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Leading real-estars dealers give 1t as their
opinion that never in the history OF the city
have its business blocks and tenement houses
been aI so uniformly rented. Prices, except in
the central business section, are moderate and
readily accepted by tenants We learn that the
new buildings on Wabash avenue, south OF Con-
gress street, are all rented,-the stores at fair
rental and the flats to those eager to occupy
them RS soon as finished. Such facts would
stimulate building immensely we're it not that
holders Of brick and other building material
have so advanced their prices that many struct-
ures intended to be put under cover before cold
weather. sets in have boen put OF TILL more
favorable prices can be realized.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-15
Politics and Business.

The New Era, which reproached us for
having no Republicans in our employ in
the INTELLIGENCER Office, seems like
wise to hold it as a reproach to one of the
proprietors of the INTELLIGENCER that
the majority of the employees of the
Penn rolling mill company, of which he
is chairman, are Republicans.
This seems scarcely consistent.
But if the New Era will try to COM
prehend that We believe in the utmost
tolerance of political opinion and its free
expression by every voter, without in
timidation in any degree by those who
may employ him, it will understand that
the skill and efficiency of the workman
are the sole conditions of his employment
in any business which we or either of us
control.
There are both Democrats and Repub-
licans among the officers of the Penn
iron company, and when we mentioned
the chairman the other day as a Demo-
crat We made no intimation that he
sought to control the employees to his
own way of thinking. That he seduously
avoids. The resolve of the man.
agement is to exclude politics from
the mill. Employees may meet out
side of it in any way they choose in
side they are workmen, and over their
political views those in authority. by
mutual agreement, do not seek to exer-
else any influence or control.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-15
STATE ITEMS.

Henry Lilly, aged four years, residing at
No. 1887 North Fourth street, was yester-
day run over and killed by car No. G4 of
the Union line, OIL Fourth street, Phila-
delphia, above Berks.
In the pocket of q prisoner arrested in
Philadelphia for drunkenness and who was
found dead in u cell yesterday morning,
was tag OH a bunch of keys, labeled j.
Horace Swinford, grocer, Upton, Iowa.
Charles McLigue, aged % years, was
fatally injured by an explosion of powder
in the West Pittston colliery at Pittston,
yesterday. He had been married only
four months, and his wife is expected to
die from the shock.
Thos. Bogue, aged 70, residing at No.
2, 43O Pine street, died at the Twentieth
district police station, Philadelphia, from
injuries received by being crushed between
pile of bricks and a passenger railway
car, on Market street, west of Fifteenth.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-15
MIR. AND MRS. CASTS GOLDEN WE'D
DING.

AJOyous Reunion of Friends aad Relatives
Happy "reminiscences of the Past.
At the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Christ
ian Cast, No. 224 West Chestnut street,
last evening, before the general arrival of
the guests invited to celebrate the golden
anniversary of their wedding, there was an
assemblage of the immediate members and
closest friends of the family who engaged
in religious and social exercises, espcc-
tally appropriate to the occasion. Mr.. Cast S
pastor, Rev. DIR. J. B. Shumaker, of st.
Pauls Reformed church, pronounced u
prayer and followed it with the reading OF
the 1O3d Psalm and fitting address on the
significance of the occasion. Rev. DR.. J.
II. Dubbs followed in a very happy and
feeling address and then prayer was offered
by the venerable Father John G. Fritchey.
Rev. ]. A. Peters, of the First Reformed
church, made an address and concluded it
by pronouncing the benediction and the
whole company sang the doxology.
From until II p. m. the reception OF
the invited guests occurred. and during
this time there was steady throng of
visitors who desired to pay their respects
to the host and hostess. Among those
who called were many of the foremost
citizens of Lancaster city and county, dis
tinguished in business and professional
walks of life, and including the Re-
formed and other clergy of the city
and the college and seminary profess
sors. The only person present who
witnessed the original ceremony which
made Mr.. aud Mrs. Cast man and wife was
Mrs. Abram Erisinan (nee Oster). Every
other attendant on their marriage is dead.
Among the guests were Mr.. and Mrs.
Jacob l.. Hoffmeicr, who celebrated their
golden wedding some years ago.
As expected, all the children of the
"bride and groom " who are living were
present, Chas. E. Cast, esq.,, making a
flying trip from Pueblo, Col, to attend.
The company was very handsomely en-
tertained and the entire evening passed off
with the highest satisfaction to hosts and
guests. By special request on the invita- |
lions there were "no presents" though |
some of the family felt at liberty to disre- |
gard the injunction and testified to their
esteem for their parents in substantial |
'Orm.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-15
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

| 35,O@6 immigrants arrived 1T Boston
during the year which ended on Septenl-
Der 3Oth.
At Prentice Vale, neaI Duke Centre, in
the oil regions, two children OF George
Riley were burned to death in their faith
er's house which caught fire while no one
| was at home but the children.
Yesterday was the fourth day OF the scs-
| qui-centennial celebration in Baltimore.
| and was devoted to parade of beneficial.
benevolent and religious societies and Sc
cret organizations. The city was again H.
Illuminated ut night.
The annu IL meeting of the stockholders
oil the Ohio II Mississippi railroad was
held yesterday in Cinncinati. It was
stated in the presidents report that the net
earnings of the road for the year ending
December 30 next would probably reach
81, ,30O,O0
Frederick kirshensmcn while cunning
ON the beach near Cedar Grove, n. J., was
instantly killed by the accidental discharge
of his gun, which slipped from the scat of
wagon in which Mr.. Kirchensmen and
two friends were riding. The entire
charge entered his breast. sIr. kirchens-
men was proprietor of the New York house
"i>@ ""' 'oout io ScttIS VI itSC.
The caving i'll OF the railroad tunnel near
West Point was caused by the striking of
a spring of water. The water burst forth
week ago, and seriously interfcrred with
the work OH the tunnel. The body of Pat
rick COrrigan, who fell into the chasm,
was washed out of the tunnel entrance YES
terday morning, with the neck broken.
The laboratory buildings near the cave
are beginning to settle.
A large hotel, to cost over 81, ,OOO. OOO is
to be erected on Eighth avenue, opposite
Central Park, New York. Tho work has
been already commenced, and the structure
will occupy the whole front of the block i'm
Eighth avenue, between Seventy second
and Scventy-third streets. The building
will front 1O4 feet on the avenue by 200
feet on each of the streets named, and will
be nine stories in height, with y peaked
roof. 1t will inclose large courtyard.
The "Cheap Transportation Convention
met yesterday in Chicago. About 400 dele
gates, from the West and South, the At
lantic and border states, were present.
Matthew Anderson, Of Mississippi, was
elected president NJ. J. Fowler of New
York, vice president !; and Jonathan Per-
ian, secretary. Discussion was had on the |
question of holding railroad corporations
to strict accountability for their manner
Of conducting business, and of regulating
their charges by national legislation
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-15

claims (0r claims coming from states
which secede6 pending unsettled, it is
impossible to speak definitely. On this
point there is just now q great deal of
loose talk. The loyal claimants of the Sc
ceded states have had their .'day in
court" They were given nine years be-
fore the Southern claims commission.
There We're presented to that tribunal
Y, 29S claims, the amount claimed I. (Of
course exaggerated) being 100000, 600.
The commission disposed OF. 1900 cases,
allowing "a, 4,50O, 600, and disallowing about
$40, 900 900. At the same time the COM
mission expired March 10, 1880 there
were pending $3.50 cases, claiming SIS
OO9, 900. But no evidence had been filed
in these cases, and they were under the
law "fOrever barred"
So far as the so-called rebel claims''
are concerned, it ought to understood that
Congress has never passed either a general
or special act paying any person who was
disloyal during the war for the use or de-
struction Of property by the government
during the war, and no senator or repre-
sentative from the North OF the South, Re-
publican or Democrat, has ever proposed
in Congress, by bill Or otherwise, to paw
dislOyal person or classes of disloyal persons
for the loss or use of property by the army
or the Government in the seeded States
during the rebellion. A New York journal |
a few days ago printed list of seventy
Democratic senator's and representatives
each Of whom, it was asserted, had intro
duced some measure to Facilitate the
passage of rebel claims' II this declar-
alton is intended to convey the idea that
these senators and representatives have
introduced bills to pay ''rebels'' OF dis
loyal persons for the use or destruction of
property during the war, it is gross
Misrepresentation.
AS an Illustration of how reckless is much
of the talk about "rebel cIaims,'' take the
proposition to refund what is known as the
cotton tax. That was an internal revenue
tax on cotton collected during the years
1866, 1867 and 1868, after the close of the
war. 1t was subsequently declared uncOn-
stitutiOnal by the supreme court. The pro-
position to refund the tax is no more s're-
bel claim than the refund of customs du
ties Illegally collected 1T the port of New
York. 1t had far more friends in the Re-
publican Congresses six or eight years ago
than it has ever had since that time. There
isn't the remotest probability of it's pass
ing congress under any circumstances. 1t
no longer figures among the possibilities
except in the unscrupulOus minds of party
leaders and i'll the vaporings of party jour
nails during political campaigns.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-15
BAKNuMs BUGLE BLAST.

An Address to the Democratic and Conssr-
vative Voters Of tho County.
At a meeting of the Democratic national
committee to-day the following address
was adopted:
To the Democratic and Conservative Voters
Of the Country: The election of president
and vice president is now before you.
State and local dissensions are eliminated
from the issues of the day. The magnitude
Of victory or defeat can only be esti-
mated by the forces and means employed in
securing it. By fraud and corruption the
people of the country were defeated in their
purpose in 1876 and the rightfully elected
president was kept from Office. With the
combined capital of the Republican party,
aided by repeated assessments upon an
army of ofice-hOlders, with the power
of the federal government represented
by the United States marshals at the
polls, with intimidation, fraud and re-
sort to every corrupt appliance known to
Republican methods concentrated in the
two states. our adversaries have succeeded
in procuring the probable return of their
local candidates. Can it be possible that
in every state throughout this broad land
the same methods can he brought to bear
that were used by the Republican mana
gers in Indiana and Ohio? Can the great
states of New York, New Jersey, Connec-
ticut, California, Colorado, Nevada and
New Hampshire be bought, intimidated
and defrauded? Even without the vote Of
Indiana, which believe will be redeemed
in November, with New York and New
Jersey, and these states are conceded to us,
including Maine, the election of our can
didate is assured. The Republican party
have put in nomination for president and
vice president, two men who by the ad-
mission of their own party and press are
unworthy of your confidence and suffrages.
1t is impossible that fifty millions of intel
ligenS and patriotic people will consent to
place themselves upon the humiIiating
level thus prepared for them by the Re
publican managers.
Fellow citizens, the first days repulse
at Gettysburg ended on the third, with
Hancock in the front, in glorious victory.
That victory secured us our Union. The
question is not now the preservation of the
Union, but Of constitutional government.
Hancock is now, as then, in the front. The
repulse is now, as then, the omen of vic
tory which is to secure to coming gen
erat;Ons the inestimable blessings OF civil
liberty.
by order Of the Democratic national
committee. WILLIAM ii. BARNUM,
New YORK, October IA.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-15
DILL To THE DEMOCRATS.

nm AuuESDB krOm INC SC6C0 COmmlttec.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE STATE DEMO.
CRATIC COMMITTEE, PHILADELPHIA, Octo
Der II, 18SO-Io the Democracy of Penn.
sylcania Indiana votes Republican by a
small majority. Ohio holds her position
as Republican state. The latter was ex-
pected the former is a disaster to our
| cause as Maine was to that of our Oppo-
nents. The success in Indiana is the re-
suit of means alike discreditable to those
employing them and destructive of honest
elections. The corrupt use of enormous
sums of money and Of organized fraud
protected by federal power, against u
weak candidate for governor, has given
Indiana temporarily to our foe. But In
diana will be redeemed, for Hancock is
stronger than the local candidate every.
where. Out of this nettle, danger, We
will pluck the flower, safety. We are
done with side issues and weak candidates,
for November gives broader field, and
Hancock is at the front. Arouse the peo-
pie everywhere push the column boldly:
give new force and increased vigor to the
newspaper and speaking canvass in ev-
cry locality embolden the timid ell
courage the hesitating preach and teach
the truth with renewed energy redouble
your efforts among the masses
make them feel that this battle
is for their rights, and is against the power
of money, organized fraud, and strong
government. Appeal to their personal in
dependence against the domination of en-
ployers to personal right against corpor-
ate power; to state pride and love of coun-
try against centralized government and
federal corruption to the rule of the peo-
pie against an army of office-holdcrs. We
fight for the state, for electors, congress
men and the Legislature. Let it be with
the earnest force of men who are deter
mined to cocrce victory and we can carry
Pennsylvania for our gallant son. He saved
the state and the republic at Gettysburg.
Let us rally with united force and despcr-
ate energy to repay to him the debt of graf
itude the people owe him and to restore to
the whole country unity, prosperity and
peace.
A. III, Dill Chairman
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-15
AMUSEMENT NOTES.

| Interesting Items About Actors and Thet
| Plays.
Sara Bernhardt sails from Hayrc for thi
country to morrow.
The McGibeny family are drawing packe,
houses through the East.
The San Francisco rainstrcls will 500,
play The Cannibals of Barren Island"
Mishler will bring Haverly's colorct
minstrels to this city later in the year.
A new variety theatre will be opened O,
Arch street, Philadelphia, shortly.
w. w. Coles's circus leaves San Fran
cisco on Oct. %, for Australia.
Gregory and Cransers pantomim,
troupe, with George Gregory as clown
take the road November 8.
Miss Lille D'Alve, of the D'Alye Sis
ters, who have played here often. is lyipn
seriously i'll at her home in Philadelphia.
Helen Potter's Pleiades this season con.
sists of Miss Potter and the Eichberg quar-.
tettc of violinists.
Milton Mobiles has made more money
out of "PhGnix" this season than ever
before.
Nat Salisbury and his 'Troubadours -
have made a great hit in London. lie
will probably be here the coming season.
Tony Denier's troupe appears to im-
mense houses every night and the show
is said to be the best Mr.. Denier has ever
had.
Gus Phillips (''Oofty Gooft'') will start
out with troup in November. He will
appear in a new piece by A Bcnrimo, in
which the hero is Dutchman.
Henry S. Seymour, who ran away from
Bradford last seasen, where he had charge
of a variety theatre, leaving plenty of un-
paid bills behind him, is now running a
theatre in Dallas, Texas.
Steele Mackaye, of the Madison SQUARE
IN. W theatre, was playing Dunstan
kirke in the play Of "Hazel Kirke" dur
ing q short tour of one of his companies.
which closed their season in Reading on
Saturday night. He is now back at the
theatre.
Last nights entertainment was the last
that will be given in the opera house for
week after the November election. Owinr
to the great excitement of the campaign q
number of companies have cancelled. The
season has been greatly hurt
BY politics, and it is to he hoped that when
Tho season reopens business will be good.
IS SO far this season Lancaster has made a
fearful showing.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-15

A fire i'll Shelbyville, Ind, destroyed the
furniture factory OF Conroy, Waller &
Deprety, the planning mill of J. X. Stewart
4 Co., and several dwellings, causing a
loss of $50, 900.
A fire in the village Of Huntington, nine
miles north of Bridgeport, Conn, destroy
ed a spoke factory, cider mill, vinegar
works, barn and storehouses, all owned by
George S. Thompson, and the dwelling of
Agur Judson. Loss, $4,000.
The steamship Joe Bryerly was burned
near the mouth of Red river, La. She
was valued at $4,000, aud had about
1900 bales of cotton on board. No lives
were lost.
Forest fires have been burning for scy
eral days near South Amboy, N. j., and a
renewal Of the spring and sum mer's de-
vastations is feared as consequence of
the drOuth. 4 tract Of valuable timber in
Sayreville has been destroyed.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-15
Sales of Real Estate.

Henry Shubert, auctioncr, sold at public
sale October II, at the Caldwell house, for
executors of the estate Of Michael Malone,
decd, the following property:
NO. 2. A two-story brick dwelling situ-
ated on the west side of North Lime street
No: 1913. To John F. SeDer, for S2,21O.
No. 3. A three-story brick dwelling sit
uated ON tho south side of East Chestnut
street, near Duke, No. A. To VIM. Liant,
for q, 500.
No. 1, on the northeast corner of Orange
and Shippen streets, was Withdrawn at
$6,950. -
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-15
The Lost Outpest.


We have to-day the inspiriting ad-
dresses of the Democratic committees,
with good advice which the members of
the party will follow. There can hardly
be Democrat, of a respectable degree
of sand in his gizzard, whose depression
over the unexpected result in Indiana
will last the week out. It must be too
plain to his common sense that the
causes which produced that result will
not be effective in November. Indiana
was but an outpost which the en-
emy has captured by superior appliances
and concentration of effort. It was an
attack which our forces were not massed
sufficiently to meet. The defeat was
not a rout. The majority was small,
being now but six thousand with half
dozen strong Democratic counties to
hear from. The battle i'm Ohio had
similar inconclusive result, the Demo-
cratic gains exceeding those of the Re-
publicans, who have won by reduced
majority. Disappointment is natural
that we failed of success in this initial
fight, but no Democrat of courage
and sense, we say again, can
see in it our final defeat. How
would it be in an army if the loss
of an early fight in a campaign should
be felt to presage it's disastrous close !?
The contests of armies are series cf
successes and defeats, and it seldom hap
pens that victory perches steadily OH one
side. Nor does decentralization of all the
forces follow disaster to an outlying
detachment. If the Democratic army is
of such poor spirit and poor discipline as
to be subdued by the small and incon-
sequential contest in Indiana, it is be-
meath contempt and worthy of the de-
feat which it invites. We know it to be
made of different stuff, and that the de-
preston of its voters is but temporary.
What you hear them say now is not that
they are weakened, but that they fear the
effect upon those who always wait to see
how the cat isjumping before they jump
themselves.
That class is too small to control the
coming elections, if it exists. We have
not heard of anyone whose opinions have
been changed by the frightening of the
Republican prospects. What We Demo-
Gratis need to do is to take care of our
selves, to keep our heads level and our
courage to the sticking point and the bat
tie will take care of itself. No one who
knows the Democratic record can doubt
that its activity will suffer no dimini-
tion. A party that has been fighting for
twenty years against the feshpots of
power is not one to he scared by the
latest evidence given it of the efficiency
of money in an election. 1t is fearful
use to make of it and dreadful instru-
ment with which to seek to control the
ballot. The capitalists who have con-
tributed it have done it in wilful blind
ness to its iniquity and danger. When
the people come to realize that the battle
is between them and money what then +?
Let the history Of revolutions tell.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-15
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
DeClinotiOu.

MEssRs. EDIToRs 3: As you are aware,
am not responsible for the announcement
Of my name as candidate for Assembly.
l have made no effort to secure the nomi-
nation, nor have I ever had any personal
desire for it-unless party interests should
seem to require it. No such necessity is
apparent.
Therefore, thanking my Democratic
friends for many past favors, and with my
earnest wishes for harmony, and the sue.
cess of the nominee, respectfully decline
to be longer considered as a candidate for
the nomination.
WM. MCCoMsEY.