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MONDAY BVENmO, JUNE 25, 1883.
Oat or Joint.
Th Pittsburgh JPbst, a reputable and
journal, J
,.,-oaentativfi Democratic
challenged the accuracy of the Philadel.
phia limes' lmpeacnmeni. ""
son and Cameren are convertible terms,
marking the same low level of political
and administrative dishonesty." The
Times in response says that the Pest is
an organ and the JTVnies is net ; that a
relative of the Pest's editor has a clerk
ship under the state administration and
that no relative of the Times editor has;
that it was a " fatal surrender of Patti-
bed te Pilgrim leadership " when he
made Mr. Cassidy his attorney general
who had aforetime "divided the De
mecracy te help the Cameren machine
te plunder the people, and the Camerons
divided the plunder with Cassidy and
his followers." Hence "dated the
disorganization of the honest Democracy
and the dereat of every measure of re
form that vitally affected the Jlepubli
can bosses."
Suppose it were true that the Pest
stands up for the administration because
there is " a Barr in office" under it and
that the Times, net having "a clerkship
under Pattison," is against him ; and
that Cassidy was a Pilgrim and Patti
son ought net te have appointed him,
what proof or indication is there in
any or all of this that the disorganiza
tion of the honest Democracy has begun
or that the state administration
has been surrendered te Pilgrim
leadership or that anything vital
has been lest or has failed of ac
complishment for which the Democracy
of the state, with the efficient aid of the
Times, battled last fall ? The limes
certainly has net yet produced evidence
of it. The appointment of Mr. Cassidy
and the nomination of ji recorder and of
sealers of weights and measures before
moving for the abolition or these
offices were, we believe, the chief
rocks of offense te the Times, thus
far, in Gov. Pattison's course and the
latter policy he has shown was receui -mended
te him by the editor of the
Times. Even allowing these te have
been errors they de net disclese "a fatal
surrender te Pilgrim leadership," nor a
"disorganization of the honest Democra
cy." On the contrary, they are se abund
antly offset by rare sagacity of admin
istratien, by wise lecommendatiens and
intelligent and fearless exercise of the
veto and ether executive power en the
part of the governor, that the people of
the state generally recognize his honesty
of purpose and intelligent judgment,
and his parly has been greatly strength
ened in public confidence by his official
action. If he has done all this against
the advice of his councellers, he has
proved himself a man of superior wis
dem aud strength of character ; if they
have advised him te it their leadership
has been salutary and net fatal. If the
Times fails te see this it lacks acuteness ;
if it recognizes it and withholds from
the administration the credit it deserves
then it is net honest, and its opinions
will net, command respect and influence.
There may be, as the Times sajs,
Democratic organs in the state which
deem it 1 heir duty te their party leindis
criminalely praise all of (Jey. Pattison V.
acts, whether they actually approve
them or net. The Intelt.tgenxeu is
net one of these. It did net favor Mr.
Cassidy's appointment, and it told why ;
and it never has had occasion te recant .
But it has seen no signs et "Pilgrim
leadership " in the work of the adminis
tration. It lias seen signs of wisdom and
honesty, aud whether the governor was
led te these by or in spite of his cibiuct
advisers it gives him credit for it for the
truth's sake. The Times, en the ether
hand, has simply played the part
of an organ. It set out te
break down the administration and,
in pursuance of that policy; it has per
sistently abused its news columns te
misrepresent the administration, while
it has constantly rung the changes en
" Pilgrim leadership " in the executive
councils, without being able te point te
anything issuing therefrem that is of a
" Pilgrim " taint either in its relation
te public policy or in its tendency te
Cameronize the Democratic party
There may be felt in the party some pri
vate resentment at the administration,
and maybe net without cause, but that
this has extended te or in any degree in
. fluenced party "disorganization" or
arises from a " fatal surreuder " te Pil
grim influences' is net true. And the
Times knows it ; but the Times is niaui
festly out of joint.
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Stfatflag ftr Law.
The Intellieencek, having been
upbraided for its insistance that the
crime of young Nutt in wilfully and de
liberately murdering the man accused of
wronging his family should be tried by
the law, is gratified te c-bserve that a
number of leading newspapers of the
country, which still have some influence
with the law abiding element of our
citizenship, sympathize with its view of
this case and the proper treatment for
it.
The Philadelphia Press finds in the
development of the Louisiana tragedy, a
Jext which points the moral that "when
the man whose guilt is taken for granted
is dead, there is seldom a witness at
hand te prove his innocence and there is
usually little inquiry then into the truth
of the charge. If there were, there is
little doubt but that it would be found
that mere than half the murders com -mitted
in redress of alleged wrongs are
done under a misapprehension of the
real facts. Trial by jury and execution
by the law may be a slew and uncertain
means of redress, but they are infinitely
te be preferred te trial by guess and exe
cutien by the bullet."
The New Yerk Tribune, disclaiming
all sympathy "for such au abject
wretch as Dukes was," corrects the mis
guided public sentiment which would
make the slaying of him anything else
or less than it was" murder, simple
and deliberate ;" and it warns the pee
pie who applaud his deed that " this
sort or thing cannot lie allowed te con
tinue; that they must cheese between
the law and its defects and the pistol and
its terrible possibilities. They cannot
take a middle coarse and abide by the"
law only when its decisions meet their
approval, taking up the pistol te execute,
their wrath when the law toils. The
alarmiuK outbreak of homicides and
lynchings in various parts &t theceuutry
I during the past lew weess ougntre give
thn whole country pause te see whither
we are drifting."
The Cliristian Union thinks that a
miscarriage of justice in Dukes' case is
te be blamed for the savage retribution
of the young man who killed him, but,
nevertheless, unless we are all willing te
drift back into the uncivilized methods
of lawless retribution and irresponsible
punishment, the Christian Union insists
that a sound public opinion shall de
clare that " when a man like young
Nutt usurps the functions" of organized
legal procedure " he places himself out
side the pale of society, surrenders the
privileges which it confers upon him
and stands in the isolated individuality
of the savage."
The New Yerk Independent, mere
positively than any of the ethers, re
bukes the tendency of many people and
newspapers te undermine the founda
tions of social order and precipitate
society into a -state of barbarism, by
justifying the assumption of the indi
vidual, however aggrieved, te be the
law's avenger, and in anticipation of
the threatened acquittal of Nutt be
cause of the claimed miscarriage of
justice in Dukes' case, the Independent
says:
When Pennsylvania justice gets itself
into this predicament, it will cease te be
the justice of civilized society, governed
by law and executing law, and become the
justice of rude and unregulated barbarism.
Law would tnen loose its dignity ana an
its certainty and courts of justice in Penn
sylvania would be little better thau a
mere farce. Upen this theory the forms
and rules of law and all official agency for
its execution might as well be dispensed
with altogether and every roan left te take
care of his own rights and avenge hiB own
wrongs.
What Pennsylvania justice should de in
this case is very plain. Let a grand jury
indict tbe offender for the crime of murder,
since, upon the face of the facts, this is
the crime committed. Let him in due
season be brought te trial for this crime ;
and, if the evidence shows that the crime
has been committed, then let the jury,
sworn te find a verdict according te evi
dence, say se, and bring in a verdict of
guilty. Then let the court pronounce the
sentence whiek the law awards, and, at
the time fixed, let that sentence be carried
into execution. This is the treatment of
the case which becomes a law-abiding and
a law-executing people. If the just do de
mauds of the law failed in the case of
Dukes, that is no reason why they should
fail in the ease of young Nutt. The safety
of society consists in geed laws impar
tially and sternly enforced.
It is a well settled principle of inter
national law that no nation has the
privilege of unloading upon -another its
helpless people. Every government has
the right te resbip te whence they came
idiots, criminals, paupers and ether un
desirable classes who have been trans
ported te its shores as a relief te their
own state. When, therefore, the English
directory of Ireland sends hither, by the
wholesale, the inmates of the poorhouses
in that unfortunate country, the Irish
league is justified in making its pretest,
and the government should bestir itself
te prevent this breach of international
comity.
Tin: postal department, which has been
sevcrely criticised for letting a mail route
te Miner, of Star Reute infamy, has at last
found a technical way te annul it.
Tun romance of Chicago's wenderful
growth is illustrated by the incident that
the scmi-ceutennial of the First Presby
teri.in society in tliat city yesterday was
the celebratien of the eldest Protestant
church organization there.
GevEKKOit Pattison has a watchman
and a page, both Republicans, in the ex ex
ecutive department; Attorney General
Cassidy has a deputy and a clerk, Repub
licans, in his office ; Adjutant General
Guthrie has for chief clerk a Republican,
and two Republicans at the state arsenal,
aud Sscretaay Stenger has a Republicaan
deputy in the state department
Skxatek Coneek's son wanted te be
postmaster in Washington and Frank
II-.it.ten was for him, but Grant and Cenk
iing backed Chief Inspector D. B. Parker,
of the posteffice department, formerly of
Grant's staff, and who, in the latter days
of the war, ergauized an efficient mail dis
tribution iu the Army of the Potomac.
The veteran politicians were entirely tee
powerful for the fresh young meu from
the West. Parker was takeu and Cenger
was left.
Ancnmsiier Weed's successor will be
selected as fellows : Each of the arch
bishops of the United States, upon consul
tatien with the bishops,sends three names
of persons whom he thinks worthy of the
office te the senior bishop of the arch die
cese in this case. Bishop O'Hara. of
Scianteu. & synod of-archbishops is then
called who discuss and vote upon the
merits of the candidates. The three names
are then sent by the senior bishop te the
propeganda at Reme, where the appoint
ment is made by the pope.
BABYHOOD.
All heaven, in every baby born.
All absolute of earthly leaven.
Reveals itself, though man may tcern
All heaven.
Yet man might feel all sin lerel
ren,
AUcriet appeased, all patn outworn,
Uy this one revelation given.
Seul, new target tby burdens born ;
Heart, be thy jevs new seven times seven ;
l.ove shows in light mere bright than morn
All heaven.
A baby's lect, like sua-suells pink.
Might tempt, should -heaven see meet.
An angora lips te UUs, we think,
A baby's feet.
I.Ike rose-liuoil sea flowers toward the heat
They stretch and spread and wink
Their ten soft buds that part and meet.
Ne flower-bells that expand and shrink
U learn halt se heavenly sweet
As shine en life's untredden brink
A baby's feet.
Bwlnoerne.
The Washington newspapers, preachers
and moralists are having a discussion ever
the question of opening en Sunday the
National museum, Smithsonian Institu
tion, Congressional library and similar
institutions at the capital. At present
these places observe the same hears in
opening and closing as the departments,
thereby, it is claimed, debarring all gev
eraatent clerks and empleyes from visiting
the, and this is used in fever of throw
ing open the doers for a few hears en
Sunday.
PERSONAL.
Hen. Henuy Welsh, a leading citizen
and Democrat of Yerk, died yesterday.
Db. W. H. Bradley, of the Wilkes
barre Jiecerd, has disposed of bis control centrol contrel
ing interest in the paper te his associates.
Montgomery Blair is seriously ill at
his summer residence near Silver Springs
Maryland.
Right Rev. Jeseph Radeuacher was
Sunday morning consecrated bishop of the
Reman Catholic diocese of Nashville in
the cathedral in that eity.
President Cattell, of Lafayette col
lege, yesterday announced his retirement
from that position after twenty years ser
vice.
Judge Headley denies the report that
he is dissatisfied with the organization in
Ohie and will withdraw, and Tnurman
declares his hearty support of the ticket.
Bismarck has been suffering from a
violent cold which settled in the stomach.
He has also had an attack of jaundice.
Though improving, he is still confined te
his room.
D. R. Lecke, or "Petroleum V. Nasby,"
tells a Chicago reporter that he has entered
into a contract with a Bosten publishing
firm te make one trip a year for eight
years te foreign countries and te write a
humorous volume for every trip.
R. A. Kinsloe has been succeeded in
the ownership et the Hughesville, Lycom
ing county, Enterprise, by H. H. Rutter.
&Hr. Einslee's retirement was theoceasion
of a complimentary banquet te nim irem
the people of the place, regardless of
party.
Rev. Mulhelland, late rector of the
Yeates' institute, will net leave Lancaster,
but will ODen a soheol here in the fall for
young ladies and gentlemen, and will giva
such special attention te French and ether
accomplishments as te fill a want long felt
here.
Dr. J. S. Ferd, of Hagerstown, Md.,
left $20,000 te his wife and from $200 te
$500 each te all the women, new maids or
widows, whom he courted in his youth.
This romantic remembrance required an
outlay of $.1,000 Twe weeks before his
death he chartered and paid for a special
train for the use of the funeral party.
Louise Michel was convicted by the
jury trying her in Paris, and she was
sentenced te u years imprisonment ana
10 years' police supervision. Of the ether
prisoners charged with rioting and pillage,
Pouget was sonteuced te 8 years' impris
onment and 10 years' police supervision,
and Merct te 1 year's imprisonment.
Henuy Irving would have been knight
ed ere this, but the queen steed in the
read, because she did net knew whether
Mrs. Irvini; was a lady. It seems that
Mrs. Irving is a plain woman, by whom
the actor has had several children and
with whom he does net live but gives his
attention te mother actress, prominent iu
his theatre.
Governer Pattison, Rev. Dr. Ste
phenson, of the Methodist church, and
Dr. Pitcairn, with their wives, will start
next Monday en a two weeks fishing
excursion. Their ultimate destination is
Berwiek, Columbia county, via. Fert Hun
ter, Clark's Ferry and Seliusgreve. The
party will travel in a wagon drawn by
four horses and will carry the necessary
commissary, tents, etc., for camping out.
General Sherman has never forgotten
the correspondents. Iu conversation with
one the ether day he said of Whitelaw
Reid : "He's a treacherous cuss. He can
write mero lies te the column than any
newspaper man in America. He runs like
a scared wolf.teo. At the battle of Shiloh
after the repulse of the first day, he
started te the rear and never stepped
running till he get te Cincinnati. Here
he sent off a let of lies te his paper saying
that our whole army had been defeated
aud cut te pieces, and was astonished
te learn afterward that it was just the
ether way."
Queen Victeria's condition continues
te give her physicians great anxiety. It is
one of mild melancholia. She refuses all
exercise, and declines te forsake the con
tinued s3clusien of her life. At the end of
next month she will return te Balmoral,
and will start for Italy in the autumn.
The quern's relus.il te open the exhibi
tion of Irish laces te be held in Londen
next week has evoked much adverse com
ment. The object of the exhibition is te
promote the revival of the laee trade and
a demand for the jjjtete. Net only the
queen, but the Prnee of Wales, declined.
The Duchess of Connaught has agreed te
open the exhibition.
Twe Mere Vetoes.
Governer Pattison has vetoed the bill
iucreas'nnr the compensation for sheriffs
for bearding prisoners from 25 cents te 50
cents a day en the ground that no occa
sion exists for such an increase ; that the
old amount existed from 1856 until new.
and was, even during the high prices of
the war and since, considered ample com
pensation. He also vetoed the bill empowering
cities, boroughs and incorporated towns
and villages te provide for the support of
disabled firemen. He withholds his ap
proval en the ground that it is a new
style of pension bill; that it is loosely and
imperfectly drawn; that while there is no
doubt of the humane motives of the per
sons who conceived the bill, it is rather a
bitter potion mixed in the charitable cup
it otters by the prevision requiring the
pensioners' name te be published
every six months in the newspapers
with the amount of his dele. The seventh
section of this article of the constitution
en " taxation and finance, " provides that
the General Assembly shall net authorize
any county, city, borough, township or
corperated district te obtain or appropriate
money for or lean its credit te any corpo
ration, association, institution or individ
ual, and this he considers an express
prohibition against the passage of any such
bill. The public spirited citizens may
voluntarily increase their charitable im
pulses te any extent they please, and in
such matters generally will, for there are
no people the 'visible evidences of whose
merciful and humane liability se thickly
abound as these of Pennsylvania ; her
charities and charitable institutions are
among the greatest of her civic glories.
The constitution seems te have been
framed in the belief that there was no
decadence of this benevolent spirit among
our citizens. It may be said that the fact
that this bill provides that it shall only
take effect upon a majority of the
legal voters adopting the provi previ
sions, is an answer te the constitutional
prohibition cited. But this is a mistake ;
every citizen has the right te claim the
protection of the fundamental law, and a
majority cannot take away from a minor
ity the security afforded by the law. The
moneys are sacredly protected by the
constitution from beine annrenriated in
the manner authorized by the bill, and
every man who pays a tax can make this
protection.
Horned te Deatb.
Milferd, Mass., June 25. Four frame
building were burned here last night. The
less is $11,500 ; insurance $8,500.
Capt. Wm. P. Burkes was burned te
death before he could be reached.
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HuUd'i JnieaileBs.
Chicago, June 25. Edward Hanlan,
the oarsman, has deelared his intention of
becoming a resident of this city. He
expresses the hope of beating all previous
records this snmmer and then retire.
LATE INmilGENCB.
RECENT MCWS FKOM MOBN1KO T APCBS
Crimea and CalaaaltlM veac3l7 QeBdeaaed
MbalMtppi Dykes CnmiMed by
Crashing Water tSc Lenl.
The Mississippi river, near St. Leuis,
continued rising en Sunday, but mere
slowly than before. In the lumber dis
trict in the northern section of the city,
large gangs of men are at work en levees
and dykes, te strengthen them, and se far
none of the yards have been flooded.
There are 70,000,000 feet of lumber in
these yards, much of which would be lest
in the event of an overflow. In East St.
Leuis, the business section is still pre
tected by the Bewman dyke, but outside
of that the water which breke through the
Madisen dyke en Saturday is doing great
damage. Early Sunday the water from
the Madisen dyke reached a point above
Venice and made a terrible crevasse in the
Chicago & Alten embankment. About 600
feet of the track disappeared in an instant,
and the gap has been widening ever since.
Parallel with this embankment run the
Indianapolis & St. Leuis & Wabash tracks
and these also went down, cutting off
direct rail communication with the North.
It is reported that five persons were
killed in Sleund township, Livingstone
county, Me., by the recent tornado. About
twelve persens were badly injured. Fol
lowing a terrific thunder storm, a tornado
struck a tract of country neaf Omaha,
Neb., en Saturday morning, causing a
less of property estimated at $10,000. The
people along the path of the tornado,
seeing its approach, saved their lives by
taking refuge in their cellars; "where a
number of families saw their houses
turned about ever their heads."
A telegram from Hamilton, Bermuda,
reports that two seamen of the German
ship Ella, from New Yerk for Bremen,
abandoned at sea, have bsen picked up by
an American vessel and landed at Anjier.
Thevwere iu the captain's baar, which
was run down by the rescuing vessel, and
they are the only survivors of the beat's
crew.
A Terrible shipwreck.
The British passenger vessels Hurunui
and Waitara, belonging te the New Zeal
and shipping company, came into collision
off Portland en Friday night, and the Wai
tara sunk in two minutes. Twenty-five
persons were drowned. The Hurunui
immediately launched her beats, whieh
rescued sixteen parsons struggling In the
waves. Among these was a lady, a-saloon
passenger, te whom a sailor, who was
saved, had given up his life belt. Twe
ether saloon passengers were also saved.
All the second class and steerage pas
sengers were lest. The captain of the
Waitara was dragged aboard the Hurunui
with the aid of ropes. The two vessels
left Londen together en Friday. The
Hurunui struck the Waitara end just
in front of the saloon, en the starboard
side. The survivors state that no crash
was heard, but that the side of the Wai
tara gave way like cardboard. They say
that mere of the passengers might have
been saved had a bark and a steamer,
which were' seen near by, heoded the
Waitara's signals of distress. The Waitara
was an iron ship of 833 tens. She was
built in 18G3 The Hurunui is also au
iron ship.
Various Disasters.
Private advices from Vera Cruz, re
ceived in Galveston, say the yellow fever
is making fearful ravages among the
European and American residents of the
former city. There were ten deaths in tbe
hospital en Friday, making 1,000 during
the last two months. Frederick Steinle, a
railroad empleye, was killed an Saturday
morning in Heading by falling from a coal
train as it was starting. The boiler of an
oil well en the Clapp farm, near Bradford,
burst en Saturday evening, demolishing
the "rig" aud killing the engneer. C.
L. Heywood, superintendent of the gov
ernment quarantine at the Union stock
yards, at Watartewn, Massachusetts,
was killed by an ongiue at a rail
road crossing near that plac3 en Saturday.
Tbe grain olevator of Bassett, Bunting
& Ce., at McGregor, Iowa, was burned en
Saturday morning. Lei3, $75,000. The
Grand Trunk railway station, at Rich
mend, Quebec, was burned en Saturday.
Less, $20,000. Andrew McHale, aged 13,
fell from the carriage te the bottom of the
Enterprise colliery at Wilkesbarre en Sat
urday night, a distance of several hundred
feet, and was mangled in a shock
ing manner. In Pottsville, J. Brennau, a
seven year old son of a widow, foil from
the third story widow of Fergusen's hall
during the progress of a festival, aud was
se badly hurt that he died. While a party
of friend? were visiting Mrs. Hemingway,
at Minersville, the piazza en which they
were seated broke down aud the whele
party was precipitated te the pavement,
some twenty feet below. In the party was
Jehn Reed, ageg five years. Sevcral of the
adults fell en him in their dessant, and ha
was fatally injured.
Crime and Criminals.
At Milwaukoe, before daylight en Sat
urday morning, tbe schooner Lucerne, tbe
barge Goshawk and Voght, were bearded
at their decks by twenty men, supposed
te be anion sailors, who pulled the non
union men from their berths by the hair
of their head and threatened te kill them
if they did net leave town within two
hours. The crew of the Lucoine and two
of the Goshawk's men deserted. Armed
police were afterwards sent en beard the
vessels te protect them.
One hundred and fifty revolutionists
attacked Chiantla, Mexico, and carried off
two officials. A body of cavalry pursued
thorn, and the revolutionists, being pressed
assassinated their prisoners. They were
finally overtaken ey tne troops and cut te
pieces, thirty of them being killed.
Jehn H. Campsen committed suicide in
Charleston, Sonth Carolina, en Saturday
evening, by sheeting himself iu the head.
He was 43 years of age. He had been dis
missed from the position of master of the
Charlestown almshouse for cruelly beating
a child.
Dr. W. T. Crutchfield, 27 years of age,
was fatally stabbed by L. F. Masen, in an
affray in Richmond, Virginia, yesterday,
afternoon. Masen is about 40 years of
age. The trouble grew out of an old feud.
' The dead body of R. S. Palmer, pre
prieter of the City hetel, iu Chicago, was
found in tbe lake en Saturday afternoon.
it is believed ue wai rebbed and murder
ed. A Cbild Attacked by a Uaiue Ceck.
A four-year old child of Frank Thurber,
of Cambridge, Washington county, N. Y.,
was attacked by a game cock and shock
ingly cut. Mr. Thurber was at work at
a neighbor's a mile distant. Mrs. Thur
ber was busy about the house, while the
children were playing ia the barnyard.
She was attracted te the yard by the loud
cries of the little eue3, and found that ene
of the children had been knocked down by
a large game cock, which was striking the
boy about the head with his spurs. The
mother dreve off the game cock and res
cued the boy. The eldest boy was sent for
Mr. Thurber and en his way he met a phy
sician. When the doctor arrived at the
Thurber residence the little sufferer was
nearly dead from fright and exhaustion.
His face was cut in a shocking manner.
The forehead was laid open te the bone in
several places. Tbe game cock struck (the
boy in the left eye, tbe spur entering the
socket between the ball and bone, pene
trating ever an inch. The boy's eye was
put out, but it is thought his wounds will
net result fatally.
A. Weman's Terrible Death.
In Wheeling, W. Va., Mrs. Charity
Brooks and Mrs. Jane Merrisy get into an
altercation ever their rival claims te a man's
affections, and engaged in a souffle en
a perch fifteen feet above the ground.
Mrs. Merrisy, being a Iarge,heavy woman,
Beeseded in-peshiag Mrs. Brooks off the
perch head first, and in that position the
unfortunate woman struck a stake below,
which split her head open, killing her in
stantly. Mrs. Merissy immediately fled.
The police are after her.
THE DUBI.IBTS DlSAFfJSAB.
Knmeri Place Belrne In wrest Virginia and
Elam at Various Points.
Nothing was heard at Richmond, Va.,
en Sunday from Messrs. Beirne and Elam.
It is reported that the former is in West
Virginia awaiting new arrangements for
a hostile meeting. Elam's whereabouts
is net stated; rumor locates him at various
points. When or where the meeting will
take place is mere of a mystery than ever.
That it will occur, however, is net
doubted. Though the excitement of the
past three days has abated, the anxiety
and desire te hear from the parties is still
intense.
On information received that Messrs.
Elam and Beirne were likely te engage in
a duel near Petersburg, Va., T. H.
Thompson, justice of the peace, issued
warrants for their assest. It is thought
the seconds for the parties have arranged
for a hostile meeting, and that if the
principals are net arrested a duel will be
fought in Chesterfield county, about three
miles from Petersburg, te-day.
Ifrlnglne Irish Paepera.
The steamship Furnessia, of the Ancher
line, which arrived in New Yerk yesterday
from Liverpool, brought about 300 peer
Irish whose passage te this country had
been paid by the British government.
These immigrants were subjected te a
rigid examination at Castle Garden, and
it was ascertained that five heads of
families had been inmates of the Karry
county workhouse, while ethers were
without money, and the majority of these
who had friends here had net been sent
for by them. The assisted immigrants en
the Furnessia contrasted very unfavorably
with these who came en the same vessel
but had paid "their own passage. The
former were all warmly elad, but their
clothing was, as a rule, net as geed as
that usually worn by Irish immigrants.
There were few able-bodied young men.
There were no persons who admitted being
ever 70 years of age, but many of the men
and women looked infirm. The majority
of the assisted' immigrants were women
and children. There were some single
women,but the great majority of the adult
females had children with them. Seme of
the people who were comparatively well
dressed stated that their clothing had been
given them by the peer guardians just
befere they left home. The people stated
that they had been supplied with tickets
and drafts by the clerk of the beard of
peer guardians at Cheisiveen, county
Kerry. They were sent from there te
Valencia, where the steamship Furnessia
called aud received them en beard.
OBITUARY.
Death et Michael Zahm.
Michael Zahm, a well-known resident of
this city, died this morning at his home,
Ne. 30 North Prince street, aged 71 years.
He was a son of the late Godfried Zahm,
brushmaker, and was born in this city. He
learned the brushmaking bn3iness with
his father, and after following it for seme
time, learned the watchmaking and jew
elry business with his brother in
law, the late Martin Shreiner, and
opened a store en West King street, where
he remained in business a few years.
About 183G 8, he and the late Geerge
Eichelbarger purchased a collection of
" wax works" and traveled extensively
throughout the United States. Returning
te Lancaster he and Jehn W. Jacksen
bought out the comb, brush and jewel
ry store of the late Jehn ShafTner, adjoin
ing Michael's hotel, North Queen street,
where they carried en a successful busi
ness for many years, finally selling
out te Shriener Brethers. Mr. Zahm was
an intelligent, prudent, sagacious business
man, and accumulated a handseme for
tune, with which he retired several years
age aud which he used liberally but judi
ciously for his ewu enjoyment and the en
joyment of his friends. Fer many years
past- it was his custom te spend his winters
iu Flerida, generally taking with him a
number of his relatives. He made one or
two trips te the Pacific coast, and about
three or four years age made a voyage te
Europe and a tour of the British Isles and
the continent. In politics Mr. Zahm was
a moderate Republican, no never aspired
te office and never held any, we believe,
except a seat in common council for one
or two terms. He was a member of the
Moravian church ; an honest, benevolent
man, whose open handed charities have
many a time and oft made glad the hearts
of the sick, the peer and the ueedy.
Mr. Zahm was for many years a mem
ber of tbe beard of trustees of the Heme
for Frieudless Children, aud, like his
fatber before him, was munificent iu his
donations te that institution and took the
warmest interest in its prosperity. He
was also a member of the Masonic fra
ternity and ene of the founders of tbe
Tucquan club, an organization te which
he was much attached, and in whose an
nual encampments he generally partici
pated. His funeral will take place at 10
o'clock Thursday morning. Interment at
Woodward Hill cemetery.
Death or D. O. Baker's Little Bey.
Daniel G. Baker, a six year old son of
Daniel G. Baker, esq., of this city, died in
Philadelphia en Sunday afternoon. The
little boy accompanied by his mother went
te Philadelphia six weeks age te visit
friends, and was almost immediately
stricken down with scarlet rover. (Jareiul
nursing and medical attendance brought
him through the disease with apparent
safety, but bleed poisoning followed, and
he died as above stated. The remains
were brought te this city Sunday after
noon, and the funeral will take place en
Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
AIUKB OATTLE SUITS.
Air. Hensenlg's Side of the Vase.
With reference te certain suits brought
and ethers likely te be brought against
Levi Senseniz for his alleged failure te
take cattle bought by his authority, Mr.
Sensenig says he has net refused te take
any of the cattle that he contracted te
take. In some instances, ha alleges, that
parties who wero buying for him did net
turn ever all the cattle purchased, but
kept the cheap ones for their own profit,
and in these cases he refused te take the
dear cnes, because his contracts were that
he should have all, cheap and dear, that
the parties purchased during the season.
In the cases referred te in our issue of
last Thursday evening, Henry Baus
man and Jehn Rush, Sensenig says
that Rush Beld him eleven head
of fat cattle in February. . He did
net sce the cattle, but took Mr. Rush's
word that they were fat, and en April
1st paid Rush $200, en account. When
he went te get- them he found them te be
stock cattle, refused te take them, and
brought suit te recover tbe $200 paid
en account. Bailsman's cattle were bought
by Frederick Banker, and when Sensenig
went te get them in April, Bausman said
he had nothing te de with Sensenig, bu".
he had sold them te Banker, who was
geed enough for him, and refused te give
them te Sensenig.
Scheel Entertainment.
The pupils of the primary public schools
te the number of about 1,000 will give a
musical entertainment in Fulton opera
house Tuesday afternoon, te be followed
by another entertainment in the evening
by the pupils of the secondary schools, 500
strong. Beth concerts will be conducted
by the musical instructor, J. B. Kevinaki.
BASE BALL.
IKOMSIDB9 VS. THE HAKVKY F1SHKBS.
A Large Audience and Excellent U
b Geed Playing; Threasbeat The
Lancaster Beys Winners.
Probably the finest game of baseball
ever witnessed in this city took place en
Saturday, between the Harvey Fisher club
of Duncannon and the Ironsides of this
city, en the new grounds of the latter
club. The weather was quite warm, but
it did net prevent a large audience from
being present. Between 500 and GOO peo
ple paid at the gates besides the very large
number of ladies who were present, having
been admitted free, and the persons who
are holders of season tickets. The visit
ing club were offered the cheice of am
pires, but as they had no one with them
te serve they agreed that Alfred Speece,
who is ene of the managers of the Iron
sides, should fill the position. The game
was called at half-past three, the visitors
going te the bat and it was played very
rapidly. Beth nines played remarkably
well and iu the first six innings nene of the
players get farther than third base. Appel,
of the college club, played left field for the
strangers and a lly catch whieh he mada
after a run and a fall in the second inning
was ene of the best plays of the game.
Schiller, who fermerly played with the
Millcrsvilles club, is the pitcher of the
Harvey Fishers ; he played a line game,
delivering a ball very difficult te hit. In
the early part of the game he took a het
liner and shortly afterwards picked up a
grass cutter near first base putting the
runner out. He was well supported by
Fester, the catcher. Zecher, the Iron
sides catcher, covered himself with glory
by his fine playing and the balls that
passed him were very few. Sweitzar, his
pitcher, delivers a strong ball
which the visitors found it difficult
te hit. Iu two innings six of that
team were put out en strikes, Zecher tak
ing every ball. In the seventh inning,
Winters of the Fishers, made a heavy hit
and managed te reach home en errors of
the Ironsides, and geed batting of his own
club. This was the first run scored in the
game,aud the only one made by the visiteis.
The Ironsides failed te soero in this inning.
In the eighth inning, Appel of the Fishers.
made a strong hit aud leacbed third base
en an error. He was left there, however,
as the next three men went out en strikes.
The Ironsides then took the bat and, after
two hands were out, Miles made
a tremendous hit te right field ou
which he made second base. Haidy
knocked a pretty fiy which was muffed by
Barnett, the short step of the visiting
club. Miles get home with the iirst run,
Sweitzer made a heavy hit te right field
and reached seeend base bringing Hardy
home. He get in himself by a bat of
Zecher. That was the last run made, as
the next striker was put out. In the next
inning the visitors were retired in -jue, two,
three order and the Irensides, who were
ahead did net take their last bat. The
score, giving the outs and runs of each man,
was as fellows :
HARVEY
71SUB1E.
lltONSUM'.S.
u e.
Zccher.c 0 3
King. rl. and it)... 0 4
Petter, 3b u '1
Arneld, ct 0 3
Myers, lb. anil rt.. e 3
Davis, it e :
Miles, 2b 1 2
Hardy, S3 1 2
Sweitzer, p 1 2
IS. 11.
Fester, e 0 4
Scbdler,p 0 4
Helten, et) 0 3
Winters, cr 1 .'(
Ellis, lb 0 I
Mailey.ri 0 3
Rarnett, as () 3
Dell. 2b 0 1
Appel, It U 1
1
3 21
J
0 1
x-3
1 2 3 4 ft 0 7 8
Harvey Fislicr e 0 e e e e 1 e
Ironsides 0 e e e u e e 3
Umpire, Altreil Speece.
Errors Ironsides, ft ; Harvey Fislier, 4.
lJase HIt3 Ironstile, 3; Harvey FUlier, 1 .
The enthusiasm during the game was
very great and both clubs were loudly ap
planded for their fine playing. The score
would de credit te any profusstenul club
and better playing is seldom seen. Tiie au
dience was composed largely of prominent
citizens who wero delighted with tbe play
ing as well a3 the oxcellont order, and
Saturday's sport has given the Irensides a
rise in the estimation of the citizeus of
the town. Tiie Fisher'.s were sadly dis
appointed at the result of the game, but
were highly pleajed with tliair treatment
by the players aud the audience. Tiie
umpiring el Mr. bpeesa was lair anu im-
partial. j
Tne Ironsides are uew malting arrange
ments for ether games with fine clubs, and
Sam Fields' new team, from Reading,
which is said te ba very strong, will be
here ou Thursday or Saturday.
On Saturday, in Yerk, the .Stt'dten club
was defeated by tne nome elnu uy tne
score of 22 te a.
ATTEMPTED KAPK.
A Man Violently Assnultn h I.lttieiilrl
Lewis Ivcishbem, a middle-aged Ger
man. who is said te reside somewhere iu
the vicinity of Mountvilie, has been
arrested upon a .serious ciiartre. it is
alleged that en Saturday evening he vie
Icntly assaulted, with the intention of com
mining rape, CeliaSpanglcr, au eight year
old daughter of Jehn Hnangler, who re
side? en Columbia avenue. Tbe man was
seen several times iu tbe vicinity of Mr.
Spanxlcr's house en Saturday. He speke
te several little girls apd asked them te go
into yards with him. In the eveuing he
again appeared at the house of Mr. Span
glcr, whose wife and the children were
sitting eat front. The man asked where
Cenrad Mescr (whose house is en the
ethor side of the avenue) lived, and said
he would like Mrs. Spangler's little cirl
te show him whero the honse was. Net
noticing that tbe man had been drinking
nor suspecting that auything was wrong,
Mrs S. told the little girl te accempauy
him. As the little child did net return
immediately tiie mother went in search
of her. At Meser's she found no ene at
home, and knowing that the family were
relations of Getleib Mctzgar, a few doers
farther up, she went there. When near
the house she called for her little girl, who
ran out of the yard, crying loudly, and
she could scarcely speak. She said that
the man had induced her te go into Metz
gar's yard, none of the family being at
home, and after throwing her upon the
ground attempted te outrage her. The
neise made by her mother in calling
frightened the man, who jumped ever a
fence ; as seen as liberated tbe girl ran te
her mother. She bad been badly choked
by the mau.
Complaint was made against Kershbetn
befere Alderman McGliwi and officers
searched for him for several hours. He
was finally caught at the depot and
locked up for a hearing te morrow after
noon. The prisoner is ever six feet tall
and has sandy whiskers. He is unmarried.
The girl is weak and delicate looking and
she is greatly affected by the fright
-Uorse and Doggy missing'.
On Thursday a stranger called at the
livery stable of James Swain, in Christian
street, and hired a horse, saying that he
desired te go te Conestoga Contre. He
returned iu the afternoon, saying he had
been unable te see the man he went after.
On Friday he again hired a team saying
that he wanted te drive te the northern
part of the county and would return in
the afternoon or by evening at the latest.
Since the time the team was last
hired neither it or the man has
been heard of by Mr. Swain, and it is be
lieved that the team is stolen. The ani
mal taken is a bay mare, 15 hands high,
and G years old ; the buggy has side bar
springs. A reward of $50 for the property
and 825 for the thief is offered.
The Lawyers' Picnic.
The members of the Lancaster bar will
held a private picnic at What Glen park
te morrow. It will continue all day, and
the committee in eharge has prepared a
varied entertainment.
OATKOUO COHHsMATlONS.
A Sele Oeeufen at St. Mary's.
The MerasMut of confirmation was ad
ministered ia 8L Mary's Catholic church
en Sunday ia the presence of an audience
that strained the capacity of that spacious
edifice. The floral decorations of the
altar were strikingly rich and handsome.
Out of respect te the memory of the lata
Archbishop Weed the great organ was
silent, the absence of any music lending
additional solemnity te the occasen. At
the conclusion of the low mass, in whieh
Rev. Dr. MeCullagb, the pastor, officiated,
Rt. Rev. Bishop Shanahan entered from
the vestry,-arrayed in his episcepal robes,
and delivered a brief and feeling address
te tbose who were about te receive the
sacrament. He expressed the hope that
the cenfirmatian that was about te be ad.
ministered would make the recipients
Christians, net in name only, and that the
spirit of the Hely Ghost would abide with
them forever.
The boys, te the number of 52, who
were te be confirmed, were dressed in
black, with white gloves and tics, aud
were ranged en the right side of the nave
of the church, while the girls numbering
84, with white dresses and veils, red
sashes and pink crowns of artificial
flowers, occupied the space re
served te the left. At the conclusion of
the bishop's remarks the applicants
'for continuation precended two by two
within the sanctuary, where kneeling at
the feet of the altar the sacrament was
administered by the bishop, assisted by
Dr. MeCullagb, and Rev. Father Russell,
of Columbia. The whele formed a very
pretty and edifying spectacle. The bless
ing was next given, after whieh folio wed
an exhortation by the bishop te profit by
the graces bestowed ou tbose who worthily
receive the sacrament.
Iu the course of his remarks the lover levor
cud gentleman spoke with manifest emo
tion of the great less which the church
bad suffered in the (loath of the vcnerable
and beloved archbishop of Philadelphia.
The deceased prelate had ever a warm
feeling for the Catholics of Lancaster,
whose chief he was years before the crea
tion of the dioese of Harrisburg. He
asked his auditors te join with him iu
prayers for the eternal repose of his soul,
and the services closed with the reciting of
the " De Prefundis " in memory of the
dead archbishop.
Iu the evening at 7 o'clock benediction
of the blessed sacrament was given, after
which the newly confirmed were iuvosted
with the scapulars of the Blessed Virgin.
MKlUHBUKUtlOtt NttWM.
ISventa Near and Acreiu the County l.liien.
L. C. Matlack, D. D., last year presid
ing elder in the Wilmington M. E. confer
ence, and since stationed at Cambridge,
Md., died of heart disease at midnight
Saturday at that place. He entered the
ministry in 1840, and was about soveuty
years of age.
All the delegates from the Reading dis
trict te the Republican state convention,
te meet in Harrisburg en July 11th, will
support Isaac MoHese for state treasurer.
Mr. McHese is a well-known fire brick
manufacturer of Readiug. He is said te
have the support of Independents as well
as Regulars.
Alan Martin and family, cempri-iug six
persons, of Norristown, were attacked by
violent sickness en Fridry after e.Uiug a
meal. Under medical treatment they ara
in a fair way te recovery. It is supposed
that eating potatoes which had becu
sprinkled with Paris green while growing,
caused the sickness.
Yesterday morning Rev. Milten Valen
tine D. D., president of the Pennsylvania
college, at Gettysburg, delivered the bac
caulaureate sermon te the graduating
class, twenty-five in number. Iu the
evening Rev. W. II. Dunbar, of Lebanon,
Pa., delivered an address before the col cel col
lege of Yeung Men's Christian association.
The exercises of commencement week will
close en Thursday with the senior exhibi
tion and cenfering of degrees.
Alarm r flre.
The alarm of tire en Saturday night
was caused by the spontaneous combus
tion of a barrel filled with reasy rags
that was left standing ou au open carriage
platform connccted with Edgerly & Ce.'s
carriage manufactory. The flames ut
once attracted the attention of the fiiemen
of Ne. 1 company, who are stationed
within a few feet of Edgcrly's shop
They climbed upon the platform,
rolled the burniug barrel of tugs
into the street, and in less than a
rainute the flames wem extinguished. The
only damage done was the blislcriug of a
uuggy-hedy that steed beside the barrel.
In carriage painting the workmen u.se
what tf'ey call "perm ment weed filling,"
an oily material, with which the weed is
coated and then rubbed oil' with ras.
When these rags become two creasy for
further use they ara burned iu the stoe,
in winter time, but in summer ar thrown
into a barrel until it is coiivenieut te cart
them away. Mr. Edgcrly's orders were te
keep the barrel filled with water, but this
precaution appears te Irive been neglected.
Honed the spontaneou ; combustion.
Charged Willi Forgery.
Isaac Scldomridge, residing at the feet
of the Welsh meuutairs, was arrested en
a charge of forgery by Officer Stcinwandel
en Saturday evening. The person making
the complaint is Jacob Usner who lives two
miles below New Helland, and he alleges
that Seldomridge forged his name te a
note for $25. The man was taken, after
he bad given the officer considcrable
trouble. He entered bail bofero Alderman
Barr yesterday and was released. Seldem
ridge was artebtcu before en several
charges of forgery. He was convicted and
sentenced te five years' imprisonment.
After serving three years and six months
he was pardoned, because his eyesight
was failing.
i
The Church Pair Rieter
Isaac Hess, Adam Demmel and Charles
Kautz, the three young men who raised a
row at St. Jeseph's church fair a few even
ings age, had a hearing before Alderman
McConemy, Saturday afternoon, and as
Mr. Cash, whom they assaulted, did net
care te push the charge of assault against
them, they were discharged en payment
of costs amounting te $5.04 each. Had
they behaved themselves, they could have
had lets of fun and feasting at the fair at
much less cost.
The scourge el Diphtheria.
Twe infant children of T. Heward
Patterson, of Little Britain township, died
receutly of diphtheria and the next day
after the death of the latter followed the
death from the same cause of their auut,
Miss Marien, daughter W. W. Hcn.el,
who contracted the fatal disease while
nursing her sister's little ones.
m
Fall or a xteck.
The large boulder of granite suspended
in the flume of tbe Fracenla Notch, in the
White mountains, has fallen. It is sup
posed that a recent tremendous freshet,
which carried down thousands of tens of
rock and earth, undermined the supports
of the boulder.
Postmaster Appointed.
The posteffice at Clonmell, this county,
having been discontinued, and one named
"Cellins," established in its stead, at
Startown, between Kirkwood aud Quarrv-
ville, Hugh M. Cellins has been ap
pointed postmaster at the new office.
Sale or Horses.
Samuel Hess & Sen. auctioneer, sold tit-.
public sale en Saturday last for Jacob S.
b eltz. at Petersburg, this cenntv. 17 hM.l
of Western horses at an average price of
1289 per head.