ISSlilWBiSJilUJBBSHBBSBMMei ' 4 3.- I . fr-"1-1 r LAUGASTEB DAILY DSlELUGEKCEK FRIDAY, AUGUST 31. 1883. W Vt t ?J T .l wlliMii't Lancaster tntcutgniwt FRIDAY KVKNIHO, AUG. 31, 1868. The SItMtlOM at Harrisbarg. The Democrats of the Heuse at Har risburg made some progress yesterday. I toward the prepar,Wiing wnen uj uj selved te enforce the attendance of the Deinecratiememberrat- the'sesslens of their body. Whatever' propriety or ad vantage there is in. continuing the pres ent session, or whatever hope there is of aacuring an-apporaenmems-Dy vm w. tinuance, is dispelled by the irregular attendance and the trifling outcome of se many of the asssieas held. Within thepast three or four-weeks it bas hap pened se often that the; Heuse met and did nothing or that net majority of Democrat was present, that its deliber ations were merely futile dalliance and were calculated te make their constitu ents believe that they did net mean business. The line was se strangling and uneven as te neither be flt te make a siege nor resist attack. Obviously the first thing te de is te compel the attendance of all the Democratic members, se that what ever policy be agreed upon, it be that of such a number as te carry weight and command respect. Next it will be in order te meet three times a day and every day in the week. The members expect te be paid for this kind of work and they must de it. If they are ac complishing anything by remaining at Harrisburg, the mere cieseiy mey awe te their work, the mere certainly they will accomplish their work. When they have once made their line solid, and proved their willingness te buckle down te work, then let the cau cus which has adjourned te meet en Tuesday, fix what is te be the final, de finite policy of the party. If ic is te adjourn, let it be se declared ; if it is te stay until their successors are elected, unless an apportionment is previ ously made, then let that policy be boldly proclaimed and manfully ad hered te. Believing, as we de, that the Heuse has exhausted every parliament ary and legal process te get an appor tionment and the Senate has rejected all, we believe, in common with most of the Democratic newspapers of the state, that the time for adjournment had come some time time age. We de net believe that any such devices as the proposed extra constitutional and un-Democratic commission are a sufficient justification for the extension of the session, nor that the Democratic position is improved by offering and passing them. But what ever is te be done hereafter, whatever policy is te be proclaimed, let it be duly considered and agreed upon in advance, after full, free consultation of all who are expected te support it. It will net hurt the Democrats te get together every day and discuss the situation. Te this end very properly means have been taken te get all the Democrats te Har risburg. Wke Shealda't be PeliUcIaas. The Pennsylvania United States sena ters seem te be eliminated as political factors in the state. The Republicans have settled their ticket and are con ducting their campaign without the voice of either senator being heard of any account. The name of neither even is ever heard. This is notable as te Senater Cameren, if net as te bis col league. Cameren seems te have retired te the enjoyment of .the repose of private life. He is afar from the interviewer in Europe ; and we should think that he would find the state se delightful as te desire te maintain it always. Te a man of fortune and family and sense there is yery little attraction in political life. Men who have money, leisure and activity of mind and body de net want te rust ; and political lite keeps them from stagnation and puts their names before the people. If they are se censli tutienally adapted te it that they can enjoy it and attain geed repute in fol lowing it, they are sensible enough te go into the business. But the sensitive man who does net enjoy being abused ; the quiet man who does net like a crowd, the reserved man who cannot comforta bly be bail fellow with everyone, and shake cordially the hands of these for whom he does net care a copper, is net a wise man if he lets the love of fame tempt him te fellow it in avenues which his feet cannot enjoyably tread. Tiie pursuit of happiness being the great end of the Wiseman, the wise man of wealth shows his wisdom by selecting a field for his labor, in which he can work with enjoyment. The Weedea Feles Must de. There ought te be no trouble in meet ing the general desire of the community te be spared the infliction of the wooden masts upon our streets . There is no one found te admire them or te dispute their ugliness. The city in contracting for the electric light made no stipulation as te hew the wires should be suspended. When the authorities new see the dis gust with which the community views the poles they should be alert te see whether they cannot have the light without the poles. We have suggested that the trees be used, and this should be a welcome device all around, as it will save the cost of the poles. Ne one wants te balk the desire of the authori ties te try. the electric light It is an experiment of very doubtful result, and is very likely net te be repeated for a second year. But let us have atrial of it Let that trial, however, be as unob jectionable as possible. This ought te be the desire of the city officers. The property holders have it in their power te challenge' the erection of the i poles and te take the question into the courts if the city cheeses te attempt te force tbeas upon them. But as the poles may be avoided without damage te the com cem paay erecting the light why should they be insisted upon? Let the property holders stand upon their rights, and the wooden poles must go. Somebody telegraph the editorial ut terances of the IXTZixiazHCER, about Berks county affairs, as though epeken by the ehaimaa of the state committee. The telegrapher desired, no doubt, te give the force of official declaration te Trttwetfd;lrafcbeTrasnettrutMatf The data & Democratic state committee does net ifeakeffiekllylntbe Intelligehcek's aditerial commas. The Republicans of the Senate have voted down Representative Amerman's preposition, adopted by the Heuse, te appoint a mixed commission of Deme crats and Republicans, net members of the LegislatureTte devise schemes of ap portionment te be adopted by the Legis lature. We cannot complain of the Republican Senate for rejecting this preposition. It is net called upon by anvasnect of its duty te devolve its proper work upon ethers. It fails in its duty because it does net de its work ; and for this it is condemned. It is able te conceive proper schemes of apportion ment, and they have in fact been pre sented for its consideration in endless variety; no commission of citizens could And these that it would accept. The wel recognized fact is that the Republican Senate is content with the existing ap portionments, and is willing te make no ethers that lese it any of the party ad vantage which it new holds. The Dem ocratic Heuse hopefully holds the Senate in session, awaiting its change of heart. The moons wax and wane, and it comes net Ultimatum of the people : The electric light must coma and the wooden poles must go. The Fat Men's club, of Connecticut, had their annual clam bake yesterday, at Seuth Norwalk, Connecticut. Twenty Twonty Twenty ene members ware present, and their weights aggregated 5,071 pounds. It is rumored at Washington, D. C, that in an investigation which will be made shortly in the interest of the government there will be some startling and sensation al developments as te bow the verdict of the Star Reute trial was secured. The terrible tornadoes of the west and the earthquakes and volcanic eruptions en the continent seem te indicate that that por tion of the United States east of the Al legheny mountains was intended from all time as the securest abode of the highest civilization. There is a mud geyser in the Yellow stone region known as " Editor's Pate," bscause of the rush and rear of the seeth ing water and mud that eternally boils therein, but finds no outlet. The indi vidual who christened the place must have been smarting at the time from a re cent interview with the fighting editor. The New Yerk Times, the leading Re publican journal of the conntry,editerially avows that it is net in favor of "high duties en foreign manufactures as a means of protection te Americau industry. A pretty careful study of the question has led it te the conclusion that these high duties are unnecessary and injurious. This will be the view of the Republican party before many years." The year 1883 is keeping up its record as one of horrors. Midsummer has been crowned with death dealing tornadoes in the west, and sixty thousand souls are thought te have perished by the vel canie eruptions in Java. This morning's mails bring, in addition te the regular crop of Euioides and drowning accidents, the news of a passenger train running ever an embankment. As an annus mirdbilis 1883 must surely be voted a horrible suc cess. Ii is gratifying te observe that the number of young men entering political life is steadily increasing year by year. This is as it should be. It is true that the term " politician " in its modern accepta tien implies all that is dishonorable in party knavery, but this is simply an abuse of a noble calling, net its legitimate out come. The infusion of yenng bleed into the great parties of the land fires the can vass with new life, and makes the elder party leaders turn from their petty fratri cidal quarrels te the living issues of the campaign. Ik the Bhapira manuscripts, claiming te antedate by nearly 1,000 years the eldest accepted manuscript of Deuteronomy known, turns out te be fraudulent, the famous Meabite potteries, which have been accepted us genuine for ten years by Ger man savants en the authority of the same person, musl meet with a similar fa te. The investigation new in progress, premises te develop either a ease of the most unjust accusations against a benefactor of the race, or else the oleverest bit of literary forgery since the times of that youthful prodigy, Themas Chatter ten. Witii the last day of Angnst the sum mer vacation of the oyster comes te an and. During the sultry summer-tide he has been an object awakening suspicion and distrust, and he has beer allowed te wax fat, unmolested in his eriny ocean bed. But all this bas come te an end. Like the store clerk who ib fleeing from the sea side, the seduetive bivalve must new lay aside his sportiveness and minis ter te the wants of civilization. With the expected arrival of the oyster comes the announcement that he will net be se nu mereus this year, but that the decrease in quantity will be mere than compensated by his improved quality. Though this information is net remarkable for its freshness and originality, it being made te de dnty every year, it will be hailed with its annual delight by the levers of the bivalve, who innocently swallow these pleasant fictions with as much ease, as they masticate tne succulent mollusk. i Te Uenstrnct a Bridge. The Maryland beard of public works yesterday passed a formal order of ap proval of the construction of the Baltimore and Ohie company's proposed bridge across the Susquehanna river at Pert Deposit A proviso was added that " a tag shall tow all sailing vessels which pass under the bridge te and from a point equi distant between the Pennsylvania railroad bridge and the Baltimore and Ohie's, and te and from a point en a line with the ex treme northwest point of Watsen's island. ' m i m iEBprevsiaeau st Gaivestea. Five hundred and thirty acres of land and of water front at Virginia Point en the mainland opposite Qalvesten,have been bought by the California investment com cem pany, of which C. P. Huntingdon is the controlling, member. It is believed in Galveston that wharves will be built and the ebeaael deepened at that point for the purpose of making it the terminus for freight trade between California and the gulf. WEWS MISCELLANY. TBW MUKNIKS) MKWB BY TBS HAILS. Tfce Devious rata C Crime mad tee Cases dar of UalamItie-eme abort Mew Paragraphs. Near Pieasantville. New Jersey, yester day morning, a train of cars en the Phila delphia and Atlantie City (narrow-gauge) railroad was thrown from the track by a belt coming out of the switch red, and the jar caused by the locomotive passing ever it moving the lever. The baggage, smok ing and three passenger coaches were over turned down an embankment. A number of persons were injured but none killed. Application having been made te the Marine hospital service for feed for the destitue people en the naval reservation at Pensacola, the matter was referred te the acting secretary of the treasury. He de cided that "there was no fund en hand which could be used for such purpose ;" also, that "the state of Flerida must care for its own peer, or else make a public ap peal for aid." Sylvester F. Fuller, the cashier of the second national bank of Jeffersen, Ohie, and H. L. St Jehn, his assistant, were ar rested yesterday in Cleveland, en the charge of stealing $50,000 from the bank. The theft was discovered last December, and the pair fled te Canada. Returning they have been discovered and caught The Corean embassy, which is coming te this country, sailed from Yokohama en the.l8th instant for San Francisce. It is composed of Min Geng Ik, a nephew of the king of Cerea, and Heng Yeng Shik, a son of the prime minister, and their suite, in cluding Peyton Jourdan, a citizen of the United States, who has been appointed foreign secretary. The treasury department rules that " it cannot approve the establishment of coal ceal iug stations for Bteam vessels te take off domestic coal for use en beard foreign vessels without indirectly making such coaling stations ports of entry, which would be contrary te law." Gen. J. A. Ekin, colonel and assistant quartermaster general, will be placed en the retired list The following naval offi cers will be retired this year : Commedore A. C. Rhind, en October 31st ; Rear Ad miral J. M. B. Clitz, December 1st and Pay director J. S. Cunningham, December 23d. Secretary Felger arrived at Cleveland, Ohie, yesterday en the revenue cutter Jehnsen, from a cruise en the Upper Lakes. He will go this morning te his home in Geneva, N. Y., and cxpeets te reach Washington next week. The grand jury at New Orleans yester day suggested that a crematory be estab lished under the direction of officers of tne charity hospital, for the purpose of burning the bodies of persons who die of contagious diseases. The mine operators of the Massilien dis trict of Ohie, at a meeting yesterday, re fused te grant the request of the miners for higher wages. A telegram from Panama says the new tariffs for telegrams via Galveston, are : Chili, $3.07; Buenes Ay res, $2.82; Uru guay, $3.25 per word te and from the United States. JAVA LOSES 60,000 LIVES. Th9 Straits or Hand Obliterated and Vil lages Burled Disappearance of Islands. A dispatch te Lloyds' at Londen, from Batavia, estimates the less of life by the volcanic eruptions at CO, 000. The disaster is the most' terrible and devastating of modern times. Fer forty-eight hours the shocks of earthquake have inereased in violenee. Streams of burning lava poured down into the valleys, inundating villages and carrying death and flames te the most populous places. In the Straits of Sunda, the most important ehannsl of navigation between the sea of Java and tna Indian Ocean, islands have been swallowed up, the coast line changed or entirely obliter ated, andeiery lighthouse has been swept away. This important strait, sixty miles in width, is new dangerous te navigation. New islands have arisen and landmarks en the coast are se altered as te make the country unrecognizable. The government is preparing te obtain new soundings of the strait Sixteen volcanes have appeared between the site where the island of Krakate for fer meily steed and Sibisie island. A part of the Bantam is an ashy desert. The cattle are starving, and the population are in despair. The Seengepan volcano was for many hours enveloped in an tnormeus luminieus cloud, which gradually increased in size until it formed a canopy of lurid red and whitish gray ever a wide extent of territory. During this time the erup tions increased and streams of lava poured incessantly down the sides of the meun tains, sweeping everything before them. Where a stream et lava entered an arm of the sea or came in contact with the water of a river, the incandescent lava produced boiling heat and rapid vaporization. The fissures that epened en this thin crust as it solidified ou the stream of lava emitted torrents of vapor extending high into the the air and making a tremendous seething sound. The air was filled with dense black smoke and rolling o'euds of flame, which seemed te envelop and agitate the earth with torrents of burning lava rushing into the sea. The rear of the flatuss and ' hiss ing of the water became almost deafening. The returning waves rushed upon tUb shore te an unprecedented height. Between the southwestern point of the island and Gunnugg Guntur several vil lages disappeared from sight during the second night of the eruption. The num ber of dead can scarcely be estimated. Seven hundred and four bodies of victims of the disaster have been buried in the district of Tamara, and three hundred bodies in the coast village of Kramat alone and in ether and mere populous districts torrents of lava have buried whele settle ments. 8WKPT OUT TO HKA. Twe Philadelphia Olris Victims or the ratal Undertow Near ocean drove. Twe young ladies, daughters of Lewis D. Vail, of the law and order society of fuiladelpnia, were drowned in the surf at Key .hast, just south of Ocean Greve, New Jersey, Thursday afternoon. Mr. Vail and family were a cumber of a party of some thirty Philadelphians who have been spending the summer in camp near Berwick Ledge, Key East. The surf had been very high all day, and the bathing masters of Ocean Greve, Berwick Ledge and Ocean Beach had advised all persons that bathing was dangerous. At 5 o'clock when the tide was at its height the Misses Vail and two ethers of the party, a young gentleman,, and his sister, proposed going into the water. The Misses Vail, chancing te be ready first, went te the beach, and the ethers promis premis ing te fellow in a few minutes. A servant at Berwick Ledge warned them that bath ing was dangerous, but they continued en The mother and brother et the girls were sitting en the beach with some friends, when they entered the water. They had net reached as high as their waists before the undertow began carrying them rapidly out te sea. The brother, seeing the dan ger, immediately sprang into the waves and hurried te rescue them. Passing the one nearest the shore, he attempted te reach the ether, but was unable te de se. By the time he discovered his inability te get te her the one be had passed had also been carried out of his reach, and It was only by the greatest exertions that he was able te reach the shore alive. The mother who thus saw her two daughters perish and the son barely escape with life was by this time almost .frantic, and when the father, who had rushed te the shore from the camp, arrived he could only be re-! strained by feres frost foBewing the daughters te eertaia death. Seme fisher a werkjag near by same hurriedly with ropes, bat tee late. Upsst being urged te laaaeh their beat they rapHed that no beat coon live la seen a san. ine young ladies made desperate elects in their own behalf, one of them coming te the surface eight times. There were no ropes or ether safe guards at the point where they entered the water. There was a life saving station only a quarter of a mile away, but that has been closed for the summer, though it. is te be open again next Saturday. The young ladies were aged respectively sixteen and eighteen, and are spoken of as beautiful and accom plished. The shore was closely patrolled during the night in the hope of recovering the bodies, but, as the drowning occurred at high tide, it is probable fthat they have been carried far out te sea. CHIME AHD CALAMITY. Deaths by Accident ana by Design. A policeman, named McNamara, was arrested in New Yerk, yesterday, en the charge of having clubbed te death a drunken young man, named Jehn Smith, en Wednesday night. Edward F. Jeslyn, a young widower, shot and killed Miss Etta Buckingham and then committed suioide in a hotel at Elgin, Illinois, early yesterday morning. Jealousy was the cause. Paul Breesser, ei Jersey City, shot him self dead yesterday morning upon the grave of his wife, who was buried en Tuesday last They had been married only six months. William Weeds, a bricklayer, 40 years old, yesterday fell through the hatchway of the new building en Garden street, near Weed, Philadelphia, from the fourth fleer te the basement, and died seen after being admitted te the Pennsylvania hos pital. Rev. Hewell Gardner, who was badly scalded in the Riverdale explosion, died yesterday morning. Professer Stuart Phelps, of Northamp ton, Massachusetts, accidentally shot himself dead while putting a gun into a canoe at Chamberlain lake, Maine. He was in company with Rev. Newman Smyth and C. W. Farnham, of New Haven, at the time. The Troubled Waters. Earthquake waves began en the Sauce lite tide guage, near San Franeisce, at one o'clock en the morning of the 27th inst. They increased in height and were still exhibited en Wednesday. Their height was one feet and the time between their crests was about 40 minutes. It is sup posed they were caused by the earthquake in Java en the 27th inst Similar disturb ances were noted in December, 1854, when the town of Simoda, in Japan, was de stroyed by an earthquake, and in August, 18G3, wheu a succession of terrible earth quake waves breke upon the coast of Peru. The tides en Rockaway Beach were ex traordinarily high en Wednesday after noon and yesterday morning. Bath houses were swept away aud ether buildings along the beach damaged . Stabbed by Bis Playmate. Harry Lauderman, the ten year old son of Henry Lauderman, the boss at Mine Hill Gap colliery, was stabbed in the left breast some ten days age by a boy of the same age, Broek Richards, at Minersville. The wound was inflicted while the boys were at play, and was at the time said te have been accidental. The axillary artery was severed, and the wound bled profuse ly. Though everything possible was done te save the boy's life he lingered until Thursday night when, after much suffering he died. It is new said this was the third time young Riehards stabbed the unfor tunate boy. FEATURES OF THE STATE PRESS, The Scranton Republican calls the special session a " most extraordinary" one since it can neither legislate nor adjourn. The Erie Herald thinks the sooner the extra session is brought te a close the better. The Pittsburg limes gravely asserts that its town "has long been recognized as a musical centre." The Pittsburg Pest thinks the legislative appropriation bill should net contain a dollar for the pay of members when the Lagislature was net in session. The Lititz Recerd is inclined te think that if the Legislature does net adjourn at onee net one of its present members will ever be returned te it. The Chamber8bnrg Valley Spirit ad vises any individual desiring te have greatness thrust upon him te come te Franklin county te be born. The Philadelphia Chronicle Herald would like te see every campaign committee re quired by law te publish a sworn state ment of its accounts properly audited. Charles M. Schuyler has sold out his interest in the Democratic Economist of Milten, te T. J. Fister & Bres., and has accepted a position with the Miltenian. The Johnstown Democrat publishes the fact that as seen as Rebert L. Johnsten was nominated for judge in Cambria county he resigned the Pennsylvania rail road solicitership. The Moravian, in a roview of Judge Black's life and character, pronounces him " the eminent jurist, prominent writer, devout Christian and foremost citizen of the commonwealth." The best indication of a man's worthi ness, says the Williamsport Times, is the esteem in which he is held by his neigh bors ; and judged by this criterion, Tag gart and Powell stand easily in the lead of their Republican rivals. Striking rer Their Liberties Heading Herald. The citizens of Lancaster have qtruck for their liberties. They have cut down the poles which a tyrant electric light company has erected in front of their doers, and have hurled defiance at last in the teeth of the omnipotent stringers of wires. Such conduct is se unusual that it is worthy of mere than passing notice. We have become se used te bowing down and submitting te all sorts of imposition from corporations that the spectacle of a man defending his own against them challenges our admiration. When corpor ations fight each ether they de net hesi tate te cut and tear down, and break, and smash things, but private individuals have come te regard the property and acts of corporations as sacred. There is no mere reason why a corporation should be al lowed te plant an ugly pole in front of a man's deer, without making cempensa tien for the injury, than that it should be allowed te take the reef off his house, and yet people everywhere have allowed the streets te be freshly planted with these disfigurements, whenever any corporation takes it into its head te string a few wires until the streets in many places leek like a dismantled forest. The result is that they have gene en recklessly, planting mere and mere of them, and never con cerning themselves about providing a way of carrying their wires that would be less of a nuisance and annoyance. If the com panies were made te pay damages for every pole planted there would either be fewer of them or some ether plan of car rying the wires would be adopted which would abolish poles altogether. If the Lancaster men carry their fight te a suc cessful conclusion, they will be entitled te the thanks of the pole-pestered people of the entire country. A BLIGHTED CABEER. I TBK END OF AH AOVKNTUKOOS LIB'S. Battel ei "Kassaa Jacobs" Toe Story of Her Lebc tile of Dishonor Her Marriage. Philadelphia Times. The sun was going down yesterday when the gates of the massive portico of Odd Fellows' cemetery swung back te admit a solitary carriage and hearse which bore te its final resting place the body of the no torious but unfortunate Emma Thompson (Emma Jacobs), whose death occurred at the almshouse en Monday last Frem that time until the burial the body remained in the custody of William Hill Moere & Ce., undertakers, en Arch street, te whose care Mrs. Thompson had consigned her body previous te her death. Care had been taken te keep from the public the day and the hour of the funeral,but from early in the morning until after 4 o'clock the undertaker's office was besieged by men, women and children, asking the privilege of looking upon the face of the dead woman. Among these who called were lawyers and merchants,and old men whose lives had been practically ended years age ; men te whom perhaps the presence of the dead was a leminder et ether days. They came te the deer, paused irresolutely as though ashamed te enter, and then passed quietly up the steps and into the office. Many women came. Seme had known the deceased woman in Bryan's court ; some had been her tenants. A few were aged wemenrelicts of the stage, whom she had known and befriended when influence and fortune were at command. Timid in Ueatn. The coffin was unopened and all went away without looking upon the face of the dead. It was the woman's wish. Her last request had been that her body might net be exposed te the gaze of the curious. The body was clad in black and reposed in a plain but handsome walnut case. A silver plate bore the inscription : : KuKATuoxraeir, : : Died August 27, 1883, : : Aged 78. : a A few minutes after four a hearse and a single cab drew up te the deer of the un dertaker's office. The coffin was deposited in the hearse, three men sprang into the cab and rapidly drove away te the ceme tery. At the grave there was no ceremony. The bell was tolled In the Uiual formal manner. The few men present as mourn ers reverentially raised their hats as the coffin was lowered into the grave and then re-entering the carriage, drove away. There were many, however, who had come te witness this last scene. They were mostly women, long past the prime of life. They had known the deceased well. One had been her dressmaker, an other a confidential friend and still an other had known her kindness when poverty had stared her in the face. All had for her memory a pleasant word; charity covered the evil of the woman's career. Her life had been impure, but her kindness unfailing. Whether Mrs. Thompson left any prop erty is yet unknown. Her effects are new in the hands of Greenwood Smith, 133 North Sixth street, and will net be exam ined before te-morrow. The Sorrow et a Sister. Early yesterday morning a woman about CO years of age entered the archway at the entrance of the almshouse and asked the gateman if she could see Emma Thompson. She was evidently a stranger and her clothing was dusty with travel. The gateman looked curiously at the woman a minute and said : The woman seemed thunderstruck and, sinking into a chair, burst into tears. "Who are you ?" asked the gateman. "I am her sister," said the stranger; "I have net seen her for many years." She bad come from Lancaster in the morning. She had only recently learned the whereabouts of her erring relative. Then she came only te find her dead. The story of Emma Jacobs' life is a seccessien of romances, and references te her remarkable career have already been published in the Times. The downfall which led her te seek a life of shame in Philadelphia was always asserted te be tne result of intimacy with a man who, born near the home where her early days were spent, finally reached a position high in the gift of the people. In after years the remarkable fascination she had for him was renewed, under circumstances which created for them both a national notoriety. Followed te Dishonor. Her life in Philadelphia began when little past fifteen years of age Her re markably handsome face and figure, the grace of her carriage and the fine conver sational abilities with which she was en dowed immediately drew about her a host et admirers ; men prominent in position vied with each ether te win her favor and her name became a byword in theatre and elnb. This part of her life has been frequently told. The story of hermarriage with the Rev. Mr. Thompson has proba bly beeu long forgotten. Thompson was the pastor of the Church of the Disciples, that steed en Fifth street. He first saw Emma Jacobs when caught in the rain one night. She sought shelter in the corridor of the little cbnrch. He leaned her an umbrella. The next day be called at her residence. Acquaintance ripened into friendship. Thompson was a married man, with children.. His residence was en Wal nut street His wife heard of his frequent visits te Miss Jacobs and left his home. The matter came te the attention of the members of the church, a trial was insti tuted and the pastor was discarded. Dis owned by church and people, Thompson went te New Yerk. Emma Jacobs followed him there, a divorce was procured and they became man and wife. He died en January 25, 1865, and his body rests be side the woman whose life blended se tragically with his. Thompson has frequently been mistaken for Charles Vansant, who died at the almshouse three years age and who was commonly supposed te ba the woman's hnsbaml. Vansant was a lawyer, whose office was en Fifth street below Walnut. Fer years there had been between him and Emma Jacobs the most friendly inti macy. Seme said he loved her. Shortly after the death of his father and the family estate had been placed in his hands for adjudication, he was suddenly spirited away and under a certificate of insanity placed in a madhouse ; first at Kirk bride's, then at Danville and finally at the almshouse. Here the woman dis covered him and henceforth her life was devoted te his comfort. Leng confinement had finally crazed his brain and he no longer knew the woman whose friendship had once been se much te him. He died at the almshouse three years age and was buried beside her husband. Almest the last words uttered by Emma Jacobs, as relatcd by the attendant at her-bedside, were : "There is an official at Washing ton te day who once was pleased te claim my friendship. He is new rich and hen ered, while I am dying in the poorhouse, without a friend." They Present an unsightly Appearance. Lititz Recerd. Lancaster's people de net appear just exactly pleased by the erection of the electric light poles along her principal Btreets. We de net wonder at them. The long lines of poles along North Queen and ether streets de present an unsightly ap pearance and considerably mar the at tractiveness of the town. Tne wires should be laid underground, an action which will at no distant period be executed exten- I sively. I FaOSsONAX.. Montgomery Blair left only 475,000, when he was supposed te be worth at least a quarter of a million. Chas. A. Wardkn, for fifteen years general freight and passenger agent of the Southern Central railroad, died at Auburn, New Yerk, yesterday. Captain Eads has been invited te at tend a meeting in Paris, the purpose of which is te consider the question of the improvement of the river Seine. Miss Prescott, the actress, whose un fortunate venture with Oscar Wilde's "Vera" has recently made her conspicu ous, is called a "sere head" by an nngal lant contemporary. Prince Bismarck arrived at Salzburg yesterday. He met Count Kalnoky, the Austre-Hungarian minister of foreign affairs, at the depot, and they proceeded te the hotel together. Majer Dexter G. HrrcncecK died yes terday en the steamer Lampasses, at New Yerk. He arrived from Galveston the day before. Majer Hitchcock was an ex Confederate officer and latterly a govern ment contractor. Mk. Blackburn's retirement from the speakership contest te devote his entire energy te the United States senatership will, it is said, compel Mr. Carlisle te adept a change of tactics, the latter being a candidate for both places. Governer Butler, en his arrival at Gloucester in his yacht America, was greeted with three reusing cheers from about fifty empleyes of a canning company at the wharf. The governor responded by lifting his hat Harry C. Sterner, telegraph editor of the Wheeling Register, a native of Read ing and formerly connected with the Williamsport Breakfast Table and ether newspapers, died in Wheeling en Tuesday, aged 25 years, liis young wife a few hours after his death received a telegram notifying her that her brother had been killed by the ears at Loek Haven. Sam Hine, the richest Chinaman in America, is said te have salted down $4,. 000,000. Rumer says that all the China men employed in constructing the Mexican and Texas railroads get their employment through Sam Hing, and that each China man (abent 30,000) pays him $1 a month besides a bonus for the job of work ob tained through Sam. Mrs. Millicent Garrett Fawcett, the wife of the postmaster general, is called the ablest woman in Londen. She, with her husband, is a great student of political economy and is a deep and com petent thinker en matters of public poliey. Mrs. Henrietta Mailer, of the Londen school beard, is fast making an enviable reputation as an educationist. One of the five daughters of Richard Cobden is another coming woman. Miss Jane Cob den is au active member of a Liberal club and participates in discussions of party policy. Lady Haborten, who stands at the head of the dress association, and Mrs. Jacob Bright, wife of the member from Manchester, are women of earnest purpose and independence. IJASK BALL,. A Friendly Suggestion te the Heme Clab. On account of the liberal patrenage which this city affords te the national game, there have arisen rumors te the effect that a few of the inter-state uines do de siro te play seme of their championship games here. Te permit this would be suicidal poliey en the part of the Ironsides management. Net only would it tend te belittle the home club, but it would give the death blew te that local pride in the home team's achievements, which is se chiefly instrumental in drawing large audiences te the Ironsides' grounds. Be sides, it is a matter of very considerable doubt in the Ironsides' present strength ened condition whether they could obtain any pointers in the national game from the exhibition of inter state nines. If the latter wish te play here they will be kept sufficiently busy in defeating the home club, without bringing from a distance foemen whom they consider worthy of their stcel. Te rent the grounds te visit ing nines would smack tee much of the desire te milk the local patronage of the game for all it is worth, and when this fact came te be appreciated by the public the days of baseball in this city would be numbered. It is said that Manager Myers, of the Harrisburg club, lest his head the ether day when he expelled Burns, at Wilming ton. The young fellow was back again yesterday, and played a rattling game at third base in Brooklyn. The new uniforms will be worn to morrow by the Ironsides, in the game with Sam Field's nine. The Patriot, of Harrisburg, thinks if their club does net wiu the championship the Actives will, but it must net go out of the state. Frem appearaucc3 new it will leave the state, and very few people out side of Harrisburg will be sorry, as the nine of that town have very few friends anywhere, and net oue lcs3 than they de sire. A movement is en feet te organize an independent baseball association, and for that purpese representatives from Chica go, St. Leuis, Indianapolis,Pittsburg,New Yerk, Philadelphia, Brooklyn and Hart Hart eord will meet October 12 in Pittsburg. It is the intention of the new organization te ignore the "eleven men" rule new in vogue in the league aud American associa tion, and te make a number of alterations in the playing rules. The error column in the baseball aver age is spoiling a number of geed players. Toe mauy are playing for a geed record and will net raake an great effort for a ball if they think they will make an error by it. The error column should be abol ished and the players standing fixed en the put outs and assists taken. Wilmington Gazette. Jenes, who has been a member of the Ironsides club for a short time, was re leased last evening. In te morrow's game Sixsmith will catch for Hofferd. Uituies Flayed yesterday. At Baltimore 7, Cincinnati 5 ; Pittsburg Allegheny 14, Columbus 4; Chicago Chicago 9, Cleveland 1 ; Detroit Buffalo G, Detroit 4 ; Wilmington Quicksteps 27, Active 7 ; Brooklyn Brooklyn 3, Harris burg 0 ; New Yerk St. Leuis 4, Metro politan 1 ; Bosten Bosten 5, New Yerk 3 ; Philadelphia Providence 11, Philadel phia 5 ; Athletic 8, Louisville 7 ; Werntz 9, Hartville 1. mere New lfulldings. The list of new buildings recently erected or new in course of erection in this city, as published in the Intelligencer en Wednesday, was net quite complete. Erisman & Eicholtz are erecting for Pat rick Kelly, corner of East Chestnut and Shippen streets, a fine new two story brick residence, en the site of the old one-story house ; and for Themas Given, en North Lime street, a two story back building. Mr. Erisman has put up for himself en Marien alley, a very large and complete two-story carpenter shop. 'Pinafore' by Heme Talent. On Thanksgiving night this sparkling opera will be given in Fulton opera house by a company composed entirely of home talent with an orchestra of twenty pieces and handsome costumes. Large boa Flower. At Bunk's grocery, East King street, there is a very large sun flower en exhibi tion. It was raised, by Jehn Landis, of Prince street end measures 16 inches across. EDUCATIONAL. KBOriMlie OF TBK PUBLIC SUllOOLM. sat or the Jfali Term Meeting; et Teachers Designation or the Scheel Uutrlcts. The summer vacation having ended, the fall and winter term or the public schools will commence en Monday next. Ameotingef the teaehers will be held in the high school building te-morrow for interchange of views en school matters. The city superintendent informs us that he will meet such of the patrons as wish te obtain information in regard te the schools in his office at 7 o'clock te morrow evening. This will be doubt ba a great convenience te many of the patrons, who will find it te their advantage te call to morrow, as the following will most hkely be a busy week. Following are the several school dis tricts arranged by the beard of directors, for the admission of pupils te the scveral new publie schools of the city : James street : The district from which the James street primary schools will re ceive pupils is included between the Quarry ville railroad en the cast, the mid dle of West Lemen street en the south, and the city limits en the west and north ; the distriet for the secondary sahoels here has the same boundaries, except en the south, where it is bounded by the middle of Walnut street. , New street : The district from which the New street schools will receive pupils is bounded en the north and east by the city limits, en the south by West James te Duke, thence by Frederick te the city limits, and en the Pennsylvania railroad. Lemen street primary schoels: This district is bounded en the north by the southern line of the New street district, en the east by the city limits, en the south by West Walnut between the Pennsylvania railroad and North Queen street, thence te East Chestnut te Lime, thence by the Pennsylvania railroad te the eastern city limits. These are aleu the limits for the lower grade secondary schools for girls, and for boys, except en the south, where the limit is East King, and en the east, where the limit is Shippen, between East King and the'Tennsylvania railroad. The higher grade secondary school for girls includes the New street district, and the higher scendary for boys extends te West Walnut and East King en the south, te the city limits en the north and cast and the western limit is North Water north te West Walnut, thence North Queen te Centre Equcre. The Ann street district extends te the Pennsylvania railroad en the north, te the city limits en the east, te and including Shippeu street en the west and te East King, between Shippen and Plum, en the south, thence te Jehn btrect, te the east ern limits of the city. The Maner street district is included be tween West King en the north, Derwart street inclusive en the east toManer,south of which the run forms the eastern lln "t. and the city limits en the west aud south. Pupils applying for admission te auy of the schools must briug satisfactory evi dence that they are six yeais of age aud have been vaccinated. They can obtain permits from auy of the directors or from the city superintendent These applying for admission te the higher schools should apply te the latter for examination. Ap plications for permits te attend schools outside of the established lines must be made te the superintending committee. THE CIVIUZKD IXU1AXS. A Visit te their I'leasant Lauc. inter County Humeri. On Thursday afternoon Capt. IC.II. Pratt, superintendent of the Indian industrial school at Carlisle, paid a visit te Lancaster, and in company with a representative of the Intelligencer took a drive via Willow Street Roflen, and Strasburg te see a few of the Indians from the school who have been spending the summer with families in the above named places. ' The first place visited was the fine farm and residence of Mr. C. R. Ilcrr, near ltoften. Here was found Frank Merris, a stalwart, swarthy Omaha Indian, seme 17 years old, who has been working fur Mr. Herr for several months When Capt. Pratt reached the place, he found Frank in the held plowing with a pair of horses, and doing his work as well as the white boys, who were with him in the same field. Frank said he liked farm work very well, was attached te Mr. Ilcrr and his family; but would like te go back te the Carlisle school in a week or two, after the crops have been gathered. He was in excellent health, except that he is troubled with an affection of the left eye. He was told by Captain Pratt that he could return te the school as seen as Mr. Ilcrr could spare him ; and Mr. Herr thought it would be better for him te return te the Carlisle school during the winter than te remain en the farm and go te the district school, where necessarily he would be put in classes of boys much younger than him self. Mr. Ilerr's farm of 1G3 acres is in excellent cultivation, his lawn all aglow with beautiful flowers and his stone man sion, one of the, eldest ia the county, having been built ene hundred and twenty years age. The farm ha been in the Herr family ever since the time of Wm. Peun. The next farm visited was that of B. II. Snavely, in Lime valley. Here was found Jehn Primaux, and intelligent Penco In dian boy, perhaps 20 years old. IIe has been two seasons working en a farm, earns $10 a month and his beard, aud is quite contented and happy in Mr. Snavely's pleasant home. He tee wants te go back te Carlisle and sec hid comrades, and after spending a short time with them return te the farm for the winter. Beth he and Frank Merris are ambitions te make money, and are willing te work for it Frem Snavely's we dreve te the fine residence of Jehn Bachman, a short dis tance south of Strasburg. Here we found Mary North, a bright intelligent Arrapa hoe Indian girl, who has been in his family for two years. She was delighted te see Capt. Pratt and was quite sorry be had net time te take snpper that he might see hew proficient she has become in the art of cooking. She is much attached te Mr. Bacbman'a family, where she has an ex cellent home and enjoys all the comforts and refinements that belong te the family of a gentleman farmer. Frem Mr. Bachman's we dreve te Mr. Geerge N. Lefevre's farm, aboutamile north of Strasburg, who bas in his keep ing Minnie Atkins, a very robust and pleasant looking Creek Indian girl. She recognized the captain while he was yet a considerable distance from the house, and fan out te meet and welcome him. Mr. Lefevre was net at home, but Mrs. Lo Le fevre gave Minnie an excellent character both as te conduct and proficiency as a housekeeper. Minnie is well contented with her place, but, like the ethers, is anxious te get back te Carlisle, at least for a short time, te see her Indian com panions, nearly all of whom will be pre sent at the reopening of the school early in September. Capt. Pratt readily grant ed her permission te return, as he did te the ethers. As the day was far spent and the cap tain had an engagement te reach Dowing Dewing town, in the evening, his visit was necessarily short, and hurrying along te Bird-in-Hand, he took the cars at that station, and his companion, after a pleasant drive through a delightful country, re turned te Lancaster. One of tna Secretaries. Harry W. Stcin.ef the Inquirer publish ing house this city, was one of the secre taries of the Greenback convention at Williamsport yesterday. - -r! I)' M V1 vrffl?- -?-. gte. -H.' . &- fyr .J,
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers