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BATOBDAT BVBNINO, JUNE 23, 1883.
The DIHenrlile Wreck.
There was nothing very doubtful
about the responsibility for the rail
road accident at Dillersville yesterday,
which iroed luck rather than geed man
agement prevented from involving the
1033 of many lives, as may always be ex
pected when two passenger trains try te
get ever a crossing at the same time.
The Reading engineer went forward in
accordance with the signal given te him
te advance, and the Pennsylvania train
nassed en notwithstanding the red sig
nals for it te stay back, it is net
presumable that se proverbially
a cautious and experienced an engineer
as Mr. Jeffries would wilfully disregard
these signals nor recklessly take the
risks of death te himself and destruc
tien te his train and its lead of passen-
Mr. Jeffries is a very candid and
truthful man as well as a geed engine
driver. The account he gives us of the
:,ii metriii tnkpn :is correct. In it
he takes te himself all the blame which
can be reasonably attached te him. He
admits that the red signal for the cross cress
ing was down, and that he did net see it
as seen as he should. If he had looked
ferit the moment it was visible te him,
he could have checked his train in time,
especially as he was going slew, un
der orders te step at Pillerville,
just ever the crossing. If he
bad been running at full speed he
might possibly still have seen it in time,
though this is net certain. But as Jeff
ries had the special signal for his truck
te watch, and that was white, and lie
expected that te be red if lie
was te step at the crossing, it is
net remarkable that he failed te
be as alert as he should have been in ob
serving the special crossing signal. .It
was an emission en his part, confessedly,
but such an emission as any geed engine
driver might en occasions be guilty of ;
. which is sufficiently shown by the lact
that se caieful a man as Jeffries was
guilty of it. The fact being conceded
tha. a careful and experienced engine
driver drove his engine into the crossing
engine, it shows indisputably that the
regulations governing the crossing
were defective. It is a particu
larly dangerous place, because the
Heading train runs in a deep cut
until it emerges right upon the Penn
sylvania read, and it cannot, therefore,
be seen from an approaching train en
that read, nor can the Pennsylvania
train be seen en the Heading read. The
engine drivers must, depend entirely en
the signals. That this is an unsafe de
pendence te two trains rushing at spe 1
upon another, each out of sight of the
etL'er, gees without arguing. There is
tee great liability te error and neglect
tm the part of the signal master or
the engine driver, and te derangement
of the machinery of the engines
or the signal stations, te enable
any railroad company iujiriny n n-u
ance upon signals alone te prevent dis
aster. Au accident, much like this one,
happened in New Jersey a few weeks
age, at a crossing of the Peun
sylvania and Hound 11 reek read,
though in that place the train:,
were net concealed from each ether, but
rushed together in open view of their
engine drivers. The cause of this cel
lisien has never been published se far as
we have seen ; but for it we might con
elude that it would suffice te cu
away the bank of earth approach
ing Dillerville which conceals the
trains en the two re.ids from each
ether; but in view of the demonstrated
possibility that two trains in open view
may collide at a cressing.it is right te
conclude that every train appreachimr a
crossing at grade should ba required te
come te dead halt before reaching it. It
is the only guarantee of entire aalVtj
The Legislature should enact this into a
law, as the railroad managers have neL
sense sufficient te declare it for their
own protection. We were under the
impression that there was such a law in
this state, but we de net find it in the
digest of the statutes.
The governor has approved the tail
fixing the compensation of county effi
cers in this county, although it does net
go into effect during the terms or ihe
present incumbents. But these who are
te be elected this fall will come within
its operation, including the district. :it
. terney. whose emoluments are henceforth
net te depend en the multiplicity of in
dictments, but will be a stated sum.
Under the previsions of this act,
tee, the two members of the
prison and poorhouse beards, each,
elected this fall will serve en .salaries,
while the holding-ever members of the
same beards will be paid a per ilicm al
lewance and mileage. Every county
officer elected hereafter will come within
the range of the new law, and the im
perlance of the office of county cemmis
siener, whose incumbents become a
beard te regulate the number and ila
ries of the clerks and deputies, is censid
erably enhanced. The effect of the
law in establishing a system of
legal fees ami abating the extortionate
and irregular methods which have se
long prevailed ought te he speedily felt
te the relief of the public ; and much of
the demoralization in our local politics
that has resulted from the .scramble for
places, in which the profit depended en
the rapacity of the occupant will, it is
- hoped, be checked by the salutary pro pre
visions of the bill, which has just become
a law by the governor's approval.
The statute book of laws for 1SS3
will be a very much slimmer one than
the Legislature intended if the governor
keeps en in his work of vetoing the
much ill considered legislation that was
enacted. And yet he seems te have
equally geed reason for the four vetoes
which he recorded yesterday with most
of these he has filed before. Tiiere has
never been, we believe, any complaint
that the" state treasury clerks were over
worked, and their principal has generally
been able te absent himself from the
office most of his time. As the
x governor suggests, the bill passed
te invea1 the surplus meuejs of the
sinking fend in the interest bearing
bends instead of scattering it among
favored Iwinka will relieve the state
treasury of work and care, and it. can
likely get through its business without
any increase of force.
The counsel who secured young Carr's
release from prison, which led te the
fatal infection of his family with the
smallpox, contracted by him while in
confinement, assures us that when
Keeper Burkhelder intimated te him
that there was any suspicion that Carr
might thus be affected, he peremptorily
declined te proceed for his release until
his real condition was ascertained ; and
that this was left te the keeper te de
termine, and that when he brought him
down he announced his positive convic
tion that Carr was net in any such
condition ; se well satisfied was his at
torney of this that he incurred personal
contact with his client. The prison
authorities certainly made the fatal mis
take of net at once removing their first
patients from even possible danger of
infecting anybody else, and of promptly
notifying the public what was the con
ditien of things at the prison, and -what
they were doing te remedy it.
High licenae and local option are meas
urably combined iu the Missouri system
of liquor licenses. Each town is allowed
te Ox its own license rate, and in some
small places the figure is as high as
$1,500.
Tub lease or a large tract of greuud aud
the proposed erectieu of permanent build
ings near Philadelphia indicates the pur
pose of the State Agricultural society te
step its peregriuating policy aud te here
after always held its state fair in that
city.
LIFE.
A liaby in her mother's arms
A little girl with various cbarins;
A te.iilcr maiilen. young unit lair,
A lever with hU nut-brown hair,
A woman married with se much care;
A mother with a darling child,
A widow with tenner leeks and mil. I;
An old lady with a wrinkled brew,
A dying b-.d and a dying vow;
A newly dug grave iu the Ir isted ground,
sighing winds with a murmuring sound
"such I j Hie."
Springfield Republican.
Ok the soventean millions of barrels of
beer made iu this country auuually New
Yerk state leads iu the production, with
Pennsylvania second ; aud following the
chief cities of these two states, cotne in
etdcr St. Leuis, Milwaukee, Brooklyn,
Cincinnati, Bosten, Chicago aud Newark.
Rochester is Tar down en the list, and pro
duces only one fourth as much as Phila
delphia.
11IK BROWN EA.RTII.
Her soft and unobtrusive hue
Tint every color mclteth te,
0 honest, rcsttul, velvet brown,
Se gruteiul te the tired bre-st
Wlien wearied souls may ait them down
I'e.ilde the read et lite te rest
-it down with eyes held te the brown,
Sweet luce of earth ; forgetting all
That is, that was, that may bctu.ll.
1 love tie modest, human hue
or earth all earth is tending te:
The dusk-brown dawn, the twilight brown ;
i he brown-lace 1 seasons passing through
'I he harvest ileitis with gathered gown ;
'I he brown ea 111 waiting ler us all,
The clay et earth that gave us birth.
The warm brown breast of mother earth ;
Her sail tace falling like a pall.
Jeaitiln Miller, in the Independent.
In his critical paper, iu the .luue Ctn
tnry, ou Trollepe, Henry James returns te
the well worn, and, as he admits, some
what idle controversy overTiovels of plot
and novels or character, maintaining as
before that character is itself plot while
plit is by ue ineaus character. "Charac
ter, in any sense iu which we cau get at it
is action, and action is plot, and any plot
which hangs together, even if it pretend
te interest us only in the fashion of a
Chinese puzzle, plays upon our . emotion,
our suspense, by meaus of personal tones.
We caie what happens te people only iu
proportion as we knew what people are."
On the ether hand, we tearu te knew
what people are, in books at least, by what
they de, aud the leader is much mete
interested in thus finding out cbaraeter
than in the process of the author's dis
section and analysis.
PERSONAL
Chief Justice Waite has ue opinion en
politics, but he knows that the work of his
con it is three years behind.
Hendricks and Conkling are said te be
following Blaine's extmple of writing the
political history which they have helped
te make.
Mils. W. J. Fr.eu.ENCE, Mrs. Barney
Williams and Mrs Geerge Brown, three
sisters, originally went ou the stage as
ballet dancers. The two last have retired
President Arthur has net only cut
his whiskers off short, but it is rumored is
losing his hair se rapidly that he is in
danger of becoming bald.
Senater J. B. Brown, or Georgia, has
offered te give Colerado, Tex., land for a
college site and $1,000 in cash and 3 lets
worth $3,000 apiece, or $10,000 in all, for a
college, if located there.
Themas McKetxar, head of the type
founding establishment of McKellar,
Smiths & Jerdan, Philadelphia, has had
the dogree of Docter of Philosophy con
ferred upon him by the University of
Ohie, at Woestor.
Chief Moses and two subordinate
chiefs have arrived in Washington and
will te day ceufer with the secretary of
the interior in reference te a proposed re
Iinquishment of part of their reservation in
Washington territory.
Attorney General Cassidy was
summoned te Philadelphia yesterday by
the news that his little boy had fallen
from ene of the upper windows of his
bearding school house ; serious results
were apprehended, but the injuries have
turned out te be slight.
Ge rge W. Atherte will be inaugu
rated as president of the Pennsylvania
state college ou Thursday next. The ex ex
orcises will be as fellows : Invocation by
Rev. Dr. Rebert Hammill ; singing by
the oellege choir; addresses by Hen.
Francis Jerdan, president of the beard of
trustees ; Governer Rebert E. Pattison
aud Piesulent Atherton, and closing with
the graduating exercises of the class of
1883.
Dr Ei.ipu.yi.et Clark, of Deerlng,
Maine, has bequeathed about $100,000 for
educational and benevolent purposes. He
bequeaths $50,000 te the Methodist sem
inary at Kents' Hill, the interest te be
applied te the school, en condition " that
if any member of the faculty or any teach
er for any given year shall use tobaeeo in
any form the interest en the fund for that
vear shall be added te the fund itself."
Several valuable lets of land In Deering
are given te found a medical college.
At Lafayette college this morning Presi
dent Cattell announced that as there were
new sufficient funds donated the erection
of a gymnasium for the college would be
very seen began.
MAIL "NEWS.
POLITICS AMD FUUTIOIANS.
The Doing of Tar less FeUtlcal Centres The
Happenings of Um Day tram all
Directions.
The Democratic state central committee
of Ohie met en Tuesday night and organi ergani
zed. David It. Page, of Summit county,
was chosen chairman, and C. N. Schmick,
of Columbus, seoretary. Gilbert H.
Barger, of Cosshecton county, was elected
chairman of the executive committee, and
D. C. Ballentine, of Clark county, secre
tary. Anti monopoly district conventions
were held in Nebraska en Thursday, te
elect delegates te the National Anti
monopoly convention. The meetings
were Blimly attended; in the
First district, for instance, only
two counties were represented. Full
delegations, however, were elected from
all the districts. The joint Republican
and Democratic committees of Hinds
county, Mississippi, met yesterday at Ray
mond te consider the question of fusion.
The colored delegates demauded as their
share of representation, te representatives
the circuit clerk or treasurer, the assessor,
coroner and two supervisors. A cenven
tien te meet in Raymond en July lGth will
consider the demand. The Kepubucan
county convention will meet the same day.
Michael N. Nelan, mayor of Albany,
New Cerk, resigned last night, giving no
reasons for his course. Alderman Murray
president of the common council, succeeds
him. The Senate of Massachusetts yester
day, by a party vote, passed the state tax
bill for $2,000,000. The governor is ex
pected te vate it. The Heuse resolved te
appoint a joint committee te ask the gov
ernor, en Tuesday next, te prorogue the
Legislature te August 27. Second Assis
tant Postmaster Goneral Elmer reports
that tbe cost of the Star Reute mail ser
vice in Louisiana and Texas, for the fiscal
year about te end, was $331,141 ; a re
duction of $141,978 from the cost of the
same service during the preceding year.
During the same time the cost per mile of
the service was reduced from 8 3 10 te G
3-10 cents.
UKALTIl ANi) MEDICINE.
OlUcera ul tlie National Heard of Health.
The annual meeting of the national
beard of health was held Friday in Wash
ington. The following officers were
elected for the ensuing year : President,
JameL. Cabell, of Virginia; vice presi
dent, Dr. Stephen Smith, of New Yerk ;
secretary, Gee. E. Waring, jr., of Rhede
Island ; executive committee. Dr. T. S.
Verdi, Hen. T. Simous and Dr. Charles
Smart. It was decided te offer te the
presideut of the United Stales the quar
antine outfits at Ship Island station, iu
the Mississippi river, and at Sapelo sound,
Georgia, for use iu connection with the
fund appropriated by Congress for the
prevention and suppression of epidemic
diseases.
Fifteen papers en Antiseptic Surgery in
its various forms were presented yester
day te the American Institute of Homoe Hemoe Homee
opathy, in session al Niagara Falls. A
new Ilomajepathic college, recently es
tablished at Calcutta, India, was reported.
The following officers were elected for the
ensuing year : Prof. J. C. Saunders, of
Cleveland, presideut ; Prof. T. F. Allen,
New Yerk, vice president; Dr. J. C.
Burgher, Pittsburgh general secretary'
Dr. T. M. Streng, Ward's Island, provin
cial secretary ; E. M. Kellogg, New Yerk
city, treasurer.
The surgeon general of the marine hos
pital sorvice is officially advised that there
were no cases of contagious disease either
in Brownsville, Texas, or Matamoras,
Mexice, up te the date of the last report,
.Tune 10th. He is advised that, during the
week ending June 15th. there were 40
deaths from yellow fever in Havana, 37 of
the victims baiug Spanish soldiers in the
military hospital. Up te that date only
two foreign merchant vessels had been
invaded by the diccase.
A number of cases of trichiuesis have
occurred near Jeliet. Illinois, and one of
the victims, Lewis Kren, died en Thurs
day. Otheis were net expected te recover.
A SKKU'.S OF AUClDKNlM.
Destruction et l.lte uml i-reperly.
A west bound express traiu en the
Graud Trunk railroad was thrown from
the track near Brockville, Ontario, Friday
evening by the spreading of the rails and
the express, baggage aud postal car were
wrecked. Twe traiu men and a lady pas
senger were injured. The steamer Avo Ave
rill, from Barrow in Furness for Montreal,
with a cargo of rails, stranded in Greeu
Cove, Neva Soetia, ou Thursday night
in a thick fog, and is reported te be
a total wreck. Tue steamer Spartan
is reported ashore en Caribean
Island, Lake Superior. Mrs. G. M. Hep
kins' laundry, iu Trey, New Yerk, was
burned yesterday morning. Less $50,000.
It is estimated that the sea has cut se
far into the bank of the inlet at Barnegat,
New Jersey, that six or eight feet of the
foundation of the government light house
is exposed, " and a large hotel is in dan dan
ner of being washed into the inlet."
Further encroachments of tlie sea
are te be prevented by bulkheads.
Great distiess for want of previsions is
-reported ie the neighborhood of Nata3h
duau, iu the Saguenay district of Quebec
Mary McClaiu, 18 months old, was run
ever and killed by car Ne. G2 of the Passa
yunk avenue branch of the Lembard and
Sonth streets passenger railway company,
en Twelfth street, Philadelphia, below
Dickinsen, early last evening. The driver
surrendered himself and was locked up at
ihe Seventeenth district station beuse.
Urlme and Criminals.
The fifty members of the Texas Legis
lature indicted some time age for gamb
ling at prtker have nearly all settled their
cases without tiial by payment of fines
and costs. A package of $40,000, ex
pressed by the Marine bank of New Yerk
te the Susquehanna Valley bank, at Erie,
Pa., was found en reaching its destination
te contain only blauk paper. Tbe matter
is in the bauds of detectives. In Chica
go, yesterday William MoCullem and
William Laskey, former employes of
Fowler Brethers, were held te answer the
charge of perjury. They testifir 1 before
the beard of trade committee tlt tf'ew
lers' lard was adulterated, and a Scrwards
swore that their testimony wen false Ne
duel took place yesterday between Messrs.
Beirne aud Elatn, the belligerent Virginia
editors, for the reason that the duelists
and their seconds were arrested near Han
ever Junction, about 25 miles from Rich
mond, bofero they could fight. They
might possibly have fought but for a
dispute iu regard te the size of the pistols
te be used, etc. Kyle Walker and Harry
Reed, both colored, were lynched at Put
aski, Tenu., en Thursday night, for the
murder of young Trice. They admitted
tbe crime, but expressed ue feeling of re
gret. Indian Prisoners
A dispatch was received fiem General
SoheQeld iu which he recommends that,
for the present at lexst. the management
of the surrendered Chiricahaus be left
entirely in General Creek's hands, and
that both tbe war and interior departments
gave him full authority te carry out this
policy. This seems, te General Schelfleld.
the only possible way te a successful issue,
" Evidently," he says, " the Chiricahaus
cannot be treated arbitrarily as pris
oners of war, and General Creek alone has
the power te control them. General
Creek himselfsays any attempt te held
them responsible for their acts bofero their
surrender will drive them back en the
cliffs and gorges of the mountains and
that he shall then have te fight them until
tbe last one dies. He favors placing
then en the reservation at Saa Carles.
Secretary Teller has repeated his state
ment, that the males should go upon the
reservation.
HAJUUBBUKG Bn8.
rear Mere Vetoes Frem the Governer.
Gov. Pattison vetoes the bill for the
relief of Nancv McKillip?. the mother of
James McKillips, who died in the military
service of the state in 18G3, because she I
performed no military service,
Tbe following reasons are given ler tue
veto of the bill te give the state treasury
a corporation clerk at $1,800 a year : "The
general salary act of May 11th, 1874, fixed
the salaries of all the officers of the state
government and the number and compen
sation of the clerks, and all the empleyes
in all the departments. By that act the
state treasury department was allotted
one chief clerk at $2,000 a year, the ether
clerk at $1,400 a year, and a messen
ger and watchman at $900 each. Since
1874 the business of the state treas
urer's department has been conducted
with the clerical force appointed by that
act, and no complaint that I knew of has
been made until new of the insufficiency
of the number of assistants. Why should
the inerease proposed by the bill be made ?
I have heard no reason for it, and cannot
imagine that any additional duties have
been imposed upon the state treasurer
since the passage of the act of 1874, nor
has the business of his department
chauged in character of Iaborieusness.
My knowledge of the departments leads
me te believe that they are all well
and fully equipped with oinpleye3, that
the act of 1874 was a liberal ene, and that
if it erred at all it was net en the side of
parsimony. The legislative mind must
have been impressed with this thought
early in the season, for it then appointed
a ieint committee te inquire what reduc
tiens could be made iu the clerical force
of the various state departments. There
is a deep seated belief among the paople
that the cett of conducting the govern
ment is tee great, that the list of names
upon the pay roll is unnecessarily large,
and that there exist many sinecures that
could and ought te be dispensed with. It
is a peer answer te this popular complaint
te add mere names te the long list et
officeholders drawing pay from the public
purse.
" It is also worth mentioning iu cennec
tien with this that the prcf ent Legislature
recently passed a most wise and commend cemmond commend
ablo bill, which is new a law, requiring
the money in the sinking fund no ether
wise invested te be used in the purchase
of either U. S. bends or theso of the state.
As the commissioners of the sinkiug fund
will, therefore, in obedience te that act,
invest a large balance of upwards of
$2,000,000 inoueor the ether of these
securities, the treasurer will be relieved
from keeping the numerous accounts he
new has with various banks, where that
money is at present deposited without
interest. In addition te the ether valuable
benefits conferred by that act, the saving
of labor that the treasurer will exporience
in being relieved from a considerable
quantity of bookkeeping is worthy of
remark, and is a reason for dispensing
with any necessity of this bill. Net
knowing any geed reason for the addi
tional clerkship created by this bill, I
decline te assist iu placing this burden
UDen the people."
The governor signed 19 bills yesterday,
among which were the following appro
priation bills : Eastern penitentiary, $81,
830 ; Philadelphia house of rofuge, $84,000;
state beard of agriculture, $3, G50; West
ern penitentiary, $71,000 ; state insane
hospital at Danville, $34,000; Pennsylva
nia institution for the deaf and dumb,
$15G,000; Pennsylvania institution for the
instruction of the blind, $13,500 ; Dixmont
insane hospital, for the year beginning
June 1st, 1884, $31,000 ; for the state nor
mal schools, $100,000 ; Western Pennsyl
vania institution for the deaf and dumb,
$53,500.
The governor also "vetoed the bill rela
tive te building a read from Bedford te
Mineral Springs, giving the following
reasons : Section 7 of article 3 of the con
stitutieu provides that no local or special
law shall be passed "creating corporations
or amendiug, renewing or extending the
charters thereof.".
The Senate resolved " that any leaves
of absence granted by the Seuate for an
indefinite peried shall he considered re
voked when any bills shall have reached
third reading, and theroafter no leave of
absence shall he granted except for sick
ness or ether serious causa stated iu open
Senate."
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I.UMUEUMKN ISHHSAltKASHKI).
A Ueavy Failure Reported Anectlne Several
Prominent Firms.
Peck & Barnard, lumber dealers of
Williamsport Pa., are financially embar
rassed by the failure of the Palmetto
Lumber company of Georgetown, N. C.
The firm had indorsed for the Palmetto
company, aud for Lloyd & King of New
Yerk, in the aggregate, about $300,000, for
which it is said most of the assets of the
Palmetto company are liable It is fur
ther stated that Lloyd & King have had
some of their paper go te pretest. Mr.
King of the firm, was tbe treasurer of the
Palmetto company, which has confessed
judgment te Lloyd & King for $175,000.
The Palmetto company has a large amount
of property, both real and porsonal.lnclud personal.lnclud porsenal.lnclud
ing real estate, lumber, tirabar and shin
gles. Messrs Peck & Barnard say that
while, from the uatnre of their assets, it
will be impossible te protect their name,
at maturity they hope te make such an
nouncements as will satisfy all thn cred
iters in due form. The em -vq been iu
business since 1S5C recently
claimed as, els of 451,'iUU.
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The Ceat of Kleetrlc rower.
The electrical railway at the exbibitien
in Chicago did uet get started until last
week, but since that tinie'has dene a large
business. Ne definite information as te
the cost of power has been obtained, but
it seems te be the gcncial impression that
it is much mere costly than steam.
Ou an electrical railway in Ire
land au exact account of he cost
was kept, aud compared with that
of running steam engines en the same
read, the report of the superintendent
declared electricity te ba mero economical
en that particular read. Some extraerdi
nary statements have recently been pub
lished regarding the cost of iusandosceut
lighting, compared with that of ga3. One
manufacturer estimates that the electric
light costs only ene third and another one
fifth as much as gas at $1 90 per thousand
cubic feet. This is se extraordinarily cheap
that engineers, befere ascapting the state
ments is true, will want te rovise the
elements of cost, and cstimate for them
selves. i
Base uall Yesterday.
At New Yerk : Jaspers, 4 ; Staten Is
laud, 3; at Brooklyn : Ress Club, of Ches
ter, Pa., 0 ; Brooklyn, 4 ; at Reading, Pa.
(championship) : Active, 5 ; Qui?ksteps,
1G: at Rosten : Bosten, 10 ; New Yerk, 0 ;
at Providence : Philadelphia, 9 ; Provi
dence, 15 ; at Buffale: Chicago, 2; Buf
falo, G ; at Cleveland : Detroit, 8 ; Cleve
land, 9 ; at Columbus : Columbus, 10 ;
Allegheny, 8 ; at Pettsville : Anthracite,
3 ; Merritt, 13.
Uttteii ey a Banld Deg.
Mr. James V. Clark, who resides en
Hughes street, Cape May, was bitten last
night by a favorite and valuable bird deg
in the three places en his hand. It is
feared, from some indications shown, that
the deg was rabid, aud it was killed. It
is said that Mr. Clark's deg had bitten
several ether dogs during the night, and
Mayer Mel tin accordingly issued a procla
mation te day that any deg found at large
and unmuzzled should be promptly killed.
rXJUM TALK rWIH VOURBEES.
He Comments em Democratic Candidates,
Newspapers ana Doctrines.
Senater Dan Voorhees had an interview
with a reporter and talked along en
several political topics with great freedom
and entire disregard, apparently, of the
effect his opinions might have upon his
own chances for becoming the candidate of
tne Democrats for president, lie thinks
Headley's nomination a geed one, but
g wenld have preferred Ward. The state
ment wnicu nas Deen puDiianeu that Hen
dricks and McDonald were for three hours
in the same room without speaking, he
vigorously characterizes as "a willful,
malicious, infamous lie, telegraphed te
the country by the associated press," and
that he knows that Matsen, Hendricks,
McDonald and Peelle, were in Hendrick's
room for three hours one day this week,
in social conversation. The interview then
gees en as fellows :
" Dees any portion of the party in Iu
diana desire the old ticket, Tilden and
Hendricks?"
" As far as I knew there is net a single
Democrat of any prominence in the state
who wants that ticket. I knew that
Hendricks does net want it, for he told me
se last Monday."
" Can any one be elected governor of
Indiana en a strictly free trade platform?"
" I think net. The Democrats have
learned that free trade in the abstract is
net the doctrine of the party. With the
exception of Henry Watterson and Jee
Pulitzer there are no Democrats in the
country in favor of free trade, pure aud
simple."
The reporter suggested that Watterson
and Pulitzer represented two of the
leading Democratic papers of the country.
(('Phet' mntr lia en " WknliArl RanqMr
Voorhees, "but the New Yerk WerM does
net have as much influence in the state of
Indiana as a little cress read's weekly
paper. It is almost unknown there, and
wields no influence whatever. Neither
docs the Courier-Journal have any influ
ence in the state. When the next national
convention meets, neither Watterson unr
Pulitzer will be permitted te dictate the
platform."
"Hew de you like McDonald as a presi
dential oendidate?"
" I like him very well, but whether I
liked him or net I would have te be satis
fied, since he is a candidate in the fullest
sense of the word."
" Is there any likelihood of there being
a division or contest between the friends
of Hendricks and McDonald '."'
"Nene in the world. Hendrick is net a
candidate either for the presidency or
vice presidency. While I am friendly te
both and a great admirer of both, 1 am
satisfied McDonald is the cheice net only
of the Democracy of Indiana, but of the
whole country. If he is nominated, and
a 'tariff-for-revcnue-enly' plank is kept
out of the platform, the ticket will be
elected beyond a perad venture."
m
David Davis aud tUe Flute
David Davis since marrying aud settling
down in Bloomington, has conceived a
great fancy for Ante music. He used te
play a flute quite well when a young man
and he has new returned te the pastime.
Persons passing his house of an evening
new catch a glimpse of him at a darkened
wiudew evoking soft melancholy strains
from an elaborate flute and are re
minded of Old Pan. On account of his
national prominence and his long term of
public service the neighbors put up with
tbe nuisance quite geed naturedly
SCIIOUL ENTERTAINMENT.
lireaklng up Party at at. James Closing
Kxerciseg at Grace Cbnrcli Scnoel.
Last evening there was a very pleasant
gathering in the parlors of Mrs. Barker,
principal of St. James' parish schools, the
occasion being an entertainment giveu by
her te the pupils prier te the breaking up
of the schools for the summer vacation.
The parlors were elegantly trimmed with
about sixty flags and a profusion of flew
ers and feliage, while a number of Chinese
lanterns lit up the front entrance Net
less than sixty children were present
including the pupils of the schools and a
few of their little friends who were in
vited. There were present also, by invi
tation, a large number of patreus of the
schools, including the rector of St. James,
Dr. Knight and family and the families of
the Messrs. Hendersen, Reynolds, Messer
smith, Nauman, Blackwood, Kaufiman,
Atlee, Schroder, Wentz, Wilsen, Wood
ward, Ferdney, McMulIen and ethers.
Tbe entertainment was gotten up by
Mrs. Barker, who was ably assisted by
Miss Mett. The pregramme opened with a
grand march, was which fotlewed by a de
Iightful dance by the smaller children, te
the musie of Tayler's orchestra. This was
followed by dancing by the elder pupils,
and tbeu refreshments were served te all
present, the younger pupils bciug the
recipients of marked attention. After the
refreshments had heeu disposed of, thore
was mere dancing which wa3 kept up
until a reasonable hour, wheu the final
adieus were exchanged and the party
broke up. A feature worthy of especial
uote was tbe attention and consideration
shown the younger pupils by their elder
comrades and adults present. The party
was essentially a " little folks party."
Closing Exercises at Urace Church Scheel.
Tnis active and zealous school adjoining
Grace Lutherau church, North Queen and
James streets, closed Friday its fourth
term of ten weeks, with appropriate ex
ercises. These consisted of short recita
tions, dialogues, extracts, scripture iu
concert and questions interspersed by
hymns and songs. The room was baauti
fully trimmed for the occasion with a
profusion of flowers. An address was
delivered te the parents and friends pre
sent by Rev. I. C. Brodfuehrer, of Marien
female college, Marieu, Virginia.
A VILLAINOUS TRAMK
A caudldate for the WnipplnePosferSoinn.
tiling Worse.
Yesterday afternoon a treacherous tramp
stepped at the house of Mr. Musser, re
siding en the farm of Mr. Zeek, a short
distance north of Baroville, and made in
decent proposals te Mrs. Musser. She,
becoming alarmed, ran te the hay field te
notify her husband, but in her absence the
miscreant went te a straw stack and pre
cured a bundle of straw, took it te the
house and set fire te it, expecting, of
course, that the house would be consumed.
The men, however, arrived in time te
prevent any serious damage te the house,
and four of the men jumped upon horses
aud started out in.'pursuit of the vagrant.
They rede out te the pike and came
towards this city, but it proved te bave
been the wrong direction, as it was after
wards ascertained that he took an easterly
route and of course seen became lest in
the innumerable caravan of read agents
that infest this county.
In tne Lewer End.
A gentleman from this city, en a visit
te Quarry ville and vicinity, reports busi
ness active and the crops excellent. Wheat,
grass, corn, potatoes and tobacco are all
indicating a large yield. The farmers are
enterprising in securing the most improved
agricultural implements and machinery,
and are giving special attention te fertil
izers. He saw one field of grass that de
serves special mentieu en account of its
extraordinary crop. It is covered with
clever from three te four feet long, and
from 40 te 52 stalks from one seed and
root. The field has been sewed jn the
spring en the young grass with phosphate
and tbe unusual crop is tbe result. Peo
ple net acquainted with that section of
the country would be profited and pleased
by a visit te that locality Land is net
as high in price as iu the central part of
the county, but can be made very productive.
DILLERVILLE COLLISION
MAKKUW ESOaPK OF MANY 1.1VKS-
Wbat might Have Been a Terrible uuaatar
Twe Trains Meet at a Cresnug The
P. It. K. Engine Arrives tee Soen.
The railroad collision, which occurred
at the crossing of the Pennsylvania and
the Lancaster & Reading railroads, at
Dillerville, yesterday afternoon, was one.
of the most terrible in its possibilities that
has occurred in this vicinity for a long
time. It will be remembered that since
the construction of the new line of railroad
above the city, the Pennsylvania has te
cress the Reading read at that point, and
as the limited Chicago express, the fast
train, which runs west past this city
without stepping about 1 p. m., new runs
en the new Pennsylvania line, it passes
this crossing daily at about the same hour
as the train northward bound te Reading
en the ether read, is due at the same
point. The crossing is watched
and the signals for it are con
trolled from the Pennsylvania tower.
Between the approaches of the two reads
te this point is a high bank of earth, the
Reading passing through it in a cut,
and it being impossible for these in
charge of the approaching trains en the
different reads te see each ether. The
regular time of the Reading train here is
1:03 and that of the Chicago limited 1:07,
though as the Iatter makes no step be
tween Philadelphia aud Harrisburg its
time varies and that train which is given
the white signal by the tower operator has
the right of way. There seems te be no
doubt that yesterday this signal was dis
played te the Reading engineer and the
red was down in front of the train en
the Pennsylvania read.
The Reading engine was just en the
crossing when the limited express ou the
Pennsylvania read came up and both
engines struck. The engine en the
Reading read was the old Rebert
Crane. It was totally wrecked, be
ing almost broken te pieces. It was
turned completely ever ou its s'ule. The
engine ou the Pennsylvania read was Ne.
997 and almost new. Although it is net
broken as badly as the Crane, it is pretty
well used up. Jehn Dungau was the
engineer in charge of the Crane and Daniel
Rineer was firing for him. Beth men went
ever with the engine aud Dungau had one
rib broken. Rineer was net injured in the
least. Augustus Jeffries, of thi3 city, ene
of the eldest aud most careful ongineers
in the employ of the company, had
charge of the ongine en the limited. He
also remained at his pest aud escaped un
hurt. The baggage car of limited was
thrown from the track but net broken.
Immediately after the accident wieckers
were sent for by both reads. Upen their
arrival they at ouce went te work and by
night everything was cleared.
Beth trains cariicd many passengers
none of whom was hint and net evon de
layed a long time.
Whatever responsibility exists for the
accident seems te He with the management
of the Pennsylvania tram, lue signal was
properly given te and observed by the
Reading engineer ; the rate of speed at
which the Chicago limited was running
is variously reported at from eight te six
teen miles an hour.
Engineer Dungau stales that he had the
right of way aud had no idea that he
would be interferred with. As it was he
reversed his engine Had he net dene
that his train would have been struck in
the middle and many lives would have
been lest.
Knglneer Jeflrles Account.
Careful inquiry shows that the cause of
the collision is in no way in doubt. Mr.
Jeffries, the engine driver of the Pennsyl
vauia railroad traiu, aud ene of the very
best men iu his profession, cives this
account of it : He was approaching the
crossing ou time with a written order in
his pocket te step at Dillerville te let off a
passenger who desired te take the train
for Columbia, he believed Mr. Patteu. IIe
intended thoreforo te step. Thore
is a signal erected for the north
bound and ene also for the
south bound track. There is also a third
signal placed nearer te the crossing, which
is intended te serve the necessity of the
crossing. There is a straight track ap
proaching these signals and they can be
seen at a geed distance oil'. Jeffries
looked at the signal for his own track, in
tended te show whether or no it wax clear
for him, and found that it was white. Tbe
crossing signal he did uet leek at
until he had nearly reached his
own track signal. IIe miht have seen
it seC'ucr however if he had looked for it.
But as he expected his own signal te
govern his movement, lie was slew te ob
serve the ether. If it was his duty te
watch betb siguals, as it probably was,
then he was negligent iu net looking for
the crossing sigtial hefeie he did.. One
reason for his failure te de se was prob
ably the fact that he was intending te
step at Dillerville and had already slewed
his engine for that purpose, no was run
ning, he says, at about seven miles au
hour.
When he caught the red crossing signal
he at once put en the brakes, but they did
net act with sufficient power te step his
train in the space he had befere reaching
the crossing. A train of ordinary cars
would have been checked by it in ample
time. But Lis cars were nil Pnllmans.
.. ,
which are very hard te brake by reason of
(heir weight aud the larger size of their
wheels, as we understand it.
Mr. Jcftrie3 thought that the operator
should have giveu him the red en his own
track signal as well as en the crossing
signal. But- the operator tells him that
was net his duty and Jeffries we under
stand does net confidently deny
the statement. Still the fact is
that he was under the impression
that he would have the red nu his own
track signal, if the crossing was encum
bered, and it was this impression that
caused him te fail te observe the crossing
signal as seen as he might have done.
The cause of the accident is thus shown
te he immediately due te thocngine driver
of the Pennsylvania train, failing te leek
at the crossing signal in time. Secondly
te the fact that his own track signal was
while. Thirdly, te the Pullman cars of
the traiu making it net as readily braked
as au ordinary traiu. And lastly te the
fact that the trains are net required te
step befere reaching the crossing, se as te
avoid possibility of accident through de
rangement of machinery or negligence of
men.
Larceny as itatlce.
Henry Smith was arrested in Marietta
yesterday by Chief of Pelice Deichler, ou
the charge of larceny as bailee, which was
prefericd by a man named Riuehart. It
was alleged that the latter left a horse in
Smith's charge with instructions te him te
sell the animal. Smith did this, but failed
te turn ever the money. This morning
was the time set for the hearing before
Alderman Barr, but when the parties met
at the effice they compromised the case
and Smith paid all the costs.
Anuie Kepler wa3 also arrested en a
charge of larceny as bailee, it being alleged
that bhe disposed of a gossamer which did
net belong te her. She gave bail for a
hearing.
Car j The News Te judge lMUersoe.
West Chester Lecal Newa.
Wm. Aug. Atlee, esq., a member of
the Lancaster county bar, was in West
Chester Thursday en business. Mr. Atlea
will be a strong candidate before tba
Republican convention of Lancaster
county for judge of county courts next
fall. IIe will most probably receive the
nomination, and if se, will be elected by a
big majority.
COLUMBIA MKW8.
rreas Oar Kegvlar Correspondent.
The smallpox has Bade its appearance
here and the people are badly seared in
conaeqnenee. A young girl named Dun
bar is tbe victim, and the case is of the
most malignant form. Hiss Dunbar bad
been living with the parr family of Lan
caster, several members of which have
died of the dreaded disease, and contract
ed it there last week. On Saturday night
she was brought te her home in this place,
en Fifth street, south of Locust, and was
then se ill that her removal was made by
means of a carriage. The ease here was
unknown te the publie for several days
after the victim bad arrived here and it
was then discovered accidentally by the
neighbors. Every possible precaution has
been taken by the authorities te confine it
within its present limits, thus far with
complete success.
reroeaal.
Mrs. W. K. Nelen has returned home
from a visit te Millersville. Her brother
Mr. H. Shearer, of Milten, Pa., is new
her guest at her home en Walnut street.
The Rev. R. W. Searing, of St. Paul's
P. E. church, is visiting New Yerk. Rev.
Mr. Mulhelland, of Lancaster, will oc
cupy the pulpit te-morrow morning and
evening. Mrs! W. H. Herr is visiting her
parents near Pottstown, Pa. James Kis
cadden has returned from a trip te Pitts
burgh. Mr. J. A. Meyers has returned
home from the session of the Pennsylvania
Pharmaceutical association.
Borough Briers.
Market was well attended this morning.
Services will begin at the Presbyterian
church te-morrow evening at 7:15 o'clock.
Pennsylvania castle Ne. 7G, A O. R. of
M. C, meets te night.
Mr. Charles Yeung had part of a finger
taken off yesterday, by a heavy deer eles
ing en it.
Jacob Bewers had his right feet iujured
yesterday by springing from a wageu.
One of the ligatures was brekeu by the
feet turning en a stone.
Seen la Wrlghtsvllle.
The conviet named Robinson, who
escaped with Frankford, from the Chester
county prison, was iu Wrightsville last
Wednesday. He was seen and recognized
by a Mrs. Gosnold, who was acquainted
with him. She was net aware at the time
that he was au escaped prisoner, or hIi.i
would have had him arrested.
some Flyers.
Mr. Hiram G arbor has a splendid stud
of 23 blooded horses ou his farm near Col Cel
umbia. Seme of them are 2:40 trotters,
and all the ethers can score their mile in
three minutes.
IN AKUU.UKNT COL'KT.
Cases Beard and Ilpescd or.
At 10 o'clock tnis moiling the docket
was called and seventeen judgments were
entered.
In the case stated el B. Frank Leniau
vs. the city of Laucastrr, Judge Pattoiseu
announced, without reading the opinion
that the court had decided te outer judg
ment for $50 and costs in favor of the
plaintiff. By this decision the pelice
officers will receive their full pay of $50.
per month.
S. U. Snavcley and ether citizens of
Raphe township, sent te petition the
court, set forth that there are about 200
children in the township of Raphe who
are unable te atteud school for waut of a
sufficient number of i.clioel houses. The
petitioners have befeiu called the attcn
tien of tbe beard of directors te this mat
ter, and have asked them te erect anether
school building. This the directors 10
fused te de. The petitioners new ask for
a citation ou the members of the beard te
show cause why their scats should net ha
declared vacaut and filled by ether men.
The citation was granted.
A charter was granted te the " Lancas
ter County Poultry aud Live Meck associa
tion ;" B. J. McGraun, J. L Lyte, T. B.
Leng, Gee. F. Rathveu, J. A. Steblc,
Chas. E. Leng aud ethers being the incor
porators. Divorces were granted as fellows, the
cause in each being desertion : Gustavcs
Beusz, of this city, from Wilhelmiua
Beusz ; Annie Albright, of Denegal, from
Jehn Albright ; Anuie M. Terhert, of
Columbia, from Nerman Terbert.
Rale Discharged.
This afternoon the rule granted te show
cause why the judgment against Ueengn
Brimmer should net be reconsidered for
the present and for public policy was dis
charged. The Salaries.
Under tbe new law just passed the sala
ries in this county for officers will be as
fellows : District attoruey, $3,000 ; sheriff
$4,000 ; prothenotary, $3,000 ; clerks of
courts, $2,000 ; register, $2,500 ; recorder,
$3,C00 ; treasurer, $3,000 ; county sur
veyor, $150 ; commissioners each, $1,000 ;
auditors, $250 ; solicitor, $500 ; directors
of the peer, $800 ; jury commissioner,
$250 ; coroner, $1,000.
LITTLK LMUAL.1.
Here aud Ttiere and Kverywhere.
The Hayes truck was giveu a satisfac
tery trial at Altick's four-story carriage
factory last evening.
Fiss & Deorr en Friday shipped eighteen
head et heavy Lancaster county horses te
the Eastern markets, and ta day they
shipped fifteen mere.
In the near future Couestega ceuucil
Ne. 22, Jr. O. U. A. M., will held a
reunion picnic, te have a day of enjej incut
in the weeds, charges te hu for only the
actual costs.
At St. Jeseph's festival last evening au
eight day clock was wen by Emma Melz
gar ; a pickle castur by 11. Neimer ; a
Bible by Mamie Reilly ; a satin cushion
by Amelia Draude; wax lilies by Adelph
Kress.
The Weman's Christiau Tomperauce
union thanks everybody who helped te
make Gov. St. Jehn meeting a success,
and will meet iu the First Reformed
church lecture room next Tuesday at
G:30 p. m.
The strawberry festival of Christ choral
society, at Roberts' hall, last night, was
well attended. Tbe ball was tastefully
arranged and the berties, ice cream and
ethor fruits of tip top quality. The
festival closes this evening.
Jeseph Snavely & Ce., the Ohie men,
who will manage a fair te be given iu this
city in the fall, telegraph that the dates of
it will be September 17lh, 18th, 19:h, 20th
aud 21. It will be called -Tku Independ
ent stale fair," and competition will be
open.
The airaugeuieuts committee for thn
high school alumni reunion, ou Wednes
day evening next in the girls' high school
room, has prepared au attractive pro pre
gramme of recitations, music, essays, his
tory and debate. The graduates should
be there iu force.
Michael Maleney, lamp lighter en the
new line of the P. R. R. was en Thursday
morning thrown from a twenty feet ladder
by its giviug way ; one hand aud a finger
were broken and one side badly bruised.
Dr. Muhlenberg is attending him at his
residence, Ne. 340 West James street.
The Taequaa Club.
A meeting of the Tucquan club was
held last night at tbe office of A. C. Reiu Reiu
eehl, esq., secretary of the club. The at
tendance was quite large. July 16th was
fixed for the opening day of thi annual
encampment at Yerk furnace the en
campment te coutiuue for a full week.
Maj. Jere Rohrer, Wm B. Wilsen and
Harry L. Raub weie elected annual mem
bers of the club, and Henry Bauragardper
and Dr. Eegle, of Chester county, were
elected permanent members. Publio re
ception days in camp are te be abolished.