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IiANCAfeSEIl DAILY INTEIXIGENCTJR MONDAY AUGUST 6. 1883.
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Lancaster fntelUgenrr.
MONDAY EVENING. AUG. 6, 1883.
VaBderblll's Views.
Mr. Vanderbilt sees fit at this time te
communicate with the public. lie has
submitted te be interviewed, or probably,
te state the case mere accurately, we
need te say that he has caused him
self te be interviewed. Evidently Le had
something te say publicly. He desired
te tell the public that business generally
was geed, and in particular that the
business of the railroads in which Mr.
Vanderbilt was interested was particu
larly fine. He had no desire te sell any
part of his interest in them. A few years
age he did net seem te have se geed an
idea of the value of the New 1 erk Cen
tral railroad stock, which he new lauds
highly. He sold a great block of it and
invested the proceeds in government
bends. This was at a time when the
stock was mere highly valued by the
public than it is new. But the peepl
are always apparently possessed of a
wrong idea about the values of Mr.
Vanderbilt's railroads. He engages in
the amiable effort te make their under
standing better. He kindly places at
their disposal the ready tongue of his
spokesman, Chauncey M. Depew, esq ,
who occupies the position of attorney
for Mr. Vanderbilt's railroads, and who
engages in professional exhibitions of
multifarious kinds in their behalf.
When the Legislature is in session he is
busy with'it and its commissioners. In
the vacation season he seems te stay by
his chief at Saratoga, ready te speak for
him. He is ia charge of Mr. Vander
bilt's facts ; and their manipulation,
and the reporter of the associated pres3,
who came te Mr. Vanderbilt for infor
mation, was referred by him te Mr.
Depew, sitting conveniently adjacent,
te get the lead that was appointed te be
flied into the public mind. Mr. Depew
get along swimmingly and easily. If
we could believe what Mr. Depew said
we would all realize that the profitable
business we are new doing had put us in
possession of abundant cash, which it
would be foolish in us te invest in any
thing else but New Yerk Central rail
read stock.
When Mr. Depew's speech about geed
crops, geed business and the geed rail rail
reads of Mr. Vanderbilt had run eut.thc
chief himself came forward with a
declaration in an impressive voice that
it had alwajs been his practice
when he found that he had a geed tiling
te keep it. That, we venture te say, is
a very universal practice, and by no
means unique in Mr. Vanderbilt. But
it was rashly said in view of that sale of
his of Xew Yerk Central stock ; which
Mr. Depew was boosting, and which Mr.
Vanderbilt declared te be newtheveiy
best thing entirely that he knew of. Mr.
Vanderbilt's practice is undoubtedly te
sell a bad thing when lie knows he has
it. He seems te be governed by very
ordinary human impulses. But it would
have been very well if he had explained
why Xew Yeik Central stock was a geed
thing te sell a few years age, and a geed
thing te purchase new ; especially in
view of the fact that he is himself build
ing another thieugh western line in
Pennsylvania, and some ether fellows aie
paralleling his old read in Xew Yerk.
We fear that Mr. Vanderbilt does net
sufficiently realize the fact that the pub
lie are net prepared te take his word as
gospel truth. The fact is, that our ex
perience teaches us te'.believe that when
he talks te the public he does net mean
what he says. It is but a short while
since that he publicly proclaimed that
the " Xickel Plate " read was of no ac
count whatever te him ; and yet a few
weeks afterwards he bought it at a great
preGt te itB builders, who had construct
ed it en purpose te " strike " him for the
profit he get.
Mr. Vanderbilt is a very import at
man because of the great capital he
wields ; and Ins words are worth listen
ing te, even though they need te be read
backwards. Properly understood he
gives notice that he would like te give
someone else an opportunity te make
the fine profit yet te be realized out of
the Xew Yerk Central stock he still
holds.
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What is Cirll Service Beferin l
The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph,
a staunch Republican newspaper, makes
this irank confession for some of its es
teemed party contemporaries :
One of the most amusing features or
contemporary politics is the alacrity with
which nearly ail of our Stalwart contem
poraries jump te the conclusion that the
Democratic war cry of "Turn the rascals
out" refers, as a matter of com Be, te
themselves.
In like manner the resolution of the
Democratic state convention en civil
service reform gives .offense te the same
class of party organs. They can fee
nothing in it except the ejectment and
exclusion from office of their political
friends. The platform declares for
" that genuine and deep reaching civil
service reform which consists in the
election te office of honest, intelligent,
capable and courageous public servants,
who will faithfully administer their
trust and who will be held te strict ac
countability for such a discharge of it,
and who will redeem and purge the de
partmenls of the general government
from the corruption and fraud with
which they have been permeated under
Republican rule, and which the party
has shown itself unable and unwilling te
cure." As an abstract principle and
sound civil service idea it would reason
ably seem that this declaration must
meet the wants and receive the endorse
ment of everybody who desires honest
official administration. Nevertheless, it
is universally received by the Republicans
as a declaration that they must go, a
politer way of saying " turn the rascals
out." Well, if it fits, we cannot help
their putting it en.
The peurile and inconsequential
objection is made that this reso
lution does net apply te offices te
which the incumbents are "appointed."
It is tnie that the Democratic plat
form avows no sympathy with that new
fangled system which professes te deter
mine the qualifications of letter carriers
in cities of a certain size, and of clerks
Of an inferior grade in a few depart
ments by an examination of applicants
upon the location of the creeks in the
Eastern shore of Maryland, and In spell-,
ing the names of extinct tribes of In
dians, an examination which the civil
service commissioners have themselves
been challenged te pass. But the char
acter of men ''appointed" te office de
pends entirely upon the appointing
power, and if fit and proper men are
elected te it as the Democratic plat
form demands and they are held te
strict accountability, the public will
need no further guarantee as te the char
acter of their appointees.
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The surplus annually collected for the
federal treasury from the people of the
country is just about as much as the
internal revenue tax. The latter is
a complicated system, inquisitorial and
oppressive in its operation and sustain
ing a needless army of officeholders.
Whisky and tobacco are proper subjects
for taxation, but let it be levied and
collected by and for the states and the
communities which pay the taxes and
suffer from the use of them. The in
ternal revenue must go. It was a war
measure. The emergency which de
manded it has passed. The tax system
must be simplified. The Democrats of
Pennsylvania are for its abolition. The
Republicans want te retain it, because it
makes places for the officeholders and a
corruption fund for the party. Xever.
thelessit must go.
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Tiiere are nearly four million dollars
lying idle in the state treasury. Xe, it
i3 net idle. The Allegheny Xatienal
bank (Magee's) has $820,838.65 ; Farm
ers' and Mechanics' national bank of
Philadelphia, $822,972.19 ; People's
bank of Philadelphia (Kemble's) has
$427,850.10 ; and Baily'sbank, at Union,
town has $285,000. Millions for the
bosses ; net one dollar for the people.
The Democratic state platform declares -
The long continued abases and spolia spelia spolia
tiien of the state treasury and the defiance
of law by its management make essential
a radieal reform, se that large funds shall
net De accumulated by taxation of the
people te be distributed among the favored
depositories of state officials, but that all
surplus iu excess of the immediate neces
sities of the state government shall be
invested in interest bearingstate or federal
securities until it may be applied te the
extinguishment of the state debt.
And new it tuni3 out that the white
plume of Henry of Navarre was black.
Genuine civil service referm means the
abolition of the useless offices. That is
what the Democrats pf Pennsylvania
favor. It is deeper reaching than new de
vices te provide hew they shall be filled.
It is a consummation devoutly te be
wished that in the fistic encounter in New
Yerk tbii evening, the " Slugger" and
the Maori may simultaneously strike each
ether se hard as te effectually impair their
further usefulness in the prize ring.
A private letter fiem Ohie says : " I
sincerely hope that the Democracy of the
old commonwealth will give the enemy
another severe drubbing this fall. We
will most certainly carry Ohie in October,
Headley will make the most vigorous cam
paign that has taken place for years."
Smith M. Weed, a near friend of Td
den, bitterly resents the imputation that
Mr. Tildcn lacked interest in Hancock's
election. He says that he gave $23,000 te
the national committee mere than any
ether individual except his friends, Bar
num and Wm. L. Scott besides making
many local subscriptions. Mr. Weed is
quite f ure that Mr. Tilden will net run
again.
The widow of Admiral Dalghren, who
has made some social and literary preten
sions in Washington, has ventured upon a
novel in which she essays te sketch the
conditions of politico-social life during a
winter at the national capital. She travels
in the well-worn rut of making coarseness
and sheddyism the prevailing type of pub
lic men and their wives, and in the most
commonplace treatment of this idea does
no credit te herself nor te her country.
The lemarkable article which we
reprint from a Republican newspaper
printed in Chairman Cooper's own county
is a vigorous but truthful arraignment of
buss methods and a fair and manly state
ment of the economies enforced by Deme,
cratic administration of the state depart
ment. If Cooper undertakes te gnaw this
file thrust between his teeth it may
sharpen his teeth but they will make no
impression en the file.
The necessity of legislation of seme
kind en the subject of color blindness is
becoming every day mere apparent. An
eminent physician who has given special
attention te this ophthalmic defect an
nounces that the percentage in which it
exists among males is about four per cent,
while among females it is exceedingly rare.
Among the railroad empleyes of the
United States, about tbiee per cent, nave
bjen found te be affected by color blind
ness. This dangerous defect is net uni
form in all men, some who are blind te
red or gieeu being able te recognize yellow
or blue. The railroads of the country
should fix upon a determinate color stand
ard by which the powers of vision of their
respective empleyes may be accurately
measured. It is a matter of the supreuust
impertance te the public that no man,
incapable of distinguishing danger and
safety signals en the rail, be placed in a
position of trust where the life of a citizen
is invelved.
Tradespeeple, farmers and ethors who
are necessitated te send small sums of
money through the mails will derive par
ticular benefit from the new postal note
for sums less thin five dollars which is te
go into effact October 1. The superiority
of the postal ucte ever the money order
lies in the fact that It is payable te bearer,
and does away with the necessity of in
quiring into the pedigree of paities present.
ing it. in size it is a little larger man a
bank note and contains en the right end
three columns of figures for the dollars
dimes.and cents respectively, and en the
left end a place for the month and the
year. The postmaster, en receipt of
the money make3 the neesssary punches
in the proper columns indicating the
amount of money received and the
time of its reception, signs and
tamps it, when it is ready for transmis
sion. It is payable at any time within
three months from the last dav of the
month of issue, and if lest a duplicate will
net be furnished. The cost of the note is
only three cents, and its utility in saving
tne annoyance always consequent upon
the transmission of small sums bv mail.
while effectually guarding against the.
dishonesty of clerks, is incalculable.
FEATURES OF THE STATE PB&3S.
The Warren Ledger, published fci Maier
Taggart's county, says bis nomination is
hailed with delight tbare.
The Erie EeralU, which v. as for Majer
Walker for auditor genera!, prediets a big
vote up that way for Taggart.
The Reading Newt contrasts Arthur, en
his junketing tour with Pattison at his
desk.
The Easten Express takes issue with the
Philadelphia Recerd's assertion that
Northampton county could get along very
easily with one geed, industrious judge.
The Marietta Register celebrated its 30th
anniversary in last week's issue. Increas
ing years seem te have brought increase of
prosperity.
The Erie Observer observes that " the
soldier element will rally te the support
efCapt. Taggart. His military reoerd
shows that he was as brave in war as he
is modest and pure in private life."
The PittBburg Telegraph calls a splen
didly appointed hotel "an epitome of
civilization, measuring the character of
tne town in wmcu it is established as
surely as geed reads show the advance
ment et the farming regions."
The Delaware county Recerd observes,
n reference te the position of the Rep
ubhean Senate en the apportionment,
that if law makers may with impunity
set at naught the organic law of the state
will it be wondered at if license rules
where law should be supreme and unques
tiened.
The Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald feels
assured that there is a general agreement
" iu the opinion that Jeseph Powell will
run considerably ahead en the Deme
cratic ticket. This is because there will
be a large number of Republicans who
will net care te support William Livesy
tne juagee candidate ler state treasurer."
PERSONAL.
Rev. C. F. Spauldine and wife left for
Watkins te-day.
Postmaster General Pawcett, of
England, is stone blind.
Buchanan invented the terms " leg
rolling " and " boom," as applied te
pentics.
Gee. Alfred Tewn6entj " don't like
Europe as well as America." That settles
it.
DenSEV is described by one of his guests
at dinner, as "a perfect symphony of carv
ing knife and cordiality."
W. S. Gilbert, of " Pinafore " author
ship, is desperately down en cabmen and
organ grinders,
SETn H. Grant, the new controller of
New Yerk, was sworn in Saturday, and en
tired upon his duties.
Ex-Governer Harriman, of New
Hampshire, is se ill that his recovery is
doubtful.
C. Edward Sciinaele, artist of Phila
delphia died yesterday morning in the G3
year of his age.
Henry Villi ard, himselt a Bavarian,
has a whole company of distinguished
Germans coming across te help him open
the Northern i'acitic railroad, te be com
pleted in October.
Kine Oscar, of Swedenand, Norway, is
constantly traveling through his kingdom.
inspecting all the affaire, and no reigning
menarcn in an unristeudem is se well ac
quainted with everything and everybody
in ms dominion as no.
Archbishop Bourget, who is new
completing Ins forty sixth year in charge
of the see of Montreal, is ninety years old
and still strong ana vigorous, we is
the eldest wearer of the mitre in Ame
rica, and has only two seniors in the
world.
Monsignor Capel yesterday preached
his first sermon in this country at the
(Jnurcn or bt J? rancis Aavier, New Yerk,
te a large congregation. The occasion
was the celebration of the feast of St.
Ignatius Leyola, founder of the Society of
Jesus.
uev. j. x. Mitchell, v. u., alter an
absence of a month, has returned te the
pulpit and pastoral labors of his (Presby
terian) congregation in this eitv. He
traveled 3,000 miles during his vacation
and preached tour times, including a snr
men before the Winnebago presbytery.
Oscar Wilde's lectures develop the fact
that he is almost as peer in adjectives as
tne vessar college girl, it is said he used
"lovely" forty-three times, "beautiful"
twenty six times, " charming" seventeen
times and ' handsome" once. Hew often
he made use of a capital "I " it would be
difficult te say.
TnACKERAY is made te tell the story of
the birth of "Vanity Fair." "I was
ransacking my head," he says, " for a
title for my novel, when it came upon me
unawares in the middle of the night, as if
a voiee had whispered, 'Vanity Fair! ' I
jumped out of bed and ran three times
round the room shouting out ' Vanity
Fair !' Vanity Fair 1' "
Queen Victeria is very angry with the
Duke of Teok en account of the scandal
brought upon the royal family by having
his household effects sold out by the
sheriff. Such was the real character of
the late auction in Kensington palace, at
which a number of distinguished people
had the pleasure of seeing under the
hammer the presents which they had made
te her royal highness, the Princes Mary of
Cambridge, when she was married.
Langtht will remain in Londen for a
short time ; then she will go te Sandring
ham te see her very particular and valua
ble friend, the Prince of Wales. Her stay
will be prolonged as far as the rules whieh
govern matters of this kind will permit,
unless the princess should suddenly lese
her geed nature and ohjeet. After leaving
Sandringbam Mrs. Langtry will make an
extended tour of the great country man
sions, her appearance as a guest of royalty
being a signal te these who fellow its wake
te invite her and heighten the attractive
ness of their entertainments by the pre
sence of a court favorite.
Andrew Carnegie, the rich Pittsburg
manufacturers, who seeks te ride into
literary fame by his book, called " An
American Four-in-Hand in Britain," met
Gladstone en the tour which his book
describes and was se impressed that he
could nor refrain from applying te him
these lines from Milten :
TOltl.
Aspect be rose, and In Ills rising scem'd
jx jiiiuu ui duiwj ; uccp uii ma irem engraven
uQiiuQiuiivu cut tuiu puuiiu core ;
And princely counsel In his face yet shone.
Majestic though In ruin.
" Why we laugh " is that tbeEe lines weie
written by Milten te describe Beelsebub as
he rises iu the councils of Pandemonium.
Printers' Picnic.
Te-day the Lancaster typographical
union Ne. 70 are holding a picnic at
Recky Springs, which is being well at-
TO"UCU- I
CBIME'S CALENDAR
TUl. OKIMSOX TIDE OF JTATAZ.XTIES.
Where, Accutane lind Crime Celgneii Cen
densed Budget el Mews ny Mai:
Frem Many Points.
Mary Joyce, a member of the Salvation
Army, was arrested in Trenten, N. J., en
Saturday night for singing in the streets.
Policeman Jehn C. Wall shot a rough in
self-defense in Chicago en Friday night.
The sheeting seemed te weigh upon his
mind and he committed suicide. Themas
McCenald killed himself in Newark, New
Jersey, by swallowing pans green. He
was snffenng from a prolonged spree. G.
W. Karns, en the way from Kansas City
te his home in Venango county, Pa., shot
himself dead en an express train near
Pittsbnrg. It is supposed he was insane.
Mrs. Mary E. Hughes, of St. Leuis,
committed suicide in Baltimore by taking
laudanum. It is said that separation
from her husband caused the deed.
Andrew C. Smith, for many years a door
keeper at the White Heuse in Washington,
shot himself and is net expected te
recover. He was discharged from the
posteffico department ever a month age,
and took te drinking. A man named
Barker, living en Hurricane Creek, in
Arkansas, killed his daughter because she
premised te marry a certain man against
her father's wishes. The father was
lynched by his neighbors in bis front yard.
Emanuel Fex was shot dead by Deputy
Sheriff Mannix. in Fert Wayne, Indiana,
because en being captured before escap
ing from jail he tried te escape again.
A man named Strunk was killed by an
other man named Resser, in a quarrel
about Berne tan bark at Chatham, Tennes
see. Resser escaped. Thcephilus Abare
was found dying in his bed near Pern, in
Clinten county, N. Y., with three knife
wounds in his neck. His wife has fled and
it is believed she committed the deed
while insane from jealousy. Twe
colored girls, aged 8 aud 12 years re
spectively, were left alone by their mother
in a cabin, near Lexington, Kentucky.
When the mother returned she found the
cabin in ashes and the remains of the
younger child in it. The elder girl had
disappeared. Christian Cerdes and Gee.
Meyer, ten year old boys, quarrelled in
Brooklyn, and Cerdes stabbed Meyer in
the side with a knife, inflicting a serious
wound. Wilsen Kelby, aged 14, living in
Beverly, N. J., was run ever and killed en
the Camden and Ambey railroad near
Edgewater. James Snell, a seven year
old child, died from internal hemorrhage
resulting either from a blew with a brick
thrown by a playmate, or from a fall upon
a deer scraper. Jasper Carter, colored,
was killed by trying te get en a moving
train at St. Geerge's station near Balti
more. The Ways or the Dishonest.
A telegram from Buffalo reports that
Jehn Feenry, claiming te be an Irish
patriot, and who has been imposing upon
leading Irishmen in that city, has been
exposed through a letter from the office
of the chief secretary for Ireland, in
Dublin, " as ene of the rankest of im im
poseors." ' Feensy claimed te have been
incarcerated in Kilmainham jail, and te
have suffered cruel tortures. Anether
portion of the story wa3 that he had been
often ed five hundred pounds te testify for
the British government in the recent mur
der trials. It turns out that he was
' assisted ' te Canada as an immigrant
pauper, and that he never was in Kilmain
ham jail."
Charles Ferd, ai rested iu Kansas City
for complicity in the Blue Cut train
robbery, has been released en $5,000 bail.
Chauncey Carpenter, a saw mill owner
of Victeria, British Columbia, is reported
te have absconded, leaving debts te the
amount of $40,000.
Richard Lindsay, his son Themas, Ellis
Rheder, Mace Jenes and William Webb,
members of gang of railroad thieves, were
arrested yesterday morning in Brooklyn,
Illinois. They are all colored. Nine
ethors of the gang had been captured be
fore, aud it is expected the rest, seven iu
number, will be arrested in a few days.
TIIR. NEOKO'S UKL.1UXOM.
The Pressing Need or Missionaries in
the
bentli.
New Yeik Times.
The religion of the colored people of the
Seuth differs widely from the Christian
religion as it exists among white people.
When a clergyman at the last meeting of
the church cengress pointed out the fact
that colored Christianity has little or no
connection with morality, he was accused
of slandering the colored people ; but the
sienes at the recent hanging of the negre
murderer Lee at Richmond, Va , furnish
a curious illustration of the fact that the
religion of the Southern blacks is little
else than a mere sensual excitement, hav
ing no mere coanectieu with morality
than has hysteria.
Lee, with the help of a married ncgiess,
brutally murdered her husband. After
their arrest both of the culprits " get re
ligien," and thereupon made a confession ;
each alleged, however, that the ether was
the real criminal, and claimed only te be
accessory te the crime. Lea was prepared
for death by three coleied preachers,
whose method of preparation consisted in
baptizing the man in a bath-tub in the
jail yard and in Bingiug hymnB. On the
morning of the execution a prayer
meeting was held in the murderer's cell,
te which about twenty-five negre visi
tors were admitted, who appear te
have enjoyed it rather mero than
they would have enjoyed an ordinary
campmceting. The three colored preach
ers escorted Lee te the scaffold, where
one of them informed the cheerful colored
crowd assembled te witness the execution
that "everyone of them steed a chance" of
similarly coming te the gallows, and that
in the circumstances he did " net see any
thing te frolic about" a remark that
must have surprised his audience. An An
other preacher requested Lee te leek out
Ter him in the kingdom of heaven, for "he
was coming sure." The assurance that
there was "a crown of righteousness laid
up" for the murderer was kindly given te
him, and after the prolonged singing of
mere hymns tLe peer wretch met his
death in a state of excitement regarded by
the ethor negrccs as the highest evidence
of his sincere piety.
That Lee repented of his crime, or that
had he been pardoned he would have
avoided adultery and murder as pursuits
unworthy of a religious man, there is net
the slightest evidence. The colored preach
ers tickled his vanity by making him the
central figure of a baptism in public and of
an uproarious prayer meeting ;-and they
brought him te a state of wild excitement
by their hymn singing. Judged by the
standard of the Southern colored preacher,
Lee was a thoroughly religious man, for he
sanghyms with fervor and flapped his
armBas if they were wings, while express
ing a determination te fly te heaven.
There is nothing strange in the fact that
the negre, whether a preacher or a mere
" professor," can fancv himself sum nf
heaven, although daily violating half .of
the ten commandments. Lying, stealing
and adultery are net inconsistent with his
religion, for he can sing hymns and flap
his arms as vigorously after stealing his
neighbor's chickens or committing some
grave crime as he could the very hour
when he "get religion."
Hew far the white people are respensi
ble for the negre's wretched caricuture of
Christianity is a seriens question. By en en
ceuraging the negre te form "churches"
of his own, they have unintentionally but
directly encouraged the growth of a dis dis
tinet negre religieD. When the gross
ignorance of the colored preachers is re
membered it is net strange that the peer
people who leek up ;te them as spiritual
guides should be ignorant that Christian
ity and morality are inseparable. Te ez
pect the negrees te have any clear oeucep
tionef morality while living under the
spiritual care of men like tin three negre
preachers who " prepared" Lee for death
is entirely irrational. The Southern
negre is evidently as much in need of
Christian missionaries as is the negre in
Africa.
TBAGBUY IU ALASKA.
Bloody Affray Between White Men and In
dians Murders ana Lynching.
The steamer Eureka from the North
brings news of a horrible tragedy at the
Dakan mine, near Harrisburg, Alaska.
Twe whisky sellers named Rennie and
Martin get drunk and unconsciously ex
changed cabins during the night. Indians
broke into Martin's cabin, where Rennie
was sleeping and stele a bottle of whisky.
As seen as the fact was discovered the
whisky men started after the Indians, and
in a fight with them Rennie was killed.
The citizens in force then arrested three of
the Indians, confining them in the guard
house.
During the temporary absence of the
guard the Indians procured a pistol, shoot sheet
ing the former en bis return. They then
fled. The report of the pistol awoke Majer
Givens, formerly of the United States
army, who rushed te the rescue and was
shot down wounded. The Indians then
took an axe and haeked his head te
pieces, when they attempted te make geed
their escape, but a number of miners who
had reached the scene shot one of them
down and arrested another. The third
escaped. The infuriated citizens consti
tuted themselves a jury and hanged the
captured Indian en the spot. The next
day Colonel Barry ordered the Indian
chiefs te produce the escaped Indian, and
he was quiekly delivered up and promptly
hanged.
San Francisce' HllUenalres.
San Francisce has a long list of abnor
mally rich men. There are mere million
aire fortunes in San Francisce than in any
ether American city, and, we presume,
mero than in any European city of cor
responding population, unless it may
be Amsterdam or Frankfort. It is
a curious fact, and without one exception,
that none spring from the wealthy class,
nearly every one from the very poorest
class and that only one brought any money
te San Francisce. Only one is the
graduate of a learned university ; only
seven were educated te any profession,
and all of these lawyers. Se far as can be
learned there is net a preacher or
doctor or graduate of West Point in the
let. Twenty of the list were, in their
youth, of the uneducated, barefoot class,
whose early struggles were unaided by
relatives or friends. Forty-nine of the
millionaires are American by birth, eigh
teen are Irish, eight are Jews, five are
German, four are English and ene
French. Se far as is known, only three
were born south of Masen and Dixen's
line, and of these neither was from a slave
owning family. Only seven have ever hejid
political position, there being one governor,
three United States senators, a member of
Congress and two members of assem
bly in the list. Outside of the
Reman Catholic church and the syna
gegue, but ene is member of church or
professor of religion. Te four of these
men there is accredited $40,000,000 each.
Five will range from $20,000,C00 te $30,
000,000 ; two te $10,000,000 and five te
$5,000,000 each, thus giving te sixteen
persons ever $300,000,000, and te the re
mainder, say, $150,000,000.
He More Klectlen Vacations.
It has been the custom in the treasury,
as in the ether departments of the govern
ment, te permit every clerk, in addition
te his thirty days' annual vacation, :i
loavejof absence of fifteen days te go home
and take part in the campaign and
eleotien. This system operated te give
every man who lived in October states
double election leaves, or about sixty days
out of every presidential year. Secretary
Felger has new ordered that the leave
of absence, with pay, of empleyes
of the department shall be limited
te thirty days in each year, except
in case et sickness Hereafter every
empleye who wants te leave his
desk te carry elections will have
te go ac nis own expense, witneu: pay, erj
iiuve me time tnus taacn ucauctea irem
the time due him en his regular leave. Ne
action has been taken in the matter by the
heads of the ether departments yet, but it
is thought that they will concur in the
construction made by Secretary Felger of
the law, which is as fellows :
" All absence from the departments en
the part of clerks in excess of such lea e
of absence as may be granted, which shall
net exceed thirty days in any one year,
except in case of siekness, shall be without
pay."
What He Didn't Eche.
The Irish are very happy in their con
versational tact and the art of repartee.
When an Irishman makes a blunder he
generally makes a geed joke, and recom
penses the error by the sly humor it con
veys. Their satire, however, is superior te
their mirth. French may be the language
of love, was once well observed, English
br business, but Irish is the language of
expression. There is no ether language,
German net excepted, that expresses se
much meaning in a few words. The Irish
endeavor te translate this capacity into
English and te supply with dramatic
effect the deficiency of expression.
An aneodeto of a Galway gentle
man will serve as an illustration.
He entered a coffee house in Londen and
called for tea ; the brogue attracted the
attention of a scented civilian in an op
posite box, who, relying upon his superior
accent, resolved te have a jest at the ex
pense of the stranger. Se he called for
tea tee ; the Irishman called for muffins,
se did the civilian ; toast, milk, sugar,
&c, were severally called for by the Irish
man and as severally echoed by the fop,
who enjoyed in his corner the supposed
embarrassment te which he was subject
ing the Galway man. At last, with the
greatest oemposuro, and, if possible, in a
richer brogue, the Irishman desired the
waiter te " bring up pistols for two." The
jester's echo was silent.
A repular Candidate. .
Philadelphia Recerd, lnd.
The nomination of ex-Congressman
Powell for state treasurer is a source of
great satisfaction among his friends in the
Northern tier counties. He is a popular
man in his section, and when the day for
voting comes it will be found that his pop
ularity is byce means coincident with party
lines. It is usually bad political strategy
te select candidates or te de campaigning
en ground where the enemy has an undis
puted possession, but Mr. Powell has dem
onstrated that men may rise superior te
their surroundings, and it may be possible
that the people of the Connecticut reserve
are prepared te swing back again politi
cally te their old allegiance.
A Question of Pnnctaatles.
Mr. Story, the sculptor, who .began
active life as a lawyer, tells a geed story
which illustrates the fact that the empha
sis which punctuates has much te de with
determining the sentence as the meaning
of the words. Once when he was called
upon te defend a woman accused of mur
dering her husband, he adduced as one of
the proofs of innocence the feet of her
having attended him en his death bed, and
said te him when he was dying. "Geed
bye Geerge." The counsel for the plain
tiff declared this ought rather.be taken as
a proof of her guilt, and that the words
she had used were "Geed by Geerge."
BASEBALL
THE UUXE VLUU AO&IX A WIMNKK.
The Ironsides Win Their Fourth Sncce'slve
iame The-Mantua Club comes
Strengthened, But Gets Left.
The Ironsides basebali club, of this city,
has defeated four .of the leading amateur
clubs of Philadelphia this season. The
last one beaten was the Mantuas, who
took their dose by the score of 3 te 1, en
Saturday afternoon. On the 12th of July
the Mantua club visited this city and de
feated the Ironsides. Ever since that
time the home team has been
anxious te meet them, and success
fully did se en Saturday. The Mantua
club is net in the best of condition, but
they have been able te retain their
p.ayers, who rank with the best in Phila
delphia. On Saturday they came here
stronger by far than upon their previous
visit, as they bad a new pitcher, catcher
and shortstop, who were secured especially
for this occasion. The Philadelphia men
were very anxious te win here, for the rea
son that they were successful before and
because the Hartvilles, . who were the
champions of Philadelphia, were defeated
here but a short time age. The Ironsides
were prepared for the meeting and had a
strong nine in the field. Hofferd and
Sixsmith were the battery ; Fester, late of
the Uunsannen club, who has been engaged
here, covered second base, with House House
eolder at third and Sweitzer in right field.
The largest audience of the season was
present te see the game, and it numbered
ever 1,200. Game was called at 4 o'clock
by Geerge Myers, who officiated as um
pire. Zeeher was unlucky and lest the
toss, putting the visitors te the field.
Zecber opened the ball for the Ironsides by
knocking a short ball en, which he was
thrown out at first. Hofferd made a geed
hit which the third baseman failed te get
and he reached first, easily stealing
te second ; he reached third by an over over
theow te second. Sweitzer went out en
fatrikes ; Househelder's fly was muffed by
centre fielder, and Hofferd scored the first
run. Schiller's ball was picked up by the
short-step, who threw it te second, where
it was muffed, and Househelder was safe.
Kelly took his base en balls, putting the
ether two men around, and a geed hit by
Peffer brought Househelder in. Fester
wound up the inning by going out en a
short fly. Miller was first te the bat for
the visitors. His ball was a hard one te
Zecher, but the latter made a fine step and
get it te first in time te put him out.
Streper went out en strikes and Olmstead
en a ny te Househelder.
In the second inning Sixsmith went out
en a fly ; Zecher at first and Hofferd at
third. The Mantuas then took up the bat
and succeeded in scoring one run. Om
stead went out en a foul and Bradley stele
te second; Clemmensmade a big hit which
passed Peffer in centre field. He seen bad
the ball, however and made a fine threw
te home ; Sixsmith muffed the ball and
could net recover it in time te prevent
Bradley from scoring the first and only
run during the game for his elub, as
Heffmaster and Latta went out en fine
catches of fouls by Sixsmith.
Ne mere runs were scored by the home
team until the sixth inning, when Kelly was
first te the bat and went out enstrike3.
Peffer made a big bit and reached first, he
was followed by Fester with another ; the
shortstop secured the ball, but made an
overthrew te first, enabling Peffer te get
te third and Fester te second. Peffer at
tempted te come in en Sixsmith's geed
hit but was put out near the home plate.
Fester scored en a passed ball of the
catcher and Zecher went out at first. Dur
ing the next three innings both sides were
blanked, beautiful fielding being done
and the scere was left 3 te 1 at the end.
This game was one of the best ever
played here, and it will be seen by the
score that the home team bad but one
error, which was made by Sixsmith
in muffing a ball. This was very unfortu unfertu unfortu
nate for him, as he played a remarkable
game behind the bat, his throwing te
second being very geed. The nine played
unusually well and astonished
the Philadelphias by their quick
mevements and thorough knowledge
of the game. Geed ball is being
played when a club bas but one error,and
should the Ironsides continue in the work
they will be able te compete successfully
with any amateur club in the state. The
Mantuas had a fine battery. The pitcher,
who was billed as James Latta, is a
man with a wooden leg, who throws a
ball very difficult te hit, and Clemmens is
an unusually line catcher. The ether
members of the nine played well, but
made some ugly errors, which lest them
the game. The cemplete score is as fol fel
lows :
IRONSIDES. T It IB
Zecher, 8 s 5 0 e
Hotterd, p 5 1 1
Sweitzer. r.l ! e
Househelder, 3b 5 1 1
Schiller, lb 4 it 0
Kelly, 1 1 4 e e
Peffer, cf. 4 0 1
Fester, 2b 4 1 0
Sixsmith, c 4 0 1
A
4
S
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
Total 40 .1 4 27 13 I
MANTUAS.
Miller 4 e 2 S
Streeper,3b 4 e 2
Grever, 2b 4 0 0 3
Oimstead.li 4 e l 2
Bradley, r. f 3 I e 0
Clemmens, c 3 0 1 11
Hoffmaster, c 1 S 0 0 0
.Latta, p i i e 1
Deveney, ss 3 OlO
1 a
3 4
2 1
O 0
0 0
2 2
0 1
n 2
2 1
Total 31
imriKes.
12 3
27 15 II
9
03
e-i
Ironsides 2 O e
Mantua 0 1 0
Umpire Gee. Myers.
Time et Game 1 hour, 30 minutes.
a uoea Recerd.
The Ironsides have a geed record up te
the present time. They have played four
teen games, winnieg nine. Their record is
as fellows :
GAMES. WOTT.
May 14... ....College, 4 :
Jane hi.... " 3;
23 H. FIsner.l;
July 14 If lve-Twenty. 8 ;
" 2G Hartvllle, 6 :
" 23 National, 3;
Aug. 1 Hunter, G ;
' 4 Mantua, 1 ;
GAMES LOST.
July 3 Anthracite, at Potts-
vllle. 12 ;
" 4 H.Fisher,12;
" II Mantua, 10;
" 14 Anthracite, 7 ;
" 23 Harrisburg, 26 ;
Ironsides, 13.
11.
3.
14.
17.
7.
" 29.
12.
3.
" 0.
7.
7.
2.
4.
Three et the games that were lest were with
inter state clubs 2 with the Anthracite and 1
with the Harrisburg.
Anether Game.
On Saturday afternoon en the college
grounds a game was played between the
watch factory nine and Billy Snyder's
cigar store club. Owing te the fact that
the Ironsides were playing at the same
time the crowd te see this game was net as
large as it otherwise would have been
About one hundred saw it however, and the
score giving the outs and runs of each
player is as fellows
WATCH FACrORT. O.K.
Ultner, c... ....... 3 1
Snyder, W. p I 1
DeHaven.ss 2 1
Echlegllmllcb, lb 4 1
lioeney, H.,2b... 2 2
Laar, 3 b S 0
uoeney, W., ri.. 3 1
.Lander, cf. 4 1
Snyder, K. 1 1 3 3
Total 27 10
8XYD2B3. O. E.
Cogley. If a l
Sener.lb 2 4
Welchans. ss.... 2 a
Cummlngs. p 4 2
BUI, 2b. 1 6
Mentzer, 3 b 2 4
Mlley.c i 2 4
BrllJ, r f. 3 2
Scblett. e 3 3
Total 27 29
isiuxas.
12 3
4 5 6 7 8 0
Watch Factory 0 e e 4 e l s
Bnvder 3 9 3 3 13 2
0-10
5-29
Umpire MtackheuEe.
Time of Game 2 hours.
Baseball Metes.
Sam Fields will bring his strong ama
teur nice from Reading te this city to
morrow when a game will be played with
the Ironsides. Fields Is an geld Active
player and knows all about baseball. He
heads a strong team and the game should
be close.
The close or last week still left the Har
risburg elub in,the lead for the inter-state
championship. The Anthracites, who
were leading for second place, have been
passed by the Actives, or Reading, who
wen a sufficient number of games last
week. The Broeklyns have been endeav
oring te pull ahead but are far from suc
cessful, while they wen three games last
week, the Harrisburg wen four, thus gain
ing en ever them. In the race the Har
risburg new leads the Aetivts, who are
second, eight games, while they lead the
Brooklyn nine. The inter state elubs have
played and wen (up te this week) games
as fellows : Actives played 38, wen 10 ;
Anthracite played 43, wen 10 ; Brooklyn
played 36, wen 18 ; Harrisburg played 43,
wen 27 ; Meritts played 33, wen 27 ;
Quicksteps played 43, wen 15 ; Trenten
played 36, wen 16.
Yesterday at Columbus, Ohie, the Col
umbus beat the Eelipsa by a scere efO
te 5.
The Providence club get 91,600 as its
share of the gate receipts ia the last four
games at Cleveland.
The highest salary paid te a member of
the St. Leuis nine is said te be about
$1,600 ; the lowest about 81,200.
The pay-roll of the Alteena team
amounts te about 9600 per month.
The Easten elub, out of the first sixteen
games played, lest but three.
The battery order of the Field team is
as fellows for te morrow : Ternly, ss ;
Lawrence, 2b ; Field, e ; Helland, 3b ;
Oswald, If ; Meean, lb ; Cramp, rf ;
Hiokenrede, cf ; Marres. p.
The Sporting Life and Truth of Phila
delphia each had accounts of the Iron
sides' games, Saturday, and the Item
stated that the game of Saturday was
played in West Philadelphia.
The Magenta club of Indiana, Pa., is en
a tour and plays in Carlisle te day.
Taggart's Sunday Times has the follow
ing te say about one of the most unfortu
nate features of baseball : " This matter
of the pitchers striking the batter should
be made a subject of consideration at the
next meeting of the league and association.
Several players have been badly injured
this season in this way, and it is net always
an accident. Mack, of the Allegheny, was
badly hurt in Baltimore, and is confined te
his bed. Radbourne, of the Providence,
was struck in the neck by ene of Galvin's
swift throws, and may be unable te play
for some time, It would be a geed idea
te allow every batter who is struck by the
pitcher a base. There would then be very
few sneh accidents as have happened this
year."
In their advertisement in the Philadel
phia papers the August Flowers announce
that they will be here te morrow. They
are mistaken if they think they are te play
here, for no engagement was made with
them. They were se slew in making up
their minds that the date was given te
Sam Field.
The Easten elub, which plays here ou
Thursday, defeated the Delawares of New
Yerk en Friday by the score of 14 te 0, at
Easten. The visitors get ene mau ei
third base in the first inning.but after that
none get further than second.
The names of the Easten team are as
fellows : Galligan, If. ; Parker rf. ; Dehl
man, lb. ; Green, ss. ; Spence, 3b. ; Barber,
2b. ; Denbaw, cf. ; Daly, e. ; Rittenhouse,
P-
The Yerk elnb succeeded in' defeating
the Our Beys of Harrisburg en Saturday
by the score of 25 te 8.
The Ancher elub of Yerk will visit
Columbia, Marrietta and Mt. Jey soeu.
Yerk wants three members of the
Hunters of Pittsburg. They certainly
need some men who can play ball and the
Hunter boys can.
ON A MENUKIt.
Three xoueb Fellow Raise a Bew, Commit
Aseaalt and Battery, and are Locked Up.
Saturday evening between 0 and 10
o'clock, James Burns, Frank Witmer and
Jehn Heek, entered the saloon of Eagene
Bauer, East King street, and without
stepping at the bar passed out into the
yard where a number of gentlemen were
sitting at tables drinking beer. At
one of these tables were seated
Reuben Killinger, Lewis Lyens and
Henry Sener. Burns approached the
table and, without further ceremony said
he was going te upset it. Sener jokingly
told him te"go ahead and upset it." With
out doing se Burns walked around the
table, and confronted Killinger, and after a
few commonplace remarks, applied an op
probrieus epithet te him and struck him.
Killinger jumped up, threw Burns down,
but did net attempt te punish him. Bnrns
regained his feet and returned te the as
sault, whereupon Killinger again pushed
him away, and thrust him into a corner of
the yard just in rear of the bar-room.
While this struggle was going en, Heek
assaulted Killinger from behind, and
Lyens rushed iu te pull Heek away.
Heek struck Lyens with a beer glass or a
bottle, severing a branch of their temporal
artery, and Witmer, with a common table
knife, cut Lyens en top of the head mak
ing three deep and ugly gashes. Lyens
was also knocked down and
severely kicked and beaten about
the body. Mr. Bauer and ethers
finally ejected the rowdies (who had net
received a drop of anything te drink a t
bis bar.) Burns was almost immediately
arrested by Officer Lentz and Harman and
locked up. Witmer and Heek were ar
rested at a Iato hour Lyens, who was
severely injured, was taken te his home,
corner of Vine and Christian streets. He
at once made complaint of felonious as
sault and battery against Frank Witmer.
Reuben Killinger made complaint
of assault and battery against Burns,
and of felonious assault and bat
tery against Heek. Eugene Bauer
made complaint of malicious mischief and
surety of the peace against Burns and of
drunken and disorderly conduct against
Heek. Burns and Heek were net long in
obtaining bail in the sum of $600, te
answer the charges against them. Witmer
did net get bail until Sunday, when his
brother Jehn went before Alderman Mc
Glinn, and telling that magistrate that
the only charge against his brother
Frank was drunken and disorderly
conduct the magistrate admitted him te
bail in the sum of 8100 Jehn Witmer,
who owns no property, becoming his se
curity I Alderman McGIinn's action causes
much unfavorable comment and is held te
be clearly unwarrantable.
The time for the hearing of the cases
before Alderman Barr bas net yet been
fixed.
m
fOULTKT VAIICIKKS.
Stated Meeting- of the Poultry Society.
The August meeting of the Lancaster
county poultry society was held this
morning in the office of the Secretary, J.
B. Leng, in Rhoad's building, West King
street.
In the absence of the president, M. L.
Greider, of Mount Jey, was called te the
chair.
The meeting was a small and unimpor
tant one, the ether members present being
Peter Bruner, Mount Jey; Geerge F.
Rathven, Wm. Soheenberger, J. B. Leng,
C. A. Gast, JehnE. Bhum, H. A. Schroyer,
Chas. Lippold.
The .secretary reported that arrange
ments bad been made te lease te Mr.
Snaveley for use at the county fair as
many of the coops belonging te the socie
ty as he might need at the rate of 25 cents
per coop.
The following named gentlemen were
proposed and elected members of the'
society : Dr. 8. T. Davis, Dr. M. L.
Davis, Dr. B. F. W. Urban, of Lancaster ;
David M. Mayer, of Manheim township ;
and Christ. Musselman, of Witmer's
station,
.Adjourned.