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L&NOasTEE DAILY INTELLIGENCER MONDAY MAYr 7. !:?
Lancaster Sntelligencct.
M NDAY EVENING, MA 7, 1B83,
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,n " SS.7 d his cabinet are U
deeply engaged just new in considering
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thp rnlP5 under which the civil service
coDMlssien shall perform its task of fill
ing with proper men the subordinate
offices of the country. Rescoe Conkling,
in a speeeh delivered before a social club
where General Grant had called atten
tion te the need of developing the trade
between the United States and Mexico
pave it as his opinion that this was a
gave it as nis eihuiuu t
ESSSSreSES
was the question, which appeared te it
se great,as te what bey3 or girls should
Oil the offices. But if the president should
really be able te determine what girls
and boys should be put in training
te serve the country, the consideration
of the question would be eminently
worthy of "ins attention. We confess
that we are inclined te agree with Mr.
Conkling that the time the cabinet de
votes te framing rules for the govern
ment of the civil service commission is
likely te be wasted, as we have but little
confidence in the beneficent working of
this reform idea, as it has been inaugu
rated iu the bill creating the
commission, and as it is pre
posed te be carried out by these
put in charge of its execution.
The country is greatly interested in
having its offices well filled, but we see
no geed reason te believe that an exam
ination by civil service commissioners
into the knowledge which candidates
have of grammar, arithmetic, histeiyj
reading, writing, and ether things
taught in our schools, will enable the
commission te give us men better able te
fill the offices of the country than these
who new enjoy them. In fact, we de net
understand that there is any especial
reason te be dissatisfied with the educa
tional requirements of our officials. They
can read, write and spell well enough,
but might be a geed deal mere
active, energetic, honest, and gen
erally better in these qualifications
of character which the commission
will net have the opportunity te consid
er. If the department heads, who de net
come under the commissioner's surveil
lance.were the men they should be, their
subordinates would be what they ought
te be ; and we fee no chance of material
improvement in the civil service which
does net commence at the top with its
reform. Let the chief officers of the
government be in all respects competent,
and they will be the best civil service
examiners te determine whom te appoint.
te places under them and whom te
keep there. They will be prompt le
weed out the objectionable servants and
sure te secure the efficiency of their de
partments by keeping only geed ones
If they want young men te put en pre?
batipn why may they net obtain them as
they graduate f rein the public schools of
the country ? They will but need te call
en the principals of these schools for the
records of the scholars, and from them
may be assured that their appointees
have a sufficient proficiency iu
the elements of education which
are taught iu the schools. They
will have a record of their charac
ter, tee. They will find out hew indus
trieus and well-behaved they have been
as scholars. And if such appointments
te office are desirable, the fact that geed
behavior and studiousness in sciioel may
securetheseprizeswill.be an incentive
te the scholars, which will ba valuable te
the public schools.
Any manner of appointment of subor
dinates which takes from their superior
officers the power of appointment and
dismissal will be objectionable. The
responsibility ought te go with the
power. Appoint geed chiefs. Held
them responsible for their subordinates.
Make promotion the reward of merit.
.Start with the graduates of the schools
aud colleges. Abolish politics in the
selection. And we will have a geed
civil service.
Trial by Jury.
It seems that of the twelve jurymen
who sat en the case of Majer Phipps,
eleven had determined te convict him
before they heard the evidence, and upon
the general principle of his notorious
wrong-doing. That the commonwealth
would have been otherwise hard put te
te make out a case against him is con
fessed even by these who were most earn
est and anxious te have him punished.
A charge of forgery had te be made te
secure his extradition and the evidence
te sustain this was of such doubtful
character that it would net have con
victed anybody except one of as gener
ally bad repute as Phipps. The preba
bility that the 'testimony against him
was net worthy of credit, and that it
would net have convicted a man of ordi
nary reputation is enhanced by the con
fidence with which his counsel declare
that Phipps did net commit the forgery
for which he was tried, that they knew
the man who did commit it and that
they have his" written confession.
This may be only bluff ; it may be f.ict ;
and se long as the lawyers tell no mere
than this, it of course cannot go le the
clearance of their client. It might iu
Lancaster county, te be sure, where, in
the recent notorious Heilixr case, it was
disclosed that all a defendant needs te
get off is for his counsel te tell the dis
trict attorney that there is nothing in
the case. But in Philadelphia -the pro
testations of Phipps' counsel that some
body else committed the crime for which
their client was convicted, will net
avail him, unless they proceed te have
the alleged real culprit indicted and
convicted.
The developments of the case, hew
ever, serve te illustrate the popular way
of viewing jury trials. Notwithstanding
the scantiness of the evidence against
Phipps, in the particular-case which has
been tried, had he been acquitted there
would have been an outburst of popular
indignation like that which followed the
verdict in the Dukes case, because the
popular mind is se well fixed iu its judg
ment that Phipps is a guilty man that it
does net step te consider whether or net
he is guilty as Indicted. And eleven of
the jury which tried him apparently went
into the box with this conviction and
purpose. It is hard te tell what influences
outside of the evidence influence jury
men in their conclusions. In a case
recently called for trial in onrceurts, one
the impanelled twelve declared that
he would never Lave found for one or
i,n rirtipj tn it because he had once cot
the better of the irate juror in a, buggy
trade ; and in the insurance case tried
last week, wherein the plaintiff was non nen
suited, it is well known in legal circles
that one of the jurors at least was stead
ily against tbe'deUhdant, because, as he
related with cruste. during his service,
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en the jury ne went w u,
nmPAnna mRdfl nractical experiment te
overdue preminms,
Nevertheless these things de net
prove, as is sometimes claimed, the felly
of requiring a unanimous verdict from a
jury and that, a majority or two-thirds
ought te sufiice te render it ; but rather
that it should takt all of the twelve te
make sure that at least some of them
jwere influenced by the testimony alone
in reaching their conclusion.
The Philadelphia Evening News serves
notice en the Independents that they
never had any reason te expect that Gov.
rattisen would prove anything else than
an out-and out partisan Democratic gov
ernor, and the Philadelphia Evening Tele
graph tells the Democrats that they
never had any reason te expect that he
would be anything ether than he is,
governor of the whole people " respensi
ble, net te Democratic leaders, but te the
people of the state, for his admin
istration." While our esteemed Re
publican contemporaries may recon
cile their wide differences in their
own way, the Telegraph must net base
its conclusions en any such per
version of facts as that " the Re
publicans voted rer Pattison by
thousands " and that " if every Deme
crat in the state had voted for him, they
could net have elected him, even with
the Republican party divided ; it was
the Republican votes he get which gave
him his large plurality." As we have
frequently demonstrated bv incontre
"vertible figures, Mr. Pattison received
very few Republican votes ; he was
elected by Democratic votes ; such were
nearly all that he received, as is shown
by the fact that the aggregate vote in,
the state for the Democratic candidates
for jury commissioner the office en
which there is least cutting was almost
as great its the vote polled for Pattison.
The heren be. be.
ten contest.
t the bieycles in the Bee-
The dude has get as far as Lancaster,
lie lights his cigarette in the vestibule of
the church.
Any color is the fashion, provided it is
te be found between crushed raspberry
aua sniunp pinK, inclusive. mcie :s
mere reason than ever for the mau with
hair of solferino tint te be hopeful.
A CniCAGO court has deckled th.it be
quests te a Catholic priest for the cclebi a-
tien of masses for the repose of the testa
tor's soul are net te be invalidated ou the
ground of being made ler " superstitions"
uses.
The Louisville, New Albany & Chica'
go railway has shut down en Sunday trains
aud a camp-meeting company with grounds
along its line is threatened with bank
ruptcy en account of the corneiation's
regard for the Sabbath.
TnE liquor law .was observed hotter in
Lancaster yestei day than for many a day.
The sensation must have been a novel ene
te some of the licensees, but they could
have taken the oath with a clear con
science this morning.
The opponents of Painell ia the Heuse
of Commens pressed se closely for an ex
planatieu of the identity of the blonde
member of the Heuse whom Carey swere
attended meetings of the Iuvincibles that
two Irish members tendered their resig
nations te relieve Parnell from embarrass
ment, but he and his followers beg them
te net de it, as the government already iu
torprefs it as a sign of weakness.
Sam. E. Hudsen's Suuday Truth made
its appearance iu Philadelphia yesterday.
It is an independent and breezy paper,
making specialties of society matters,
politics and sporting news. Its editor's
ability and experience as a chronicler and
correspondent and the strong staff he has
engaged give assurance that its tegular
edition will be a constant improvement en
the initial number, and that is auticipaf
iug a geed deal.
Bautiieldi's statue of "Liberty En
lightening the World," a gift by subscrip
tien of the mass of the French people te
Ameriea, and te be set up in New Yerk
harbor, is almost ready for shipment,,and
yet New Yerk has net raised one-fourth
of the $230,000 required te pay for the
pedestal te support the gigantic work of
art. But as v andcibilt has just drawn a
million out of bank maybe be will signal
ize his departure for Europe with liberal
aid te the lagging eutcrprisc.
The crazy spirit which the Louisville
Courier Journal displays in dealing with
national questions ba3 infected its treat
ment of state affairs aud such sentiments
as these in its editorial columns have
greatly shaken its influence in Kentucky :
"The shotgun is mightier than the
courts. It is a universal leveler It sim
plifies and cheapens the law and
brings it te the homes of the
poorest when need is, and long may it.-
policy prevail."
The Courier Journal has been a crank
for some time. It is only beginning te
be found out.
Rescoe cenkling, at a club dinner in
New Yerk the ether night, Orant being a
guest, boasted of his part in the third
term movement, aud said that its failure,
through the treachery of men, instructed
aud bound in honor before Ged and mau
te vete for Grant, turned back the clock
of ages ten years. He further speke of
the Democrats as " about te take control
of the country ; indeed they control it
pretty well already. Twe years age the
Republican party came out with flying
colors from the greatest battle it had ever
fought, in which though weighted down
and straggling against heavy odds, it
triumphed and flew its banner in every
state from sea te sea. Te-day, in almost
every state from sea te sea, it lies pros
trate." TnE Philadelphia Press, which lias been
rapidly forging te the front rank of
American nawspapers by its enterprise in
the collection of newsgarncred the cap
sheaf of r.n abundant harvest by yestcr.
day printing a cable telegraphic letter,
which is no doubt te be a permanent fea
ture of its Sunday edition. Such enter
prise is rare even with the great New
Yerk dailies and exceptional elsewhere.
But the Press has taught Philadelphia
journalism a geed many things of late and
made New Yerk epgn ts eyes new and
then with wonder and admiration.
FEATURES OF THE STATE PRESS.
The Harrisburg Patriot thinks the time
has come for the bridge from Cumberland
county te that city te be free.
ine fniiauelphia Chronicle Jlerald is
for anything te beat an extra legislative
session.
Though the Legislature moves slowly,
the Wilkesbarre Recerd concedes that its
acts, as a rule, arc wisely considered.
The Philadelphia News concludes that
it is better for Republicans te trust each
ether than te trust Democrats.
The New Era has been introduced te a
land turtle en which, it infers, JameB
Buchanan cut his initials in 1833.
The Pett&ville Chronicle ars that the
base ball fever will ravage fields of indue,
try and interfere with attention te legiti
mate business.
The Pittsburgh Pest observes that no
governor in twenty years has made his
personality se manifest in official matters
as Pattison.
The Erie Observer feels sauguine that
the next Democratic national convention
will sit down en O'Donevan Ressa
Watterson.
The Noriistewu Times wants a post
ponement of all political schemes for Ire
land's relief until after its starving people
are looked after.
The Pittsburgh Dispatch calls en the
novelists te paint wives and sweethearts
as they arc without distracting explication
and super-refined chemistry efspeech.
The Sunbury Daily claims that the
picturesque river scenery at that point has
been gieatly enhanced by the new railroad
bridge. .
The Harrisburg Telegraph apprehends a
far-i caching railroad combination iu this
state between the Vauderbilts and Read
ing iuteicsts.
Tire Pittsburgh Leader agrcps with the
Inteli.igencek that the government
might be in better business than suppress
ing cheap uify delivery of mercantile cir
culars, &.
m te-
PERSONAL.
MoeDV.and Saukcy returned te Amcriea
yesterday in the A !;i-ka, which made the
quickest time en receid.
Gust.vvus BnneNEn, pi evident of the
Bcrgncr & Engel brewing company, Phil
adelphia, :ed last evetsng, aged 50 years.
Bishop Simwen has been ie elected
pr sident of the Pennsylvania Bible secieti
which 'chculated 175,000 volume:, last
year.
Keixi's cemmissi: us chief ej.amiuer is
said te be made out, aud will be given te
him at once. His friends claim that be
k.is lest 6250 by the president's delay.
Mits. Asteii, the wife of the American
minister te Reme, who is only 23, is se
bt-autilul that, when she was presented at
ceuit, her majesty remained speeehless
with admiration.
"Mm. Langtky has net as yet made any
engagements iu Londen for the season,
but she lias had numerous otters. Paris
is all ready te yivu the Lily a warm wol wel wol
cemo en ht-r letiun from Amciica.
Du. JesErn W. Ilevv'E, professor of
slinica) surgery at Bcllevue medical col
lege, New Yerk, ha cieate 1 a great stir
among the profession by resigning his
chair and asset ting I113 light te consult
with horaccepalhssth and ethers.
Rev. Jes; au IIensen, said te have been
the original ei'Mi.s. Mrs. Stewo's " Uncle
Tem," died en Saturday, iu Dresden,
Ontario, aged 01 years. Mrs. Ste we always
denied that any single person was the
original " Unde Tem."
Seneii Romere, the Mexican minister,
wiil sail from Icw Yerk for Europe en the
9th iust., for the benefit of his health.
During his absence, the secretary of the
Mexican legation will act as charge
d'affairs.
AnnAM S. Hewitt ha3 been invited te
make the oration at the opening of the
JNew lerk and JJre.iklyu bridge, vice Mr,
Evarts, declined. Already socie of the
newspapers are deprecatiug the choice.
Give Mr. Hewitt a chance. On such
themes he has few superiors.
Geouee Heaiist, who was unsuccessful
as Deme.iiatie candidate for governor iu
California, is mentioned as "the coining
Democratic candidate for U. S. senator "
from that state. Heis wealthy, and con -tiels
the Examiner, thu leading Deme
cratie journal of Saa Francisce.
M. Teukgenieff, tbe faverite Russian
author, is suffering from an attack cf
caidiac delirium. The doctors declare his
condition alarming, and during the attacks
he raves dreadfully. M. Teurgenicff he
lieves himself a prey le enemies who are
endeavoring te shut him up iu a mad
house. Oscau Wilde says that when he came
upon the wheel of the Chicago water
works a miehty, majestic, unutterably
harmonious wheel, he saw the beauty and
poetry of America in that revolving won
der and said te himself if America pro
duces a musician let him write a machin
ery syinpheuy. He could hava no mere
worthy subject.
Mrs. Bell, wile of the famous tele
phone genius, though born a deaf mute,
ha3 been taught te speak by the new pro
cess and can understand, by closely
watching t he motions of the mouths of
these who speak with her, all they say te
her. Consequently few who are unaware
of her aillictieu notice it at all in talking
with her, and she receives and entertains
company with perfect ease and grace.- It
is said her husband taught her te speak
before their marriag8, and that their
courtship began in that way. She and
her sister have been considered among the
most beautiful- women in Wash in? ten
since they removed there.
A. M. Sfasglek. formerly of LaneaKtar
aud new of the Philadelphia Slarha.$
written a timpJy little work eutitlcd : " A
Paradise for Gunners and Anglers." It is
stored with a vast amount of information
in a verv small space. It tells all about
the Delaware and Maryland peninsula,
where fish aud fowl abound in unlimited
nmnbeis, r.cd it gives brief descriptions
and truthful illustrations of the principal
game birds and fish that frequent the
shores and waters of this region. The
prominent game localities are designated
and descriptive sketches given. The book
is beautifully printed, has been compiled
with care and written with net a little
literary skill.
FREE IRELAND.
RICKING
TH gkATIOIf Al.
LEAOUK.
The
Bohu sad Finerty em tb
Strike
Laber Heim mm Vaxloea
Section.
The Irish league of Augusta, Ga., Sat
urday adopted resolutions approving the
proceedings and adopting the platform of
the Irish National League convention at
Philadelphia.
Jehn F. Finerty, delegates of the Sixth
Ward Land League of Chicago, in the
Philadelphia convention, made his report
te tne body which he represented. Mr.
Finerty i3 reported as saying that "he
went there (te Philadelphia) tb de his
duty, regardless of the political unpopu
larity which it might entail. He was, as a
result, misrepresented by the Eastern
press, which classed him with the dyna
mite faction. He favored supporting
Parnell, and would have net antagonized
the new league. Irishmen must rather
suffer injustice, than have the English
government believe them net in harmony.
These who complained of want of free
spcecn in Ireland should consider that
there was no free speech in Philadelphia."
O'Donevan Ressa, in New Yerk yester
day, established another branch of the
Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood. About
100 members were initiated, and resolu
tions wcie adopted declaring "dynamite
the only weapon of war," and disapprov
ing the action of the Philadelphia conven
tion. It was decided te held a mass
meeting " te express views en " the latter
body. Captain Jehn Kerwin was elected
president, and Dr. M. A. Farrie secretary
of the new branch.
The thirteenth annual convention of the
American Laber Reform League was held
yesterday in New Yerk. About twenty
men and women were present. Resolu
tions were adopted declaring that " as
labor is the source of all wealth, its accu
mulatien by interest or otherwise is
robbery ; that te pay no rent is the banner
dqty net only in Ireland, but in New Yerk
and all ever the world ; that czars,
queens, presidents and land, railway and
bend monopolists are special exponents
of vast confederacies of organized robbers,
who may expect te be taken off by dyna
mite, daggers or whatever ether means
retributive justice demands te establish
common right." The action of the Phila
delphia convention was denounced as
" fruitless."
TRADf AND LABOK.
An Appeal te the Aroitratlen Act in Pitts
burgh. It is said that the miners of the Pitts
burgh district are determined te press the
mevement for an arbitration under the
Wallace act, and that .they will petition
the court for arbitrators in a few days.
Should tha operators join in the petition,
a settlement of the difficulty may be ex
pected. The puddlcrs at the Reading
iron works who struck for an advance of
25e per ten, have offered te resume work
at the old rate if paid semi-monthly. A
new schedule of wages has been an
neunced at Mcllvaiue's rolling mill
in Reading, which reduces the pay
et puddl.irs fifteen te twenty cents per
ten and of helpers three cents per ten.
The Glonden iron company at Easten,
Pa., has notified its empleyes that a gen
eral reduction of 10 te 15 cents per day in
their wages wiil ba made en the 28th
insl. The strike of the tobacco stemmfrs
and cigar makers in Lynchburg, Va., has
ended, the stemmers accepting the terms
of the employers, and the employers con
ceding all but ene of the points of differ
ence with the cigar makers. The cigar
makers of Wilkesbarre, who struck a week
age, will resume work te day en terms
agreed upon with the manufacturers.
The Goodyear Metallic Rubber Shee com
pany, of Naugatuck, Conn., idle since
February, will resume operations next
Thu today. It will employ several hun
dred bauds. At a meeting of the Central
Laber union of New Yerk, it was resolved
te call a mass meeting te oppose the open
ing of the Brooklyn bridgu en the queen's
birthday. It was also decided te boycott
Kinney Brethers, whose hands are ou a
strike.
Commercial Teplca.
Werk en the Merced canal iu California
is reported te be progressing rapidly. It
is designed te irrigate a tract of land in
the San Joaquin valley, and is expected,
if successful, te transform 250,000 acres of
peer wheat land into geed soil for the
cultivation of fruits and vegetables. In the
event of success, ether canals will be made
iu the valley. Hitherto, it is said, " the
water sources have been controlled by a
few monopolists, who peddled out water
at ruinous prices." The state beard of
silk culture, of California, organized
under the previsions of a statu law, has
been endowed by the Legislature with
$5,000 " for the first two years of its
existence towards the establishment of a
silk rceling sshoel." The steamship
Alaska arrived at New Yerk yesterday
from Liverpool, having made the trip from
Queenstewu in G days, 23 hours and 48
minutes. This beats her former time of
7 days, 1 hour aud 50 minutes, which had
been the quickest en record. Statistics of
the winter trade of the state of Indiana in
domestic furs show an aggegate of 173,000
plts, of which 34,000. were muskrats,
32,000 coons, 12,000 minks, 12,000 minks,
12,000 opossum aud 10,000 skunk. The
steam ship Coptic, which sailed from San
Francisce yesterday for China, took out 103
Chinamen, with return certificates. Thus
far 0,695 of sunh certificates have been is
sued. The Pacific coal and iron company
was incorporated in San Francisce, en
Saturday with a capital of $5,000,000.
CALAMITY AND OUIIHK,
CekB et Life and Property by Fire.
The Union block, at Greenfield,
Massachusetts, containing several stores,
was burned yesterday morning ; Iesp, $40,
000. A barn, 200 feet long, owned by the
Pennsylvania railroad, in Pittsburgh, and
containing 500 tens of hay, was de
stroyed by an incendiary fire last night.
A destructive thunder storm passed
evor St. Lawrence county, New Yerk, en
Saturday morning ; the barns of L. W.
Puffer, in the Vermont settlement, were
struck by lightning and consumed, with
34 head of cattle. The lumber mill of H.
M. Partridge, in Elmira, N. Y., was de
stroyed by an incendiary firp Saturday
night. Less, $50,000. A dwelling in an an
ether part of the same city was destreyd
by an incendiary fire at the same time.
The store and dwelling of Richard Davis,
at Leng Plain, Massachusetts, were burned
en Friday evening. Less, $65-,001. Hei
liday Brethers' warehouse and offices, en
the levee at Caire, Illinois, were bnrned
en Saturday morning. ' Less, $30,000. A
fire in Hanover, N. H.. en Saturdav. de
streyed nine buildings, causing a less of
$25,000. The students of Dartmouth col
lege assisted in fighting the fire, and Prof.
iienry tu. rancor while en a ladder pass
ing water buckets, was struck by a falling
chimney and had his skull crashed. His
recovery is doubtful. Six buildings in
Tarpert, Pa , weie bnrjied en Saturday
morning, and Geerge O'Neill, sleeping in
a saloon, was fatally injured.
Recent Fatalities
The latest reports of the "jurning of the
steamer Grappler, en the cost of British
Columbia, indicate that at Ieaflt seventy
lives were lest. During a thunder shower
at Winona, Minnesota, Sunday morning,
three little daughtcrg of Jacob Morewitz,
while piaymgeu the street, under shelter
of an umbrella, were sti uck'by lightning.
The two elder girls wcre killed and the
youngest was slightly paralyzed en the
right side. By a collision en the Flint &
Pere Marqnette railroad, near East Saei-
naw, Michigan, en Saturday night, a
locomotive and 15 freight cars were
wrecked. Twe train hands were injured,
one severely. Margaret Kinney, 3 years
of age, was run ever and killed en Satur
day by a car of the Lembard & Seuth
streets, Philadelphia, passenger railway
company. Theodere Bright, aged five
years, died en Saturday from the effects of
burns received by the upsetting of a kettle
of boiling water during the absence of his
mother. Jehn McConnell, aged about
four years, took a number of pills from a
bettle en Friday, it is supposed in mis
take for candy, and died from the effects.
Tne Trail of Crime.
Matthew Smith, a piano mover, died
early Sunday morning in a hospital in New
Yerk, from the effects, it is alleged, of a
blew of a slung shot given by Themas
McLarney, a friend with whom he had a
drunken quarrel the night before. Mc
Larney was arrested. In Leng Island city,
N. Y., en Saturday night, Patrick Flynn,
aged GO years, and his son William, aged
32, quarreled and fought. The father,
after receiving a terrible beating, seized
an axe and dealt his son three blows en
the head with it, causing probably fatal
wounds. Win. Crethy, while drunk,
quarreled with and struck Aaren Scott, a
young colored man, in Cincinnati, Sunday
evening and was stabbed te death by
Scott, who plunged a pocket knife
into his heart. Scott was arrested.
Rebert Butler, colored, 27 years of age,
was hanged at Columbia, Louisiana, en
Friday for a murder committed in 1S7C.
A prohibition ordinance took effect in
Armisten, Alabama, en Friday night, and
the event was accompanied by a drunken
riot, in which whites and blacks took part.
One man was killed and twenty wounded.
Seme Sensational Sntciaea. v .
Grace L.. Benjamin, a young woman,
committed suicide in Great Bend, Pa.,
last Thursday, because her affianced had
broken off his engagement. She was
found lying in bed, with her face down
ward, buried in a pillow. William A.
Caulking, a professional gambler, com
mitted suicide in Rochester, New Yerk,
en Saturday night, by taking morphine.
He was 35 years of age, and leaves a wife
and three children. Edwin Bulleck a
wealthy farmer of Jacobstown, New Jer
sey, committed suicide en Saturday morn
ing by cutting his threat.
KAVAObD BV PKSTItKNCK.
An
Ignorant l'nyalclan' lllumler spreads
smallpox Throngneut a County.
Mercer county, in the extrcme southern
portion of West Virginia, is being ravaged
by smallpox. It is without railway com
munication, and telegraphic facilities arc
lacking. Forty cases, have been found in
the neighborhood of Princeton, the county
seat, and twelve deaths have already oc
curred. The county authorities tele
graphed te Wheeling from the. nearest
telegraph station for vaccine virus and
nurses. Some time age a number of
tramps passed through the county and
stepped with a -man named Blankinship.
He was seen afterward taken sick with
an eruptive disease, which proved te have
been smallpox ; but the physician, through
iguerauce, pronounced it chickenpox. The
physician is a member of the local beard
of health, aud the news, it is alleged, has
been suppressed. Blankinship died, and
the physieiau also contracted the disease.
In the meantime he had called upon pa
tients, spreading the pcstildnce broadcast.
Twe hundred persons attended Blankin
ship' s funeral, and many wcre stricken
down by the contagion, which is spread
ing with frightful rapidity. All the virus
in Wheeling has been sent down and the
county ordered in quarantine. The local
and state authorities arc deiug their ut
most te arrest the spread of the plague.
Great indignation is manifested toward
the ignorant physician, who is hourly ex
pected te die.
ITraiutsaud dwindles
M. T. Peik, ex-Trraiurer of Tennessee,
remained iu jail at Nashville, en Saturday,
he being unable te give the required bend
of $35,000. Henry D. Deshon, a merchant
at Lerea, Wyoming county, New Yerk,
was swindled out of $1,300 en Friday by
a woman calling herself Mrs Cleveland, of
Alabama Centre. She presented letters
of introduction te Mr. Deshon from friends
at Oakland, his former home, and said she
was about te buy . a farm, and desired
money te make the first payment. He,
therefore, advanced $1,300 in cash for
notes purporting te be drawn by prominent
persons in Oakland. On Saturday, the'
woman having disappeared, he discovered
that the ndtes were all spurious.
Cuban Tragedies.
Den Alouze Rivero, a wealthy Cuban te
bacce grower of the VueltaAbaje, was
murdered a few days age nearTinar del
Rie while returning lrem Havana with his
family. The party were crossing a stream,
when two mounted men approached and
shot Dn Rivero with revelvers. The
assassins then fled.
An entire family of
except two children who
white persons,
secreted them-
selves, were murdered lately near Pala Pala
cies by unknown persens with matcbetcs or
cane Knives, ine metner was cut up in a
horrible manner.
The Indian Wart.
A letter received in El Pase,Texa3, from
General Creek's office, confirms the report
that he crossed the Mexican border en the
2d lust., the Indian trail being found.
Scouting parties will be kept in the field
uuui me result 01 ltoek s cempaigu is
known. Thore was a fight en Friday de
tween Mexican troops and Apaches at Suc-
quaech Canen, 1G3 miles southeast of
llcrmosille, resulting 111 the defeat of the
ivpacnes, wuua less 01 14 Kiueu and a
number wounded. Three solders were
killed and five wounded. The Chicutin
Indian eutbieak in British Columbia in
ended, the murderers having been captn
red by Bottlers and friendly Indians.
I'ollce CK8CB.
The mayor did net have a Bingle cus
tomer before his court this .morning. Al
derman Samson had a conple of bummers
before him, arrested for drunken and
disorderly conduct, and sent them te jail
for five days each.
Jesse Sayler, who had a hearing before
Alderman Spurrier en Saturday afternoon
en the charge of robbing Ruf us Gerlach,
and was committed for trial at court, was
taken befere the court at a later hour in
the afternoon when he cave bail for trial.
Jehn Ruth and Ed Daisley have been
arrested for biing in the crowd who a3.
saulted the Russian Jews en Middle street
en Friday night, and all will have a hear
ing bofero Alderman A, F. Dennelly this
evening.
A strange Des.
Fer a week or ten days past a email
black deg has persisted in making his
home at Weikel's millinery store, North
Queen street. It has repeatedly been
driven away, and sometimes whipped, bnt
persistently returns te the stere and an an
eoneus. itself in seme convenient corner. It
is net known te whom the animal belongs
and as it behaves itself well, the family
don't like te kill it. But they don't want
it, and don't knew what te de with it.
Alderman Verdney.
Alderman Wm. J. Fordney te-day
entcied upon his dnties as alderman of the
second ward, in the office heretofore
occupied by Alderman F. A. Diffenderffer.
The new alderman had many callers during
the clay and received warm congratulations
en his accession te office.
Wagen Broken.
This morning as one of Simmons' ice
wagons, heavily leaded with ice, was
passing along Seuth Qacen street, the
hind axle was broken and the wagon had
te be unleaded and taken te the chop for
lepairs.
CHICKEN FANCIEES.
FODLTKV ASSOCIATION'S MEKT1NO.
Ry-f.awB Adeptert Charter Applied Fer
Stock bold New Member Klccted.
A business meeting of the Lancaster
poultry association was held in J. B.
Leng's office, Rhoads' building, at 10:30
this morning :
The following named members and visi
tors were present : J. A. Steber, Schm
neck ; J. B. Lichty, secretary, city ; Jehn
E. Sebum, treasurer, city ; Charles Lip Lip
peld, city ; J. B. Leng, city ; Harry A.
Schroyer, city ; S. G. Engle, Marietta ; F.
R. Diffenderffer, city ; J. L.Bruner, Mt.
Jey ; Jehn Seldemridge, Ephrata ; J. M.
Johnsten, city ; C. A. Gast, city ; Henry
Schmidt, city ; H. M. Stauffer, Bareville ;
Jehn E. Denliuger, Bareville
Secretary Lichty, from thocemmitteo
appointed at last meeting, te take measures
te procure a charter fiem the court, re
ported that he had attended te his duties,
and that the application was new before
the court.
Mr. Lichty also presented a draft of by
laws for the government of the society.
They fcre read, amended and adopted.
Mr. Leng reported that sixty-three
shares of stock had been subscribed for, of
which number fifty-one had been paid for.
Since last meeting $114.50 of the unpaid
premiums awarded at last exhibition had
been paid, and bills te the amount of
$130.09. Thu premiums remaining unpaid
amount te $28, and the bills te $74.50. The
sale of ten mero shares of stock will
suffice te pay all bills owed by the society.
A postal from T. Frank Evans was
read, stating that he would take three
shares of stock, aud two mere, if it was
necessary.
On motion the secretary was directed te
notify delinquent stockholders te pay up.
xi. M. btauuerand Jehn h. uenlinger,
of Bareville. wcre elected members of the
society.
Attention was called te Mr. Humphrey
ville's iucubater, described in the Intel
ligencer a few weeks age, and members
were invited te take a leek at it, at Ne.
43G Seuth Queeu street. Adjourned.
A NEW NATIONAL HANK.
Organization Meeting or the Quarryvllle
liank Stockholders.
Fer some time there has been a move
ment en feet in the lower end of the
county looking toward the establishment
of a national bank in Quarry villa ; and, the
stock having all been taken, a meeting of
the subscribers was called and held last
Saturday at 3 p. in. in the Quarryville
hall. It was found that the $GO,000 pro
posed as capital stock had all been taken
in lets of from $100 te $4,000, only a single
subscriber having as much as the latter
figure and there being nearly a hundred
shareholders in all. Of these about half
in uumber and mero than . half
in their holdings assembled at
the meeting ou Saturday. It was ex
plained that offers had been made for
probably $50,000 mere of stock, but they
oame principally fiera persons who wanted
it as an investment, while it was the de
sire of the projectors of the enterprise te
allot its stock exclusively te persons in the
neighborhood who would likely become
depositors and customers. The meeting
organized with James Cellins as president
and F. W. Helm secretary. Its object
was stated, the national banking law re
lating te organization was read and the
articles of association and organization
certificate were signed by these present.
after which the shareholders elected
director, the following being chosen
unanimously :
. Gee W. Ilenscl, Quarryville, Eden
township ; Rebert Montgomery, Eden
township, (two miles east of Quarryville ;)
C- M. Hess, Drumere township, (two
miles south of Quarryville ;) Thes. E.
Ambler, Bethesda, Martic township ; E.
M. Stauffer, Chestnut Level ; Sanders
McSparrau, Peter's Creek ; Dr. Jehn Mar
tin, Bart ; J. Penrese Ambler, Geshen ;
Frank W. Helm, New Providence.
As will be seen the directors, nine iu
number, are widely distributed ever the
large area of country from which the
business of the country us confidently ex
pected. The beard organized by electing
Gee. W. Hensel president and F. W. Helm
secretary, and then adjourned until next
1 hursday.
The first thing that wiil demaud the at
tentien of the new corporation is the crec
tien of a suitable building, as there is none
in the village adequate for banking busi
ness. Pending the calling in of the stock
aud the necessary arrangements with the
treasury department for authority te begin
business?, the erection of a building likely
te mclude a residence ter the cashier, will
receive the attention of the beard. Its
site has net yet been de tm mined upon.
The Stratiburc Scheel.
The Philadelphia Recerd, basing
its reflections en observations el
like import iu the Intellieen
ecu, makes this cemmentary: " One of
the host paying investments made by any
body of citizens iu Pennsylvania, was
made by the people of Strasburg, Lancas
ter county, thirteen years age, when they
rbuilt a twelve thousand dollar school house
hired competent teachers and gave their
personal attention te getting back the best
equivalent they could for the money laid
cut for school tax. The primary soheols
at Strasburg deal out fair elementary
education te the youth of that town, and,
having this solid basis te build en, they
have succeeded in doing great work in the
graded schools. There is netliing like
getting down te bed rock foundation. The
people of Strasburg have done this ; first,
by giving the directorship of the public
schools intelligent supervision ; and, sec
ondly, by making elementary education
the paramount consideration, and finish
and veneering matters of less concern."
AT THK FKISO.N.
Meeting or the Directors Te-day.
The prison inspectors held their regular
monthly meeting te-day and all the mem
bers were present. A number of bills
were presented and approved. A resolu
tion was passed te furnish the baker with
a revelver for use, if necessary, when
en duty. Mr. Hagen was . appointed
te purchase 1,000 herring for use at the
prison. Mr. Burkhelder was given au
thority te have repairs made in the
kitchen by having the fleer tern up and
repaired and a flour chest put in. After
the appointment of visiting committees
and the transaction of business of miner
importance the meeting adjourned.
Grathenn Anniversary.
Thr forty-eighth anniversary of the
Gcethcan literary society of Franklin and
Marshall college will be celebrated in Ful
ton hall next Friday evening. The invita
tions carry the notice "no flowers." Til
gham M. Balliet will preside ; N. C. Heis
ler will be the poet of the occasion ; Ora
tors, O. P. Steckel, M. H. Mill, G. K
Musselman, C. R. Neff, M. W. Manch, G.
C. Stahl ; Committee of Arrangements,
F. C. Cook, chairman ; W. R. Brintoe,
J. H. Kerchncr, J. F. Meyer, 8. E. Stoff Steff
Iet, C. B. Schneder, D. F. Manger.
On a Trip te Mexico.
Mr. Gee. S. Landis, formerly of the
Intelligencer, but new superintendent
of printing in the Arkansas state institute
for deaf mutes, is at present en a trip te
Mexico, with the Arkansas state press
association, as representative of the Little
Reck Daily Gazette. The party left Het
Springs en the 3d inst., and will go
through Texas, stepping at Ft. Werth,
Austin, before reaching the Old Dominion.
SEIGUBUKUUOD NEWS.
KrentH Near auil AcreM the County !.!ue.
Barnum toel: in nearly $80,000 and 150,
000 people in Philadelphia last week.
The Public Ledger has just fitted up pala
tial quarters for its editorial aud roporterial
staff, aud the delighted public viewed thorn
en Saturday:
Jehn Browse, an emp'oye of the Lehigh
Valley car works at Delane, was crushed
te death ou Saturday by a Iocemotivo
tank falling upon him. .
In a terrible thunder storm iu Franklin
county en Friday night, Shank's Tunkcr
church, near Grcencastle, was struck by
lightning aud burned te the ground ; and
also several barns.
Martin Overderf, a brakemen en the
Philadelphia & Reading railroad, was ruu
ever and killed by a train at Catawissa en
Friday. He was a widower and leaves
four small children.
Laura Bender, of North Pine Greve, has
become crazy from the offects of having
her foitune told. The fertune teller pre
dicted that she would shortly commit sui
cide. The jury trying Jehu Ceylo, of Coyle'o-
ferry, for minder ing Emily Myers, found
him guilty of murder iu the first degree in
Gettysburg en Saturday. The mother of
the prisoner burst out mourning and cry-
mg.a learlul pallor spread ever the tace 01
theprisener,but he speke no word, and Iii:.
counsel moved for a uew trial.
Rev. Theodere Richard, a prominent
Moravian clergyman at Berthelsdorf, near
Herrnhut, saxeny, has arrived 111 Uethlo Uethle
hem. Rev. Mr. Richard has ceme te this
country " for the purpose of making an
official visit te all the congregations here.
lie is the guest of liishepbdmund Ue
Schweinitz, S. T. D., president of the
provincial ciders' conference.
Edward Laffurty, of Boyertown, Berks
county, aged 28, thin and spaie, has
undertaken en a wager of $100, te cat five
goeso eggs a day for tweuty days. Thus
far he has succeeded. He is privileged te
eat them raw, boiled, poached or frictl.
He generally eats them at neon. Thus
far his novel and strong diet has net
affected him. He works en a truck farm,
and takes a great deal of out deer exercise.
A large force of men weft engaged all
Friday night in lighting a fire en Fancy
Hill, in the eastern section of Berks coun
ty. The dry leaves had been set en lire,
and owing te the high wind that prevailed
the flames spread rapidly, and endangered
a number of buildings in the vicinity. The
fire covered a large area, at times being
ever three miles long. Some of the men
were badly burned, but with a fertunate
change of wind the tire was subdurd before
any damage had been denn te thu build
ings.
Yeung Reller, of Glen Reck, Yerk
county, who was suffocated by gas in .1
Baltimore hotel, went there at 3 o'clock
in the morning and left orders te be
called at G. The hotel clerk, in arousing
him made much noise, aud the awakened
proprietor told him te desist, thinking
that the occupant was a gcntlaman who
bearded at the hotel and was in the habit
or retiring late in the night. The night
clerk went off duty ami went te bud.
During the afternoon the smell of gas be
came se strong as te be perceptible
throughout the house. About 6:20 o'clock
ene of the chambermaids in the hotel
wanted te tfake the bed in the room where
Keller was. The proprietor tried the
deer and feuud it locked. He then pushed
open the transom, and an overpowering
odor of gas lushed out. Tbe clerk get
into the room through the transom aud
nnlecked the deer en the inside. Iveller
was lying in bed, cold in death, with the
gas turned en.
LICKNSK APPLICATIONS HKA;i
And Held for Further Conalilermlen.
Court met en Saturday afternoon at 2
o'clock, and the applications for hotel
licenses in the following cases were heard:
Lazarus Wolf, FairvilltJ, Kast K.irl, new
stand.
J. S. Graybill, West Hempfield, i,M
stand, with remonstrance, lipid iiiidei
advisemept.
Ames Altheuso, Safe Harber. Thin, is
new an old eating house and the applicant
desired a hotel license. Thore was a
remonstrance against the granting. f uuy
licenses whatever.
Kestauruuta.
Walter J. Schwayer, First ward, city.
This was an old stand and is situated in
Hirsh's building, oppesite the Centi:tl
market houses. Whtm Mr. Fisher l.-.ft it
was forgotten that the license had te he
taken out in January. Sincu that tim-.t
there has been no license.
Jehn Spangler, Fifth ward. This ii .1
new stand en Marietta avenue.
nenry B. Stauffer, Sixth waid, mr.v
Btand, at the corner of Hhippcu strcut and
Tobacco avenue.
Wm. Schultze, uew stand, Eighth ward,
city.
Henry C. Bewman, Majtewn, East
Denegal. This is for a new stand iu the
old Franklin house, which h;m bucit
abandoned as a hotel.
Henry Zeitman. This was an apphct
tien for a retail license at the Litit.
breweiy and there was a remenstrancu
against it.
Perry Brubaker, Sa!i.sbuiy township,
new stand.
Ne decisions wcre announced iu any of
the cases, and court adjourned t: next
Saturday morning at 0 o'clock.
Unclaimed I.ettem.
The following is a list of letters lciunin
ing in the postefBco for the week ir.u'.n:
May 7, 1833 :
Ladies' List Emma Armstrong, Annie
Bergey, 3hs. Mary Ehi bait, Mrs. IIari
Fesnett, Sallie Gerfair, Mrs. Adule il.
Geundy, Delia Hoever, Alice Jenes, S.'A.
McDonough, Annie M. Martin, Alic.-t
Schucb, Emma Stauffer, Edith E. Wrice,
Maria Yeung.
Gents' List. Jai. Ball, Gustav Bans.",
(for). B. Bialkowski, (for). Jas. L. Black.
Jno. Blask, Jac. Burkhelder, Jas. C.
Butts, Michael Cylia, Antonie De Felippe,
Jes. H. Feu'rman, E. A. Gilbert, .lac.
Harmann, (for), H. E. Greff, M. A. f Ierr.
Jno. G. Ketteman, II. M. Lefevcr, E.
Leenard, Joe E Malley, .Newt. Myers,
Wm. Il Roberts, Jno. Shaver, Henry
Shiftner, Gus. Siben, M. G. Shimh-r (2),
Wm. G. Steyer, Jes. Widmyer, Elmer A.
Wellcr, Michael K. Yeung.
Theological seminary Commencement.
Dr. Gee. A. Briggs, D. D., one of the
professors of the Union theological semi
nary, New Yerk, and one of tbe leading
thinkers of the country, will preach the
annual sermon befere the society of re
ligious inquiry of tbe Re formed theologi
cal seminary in the First Reformed church,
this city, ea Wednesday evening. Out of
deference te his position in the Presby
terian church and from a desire en the
part of the Presbyterians te hear him.
Rev. Dr. Mitchell announced yesterday
that the regular Wednesday eveniug
service in his church would be emitted
this week. The commencement exercises
of the seminary will take place en Thurs
day evening, when four of tbe nine
graduates will read theses in the college
chapel.
Sunday Scheel Offlcert.
The following officers were elected yes
terday in the Presbyterian Mission Sunday
school te serve the coming year : Superin
tendent, H. C. Moere ; assistants, David
Bartholemew, I. W. Allen ; library, Benj.
Trcut, Jehn Miller; Charles Garvin ; as
sistants, Harry Falfc, Ed. It. Garvin ;
secretary, Adam Hersh ; treasurer, Isaac
Bauman. Infant school : Conductors,
Miss Sne Bender, Miss Emma Falk, Harry
Gibsen ; secretary and librarian, Jehn
Black, jr.