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- SATURDAY BVBNINO, MAY 26, 1883,
A Feer Outcome.
The action of the Senate upon the
railroad discrimination bill was no mere
than we expected, but that does net
moderate the disgust with which we
view it. The bill, as adopted, 11 about
as ineffective as it could be made. Sen Sen
aeor Lee is reported te have said in the
Senate that the preposition that was ac
cepted by the Senate and whose putative
father was Senater Stewart was in the
exact language of a bill sent in by a
railroad company. Whether or no this
be the fact it is easily under
stood hew it should be most accept
able te all the railroad companies
that desire a free rein te charge what
they please and nullify the constitutional
requirement that they shall charge
every one alike. This bill will net dis
turb them in their wish, and its only
redeeming feature, that makes it of any
vaiite in t.h neenle. is the section that
was secured only by the casting vote of
the lieutenant governor, which forbids
the officers of railroad companies te be
interested in furnishing supplies te their
companies under a severe penalty of
fine and imprisonment. Seme of the
senators were net se tender-footed when
they were asked te protect the compan
ies from being swindled by their officers
as they were when they were called upon
te protect the public from being cheated
by them ; for the latter offense they re
fused te vote a fine and imprisonment,
but for the former a sufficient number
of votes were secured by the skin of the
teeth.
The first section of the bill as passed
by the Senate says that undue discrimi
nation in charges " is hereby declared te
be unlawful." That declaration was
unnecessary, as the constitution has
long age declared this te be unlawful ;
what the Legislature had te de was te
provide the penalty for the unlawful act,
and te define it, if it was net done with
sufficient precision in the constitution.
But it was net a compliance with the
mandate of the constitution te proceed
in the second section, net te define, but te
limit the discrimination which the funda
mental law prohibited. The first section
declares te be unlawful what the censtitu
tien declares te be ; the second section,
while apparently repeating what the first
section has declared, proceeds te modify
and limit the bread declaration of the
constitution against undue discrimina
tion, and emasculates it se as te make it
meaningless. This section concludes
with prescribing a penalty for violation
of " this prevision ;" probably intend
ing the" prevision" of the second sec
tien ; which prevision in substance for
bids any common carrier from making
undue discrimination between its custo
mers '' for a like service from the same
place upon like conditions and under
similar circumstances."
Was there ever a mere indefinite en
actment; or one mere abundantly calling
for interpretation from the courts te
keep it from being se ? Where will two
shipments of freight be made "under
similar circumstances " ? That is the
question thrust upon the courts and
juries. When they consider the cir
cumstances of a shipment net te be ex
actly similar, they may relieve the rail
road from the penalty; and te prove
such circumstances te be exactly similar
will be a Herculean undertaking view
of the fact that no two things in the
world are just alike, and no two sets
of circumstances exactly correspond.
Dees this section prohibit a railroad
from charging mere for carrying freight
from Pittsburgh te Philadelphia than
from Chicago ? The men who framed
its language evidently think net ; the
circumstances are net similar evidently:
but neither will the circumstances be
similar under which two Pittsburgh
merchants ship their goods in two differ
ent days ; one day the railroad's cars
may be empty and the next they may be
full ; one day the rails may be covered
with snow, or they may be wet, or dry ;
the traction may be different. In fact
the circumstances affecting the cost of
carrying goods may vary in an infinite
number of ways. Even from the same
place ; net much, perhaps ; but what is
te determine hew mucti of a variation
shall affect the price ?
We object te this bill, also, that the
penalty is likely te be ineffective. The
person injured is permitted te recover by
suit three times the amount of his dam
ages. The damages probably would be
considered te be the difference between
the price charged and the price that
ought te have been. Unless en a very
large shipment they would be in
considerable and treble the amount
would net compensate the railroad's cits
temer for the trouble and cost of issu
ing it with a suit that would drag its
slew length along for years ; the custo
mer, meanwhile, contending with a
great railroad's disposition te puuish
him for his temerity in suing its officers.
It is safe te say that a railroad
will net be called upon often te re
spend te claims ferthesemeacre damages
A question will arise as te whether the
penalty applies te a violation of the first
section as well as the second. If se,
whatever corrective power it has can be
applied by a jury te what it deems
unjust discrimination, irrespective of
the endeavor of the second section te
require this unjust discrimination te be
exercised under similar circumstances.
The bill, if it becomes a law, will be a
sweet morsel for the courts forever; and
Mr. Jehn Stewart, Reformer, when it is
finally interpreted, may be buried as
completely corporally as he is from this
date politically.
There ought te be no real contention
in the Legislature ever the preposition
te slese the seldiers1 orphans' schools in
1665. By that time the war will have
been ever twenty years ; the last child
born within four years after its termina
tion will have reached the age at which
they leave these schools, and there will
be no pretext for continuing them that
is net a claim for the support by the
state of every ether orphan within its
Units.
t
I There will be no reasonable com
plaint against the propriety of Governer
Pattison's veto of the bill te pension
Mexican soldiers and their widows by
the state. There has been a persistent
effort te have this preposition enacted
into a law, and twice before it passed
the Legislature only te be vetoed by
Governer Heyt, for such incontroverti
ble reasons that its authors might have
reasonably supposed would occur te any
ether intelligent executive. At most, it
is hard te see why these who served in
the Mexican war, without receiving m m
jury,sheuid expect any special cerapensa
tien for it new. Any who were wound
ed or had their health impaired can get
a pension or have already secured it
under the existing easy regulations of
the pension business. But the ethers
have no special claim, net even en the
general government. Much less is the
state, as such, under any special obliga
tions te them, as they did net go forth
at its call nor in its service. Besides
these general and conclusive objections
te the bill, the governor found matters
of detail in its construction the mere
statement of which wag se cogent an ar
gument against it that the Heuse readi
ly acquiesced in his disposition of it.
Fer instance, the governor in his veto
message says :
It is net founded upon considerations
of charity, for the opulent as well as the
needy, are made the recipients of its
bounty. It is net intended te compensate
for suffering or injury caused by military
service, for the healthful and vigorous as
well as the wounded and disabled share in
its benevolence. The widow of a soldier,
even though she married him after the
military service was rendered, is entitled
te a pension as well as a widow whose
husband rendered the service, or was in
jured and disabled, while she was his wife.
Though she suffered nothing in her estate,
comfort or happiness by reason of her
deceased husband's connection with the
war, nay, even though she may new be in
opulent circumstances, and the wife of
another, she is, by this bill, peniened by
tbestate. Neither old age, want, disease,
disability, wounds nor distress of any
kind are made conditions upeu which the
beneficiaries of this extraerdianry act am
admitted te itB bounty. Se limitless in
discriminate a pension bill was never be
fore received or passed by any state or by
the United States. Its moving cause,
though patriotic and cemmendable enough
as a mere matter of sentiment, is net suffi
cient upon which te found se large a draft
upeu the public treasury.
Down in Botetourt county, Virginia,
Judge Maye has summoned te answer
before him for contempt an editor who
charged thejudge with " corruptly and
fraudulently packing the grand jury J,e
secure an indictment of citizens," aud
who since the summons persists in ex
pressing its contempt for the court by
characterizing the judge as " a vulgar
partisan devoid of legal knowledge."
However much thejudge may be wronged
in this charge, and however right may
be his purpose te vindicate himself from
se serious an accusation, he is taking the
wrong way te get at it. Though hopio hepio hopie
ceeds against his accuser simply as an
editor, he makes the same blunder as
that of our esteemed friend Judge Pat
tersen en a memorable occasion. If
this charge against Judge Maye is true
itiseminently right and proper that it
should be made and his real character
be exposed. That is the legitimate
function of a newspaper. If it is net
true, and it is te be hoped that it is
groundless, it is a libel for which the
editor should be indicted and punished.
Hew ? Exactly in the way prescribed
for the trial of alleged libels against any
ether public officer, net by a form of
procedure in which the judge becomes
prosecutor, district attorney, judge, jury
and executioner. It seems te take a
long time te get this plain truth into
the heads of the judges of the country.
They are invested with the power te
punish for contempt in order te preserve
order and authority in their courts ; net
te act as censers ever newspapers. Cen
cede te them the power te thus arraign
newspaper editors for publications,
and there gees with it the right te
summarily punish for criticisms of their
acts en the hustings, and thus the right
of free speech is effectually suppressed.
We leek te see Judge Maye take water
in the proceeding he has se rashly be
gun.
Loek
stretch.
out for Weaver en the home
Chili and Peru are really at peace,
the Times and Press fellow suit.
Let
TnE Universalists of this commonwealth
will have a state convention at Sylvania,
Bradford county, next week.
The bicynleiH who attend the national
convention of wheelmen in New Yerk
next week will net ask for railroad excur
sion rates. They will ride there en their
machines.
The work of missions in the diffeieut
churches is rapidly passing into the hands
of women. There are new 37 weraen'a
missionary societies in this country, four
in Canada, four in England, two in Ger
many and one in Sweden.
Tiiere seems te be a general confidence
that a union of the Presbyterian church
North and Seuth is only a question of
time, hut the Independent predicts that the
separation of the colored brethren in the
Seuth may be a stumbling block.
TnE mill pond which was caught up in
the Illinois cyclone the ether day is evi
dently being let down in sections, since it
is rep Dr ted that during a storm at Beloit,
Wisconsin, yesterday " a number of live
fish, one of them weighing a pound,
dropped in the business streets."
His high mightiness the still uncrowned
ezar, win, u eneugu ei nim is ictt ever
Sunday te attend te business, no doubt
find it necessary te pay mere attention le
the revivification of the Russian Jewish
troubles within his borders. The Jews
are getting the worst of it again.
In decreeing that his people shall cele
brate Nev. 10 and 11 as the four hundreth
anniversary of Luther's birth Emperor
William says: "I pray that Ged may
listen te the supplications in which I and
all evangelists unite that the celebration
be productive of lasting benefit te our
Evangelical church."
The immense travel ever tbe New
Yerk and Brooklyn bridge at present may
be largely ascribed te motives of curiosity
and-sight seeing. But the estimated
numbnr of 6,000 feet passengers per hour
affords sufficient margin te demonstrate
that the utility and necessity of the bridge
will b.j satisfactorily established from the
start.
Geld and silver, in such quantities that
it would seem some geed fairy is lingering
areun d the city, have been discovered
according te reports near the city of
Duluth, Minnesota. But there is an an
cient and fishlike smell about the whole
thing. It may be that Procter Knett's
famous funny Duluth speech suggested at
this late day te some enterprising land
owner that his domains, "doctored' ' with
silver and geld would be apt te sell rapidly
and with fine pecuniary returns.
TnE Examiner pronounces it "true as
preaching " that " Mr. Samuel J. Tilden
was in 187G, in all the forms of the exist
ing law, elected president of the United
States. Even his enemies and theso who
connived at the robbery of the people new
admit the fact. By treachery, fraud and
perjury Mr. Samuel J. Tilden was cheated
out of the office and olectors out of their
elective rights. The crime a national
dishonor still stands without efface
ment." We have always had hopes that
the Examiner would yet come right.
People who think the Jewish race is
dying out de uet carefully study the
signs of vitality which this people show.
As a contemporary remarks, they pass
from country te country te become practi
cally masters wherover they go. They get
the land in Germany and Hungary and
grew lich in Russia ; they are the great
bankers in Londen and Paris and the
centres of European commerce. In ten
recent years the Rethschilds furnished
500,000,000 in leans te England, Austria,
Prussia, France, Russia and Brazil. They
increase faster than Christians, and of
every 100,000 persons only 8D Jews die
143 Christians.
te
Plen Plen's bill beard manifestos,
which months age scared France and set
the world in rear, have net lest their effect
yet. Communistic placards were yester
day posted in Paris calling upon the peeple
te assemble at the graves of the rcvelu
tienists in the cemotery of Pere le Chaise
te morrow. This is a new diversion te
the mercurial Frenchmen, who in their
thirst for novelty and change will wake
up seme morning with Madagascar and
China in full ferce of war against them,
Germany and the Vatican looking at thorn
with net the kindliest attention, and ene
of the pretenders te the throne stationed
ever the peeple as the king of France.
It is said that in furtherance of Arthur's
debire te succeed himself and of elaberate
eeutiivaucas te that cud a peace has beeu
patched up between his friends aud the
N. Y. Tribune. One condition of it is that
the management of the National Republi
can, Washington, is te ba rid of the influ.
encea which have lately, through that
paper, b&en assailing the editor of the
Tribune for having been engaged in a cor
rupt bargain ia the Garfield campaigu,and
obtaining from Garfield a pledge in writ
ing te appoint a judge of the supreme
court of the United State3 who weald op
pese the Tliurman railroad law, in con
sideration or. $100,030 from a very rich
person, te aid in Garfield's election, which
pledge was held by Wuitilaw Rii.I as se
curity fe.- itj redemption. Riid is said te
have been se disoncjrted at the thought
of this being publicly proved that he read
ily consented te the alleged truce.
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FEATURES OP THE STATE PRESS.
The Reading Eagle is for an orphans'
court judge in Berks county.
The Harrisburg Independent likes tha
ling of the governor's veto.
The Laber World thinks the Greenback
political organization in this state is a
fraud.
When the Pittsburgh Times talks about
Yoaug-Man-Whe-IIas-Mado-au- Ass- of ef
Himsclf it refers te Freddie Gehhardt.
The Philadelphia Times i3 right in say
ing that it never claimed the $30 " cable
letteis " as special te itself.
The Press suggests " Sodom and Gomor
rah " as a geed name for united New Yerk
aud Brooklyn.
The Lebanon Advertiser, Dem., has no
objection le Lebanon being annexed te
Berks for congressional purposes.
The Reading News complains that to
bacco culture has crowded out potatoes
and fiuit.
The Lancaster Inquirer, which was
never se geed a newspaper as it is new,
suggests Hen. A. Herr Smith for speaker
of the next Heuse.
The Western Pennsylvania newspapers
are talking about P. Gray Meek for the
Democratic nomination of state treas
urer. The Western Press, of Mercer, in a
lengthy review of the Pattison adminis adminis adminis
tration,prenounces it fully entitled te pop
ular confidence and approbation.
The Harrisburg Telegraph insists that
the internal rovenuo districts in this state
can be consolidated into three ene of
them being at Harrisburg, of course.
The newsy West Chester News appeals
te-day in double-sheet form, necessitated
by a press of advertisements. The News
keeps even with the times in all its de
partments. m m
Tlie Secretary anil the Sun."
New Yerk Sun.
We are much obliged te Secretary
Chandler for driving te the Sun's office at
an early hour yesterday morning te in
form us that he was in command of the
first carriage party that ever crossed the
bridge. The news was interesting, and
no ether paper had it. Even the ubiqui
tous reporter of the Sun might have
missed the item bad it net been for Mr.
Chandler's thoughtfulness, for the im
pression prevailed at a quarter past 12
o'clock in Printing Heuse square, in the
hotel corridors, at the clubs, and at the
ether centres of midnight intelligence,
that the secretary had already gene te
bed.
Journalistic Enterprlie.
Lancaster Inquirer.
The Lancaster Intelligencer en Mon
day and Wednesday evenings issued
double sheets se- laden with legitimate
advertisements that Billy Morten and Beb
Clark won't get done hauling in the cash
seen enough te participate in next week's
Masonic ceremonies. Beth issues were
very creditable displays of journalistic
enterprise.
STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION.
THE LOSS OF EIGHTEEN LIVES
A Mether Leaf, Her Baby Saved A Tcrftble
Accident. Other Recent Disasters
In ine far West.
The stern wheel steamer Pilet, which
blew np yesterday morning, has been run
ning for some years past! in opposition te
steamers of the San Francisce & North
Pacific railroad company. The explosion
occurred near Lakevillc, a mile above
Donahue Landing, en an arm of the bay
knewu as Petaluma creek. Ne details
could be obtained until nearly 3 p. m.
Then a dispatch was received stating :
" All the forward part of the beat was
blown away, and the afterpart floated 300
yards and then grounded en the west side
of, the creek. Twe persons were killed,
seven wounded and eleven are missing and
supposed te be drowned. Mrs. McNear is
missing but her baby was saved. The
wreck is almost inaccessible."
Officers of the steamer Donahue report
that when passing Donahue Landing they
noticed the Pilet cemincr down the creek
in mid channel. A few minutes afterward
they saw no sign of the incoming steamer.
The rumor spread that a terrible disaster
had occurred, and that the chief engineer
of the Denahue is reported as having paid
he saw an explosion or a cloud of steam
and smeke immediately following. The
Donahue drew tee much water for naviga
tion above her landing ltvee, and she did
net go te the wreck.
A message was sent te Petaluma direct
ing a relief train, with physicians and
nurses for the wounded, te be immedi
ately dispatched te Lakevillc. When the
relief train arrived the surgeons en beard
found little te de, as of all of these known
and believed te be ou beard, none but the
captain and two ethers (ene the pilot)
could be found. They wcre discovered in
the fields, seriously injured.
Search was made in every direction near
the bank, and one after another, four mere
were found. All wcre seriously injured,
seme with an arm or leg broken. The
last reports received show that eight are
killed, seven wounded and teu missing,
most of the latter are probably dead. The
names of the passengers cannot be defi
nitely ascertained, as no names are re
corded at the points of departure. One
family of twelve were en beard bound for
Arizona.
The officers and crew of the vessel were
S. F. Graves, master : Herace Bell, mate :
Charles Farmer, pilot ; A. Uawes, steward
a cabin boy ; N. Silva, engineer ; Themas
Crawford, firemau ; Gwinn and Shedder,
deck hands ; Peter McCable. Rich
mond, Jehn Lamau and an unknown man
shipped yesterday. It is thought many of
the passongers, who escaped scalding and
mangling, were drowned, as the beat sank
immediately after the explosion. The
explosion is attributed te defective boilers
Later dispaches state that Mr. Mat
thews, late of Senoma mountain, en his
way te Arizona lest four children aud
another will die. His wife is crazy. Mr.
Hegler, who had just purchased seme prop
erty, was killed. The most extraordinary
incident in connection with the disaster
was the finding of Mrs. Geerge P. McNear
a passenger, about a mile and a half from
the scene of the oxplosien. She was
standing in the mud, still alive, but un
conscious. It is presumed she struggled
through the mud and weeds for that dis
tance in search of relief. She was irn
mediatcly removed te Lakcville, but died
a few minutes after arrival. She was a
niece of G. W. McNear, a grain merchant
of San Francisce.
fllore Kecbiit Uls.istcrn.
A freight train ou the Beaver Crtiek
railroad was wrecicrd ou Thursday, at
Greenwood, Ky., by a misplaced switch
Richard Hays was killed aud two colored
men were badly injured. A freight train
en the Reck Island read dropped through
the bridge across Dupage river, near
Jelict, 111., en Thursday night. Geerge
Mellen, a brakeman, and two passengers
were injured. Twe freight trains collided
en the Vicksburg & Mcridan rai!read,near
Jacksen, mis., en lnursaay night, liu
gincer Singleton and two negrees were
badly injured. By the oxp!e3ion of a
boiler in Bly Uranberry s brick yard, at
Bismarck, Dakota, ou Friday, Jeseph
Villette, a carpenter, and Jehn llassen,
a fireman, wcre blown te atoms and
Daniel Lyens and Clements Vil-
Ietto were fatally injured. The body of
an elderly man namcu Uraham, a lesulerl.
of Hartferd, Connecticut, was found float
ing in the river at Goedspoe'3 landing
yesterday afternoon. It is supposed he
was ene of the victims of the steamer
Granite State disaster. Unusually hpavy
rains iu Mexico have washed away five
bridges en the Central railway. A train
ran into the first washout, and the engi
neer was killed. Traffic between Leen
and Lages will be suspended for several
days. While two boys were playing
" pegging " at Whittondeu, Massachu
setts, en Thursday, the "cat" struck
Felix Lavers, aged 11 ycarp, ou the fore
head with such ferca as te fracture his
skull, and he died yesterday. The tow
beat Ames was wrecked aud sunk by
collision with a bridge in the Mouengahela
river, near Pittsburgh last night, and
Themas Hauscr, a deck hand, was
drowned. Thrce men wei-a drowned at
Westbroek, Neva Scotia, en Thursday,
whilst heisting the gates of a driving
dam.
The Trull or liloed
A mob from Meuefee county, Ken
tucky, headed by Sheriff Rings, attacked
the jail at Mount Sterling, early yesterday
morning, for the purpose of lynching Jehn
Barnett, under indictment for the assas
sination of Vaughau Hilten, whom Bar
net and his gaug had previously driven
from the county. Three guards at the
jail repulsed the mob, terribly wounding
Rings with buckshot and breaking the leg
of another man.
A trustworthy raa6, just arrived from a
ranche iu Senera, says a courier from
headquarters, has brought news of an
engagement between General Creek aud a
large body of Indians, near Guacanepe, in
the S'e ra Madres, last weak, "in which 30
hostiles wcre killed aud the rest put te
flight, closely followed by the troops."
Three men, two convicted of murder
and the third of a felonious assault, wcre
hanged yesterday in Arkansas Jehn Tay Tay
eor at Clarence, Jehn Morten at Helena,
and Jeseph Yeung (colored) at Richmond.
The executions were public.
During a discussion about the queeu's
birthday and English politics, iu a St.
Leuis street car, a man was shot and
killed. Ne names are given in the dis
patch. Health and Sirscness.
Wm. Black and Jehn McClarcu died at
Patcrsen, N. J., yesterday morning, it is
supposed from the effects of poisoned
meat which they ate en Wednesday.
Others of the McClaren family are also
sick.
A special dispatch fiem Beaumont, Tex.,
says the district court adjourned for the
term en the third day of its session en
account of rumors of smallpox, and the
consequent impossibility of getting either
witnesses or a jury.
The yellow fever in Havana, which
caused 22 deaths in that place last
week, has appeared among the shipping in
the pert.
Health Officer Townsend and Drs.
Salmen Rese and Cowie, of the agiicul
tural department, have made a postmor
tem examination of the cow which died
with suspicious symptoms near Washing
ton a few days age, and have found that
she died of ordinary pneumonia, net
pleure pneumonia.
Lesses Dy Fire.
The less bv the burning of Paarsnn'n
I planing mill and the Hack -malting com
pany's elevator, in Chicago, en Thursday
night, is new estimated at $86,000 A
fire in Louisville, Ky., Friday morning,
damaged the wholesale rag and old iron
house of Isenburg Brethers, the wholesale
grocery store of A Englehard and the hide
and fur store of Jehn White. The less is
about $30,000. A. H. Petrie & Ce.'s saw
mill, at Muskegon, Mich., was burned en
Thursday night and the flames extended
te the schooner, Gee. Boyce, which was
also destroyed with 35,000 feet of lumber
in her held. Less, 57,000.
Trade and Laber Notes.
Leading iron men of Chicago say that
their mills will shut down en the 1st of
June " unless some unexpected concession
is made " by the Amalgamated associa
tion. The Union iron and steel company,
which was expected te resume work, seems
te have abandoned the intention of doing
se.
Tbe puddlers and helpers in the Fall
River iron works struck en Thursday
against a reduction of 25 cents per ten.
There is a large stock ahead aud the pud
dling department will be closed by the
rnmnanvfnr " riv nr Pierlit: wnnl-a fit Ineaf "
During the suspension the company an
nounces that it will put in a new engine.
The trouble between the cigar manu
facturers and their empleyes in Trey, N.
Y., which caused the leading shops te
shut down for several weeks, ended en
Friday by the granting of the increased
wages asked for $2 a thousand ou Hav
anna goods and $1 en domestic.
The total values of the imports of mer
chandise into the United states during the
twelve months which ended April 30 last,
amounted in value te $733,177,431, an
- j j - w. w.v ., VUUUMW .UMW.
increase of $25,153,004 en the amount im
ported durinpr the preceding twelve
months. Our experts of merchandise
during the twelve months which ended
April 30 last, weie valued at $811,041,354,
against $777,275,781 for the preceding
twelve months, an increase of $33,705,-
tt.
I-eItsh Jabe'a lteuiurkable "Slate."
Twe months age a Pele, named Jacob
Meriwisky, went te Centralia and opened
a saloon. He was patronized by his
countrymen and the roughest of the ether
nationalities. Being unable te read or
write English he requested the English-
speaking habitues te charge themselves
with the amounts they intiepted. They
did se and yesterday all the prominent
business men were startled by the pre.
sentatien of bills for liquor at. Polish
Jake's. They indignantly rofused te pay,
saying they had never untcied the saloon
and ether parties had used their names.
An investigation of Polish Jake's books
showed this te be true. Henry Ward
Beccher, according te the book, ewes $42;
Jehn B. Gough, $35; Rosceo Conkling,
$39 ; Freddy Gebhard, $17 ; Mrs. Langtry,
$30 : and Mace and Slade, $40. The sheriff
closed out the saloon. The less te the
saloonkeeper is $700.
Ua9eDall Yesterday.
At Reading, Pa.. : Active, 9 ; Brooklyn.
0 ; Chicago : Providence, 9 ; Chicago, C ",
Detroit : Detroit, 8 ; Bosten, 3 ; Cleveland:
Cleveland, 4 ; New Yerk, 3 ; 14 iunings,
Buffale: Buffalo, 4; Philadelphia, 0;
Baltimere : Allegheny, 15 ; Baltimore, 0 ;
Cincinnati : Cincinnati, 13 ; Celumbuf, 11 ;
New Yerk : Athletic, 4 ; Metropolitan, 10.
A VICTORY OVKKA1AUONK.
The Democrats Succeed lu Mnkui;; li.llim In
the Sonacer'e Strongest DUtricE.
Itichuieml Dispatch te the l'ress.
Returns from the local elections in this
state are coming in slowly, and up te mid
night complete advices had been received
from less than ene third of them. These
indicate that the Democrats have carried
these sections of the state which have
giveu Mahene his largest majorities in
years past, aud wcre- relied ou te de se
again this year. The county of South
ampton, the birthplace and, ler years, the
home of Maheun, elected tha whole Deme
cratic ticket.
While the Coalition majority iu Rrock Rreck
iugham, the home of Congressman Jehn
Paul, has been considerably reduced, many
of the strongest Coalition counties in the
southwest are yet te be heard from. It is
impossible, with the raoagre returns
received up te this time, te predict an
estimate of the result of yesterday's elec
tien, in se far as the whole state is con
cerned. The losses sustained by Mahene in these
heard from, though, will be hard te ever
come. In most of the sections of the state
the Democrats made no organized effort
te carry these local elections, and the
state comraittee of that party discounten
anced such a course. The Democratic
leaders here are greatly encouraged at the
result se far as indicated bv the returns
received, while the prominent men in the
Coalition party are concspendingly de
spondent. One of the most significant features are
the immense Democratic gains in sections
of the state where the negrees are largely
in the majority. The defeat of Mahone's
tickets iu Norfolk county, the home of cx cx cx
Rcpresontative Dezondeif, causes the
senator mero chagrin than all of the ethor
losses he has sustained. The Democrats
and ether anti-Mahene elements iu that
county had te contend against all of the
government pationage at the navy yard
and the tacit assistance rendered Mahone
by the administration. Although Dezcn Dezcn
derf succeeded in gettiug all the ether
candidates en his ticket in his county
elected he himself was defeated by a
majority of ever 200 The effect of the
election will be te encourage Democrats in
their struggle this fall for members of the
Legislature. It will also in a measure
teud te weaken the Mahone organization
in sections whire his defeat, was most sig
nificant. Fainting; While Being Sentenced.
When Oscar Adelstein, a white-haired
old man, who was convicted in the United
States district court of having embezzled
a letter containing a check for $100, was
called up before Judge Butler in Philadel
phia yesterday for sentence, he approach
ed the bar with falteiing .steps. He said
that he had never beeu in a court room
befere except as a spectator. The judge
began te make some remarks befere
imposing sentence. Before he had
finished, the prisoner, who had been
trembling violently, fell in a swoon. A
half suppressed cry arese from the crowd
in the room. Twe officers carried the old
man out into the freer air el the hallway,
and when he revived he was told that the
judge had decided te defer the sentence
until another day. The old mau, however,
with tears in his eyes, begged te have the
matter ever at once ; he said that he was
quite strong again, and would try te bear
up. The court decided te gratify him,
and he was brought le the bar a second
time. He trembled, however, in spite of
himself, and as the court imposed upon
him a sentence of nine months' imprison
ment and a fine of $100, he fell again into
the waiting arms of a tipstaff. He was
net unconscious, but se affected that he
could net stand, aud when, after a little
time, he was led te the rear of the court ceurt
r en in, the tears wcre rolling in big drops
down his cheeks.
Ne Ulew, Unt Solid WerK.
Lilitz llecerd.
The Lancaster Intelligencer appeared
ou Monday in a double sheet edition,
being compelled te issue an extra sheet
en account of a press of advertisements.
The Intelligencer does net make much
fuss or blew, but puts in some solid work.
Geed Ones. Toe.
Columbia Spy.
The Intelligencer has been issuing
double sheet editions this week, and geed
ones, tee geed for its subscribers and
profitable for the ewaen.
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THE CHTJECHES.
TOE FKKSBTTKKlAJiS IN COUNCIL,
The Saratoga Assembly Uears Reports ou
Church Extension and Semhern
Relations
In the Presbyterian general assembly
Rev. Heward Cresby, lrem the special
committees, reported as fellows : ' The
committee te whom was committed a res
olution relative te hearing the deliverance
of last year's assembly in behalf e" frater
nal relations with the Seullien church
respectfully report that fratern.il rotations
have beeu happily established between
the two assemblies en the asis of a with
drawn! of all imputations which may
have been made official! from either side
against the Christian character of the
ether and no further '.ctien is necessary."
This was adopted, llav. Heward Cresby,
from the cemmitter en higher criticism,
reported cendemni rg the iatie:ilistic ten
dencies sought t( b.3 conveyed into the
instruction of candidates for the ministry
form the teaching of certain European
authorities, who seek te undermine and
unsettle faith iu the authenticity aud
inspiration of the Bible. The icpert was
adopted unanimously without djbat-j.
The report of the beard of church exten
sion iras read by Rev. Dr. Ewing. The
receipts from all sources during duriug
the year were $100,000. There were ap
plications for aid from 30(5 churches ask
ing for $204, 40C, and extended te 215
churches, in the aggregate, $101,000.
Churches wcre injured or destroyed
by fire during the year te the ex
tent ei 1U1,4UU, en wuien the insurance
realized $50,000. The beard ask for $200,
000 the coming year. The claims of the
beard wcre explained. At the suggestion
of the elders the mceting adopted a
resolution that an hour of special prayer
for Ged's blessing en the workings of the
two general assemblies be held, aud that
the Southern assembly be tolcgraphed te
unite with the body an the same hour.
The moderator named Saturday morning
at 9 o'clock for this purpose. Rev. Jehn
Woedbridgo presented the report of the
committee ou temperance. It recommends
putting down the liquor traffic by
law and constitutional enactment. They
de net recommend pastors and church
members te insist ou prohibition at ail
times and seaseus, but en thocnleicemcut
with diligencu and impartiality, of exist
ing laws for the suppression of t!ie liquor
traffic. The report was discussed and
went ever as unfinished business.
The Protestant Episcopal council of
Kentucky, in session at Louisville, has
almost unanimously decided en a division
of the diocese.
The Southern Presbyterian gcnmal as
sembly, at Lexington, Ky , decided last
eveuiuK that "eonespeuilence with the
Northern assembly should be by delegates
in 18S4, and afterwards by letter."
A WOMAN'. fllUJUIKKOUS tfi.OW.
The ICIendy tiln.I et u Cecl:-:rllu In the C.i:l
Regions
Centralia aud the adjoining town.: are
excited ever a desperate affray. Twe
chickcn-fancier.s, named Mike CIcary and
Edward Dillen, hail arranged for :t ceck-iug-niain,
te !e fought at nine o'clock.
A large crowd had gathered. At half
past nine they opened the main. By this
time the crowd had grown noisy aud turb
ulent. As seen as CIcary's bird was put
into the pit Dillen's bird struck it a ter
rific blew, killing it instantly. Enraged,
CIcary sprang out and said he could whip
any man iu the house. Ne ene answered
him, he sprang towards Dillen aud struck
him a terrific blew in the face. This was
the signal for a row, and seme one in the
crowd extinguished the lights. In the
fight that followed knives and pistols
were freely used. At fast the saloon
keeper and a number of ftiends get the
scuttling ciewcd out. Cleary weut te his
home and was followed by Dillen, who
asked him why he struck him. CIcary
made no answer but struck him again.
Beth men then grappled and were stuggl
ing in each ether's ombia-.-e when Cleary':!
wife and two men cuteied aud weut te his
assistance. The four then beat Dillen
nnmercifitly and would probably have
killed him but for the oppeilime arrival
of two of his friends, who after a desper
ate struggle succeeded in saving him.
While carrying him home Cli'.iry's wife
crept up behind them and stm.Mc the iu iu
sensihle mau a terrible blew ou the back
of the head with a large stone, weighing
about twelve pounds. The back of his
head was split open and Micro is very
little hope of his iccovery. Ne effort has
yet been made te arrest the assailants.
All the men are miners', living at Centralia
and have hcrctofeie home geed reputa
tions. PERSONAL,
Mahone gets a set back in Virginia.
JuDunSu.vitswoen is se seriously ill that
his recovery is net looked for.
Senater Wade Hampton has killed
nine bears and much smaller game en his
plantation in Mississippi during the past
three months.
Governer Pattison will, ou Thursday
evening next, give a supper te the judges
of the supreme court, who will meet in
Harrisburg next week.
Mrs. M. J. Nevin's paper en the
Scetch-Ir.ish, read before the CIie.uphic
seciety this winter is printed iu full iu this
week's New Yerk Independent.
Princess Dolgerourl is believed te
have received during a recent visit te St.
Pcteisburg a large sum of mouey for the
surrender of the letters and papers -of the
late czar that wcre in her possession.
James Black, esq., and Rev. Sylvanus
Stahl, both of Lancaster city, will lecture
befere the Barcvillc aud Monterey temper
ance union, en Monday evening May, 29th
in the U. B. church at Monterey.
Jedge Nathaniel S. Helmes, of St.
Leuis, noted for hi.s effort te prove that
Bacen wrete " Shakespeare," is about te
remove te Cambridge, Mass., and will
occupy the house he had when a professor
in Harvard college. His intention is te
pass the remaining yeais of his life in liter
ary pursuits.
Wm. Henry Hurlburt's iare collec
tion of costly pictuics, tapestries and
artistic bric-a-brac, will ba sold in New
Yerk en Thursday and Friday next, en
tha eve of Mr. Hurlburt's departure for
Europe. The collection includes ene of
the largest of Tinner s pictures of Venice,
pronounced by all who have seen it te be
the finest Turner ever brought te this
country.
Miss Ciiai-lin, who has been call " The
Resa Bonheur of clajs," began her career
as a sculptor in the kile'uen, by medelling
birds and animals in dough, te adorn the
covers of the family pies. Everywhere she
studied form. In the farm yard, with a
lump of wax or clay, she learned te model
the animals at rest ; in the field she fol
lowed the browsing cows ; winter days
found her by the pai ler tire taking pre
traits, iu clay, of the cat and deg.
Cardinal McCi.eskey is described by a
correspondent who saw him iu tbe street
as a spare, erect man, of medium height,
with a singularly benign face,clese shaven
and a quiet gravity of demeanor which,
rather than any weight of pert, imparted
dignity. The mould of his features was
Iri.sh; his eyes blue and piercing; his gray,
ish brown hair smoothed until it glist
ened; his hands small and almost woman
ish in their whiteness and softness. On
the signet finger of the left hand he were
an oriental sapphire intaglio, set with
blazing diamonds. His suit was black,
his high shirt cellar bent ever a stock of
purple silk; his hat, like his garb, a cleri
cal looking black silk.
THIS MORNING'S COURT.
'The current Knsiness Tram actpd.
Court met at 9 o'clock this morning for
the transaction of current business :
Adcline S. Shissler, of Manheim town
ship, was given the benefit of the act of
1872, giving married women the benefit of
their own separate earnings.
The license granted te Fred Haas, of
Marietta, who recently died, was trans
ferred te Amelia P. Hass.
A soldier's license te peddle was granted
te Andrew K. Dern.
A charter was granted te the Niokle
Mine cornet band.
A rule was giautcd te show cause why
the sentence of Geerge Brimmer, who
was convicted of arson, and sentenced in
April, should uet ba reconsidered for
reasons of public policy. It was made re
turnable en next Saturday.
In the case of Valentine Heffman and
William M. Oter, vs Jehn I. Ilartman,
president, J. Frederick Sener, treasurer,
of the Washington lira cempauy, in which
: preliminary injunction was granted, te
pi event defendants from distributing
moneys, belonging te the fire cempauy, in
tlniir hands, the defendants this morning
filed an auswei te the plaintiffs bill, iu
which they deny all manner of illegality
with which they are charged by plaintiff.
The argunieut in the case was continued
until next Saturday.
At 10 o'clock the docket was called
when 17 judgments weiu entered ferdif
iVrent reasons.
Attachment was issued for the arrest of
Jonas. K. Geed et 1 , who have been 10
turned t court t answer the charge of
lelouieus cut:', en the grounds that the
bail is iuhiifUciL'iit.
Charles I'ryer, who was arrested en an
attachment, having ran away after the
charge of assault and battery had been
brought against him, was brought into
court by the Mu-iiff. He could furnish no
bail aud wa again locked up until next
week.
Jehn W. Appie, a member of the Craw
ford county bar, w:is admitted te practice
in our courts. Mr. Apple is a seu of Dr.
Themas G. Apple, of the college. He has
been practicing at Meadville, but will
Ieeatc here.
Cem t adjourned until Monday at 10 a.m.
lv. of 1". Kalr.
Last evening was announced the result
of the contest for the following articles
voted for at tl.e Knights of Pythias fair
being held in Excelsior hall, East King
street :
The violin lu ought $G0.G0 and was wen
by Daniel Hoever, who received 450 votes
te 152 received by II. M. Gibsen.
Fer the silver watch $40,110 weie real
ized. It was wen by A. J. Bletchcr,
who received J550 voles te 47 for Jehn
Ij'ireutz.
Fer tbe canary bird the handseme sum
of $:).. 1 was lcceivcd, the votes being for
Dera Bultz VM ; for Maud Reynolds,
157 ; for Emma Albright, 102 ; Anna
Quigley, 54.
The set of bedroom furniture was taken
by W. S. Deebler without a contest, he
having 775 votes at 10 cents a vote, mak
ing $77.50.
The silver ice pitcher was wen by Mrs.
Thes. Zecher, wbe presented it te the
fair association te be chanced off. Value
$40.
The glass case of wax lilies, valued at
$.12, was chanced off and wen by Charles
Eflinger. A pair of ladies slippers by II.
C. Shenk. A wax dell by Sallie Kautz.
A Jumbo cigar by Carpenter Wilsen.
Te night two geld watches, a bicycle,
sewing machine aud ether valuables will
bs disposed of by vete and chance, aud
the prize silver tea set, valued at $C0, will
be awarded te the holder of the admission
ticket that may have the same number
upon it that will be drawn from the
wheel. A representative from each of
the three daily nowspapeVs will superin
tend the drawing at 1 1 :I0 o'cleok.
l'KKMANKNT CERTIFICATES.
A Large Clusaet Applicants.
This morning iu the boys' high school
room, West Orange street, this city, a
class of twenty-eight cloven ladies and
seventeen gentlemen appeared before the
committee ou permanent certificates. The
committce numbers five members, but
only thrce wcre present Jehn P. Ruth,
Rethsville; M. D. Mull, New
Helland ; aud Miss Rachel Jack
son, city. The names of the appli
cants for permanent certificates are ; Jehn
A. Mauk, West Hemplield ; C. M. Themas,
I'cnn ; B. F. Boek, Paradise; J. E. Key Key
ler, Providence ; IJ. S. Hawkins, West
Hempfield ; W. H. Buller, Marietta; II.
L. Villee, Marietta ; P. Buckwalter, Jehn
II. Senger, W. W. Bus.ser, Leacock ; J.
Yergey, jr., D. B Kraatz, Ephrata ; J.
H. Shenk,East Hemplield; II. C. S. Stauf
fer, Pcnu ; J. B. Hipple, Mt. Jey ; D. Bur Bur Bur
goyue Lofevre, 1C. R. Blcaui, Uppar Lea
cock ; II. Curie Morten, Paradise; M.
Lizzie Ban in, Strasburg ; S.illie .1. Traiuer,
Leacock ; R Ada Simmons, Christiana ;
Linda Fralick, V.st Denegal ; Mary A.
Harvey, East Earl ; Kate Clifteu, Atuiie
C Brnbaker, Emma S. Brimmer, Lizzie
Carpenter, Lela Zug, Lancaster city.
Mr. T. M. Bacen, ene of the absent
members of the committee, an East
Denegal teacher, haj been seriously sick
since last December. His many friends
will be glad te knew that he is slowly
rscevcriug. The applicants were all
recommended te the state superintendent
for permanent certificates.
UKIORATION DAY.
Tim Formation of the I.lne.
All societies intending te participate in
the parade of Decoiatien Day must be in
line by S:"0 :i. m., as the column will
move at 9 o'clock sharp. The following
have signified their intention te parade
and will form ?s felliws : On North Duke
right resting en East King, National Guard
acting escort t-t the (a-aud Army ; car
riages with disabled veterans ; Sens of
Veterans ; Knights i the Revolution ;
Sens of Am'-rica : Werkingmen'H asso
ciation. All e'.ln-r associations who desire
te participatt :.tl have net reported, will
form en the light of the werkingiueu.
Cel. Jas. M. Scevillu will delivcr the ora
tion in the rout house en Wedncnliy
evening, cem-iKueiug at 8 o'clock.
iitxiiils In Missouri.
A letter from Mr. Grant, the prosecutor
e? Jehn B. Dcnni", iu Missouri, says that
he has aleo had Wm. Meycr, suspected of
being an accomplice of Dennis, arrested ;
that Dennis and his wife testilicd that
Meycr did uet pay for the mules ; and
that the Baltimore ;man ler whom Meyer
claimed te be aciugand who had sued the
railroad company te recover the value of
the mules taken from the cars, has with
drawn his suit. Mr. Grant declares he
will prosecute both Meyer -and Dennis te
the bitter cud.
Ilrlvlng Accident.
Ycsterday Wm. Laverty and Charlie
Mowrey, after having delivered a piano te
Henry Erb, their horse balked and
both of them were thrown from the
wagon. Mr. Laverty had his arm very
badly bruised and sprained and was cut
about the face. Mr. Mowrey had his right
leg severely injured.
Tress or Advertising.
Alteena Tribune.
Our excellent contemporary, tbe Lan
caster Intelligencer, has recently been
treating its readers te a double sheet. A
pre?s cf advertising did it.
The Knights Templar.
The Yerk Cemmandery will hava a drill
en Tuesday evening preparatory te thtir
trip te Lancaster. Tney will arrive here
atl p. m., en Wednesday and will be
quartered at the Swan hotel.
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