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THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 1883.
Worse Tliaa Hene.
Thus far the sympathy and support of
the people of the state are entirely with
the Democratic position en the appor
tionment at Harrisburg. The Demo
crats offered te de the fair thing at the
regular session and it was refused ; for
the failure of apportionment then the
Republicans were responsible. The gev
erner then manfully met his duty by
calling the extra session. During its
progress the Democrats have fortified
and strengthened their position, and
have thrown upon the opposition all the
responsibility of its failure thus far by
asking no mere and conceding no less
than an honest, just and true apportion
ment. They are justified before their
party in maintaining this demand" until
the snow comes, "and in exhausting every
constitutional and parliameutary process
tc have it satisfied. In this course they
de their simple duty te the state, whose
constitution they have sworn te support,
te their party and te the governor.
But this does net include in the
slightest degree any such misconception
of their duty as seems te obtain in some
quarters which are supposed te reflect
Democratic sentiment. A few people
seem te be inoculated with the idea that
any conclusion reached en apportion
ment will be a vindication of the gover
nor and his party. Net se. A bad ap
portionment, an unfair and unjust one,
one like or no better than the existing
division of tne state, will be a miscar
riage that will make the extra session
abortive. Such an apportionment could
have been had without it.
The agreement of the conference com
mittees upon a judicial apportionment
bill seems te have been induced mere
by a desire te reach an agreement than
te secure a fair and lawful apportion
ment. This apportionment has net been
the subject of partisan dispute, and the
difficulties in the way of making it have
been local rather than political, though
the Democrats of the Heuse have gener
ally steed up against some special fea
tures of it, which that resolute and clear
headed lawyer, Mr.J. MacDowell Sharpe
has opposed as unconstitutional and im
proper. "We de net observe that these
have been cured by the bill agreed upon
by the conference committee. On gen
eral principles an increase iu the pre
posed unduly large number of judges in
the state is te be viewed with suspicion ;
yet the new apportionment provides for
eighty, au increase of six, notwithstand
ing the additional law judge of North
ampton and one of the present judges in
Schuylkill are dispensed with. Whether
the latter feature is wise, we can hardly
judge, in view of the peculiar conditions
of Schuylkill county, but it has always
been a wonder why Northampton should
have two judges, when Lehigh, Bucks
and Montgomery, neighboring counties,
of about equal or greater population
each get along with one.
The most inexcusable district ap
proved by the conference committee id
that made up of Wyoming and Sullivan
counties, with a population, together, of
23,(571 ; whereas they might easily be
distributed among the ether judicial dis
tricts of that section. Beaver, with
only 39,G0e population, is made a separate
district ; Adams, with 32,455 population,
instead of being joined with Yerk two
judges being ample for the consolidated
district is joined with Fulton, a county
which it does net touch by twenty miles
distance. It is difficult te justify these
features of the bill, and we entertain
grave doubts whether they will be ap
proved by the Democratic Heuse, which
is already en record se emphatically
against some of them.
Our Street Commission.
We desire te mildly suggest that it
ought te be the business of some one
connected with the city government te
see that the streets are kept in geed con
ditieu. We presume that it is no one's
business at this season of the year ; else
some sign of the existence of such an
official would manifest itself. We knew
that this is the season of vacations ; but
we venture te say that a vacation of the
office of street commissioner, and an
abandonment of the supervision of the
street committee for the whole summer,
is a somewhat tee liberal idea of the
proper limits of a holiday en the
part of these lively official people.
We call them lively, because ttiey are
lively sometimes. They are very lively
in the spring, when the frost is just out
of the ground and the time for repairing
pavements is at hand. Then it is the
annual habit of the policemen or some
body te take note of the bad pavements
and report the names of the proper
ty owners who indulge in them
te somebody else. And seen an.
ether somebody we really believe
it is the street commissioner
com manded by the street committee
sends out notices te all the property own
era who enjoy bad pavements that such
luxury is strictly contrary te law, and
that unless they repair their sidewalks
within twenty days.the city will de it for
them and charge them ever se much for
its trouble. The timid citizens, the
law-respecting citizens, and the consci
entious citizens, in variably are in mere or
less of a flutter, according te their tem
peraments, and the bricklayers have a
harvest for awhile ; but the careless cit
izens and the economical citizens, who
de net have the fear of the city before
their eyes, through a long and uninter
rupted experience of the vanity of such
fear, accept their noticed with great
calmness indeed and de net hasten te the
bricklayer. Nene of them have yet seen
fit te cause their sidewalks te Ite repaired
and the city authorities have net seen flt
te repair them for them. The het
weather may be the cause of all this
sluggishness ; for it comes every year
very regularly. If this is the difficulty
there ought te be some remedy found for
it, for really the number of the law
abiding, timid and conscience driven
citizens who in the spring time repair
their sidewalks, as commanded, appears
te be se very limited that if the city
workmen are net encouraged te essay
the work, we will ueed mere than one '
electric light persqerare "lirftne early
future te properly- guide our ioetstepi.
PerLaps a judicious "distribution of ice
cream or soda water tickets among the
empleyes of the street department
would de some geed.
But such mild rewards cannot be ex
pected te discover the street committee
and commissioners. They have probably
flei the town because or the smallpox.
They certainly cannot venture out en
the streets or they would net fail te see
the numerous mounds built up en a great
many of them by the plumbers, and the
water fiends. They appear everywhere.
There never was a time when the streets
of the town were dug up as they have
been this summer ; and never were
they filled in se execrably. The mounds
re up like tumuli. The innocent
visitor from the country, hearing of the
smallpox iu Lancaster, is deceived into
the belief that these plumbers ditches
are graves into which the dead of the
neighboring beuses have been hurriedly
cast. On Orange street, just west of
North Queen, groups of sympathizing
and tender-hearted strangers may Jre
daily observed gazing with, awe
upon a sample mound which
sheets athwart this street, and
bounces these in the vehicles crossing it
almost as high as could be done by the
best of the very remarkably successful
bouncing gutters se liberally placed by
the present astounding street depart
ment at our street crossings. We have
a very high regard for our street com
mittee and its officers. We de net think
they can be matched anywhere. We
would like te join a company te srfKd
them out for exhibition- It would pay
te send them out ; and keep tin m iuf.
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The Democratic Heuse at Harrisburg
passed the Stewart bill yesterday and
sent it te the Semite, where it was
promptly negatived in committee. This
scheme of congressional apportionment
was introduced by Jehn Stewart him
self and is intended te give the Repub
licans seventeen congressmen te eleven
for the Democrats. If the harmonized
Republicans will net take that they will
of course never be offered anything
better. It was a stretch of generosity
and justice te proffer them se much.
The Republican line was, however
broken by the vote of Alex. H. Morgan,
of Philadelphia, for the bill. Like Ster
rett and Lewery he recognizes the in
justice and unreasonableness of his
party's demand.
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Ex Congressman Dezendekk, in a let
ter accepting the chairmanship of the Vir
ginia Republican state central committee,
declares war te the knife against Mahonei
whom he accuses of all the political crimes
iu the calendar. The conscienceless Ro Re Ro
pudiater chieftain, iu turn repudiated by
his Republican allies, bids fair te be- seen
consigned te an oblivion which has been
long deserved.
The language of the constitution with
reference te judicial apportionment is that
' counties containing a population less
than is sufficient te constitute separate
districts (40,000) shall be formed into
convenient single districts, or, if neces
sary, may be attached te contiguous dis
tticts, as the General Assembly may
provide." Adams aud Fulton counties
are of this class, but does any member of
the Legislature pretend te say that a
" convenient " single district can be made
of two counties twenty miles apart and
without tailread communication between
them ?
Steam yachts are becoming mere popu
lar every day with the wealthy classes. In
fact it may be said that te ewu a yacht is
quite the proper caper for the modern
milliouaiie. Seme lever of statistics has
fished out the information that in 18G3
there were only 30 British steam yachts of
an aggregate tonnage of 3,752, while there
are new 40G, and the aggregate tonnage is
51,800. As with many ether costly toys
yacht owners seen, tire of their posses
sions, and are willing after a few tessiugs
en the briny deep, te dispose of them en
extremely moderate terms. Their princi
pal use at present seems te be in acting
as au innocent outlet for the surplus ae
cumulatiens of the menicd men of the
land.
The Chicago Evening Journal in an able
article recently asserted that the present
is no a politically apostelio era, but that
the two great parties of the country are at
issue merely en a questien of spoils, the
Republicans striving te retain control of
the official patronage, while the Demo
crats are straining every nerve te oust
them. Understood in a general sense the
writer's view are net incenect. It is true
that no absorbing thought concentrating
issues new divide parties. The slavery
question is new settled, state sovereignty
is at rest, and both parties seem te regard
the tariff as a two edged sword which it is
net safe te handle. In fact, there is a gen
oral disposition en all sides te give the
new tariff act a fair trial. But te argue
from the fact that there is no one pervad
ing, all absorbing issue agitating the pub
lic mind, that there is no issue whatever
but that of spoils, is an exceedingly
illogical deduction. Retrenchment in
national expenditure and reform in gover
nmental methods are the momentueus
issue en which the next presidential bat
tle will be fought by the Democrats, and
it is a peer prophet that, in the present
enfeebled condition of Republican affairs,
cannot predict the outcome.
A curious remance is unearthed iu the
death of General Ord, of the United
States army, which occurred a few days
age. It appears that in the early part of
the present century the late general's
father was brought te this country from
England by a Catholic priest named James
Ord, presumably his tutor, and placed in
a Catholic college iu Washington, D. C.
The young man having adopted his
tutor's name as time rolled en was or
dained a priest, but never administered
the sacred Amotiens of his office. He
joined the army in 1812, and subsequently
married a Maryland lady, by whom he had
several children, of whom the late genera1
was the eldest. It is new asserted that the
young Levite was a son of Geerge IV.
and 'Mrs. Fitzherbert, te whom the
former was married by a Protestant priest
while prince resent. What lends color
te the story is that the young man while
M college received princely allowances,
though rene could tell their source. In an
action for libel tried in the court or king's
bench in 1812, it was conclusively shown
that hush money had been received by a
former editor of the Morning Pest in con
sideratien of net divulging the facts con
cerning the prince's marriage. Whether
or net the story is correct that the late
general was a grandson of Geerge IV, it
may be asserted without plea of contra
diction that he was a tried and true
soldier.
It is hard for the knight of the pan te
lay aside his armor and bow before the
advance of age, acknowledging his inabili
ty longer te held his own en the journal
istic field. But doubly hard is it for him
who, having built up a successful news
paper from nothing and watched for years
with almost parental solicitude its
gradual growth in the public estimation,
te see the object of his pride pass into
ether hands and himself succeeded as its
controlling head. These reflections are
suggested by the announcement iu the
last issue of the Germantown Telegraph
that Majer Philip R. Freas, its veteran,
editor and proprietor, had severed-his mero
than 50 years' connection with the paper.
Starting in 1830 without friends anil un
known in a new journalistic venture, the
war-worn editor has by clese attention te
business details and unswerving devotion te
principles, reared in his newspaper a mon
ument te himself mero lasting than brass.
As a family newspaper with well selected
reading matter it has especial excellence ;
while the soundness of its agricultural
articles, with which the Intelligencer's
readers are familiar, have made it an au
thority iu the land. With the retirement
of Mr. Freas the paper passes into the
hands of Henry W. Raymond, of New
Yerk, son of the late brilliant founder of
Vie New Yerk Times, under whose man
agement the eld-time vigor and excellence
of the sheet will no doubt be well main
tained. Mr. Freas carries with him into
his retirement the well wishes of his fel
low laborers in the journalistic field.
FEATURES OF THE STATE PRESS.
Progress wants the seashore " season"
extended.
The Pittsburgh Times declares the pub pub
He system of that city te be very defec
tive. Te the Philadelphia Ghrenicle-IIerald
every Democrat iu Pennsylvania appears
te be his own slate maker this year.
A correspondent of the Pittsburgh Pest
brings out Wm. D. Bigler, son of his
father, for a place en the state ticket.
The Williamsperc Sun and Banner is
" heartily aud enthusiastically " in favor
of nominating ex-Democratic Chairman
Begert for state treasurer.
The Moravian turns aside from theologi
cal matters te remark that te dispense
with inside fences would be economy and
au improvement te the landscape.
The Philadelphia Evening Telcgiaph
makes a luckless attempt te be cempli
mentary when it calls Governer Pattison
" a Republican in all except the name."
Brether Weishampel's Torch of Truth
centinues te attack Elder C. H. Ferney
president of Jnndlay college, who, it
declares issues encyclical edicts from his-
''croquet environed Vatican en the hill."
Dr. Gibbens' (Friends) Journal, prints
an article from Themas R. Baker, pre
fosser of physics and chemistry at the
state normal school Millersville, Pennsyl
vania, concerning the presencu of alcohol
iu the bread we eat aud the air we breathe-
But the Journal cannot see any cennec
tien between this and the temperance
questien.
PERSONAL.
Daniel O'Connell's birth place is
te no a " neglected rum."
Mrs. James Stewart and Mrs. Annie
T. McTague and family, of this city, are
at Atlantic (Jity.
Rev. Jeun P. Ferry, pastor of the
Methodist episcepal church at l'atchegue,
Leng Island, fell dead of apoplexy en
Tuesday.
E. R Louden, of Guilferd, Connecticut,
died yesterday at the age of sixtv-five
years. He was judge of probate for 35
years.
President Arthur remained at the
Fifth Avenue hotel, in New Yerk, yester
day. Among ms visitors was General
Hancock.
General Beeth's son, of the salvation
army, is about te marry Miss Charles
worth, the heiress, whose fortune in her
own right is estimated at 10.000.
Chief Justice Dee, of New Hamp.
shire, who will resign his office September
1, after a continuous service of twenty
four years, is only fifty-three years of age.
Siiinichire Sote, a Japanese graduate
of Harvard law school, has resigned an
official position at home te become secre
tary te General Feete, American miuister
te Cerea.
Nerman J. Blackwood, appointed from
this county te the naval eadetship in tbe
United States academy at Annapolis, is
new at Portsmouth, N. H., en the ship
Constellation. He stands Ne. 1 in his
class.
Gen. Stevens yesterday withdi-ew from
the senatorial contest at Concord, N. H.,
and Mr. Patterson requested his friends
te vote for him no mero. This leaves
Gen. Marsten alone of the original Repub
lican candidates.
General Hazen, chief of the signal
service, left Washington yesterday for an
extended tour of inspection in the West.
During his absence his duties as chief
signal officer will be performed by C'apt.
S. M. Mills, of the Fifth artillery.
Rev. Mr. C. F. Knight and Dr. Jehn
L. Atlee, of this city, will be delegates in
the general convention of the P.E. church,
which meets in the church of the Hely
Trinity, 19th and Walnut streets, Phila
delphia, in October.
Longfellow left property the appraised
value of which is $356,320.80. His house
hold effects are estimated at $6,000, his
library at $8,000, his copyrights at $40,
000, ether personal estate at $155,420 -real
estate, $146,900.
Misses Mary and Hannah Martin, for
mer teachers in Lancaster, brilliant young
ladies, and last year engaged in Denver,
Colerado, are at present visiting in Les
Angeles, California, at the home of
Samuel Strohm, seu of Jehn Strohm,
Lancaster. Progress.
Mrs.Langtry told the Philadelphia
reporters at Atlantic City that she caught
blue fish and was going te write a book ;
te the New Yerk reporters she denied it
all ; new it is confirmed, and the reporters
all around have found out that Mrs.
Langtry knows hew te get her name into
the papers the largest number of times.
F.Marien Crawford, the distinguished
novelist of the day, is a tall, blonde young
man of twenty-eight years. He is net
found of society in the general accepta
tion of the term, though Seine a fine mu-
sician and linguist he naturally moves in
a circle both cultivated and fashionable.
At present he is en route for Japan in com
pany with a party of friends.
SUGCESSFUL STEIKEES.
THE AMERICAN KAHD BTAKKB A COM.
PKUJUSK.
jsostnesste be Resumed Te-Day saerchaets
Indignant Over tbe Leum Cacao d
by Delay in Western Union
Services.
JFress.
It was reported early Wednesday after
noon that a compromise bad been effected
between the executive committee of the
brotherhood of telegraphers and the ex
ecutive officers of the American Rapid
telegraph company, and tbe strikers were
jubilant in proportion te the importance
of tbe news. The report was clinched
later en by She following dispatch received
by Manager Peneck from L. A Sherman,
general superintent of the company, sta
tiened at New Yerk :
"At a conference of the executive com
mittee of the Brotherhood of Telegraphers
and the executive committee of the
American Rapid telegraph company held
yesterday afternoon, a satisfactory
adjustment of existing difficulties was
reached, and the ferce will resume work
te day. Ne details of the agreement are
gneu, but the company will make a
supreme effort te handle the great volume
of business new being withheld and will
utilize both the Merse and the automatic
systems te this end, adding largely te its
erigiual ferce from the rands of the
unemployed operators."
The following dispatch was also received
from Jehn Campbell, master workman of
the brotherhood, from New Yerk, and
was read te the strikers, who will obey it :
"Satisfactory arrangements having been
made between the Brotherhood of Tele
graphers of the United States and Canada
aud the American Rapid telegraph com
pany, all racrubers working for that
company will resume work today, July
26."
Werk te be Jiejatned.
Manager Pennock was full of life and
spirits when found last night at the main
American Rapid office, Chestnut and Bank
streets. He said :
"We will start business the first thing
in the morning with forty of au operating
force, taking en fifteen of the best West
ern Union men that drop out. Every one
of our fifteen branch offices will be opened
and at the main office, iu addition te our
old force, we will have six first class West
ern Union operators. We will work two
sets of duplexes and two automatic ma
chines en New Yerk only, which will
equal fourteen wires. Besides, our West
ern and Southern business will be handled
in geed shape. We will be prepared te de
any quantity of business."
The resumption of the American Rapid
will bring back five of their men, who
had engaged with the Merchants' and
Bankers' company. At the office of the
latter corporation it was stated that the
vacancies will be filled te day by racruit
from the ranks of the brotherhood. Later
in the evening a telegram was received
giving the basis of agreement between
the brotherhood and the American Rapid
as fellows :
"An advance of 10 percent, en salaries ;
extra pay for all work done ever eight
hours for day aud seven hours for night
work, and extra pay ler all Suuday
work."
Keuerts or Jay Gould's Actions.
A clean cut example of the extremity te
which rumor may be carried by gossip was
offered yesterday in the currency among
the operators of the stock exchange of a
report that Jay Gould was taking advau
tage of the telegrapher.' strike te force
down Western Union stock and buy ic
nnder-beard at a low figure. This get
abroad in a mysterious way about neon,
and spread like a cholera epidemic. Seme
of the brokers say it was circulated by
Gould's agents te keep the stock up te
normal quotations, aud also declared that
these agents were really en the fleer of the
exchange accomplishing the purpose for
which they were sent. However this may
have been, a considerable quantity of the
Western Union changed hands, and at a
low, though by no means panicky, figure.
Still, the effect of the rumor upon the
dealings in the stock was depressing, and
served te aggravate the feeling of uncer
taiuty which has been gaining greuud for
several Jays past.
The effect of the strike en the business
of the exchange was felt yesterday. The
difficulty in communicating with Chicago
had, in a measure, disappeared, though
there wero frequent annoying delays. The
amount of public business offered was
somewhat in access of that of the previous
day. The real effect of the s,trike has
made itself manifest indirectly by creating
an indisposition te active speculation. Se
far as the brokers are considered, the
large operators without exception have
their own private wire3, and aro.ef couwe,
protected from delays. Here again, how
ever, there is a complaint of a lack of
customers. The latter feel a natural timid
ncss about venturing in speculations in
foreign stocks when the methods of tele
graphic communication are se uncertain,
and all of these causes are joined with the
normal dullness incident te the season.
Heavy Lesses in lluslncss.
Of the exchanges, the oil oxebange ha8
suffeied the most disastrously. Oue of
the most prominent speculators estimates
that the entire amount of business trans
acted yesterday did net exceed $100,000,
as opposed te $600,000 upon ordinary oc
casions. Communication with nearly
every portion of the oil Held has been
desperately uncertain, especially as re
gards Pittsburgh and Oil City. Indeed,
the business of the exchange has beeu
practically suspended. The attendance of
operators was small yesterday. At the
beginning of the strike a half dozen of
the biggest dealers became panicky and
dabbed over.te Oil.City te attend te their
business themselves. Tuny are there yet,
among them Henzell, of Henzell & Fester,
Davis and Murphy. The latter is new in
Titusville. and Fester, his partner, is
home again. Late yesterday afternoon a
call was issued for a meeting of the mem
bers of the oil exchange for te day, te con
sider the strike and its remedies. The
subject will be carefully considered and
seme stirring results may be anticipated.
Telegrams from the city were delayed
yesterday, in some instances, from one te
two hours. One firm, which ordinarily
receives from Western Pennsylvania
seventy telegrams every day, yesterday
get only four.
Telegrams Delayed.
At the commercial exchange business
prespered much as usual. President Shars Shars Shars
woed said that their intercourse had net
seriously suffered. The bidding at the
commercial exchange was net up te the
usual standard. There were annoying
delays in reeeiving telegrams, and espec
ially in communicating with points West.
A meeting of the commercial and maritime
exchanges has been called for te-day te
take official action regarding the strike.
Nene et tbe striking operators at any of
the exchanges have returned te work.
The general effect of the strike upon the
commercial exchange was te put
up quotations slightly. Ne telegrams
were received which had been mailed en
reute: The business of the latter exchange
has suffered en account of the difficulty
and uncertainty of operating en the call
beards. Hancock & Ce., Lawrence,
Jehnsen & Ce., Gill & Fisher and ether
large operators have suffered annoying
delays in tne transmission and reception
of private business telegrams. Jehnsen &
Ce. sent a telegram te Baltimore at 10
a. m., which has net yet been heard
from. The Mutual Union company yes
terday, for the first time for several days,
succeeded in reestablishing prompt
communication with the Chicago com
mercial exchange. The business offered
wan fair, and the situation, in the lan
guage of the general manager, " net near
se serious." Of the "nine .operators who
struck none have returned Commercial
cablegrams have beenmuch delayed. Wm.
Breekie, the commission merchant, at
Frent and Walnut, Peter Wright & Sens,
and ethers say the telegraphic cede has,
in many instances, been misunderstood or
transposed, thereby exposing them te in
conveniences aud, in some cases, te posi
tive less. Peter Wright & Sens received
en Tuesday a telegram from Londen sent
en Monday. The delay subjected them te
considerable less. Telegrams were re
ceived from the West, dated Tuesday.
CharlarlesH. Cummings repotted serious
delays in receiving telegrams. On Tues
day Warner & Merritt telegraphed te Bal
timere for 10,000 pine apples. The tele
gram was sent by the bankers and mer
chants' company net later than 11 a. m.,
and was net delivered in Baltimore until
3 p. m. The same firm sent a telegram te
New Yerk, which was delayed se long as
te deprive them of au expected eharter of
a steamer. Their less in this way has
been considerable.
Senater Jehn Tayler, of Trenten, N. J.,
who was in the city yesterday, said that
he had brought an action against the
Western Union company for $10,000 dam
apes, en account of a telegram which was
delayed three days in going from Bridge
port, Pa., eppDsitH Norristown, te Tren Tren
eon, a distance of about thirty miles, an
average transit of ten miles per day. The
telegram referred te a heavy perk transaction.
A LIB NAILMI.
Judge HeadleyCalla for Fester's calsliyer.
While in the East recantly Gov. Fester
was interviewed te the effect that Hoad Head
ley's nomination for governor had cost him
$50,000, and en this subject quite a corre
spondence has since been carried en, as
fellows :
Cincinnati, July 23, 1883.
lien. Charles Feuler, Columbus, O.:
Is it true, as reported in yesterday's
Cincinnati papers, that you said I admit
ted that I bought the nomination of the
Democratic party, etc. ? I demand the
authority for this statement.and denounce
it as false in whole and iu parts. It is net
the fact, and no such admission was ever
made. Answer.
Geerge Headlet.
Cincinnati, Ohie. July 23, 1883.
Hen. Charles Fester, Columbus, O.
Sir : I sent te you this morning a tele
gram te which I expect a reply upon your
return te Celum bus . Meanwhile I enclose
you from the Commercial Gazette of yes
terday a copy of the interview of which I
made inquiry iu my telegram, and have
marked the passage which is of special
interest te myself. I de net assume until
I hear from you that (his interview fairly
represents you. I only say te you that the
whole statement is a fable from begin
ning te end, and I am entitled te knew
from whom it emanated and upon what
authority it is based. Your opinions you
have a right te held, and I have no right
te complain of them, no matter hew of
fensively they may be expressed, but the
entire statement embraced within pencil
marks is as wicked a falsehood as was ever
stated in print, the only truth in it being
that your friend, Alexander C. Sands, is
also my friend, and that David R. Paij?e
was a warm supporter of my nomination
for governor, and was undoubtedly efficient
in procuring me the nomination, as his
influence with these who knew him is
most deservedly great. Awaiting your
reply by telegraph or letter, I am, very
resdectfully yours,
Geerge Headly.
Columbus. O., July 23. 1883.
Hen. Geerge Headly, Cincinnati, O.:
The governor is net here. He will reply
as seen as he returns.
T. D. MU6SEY.
Tbe Ooverner in Keply.
Columbus, O., July 23, 1883
Hen. Geerge Headly, Cincinnati. O :
I returned te-day and have just received
your dispatch of this date. If the inter
viewer had made me say that it is alleged
that Judge Headly has admitted, etc ,
etc , I would have been correctly report
ed se far as the paragraph te which you
refer is concerned. A gentleman, who
says he had a full talk upon tbe sub
ject with you, teid me what you
said te him, that your nomination cost
you $30,000, and that McLean compelled
you te pay one half of this sum during the
convention. I cannot give his name with
out bis consent. New that the subject is
up, permit me te add that it is notorious
that tbe delegation from Cincinnati te the
Democratic convention openly sold their
votes te candidates, and the price paid
therefer seems te be well understood.
Would it net be well for you te state pub
licly what it cost you te get your nomina
tion, and whether it is true that McLean
made you pay mere than you would have
paid had he kept out of the fight, and if
se, hew much, se that this point relative
te the cost of your nomination may be de
finitely understood ? The " Old Deme
cracy," I am quite sure, would like te be
informed. I suggest this because your
vigorous epithets seem te apply te the
amount stated, and net te the fact that
yeudid net pay anything.
Charles Fester.
Calling for Information.
Cincinnati, July 24, 1883.
Hen. Charles Fester, Columbus, O:
I repeat, the statement is false iu all its
parts. New produce your informant and
let me confront him. Signed,
Geerge Headley.
Fester and Headly.
a. Y. Herald.
We de net think the correspondence be
tween Mr. Headly and Governer Fester,
very creditable te Fester. He allowed
himself te accuse Mr. -Headly of having
bought his nomination. Called te account
for that by Headly, Fester says he "heard"
it, and then adds a gross and gratuitous
insult, but declines te name the person
from whom he says he heard the charge.
Headly does all that a man can de under
such circumstances. He positively denies
what is charged by Fester. The Republi
can leaders in Ohie must feel themselves
sorely pressed when the governor of the
state resorts te such low and base slanders
against the man who may become his suc
cessors. But Governer Fester seems of
late te have taken a distinct step down in
life. He volunteered praise of Star Reute
Brady and sympathy for Dersey en the
conclusion of the Star Reute trial, and it
is evident that he has been keeping low
company and is badly demoralized. In
his better days he would have left such
dirty business as this te men like ox ex
Speaker Eeifer.
Police Vases.
Wm. Tayler, a colored boy aged eleven
years, arrested for indecent behavior, was
sent te jail for five days by Alderman Mo Me
Conomy. Miss Sallie Shaub, who get a set of
teeth from Dr. McCaskey, and after, wear
ing them for some time, and being asked
te pay for them, showed her pretty teeth
by laughing in the doctor's face, was
arrested for false pretense and taken be
fore Alderman Samson. Her " lever," a
married man from thn nnnntrir whnnncr'.if
te have been at home, paid for the teeth
ratner man see bailie go te jail.
Daniel Tammany, arrested for felonious
osBeuib uu Aieerc uaraner, was arrested
yesterday and gave bail for a hearing be
fore Alderman Spurrier en Saturday even
ing next.
NEWS MISCELLANY-
BttUkJUHT MX THJC:aSIRNlNO MAILS.
Tbe Kesains 'of a Day's Occurrence! la all
r Directions Seem Matters of Varied
i Impert.
The aunual sun dance of the Sioux In
dians took plac3 en Tuesday at the camp
near the Rosebud agency in Dakota. Ten
thousand Indians from all parts of the re
servation and a number of white visitors
were present. Fifteen warriors took part
iu the dauce, having prepared themselves
according te custom by lasting lour uays
and frightfully lacerating their bodies. A
strong effort will be made te induce the
government te put a step te their barbar
ous actions.
A reunion of thesurviviving nicmbrrs of
Jehn Morgan's Confederate command is
iu progress at Lexington, Kentucky. The
members are encamped ou a part of the
Clay estate, in tents furnished by the war
department. Among the guests is a
daughter of Mergau. Addresses were
made en Tuesday by Generals Preston,
Duke and Jehn S. Williams, Governer
McCrary and ethers.
The United States ceuit at Little Reck,
Arkansas, yesterday decided the case of
the Texas & St, Leuis railroad company
agaiust Rust and College, granting the
motion of the defendants te dismiss the
receiver and dissolve the injunction or
dering the tells, bridge, &c, te be turned
ever te the parties from whom the re
ceiver took them.
The farmers of the townships bordering
en Lakes Simcoe and Conchenching, in
Ontario, have petitioned the Dominion
government " te take steps te lower the
level of tbe lakes te the normal level and
rescue many farms from ruin which are
new submerged."
Objectieu was yesterday made against
the payment of tbe contractor for renairs
te the unpavud streets, reads and small
bridges aud drains iu the Twenty-second
ward, Philadelphia Tbe city controller
refused te countersign the warrant until
evidence should be produced showing that
the work had beeu done.
The will of the late Henry L. Kendall,
of Providence, Rhede Island, gives $60,000
te the American Unitarian association of
Bosten ; $1,500 te tbe normal and agri
cultural institute of Hampton, Virginia ;
about $27,000 te various local' charities,
and a residuary bequest of $175,000 te the
public library of Providence.
The striking dress and clenk makers in
New Yerk did net lesume work yesterday.
The men say they will net resume until
the demands of theso working for " the
small eutside employers or contractors"
are complied with, and the manufacturers
say they "will make no further conces
sions te the strikers."
It is new intimated that the bend call
te be issued this week will probably in
elude all the outstanding 3 per cents net
yet offered for exchange, amounting te
nearly $31,000,000.
Telephonic communication between Bal
timore and Washington was formally
opened te the public yesterday by the line
of tbe Chesapeake and Potomac telephone
company.
Suicide and Other Unnatural Doings.
J udge Allen delivered the charge te the
jury in the Polk case, at Nashville, Tenu.,
yesterday afternoon. The charge is said
te be unmistakably unfavorable te the
defendant en every count of the indictment.
It was expected that the jury would re
turn a verdiet this morning.
Richard O'Ccuner, a private watchman,
shot and mortally wounded Irtyer Frank,
aged 13, in Chicago, en Tuesday evening.
When arrested, O'Connor gave an excuse
that the boy "was tee near a car contain
ing watermelons."
Frederick Matthews, nephew of Mat
thews, the soda water manufacturer, com
mitted suicide yesteiday, in New Yerk, by
sheeting himself iu the head with a pistol.
Ne cause is assigned.
The house of William II. Sherman, at
Glen s Falls, New Yerk, was entered by
burglars who bound Mr. Sherman and
robbed the heuse of $500 worth of jewelry.
A great eensatien has benn caused at
uerhu by the suicide of Dr. Zuputlitz,
professor of political economy at the
Berlin university.
A charge of defrauding the United
States, by means of forged pension papers
and false personatien, led yesterday, in
Philadelphia, te tbe arrest of Heury Frank
and Geerge W. Kankin. It is charged
that they induced a woman te personate a
Mrs. Carpenter, widow of a soldier in the
late war. and teceived from the pension
ofliee $1,785 07. Beth men were held in
$3,000 bail for a further hearing te-day.
lletaiis el the murder of Maiuuel Vllftun.
Details of tbe killing of Samuel Cliften,
at County Line church, Doely county, Ga.,
show it te have been a sanguinary affair.
In 1851 Cliften had a fight with Sampson
Caseu, in which the latter was severely
worsted. Bad bleed has existed ever
since. Last Sunday the usual congregation
assembled at the county line church, 15
miles east of Vienna, in a sparsely settled
country. The services had net be
gun. A path led from the church
te a spring 50 yards distant. Yeung
couples passed and repassed from the
spring te the church. Cliften started from
the spring te the church, when Casen met
him. When within three feet of his vic
tim Casen raised a knife, and saying
" Sam, you have been talking about me,"
plunged the knile just above Cliften's
left nipple, cutting entirely through
two ribs and leaving open the heart,
which was exposed te view through
an aperture four inches long. Aftci
receiving the blew Cliften stepped
back, drew a knife, made a step toward
his slayer, staggered, and fell dead. Casen
coolly Btepped te the " spring, washed the
bleed from his hands, returned te where
the dead man lay, and, looking at him
said, " that's a damned bad gash." Then,
turning te the minister and congregation
who surrounded him and made no effort
at his arrest, he bade them adieu, mount
ed his horse, and resumed his journey out
of the country. Tbe neighborhood was all
related te him.
Uetewaye Killed.
The report of the death of Cetewaye is
confirmed. Cetewaye was the son of Panda
and the nephew of Cbaka, the Zulu
Napeleon, who in 1812, reorganized the
Zulu nation. As a boy, Chaka formed the
purpose of creating a powerful army and
conquering all Seuth Africa. His scheme
was successful, and sixty nations became
his subjects. In 1828 he was murdered.
Panda, the father of Cttiwaye, who
ruled from 1840 te 1872, was a man of
much administrative ability, who consoli
dated the Zulu natipn and made friends of
the Dutch and English. After Panda's
death Cetewaye was formally crowned by
Sir Theephilus Shepsteae, in the presence
of 10,000 warriors. He acted ai regent
during the closing years of his father's
life. In October, 1876, when the English
governor of Natal sent Cetewaye a re
monstrance against the execution of his
subjects who had refused te obey the
marriage the Zulu monarch return
ed a haughty reply "Why," said
he, "does the governor of Natal speak te
me about my laws? De I go te Natal
and dictate te him about his?" Finally
he was driven into the war in which
his power was broken and his throne
lest. In August, 1879, Cetewaye was
a fugitive in the wilds with a hand
ful of faithful followers, hotly pur
sued by bodies of English and colonial
cavalry under Lord Gilferd and Majer
Marter. On the 28th of that month he
was captured, and en September 15th be
was removed te Cape Town, and remained
in captivity at Castle Barracks for several
years. On August 1, 1883, he arrived in
England. He was a lien in England dur
ing his stay, and was after a few months
tent back te bis kingdom, where he was re
instated with great honor.
" -A CJBvUS ON FlltK
Scenes of Inrcr Among the fanlc-Strlckea
Aadieuca.
Ie Portsmouth. Va.. between four thou
sand and five thousand men, women and
children attended the exhibition of Nathan
& Ce. 'a circus. After tbe performance
bad commenced the wiud began te blew
quite heavily, causing considerable move
ment of tbe canvas. The crowd, however,
remained quiet, although they watched
attentively a large rent which had been
made in the canvas by the wind, and
which was momentarily grewiutr larecr.
the canvas being very old.
A horse was brought en for the use of
one of the bareback performers and his
rider mounted him and attempted te go
en with his part of the porfermauce. but
the horse seemed te be aware of the im
pending danger and refused te stay in the
ring. It was at this juncture that tbe
wind struck the tent with great violence.
teating tbe canvas from the centre pole te
the side curtain and causing many of the
poles te fall. The crowd than became
panic strieken and began te rush for the
entrance in a wild endeavor te escape.
Soen the cry of "Fire!" was heard
above the screams of women and children
and the shouts of men, and tbe panic
stricken crowd became perfectly delirious
with terror. Tbe oil lamps in the ring
bad set the canvas en lire, and it was burn
ing farieusly, but a deluge of raiu com
menced falling and it extinguished the
flames after the tent was about half de
stroyed. Women and children were
knocked down and run ever, fathers and
mothers were separated from their chil
dren and rau about in every direction,
calling en all they met te aid them in
finding their lest ones. A few men only
proved equal te the occasion, aud steed
bravely fighting tbe flames and assisting
the women and children out from ameug
the debris either by tearing or cutting the
canvas.
Te add te the difficulties of escapiug all
who emerged en the side of the tent were
suddenly precipitated into a ditch about
five feet deep, fully grown up with briars.
Here the Iadie3, childreu aud men were
piled in inextricable confusion, and the
females were almost denuded of clothing.
Te add te the terror all tbe fire bells com
menced te ring and the steam whistles te
signal alarms, throwing the city into great
excitement and turning out the whole
population. A great matiy people were
badly hurt and had limbs broken, but no
one was killed outright.
HAMKltALL..
Tbe Uanies lu Lancaster Te-Uy Uaines at
Oilier flnces.
Te day the Hartville's of Philadelphia,
play a mitch game of ball with the Iron
sides. Yesterday the fet mur defeated the
Continentals at. Hartvtlle park, in twelve
innings, by the scete of 11 te 8. The West
Philadelphia beat tbe Five Twenty by 9
te 2. The Dalaware club, of New Yerk,
were defeated by the August Flower, at
Jumbo Park, by a score of 2 1 te 8. The ether
games played yesterday were as fellows :
At New Yerk: Athletic 6, Metropoli
tan 2; Chicage: Philadelphia 2, Chicago
11; Detreit: Detroit 1, New Yerk
0 ; Buffalo : Bosten 9, Buffalo 0 ;
at Cleveland : Provideuce, 8 ; Cleveland, 0;
at Columbus, Ohie : Cincinnati, 8 ; Col
umbus, 1 ; at Brooklyn : Brooklyn, 2 ;
Quicksteps, 1 ; at Reading : Active. 13 ;
Harrisburg, 9 ; at Baltimore : Baltimore,
13 ; Allegheny, 9 ; ac Trenten, N. J. :
Trenten, 2 ; Anthracite, 3 ; at Atlantic
City : Ress, of Caester, 7 ; Atlantic City,
4 ; at Bridgeton, N. J. : Biidgeteu, 10;
Straub, of Philadelphia, 8 ; at Creed raoer
Park (Tacony) : C. Russell, 21 ; II. Clay,
7 ; at Utica, N. Y. : Utica, 8 ; Johnstown,
0 ; at Richmond, Va., (eleven inniugs) :
Newark, 3 ; Virginia, 2.
Metes of the Diamond.
The Harrisburg had their new pitcher
at work yesterday, but at the end of three
innings he was placed iu the field en
account of sickness. He is a tremendous
battery.
The Pottsville Chronicle complains that
the citizens of that town make tee much
of the Anthracite players who are carried
around en their hands aud treated at every
saloon.
Annis of the Anthracite has been sus
pended for two weeks for missing a train.
"Chic," the Anthracites, "Mascette,"
has had his pictures taken and he sells
them en the ground.
The Ironsides club, of Lancaster, does
net seem se auxieus as formerly te dis
cover whether we have or have net a base
ball club in Yerk. Our club might make
it interesting for them if they would come
ever. Yerk Daily. The Ironsides have
all the games they need just new with fine
clubs aud the Yerk niue will receive their
attention in due time if satisfactory terms
can be made. The nine will net go te
Yerk for half the tjate money, as that
town does net have the reputation of
drawiug big crowds and the Lancaster
men are at great expense new for players,
&c.
Yesterday afternoon a game of ball was
played en the old Star grounds, West
Chestnut meet, between the Ge!den
Plew and Waving Lillies, wbia'i resulted
in a victory for the G Idmi P.ew by a
scere of 17 te 13, eleven innings being
played.
The Ironsides greueds have b -en greatly
improved since the last game. Nium feet
additional of sod has bten removed from
around the infield.
FrJKIL,OUS UANOEIflU.
A Ifermsr Lanc44trl4ii' Drlng real.
A telegram from Meutresil states that
Rev. C. E. Weedman, of the New Yerk
Knickerbocker canoe club, has arrived
there safely after running all the rapids of
the St. Lawrence from Cape Vincent down
except Lachine Rapids, lie came through
the Lachine canal. Rev. Father Wood Weod Woed
mau is a Paulist missionary located in
New Yerk and one of tbe most brilliant
orators in tbe Catholic church. He is well
known in this city and his frequently
occupied the pulpit of et. Mary's' church.
His father was for some years superintend
ant of the Fulton cotton mill, this city,
and .new occupies a similar position in
Harrisburg. His brother is a clerk in the
Fulton cotton mill.
The daring feat narrated above was one
of his methods of recreation duriug a va
cation granted en account of ill health.
TUK SMALLI-OX.
Favorable Reports Frent ifealin Officers
The condition of tbe smallpox patients
continues te improve, 'and no new cases
are reported in the city. The two children
William and Emilia Elsasser, who ecsu
pied a room at Ne 428 Maner street, and
who contracted smallpox, are being re
moved te the hospital where the mother
has been nursing ene ether of her children
who was suffering from the disease. The
health of the city was never belter than
at present, tbe streets and alleys never
cleaner, and tbe death rate never
lower. Business of all kinds is rapidly
reviving.
A feneak Thief
A young man, who gives his name as E.
Bndersen, came te town a short time age.
He claimed te be in the button business
and was from Jersey City. He made
friends with a number of young men,
among whom was G. H. Martin, residing
at Duke aud Mifflin street. Mr. Martin
allowed him te sleep in his beuse several
nightB. Yesterday morning Martin went
away from the house, leaving the stranger
there. When he returned he feuLd that
Andersen had skipped, taking with him a
fine dress coat, a shirt, cellar and necktie
and a small amount of money. He left an
old coat behind, and nothing has since
been heard of him.