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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-20
PERSONAL.

General SHERMAN arrived at YanktOn,
Dakota, on Sunday night, and left yester-
day morning for the East.
John PALMER, well-known boOkbinder
of Philadelphia, died yesterday at Cape
May, N. j., of paralysis, in his i 4th year.
Attorney General DEvENs left Washing
ton yesterday for New York and Boston.
He will be absent from Washington for
three weeks.
Hon. JACOB BR1NKERHoFF,aged7 20 years,
died at Mansfield, Ohio, yesterday, He
was the author of the original draft of the
famous Wilmot proviso and was judge OF
the supreme court of Ohio from 1856 to
1871.
Rev. II. NJ. KIEFFER, pastor of the Re
formed Church of the Ascension, Norris.
town, having been granted a leave of alb
sence of four weeks, has arrived with his
family in Lancaster, where he will spend
the greater part of the vacation.
The arrangements for the annual conven.
ton of the American Bankers association
at Saratoga on the 10Th and 18th of August
are completed. Among the special topics
for discussion will be the silver question.
Secretary SHERMAN has promised to addres:
the convention ON resumption and refund
ing.
Chairman JEWELL often likes to tel
how he went out of Grant cabinet, or wa.
fired out" one bright summer morning
He had not the remotest idea of what was
coming when he received a message from
General Grant saying that his presence
was desired at the White House. He
thought there must be some trouble about
some postotfice, so he walked into the pres
ident's office in his usual festive manner
and smiled bland good morning upor
the great man. The smile was not returned
Mr.. Jewell, want you to sit down al
that table right over there and write youl
resignation" said the president. Mr.. Jew
ell did not have breath enough to ask why
or wherefore, or to make any resistance
but quietly sat down and wrote his little
piece" as the president desired. Then he
walked out without another word and
went over to the department and closed uI
his business.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-20

MERRITT was appointed collector of
New York to succeed Arthur the Re-
publican candidate for vice president,
because Arthur was an opponent OF
civil service reform. So offensive was
his official conduct that the good Mr..
Hayes felt impelled to say in dismissing
him, you have made the custom house
a centre of partisan political manage
ment, and John Sherman in his letter
of dismissal used this language: "GrOss
abuses of administration have continued
and increased during your incumbency :"
&" Persons have been regularly paid by
you who have rendered little or no ser
vice the expenses of your office have in
creased, while its receipts have dimin-
ished. Brides. or gratuities in the shape
of bribes, have been received by your
subordinates in several branches of the
custom house, and you have in no case
supported the effort to correct these
abuses" This same stone that was re-
jected by Hayes and Sherman became
the head of the corner at Chicago
and Arthur is endorsed by both Hayes
and Sherman for the second highest
Office in the nation. Worse than this,
comes the report that as Merritt cannot
consistently abuse his Office to elect
Arthur, he is to be displaced to make
room for some one who will continue and
increase "gross abuses Of administra-
tion - to serve the exigencies of the Re-
publican party. That would he in accord
with the kind of civil service reform we
have had from Washington.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-20
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
IN The LOWER END.

The Tobacco Fields Of DrumOre.
"The tobacco crop of the southern end
of the county will rank favorably with that
or any other section," was the answer
given to us by prominent grower OF
Drumore township when asked as to the
tobacco outlook. A look at a number OF
fields. green with tobacco plants con-
v;nced us of this fact. All around Chest.
nut Level, Smithville and the Buck the
growing weed looks remarkably fine,
while at Fairfield and vicinity in many
places it is nearly ready for topping. In
company with several extensive planters
We secured this end of the county, and
were shown the finest fields. but with none
were we SO favorably impressed as with
that in the immediate vicinity of Fairfield.
DR.. Glacken, taught by the experience of
former years has number of acres out
this year, mostly of the famous ''Gless-
ncr" variety; and to facilitate the curing
of his crop he has erected large and CON-
plete store or curing house. 1t is roOmy,
we'll ventilated, supplied with a large ele-
vatOr, has Il cOmmOdious cellar beneath
and all around are tables to be used for
stripping. As whole it is one of the most
complete houses of the kind in this end of
the county.
Mr.. James G. McSparran has also erect
ed large warehouse on his farm.
Nearly all the growers in this end seem
to be aiming for late tobacco, and to have
been very reluctant to plant ears. The
late rains here helped the growing plants
considerably, although in some places the
floods-for the roads and fields at some
points were nundated-washed numbers
of plants away, but the extent of damage
by water is not so great as was at first
considered.
Fairfield is to have Hancock pole rails
ing. The Odd Fellows hall will be opened
for the speakers, band will be hired and
the boys will have grand time.
The late storm has not been very destruc-
tive to the growing crops. The lightning
played havoc among the trees and the
wind and rain laid low the waving corn and
oats, but as a whole it was blessing
rather than an injury.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-20
THIS MORNINGS RAIN.


n A~~ >OseAoO0 " "oSOts
During the heavy rain which fell be-
tween 2 and o'clock, the water again
gathered in large quantities in the lower
part Of Charlotte street, between Lemon
and Walnut. The water from the fields
and streets in that part of the town all
flow into the street at that point, and
when the rain is heavy it rises very high
and the sewer will not carry it off. This
morning the street was again filled with
water, which again flowed through the
house of William O'Brien. The cellar was
run full of water, as indeed was the
whole lower part of the house. Mr..
O'Brien and family were awakened by the
noise, as were all the neighbors, who as
sisted him to save his property. The
carpets and furniture were badly damaged.
The stable of Col. Miles was flooded by
water. and the cellar Of Officer Flick s
house was filled to depth of several feet.
There is certainly something wrong with
the street at this point. Some of the water
which comes from that part of the town
should either be run off in another direc-
tiOn or the sewer should be enlarged, fol
in the present condition it will not carry
off the water which gathers there during
heavy rains. The place should certainly
be looked after by the street department.
1t is said that Mr.. O'Brien intends bring
ing a suit for damage against the city, a.
it was only last Friday that his house was
deluged,
The people who reside on Water street
and who had their houses flooded ON Fri
day, saved their properties this morning by
hard work.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-20
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

Baseball At Troy-Troy City IL,
Chicego At ringfield-Cleveland 4.
Nationals 1.
tian obelisk on board, arrived in New
York harbOr last night, and will go up to
the city to-day.
Frederick Sewall, the 17-year-old son OF
DR.. F. r. Sewall, of Brooklyn, was
drowned in Great Neck Pond, N. J., by
the capsizing of small row-bOat which
he attempted to sail.
A three-year-old child named Ella Carr,
daughter Of the section foreman of the
n. Y. p. & o. II. II, at Greenville, while
unobserved by her parents, ran away up
the track and was instantly killed.
The body of the boy Johnny Cain, who
disappeared in New Orleans on June 9th,
was found yesterday in a vault on his
fathers premises. 1t is believed that he
fell in accidentally.
An excursion train going from Toledo to
indianapolis, on the Wabash railroad, ran
off the track yesterday morning and was
wrecked. One passenger was killed and
forty others injured, sixteen seriously and
at least three fatally.
General Manager ]. E. Wootten, Chief
Engineer William Lorenz and General
Traffic Manager J. Lowrie Bell, forming
the board Of appraisers of the Reading
railroad company, started yesterday after
noon upon tour of inspection Of the prop
erty of the incorporation.
A violent cyclone and bail storm visited
Monroe county, Mich. on Sunday after
noon. All vegetation was destroyed in a
path seven miles long by from halfa mile
to mile wide, and several houses and barns
were wrecked. The damage is estimated
at $4,000.
The City hotel. at Flint, Michigan, kept
by A. Payne and owned by Mrs. J. Nc
Dermott, was burned on Saturday night.
The loss is between $1,000 and $1O, 600 1:
insurance, 5000. Some of the boarders
barely escaped with their lives, getting
out of second and third-story windows.
George Lewis, well connected in Will
mingtOn, Del, has been cowhided by
Mrs. John w. Mccoy, because, as she
alleges, he slandered her. Mrs. Mccoy
drove out with her husband to the place
where Lewis was employed, and the hus-
band held pistol to his head while the
woman inflicted the chastisement.
Ann Molloy, in attempting to cross the
tracks of the siding of Philadelphia and
Reading railroad at the Kohinoor colliery
was struck by an engine and run over.
Both legs were severed from the body and
she was otherwise horribly mangled. She
is q widow and mother of seven children.
She cannot recover.
A fire in large four-story building on
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-20
SIGHcLESS PIGS,
Remarkable Cases OF Blindness.

lSem8rkaDle O8S0S Oh DuuOucSbs
Mr.. Adam E. Ranck, Of Fishing creek
mills, on the Columbia and Port Deposit
railroad, is the owner of three sOws, each
of which has, within a few weeks past,
given birth to litter Of pigs, and every
pig of the three litters is stone blind,
several of them having not the semblance
of an eye in the eye-socket. In every
other respect the pigs are perfect
and healthy. They are growing finely,
and seem to be endowed with unusually
good hearing. 1t is quite amusing to see
them prick up their ears and listen, ap-
parently with the keenest interest, to any
strange noise. The pigs are of the Chester
white breed, and there are from ten to a
dozen in each litter. The sOws and bOars
from which they were bred have good eyes.
Can any of our scientists give reason for
this wholesale blindness
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-20

COn0emne1e
The discovery that the supreme court
of the United States has adjudged the
case which involved Garfield's DeGolyer
pavement fee is well calculated to pro-
duce the most lively CONSERVATION in the
ranks of his rash Republican defenders.
Judge Swayne's decision and his severe
and sweeping remarks upon the part
which Garfield took in the matter are
published contemporaneously with a
fresh defense which the Republican can
didate gives out for himself as an inter-
view with his campaign biograpber. In
his last statement Garfield "denies re-
ceiving any share of the profits or any
pay for either his influence or services in
any matter directly or indirectly con-
nected with the scandalous contract" {"
In SO doing he presents a striking con-
trast with tho exultant tone of the con-
tractors who wrote to each other most
jubilantly after they had secured him and
dwelt with intense satisfaction on the
fact that they had employed as their
attorney the chairman of the COM
mittee on appropriations who held
the purse strings of the nation. He was
retained to argue their case; he was
paid a SIS, 900 fee out of their money, and
thenceforth they considered him their
counsellor in all matters affecting their
interests-most certainly in his position
of controlling the appropriation to which
they must look to get their money. If
there was any doubt about this it was
cleared up by the subsequent develop
ments of the case. The thieves fell out
among themselves and their contention
came into court in Chicago, whence the
suit was appealed to the United States
supreme court, where in the ad-
Indication of it Justice Swayne- Ohio
man and Republican-used this forci-
ble language:
The agreement with Gen. Garfield, a
member of Congress, to pay him 81, 600 as
a contingent fee for procuring contract
which was itself made to depend upon a
future appropriation by COngress-which
appropriation could only come from a CON-
mittee of which he was chairman-was a
sale of official influence, which no veil can
cover, against the plainest principles OF
public policy. No counsellor-at-law, while
holding high Office, has a right to put
himself in position of temptation, and
under pretense of making legal argument
exert his official influence upon public
officers dependent upon his future action.
Certainly the courts of justice will never
lend themselves to enforce contracts Ob.
tain ell by such influence"
This is not the mudslinging of a polit.
ical campaign, but the calm judicial ut
terance of the highest tribunal of law in
the country. It must he recognized as
conclusive upon a hearing of the facts
and it stamps Gen. Garfield's connection
with the DeGolyer contract as wholly
indefensible and fatal to his political as.
piratiOns.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-20
DEATH OF WILLIAM CALDER.
The Career Of a Successful Business MAJ
Who Built Up His Native CITY.


Who Built Up His Native City.
William Calder, a wealthy and leading
citizen of Harrisburg, died at his home in
that city yesterday. He was born July 81,
1921, in Harrisburg, and at an early age
became actively interested in the business
of his fathers stage coach line and he nat
urally grew into the canal and railroad in
terests of the state. In 1851 he assumed
the management of his fathers whole bus
mess, which was very extensive. In
1857 he undertook the completion of
the Lebanon Valley road, on the
failure of it's contractors, making him
self personally responsible for the wages of
the men engaged on it. In 1858 Mr.. Cal
der became one of the partners in the
we'll known banking firm of Cameron, Cal
der, Eby & Co., which afterward became
the First national bank of Harrisburg, of
which MIR. Calder became president. Inthe
same year he was elected a director of the
Northern Central railroad and took an
active part in preserving the supremacy of
Pennsylvania interest in that corporation.
At the breaking out of. the rebellion Mr..
Calder rendered the government very i'm
pOrtant services, through his large knOwl
edge, in the purchase of horses, supplying
no less than a., 900 Horses and 81, 600 mules
during the war, and establishing prices for
them. so low as to effect a very great saving
to the government in this department of its
supplies. He was at this time very largely
engaged in financial operations.
Mr.. Calder never neglected an Oppor-
tunity to aid the material prosperity of
Harrisburg. He was one of the originators
of the Harrisburg car works, and in 1868
was one of the projectors of the Lochiel
rolling mills, which continue yet in success
full operation and with which he and Simon
Cameron have ever since been identi-
fed. Raising $500, 600 he reorganized the
Harrisburg cotton mills company and
placed it on a firm foundation, and when
this was on the way as a profitable
investment he succeeded in starting
the Harrisburg foundry and machine shops
which now employ about 1,50O men. This
was followed by ::the erection of the lire-
brick works and by influential steps to SC
sure the founding of the Pennsylvania
steel works at Baldwin. He has been an
officer of very many other companies of a
business character and during his lifetime
distributed a fortune to charities. He was
a Republican in politics, but did not seek
Office, and his highest position of that kind
was as a member of the Harrisburg coun-
Gil. William Calder will be missed from the
business life of Harrisburg, and his death
will be felt in other parts of the state.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-20

First avenue, between Twenty-ninth and
Thirtieth streets, New York, caused
loss last night which is estimated ut $780,
600. The portion of the building destroy
ed was occupied by various manufacturing
firms the other portion, occupied by the
brewery of Herman Kohler and the malt
house Of Arnold s. Bernheimer, escaped
the flames.
The boiler of a steam saw mill near
Barresville, Charlotte county, Va, ex-
plOded on Saturday with terrific force,
killing one colored man, fatally wounding
an employe named Bryant and severely
wounding five others The body of the
man who was killed was very much
mangled and pieces thereof were scattered
for distance of fifty yards around. The
engine, weighing five thousand pounds,
was blown twenty yards away.
Jonathan Carey, of FrankfOrd, DEL, a
wealthy farmer, committed suicide by
jumping down the we'll in the yard. He is
about sixty years of age and leaves a wife
and children. He was the owner of quite
large landed estate. Temporary here
ditary insanity is supposed to be the cause
of the suiciee. His brother, Josiah 5.
Carey, two or three years ago shot him.
self. The present victim has given evil
dence of arrangement for some months
past, but his family would not acknowl-
edge it to the neighbors.
At Duckwells grocery, six miles from
Louisville. Cash Davidson, wealthy
young farmer. came into the grocery in
toxicated, and first tried to shoot an un-
offending negro, but was prevented by
Duckwell. Then Alexander Taylor came
in to buy bottle of beer. Davidson said
he could not have it, and seizing a gun,
pursued Taylor to the door, and rs TAYLOR
threw brick at him he fired, killing Tay.
lor instantly. Then beating another negro
on the head with the butt Of the gun, he
got into his buggy and drove off.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-20

Yesterday Samuel Jeffries and another
young man by the name of Rooney, WHO
are in the employ of John Bachman, car-
penter and builder, were at work on new
tobacco shed on the premises of jeremiah
Herr, in East Lampeter township. While
they were standing ON a board of q scat
fold, about sixteen feet from the ground,
it tilted and threw them to the ground.
Rooney was bruised SO badly as to be una
BILE to go to work, and was brought to his
home in Lancaster. Jeffries was not hurt.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-20
FREIGHT WPeck.

Last night about IL o'clock two large
coal cars, which were being shifted at the
Pennsylvania freight depot, jumped the
track at curve in the siding. The wheels
were torn from the bodies, but no other
damage was done. The Parkesburg wreck
train was sent for and the cars were placed
on the track after some work.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-20
Surety OF the Peace

Casimer Lichty, Of the Eighth ward,
was before Alderman Barr last evening, to
answer complaints of assault and battery
and surety of the peace preferred against
him by Margaret Gettler. The charge Of
assault was dismissed, but the accused
was held in bail to answer at court for
surety of the peace.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-20
MINOR TOPICS.

The first bale Of Georgia cotton of this
season arrived in Albany, Ga, on Satur-
day afternoon. and sold for Is cents per
pound. 1t is the earliest bale of cotton
ever produced in any season in that state.
THE State Teachers association will meet
in York on July 81, % and Goth, when B.
F. Shaub. of this city, will deliver the in
augural address. Among the papers are
the following to be read by Lancaster
county educators Women VS.. Men as
Teachers, Prof. J. S. Stahr, Franklin and
Marshall college; Star Study J. D. Pyott,
Lancaster 1Esthetics in the School
Room, Mrs. Mayne B. Archer, Lititz 4;
Teachers Studies and Degrees, E. O.Lyte,
Millersville.
AN early official report, received by the
American steel and iron association, of
British exports of iron and steel to the
United States shows a great falling of
during June. The figures for the past
four months are {: June, 100, $50 tons
May 165, S62 tons April, 234,47S tons
March, 2O2, 176 tons. The total British
iron and steel exports to the United States
from January 1st to June 3Oth, were 9S6,
291 tons, of which GIL, ,366 tons were pig
and old iron 12s, ,Oss tons rails; 29,5ss
tons steel, unwrought; S2,SO5 tons tin
plates !; 81, ,312 tons hoops and sheets, and
43, 1876 tons bars, etc.
GENERAL NEAL Dow has accepted
the Prohibition nomination for presi.
dent in letter which indicates his
intention to stick. Some of our Republi-
can friends pretend to feel confident that
he will not poll 500 votes in his own state
Even if he should not, how many votes
have the Republicans of Maine to spare:
Last year they polled every voter they
could bring to the polls, and then were ir
a minority of nearly thousand. Maine
is a doubtful state, and General Nea
Dow's candidacy doesn't help the Repub
licans any.
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NEW YORK rOnAOCO MARKEr-

The " J0urnal's" " Report for Last Week.
The bushes Of the week was small in
deed. Our leaf men have settled down to
the conviction that till September their o..
cupatiOn is gone. But then-yes, then
there'll te struggle and scamper among
manufacturers and jObbers for the choicest
of the 20 tObaccos. They will wildly ex-
anime the samples of the myriads Of cases
Of new tobacco, and the sight of the bril-
liantly developed leaves pennsylvania, es-
pecially) will indeed turn them into
brighter and better men. Such, at least.
are the visions of the holders of - Penn
sylvania, which is all that in the slightest
degree lights up their at present desOlate
existence. We avoid speaking solely Of
the prospects Of the 70 crop to-day, and
turn our attention to the growing crop.
From the reports in other columns it
may be inferred that the state of Pennsyl-
vania will turn out in the neighbOrhoOd OF
11O. 900 cases. Connecticut, probably 5O.-
900; Ohio, 10000; New York state, 90
600; Wisconsin, $4,000.
An anticipated aggregate Of 100000
cases
Home consumption, 11O.OO cases.
The 70 cropis computed to be 200, 900
| cases.
Figuring that the possible sales of 20
stock from now until January 1, 1888, viii
sum up $4,000 cases, there will be left
15O. 500 cases of 70 crop and 25O, 900 cases
Of 80 crop.
Therefore by the first of next January
(granting that the 1880 crop will be pack
cd in cases by that time) the stock of seed
leaf tobacco in the United States will DC
4OO, 900.
This is stupendOus and never before i'm
| the history Of the tobacco trade Of the
United States will such a state Of affairs
have existed.
What does this teach?
1. We must have our export trade. 1t
can only be had by being able to sell at
| very low figures.
2. The holders of 70 stock, especially
Pennsylvania, must act in accordance with
the situation and invite purchasers by
offering stock at low figures regardless
| Of purchasing prices.
| 3-The 80 crop, especially the medium
goods, must be bought at nominal figures.
while as to prices for really fine stock, the
greatest caution must be observed
There are trying times ahead for our
leaf men. Only sagacity in tho action of
our packers and exporters can prevent our
tObaccOs from becoming g!ut in the mar
kct.
| Last weeks transactions are confined to
the sale of probably 600 cases of old tobac-
cos of various crops, with no change in
| figures. No new tobacco was sold.
| Havana is very active. The authentic
and reliable reports of the bad condition vi
the new crop have at last stimulated our
market, and good jObbing business is
ported at advanced figures.
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Put Out That Light .

At high noon to-day the street lamp in
front of Cy. McCaskey's house on
North Queen street above the
Pennsylvania railroad was burning
full head just as it had been burn
ing all last night and all forenoon to-day.
Whose duty is it to extinguish that lamp