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THURSDAY EVENING, AUG, 30. 1883.
The Electric Light Feles.
The New Rra joins with us in echoing
the voice of the people against the un
sightly poles. It agrees with us that the
city' has net invested the Maxim com
pany with any power which it may itself
have te pat up the poles, and that the
property holders are justified in cutting
them down. The Examiner ' guesses "
that the poles will go up and stay up and
seems te be quite in love with them.
We de net admire Its tas'e and have net
mnch respect for its law.
We concede that If the city under
takes e put up then poles, the question
of riebt which it will raise with the
property owners is one which has two
sides, and which will require the adjudi
cation of the courts te settle. This
question has two branches ; first, can
the city put up any obstruction at all en
the streets, that extends beneath their
surface, for the purpose, of lighting the
streets with electricity ? and scendly, if
it has this power, must it net use it se as
te make the obstruction as small as pos
sible? Upen this latter point we have
little doubt. If the city has the power
te erect pests en the sidewalks it does
net carry the power te put up large
wooden poles where small iron ones will
de the work ; or where the wires may be
strung upon the trees, or laid under
ground.
But it is denied that the city has any
authority at all, unless it is expressly
conferred upon it by the Legislature te
dig down under the surface of the ground
te plant pests therein, even for the nec
essary purpose of lighting the city. The
use of the ground beneath the surface
belongs te the adjacent property holder ;
the city having at common law only the
use of the surface as a roadway. The
power te build sewers has been conferr
ed by act of Assembly. Se the privilege
of laying water mains has been express
ly given by statute. The power te erect
gas pests was conferred by the Legisla
ture upon the gas companies.
If the authority of the city te dig up the
sidewalks is Inherent in it, what becomes
of the right of the property owner te ex
cavate his sidewalk? De these who
claim that the eity can plant poles en the
sidewalks, without the consent of the
property owner, claim that the latter
cannot excavate under the sidewalk
without the consent of the eity ? We
have never heard that the right of the
property owner te utilize the space under
the side walk has been denied. It is
constantly exercised ; and net only this.
but the space under the street has been
utilized by the adjacent property owner,
The Coneatega steam mills, en the oppo
site sides of Prince street, belonging te
Jehn Fsrnum & Ce.Jare connected by
an underground passage beneath the
street Has the city the right te forbid
this use of the ground beneath the
street ? The fee of the ordinary read is
in the adjacent property owners, each
holding te the centre. It is held subject
te the public right of way and the right
of eminent domain In the state which
controls the property oweers' rights
above and below the surface. Where
a town has been laid out, the streets
dedicated te public use, and made the
boundaries of the lets, the town preb
ably has a right te such use of the street
as is necessary te the public comfort ;
but that does net confer the power of
obstructing unnecessarily the primal
use of the street as a thoroughfare ; and
we held that large wooden poles te sua
tain the electric wire are such an unnec
es3ary obstruction, since iron poles, or
trees or underground wires make them
unnecessary. The wooden poles must go.
The Rfgsjt ef Kepresentatlen.
Somebody ever in Berks county has
made a blunder in regard te the election
of delegates te the next state convention.
Under the rules of the party the repre
sentation in the state convention is new
by representative districts, net by sena
torial and representative districts ; it
never was by counties. Under these
rules and the existing apportionment
the city of Reading, a separate represen
tative district, is entitled te five mem
bers and that part of Berks county
which is outside of Reading and is
another district is entitled te eleven.
The right of each of these districts te
elect its own delegates independently or
the ether is as clear as the right of the
Lancaster or Lehigh Democrats te
cheese their delegates free from inter
ference en the part of their Berks
brethren. In the excitement of the late
county convention in Berks, however, it
seems that the delegates from the
country insisted upon their right te par
ticipate in and control the election
of the delegates from the city district of
Reading. This is all wrong and if per
sisted in will precipitate a needless and
utterly unjustifiable contest upon the
state convention, of the kind which the
new rnles of the party sought te rid
future conventions from. Under the
old system of electing senatorial dele
gates by several counties, disputes and
contests frequently arose, which It was
hoped the party would be exempt from
when the system or representation was
simplified se as te give each xepre xepre
sentative district the separate and exclu
sive right te elect its own delegates.
This right cannot be infringed. If the
delegates te the last county convention
in Berks, were, under the local regula regula
tienB of the party there, the proper per.
sons te cheese the delegates te the next
state convention, then obviously the
delegates from the first representative
district, the city of Beading, should have
chosen the five state delegates, from that
district; and the delegates from the
second district, " all of the county of
Berks 'net embraced" in Beading,
should have chceen the eleven state dele
gates from the second district; neither
district has any right te interfere in the
choice of the ether. If the city delegates
can.be brought .te ratify the selections
made for them that will be a very easy
solution of the whole nutter ; but if net
sImkp' wffl be .a contest, the entire re-
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eonveatiea which overran the rights of
Urn Mf IlliiliiiStd the only result of
which can be a defermlpaMen in f aver
of the right of esxhreprewntativeYiht
trict te its own separate representation,
as the rules of the party expressly pro
vide. v
It is a ''discovery," indeed, that is
reported from Schuylkill county in the
investigations of a contested election
case. Tee " farmers of the lower end1
are reported te have been voting illegal
ly because, as one of the dispatches
says, " they have all paid their taxes en'
property, but none en their occupation.
They thus lese their citizenship, and are
net. under the constitution, qualified
voters." This is all nonsense. The
payment of any state or county tax
wi bin two years qualifies the voter. It
does net matter what kind of a tax it is
se that it comes within the constitu
tional classification. The " discovery"
in Schuylkill county is a mare's nest.
Wht are net the electriff wires at
tached te the trees ? The owners of the
trees would probably consent te this use
of them, if they were net injured, as
they need net be. The electric wires
being insulated can be carried through
the branches without difficulty. The
wooden poles must go.
Ir the people peel their issues en the
pole question, the unsightly masts must
go.
Ik the memory of the present genera
tion O'Donevan Ressa has been mixed up
in all the Irish conspiracies hatched en
either side of the Atlantic. The blood
thirsty Jeremiah has again emerged from
obscurity in the examination in Live i peel
of James MoDermett, the alleged d :a
mite conspirator. On a card discrt.nd
en the person of tha latter at the tun i.f
his arrest, the following Delpbie declara
tion from llessa was found : " Tell the
boys eyer there that I will de my utmost
te help destroy the common enemy." This
arrant blatherskite has probably done
mere harm te the Irish cause than all the
ethers of his class combined. Unfortunate
ly ha possesses a large following of warm
blooded Irishmen, who thoroughly believe
in the extermination poliey taught by the
Fenian leader. The unhappy results of
this mode of warfare in the past should
net be lest en Irishmen of the present, but
tbefe are none se blind as these who will
net see. The Parpell poliey of continuous
and aggrsssiTS parliamentary agitation
ean alone effect the desired result of Irish
autonomy, and tha quicker this truth is
impressed en the dynamiters and their fol
lowers, the belter it will be for Ireland and
tha world
AffalIike as have beeu many of the
I numtrnm natnnfcrnnliM whinh ham rtn.
earred darlDg th pnKQi year neae wU1
be mere memorable and none have been
mere fatal than the terrible calamity that
has come upon the island of Java and its
inhabitants by the eruptions of volcanoes
and the sympathetic disturbances of the
surrounding sea. Seventy-five thousand is
new the computed number of killed, but
the inability te correctly calculate the
death rate may easily underrate it. Ne
occurrence in recent times has been se ex
tentively destructive te human life and te
the earth upon which it happened as this
disaster, which has caused net only se
many deaths, but has annihilated some and
caused the almost total disappearance of
ether towns upon tha island, while the per
teutens swell of waters rushing upon the
land with frightful velocity and extension
have eaten away the earth, as bread might
soak and crumble in its grasp. But aside
from the disastrous results of this dire
calamity, are the interesting geological
phases wbieh it presents. The savants of
enr time have heretofore been compelled,
in their learned and absorbing investiga
tions regarding the earth's formation and
its characteristics, te rely upon evidences
semetimts conclusive, oftener apoeryphal,
of the action of the earth in remote ages.
With this great and calamitous, yet mys mys
berieus,event en the island of Java, is pre
aented a distinctive and valuable display
of the potency, the results and the forces
which impel them, of the wonderful ele
ments of the glebe which we inhabit.
Londen literary circles have been
thrown into quite a flutter of excitement by
the publication in the Athenaeum of some
contemporary correspondence relating te
the poet Byren, whieh seems te threw con cen
siderable lieht en portions of the eareer of
that gifted, but unfortunate man. The
correspondence in question consists of
several letters that were interchanged by
Lord Byren,hls wife, and the poet's sister,
Mrs. Augusta Leigh. The letters that
passed between the poet's, wife and sister
breathe a warmth of affection inconsistent
with the historical impression of their
coldness toward each ether. Their stead
fast devotion and trusting reliance en one
another during the whole of the sad time
when Byren was indulging in the wildest
libertinism are the only redeeming fea
tures of the sorrowful story. Whether or
net the world would have been the gainer
by the publication of the poet's memoirs
none can knew, but certain it is they were
net given te the flames until mature con
sideration and deliberation had been had
with these best calculated te knew their
oentents, and who were thereby best able
te prexfDunee upon the expediency of their
uppren. it is scarcely probaWe,hew-
ever, that bis memoirs would have added
anything te his fame. With all his tran
scendent genias Byren was a bitterly
malignant hater and there is little doubt
but that in his effort te vindicate bis own
condaei hs would have discharged all the
venesa iff which he was possessed en the
heads of .these whom he fancied had
wronged hiaa. His vindictiveness in this
respeet wsa shown in his triumph at the
lamented death of Sir Samuel Romilly,
who bid astsjl as oeunsel for Lady Byren.
The tart tettlr of the poet te his wife is
the most interesting of the recent collec
tion. It breathes an air of cynical indiffer
ence, stirred at times with ousts of that
violent self esteem whieh was ever his most
pronounced characteristic Byren's whole
public life, from the day when he " awoke
one morning and found himself famous,"
until his death at Missoleoghi, was one
prolonged enigma. If, as Maeaulay says,
madafM Is aa essential portion of the poet's
composition, Byren By be said te- have
had bis full equipment, se far as that in
gredient was coneerned. His works take en
a new interest from the tragically sad ca
reer of their brilliant author, who. while
endowed with genius most rare, lacked
tee w eaiaaee se often vouchsafed te
ordstssertak.
DESTROYED JiVAJ
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VOLUAHIO KBUPTlOJtS.
SaTeaty-flv Iheiund Utm lest Towns
' ' Destroyed Fifty Square Miles of
Territory Swallowed lip.
Further particulars of the great volcanic
eruption en the island of Java, which
have just reached Londen from Batavia,
show the disaster te have been even
mere widespread than reported in yester
day's advices. At neon en Sunday the
eruption and shocks were supposed te
have reached their greatest height, but
late in the afternoon and evening the vio
lence of the disturbances suddenly in
creased and the island of Java seemed
about te be completely bnried in a mass
of fire and sulphureus ashes. At the
same time the enormous waves began te
dasn witu greater force upon the shores,
coming in some places far up into the in
terior, and great chasms opened in the
earth and threatened te engulf a large
proportion of the island's people and
buildings. About midnight the most
frightful scene of the whole disturbance
took place. Suddenly the enormous lum
inous cloud, similar te that whieh was
seen ever the Gnnune Gunter. but much
greater in extent, formed ever the Kand
ang range of mountains which skirt the
southeast coast of the island. The cloud
gradually increased in site until it formed
a canopy of lurid red and whitish gray
ever a wide extent of territory.
During this time the eruptions increased
and streams of lava poured incessantly
down the sides of the mountains into the
valleys, sweeping everything before them.
Here and there a stream of lava would
enter an arm of the sea or coma in con
tact with the waters of a river. Then the
nearest incandescent lava, as it protruded
from the great stream, would suddenly
produce boiling heat and rapid vaporiza
tion, but the superficial consolidation that
almost immediately ensned would prevent
any further contact. The fissures that
opened in this thin crust as it solidi
fied would emit torrents of vapor, extend
ing high into the air and making a
tremendous hissing and seething sound, as
if a thousand locomotives were simultane
ously letting off steam. Here and there
in the lava streams were innumerable
thin, plate-like crystals of feldspar,
arranged in trains, one behind the ether,
in the direotien of the flew of the current,
and felspathie spherelites were rapidly
formed in the vitreous matter, resembling
these which form in the slag of a glass
luruacf. vjdp 01 me imisi. singular iremu
of the eruption was the carrying in the
midst of the molten lava of a bed of solid
ice of enormous size, which had been
emitted from one of the craters, carried
along by the current and landed en the
extremity of Point St. Nicholas, en the
northeast corner of the island. This bed
of ice was surrounded by a thick envelepe
of sand and scoriae, which are such non
conductors of heat that a red het stream
of lava running ever them will net melt
snow. It is supposed that ice had formed
the crust of some vast subtenaneau
lake.
About two o'clock en Monday morning
the great cloud suddenly broke into small
sections and quickly vanished. At the
same time the most frightful rumblings
were heard and the columns of tire and
smoke en the southeast corner of the
island eeased te ascend, while the craters
in the ether parts of Java seemed te cnen
their fiery threats still wider te let out the
greatest quantities of lava, rocks, pumice
and ashes yet venflted out. The hissing
of the sea became se loud as te be almost
deafening, and the waves rushed up en the
shore te an unprecedented height. When
daylight came it was seen that an ener
meus tract of land had disappeared, ex
tending from Point Capucin en the south,
te Negery Pafseering en the north, and
west te Lew Point, covering an extent of
territory about fifty miles square. In this
were situated the villages of Negery and
Negery Babawang. Of the peeple in
habiting these places and the na
tives scattered spareely through the for
ests' and en the plains none escaped a
frightful death. This section of the island
was net se densely populated as the ether
portions and the less of life was compara
tively small, although it must have aggro aggre
gated fully 15,000 6euls. The entire
Kandang range of mountains, extending
along the coast in a semi circle for about
G5 miles, had gene out of sight. The
waters of Welcome bay, the Suuda straits
and Pepper bay en the east and of the
Indian ocean en the south had rushed in
and formed a great sea of turbulent waters
Here and there the peak of a high crater
was exposed for a moment by the receding
of a great wave, and occasionally a puff of
brownish gray smoke or a slight shower of
rocks showed that the volcanoes still con
tinued in active subaqueeus eruption. The
debris of the submerged and destroyed
buildings was tossed hither and thither
ever the tumultuous waters, the only
sign left that there had once been inhabi
ted land where all was new a waste of
water.
The town of Tanerang, within twenty
five miles of the city of Batavia, was
swept away by the lava streams and fully
half the population, mostly Javanese.
numbering about 1,800, perished.
At Speelwyk, near Point Salcis, the red
het reeks set flre te the houses and swept
away all the thickly settled portion of the
town. About ten bazaars belonging te
Europeans were destroyed. The less of
property is very large, but no lives are
known te have been lest The river Jaca
tra, en the banks of whieh Batavia is
situated, was se completely dammed by
the lava and debris that its course was
changed and from Franiere Bastien it
flowed down te and through Tygers street
and joined the waters of the river Emera Emera
des, swelling that stream te such an ex
tent as te rise high en the Caster batter
ies. Fijelenking was almost totally de
stroyed and a large number of lives were
lest. The Islands of Onius, five miles off
the mouth of the Tangerang river and
twenty miles east of Batavia, was com
pletely inundated and the floating deck
there was totally destroyed. Caataye,
Claps and Trenwers islands, off the por
tion of Java whieh disappaared, are out of
sight and net a vestige of them is left.
Baby and Cherybe islands, off the north
coast, but small in extent, lest the few
houses and inhabitants upon them.
In Batavia the less has been largely in
creased since the former reports. The
reef of the governor's hense was crushed
in by a mass of heavy mud and three of
the retainers were killed. The town
bridge was destroyed, the Diamond and
Pearl bastions were badly damaged and
the Burran redoubt was destroyed. On
Dayans, Malabar and Liens streets, the
principal avenues of the city, the damage
is very great, Fert Aatyei is entirely de
stroyed. The town of Faggal was severely
shaken and few buildings were left stand,
ing.
The aggregate less of life from the
various elements of the terrible disturb
ancas must be fully 75,000, but the num
ber of these who perished ean never be
accurately approximated. A violent shock
occurred in the island of Sumatra en Mon
day forenoon and it was feared ether
violent disturbances might fellow. Middle
Island, ten miles off the Javanese coast
and iitew way between Java and Sumatra,
was almost wneiiy enguitea in tne sea.
The small island of Singkel, probably
originally only a cone blown up by an
eruptive paroxysm, entirely disappeared.
It was uninhabited.
A dispatch from Batavia, Java, te the
Lloyds, Londen, says that the towns of
Anjier, Tjiringine and Telokbeleng have
been destroyed by the voleanie eruptions.
It also says that all the light houses in the
Sunda straits have disappeared, and that
Where the mountain of Eramatau formerly
steed the ,sea new flews. The aspect of
the Sunda straits is much changed and
navigation is dangerous.
The tidal wave coaeletely destroyed
Anjier. The less of life among both
Europeans sad natives at North Bantam
was enormous. Since neon Wednesday
everything has been quiet. The sky is
clear and communication with Serang has
been restored.
A 8TUKU ON THE COAST.
Kxtenilre Damage at Atlantic City oar ear
cuki et Cattla VTasned Away.
The high tides of the past few days at
Atlantic City have been greatly augment
ed by the nertheest storm which has pre
vailed. At times the wind blew a gale
and vessels had te keep far out at sea.
Navigation hereabouts was out of the
question. Gradually the sea worked up
the beach and seen the work of destruc
tion began. Portable structures were
moved back out of danger, but many bath
houses, booth and frame shops were de
molished by thi waves. The beard walk
was broken up in many places and the en
tire strand is strewn witn wreeaage.
Every feet of the beard walk between the
Atlantic City pier and the feet of the
United Stateti avenue is smashed te pieces
and several shops and pavilliens are
wrecked.
There is net a place en the beach front
that has net been damaged te some extent
by the high tide and heavy surf and the
total leBS will net be less than $75,000.
Leng before high water the beard walk
began te wash away, and by high water
the beach along the centre of the city was
a mass of debris. Bath houses, restau
ranta, photograph galleries and stores
with dwellings attached, which were built
se far from the surf that it was thought
that no sea could reach them, were under
mined and carried bodily into the ocean
and beaten by the waves into fragments.
Twe hours after high water the tide had
fallen but little, and great anxiety is felt,
about the next high water, as the wind
from the northeast is increasing in force,
and should it ceutinue until hih water to
day the damage will be mere than double.
The surf was by far the heaviest ever seen.
The braneh of 'the Camden and Atlantic
railroad company along the beach front te
Seuth Atlantic City was badly washed,
and the passengers who took the Lite
train were com polled te abandeu the train
and walk a distance of five and a half
miles. All the railroad tracks except the
West Jersey, are submerged, and will un
doubtedly sustain much damage.
At Leng Hrancb.
The beach has been badly washed away
in seme places. The undertow was tee
strong for bathing and the Plymouth Reck
was unable te run te the ocean pier. Late
yesterday afternoon the tide began ruu
ning ever the track of the New Jersey
Southern railroad, opposite the highlands
of Neversiuk. The track was undermined
in several places and the waves lan ever
into the Shrewsbury river. At some
points the sand from the beach was piled
upon the track te a depth of nearly tbree
feet. Passengers from New Yerk were
transfened around the washout in beats.
A train lead of stone was sent te the scene
and a large gang of laborers was S9t te
work repairing the damage. Superintend
ent Blodgett said the track would be
ready for the passage of trains before
morning A bad washout is reported en
the Philadelphia and Leng Branch division
of the Pennsylvania railroad near Berkeley
The trains te and from Philadelphia are
running ever the New Jersey Southern
read between Whiting's and Farmingdale
se as te reach Leng Branch.
Cattle Washed Ashore.
The bodies of 13 steers were washed up
along the shore between Seabngbt and
Highlands Station. Several mere were te
be seen floating in the heavy surf. The
smell from the bodies, which must have
been rolling iu the water for several hours,
is net pleasant, nor is their presence agree
able te bathers. The carcasses will no
doubt lay en the beach and putrify, unless
private enterprise starts in and buries
thorn, as the authorities have no fund te
stand any such expense. The bodies are
supposed te have rolled or been thrown
from the English steamer Tower Hill or
Lydian Monarch, which left New Yerk en
Saturday bound for Londen. The vessel
was laded with beeves. She was se top
heavy that in the quiet waters of the upper
bay she rolled te such an extent that
curiosity was expressed ever her coming
trip, and predictions were made that she
would lese part of her cargo. The suppo
sition is that she encountered a heavy sea
with the result as stated above.
Poison In Cake.
Nat M. Smith, of Nashville, received
from the pest office a box of cake, accom
panied by a letter signed "Annie L.
Sullivan," dated New Albany, Ind., with
a Louisville postmark en the envelope.
The letter explained that the cake was
wedding cake and announced the marriage
of the sender. Mr. Smith ate two pieces
of the cake, and discovering a bitter taste
suspected it contained poison. Shortly-
after he was quite ill from the enects, and
was only restored after some hours by
physicians who were called in. An analy
sis showed that the cake contained strych
nine. Smith does net knew Annie L.
Sullivan, and is at a less te divine the
motive for this attempt te poison him.
The Connecticut Tobacco Crep.
Reports te the New England Homestead
from ever 100 tobacco growing towns in
the Connecticut and Housatenio valleys
indicate that the crop for 1883 will be a
full average yield, while excelling in quality
The total acreage is redueed fully 15 per
cent., with one-third increase in Havana
tobacco.
FKATUBES OF THE STATE PBESS,
Leck Haven is te have a new morning
daily about October 1.
Pregrett is quite certain that the remo
val of the state capital te Philadelphia is
only a question of time.
Truth crushed te earth will rise again,
and se will Blaine and his friends, says
the West Chester Bepuhliean.
The Greeneastle Press says the pasture
en some of the streets iu that town is ex
cellent. On account of the frequency, of divorces
and their trivial causes, the Reformed
Messenger trembles for the future of so
ciety. Prof. E. G. Klese, the principal editor
of the Moravian, has succeeded te the
business management of all the publica
tions of that denomination in Bethlehem.
The Alteena Times has entered upon its
sscend year abler and spicier than ever.
As an expounder of sound Demoeractio
doctrine, it has done much for the Democ
racy of Blair county.
The Pittsburg Chronicle, Republican,
thinks it is net at all creditable te the
judgment of the newspapers which avail
themselves of the present position of af
fairs te ridicule the governor, and seek te
mislead the publie by crying about the
cost of the extraordinary session.
Game Flayed Yesterday.
At Chicago Chicago 7, Cleveland 0 ;
Detroit Buffalo 2. Detroit 8 ; New Yerk
Metropolitan 7, St. Leuis 1 ; Brooklyn
Active 5, Brooklyn 2 ; Pittsburg Alle
gheny 6, Columbus 10 ; Stapleton, N. Y.
Providence 13, Staten Island 8 ; Wil
mington (championship game) Harris
burg 6, Quicksteps 5 ; Philadelphia
Athletic 11, Eclipse 3 ; same city Ress
8, HarUille 3.
PUBLIC MEETINGS.
VABIUDS SOS1BT1B3 IN SESSION.
Kev. The. miteken te Defend ChrtaManlty
In the Fceetninkers OonTentlen
Other Mewa in Brief.
The Freethinkers' convention opened
yesterday in Rochester, about 800 dele
gates being present. Committees en busi
ness and resolutions were appointed, H.
L. Green, of New Yerk, being chairman,
ef the former, and Courtland Parker
of the latter. The speakers yesterday
were F. L. Brown, Jay Rappel, Samuel
C. Putnam, C. Fannie Allen and Geerge
Chainey, the latter devoting himself te
the clergy. Rev. Themas Micehell, of
Brooklyn, is te speak in defence of Chris
tianity te-night, aud the convention " has
decided te give him all the time he de
sires." The national convention of deaf mutes,
in session at New Yerk yesterday, elected
the following executive cemmittee: T.A.
Froelich, New Yerk ; J. T. Elwell, Penn
sylvania; Rebert Patterson, Ohie ; D. W.
Geerge, Illinois; Gee. T. Dougherty, Mis
souri; S. J. Vail, Iudiana; T. A. Helmes,
Massachusetts: W. H. Werk, Connecticut;
Oscar Kusman, Rhede Island; D. S.
Rogers, Seuth Carelina: T. Brown, New
Hampshire; Hiram P.Hunt, Maine; T. L.
Brown, Michigan; Walter McDeugal.New
Jersey; James S. Wells, Maryland; G. W.
Steered, West Virginia; and Rav. Jeb
Turner, Virginia.
A business meeting of the Grand Army of
the Republic encampment at Gettysburg
was held yesterday, when it was decided
that the encampment next summer should
be held at Bellefente, Pennsylvania. The
adjutant general reported 371 pests, 30
500 members, and $16,647 expended in re
lief and charity during the quarter ended
in Juue.
The American Dermatological associa
tion met yesterday morning at Lake
Geerge. The president, Dr. R. W. Tay Tay
eor, occupied the chair. Papers were read
by Drs. Piffard, of New; Graham, of
Terente ; Stilwagen and Van Hartingen,
of Philadelphia, and Atkinson, of Balti
more. The fourteenth annual convention of the
fire underwriters of the northwest began
yesterday in Chicago. About 200 repre
sentatives of companies doing business in
the northwest and Ohie, Indiana, Tennes
see, Kentucky, Iowa, Wisconsin aud Kan
sas were present.
The seventeenth annual convention of
the American institute of architects opened
yesterday in Providence, Rhede Island.
Themas V. Walker, LL. D., of Philadel
phia, the eldest member of the institute,
presided.
The grand ledge of Geed Templars of
New Yerk is in session at Syracuse. Yes
terday afternoon a Tuscarora Indian girl
enlivened itB proceeding by "an exhibi
tion of her remarkable musical powers'
Or Commercial Interest.
Ou Monday next a number of experts
who have been appointed by the cotton
exchange throughout the country will meet
iu New Yerk for the purpose of selecting
standard samplers as a guide in classifica
tion. At a meeting yesterday afternoon
Abraham Allen, jr., was appointed expert
for the New Yerk cotton exchange aud
Themas Fanner substitute.
At a meeting of the New Yerk metal
exchange yesterday an amendment te the
by-laws was adopted making settlements
obligatory en the day of official notice of
failure instead of " en any one of five
days succeeding," as was heretofore the
rule. After Saturday next the fees for
initiation will be $1,000. At present they
are $500.
Reports from ever one hundred tobacco
growing towns in the Connecticut -and
Housatenio valleys indicate that the crop
for 1883 will be a full average in yield and
excellent in quality.
The first bale of new North Carolina
cotton arrived at Norfolk, Va., yesterday.
It was classed as strict middling and sold
for 13 eents a pound.
The patent office has this week issued
421 patents, 13 designs, 19 trade marks
and 12 labels. There have been four
reissues. Twelve patents were issued te
foreigners.
'lne plans for the new silver vault te be
constructed in Ne Orleans have been
completed. It will have a storage capacity
of 20,000,000 standard silver dollars.
The Mexican government has published
regulations for the construction, conserva
tion and operation of railroads.
The Track of Crime.
Jehn Wcelver has been arrested at Perry,
Mich., for fatally poisoning Henry Cat
cher with strychnine. Cutcher was
recently married te a young woman whom
Woelver loved.
Gilbert Dubers yesterday visited his
brother in-law, Richard Magee, near Col
fax, La., te collect a debt of thirteen
dollars. Magee could net pay and Dubers
shot him.
Daniel McKay and Themas Ewing and
Henry Satehwell were lying beside the
read near Wadesboro, N. C, yesterday,
when Wm. Sheppard, who was passing,
playfully aimed his gnn at them. The
weapon was discharged, mortally wound
ing McKay and Ewing and badly injured
Satchweli.
Jehn Fletcher shot and killed the tele
eraph operator at Spring Hill station,
Utah, yesterday. There was an old grudge
between the men.
During a row at the canning works at
St. Jeseph, Me., yesterday, Mary Fuhey
threw a box at a boy. It missed him, but
nic uareiine nupp ana Killed ner.
Death en the Sea.
A life preserver, which was tern and
bore evidence of having been in recent use
and whieh was stamped with the name
"C. H. Northam," was found en Tuesday
afternoon, upon the shore of Vineyard
Sound. A party of children playing upon
the beach, near Falmouth village, saw the
body of a man floating in the surf, but
they ran away and told no one until it was
tee late. The body is supposed te be that
of one of the missing men from the yacht
Mystery.
The navy department was informed
yesterday of the accidental killing of Lieu
tenant Boutelle Noyes, en beard Rear
Admiral Cresby's flagship at Yokohama.
The easualty was caused by the fall of a
top-gallant mast. Lieut. Noyes leaves a
widow and two children.
The Fire Beeerd.
F. B. Hemingway's fruit cannery at
Clinten, Iowa, was destroyed by Are en
Wednesday. Less, $60,000. Insurance
small. The dry beuse of the Duluth
lumber company, with a quantity of lum
ber, in Duluth, Minn., was burned yester
day morning. Less, $25,000. The beat
store and general offices of the Diamond
Jee line et steamers in Dubuque. Iowa.
wre burned yesterday morning. Less,
$28,000. The fifth story of mill Ne. 3. of
the Pepperhill cempany.at Biddeferd.Me.,
was burned out last night, and the ether
stores were damaged by water. The less
is heavy. Large fires are reported in the
forests of the dismal swamp, in Virginia
and North Carolina.
Accident and Suicide.
An attempt was made en Tuesday night
te wreck the Albany express en the Bosten
& Albany railroad by placing two sleepers
en the track just above Ashland. The
engine struck the sleepers, but was run
ning Blewly and no damage was done.
A train en the Wabash railroad, yester
day, run ever a cow when near Cliften,
Missouri. The engine, baggage car and
one coach were derailed and the engine
was upset, .engineer nail was lulled.
Amelia Hendersen committed suicide in
Syracuse, New Yerk, en Tuesday nighr,
by taking morphine. She was in bad
health and had been deserted by her bus
band. ' "
By the fall of a staging at Burden Deck,
near Hudsen, New Yerk, yesterday, six
men were severely injured, one of whom,
Patrick "Cougher, of Trey, is net expected
te recover. . '
O PSBSONAt..
Empress Eugenie, who has suffered
from dyspepsia, walks much and continues
te improve in health and spirits.
Cecst de Coamberd's coffin bears a
plate inscribed: "Henri V., by the
grace of Ged, King of France and Na
varre." Rev. Dr. G.Stuicker, of Atlanta. Ga.,
has been eleeted a professor iu the Union
theological seminary of the state of Vir
ginia. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge has
written te the secretary of the committee
of arrangements for the proposed bar din
ner te the chief justice in Terente, that
his numerous engagements in the United
States will prevent him from visiting
Canada.
M. Alexandre Dumas has written a
letter complaining of the brilliancy of
stage decorations, and, above all, of stage
dresses. The actresses think, he says,
mere of their costumes than of the piece,
and "the genius of the author is lest in the
art of the milliner."
Bancroft, the historian, is ever eighty
three years of age, he has a fame of iron
and a brain as bright as that of a youth.
He is of middle height, lean and wiry.
His thiu, thoughtful face is leugthed by
his long, silky beard of sable silver, and
his thick gray hair is combed back from a
bread, high, brawny forehead. He has
light blue eyes, and a complexion darkened
by the winds et his daily horseback rides.
President Arthur was at " Camp
Campbell, feet of Yellowstone Liake, ea
the 27th inst. He went fishing in the
afternoon, and " caught 35 fish weighing
45 pounds." It is stated that " the head
ei an extinct species of rhinoceros and the
vertebiiB of a large fossil saurian in an
excellent state of preservation were found
en tiie shore of the Lake near the camp
by the surgeon and naturalist of the party,
W. H. Forweod:
Governer Ckittenden, of Missouri, is
becoming augry at the infractions of the
Sunday law iu St. Leuis. . In a recent in
terview he is reported te have said : " I
am au anti Prohibitionist from the soles of
my feet te the crown of my head, but I
feel with the people that if a law is te be
defied iu St. Leuis, and I have te cheese
between lawlessness and prohibition, I am
a Prohibitienisc. Under such a proveca
tien prohibition will carry the state by
fifty thousand majority."
CUHBIOrC PX.EA4 CUUKT.
Twe Cases or Lecal Interest.
BEFORE JUDGE PATTERSON.
Inquirer printing and publishing com-
piuy vs. Itev. II. S. nice, D. nine Hertz,
O. S. Rice, A. W. Zug and H. F. Hermes.
This was au action te recover the amount
of $174.75. Frem plaintiff's testimony it
appeared that in lcel the defendants
were officers of the Lancaster county
mutual aid society, a fire insurance com
pany. Hermes, who was the general agent,
at a meeting of the directors, was autheriz
ed te have job punting done, which be did.
A charter was granted te the company,
but before it was recorded or they had
written any policies, the company
went out of existence, owing te
the exposure made at that time
of the managemeut of life insurance com
panies. It was proven that the plaintiffs
printed a let of blanks and delivered them
te the company. Majer Fasnacht, deputy
recorder, testified that the charter had
never been recorded. The counsel for the
plaintiff alleged that as the charter was
net recorded, the act of Assembly author
izing the granting of charters had net
been complied with and this was no cor
poration ; the individual members of the
society would then have te be held liable.
The records of the court of Dauphin ceun
ty were euered te snow te at tne company
had been dissolved
The defense asked for a neu suit en the
ground that the defendants were sned as
individuals. They claimed that it must
ba shown that the defendants individually
contracted for the printing before they
could be held liable, and that they author
ized Hermes te have the printing done.
The court refused te grant the non suit.
The defense was that as the defendants did
net individually order tne printing or
authorize it, they cannot be held liable for
the bill, contracted by Hermes, as agent
ter tne company
After some testimony had been heard
for the defence, the court ordered a verdict
te be taken in favor of the plaintiff for
$196.71, and that a rule be granted te show
cause why judgment should net be entered
in favor of the defendant non ebstante
veredicte.
BEFORE JUDGE LIVINGSTON.
J. Shuman Kline and Mary K Kline, bis
wife, in right of said Mary K. Kline, for
merly Mary Kissinger, and Harry Kitsin
ger, by his mother, Mary K. Kline, vs. the
city of Lancaster. This is an action te
recover damages for the less of a husband
and father, which was caused, as is al
leged.by the neglect en the part of the city
te properly construct and keep in repair
a certain alley gutter at Cherry and
Orange streets.
After the jury was sworn the defense
raised the question as te the right of the
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plaintiff te proceed further In this action
as the case had been tried befere.and upon
judgment being entered for plaintiff the
Bupreme ccurt bad returned it qued judic
iut .- ai;.Ma iisais mm i.riHii iiMiiirH.ii.iiii !
ium revers.ter without awarding a venire
facias de novo ; aud further that the act of
1713, under which plaintiffs claim te have
renewed the action, was net applicable te
this case, as the action did net belong te
the class referred te by said act.
The oeurt suggested that the only plea
of net guilty was probably insufficient.
The defendant then tiled a special plea
setting forth the action of the supreme
court and praying judgment in favor of
the defense. The plaintiff demurred te
pica and was joined in it by the defence.
The court beatd the argument and sus
tained the demurrer, overruling the special
plea.
The plaintiff then opened their testimony
proceeding te show that Henry M. Kissin
ger, new deceased, who was the husband
of plaintiff, was a teamster in tha employ
of Balmer & Ce., who delivered goods
for tne rennsyivama railroad company en
July 22, 1878. On that day he was
engaged hauling boxes filled with tobacco
from the freight depot te the warehouse
of Skiles & Fry, opposite the Presbyterian
church in Cherry alley. He was seated
en the top of the front box and in that
position attempted te cress the gutter at
Cherry alley. While driving carefully,asis
alleged, he having passed safely ever the
gutter before en that day, he was jostled
from his seat by the improper construc
tion of the gutter, it being from
15 te 18 inches in depth ; he
fell astride the tongue of the
wagon and whilst in that position en
deavored te recover control of the horses
in order te step them ; the animals became
unmanageable and Kissinger was thrown
under the wagon, the wheels of which
passed ever him, injuring him se severely
that he died in a few days. It is alleged
that the gutter was constructed in 1863 by
the city, and plaintiffs complains that it
was improperly arranged, se as te make it
dangerous ferdriving ever ; they new seek
te make the city liable for the result of
the alleged neglect, which' it is claimed
caused the death of the deeased.
A large number of witnesses were called
te prove these facts,
Jarere Discharged.
As no ether jurors except these in the
KissiBger ease were needed the ethers
were discharged beforeneom te day.
THE MAXIM POLES.
2mtS rCKTHKK LlLtlAI. UFINIOK3.
The Ultima ubect te the Trecpessera and
MM ! Tbtrn ThiMMB Xf!at.ae
-The Woudee t'elr mnst Oe.
The unsightly poles of the Maxim elec
tic light company, aud the impunity with
which the company's agents take posses
sion of private property for' their erection,
continue te be subjects of general discus
sion among the people. The almost
universal sentiment is that the company
has no right te put them oe private prop
erty without the owners' consent, and the
owners whose properties have been taken
possession of, se far as we have been able
te investigate; have almost unanimously
objected te the trespass. The opinions of
several members of the bar have been
published iu this paper. Here fellow the
views of several ethers :
Wm. Leaman, esq., holds that, while
the primary use of streets is te afford the
public a convenient and unobstructed right
of way, there are secondary uses te whieh
they may be put by the city, among whieh
are the laying of gas and water pipes
below the surface, and the erection
above the surface of lamp pests,
awnings, telegraph poles, &c, and the
planting of shade trees, all of which
may be done without materially obstruct
ing the streets. He agrees with Solicitor
Jehnsen that the city, in making a contract
witli the Maxim company te light the
streets with electric lamps, gave the com
pany the right te use all necessary appli
ances te accomplish that result, provided
it can be done without material obstruction
of the streets.
G. Clem. Kennedy, esq., believes that
the eity has exclusive. control ever tne
streets aud can delegate te individuals or
corporations ite right te lay water or gas
pipes, dig sewers, or erect lamp pests or
poles for telegraph or ether purposes ; and
that the eity may, if it cheese, remove
deer steps, cellar doers, awuiug pests and
awnings, shade trees, or any thing'elfle that
obstruct the streets. He holds that the
city, if it be deemed necessary, may au
thorize the building of a sewer ou Seuth
Prince street, between Faruum & Ce.'s
Ne. 1 and Ne. 2 cotton mills, though by se
doing the underground railway connecting
them would be destroyed.
D. G. Baker and J. B. Amwake, esq.,
incline te the minion that the electrie poles
are being put up with due warrant of law.
J. W. F. Swift, B. F. Montgomery, A.
D. Fritchey, W. D. Weaver and A. F.
Uestetter, erq3., deny that the Maxim
company has any rights in the premises,or
that the city has conferred upon the com
pany any authority te put up the unsight
ly chestnut saplings.
In reporting an interview had with H.
C. Brubaker en Tuesday, wa inadver
tently misrepresented that gentl man's
views iu denying te the city the power te
lay water aud gas mains and dig sewers,
by the emission of the words " except by
legislative enactment " He sayn : " It is
a well settled principle of law that a mu
nicipal corporation, as well as all ether
incorporate bodies, derive their powers
either directly from their charters or from
special statutes which are in ellect sup
plements te the charters. In Euglaud ex
press legislative sanction is necessary te
warrant the laying down of gas pipes, water
pipes, &c, iu the public highway ; and se
in this country the right is a franchise
which can be parted euly by the Legisla
ture or some local ermuniuipil author
ity empowered by statute te confer
it." Dillen en municipal corporations,
sec. 540 and 551. Fer example, the city
of Lancaster by its charter of 1818, had
no right te ditch and lay any water pipes
in the public streets, for the reason that
no such authority was expressly given
therein. The act of Marcli 21, 1830, was
passed giving it power te " enter private
reads or highways, as may be necessary,
and te oceupy, dig, ditch and. lay pipes
through the same, aud te raise, alter and
repair."
J. Hay Brown says that under the Eng
lish law the streets are the " king's high
way," ever which all his subjects have a
common right of way. Under American
law the highways belong te the people,
and all have equal rights te their
unobstructed use. Fer municipal
purposes the city authorities elect
ed by the people have undoubted
control ever the streets from wall te wall,
subject always te the greater right of
way. They can eider the erection of lamp
pests, fire plugs, poles, &c, aud permit
the erection of awning pests, porticoes,
deer steps, &c , provided they de net
become nuisances, or materially obstruct
the common right of way.
M. Brosius, esq., says that the eity has
entire control of the streets, subject te the
right of way, and can delegate its power te
a corporation or individual te ereet poles
or de any ether work deemed necessary
for the public geed.
Geerge Brubaker, esq., doubts the right
of the Maxim company te place their poles
en the pavements without the consent of
the property owners, bnt be wants te see
the streets well lighted and if he bad ten
properties he would give the company
permission te put up poles en all of them
se that he might have the benefit of the
light.
The following named citizens strenu
eusly objected te the poles being) placed
in front of their premises, but their com
i uiciiuia were uuuecueu ; uuun u. ana
fcharles H Weat Kj 8tre(jt FJ-nn
plaints were unheeded : Jehn C. and
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s urcneman. Unas. JUucbrntller. Mrs.
Gruel, Mrs. Iteese, Wm. M. Shrum, M.
Geisenberger. North Queen street ; H. E.
Slaymaker, North Duke utreet.
In taking up the flag pavements te make
way for the pelet, the workmen have in
many instances broken the flags by their
careless handling of them. A number of
these have been left lying upon the pave
ments as eyesores te the owners and stum
bling blocks te passers-by. Several acci
dents have happened in consequence, bnt
none, of them serious, se far as we have
learned.
Many of the poles are placed directly in
front of the main entrance te private resi
dences and places of business. The pole
at the corner of West King and Market is
placed almost directly in freut of the street
crossing, and se close te an i iron awning
pest en the opposite side of the crossing,
that it is almost impossible te pass between
them. On market days this crossing is used
almost as much as any ether in the citv.
and a stout person with a market basket en
his arm will be obliged te step aside into
the mud and walk around the pole te get
upon the crossing.
FB'.VATK VS. CUKFURATE KIGI1T8.
A Temperate Uiscaanea ef the yasatlea
New fcra.
The time seems te have come when
some decision should be reached defining
a citizen's right te his own premises as
against the enoreachments of municipal
arrogance and the still mera unwarrantable
assumption of authority en the part of
private corporations. Heretofore it has
been the custom of councils in this city
te grant all tha privileges asked of them
by telegraph and telephone companies
without tha slightest regard te the rights
or wishes of the citizens. The huge poles
that have been pat up en a number of our
streets in defiance of the wishes of the pro
perty owners whose premises were invaded
and disfigured by these unsightly obstruc
tions are abundant evidences of this fact.
This paper has protested en mere than one
occasion against this course, and although
the sentiment of the whole population is
nearly unanimous in the same direction,
the vioieas system hss gene steadily for
ward. The contract of the eity with the Maxim
eleetrie light and power company has once
Brere-ealled -an this question, and in a
mora.efliettive, shape than everv before.
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