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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1880-09-09

In lons-vsnishei ase, whose varied story
No record has TODAY
So long ago expired its grief and glory
There hOuri.hed far AWAY
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-29

ALL the prominent presidential aspir-
ants appear to be coming in for share
in the rather promiscuous distribution
of honors now in progress in various sec
tions of the country. Here at home we
have the adherents of Hancock, Tilden,
Seymour, Field, Bayard, Randall and
half dozen other good men and true,
claiming a portion of the Pennsyl-
vania delegation to Cincinnati; the
sage of Gramercy is credited with
a clean sweep of the Nutmeg state
the willy secretary of the treasury has
been apparently taking good care of the
fences in Ohio, and the Sherman boom
gets a material lift at the hands of the
Buckeye Republicans while the Pal
metto state stands by the man horseback.
Blaine, the plumed knight will come
in for his share to-day when California
is expected to send greeting across to
continent to Names g favorite SON.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-29
Briefer spelling.

In September, 1879, the Chicago Tribune
began some authorizations in common spell
ing, under the title of reforms, it's editor
in-chief, Mr.. Joseph Medili, being 4 strong
advocate for a new system of orthog-
raphy. The changes aimed chiefly at the
elimination Of certain supertluous endings
of words that had been imported into the
language from the French, such as ue in
dialogue, catalogue, pedagogue, ETC.,
where the preceding vowel is short :;
the dropping of the final in such
words as definite and favorite, and the
final te in cigarette, quartette, ETC.,
and the change of ph to + in phonetic,
philosophy, phantom, etc. Last Sunday
the Tribune published letters from
one hundred representative men, in
Guiding twenty presidents of leading
colleges and forty five principals
of educational institutions, all favor.
ing the new spelling, which has also
been adopted by the Utica Herald, the
Toledo Blade, the Library Journal,
the Princeton Reciew, the New York
Independent, and number of news
papers less widely known. The English
language is no doubt incumbered by
load of useless silent letters, but it will
take a large amount of education to recon-
cile the masses of the people to all the
changes proposed.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-29
HELL CANON MINES.


HH via AuncAsteFl2n III Luck
copy of the 1draace published at AL
buquerque, New Mexico, contains an ar
ticle OH the mines in Hell Canon, not far
from Albuquerque, in some of which
". I. Strachan, late of this city, is inter
ested. We coRy the following paragraph:
The Star mine near the Milagaos and
Consolidated mines was discovered in Au-
gust last by Mr.. w. +. Strachan, and is
owned by him, DIR. j. w. Thomas and Mai.
Harry r. Whiting. and Messrs. Sanches
and Anaya, of the Ranches dc Atrisco.
4 shaft has been sunk by these gen
tlemen to 4 depth of about thirty feet in
quartz carrying free gold. The vein stuff
for the entire area of the shaft from the
surface to the bottom assays from $50 to
over 5000 per ton. Considerable surface
prospecting has been done on the same
location. 1t is the intention to continue
the Star shaft for about twenty feet more
and then drift for the walls The parties
last mentioned are the owners also of the
Washington and Reserve lOdes in the
Immediate vicinity and have down upon
the Washington two shafts of fifteen feet
each and upon the Reserve one of fifteen
feet, with good mineral prospects.
& Co. have also sunk ten feet on
their Waif lode OH the north side of the
canon.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-29
G1le CITY Printing.

Last evening bids for the city printing
for the official year were opened in the
mayors Office by the committee on print
ing of city councils, and the work was dis
tributed as follows, the contract in every
case being given to the lowest bidder:
Annual report of the finance committee
to Joseph Schmid at 60 cents per page.
Mayors warrant book to Joseph Schmid
at s..
Drafts of ordinances to Jno. A. Hiestand
at 20 cents.
Complaints, warrants and commitments
to Harry l.. Hartmyer at 50 per thousand
each.
Note heads to JnO. A. Hiestand at s2. 80
per thousand.
Tax notices to Jno. A. Hiestand at 20
cents per thousand.
Water rent notices to Inquirer printing
company at 90 cents per thousand.
Envelopes to Inquirer printing company
at So per thousand.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-29
Welded.

At noon yesterday, at the residence of
Hon. Thomas E. Franklin, his daughter
Annetta was married, by Bishop Howe,
assisted by her brOther-in-law, the Rev. Mr..
Ioskins, of Elmira, N. Y, to John W. f.
Bausman, esq, only son of Jacob BaIs-
man, president of the Farmers national
bank Of this city. The bride being still in
mourning, the wedding was a quiet one,
only the family and near relatives bein.
present. The guests were in full dress, and
the bride was elegantly attircd in the
conventional white, as was also her sister
Blanche, who assisted her Us bridesmaid,
Walter NJ. Franklin, esq, acting as Mr..
Bausman's best man. The beautiful service
of the Episcopal church was performed in
the alcove, imprOvised as a chancel, in the
south end of the parlor, under the light OF
gas and candle. The many presents were
beautiful and costly. Augustine was
caterer. At 2 p. III. the wedding pair left
for Washington on the 10th of May they
sail for Europe for a summers absence.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-29
PERSONAL.

Gen. GRANT was fifty-seven years old on
Wednesday.
Congressional Delegate CANNON, OF
Utah, is an Englishman, round and red,
and has four wives.
DR.. J. G. HOLLAND, though great ad-
mirer of the literary productions of Chas.
Dickens, has little respect for his character
as man.
Hayes contemplates the tender to Post
master General KEY Of a United States
judgeship in Tennessee, made vacant by
the death of Judge Trigg.
D. w. MIDDLETON, clerk of the supreme
court of the United States, died on Tuesday
night. He had been connected with the
court for more than fifty years, and was its
clerk for nearly twenty years.
The family of the late ASA PACKER will
present a very beautiful and costly memor-
ial altar and reredos to St. Marks church,
Mauch Chunk, where Mr.. Packer served
for many years as senior warden.
A clergyman named HOYLE was SO indis-
Greet us 10 TeSISIeI Ills ndI.ic ht = HoCoi III
Omaha. Within half an hour no fewer
than fourteen persons sent their cards to
his room to ascertain if flush royal
couldn't beat four aces.
Archbishop PURCELL said, in recent
sermon at Cincinnati II now sOlemnly
declare before Almighty God and this con-
gregation that not one dollar Of the money
that was entrusted to my care was lavished
in luxury by myself or agents, or expend-
ed in any manner for our personal benefit ;
and no matter how unworthy l may ap-
pear before your eyes, humbly ask that
you pray to Almighty God for me-" His
health has been very bad since the financial
disaster i'm his diocese.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-29
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
LOOkin. at Us.


a correspondent of the West Chester
Local. NeWs has taken drive from that
borough to Lancaster and this is what he
says he saw after leaving the Gap: ''In
the morning we made an early start, cross
ING into the Pequea valley. We had a
ride through as pretty farm country as
there is to be found on the face of the
earth. On every side men and boys were
to be seen plowinS, rolling and narrowing
the ground, many using three fine horses
abreast i'll their operations. The houses
and barns looked neat and clean women
were out whitewashing fences and garden
ing; all seemed life and activity. Lancas-
ter is an old county, all of her people seem
to be old, and the children appear old, the
youngest say about forty. We noticed
many pretty little girls wearing the same
kind of caps as did their mothers, and look
ing very Old-fashioned. About one mile
east of the city of Lancaster we cross the
big Conestoga creek. On top of the hill,
to the left, before entering the built-up
portion of the town, are the new county
almshOuses, built of brick and of nlasnifi-
cent proportions. A little further to the
right is the county prison. Both proper
ties are fronted upon beautifully laid ont
and neatly kept grounds. The next build
ing of Importance is the courthouse on
King street. In outward appearance it
looks as though it might be worthy of the
great county that here keeps it's most i'm
portant records and dispenses justice to
all. Lancaster city seems to be largely
of One-storicd houses. Why is
this Is it because the worthy Dutch
burghers drink so much lager beer that it
is inconvenient to carry it up many flights
of stairs by evening? -
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-29
THE BRlBERS.
Sad Spectacle in the Harrisburg Jail

A correspondent at Harrisburg writing
from that place and speaking of
the sentenced riot bribers says: Your
reporter was around there tonight and
saw very sad sight. Colonel Humber
ger stood close to the cell door talking like
maniac and protesting that no one
should make him sleep there. Gentle
men, l want to go to my hotel l must go
there [ cannot stay here. My wife's
dying; let me co. he cried repeatedly.
Kemble looks more like a corpse that a
living man. Old Jesse Crawford, who
will be seventy years old on the 2Sth of
June, lies Frustrated on his pal
let, physical wreck. But year
or two ago he was the Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress in his district.
Salter comes close to the cell door and pro
tests most emphatically that they have
been dishonorably dealt with by Attorney
General Palmer, who, he says, gave his
word that they should be pardoned before
they consented to plead guilty. Petroff
sits in his cell tearing newspaper into
bits and noticing no one Over in the Lo-
chiel hotel sits Mrs. Kemble in her room,
almost a raving maniac. She persisted in
coming here against her husbands S
wishes, and since his sentence her
friends fear for her sanity. Represen-
tative Smith awaits his trial next Thurs
day and looks as terribly depressed as the
men who were sentenced to-day. Lewis e.
Cassidy is here to defend him. Wolfe az
rived tonight and the other cases will be
prosecuted without delay. He regrets he
was unable to be on hand this morning."
A national press dispatch says: ''It is
also reported that Rumbergers aged wife
is lying prostrated with severe sickness
in Armstrong county. He has son-in-
law who is Presbyterian clergyman, and
the disgrace is keenly felt by his rela
tives.'
The severe sentence has created 4 pro-
found feeling among Republican politi-
clans. 1t is believed a movement will be
started at once to drive Palmer from the
attorney generals Office.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-29

speak, but his beaming countenance said
to the enthusiastic delegates more plainly
than language could express it: Il did it;
what do you think of it, Randall was
again greeted with a tempest of cheers
as he hurried down the main aisle to his
seat, and Wallace quietly dropped down in
one of the rear rows. Nobody knew Just
what was done but the convention knew
that the war was ended, and it did not care
to inquire into details. The spirit of re-
sentiment suddenly flew from thousand
faces like the sun just flashing from behind
dark cloud, and peace seemed never to
have worn more lustrously-silvered wings
for the democracy than at that moment.
Randall and Wallace.
The crowd thundered for Randall, and
he finally rose under evident embarrass-
ment, but his welcome reassured him.
He spoke excitedly, but with admirable
directness, and disarmed his factious foes
by his broad utterances III favor of unity.
Then followed hearty calls for Wallace.
He sat still for few moments, as if doubt
full of his reception by multitude that had
been admitted to cheer the other side, but
the call increased until the hostile galleries
We're seized with the infection, and he
finally arose to be welcomed by all with
the heartiest enthusiasm. Even the crowd
that had been tick eted to scoff at him
shouted loudest in the gallery, and Ran
dali electrified the whole body by rising
and swinging his hat to emphasize the ova-
ton to his old foe. Wallace had to wait
long for silence, and when it came, he
spoke with tremulous voice, but with
the eloquent directness that seemed to
ptface the last VeStira of resentment from
the convention. Dill, the head of the
peace commissioners, was called for, and
the enthusiastic homage paid to him was
an emphatic assurance of the esteem in
which his offices in behalf of harmony were
appreciated. n
Thus ended what seemed but an hour
before to be one of the most vindictive and
destructive of political battles, and the
faces which entered the hall in sullen
gloom rushed to dinner with wreath of
smiles.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-29
TOBACCO PLANTS.
DepredatiOns by Bugs,

Lancaster county is not the only place in
which the young tobacco plants are being
destroyed by bugs. The Clarksville. Tenn.
Leaf, of April %, has the following inter-
views with planters, showing the extent of
the damage done by bugs:
NJ. c. Johnson was found at Hamnton
station and says IL sOwed fourteen beds.
they have eaten the plants clean from
thirteen. have one small bed they have
not finished yet and don't care a d.
W ish they would eat every plant in the
United States. They are eating the plants
clean in Pondy woods, something that was
never known before. My grange Guthrie
srange( report their plants nearly all de-
stroyed."
W. W. McMurry says: My plants arc
seriously damaged. but if can check them
now think will have enough to set nv
CROP
Mr.. Henry Reason says '.My beds are
as clean Of plants as this floor. examined
them this morning and 4 plant could not
be found on them with a forty horse power
magniiying glass"
Reporter What are you going to do
about it?"
Reason-''l am going fishins.'
ID. hoSS SttNl he puWS are pltiNp
my plants up. do not regard my pros
poets for plants as worth fig
o. ID. Battle: The bugs have about
destroyed by first sowing. Have burnt, re-
sowed and canvassed."
F. Ewing: Z" They have destroyed two
beds, and the prospect now is the bugs will
finish the remainder in week.
Gutfin and Son, cultivating the Busrap
farm. These gentlemen were found on
their knees at one of their plant beds, and
said: - This bed is all We have left eur
other two beds are as clean as your hand,
but there are right smart left on this one.
if we could only stop the cussed things.
What's good for emp Reporter
. Well, from your report, would think
that tobacco plants agreed with them fine
ly.' &. and son. Oh. D.. l mean what
will kill the d things?'' Reporter
9 That is 4 cOnunlrum that has been going
the rounds of tobacco growers for the past
two hundred years; when it is solved we
will answer your question:
The farmers interviewed plant about 200
acres of tobacco.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-29
HEELERS RUN WILD.
Their Disgraceful Conduct in Harris,
Yesterday

Their Disgraceful Conduct in Harrisburg
Yesterday.
Dispatches to the morning papers give
details of disgraceful conduct ON the part
of the several hundred strikers, bruisers
and heelers from Philadelphia who ran
into Harrisburg yesterday. Immediately
on their arrival in the state capital they
went on the rampage fighting, shooting
and behaving in a generally disreputable
manner. Early yesterday morning Fire
Commissioner Frank Haggerty shot at a
man named Corners, of the coroner's office
the bullet cutting out a piece Of cheek
gerty is under $1,000 bail. Michael
and he is under 81, 900 bail. James O'Neal
was arrested for drawing revolver, and
was bailed in $1,000. Thomas Ryan and
Richard Trenwith are in Jail for trial for
carrying concealed weapons and rioting.
Jos NJ. Guigan, John keene, James White,
John McCabe, James Smith, Thomas
Brenner, Philip Griffin, John Welsh,
William Medal. Harry Jeifry, Henry
Sharkley, Joseph Conner and Albert
johnson, are all in Jail for rioting, and
some of them have an additional
charged against them Ofcarrying concealed
weapons. The worst riot occurred in
Third street last evening. when mob of
almost hundred drew their revOlvers and
attempted to rescue one of their number
who was in the hands of the police on the
way to the mayors Office Pockets with
out number have been picked and the swell
mob has been reaping harvest. 1t is the
worst gang that has ever visited Har-
risbug. Not even at the last Inaugural
tion, when there were thirty thousand
strangers in the city, was it half so bad
The mayor has increased the police force.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-29
Public Building in Lancaster.

A special dispatch to the Philadelphia
Eeening Telegraph is as follows: "Thc
House committee on public buildings and
grounds have agreed to grant authority for
the erection of public building at Lancas-
ter, Pa, and bill fixing the limit will be
reported to the House at the next call of
the committee. Representative A. Herr
Smith has been assiduously at work before
the committee ever since the meeting of
Congress, producing statistical and other
information by which he has successfully
established the necessity for the work, and
is confident, after comforting with num-
Der of influential members of the House.
that he will be able to secure the passage
of bill of this character"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-29
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

Charles w. Haymers was hanged at
Winnemucca, Nevada, on Tuesday, for
the murder of I. X. West, of Paradise.
]. J. Hoover, who killed saloon-keeper
two years ago, was taken from the Jail in
ing and lynched.
Colonel Bodine, Of New York, has been
unanimously chosen captain Of the new
rifle team that is to 60 to Ireland on the
Sd of June.
The National association of fine writin 9
paper manufacturers, in session at Spring
field, Mass, voted, yesterday, to reduce the
price of all grades of paper on the regular
schedule list one cent per pound.
The grand jury of Philadelphia yester-
day examined officials in the Offices of clerk
of the court of quarter sessions, district
attorney and recorder, in reference to the
forgery of tavern license bonds.
William CASTOR was badly beaten by
Thomas Wright in a quarrel about di-
vorced woman in Kansas City, Mo-, on
Tuesday night. Yesterday morning
Wright was shot dead by CASTOR.
Mrs. Houstin, living near Austin,
Texas, attempted, in fit of insanity, on
Tuesday, to kill her five children. She
drove knitting needles through their ears,
intending to pierce the brain. One is dead
and two others are seriously injured.
The steamboat Alice. from Pittsburgh
for st. Louis. struck the bridge at Louis
vile yesterday morning and sank. Her
passengers and crew were taken off, and it
is believed no lives were lost. She is badly
broken and twisted, and likely to prove a
total wreck.
The seventh annual convention of the
National butter. eggs and cheese associa-
tion met in Indianapolis yesterday. Two
hundred delegates were present. They
were welcomed by the governor of the
strte and mayor of the city.
John Tully and Luke Kane, of Olean, n.
Y, went on Tuesday night to the house of
an old man, named Smith, who lives near
that town, picked quarrel with him, and
beat him savagely. Smiths son, a boy of
thirteen years, interfered and shot Kane
dead. Tully ran away, but soon returned
with constable, who arrested the boy.
A fire in Lambertville, N. j., yesterday
morning, destroyed machine shop, sew
eral offices and q locomotive, all tie prop
erty of the Pennsylvania railroad. The
store of David Deckers, at West Hunting
don, Pa. was destroyed by an incendiary
fire yesterday morning. l.. Hunton &
Co.'S croquet factory, in Clinton, Me-, was
burned yesterday. Loss $4,000
The body well-dressed man, apparent
ly GO years of age, was found in Tremly
creek, at Bergen Point, N. j., yesterday
morning. There was brick in each
pocket of his spring ovcrcoat, and a letter
was found upon him addressed Mrs.
James Grimley, of Brooklyn, as his
daughter, showing that he intended sui
eide.
There was an exciting time in the city
council of Leadville, Colorado, on Tuesday
night. The Democratic majority decided
one contested seat vacant, and gave an
other to a Democrat. The Republicans
left the room amid great confusion, and
the officers drew rcvolvers and demand
ed order. Many in the audience also
drew pistols, and bloodshed was threat
ened for a time. At last accounts the
Leadvillians had quieted down.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-29
OBITUARY..
Death OF Jacob l.. Baker.

Jacob l.. Baker, son of the late Rev.
John c. Baker, formerly pastor of the
Trinity Lutheran church, this city, died
suddenly in Philadelphia Tuesday after
noon of diphtheria. He was an active bust
ness man and genial, g-hcarted gentle
man. He was "a years of age and leaves
two sons, one of them conductor OH the
Pennsylvania railroad, and the other 4
clerk in the great jewelry house Of BaiIy,
Banks & Biddle, Philadelphia. His re-
mains were brought to this city for inter-
ment. The funeral took place from the
Pennsylvania railroad depot at 2 o'clock
this afternoon and was attended by many
sOrrowing friends.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-29
The Cyclones Work.

The cyclone which wrought such de.
struction of life and property at Macon,
Miss, on Sunday night, struck the railroad
depot and houses in that locality about
$40 o'clock. and had it's origin short dis
tance from the principal scene of disaster,
extending, as far as has been heard, ten
miles from Macon, and blowing down sew
eral negro cabins on the Reed place, but
iniuring no one. The path of the
cyclone was $50 yards wide. Mrs.
Horton was decapitated, and her head was
not found at last accounts. One family
took refuge in celler and escaped, except
a negro girl, who was killed before reach
ing it. A car on the railroad track was
blown through house occupied by j.
Blackwell and family, injuring all, but not
A number of animals were
killed.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-29
SAD AFFLICTlON,
Stricken With the Presidential Fever

Senator Window is affected with the
presidential candidate infection very SER
iously. He considers hims elf "a very prom
inent dark horse, not too dark to be seen.
bnt just dark enough. Mr.. Conkling says
seriously that Window is his second
choice. The senator from New York will
not admit that in the nature of things
there can be second choice: but if by
some dispensation of Providence, Grant
should not be nominated, Conklihg will
labor cheerfully for Window. The sena-
tor from Minnesota has attended carefully
to the management of the Republican side
of the exodus investigation, and if nomi-
mated he could undoubtedly command the
negro vote in North Carolina, Indiana and
Kansas.