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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-28
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL,

Five men have been suffocated while
cleaning sewers in Paris.
Baseball yesterday: At Ciicaso-Chi-
cagO, Z; Cleveland, 2. At Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Z; Buffalo, 4.
The boiler of a steam thresher exploded
at Princeton, CAL, killing three men and
seriously scalding seven Others.
Three men were drowned at Grundy' IS
Passage and two near Ragged Islands,
N. S. by the upsetting Of boats.
A yoke of oxen arc anchored at the bot
tom of Lake Michigan. Being hitched to
an anchor on ferry boat, they backed over
board and dragged it along.
The prisoners confined in the Jail at Gre
NADIA, Miss, set fire to the pudding, which
was entirely consumed. All the prisoners
were released and made their escape. Two
were badly burned.
In Jacksborough, Texas, yesterday i'm.
mense swarms of grasshoppers appeared
coming fran the north, at times obscuring
the sun. A farm was completely demol
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-28
THE TURF.
Coming I:aces at tho Park.

On Saturday, October 9, 9,several races will
take place at the park grounds. The first
race will be a trot for y premium Of S25,
with S12 to first horse, SO to second and s.
to third !; the horse trotting closest to
four minutes is to take first money. The
second race will be a atrot for three minute
horses for a premium Of $50 s25 to first,
$15 to second, $40 to third horses. The
premium for the pacing race is also $50 and
it is devided tho same as that of the three
minute trot, There will also be running
race for $25 and mule race for $50.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-28
MINOR TOPICS.


nouncing the brutal murder OF an editor
in California by policeman he had criti-
cised, under the heading GA Warming to
Editors.''
Tue author OF " "Hclen's Babies having
become u playwright, the Christian
Union congratulates him con having writ
ten a play which is an honorable contribu-
ton to the attempted reform ofthe drama,
play not only clean and pure in tone but
genuine iii spirit. Such play as Deacon
Crankett is one Of the hopeful signs that
reform of the theatre is not the Quixotic
uadertakin. most of us have been inclined
to think it,
"CoNslDER what Meade and Reynolds
would do said the Republicans OH their
banner last evening. Why. like the gal
liant soldiers and sturdy Democrats they
Were, they would vote for tho man of
whom the commanding general telegraph
cd Immediately after the terrible assault on
Cemetery Hill had been repulscd and the
fo"cI VI lChCtC . ulslSIOu Cut uOWu .
::Say to Gen. Hancock that 1 regret cx-
ceedingly that he is wounded, and that I
thank him for the country and for myself
for the great service lie has rendered to-
day. GEO. G. MEADE,
Mai. Gen. Commanding"
THE last census Of the city of London
proper shows some curious results. It
was taken in the evening, when only CO.,
900 people were found within tho city
limits out of tho 500, 600 who inhabit it by
day. For instance, upon the census night
there happened to be as dodgers from agg-
ricultural districts in tho city inns and
hotels forty farmers, besides three farmer
baili(Is and twenty-three gardners, so that
in the ratio Of agriculturists to area LON
don city appears as the champion agricul-
tural district Of the kingdom. 1t also ap-
pears that out Of G,OOO merchants who are
by day something in the city," only
$50 habitually sleep within the city bounds;
and that out of 900 brokers only thirty
three breakfast under the shadow Of st.
Paul's.
THE following was recently republished
in the ISTELLIcENcER, being taken ION
faith from an esteemed contemporary
Neither the United States nor any state
shall assume to pay any debt or obligation
incurred III case of insurrcction or rebel
lion against the United States, or claim
for the loss or emancipation of any slaves,
but all such debts, obligations and claims
shall be held illegal or void.-Constitutio
Of tie United States, Article IA, Sec. 4.
The Examiner kindly calls attention TO
the fact that there is verbal alteration Or
two in the foregoing, and we hasten to
correct it by the official original whicl, runs
thus:
Neither the United States nor any state
shall assume or pay any debt or obligation
incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion
against the United States, or claim for the
loss Or emancipation of any slave, but all
such debts, obligations and claims shall
be held illegal and void.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-28
Republicau EiascOs

Tho attempted Republican meeting at
Rcinhold's station last week, was failure.
Only fifteen persons reported, including no
speakers.
Tho alleged meeting at Fritztown, Oh
last Friday evening, was 4 similar failure
for similar reasons.
On Friday evening last, the Republicans
after considerable trouble, succeeded in
raising small pine pole, about 80 feet long,
at Pequea station. 1t is pretty hard for a
stranger to tell to whom the pole belongs,
as it has no board nor sign, and the small
flag that floats near the top is wrong
end up.
At a late Republican meeting in Salunga
the speaker was woman and the platform
board pile. After adjournment the at
tendants showed their love of the SOL
dier by putting up bean poles and paste
board placards with "POOr Old Hand
cock " on them.
The Mechanicsburg Radicals are so par
alyzed by the news from Maine that they
are thinking Of voting for Hancock so as to
keep the pOstof1icc.
The DeGolyerites of Petersburg were
sadly stricken by the last and decisive
news from Maine. The notary gathered
the faithful together in little knots for
consolation, but could not shake their be-
lief that "Jim Garfield can't he elected"
Neither the Dauphin county stumpcr, nor
their toy drum, nor their midnight rallies
among tho cobwebs of the tobacco shed,
nor their tramps around town can inspire
them with confidence. They foresee their
certain doom.
The Conestosa Centre Republicans fail
ed to raise their pole on Saturday, as only
Hog Ring speakers wcfc sent to inspire
them. Johnny Urban. candidate for as
sembly, dressed out in Capt. Hess S sword,
sash and scabbard, waited patiently for
the colored troops whom ho was to mar
shal, but they came not. The half hick
ory, half poplar pole broke twice and still
lies prone,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-28

THE meeting in Fulton hall tomorrow
evening will be for the intelligent discus.
sion before intelligent people of the real
issues Of the campaign. AS one OF the
leaders of the national Democracy Sena-
tor Wallace will speak of the aims and
purposes of his party, and as conserva-
tive Citizen of the "solid South - Mr..
McCSa can enlighten Northern people as
to its real condition.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-28
A Weak Vessel.

The Republicans are again in trouble
in 4 matter concerning which they have
greatly congratulated themselves. They
seem never to be safe, even when appar-
emily happiest. They have taken great
comfort over the fact that so eminent a
man and Democrat as Judge Black
should declare his confidence in Garfield S
innocence of any intentional wrong in
the Credit Mobiiier matter and they
seemed to have good reason for their sat
isfaction, since the judge was we'll ac-
quainted with the facts, and his opinion
is entitled to great weight. But there
were some peculiarities about it which
induced the New York SIN to cross
question the judge, and 10! it turns out
that it obtains from the witness so
friendly to Garfield the positive state
ment that the latter had deliberately and
knowingly sworn before a committee of
Congress to directly different statement
of his connection with the Credit MObi-
lier matter from that which he made TO
his distinguished friend and counsellor
Judge Black. He told the Judge that
he agreed to take tic Credit Nobilicr
stock from Oakes Ames, and that he re-
ceived the dividends upon it. lie swOre
before the committee that he had never
taken the stock or received any divi-
dend upon it, and that the money which
he received from Amcs was 4 loan.
L.. IL T., 1,f: ,A11,,
knowingly j.; made certain by Judge
Blacks statement that he urged him to
cling to the version of the matter which
he had given him; and that there might
lie no misunderstanding us to what that
was he repeated it to him. Garfield re-
piled nothing. but went out and swOre
differently.
Beyond Il shadow of question under
these facts he is convicted of being de-
liberate liar and perjurer, which is quite
as had rs being thief. So that he takes
nothing by Judge Black stestimony, save
damnatiOn.
1t is somewhat notable that Judge
Black says he did not advise him to tell
the truth, since that would have been 4
gross insult. But it appears that he
did advise him to stick to one story.
Which was substantially, but more ten
derly, telling him not to lie: which it is
evident the judge thought him inclined
. to do, else he would scarcely have taken
pains to so over his story with him so as
to fix the tale to he told i'm his mind. If
he had been confident that it was the
truth, and that Garfield wanted to tell
the truth, his advice to stick to one story
and his careful statement of the story
would have been entirely superfluous.
Evidently Garfield isa monstrously weak
vessel and the judge knows it. The idea
of a candidate for president perjuring
himself because perjury was the only
thing that would help his friends! What
an amiable man!
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-28
zancaster fntelllge,1rer.
Good but Unfortunate.

1t is not that they want to lie; they
are very good people, these Republican
editors and orators, and would like to
tell the truth no doubt; but they can't.
A singular fatality attends their every
effort; they cannot say anything that is
calculated to help along their ticket with
out finding out very soon that there is
no truth in it at all this is simply their
misfortune, not their fault. They have
lost their ability to discriminate between
the true and the false. Whom the gods
destroy they first make mad and
that is just the condition of the truly
good Republican editors and orators who
don't want to lie and yet are always at
it; and are always caught. There is our
virtuous contemporary, the Neu Era,
which would not misState anything for
the world, that is now repenting in sack
cloth and ashes its story that General
Hancock was not at the battlefield of
Gcttysbvrg when it was won story it
printed in face of the notorious history
spread upon all the records. And sad to
say not only this pious editor permitted
himself to thus avert his eyes from the
truth, but that very excellent Republi-
can and bigoted gentleman, Major Frcas,
of the Germantown Telegraph, was like
wise misled. We characterize the mis-
take thus mildly owing to the very re-
spectacle character OF the offender ;
although really it is patent that when a
respectable man assails another with a
false charge, whose falsehood is shown by
records in his possession or easily within
his reach, he loses either his repute for
respectability or intelligence, for truth
fulness or good sense. We prefer to be-
lieve that the otherwise ardent Re-
publicans who have been habitually
failing to tell the truth in this campaign
arc afflicted with mental unSOundneSs.
We must adopt this idea to account foI
the very free way in which untrutis are
told where good sense, if they had any.
would tell those who uttered them that
it was foolish to tell falsehoods that will
he 50 soon detected and SO fully exposed
rs to hurt themselves more than those
they are aimed ut. Therefore these peo-
pie cannot have good sense who said that
General Hancock was not at Gettysburg
through the victorious battle, that
he did not write his own mill.
tary orders, that lie wrote to General
Sherman an unpatriOtic letter, that he
was in favor of the payment of hundreds
of millions of Southern war claims, and
divers other charges OF like character
and too numerous to mention, all Of them
improbable and all readily proved to lie
false rs soon rs they were given curren-
rency. The effect of these boomarang
missiles has been very damaging to the
Republican party. 1t creates the just
belief that the party has very little of
substance to urge in its own behalf and
against it foe and il demonstrates 4
lack of wisdom in its guidance which
does not warrant Il lively hope in it's ad-
herents that the party will weather tie
present political cyclone; which it will
not.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-28

Samuel Hess s. Son. auctiOneers, sold
yesterday at the Mcrrimac House, for
Geo. GrOssman, IA head of Canada horses
at an average Of s177.50 per head.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-28
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE LEAF,
Tho Local Tobacco Crop.

Tho Local Tobacco Crop.
The last of the crop Of 1880 has been cut
off and housed, and on the whole it may
be said to be the worst Of the crop. Much
Of it is short, and much of it is terribly
fea-bitten. We have examined Il sample
taken at random from an eight acre crop
grown near this city, every leaf Of which
is perforated with hundreds Of
small holes, the work Of the des-
tructive little pest that is coming to be
regarded by tobacco farmers as i far more
dangerous enemy than the cut-worm that
destroys the young plants, or the great
green worm that so vOraciously feeds on
the luxuriant leaves. The plants destroyed
by the cut-worm can be replaced with
others, and careful farmer can manage
to save the leaves Of his growing plants by
picking tho green worms from them but
thus far there has been found no preven
tive for the ravages of the flea. Its name
is "legion," and its banishment or exter-
mination appears to be impossible. It is
hoped that DR.. s. S. Rathvon, or some
other entomologist, will take an early op-
portun;ty to study more critically than has
yet been done the life and habits Of
this diminutive pest and find means to stay
it ravages. The holes cut in the leaf
by the flea are scarcely larger than would
be made by a darning needle, and when
the tobacco is green they can scarcely
be noticed unless the leaf be held up to
the light {; but as it begins to cure the leaf
becomes discolored around the edges Of
the holes which then become painfully
visible. As stated above, every leaf in the
samples examined was perforated in hun
dreds Of places, the holes being almost as
close together rs the meshes Of wile
sieve. Many farmers with whom VIC have
conversed declare their tobacco to be free
from flea bites, but Mr.. Haverstick, the
author of work on the culture of tobacco,
who has made critical examination in
many parts of the county, declares that he
has scarcely found a field that has not
been more or less injured, and in this Opin-
ion he is corroborated by other experts.
Packers say that the badly bitten tobacco
will not only be unit for wrappers, but
will make very poor filters, as the manner
in which it has been cut up will interfere
with its curing. This, perhaps, remains to
be seen.
Although there have been quite num-
Der of dealers and manufacturers in Our
midst during the past week the sales OF
1870 leaf have not exceeded six hundred
cases, the prices in almost every instance
being kept private. The figures, however.
are said to be " satisfactory" to both seller
and buyer, and from the smiling fl ces OF
the high contracting parties, it is evident
that neither side thinks the operations
will send them to the "demnitiOn bow
vows tho thunder of the Tobacco Jour-
nal to the contrary Notwithstanding.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-28
MORE CLASSIC ORATuRY.

From Local Republican Stump Speakers.
Hay Brown ut Lampster.
my father went down South and they
gave him "a hours to leave
Irreverent Nearer, soto voce.
IF he was anything like you they al
lowed him 12 hours too much"
The Treasury to Draw On.
Jim Collins at Geiger's Orc Mines.
''The Democrats may have their barrels
in this campaign, but VIC have the whole
United States treasury at our backc.'
high, Low and the Game.
Billy Wilson at Geiger's Ore Mines.
''As to the Maine election they laugh
best who laugh last"
"After November we will take little
Billy Henscl and Jacob Yawcob Steinmetz,
we will make little coffin, dig little
hole and put little dirt on them. Yes,
my friends, after November We will put
our opponents up so high that the robins
will build nests in their coat tails"
Tho Sixth Ward Club Parade Tonight.
At meeting of the line officers of the
Sixth Ward-Americus club, held last even
ing at the central headquarters, the fol-
lowing route was agreed upon for the pa
rade of the club tonight:
Form on North Queen street in front of
Schiller house, out North Queen to Fred
erick, to Duke, to Walnut, to Lime, to
Lemon, to Shippen, to Fulton, to Marshall,
to Chestnut, to Duke, to Walnut, to North
Queen, to Schiller house and dismiss.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-28

Throwing u Little Light ON the Credit Mo-
biltcr Busincss-Garfieid's DefeHse-Mak-
ing Common Cause With His POliti-
cal Friends at tho Exponso of
Truth and His ReDutaf1ON
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-28

about o'clock in the afternoon. under
stood his position to be on the left OF our
line, extending our line along the ridge in
the direction OF Round Top hill, quite a
prominent hill on our left flank. About
o'clock in the afternoon was standing on
the hill within the limits of my division,
and noticed troops moving out to our left
and front. 1t turned out to he the Sd corps
under General Sickles they were taking
up their position obliquely to our line ana
to the front, somewhere along the En-
mitsbrrg road, which ran just to the front
OF the right of my division and obliquely
to the line. was standing there with
General Hancock and noticed the position
of General Sickles's line. There was
quite thick wood away off to the left of
Sicklcs's line, and l asked General Han
cock whether he supposed there was any
thing in those woods, and very shortly
afterwards the enemy brought out his
guns and commenced firing. and there was
more or less fighting whilst Gen. Sickles's
corps was being put in position. They
then commenced their attack on Sicklcs's
left. After fighting for some time
the corps was evidently giving way
had to change its position. I
had several messages from General
Humphreys think, asking me to send
troops out to their assistance. Gen. Ham,
cock aoas there and I consulted eciih him and
By his direction sent two regiments. I
think. also sent two regiments to con-
meet Sickles's right with our line, and pre-
vent the enemy from coming in and cut
ting him off entirely from our line. Those
regiments became very heavily engaged,
when the troops began to fall back and
lost both their commanding officers.
Soon afterwards saw the enemy's
lines drawing after our troops
directly in my front. I vent up
to the batteries which was the most
prominent part Of the line, and directed
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-01-10
la Voorhees, a Dodop

We submit to a candid and impair
tial public the following momentous
question, and respectfully ask for it a
calm and dispassionate decision by
popular opinion. The question is
this: Is the Hon. Daniel Webster
Barnwell Slote Voorhees,, patriot, or
ator, immigrant statesman, fnancier,
politician, lawyer, senator, S. ofl. (son
of liberty, n. of G. C. (knight of gold
en- circle), u. r. of r. a. unconditional
repeater of resumption ac), i. of N.
G. e. investigator of North Carolina
exodns), and so on for quantity-a
Dodo? We give this question to the
public, and especially to the Demo-
cratic party leaders in Indiana and
the country at large, and earnestly
beg that it may meet with the consid.
GRAFTON which its Importance de-
mands. We frankly state that we
desire to be understood as taking the
affirmative side in the discussion.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-01-10
THE LEADER THE BEST.

Letter From Captain o. s. B. Wall
WASHINGTON, ID. G.
Jan. l, 1880.
My DEAR Mr.. BAGBY, EDITOR OF THE
INDIANAPOLIS LEADER:
DEAR SIR:-After having received
and read thoroughly three numbers
of your paper, l am constrained to
compliment you upon your success as
a journalist, in furnishing to fhe pub
lie the best, unsectarian, colored news
paper 1 have ever had the pleasure to
read. For boldness and manly utter
ance it hass no superior. The clear
and able manner in which you dis
cuss all the issues and subjects of in
terest to our people, and especially
the present exodus of the colored
people from the land of oppression is
exhilirating, to say the least. But
while L differ with you as to the best
man in the Republican ranks for the
coming presidential nomination, l
think every colored man in the coun-
try should be proud of and encourage
you in the publication of such paper
Very respectfully,
O. S. B. WALL,
Pres. E. A. S., ID. C.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-01-10
The Maine Villainy.

| Another chapter has been added t.
the catalogue of Democratic infamy
Base and Infamous as this Maine af
fair is, it is not the basest infamy o.
which the Democratic party has been
guilty. 1t is not the first time that
party has stolen a State and robbed
the people of Republican form OF
government. Shameless, thieving 2 and
damning as are the methods by which
the Democratic party has obtained
control of the State government of
Maine, they are respectable and hu-
name as compared with the methods
employed by that same party to OBJ
tain control of the State governments
OF Mississippi, Louisiana the Carolinas
and other Southern States. The
Maine steal is to the Mississippi steal
as the common sneak thief is to the
highwayman. Some of our contem-
poraries talk about this Maine busi
ness as if it were something new and
strange, entirely unexpected from the
Democratic party. Let them follow the
course of Democratic triumph in the
South, lined as it is with red handed
murder, assassination and outrage of
every character. Let them see hordes
of uniformed and armed villains par
aiding the streets of Columbia and
New Orleans, surrounding the State
Houses, overthrowing tbs legally ell
ected and regularly constituted State
governments and installing leaders of
the mob. Let them see the Demo
cratic chivalry of the South armed
and equipped cap-a-pe charging a
mass meeting of unarmed coIored
people and shooting them down like
wild beasts; and then let them con-
template tho humiliating spectacle of
the leader of outlaws occupying a seat
in the United States Senate and max
ing laws for the loyal, freedom-lov-
ing, law-abiding people of the North.
Let them see defenceless homes visit
ed at the dead hour ofnight by mask
ed assassins, father, husband and son
wife and daughter outraged
innocent children orphaned and cast
upon the cold charity of a community
of savages. Let them see school
houses burnt and the teachers beaten,
murdered or driven away. Let them
see religious meetings attacked and
men shot down while on bended knees
engaged in prayer. Let them see
of Northern white men
murdered or driven away from the
South, because they were loyal to the
Union and the glorious principal of
liberty for which they fought. And,
lastly but not least let them behold
the thousands of men, women and
children who have been forced to
abandon their homes and the land of
their birth by these cruel prosecutions.
Let the Northern people contemplate
these outrages and let them remember
that they have all been committed by
the rebel Democrats of the South to
achieve what the Democrats of Maine
have achieved by little dark lantern
rascality.