis tance belew the depot collided with a freight car, which steed en the track. Levi was thrown under the wheels and instant ly killed. His body was terribly mangled. The ethers escaped with slight bruises. The deceased was 27 years of age and un married. He was a professor of music, but was unable te find employment at his profession. Death or Francis S. Street. Francis S. Street, well known as one of the proprietors of the New Yerk Weekly, died yesterday morning at his residence in Brooklyn of hemorrhage. He has been injill health for a year, but his death was unexpected. He was born in 1831. His parents were peer and at thirteen years of age he was clerking in a grocery in New Brunswick, N. J. At eighteen he was book keeper for Ames J. Williamson, pro prietor of the New Yerk Dispatch, with whom he stayed until 1857. Then Fran- Francis S. Smith, one of the editors of the Dispatch, purehased the New Yerk Weekly for $40,000. Neither he nor Smith had any money, bnt Williamson was will ing te wait. In five years the $40,000 were paid. Mr. Street was business manager and Mr. Smith the literary manager of tee paper., Mr. Street s fertune is said te amount te $1,200,000 which is left te Mrs. Smith, in trust for four ehildren. Mere Flrea. A fire in Plymouth, Ind., yesterday morning, destroyed ten buildings, causing a less of $27,000. The warehouse of Knapp, Stout & Ce., at Menomonee, Wis., was burned en Saturday. Less, $30,000. The furniture factory of Steckhause & Ce., in St. Leuis, was burned en Saturday night, liess, 84e,UUO. The five story building, Nes. 279, 281 and 283 Brcraiway, New Yerk, occupied by Bradstreet's commercial agency ; E. Remington & Sens, rifle 'manufacturers, aud the Hall Safe and Leck company, was burned out yesterday. The less is esti mated at $170,000. A "Secial Call." ' Olney Burgess, of Fester, Rhede Island, while making a social call upon Daniel and Henry Bnrlingame at Killingly en Saturday last, suddenly drew a revolver and shot Daniel, slightly injuring him. In a struggle for possession of the pistol Henry was dangerously wounded, a ball entering his nostril. Burgess returned te Rhede Island, where he was arrested. While being taken te jail at Killingly he asked te ba allowed te jump overboard, which, he said, would save the state trouble and expense. He was locked up. but died in a few hours from self adminis tered poison. Three years age lie shot a man, blinding him for life. Dropped Dead at the End of Bis Voyage. Richard Gress, who lived at Ne. 503 Buttonwood street, Philadelphia, and was engaged in business as an importer of toys in that city, arrived from Europe a riday night en the steamer Pennland, of the Red Star line, lie remained en beard all night and went ashore at Jersey City next morning te telegraph bis mauds in rniia delnhia the news of bis arrival. He had hardly proeeeded the distance of a block from the gates of the steamship company's pier when he reeled, fell against a fence and with a groan died from heart disease, A. uave In. There was a cave in yesterday at Cows trights mines in Plain ville, near Wilkes- barre. The surface settled five feet across the main roadway, the depression covering an area of oe feet in circumference. WASHINGTON KEMINIsCENUKS. Bew President Tayler Managed te Step a m unci. Washington Correspondence l'hll. Recerd. When General Zachary Tayler was pre sident his son-in-law, Jeffersen Davis, of Mississippi, atterward president himself, was in the Senate. At one particular time, under this administration a Colonel Bissell, who had headed an Illinois regiment iu the Mexican war, was in the Heuse of Representatives. One of Bissell's enemies took occasion te remark, in de bate in the Heuse one day, that in a certain battle en Mexican soil Bissell's cow ardice nearly lest the day te the American arms. "Nothing," he declared, "but the skill and bravery of Colonel Jeffersen Davis, of Mississippi, and his brave rcgi ment prevented a disgraceful rout." Bis sell jumped up promptly and angerly de nounced this statement as false. In fact, he said the ease was just the ether way Colonel Davis' cowardice nearly lest the day. Colonel Davis' regiment lest its heart; Cel. Bissell's bravery and ability saved the day. His regiment was only less brave and skillful than himself. It does net appear from the story that came te me the ether day that the representative te whom Colonel Bissell gave the lie cared te take it up. But Senater Jeffersen Davis itnme diately sent Colonel Bissell a polite note inviting him te retract or fight. The colonel replied that he preferred te fight, and named muskets, slugs and five paces as the terms. He expressly requested that the place and the hour be se arranged that the police could net possibly interfere interfero Senater Davis agreed with his antagonist as te the conditions, and the seconds were instructed accordingly. Cel. Bissell was ou the ground at the early hour named; se were his second and his surgeon. But Senater Davis did net appear. After waiting several hours Cel. Bissell returned te the city and went te his rooms. There he found the president's private sec retary with an invitation te come at once te the White Heuse. Of course he went, and, as he bad expected, found his challenger in the library with President Tayler. The latter said te Colonel Bissel that, thinking it a pity that two such men should make war upon one another, he had himself arrested Senater Davis and had sent his private secretary te arrest Colonel Bissel. New that he had them he proposed te keep them at least until after lunch, and as they were his guests they must also be friends. Se they shook hands with mere or less cordiality and de clared the duel off. An Injndlclens Declaration. Everybody knows that en a day before the war Senater Feete, of Mississippi, re marked te Senater Jehn P. Hale, of New Hampshire, en the fleer of the Senate, that if he should repeat in Mississippi the abo lition speeches he was then making in the Senate he would be hanged te the nearest tree. "And," went en the het-headed Mississippian, "in lieu of anybody else, I myself would act as hang man." Perhaps everybody doesn't knew that Feete was sincerely sorry for his un fortunate utterances. " The words were scarcely out of my mouth," he said, " befere I would have given worlds te re call them. I saw at once what an oppor tunity they gave my enemies for merited castigatieu. Next morning, when letters and notes of all sorts began te arrive, addressed te ' Hangman Feete,' many of them centaiuing pictures of that person in the performance of his ghostly duties, I found my worst fears realized. Then cam) the newspapers. I never heard the end of it. And all the time, after I had apologized te Hair. whom I liked very much, and he had forgiven me, like the generous, jeljy old soul that he was. I was en the best of terms with him." It was just, after Hale had forgiven Feete that a beautiful girl came down from New Hampshire te beg for the pardon of her brother, who had been led by bad companions into the com mission of a crime, for which he was being punished under the sentence of a Federal court. There were extenuating circumstances ; his par cuts were old, his health was bad, and the judge who tried him, the jury, the grand jury and the district attorney put their names te the petition that his brave sister carried te Washington. She laid the facts before Senater jHale and implored him te intercede for the bey. He told her that ke hacl no influence with the admin admin ktratien; and was therefore powerless te help her. Nevertheless, she came te his room Again and agaia eathe same erraad. Finally, his heart' was touched and he made it his business te see Senater Feete, of Mississippi, te whom he explained the case. " New, Feete," he said, " I knew you're en excellent terms with Rebert J. Walker (then secretary of the treasury). Ge te him for me and see whether you can't get this boy off." " I'll go today." said the willing penitent. And he did. At the end of a week Senater Hale placed the boy's pardon in the hands of his sister. Then he introduced te bjaaabtliee.gtatla. man who was quietly enjeying her joy. "This is my friend, Senater Feete," said Hale. "Hangman Feete he's called up our way. -It is te him we ewe your broth, er's pardon. When you get bank te New Hampshire tell them that even the devil's net as black as he's painted." a ARREST OF TWO XODNU HEN. They Etcape Frem tne Station Hense. On Saturday afternoon Geerge Miller and Geerge Williams, two young men, jumped en a freight train at Bainbridze. ttT, ,1T-A -1 a - tr it ueu ;iskcu ey tue conuueter te ges ou mey urew eiacK-jacKs anu tnreaienea te use them. Finally they were put off, when they began firing stones. .Werd was telegraphed te Railroad' Officer Pyle, of this city, who went te Bainbridge and get en the trail of the young men,' fellow ing them te Middletown, where they were overtaken and captured. They were brought te this city and taken te the station hcuse, and given cell Ne. 4 en the western side of the building. They were all right in the evening at 9 o'clock, but yesterday morning when Keeper Nagle went te feed thorn he found that they had escaped. They cut away the weed of the window sill around the bars which they easily pushed aside and crawled out. The work leeks as though it was done with a knife. The men both live in the neigh borhood of Bainbridge aud if they are net recaptured it will be because they have left the county. NK1UHBORBOOD NEWS. KventH Near and Acress tli County Llnei. West Chester has $0,932.18 in her treas ury. Norristewu wants its pelice force in creased. Wm. Morgan, ene of narrisburc's eldest citizens, died Sunday afternoon. The Bothlehem iron company is work ing upon an order for 1,000 tens of steel rails for the Lehigh & Susquehanna rail road company. Lloyd Stine, an employee of the Gautler wire mill at Johnstown, and a non unieu man, was severely beatcu en Friday night by union men. The Reading iron works, employing about 2,000 men, have made a large red no tion iu wages aud also reduced the time te thrce days per week. The workmen, who say they cannot support their families under the present arrangement, have pe titioned the company for a restoration of the old wages, giving until Saturday next for au answer. A Fight and Return te Court. Between 12 and 1 o'clock en Saturday night, Jehn Utziuger, a young man resid ing en Middle street, had a quarrel with his father, who was endeavoring te take him home, ou Rockland f-treet. Jacob Weidlc and Gee. Gerlit.ski had been with Utzinger.and when they saw that his father was getting the best of the fight, Weidle ran te assist him when Officer Elias caught held of him te arrest him and started in Rockland street. He resisted and fought but Officer Leman seen came te the assist ance of Elias. After they had taken him a short distauce young Utzinger and Gor Ger litzski ran te the assistance of their friend and endeavored by threats te rescue him. Utzinger had a let of stones in his hands, but did net threw them. Weidle was landed iu the station heuse after he had fought the whole way, -and the ethers were arrested- seen afterwards. This morning the mayor gave them a hearing and Weidle was returned te court for as saulting and resisting an officer. The ether two were retnrned for interfering with an officer in the discharge of his duty ItASKUALl.. Tne First Uume et the Season. On Saturday afternoon the second nine of the baseball players front Franklin and Marshall college paid a viit te Millers ville, where they played a match game with the first nine of the normal school, defeating them easily by the scere of 19 te 9. The Lancaster men eutbatted their opponents, and in fact, seemed better fitted for the field in every way. There was a large crowd te witness the came, in cluding a number from this city. Zecher, of this city, caught for the Millersville club, and of course did geed playing. Mr. E. Hottenstein, of the senior college nine, officiated. His decisions were prompt and impartial and showed that he pos sessed a thorough knowledge of the game. The game by innings was : 12.; t r. c 7 s 9 College 0 !) O U I '2 'i 2 0 III Miller-.ville: 0 1 1 0 4 0 0 'J 1 !l The Strohl Family. The Strohl family appeared before a small audience in Fulton opera house Sat urday evening. This company of musical wonders certainly merits much better pa tronage. The family consists of four daughters and two sons and tbe enter tainment they gave was a very enjoyable one. They show remarkable musical talent and play with the utmost ease upon a variety of instruments. The erchis tral selections and ether features of the pregramme are rendered with splendid effect, and tbe numerous and novel instruments they perform upon are surprising. The entertainment is ex cellent and chaste in every respect, aid as they appear again this evening in tbe opera house, by request, they should have a large audience. Rafting en the Susquehanna. A Saturday night dispatch from William sport te the Times said : Rafting en the Susquehanna is new at its height, and te night three hundred and fifty rafts are tied up at Leck Haven. At least five hundred have passed down the river and as the water is still at a geed rafling stage it is believed that nearly all of them will reach the lower market. Prices are firm. Pine rane from fifteen te twenty cents, oak from eighteen te twenty-two and hemlock six te eight. The run of legs into the boom has been geed. The Leck Haven boom contains between 33,000,000 and 40 000,000 feet, and the Williamsport boom 150,000,000 feet. The lumbermen have had an unusually fine season se far, aud nearly all the big drives out of the small streams have reached the river. Unclaimed Lettera. The" following is a list of letters remain ing iu the posteffico for the week ending April 16, 1883 : Ladies? List Miss Maggie Cook, Mrs. A. or S. Duulap, Miss Mamie Fisher, Miss Emma Funk, Miss Fannie Haverstick, Miss Lizzie Leber, Miss Mary A. Lauver, Mrs Susan Martin, Miss Annie A. Shirk, Miss Mollie W. Stauffcr, Mrs. M. B. Wat kins, Miss Annie Yeung. QenW List Gee. Beam, G. S. W. Bru baker, W. H. Blacklan, D. W. Freed, Bcnj. Greff, Jno. H. Greff, Nahum Kirs chen (for.), Wm. Patisen, Gee. Smith, Jac. B. Snyder. CBIMIML COUET. PLAIN TALK TO CONST H1.KS. The April aMe" Judge Livingston cate. , ' ealxea the Constable Instructed J y : la Their Duties. This morning the regular April term of quarter sessions court began, with Judge Livingston presidiug. Of the grand jury, twenty-two members answered te their names. Aaren H. Suraray, farmer, of Manheim township, was" chosen foreman. After-being -sworn the court gave the members a thorough instruction in regard te their duties iu their room and upon their visits te the different institutions and in formed them that 110 cases have been re. turned, since last court, and thirty persons are new injaU'awaitlng trial. Talkiag te Mm Constable. After the grand jatjgJiati retired the con stables were calkd, wm. they made their quarterly reports. These Who were re elected were called into the grand jury box, and the court proceeded te speak te them. Judge Liviugsten stated that nine years age when the new constables were sworn in, be took occasion te instruct them in their various duties. Since that time many have been elected who have never read the instructions or heard of them. His honor was glad te knew that en account of the responsibilities of the office the citizens in different parts of the county have been selecting geed men, yet there was still room for improvement. Officers should be SDber and well behaved men, as it is their duty te see that the laws are properly executed.-, j They ruuaf, ba present at elections te keep the peace,. te see that the polls are kept clear and te prosecute persons who shall bet en elections or theso who sell liquor en that day. It is also their duty te return all persens who sell liqoren Sunday, without liueiise or te miners. These violations may ba shown in different ways, VHi-jby rvtnin of censtable efhis own knowledge or en information furnished, by complaint befetu a magistrate, bya citizen, by a remonstrance or petition te r:'vu.e a license. It is the duty of the constuuhv-efthe city te leek after the matter personally, as the citizens donetsoemto b-j opposed te give infor mation against thes violating the law. Little assistancu can ba expected from the temporance people, ;ts they aim at large game and war t te prohibit the whole manufacture and a!e of liquors. If it is found that the constables de net attend te these duties they are liable te fine, im prisonment or prosecution for perjury. It is the duty of eustables te visit all places where liquet.- is sold aud ascertain if they are lietr's. fating houses or liquor stores. They must sue if a license from the court, with the piep?? se.il am? signature of the clerk, i hung up iu a frame, under glass, iu the dj.'ff pl.icu of sale. If it is" nethuug up, thu officer must ask for it and see that it is correct. The court sus pects that there :u constables in the city, who have known of places iu their wards where the law has been violated, yet with a few exceptions the old ones have sworn during their terms that there were no vio lations. The officers can root out all these places, a.-. it is a disgrace te have tli. m iu their wards. The cenrt ahe instructed the offi cers that it is lawful for them te seize any devices used for gambling and te arrest persons engaged in it with or without warranty. The court instructed the constables in u-gard te their duties concerning .stntt:-, linger beaide, ite., which are in bad condition, and told ihec who live in townships bordering ou the Susquehanna, and ether streams which are stocked with fish, that it is part of their duty te ascertain whether fish bask ets or ether devices for catching fish are placed in these streams. The court gave the officers these instructions in order that they may have at: idea of the great re sponsibilities rcsfn.: en them. They will expect a strict pcrlormauce of their duties and returns are expected te be truthful. AftcVthe constables had received their instructions they were sworn in. As no cases wrie leady this forenoon the court adjoin mil until 2 o'clock. A petition of citi.eus of Ephrata town ship was promoted asking that Jehn K. Shirk be appointed supervisor instead of Henry Shaeffcr, who has died. Jehn B. Brown asked by petition te ba appointed constable of Fulton township in place of Jehn W. Greff, who declines te serve Cyrns Miller wants te be appointed constable of Adamstown, as Mr. Graul, who was elected, intends moving away. These matters wuie all laid ever until Saturday. -aa I.KUh AMPUTATED. The KtBUlt et .lumping Freight Trains. On Saturday evening Jehn Harliogten, a young Irishman, who has only been a short time iu this country, aud who has been working iu Columbia, wanted te come te Ijiiceaster te visit his brother-in-law; James Ivcily. (who lives at Gil East Orange street. Unfortunately, he missed the passenger train en which he intended te make the tiip, and rather than miss Ids visit he jumped unen a freight train. At Mountville when the train lather suddenly slewed up, he was thrown from the platform', and fell with ene of his legs en the rail. The car whezls passed ever it, crushing it from the ankle almost te the knee, and he received be sides several lacerations of the head. lie was brought te this city aud taken te the county hospital where after he hail suffi ciently recovered from tbe shock his leg was amputated by Dr. MacCreary, the resident physician at the hospital, assisted by Dr. Jehn L. Atlce. A colored man, named Tues. Andersen, wbild bearding a train at MiddJctetvn, Saturday evening. bad one of his legs ter ribly crushed. He was carried te Harris burg, where thu leg was amputated be low the knee by Dr. Ortb. He belongs te Middletown, but rem tins a patient in the Harrisburg hospital. Ilarrlieuri; urnl Gettysburg. Carlisle Herald. The long talked about railroad from this place te Gettysburg is new a settled fact. The contract for building it has been awarded te Keller & Bash, of Lancaster, and work will he commenced at ones. The new read is te be k'nevvn as the Harrisburg & Gettysburg railroad, rnnniug from Gettysburg te Hunter's run, where it will make connection with the Seuth Mountain raiiread.aud run te Seuth Meuu tain junction, where it will again connect with the Cumberland valley railroad, and run through te Harrisburg. The con tractors will put a feres of about 300 men at work en the new read in it few days, in order that they may have it finished at the appointed time September 1. The Carlisle minnfacturiiig' company has been awarded the contract, for baildiug eight construction cars for the new read. Contract Awarded. The contract for the graduation.masenry aud ballasting en section 'five of the Phila delphia. Germantown & Chestnut Hill railroad was let by the Pennsylvania rail road ce.p.iny te Geudcr Bres., of Stras buig, I.mcaster county. The work em. braces a let of first and second class bridges and mafenry ; also seme very deep rock cutting--. The read will be deul L- track. lCeaOlnc for the Hospital. Donations of books and magazines, illustrated papers, stories and novels, are earnestly solicited for distribution among the inmates of the county hospital. Pci sons willing te contribute such will please send a postal card te Dr. Jehn H. MacCreary, i-nperintendent, Lancaster county hospital, when their packages will be called for. i9 Tfil
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