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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-08
Big Boys are They.

New Era, saturday.
Brother Hiestand says Tom Cochran
and Hay Brown didn't 60 to Washington
to receive instructions from Senator Cam
eron, but they did 60 to instruct Senators
Cameron and Wallace not to allow Captain
Stauffer to be confirmed as census super
visor in case they didn't let up on Mr..
Samson, whose confirmation Cameron and
Wallace have been preventing for the past
month. Right good, big boys, how they
have grown! big enough to be sent off post
haste to give instructions to the senators
of Pennsylvania! Right glad are we to
learn that Mr.. Smith who was not vet
"out of the fighC" on this confirmation
business got some unexpected help from
new quarter!
Not So isig After All.
Associated Press dispatch Sunday.
The Senate yesterday rejected the follow
ing nominations of census supervisors
Joseph Samson, Second district of Pennsyl-
vania John NJ. Clark, Fifth district of
Pennsylvania Samuel Thompson, Second
district of Alabama George N. Buchanan,
First district Of Mississippi. The only
case that gave rise to any discussion was
that of Buchanan, in regard to which Sena-
tors Lamar and Bruce took opposite sides.
1t was rejected by strict party vote on
the ground of Buchanan being an active
partisan and professional politician, who
would be likely to make use of the SUPER
as means to procure his cleo
ton to Congress.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-08
CRIME AND DISASTER.
The Usual Record of Bloody Affairs.

The Usual Record of Bloody Affairs.
Monroe Robinson, convicted of the mur.
der of his brother in-law, Wiley Coulter
was sentenced at Greenville, Ohio, OH Sat
urday, to be hanged on the 10th OF July.
The trial of John Sammett, for killing
Christian Spuhler, at Canton, Ohio, re.
suited on Saturday in verdict of murder
in the first degree. A new trial was
moved.
Twenty prisoners in the workhouse at
Wheeling, W. Va, mutinied on Saturday
night and escaped. One of the guard fired
at them and killed man who was taking
no part in the emeute.
Daniel R. Anderson was re-arrested in
Waynesville, Ohio, on Saturday, for the
murder of his divorced wife, her sister and
the latter's daughter, committed last Au-
gust.
NJ. w. Alexander and policeman named
Morrissey were shot, the former, perhaps,
mortally, in an affray between drunken
miners at dance house, in Leadville, Col,
OH Saturday night.
The body of Emmett Shannon, aged 30
years, was found in the Delaware at Mil
ford, Pa, ON Saturday morning, He fell
through the canal aqueduct, at Lacka-
waxon, on the 1st of January.
Christian Rich, foreman of the cattle
pens of Cox & Fairbanks distillery, in
Terre Haute, Indiana, was fatally stabbed
by Thomas McDonough, one of the work
men, in a quarrel on Sunday afternoon.
Mcdonald was arrested.
The body of an unknown woman, appar-
emily middle-aged, with dark hair, was
found, mangled beyond identification, on
the railroad track at Somerset, N. j., on
Saturday morning. It had probably been
run over by several trains during the
night.
Grassinan and Carson, the Delphos
(Ohio) robbers, who attempted to murder
Pickens and who tortured his wife, were
sentenced on Saturday to twelve years i'm
prisonment each in the penitentiary at
hard labor, and to be locked in a dungeon
every night for six years.
Francis Sill, convicted of attempting to
murder George Hoffman, near Strouds-
burg, Pa, was sentenced on Saturday to
pay 500 fine and be imprisoned in the
penitentiary for three years. The sentence
was made light, owing to the fact that
Sill was 70 years of age.
A colored barber, named Hawkins, at
tempted to kill his wife, his stepfather and
himself, in Norwalk, Ohio, on Saturday.
He put two bullets in his wife's head, one
through his stepfather's arm and two into
his own body. It is not known whether
any of the wounds will prove fatal. The
somewhat novel cause alleged for the trag-
edy is pure wilfulness.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-08
A Fragment of Science.
Washington Republic.

The proposition of Gen. Ruggles, of
Virginia, looking to a precipitation of
rainfalls by scientific means, deserves a
passing notice. The idea itself is not Or
iginal with Gen. Ruggles, but he is the
first to formulate it in plan, which he has
recently supported by argument before the
Senate committee on agriculture. Having
previously obtained a patent for this in
ventiOn, he now seeks to induce Congress
to authorize the commissioner of agricul-
ture to expend a sum sufficient to test the
practicability of his scheme. He is under
stood to have devoted some years to an
investigation of the subject, claiming that
the diffused mists passing over wide re-
gions or localities suffering from unusual
drOugh: may be readily consolidated into
rainfalls by conclusions and vibrations
artiicially produced. This sounds very
plausible, and accOrds with what will at
once occIr to any one of experience in the
late war. A battle was almost invariably
succeeded and often concluded in a rain,
especially if lasting over one day.
The method contemplated by General
Ruggles's patent is to send into the clouds
skeleton balloons filled with cartridges of
dynamite or smaller explosive materials,
and to explode the contents by magnetic
electricity through light metallic wires
connecting the balloon with the earth.
1t may be that the elements and forces
Of nature will ultimately pass in a measure
under human control; but until this is
realized the ear of doubt will continue to
give audience to the tongue of satire. In
order to facilitate it converse of the rain
fall proposition should be furnished. If
the clouds may be emptied of their mois-
ture at the command of man, why not look
to some preventive means, in case of
heavy and destructive rains If Gen. Rug
giles can compel the rain to descend, why
may not a method be found of inducing it
to stop when we have had enough?
Why, when the the dog star Sirius is in the
ascendent, may not cloud curtains be
drawn across the face of the sun; or, he
be summond forth to dispel damp chill
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-08
THOMAs's RESIGNATION.
Anger of the Directors Aroused.-Trouble
tho College,.

tho College.
Cincinnati is agog over the Theodore
Thomas matter. In his letter Of resigna-
tion Thomas used language which aroused
the anger of the directors, Reu-
ben Springer, General A. T. Goshorn and
Ex-Governor Cox. He said they had evad-
ed and misrepresented his demands. Upon
receipt of that the board replied in effect
that the sooner Mr.. Thomas got out Of
the way the better it would be for all con
cerned. His previous plan was to remain
until October, but it is now probable that
he will return to New York and his old Or
chestra in few weeks. He will be succeed
ed temporarily by OttoSinger. Three more
professors have resigned, and there is high
state of feeling in the college. Great re-
gret is expressed by the citizens at the de-
parture of Thomas, but there seems to be
no help for it, unless his friends buy ma
jority of the stock and overrule the present
board. He would have made this year
through his college contracts about $50, 900
had he remained. Nichols still holds tho
presidency.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-08

ling atmosphere? why not curb the
wind? why not-but in Difference to the
signal bureau, forbear.
''The wind bloweth where it listeth,
and thou nearest the sound thereof, but
canst not tell whence it cOmeth or whittier
it goeth."
Only let Gen. Ruggles substantiate his
claim to be able to make it rain whenever
rain is needed, and agriculturists may be
relied upon to rest content.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-08
INDIAN AFFAIRS.
Terms of the Treaty with the I

Terms of the Treaty with the Utes.
The negotiations with the Utes were con
cluded on Saturday. The formal agree
ment, signed by the chiefs and head men
of the Ute nation, fifteen in number, anG
the secretary of the interior, provides, or
the part of the Indians, that they will pro
cure the surrender to the United State fol
trial and punishment, if found guilty,
of those members of their nation
not yet in the custody of the govern
ment who were implicated in the
murder of Agent Meeker and his en-
ployees, and, in case they do not them
selves succeed in experimenting the persons
presumably guilty, they will not in any
manner obstruct, but faithfully aid any
officers of the United States directed to ar
rest the Indians charged with this crime.
The second paragraph promises the cession
to the United States of all the territory of
the present Ute reservation in Colorado,
one quarter-section Q6O acres) of agricul-
tural land, and like quantity of grazing
land to each head of family, and one
half this quantity to each single person,
being set apart for the settlement of the
Indians.
The Southern Utes agreed to remove to
and settle upon the unoccupied agricul-
tural lands on the La Plata river in Colo
RADIO and New Mexico, or in that vicinity !;
the Uncompahgoes 60 to Grand river, near
the mouth of the Gunnison, in Colorado !;
the White River Utes will take up the
lands on the Uintah reservation of Utah.
The Indians are to select their own allot-
ments of lands in these localities. Pro-
vision is made for roads and highways
lawfully established. This agreement is
entered into by the Ute chiefs, who prom
Use to obtain the consent of their people to
the cessation of their reservation as above,
upon the following express conditions
First. The government to survey the
patent to the Indians in severalty the lands
reserved for them, giving fee simple title
to each Indian as soon as the necessary
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-08
Will Senator Wallace Rise and Explain
Altoona Daily Sentinel.

Will Senator Wallace Rise and Explain:
Altoona Daily Sentinel
Perhaps Mr.. Wallace may be able to
explain satisfactorily his action in assent
ing to the confirmation of the leader of
the Republican FOUNDERS and ballot-bOx
suffers, of Philadelphia, Marshal Kerns.
This man could not have been confirmed
against the advice and consent of Senator
Wallace. 1t was Mr.. Wallace, who, as
chairman of the Senate committee to in
vestigate election frauds, unearthed the foul
iniquities practiced by this man Kerns,
through the medium of his deputy
marshals, proved to be men of the lowest
character and capable Of the commission
of any crime. For his services in un-
earthing this and other Ra a1ical ras-
cality in the conduct of elections, Mr..
Wallace received high praise from the
Democratic and independent press of the
country. But if Kerns was the creature
and tool of Cameron, Quay & Co., as rep
resented by Mr.. Wallace in his report,
why does he now stultify himself by con-
doning the offence of this pOllutOr Of the
purity of the ballot-box, by consenting to
his cOntirmation9 The warmest friends
of Senator Wallace cannot fail to he stag
gered by this strange and incomprehensi-
bic action on his part and particularly
at crisis like the present. If
Kerns, in the past, committed the offences
alleged and proved by Mr.. Wallace, where
is the guaranty that he will not repeat
them upon larger scale when the presi-
dency is the prize to be cOntended for?
Does Mr.. Wallace believe that the state of
Pennsylvania is irretrievably Republican,
and that consequently it is policy to make
the best terms possible with the common
enemy? Are the appointments, through
Mr.. Senator Cameron's gracious permis-
sion, of few scattered Democratic census
enumerators to weigh in the scale against
the fact that under the manipula-
ton of this Kerns, confirmed by
Democratic Senate, Philadelphia
will roll up twenty or thirty thousand Rad
ical-Republican majority this fall for Grant
and the third term and thus stifle and
crush out the Democratic majority in the
state independent of Philadelphia We
make no charges, we impute no motives of
a doubtful character as controlling the ac-
ton of Mr. Wallace in the premises, but
we confess to being grievously disappoint-
ed. To its Democracy and to the people
of the state at large, who favor honest
elections and the protection of the ballot
box from fraud and violence, Senator Wal
lace owes an unequivOcal explanation and
the earlier it is forthcoming the better.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-08
Home on Q Short Visit

William A. Marshall, of the United
States navy, who is now stationed at New
York, on. the steamship Vandalia, Is
home on short visit. He will leave this.
city tonight.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-08

Thorn as Doty, Samuel Morgan and H.
c. Vollbradt were drowned in the Ohio
river at Beaver, while attempting to cross
in skiff.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-08
Mayors Court.

This morning the mayor sent seven
drunks to prison for periods ranging from
5 to 80 days. Another drunk was dis
charged, as was one vagrant.
Cullom McCloud was this morning ar
rested on Duke street by Officer Swenk for
drunken and disorderly conduct. Alder
man committed him for 10 days.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-08
Postal Changes.

A postoffice has been established at Cor
della, this county, and W. V. McHose has
been appointed postmaster. Among re
Gently appointed postmasters are A. G.
Seyfert, Beartown, this county J. H.
Turner, Kirkwood, Lancaster county;
II. II. Dietrich, Lampeter, Lancaster
county VIM. II. ShOber, Slackwater,
Lancaster county,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-08

A SCION of an old family in New York,
and one not unknown in Washington, not
long since entered fashionable bar-room
not far from Wallack's theatre and, under
the influence of wine and seltzer, an
nounced that he was member of the first
family in New York, the Livingstons. A
keen-eyed, well-dressed man, with an un-
mistakably Irish face, stepped forward
and said, spontaneously, "Hold on, my
dear, don't go so fast. The Livingstones
is a good family, I admit, one of the best
in the country. They may be the second
family, but the Finnegans comes fust. ~
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-08
New Patent.

Henry Humphreville, of Mountville,
assiynor of one-half of his right to Robert
NJ. Slaymaker, of Lancaster, has received
letters patent, date Mrch 2, 1880, No. 225,-
O56, for an improved spray dampener. BY
this the pressure of the air as we'll as the
force, is utilized, and yields the most salts
factory results for spraying tobacco or the
like Those having tried this device
desire nothing better. Obtained through
the agency of J. Stauffer, of this city.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-08
The Paris of America

NC L ITIS UI AIIICTICI
Presents the compliments of the season
to
Messrs. Tilden, Hendricks, Seymour,
Bayard, Hancock, Thurman,
Jewett and friends.
And bcgs leave to request the pleasure of
their company
On Tuesday, June %, 1880.
Will do the handsome thing to you or bust
fue.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-08
MINOR TOPICS.

BOsToN is running short of boys. A gen.
tleman advertised for an Office boy the
other day and got but a single response.
In Cincinnati recently criticism of a
performance of "The Pirates of Penzance"
was confined to the statement: The thin
pirate with terrific moustache had his
right calf on wrong side out s..
DURING the year ending December 1,
1879, the courts of Texas disposed of 4, 116
felony cases, of which 1, ,523 were convic-
tions, 1,427 acquittals and 1,166 were
ended without trials by dismissal and
otherwise.
The Philadelphia Times has republished
in handsomely printed brochure the ac
count of itself which was first printed in
the New York Erening Telegram, Feb. 8,
1880. It is a deserved tribute to it's
journalistic enterprise and success and
merits the typographical setting now given
to it.
Mrs. CLARK, of Indiana, was thought
less enough to present her husband with a
petition signed by herself and her seven
children praying for new colored dress.
Mr.. Clark thereupon threw the petition
under the table and his wife out of the
window, and now she isa cripple for life.
THE publication of the New York
Daily Witness has been suspended. The
aim of its managers was to issue paper
which should deal with orthodox religious
news as a speciality, excluding from its
columns everything of a secular nature
whish might hurt the morals of its readers.
An experiment of eight years duration and
the loss of great deal of money resulted
as above.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-01-24

KOKOMO, IND, jan. l7.--An act
OF feminine heroism deserving Of
the highest commentator, is re-
ported from the east end of the
county...A tramp called at the resi-
dence Of Mrs. Florinda Jones, her
husband being absent at the time,
asked for something to eat. She
offered him a "hand out" but that
would not satisfy him, he would
have the best or nothing, and
pushed her into the house. She
coolly stepped into an adjoining
bedroom, picked up a double-bar-
relied gun, cooked 1t, returned 10
the kitchen, where she found the
tramp helping himself, leveled the
gun with deadly aim at the unwel-
come intruder, and told him to
git And he 'got." and just as
he was getting over the fence, she
let him have the contents of one Of
the barrels OF her murderous wea-
pom, and the last she saw OF him
he was flying through the woods
close by with his arms a-kimbo-
well back.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-01-24
A Female Horse Thief.

RICHMOND, VA, Jau. II. ~ Mics
Elizabeth Hammond, a young
and pretty girl of %, has been
committed to the State Peniten-
tiary to serve out a sentence OF
three years for horse stealing in
Russell county. The fair priso-
oner belongs to highly respecta-
BILE family In that section, and lie
well educated, refined in appear
aDce, and the last person who
would be selected as q thief, much
less the daring and bold one
which she Is alleged to be. Miss
Hammond is said TO have ran of
with several valuable horses with
In the past few months. She was
detected III one OF these forays a
few weeks ago. arrested, tried,
convicted, and to-day IL the 0c~
cupant Of q cell In the State pris-
on. The accused is petite in form,
with soft, dark brown eyes and
chestnut curls, with a face of pecu-
liar attractiveness. This Is be-
lieved TO be the first case where a
woman has been convicted on the
charge of horse-stealing, and is
certainly the only one of the kind
that ever occurred in this State.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-01-24

Richmond Telegram.
A young fhan named Cross goes
hunting without a gun; his sole
and unly weapons are smooth
round stones which he carries in
his pockets. Throwing stones he
not only hares, but par.
tridges. Three respectable ard
lrnth-telling men assured me re-
Gently, that they went out one day
with him, they taking their guns;
that he Killed that day, t,s,s,.-
nothir. but stones thrown from
his hand, six hares running and
three parlrldges flying. Last ifaaiiii
he attended our Stale Fair, where
Snowman exhibited rag babies
arranged on steEs, and charged
FIVE cents for two throws with q
ball at ten PAGES. If you struck a
baby he gave you cigar and
charged nothing You have doubt
less seen the game Cross went In,
threw and struck, and struc and
threw knocking overa baby every
pop, until he broke up the show.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-01-24

FINE BELL FRITTERS. = One
quart Of water; while boiling put
in a piece of butter the size Of an
egg Draw 1t from the fire, and
add enough fur to make a thick
batter. When IL cools beat in six
eggs, each one separately, and uu-
Ill the batter Is very light. Have
ready a Kettle of boiling lard ;
drop the halter from a spoon. The
fritters should be placed on a COL
ander as the are lifted with a fork
from the lard, which should be
kept at boiling heat all the time
they are cooking. Serve either
with a nice sauce or fine quality
of molasses made boiling hot.
Lemon juice and sugar make an
agreeable accompaniment.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-01-24
Dying Words.

LfHBlnHu tceFsI hhteFPElse.l
1t is probably natural that at
the last the scenes which have
made the strongest impressions in
life should be recallad by memory.
The old iLountaineer, when he
comes to die. with his last whis-
per says his snowshoes are lost
with the stage driver he Is "on a
down grade and can rot reach the
break, y the miner can not get to
the air pipe, the sailor says eight
bells have sounded, y and the gam
bier plays his last trump. A little
girl died here q few years ago. and
as her mother held her wrist and
noted the fainting and fllckering
pulse q smile came TO the wan face
and the child whispered: There
is no more desert here, mamma,
but all the world Is full of beauti-
ful fiowers.' A moment later the
smile became transhxpd. In an
Eastern city, not long ago, a Sis
ter Of Charity was dying, and at
last from stupor she opened her
eyes and said: ut Is strange;
every kind word that | have spok-
en- in life. every tear that ] have
shed, has become living flower
around me, and they bring 10 my
senses an incense ineffable."
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-01-24
coLoRED PRINTING.

and get prices for any kind Of Plain and
Fancy Printing Cur superior facilities
enable US to give you better work at lower
figures than you can get the same work
done elsewhere.
JANIS. WISNER h LOGAN.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-10-12
CRIME.
ALong List ed EYiI Deeds.

Halifax, 9.-Mitchell, for the murder
OF a girl named Hill, at Annapolis, is
to be hanged on December ed.
Alsmosa, COL, I0.-Esrly this morn
ing Thomas Valley, deputy sheriff, was
fatally shot by Pat Donavan, notorious
desperado; caused by quarrel over q
game OF cards.
Evansville, Ind, 10.-A difficulty
occurred between negro named Oscar
Sberter, who is janitor Of the custom
house here, and a young man named
Rouse in saloon this morning, at about
II. 50 O'Clock, which resulted in the shoot
ing of Rouse and also the wouudin9 of
the negro. Rouse is expected to die this
morning at about O'Clock, it was neces-
sary to move the negro from the city
lookup TO the county jail for salty, as
there was considerable feeling against
him among Rouse's friends. There wss a
crowd of about 100 about the Jail at
o'clock this morning which was dispersed
by the judges of the circuit and
superior courts who asked the crowd to
go to their homes, agreeing that the me-
gro should be kept secure for trial. Lator
in the day, at about o'clock in the
afternoon, quite crowd sgain gathered
about the jail 1t ia feared by some that
there will be trouble. The last crowd
WIS dispersed by werd from one of the
eouncilmen and the mayor. There is
considerable feeling amongst the negroes
as well Is among Rnuse's friends. -a
Constsntinople, 10. One Of the muir
derers of DR.. Parsons, American mission
aTy, has been condemned to death, and
two others to fifteen years. penal seryi-
tude.
New York, 11.-Police reports show
that during Saturday night and Sunday
no fever than ten persons were stab bed,
as well as orgies Of the usual sort. & 8
Ailledgeville, Ind, 1l.-Chas. Allen,
on Saturday night, killed man 90 years
old, VIM. Toney. Allen is the husband
of Toney's second wife's daughter. No
cause is given.