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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-05

Some Of the magistrates object to tho
publication Of the fees paid to them by the
county for dismissed cases." They say.
with truth, that in large number of cases
reported and paid far as " dismissed" the
defendants have been committed to the
county Jail or workhouse for periods rang
ing from five to ninety days, and that such
cases ought not to be classed as dismissed.
The county commissioners, however, con-
slider all cases not returned to court, as
" dismissed " by the magistrates hearing
them, and the costs are accordingly paid
by the county on presentation of the mag
istrate's bill whereas the costs in court
cases are liable to be paid by the prosecu-
tor, the defendant or the county, as a
jury may determine.
1t is due to Mayor MacGonigle to say
that all fees and costs received from the
county by him are covered into the city
treasury, and not one cent of them goes to
the benefit of the mayor.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-05
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

A fire at Palma Soriano, near Santiago
dc Cuba, has destroyed 100 habitations,
and many families are in distress.
The sale Of the Greenbrier White Sui
phur springs property to w. a. Stewart
was yesterday confirmed by the court.
The dwelling of Mr.. Fulton. a farmer,
was burned yesterday near Uxbridse, Ont.
Two of his children pershed in the flames.
dence, 3. At Observation-Disclosures, Z !;
Troy, 3. At Albany-NatiOnal, 3 Al
bany, 0.
The Now York Assembly has voted in
favor of biennial sessions of the Legisla-
turc and rejected bill to establish 4 state
board of health.
The last contest for telegraphic rights
in the South in the state courts was decided
in Georgia ON Tuesday in favor of the
American Union.
The supreme court of Georgia has re-
fused new trial to Cox, tho murderer of
Aston. He will 60 the penitentiary for
life. There is no hope of his being par
dOned.
The Long Branch hotel at Alameda,
Cal, was burned yesterday. The flames
were started by the use of coal oil to kindle
a fire, and Mary Spaulding was burned to
death.
Frank Hart, in reply to Weston's reflec-
tions on the late walk for the O'Leary
belt, offers to wager $1,000 with Weston,
that he (Hart) can repeat his performance
of 565 miles, Hart will cover any deposit
Weston may send to the Clipper.
There is to be mass meeting in the
large hall of Cooper institute on Friday
evening to express sympathy with Denis
Kearney, of California and Indignation at
his Imprisonment. Messrs. Leavitt, Ford,
Appleton, Jonas and others are it's promo
| tiers,
Nine large ice houses, owned by Wettze
| Brothers, situated in the southwestern
part of Cleveland, were destroyed by fire
soon after midnight It is supposed that
the fire originated from sparks from can
dies used by men who were getting out ice
/ late last night.
A fire at Woburn, Mass, destroyed Hen
ry Young's machine shop and E. B. Park
hurst's pattern shop. Loss on building
and the machinery, about $4,000 insur-
ance. SO, 400. Also a dwelling owned by
the Five cent savings bank-loss, $500
and the house of the hook and ladder COM
pany-loss, 1000 insured.
At Pen Yam, N. Y, yesterday, Mrs.
George Woodruff killed her two children
by drowning them in the cistern. When
found, she was in the water herself up to
her waist, with the infant of one year
dead in her arms the other child was six
years old. 1t is supposed she was insane
from pecuniary troubles. The woman
was saved, but the efforts to resuscitate
tie children prove unavailable.
AT West Point yesterday D. T. Ames,
the expert in writing, testified that in his
opinion the writer of specimen No. % was
the writeriof the note of warning to Whit
taker, or else that the writing of No. %
had been initiated. There is now talk of
a commission of experts. A new expert,
Mr.. SouthwOrth, was sworn in yesterday.
There is a general expectation at West
Point that there will soon be sensational
scene in this inquiry.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-05
Serious Charges Repeated.

We invite the Honorable John B.
Livingston, president judge of Lancaster
county, and the Honorable David w.
Patterson, associate law judge of the
same, to read the Neu Era of last even
ing, a paper of their own political per-
suasion and published by a member of
their bar.
1t charges that the courageous pro-
ceedings of Sunday, which shocked and
terrified peaceable citizens in the vicinity
of the 'Shony Park are the natural
fruits of the prostitution of the machin-
cry of justice through the agency of the
district attorneys Office, and the failure
of the court to take cognizance Of the dis
graceful tact-admitted by their own
sworn testimony in the presence of
the judges-that the district attorney
and his assistant, J. Hay Brown, act
ually jostled each other in the race to
claim the gratitude of the criminals who
had escaped through their official dere-
liction-to use the mildest phrase admis-
sible in the case"
1t also republishes an editorial from
the Philadelphia Times of November 8,
1879, endorsing it I" as the clearest, most
comprehensive summary of the events of
which the disgraceful riot of Sunday law
is only one of the natural outgrowths. :"
That article, thus endorsed, says that in
the Michael Snyder case there was
manifest prostitution of justice to par
tisan purpose" in Judge Livingston's
court, clearly presented to his attention
and to Judge Patterson's, by the undis-
puted testimony of case in which
one of them was witness and
the other the sitting judge.
1t charges that Judge Patterson was
"oblivious to the startling evidence
given in his court, clearly proving the
prostitution of justice to low political
ends and by the officers of his own tri-
bunal" and further that if Judge Liv-
ingston failed to take cognizance of it
as the NeU Era now says that he did
"he must not complain if very many of
the honest people of the county shall be
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-05

At meeting of the board of prison in
spectors ON Monday the following pre-
amble and resolution were adopted:
WHEREAS, The mayor and alderman of
the city Of Lancaster and certain Justices
of the peace of the county of Lancaster
daily commit large numbers of vagrants,
under the guise of drunken and disOrdery
persons, to the Lancaster county prison,
instead of sending them to the wOrkhOuse
to break stones for the county
ResOlued, That the prison solicitor be in
structed to call the attention of said mag
istrates to the charge delivered to the grand
jury by his honor Judge Livingston. on
April -, 1880, and TO the subsequent re-
port of the grand jury after investigating
this subject that the prison solicitor he
further instructed to take such measures
as will in his judgment relieve the over
crowded prison and secure the enforcement
of the law as laid down by the court.
In accordance with the above resolution
the prison solicitor has sent the following
notice to the mayor and aldermen of the
city and the justices of the county:
II NORTH DUKE STREET,
Lancaster, Pa, May 4, 1878.
DEAR SIE.-In compliance with a resoiu-
tiOn of the board of prison inspectors
passed yesterday, a copy of which Ienclose
you are respectfully requested to send all
vagrants brought before you to the county
wOrkhouse instead of the prison.
The law on this subject will be strict ly
enforced, and the commitment of vagrants
under the names of drunken and disorder
ly persons will be resisted on every i'll,
stance. Respectfully yours,
w. F. BEyER,
Prison Solicitor.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-05
PERSONAL.

Mr.. CHARLES S. PARNELL has announced
his intention to sit in parliament for Cork.
The aspect which SIMON CAMERON pre-
sents to the newspaper man is graphically
described by the Herald of Boston. " To the
interviewer, he is tomb" To other visi-
tors the ex-secretary is courteous and hos
pitable and likes to make them at home.
A supper was given at the Grand hotel,
Harrisburg, last night to Colonel A. C..
MOVES, the retiring state treasurer. Hon.
John ]. Pearson presided, with Judge
Henderson on his right. Toasts to the
health of Col. Noyes, State Treasurer
Butler, Auditor General Schell and Deputy
Attorney General Lyman Gilbert were
appropriately responded to by those gen.
tlemen. Judge Pearson entertained the
company in his genial way, and the affair
was altogether a very pleasant one.
Six of BRIGHAM YOUNG's daughters
have Just been excommunicated from the
Mormon church, the specifications against
them being entering and prosecuting a
suit falsely charging their fathers execu-
tors and the authorities of the church with
defrauding the heirs of the late President
Young out of 81, 900, 900, and for causing
the imprisonment in the penitentiary of
the executors, and jeopardizing the liberty
of John Taylor, president of the church.
The daughters, all of whom have husbands,
are understood to have courted excummu-
nication, and some of them say that they
are disgusted with Mormonism. All ex-
cept two are polygamic children.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-05
Because Palmer is Sick.
Reading News, Dem.


The case of Hensel and Steinman, the
disbarred editors of the Lancaster INTEL
LIGENCER, has been postponed by the su-
preme court until oath inst, owing to the
illness of Attorney General Palmer. 1t is a
curious commentary upon justice that the
recommendation for the pardon of Kemble
could receive all the desired attention at
the hands of the attorney general, who was
then already announced sick, while the
Lancaster editors are compelled to wait till
more convenient season. OF course, if
the attorney general is sick, he cannot be
expected to leave his bed at Wilkesbarre
and come to Harrisburg. 1t is only his
apparent overwillingness to serve Kemble
that gives his treatment of the INTELLI-
GENCER a suspicious look. The Lancaster
editors are entitled to an early hearing.
Judge Patterson withheld his decision an
unusually long time, and meanwhile their
practice as lawyers must be conducted by
other friendly attorneys, which, to say the
least, is not agreeable. This matter is one
in which journalists and lawyers are alike
interested, and while it is to be hoped the
delay may not be prolonged unnecessarily,
the counsel will have all this time to fairly
weigh and fully consider the legal sinuosi-
ties of the case and present it so clearly to
the court that decision will be given at
an early day.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-05

THE Philadelphia North american
does not get any of the sheriff's advertis-
ing in Philadelphia, and explains it on
the ground that it declined to recog-
nize :" the notorious John L. Hill as the
wire puller of the sheriff's Office and the
master mover of the puppets there.
Nevertheless the North american now
confesses with modification and shame
that Hill is boss, and that it and the re-
spectacle Republicans of Philadelphia
were deceived when they elected Enoch
Taylor sheriff. They were deluded by
his own false protestations and by the
misrepresentation of others, into the be-
lief that they were electing to the office
of sheriff one whose life of professed
piety and official integrity placed him be-
yond the suspicion of being made the tool
and the catspaw Of the very people
against whom the public denunciation
had been so strong rs to force the with
drawal from the ticket of the man who
had notoriously succeeded in arranging
that he was to secure the nomination. ,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-05
JUDGE BLACK.


A Strong Southern Boom For Him.
Memphis Appeal.
The Philadelphia Times, the leading
Democratic paper of its state, has brought
forward the name of Judge jeremiah Sui
Ivan Black as that Of possible Demo
cratic candidate for the presidency. No
member of the party is better entitled to
that high honor. No man of nearly
equal ability ever served a party SO un-
selfishly, with SO much determination
after results or SO successfully, and it
would be difficult to call the name of one
among the long list of illustrious Demo-
Gratis who served the country in the last
quarter of a century who has SO promptly
responded in behalf of the people, certain
ly no one who has done such work in beat
ing down the enemies of the republic, OF
its peace and prosperity, of It's integrity
and the independence of the states that
make it. His papers in criticism of the
nefarious policies of the Republican party,
and later of the third-term faction of that
party, are part of the written history Of
our time ; but these, effective as we must be-
lieve them to have been, have been far sur
passed by his services before the supreme
court in arrest of the wave of Radical
malice that threatened to crush the South
out of existence. He has always been the
true, the earnest friend of the Union.
In storm and sunshine he has made the
constitution his political guide He
opposed every enactment that did not
| square with it, and has boldly contended
for the simple faith of tho fathers.
He is the greatest intellect of our
party. AS jurist and lawyer his abilities
have long been confessed to be of the very
| highest order. This reputation rests upon
a solid foundation. He owes nothing to
the clamor and fictitious claims of friends.
A devoted student, man of principle,
thoroughly grounded in the fundamentals
Of his faith, he speaks and is Obeyed as an
almost unerring oracle. If nominated, he
can be elected. No man could arouse the
Democratic party as he can. Full
of sympathy with the present, he links
US with the past. An administra
tion under him would bring the country
back to the days when strong men presid-
ed over every department of the govern
ment, and when the American name was
respected both at home and abroad. The
appeal would gladly support him, and we
believe the whole South would eagerly
pay, SO far as making him president
could, the debt it owes him for de,
fense in her hour of need and fol
earnest efforts in her behalf in all
the sad days Of her trial and endurance,
continued without interruption to these
happier hours when the clouds are tinted
with the glad hues of hope. True to Oul
first selection for president, regarding Mr.
Bayard with increasing esteem and respect
in default of his success, should the con
vention select Judge Black we would re-
joice at an opportunity to serve one whose
claim upon his party exceeds its ability tc
paw.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-05

ing telegraphed to it from Harrisburg that
Mr.. Speer said such q contest as Mr.. Grier
proposed to make against Youtz, Weidler
and Hoover, in the state convention would
be Infamous" Mr.. Speer writes to the
Columbia Herald
I never used the language quoted, and
while do not wish to be drawn into any
controversy as to questions now settled by
the convention, justice alike to you and
myself, prompt me to respond to your in
quiry.
Nevertheless, on the evening before the
state convention assembled, Mr.. Speer, in
discussing with Mr.. Hensel the cases OF
a proposed Fayette county contest, on the
one side. and of the Upper Lancaster
county contest on the other side, did just
exactly say: AL such contests are infa'
NOUS
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-05
PEACE AND HARMONY.

Editorial Views OF tho Democratic State
Convention.
Columbia Herald, Dem.
The ticket is the most popular at the
tail, and we should not be surprised to see
Col. Dechert elected-we can only hope for
jerks.
Touching q Responsive Chord.
Altoona Sun, Dem.
The undiluted and ringing utterances of
the Democracy of Pennsylvania expressed
in the admirable platform adopted at the
recent state convention, thrills the Demo-
cratic heart throughout the union and
brings back responsive echoes from every
state. 1t is a prophecy of the victory GER
tain to come in November and an earnest
of what may be expected of the country at
large.
No Ofcs-seekor Nor Loe-Roller.
Pottsville Chronicle, Dem.
It is the men who dance attendance on
political conventions who, as rule, re-
ceive the honors of their party, and as a
class they are the least deserving of them.
The idea of Judge Black joining the grand
army of office-seekers, and log rolling and
intriguing for the presidency is something
SO incOngruOus with his character that no
one who knows him would entertain it for
moment. Jeremiah S. Black is one of
the few men in this country who are above
the presidency.
A Good Omen.
Lebanon Advertiser, Dem.
When men like Franklin B. Gowen, John
NJ. Hutchinson, VIM. A. Wallace, Samuel
j. Randall, A. H. Dill, and others of like
prominence and influence, attend the Dem
Ocratic state convention in the interest of
peace and hatmany, and accomplish the
object to the saticfaction of the entire
party, the prospects for grand victory in
November are immensely increased. No
matter who the nominee of the Cincinnati
convention may be the partyin Pennsylvania
will enter the contest as one man, and
doing so will be invincible. This state is by
no means certain for the Republican candi-
date, and the country will see that by No
vember it will be debatable ground, with
the prospects greatly in favor of the DEM
ocratic candidate.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-05
IntimidaIing Witnesses.

In Wayne county, Ky, man named
Powell, who was the witness of a murder
last fall, of Hutchinson by Phillips, has been
begged and threatened by Phillips, in order
to Keep him from testifying. Powell re-
fused to leave the country or accept
bribe. On Thursday night party of six
or seven masked men attacked PowelPs
house and broke in the door with rail,
when Powell struck three of them down
with an axe. Mrs. Powell was shot in the
arm. The maskers retreated but again re-
turned, when Powell shot and killed the
leader, who proved to be John Willsmith.
The others ran off. Mrs. Powell pulled a
handkerchief off the face of one of the men
and says it was Phillips.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-05
IN THE SUPREME COURT.

Lancaster County Cases Argued Yesterday
In the supreme court yesterday the fol-
lowing cases from Lancaster county were
argued, the counsel appearing as named
below
Wiley's appeal. Lancaster. j. Hay
Brown for appellant, W. Aug. Atlee for
appellee, II. NJ. North in reply.
Bomberger VS.. Nash & Brother. Lam
caster. w. r. Wilson for plaintiff in er-
rOr. w. Aug. Atlee for defendant in error.
Wall Il Ursner VS.. Staley. Lancaster.
George Nauman for plaintiff in error, w.
Aug. Atlee for defendant in error.
Borough of Columbia's appeal. Lancas-
ter. A. J. Kaufman for appellant, ii. NJ.
North for appellee, w. Aug. Atlec in re-
ply.
Hanover Junction and Susquehanna
railroad company VS.. Kauffelt. Lancaster.
George Nauman for plaintiff in error, J.
Hay Brown and II. NJ. North for defend
ant.
Same VS.. Magee. Submitted ON previ-
aus argument.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-05
The Republicans IN Congress.
New York Sun.


The Republicans in Congress have made
two conspicuous blunders recently.
Last June, after an angry and protracted
controversy, the point in dispute upon the
army bill, between the fraudulent presi-
dent and the Democratic majority in
Congress, was adjusted by a sort of conf
promise, prohibiting "any portion of the
army of the United States to be used as a
police force to keep the peace at the polls
at any election held within any state"
Certainly that provision is mild enough
in itself, and only asserts a principle
positive form in England for over two
at or near the polls, or their interference
to the sentiment of every American citi
zen.
Yet when this provis ion was renewed
in the present army bill, the Republicans
who had voted for it at the extra session
turned around and denounced the PROPOSE
ton as outrageous. Some of them threat
ened to veto, and others were led to declare
that under their construction of the Ian
guage of the bill the provision to exclude
soldiers from the polls could not be exc
cuted, or that means would be found to
evade it.
The Republican managers used the
army to perpetrate the frauds in Louis
lana, Florida and South Carolina in 1876,
and afterward to cOnsummate the iniquity
at Washington. They intend to use the
army again this fall, and Hayes will obey
any orders the chiefs may give, no matter
who may be nominated at Chicago, or what
the language of the army bill may pre-
scribe. The Republicans in Congress have
stultitied themselves unnecessarily.
The second blunder was in reference to
the appointment of special deputy mar
shals, who haYe been openly used as elec-
tioneering agents, at great cost to the pub
lie treasury. Hitherto they have been ap-
pointed by the marshals, and in large
cities have generally been chosen from the
worst portion of the community. The
Democrats proposed to divide them politi-
cally, and to require good moral character
as condition of appointment, and to con-
fer the power of appointment on the
United States courts. The Republicans
fought the proposition fercely and were
beaten.
In both these cases the fight was renewed
in the House after the bills came back
amended from the Senate. The Republi-
cans were not satisfied with one defeat in
each instance, or with single exposure of
their folly. They were contending for
party advantages, and sought to obtain
them at any sacrifice. They failed, and by
this factious resistance warned their ad-
versaries what may be expected in the cleo
toral contest a few months hence.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-05
Leaky Water Mains.

On Monday night the packing of one of
the joints of the 24-inch water main lead
ing from the city water works to the res
ervoir, was blown out on the hill near the
almshouse, and last night two more joints
were blown out, compelling a suspension
of pumping through the large main from
p o'clock yesterday afternoon until mid
night last night, at which time the main
had been repaired. During the continu-
ance of the break in the large main water
was pumped by the small Worthington
pump through the 12-inch main, and SO
we'll did it do its work that very consid-
erable gain was made in the height of the
water in the reservoir.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-05
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
MOUNT JOY ITEMS.
From Our Regular Correspondent,

HTOLA ouE ASOSuA0E NOEEOSPOuuOhts
Miss Susan Shookers, aged nineteen,
Oldest daughter of Samuel Shookers, of
this place, who died of pneumonia at her
fathers residence last Saturday, was
buried at the Mount Joy cemetery yesterday
afternoon. The funeral services were held
in the Presbyterian church, and were con-
Quoted by Revs. w. B. Browne and w. H..
Aspril, the former preaching an impress
i've sermon. When a parting look was
taken there was intense sorrowing and
slowly and sadly long procession followed
the corpse to her last resting place.
On Tuesday morning Mrs. Annie Nor
ton, wife of John Morton, of Maytown,
died at her home in that village, aged
about forty years. She will be inferred on
Thursday morning.
A vicious horse took hold of the left arm
of George Frey, shoemaker, of this place,
ON last Monday, and bit it severely. For
a while George was in dangerous and
awkward position, and the more he hit the
brute the firmer was the arm held. Mr.
Wilmer came to his rescue which was
made only after the animal had received a
severe drubbing.
Benjamin Hostetter, of Mount Joy, is
repairing his grist mill in Rapho town.
ship.
On the farm of Benjamin D. Hershey,
east of town, where the storm did so much
damage some two weeks ago, a large to-
bacco shed will be erected.
Rev. M. P. Doyle, pastor of the U. B.
church, is booked for a lecture to be de-
livered at the Lebanon Valley college, Ann
vile, on June 7.
Last night Rev. S. H. G. Smith, of the
First NJ. E. church, delivered an interest
ing lecture on "A Young Man in Search
of Wife," in the NJ E church at this
place.