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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-26

Hayes's reputation of his pledges to the
men who made his Inauguration possible.
1t was treason to the principle of standing
by your friends.
This quarrel with Hayes was the origin
of the third term boom, and of much of the
opposition and many of the embarrass-
ments the de facto president has met with
i'll his own party. 1t was determined to
isolate his administration by making his
successor before Hayes had fairly entered
on his duties. The Camerons were aided
in this by Hayes's ridiculous preten-
sions about the civil service re-
form and his Southern policy, which
angered the carpet-bas thieves and
the Northern stalwarts. The worst
clements of our politics, before the new
administration was month old, were
hankering for the good old days of the
| Grant regime. The ex-president was
sounded, and his willingness to be again
a candidate secured before he had been
out of office six weeks. The trip around
the world was determined on. to steer
Graut clear of possible American compli-
cations. The reception abroad was foreseen
and provided for. Arrangements were
made it should be reported in glowing
terms. and skilled writer ap-
pointed to prepare descriptions,
speeches and interviews expressly for
the American market. Through the
Hayes administration, the services of
diplomatic agents and the convenience and
prestige of American war vessels were Sc
cured. The money for necessary expenses
was obtained from two sources The
Cameron politicians about Philadelphia
and elsewhere raised fifty thousand dol
lars, ten thousand of which was con-
tributed by Robert w. Mackey. The
Childses, Drexels and Bories were equally
liberal on personal grounds. A hundred
thousand dollars in cash was thus pro-
vided for the expenses of General Grants
three years tour, and he carried n letter
of credit with him for fifty thousand more
This was the start of the thild term
boom. 1t has been the most deliberately
arranged and carefully planned political
movement in the history of the country
and it is the most hollow, insincere au(
false bit of humbugSary ever devised by
cunning and selfseeking politicians.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-26
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

James Podgets, a musician, was fatally
shot by Joseph J. Fields. farmer, in a
quarrel near Winchester, ILL.,, on Tuesday,
Fields is in Jail.
The timber in a yard on Glasshouse
street, Vauxhall, London, fell yesterday,
killing five persons and wounding six
teen.
John McDiarmid Campbell was fatally
poisoned on Tuesday by a dose of carbolic
acid, which his wife.gavc him in mistake
for quinine.
The stockholders of the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids and Northern railroad, at a
meeting on Tuesday, rejected the pro-
posal to lease the road to the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific company.
In POughkeepsie, N. Y, Alice Weaver,
a Girl thirteen years of age, committed
suicide last night by taking arsenic. The
cause seemed to be an aversion to leaving
the city for employment in the country.
It is said that deputation of Dominion
farmers will wait upon Sir Leonard Tilly
and ask for increased protection on agri-
cultural products. They desire an addi-
tiOnal tax of two and a-half cents pei
bushel on corn and two dollars barrel on
pork.
In New Albany, Ind, John F. Filley.
age seventy-nine years, was found dead
yesterday on the floor of his house. hor-
ribly gnawed by rats. He died of starva-
ton, though he had money hid away, and
owned good farm of 100 acres. He
lived alone.
Rev. A. W. Paige. a minister of Hart
ford county. Conn.,, pleaded guilty in the
L. S. district court at New Haven, yester-
day, to the charge of sending obscene let
ters through the mails. He was fined
5000 and costs, amounting to $40, and
committed to Jail in default of payment.
The war department has recently re-
ceived dispatches from Colonel Hatch re-
garding Indian affairs in New Mexico. in
which no mention is made of the alleged
defeat of Captain Ruskin's company bv
Victoria's band of Indians. The report of
that fight is therefore regarded as un-
founded.
The House of Assembly, at Frederick
ton, in which the New Brunswick Lerjs-
lature was to meet to-day, was DESTROYED
by fire yesterday. Mas & Vahlers pic
ture frame and moulding works, in Pearl
street, New York, were burned last
night. Loss, $4,000. The mill of Hoyt
& Sloyer, at Frontenac, Minn., was burned
on Tuesday night. Loss, $4,000.
Count De Lesseps and the engineers
who come to New York with him, spent
yesterday in visiting various points of in
terest in the city. They took trip over
the elevated railroads to which they paid
much attention. A short inspection of
the East river bridge was made and the
terminal facilities of the Erie line were OBJ
served. An exhibition of the promptness
with which the fire department answers
alarms was given for the entertainment of
the visitors. A short time was spent III
looking at a model New York residence.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-26
Frightful Tragedy in Nebraska.

A horrible tragedy occurred five miles
south of Nebraska City yesterday after
noon. An insane son of A. Donahue, one
of the oldest and wealthiest fruit growers
and farmers in Otoe county, procured a pis-
tol and shot horse. His father attempted
to seize him and capture the pistol, when
the boy drew knife and stabbed him
four times, killing him instantly. He then
attempted to kill his mother and brother,
but the latter felled him to the ground
with a club, and the mother fled to the
house. The maniac pursued her, batter
ing the doors and windows with club,
but, being prevented from entering by the
brother, returned to the stable, where he
stabbed another horse and two dogs. A
company of alarmed neighbOrs tried to cap
ture the maniac, who sought refuge in a
neighboring cornfeld and kept them at
bay for several hours, standing knife in
hand. he was captured and lodged in
iaiI
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-26
STATE ITEMS,

The Evangelical conference commenced
at WeisspOrt, yesterday. Over one hun
dred ministers are present. Yesterdays
session was secret.
The next fair of the Washington county
agricultural society will be held OIL the
9TH, 6th~and eth of October g., 900 will be
offered in premiums.
The Pittsburgh Tilden club has appoint
ed 4 committee to arrange an excursion to
Cincinnati ut the time of the national con-
vention. The committee were instructed
to charter q steamboat, if there should be
water enough to float five hundred Demo-
Gratis.
The Republicans of Crawford county
had Il meeting ut Meadville on SATURDAY.,
for the purpose of declareing their Oppsi-
tiOn to the unit rule and insisting that the
delegates to Chicago shall carry out the in
structiOns of the district. John l. Gordon.
of Mercer, and Thomas Robinson, of But
ler, are the delegates from the Twenty-sixth
district, and the three counties comprs-
ing it have all declared for Blaine with an
emphasis and unanimity which cannot be
mistaken.
At Dawson's station. four miles below
Connellsvillc, Constable Geo. W. Foust.
was shot twice by George Tobn, colorcd
man. TObin was drunk and disturbing the
community. Foust undertook to arrest
him, when he shot the latter in the shoul-
der, and again in the region of the heart
The latter wound bled internally, which
leads the attending physician to entertain
grave doubts of Foust's recovery. Tobin
tied but was finally captured and commit
ted.
In Sharon, Mercer county, a man named
Mason keeps place called the Castle. His
| brother-in-law is one Daily. Screams were
! heard i'll the place, and on rushing to the
spot the people found Daily lying in
pool of blood, his head having been split
open with an axe. The screams came
from Mrs. Davis, who became wild in her
agony upon beholding her brother lying
dead before her and her husband standing
over him holding an axe, from which the
blood was still dripping.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-26

TIE Conkling machine has device in
New York that the Cameron folks should
copy in Pennsylvania. 1t would be OF
use to them, especially in such districts
as Lancaster county, where they say
they "always lave trouble In New
York city only those Republicans can
vote at primary elections, help to make
nominations or send delegates to state
conventions, who belong to the district
Republican " associations" They are a
sort of club, " close corporations, - which
elect to membership whom they please
and do not aggregate one-seventh of the
entire Republican vote. They do not only
"run the machine" they are the ma
chine itself. Such concern in Lancas-
ter county would be even more easily
handled than county committee.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-26
PERSONAL.

GARIBALDI has married, at MaSdalcna,
the mother of his children, doing thus a
just though tardy duty to one who has
sacrificed many years of her life to him.
PARNELL, the Irish agitator, has a
brother living at West Point, Ga, who is
a famous fruit-grower, and owns an
orchard containing fifty thousand peach
trees.
The father of J. Hay Brown, esq.,, and
Mrs. r. NJ. Agnew, the Rev. DR.. J. A.
BROWN, of Gettysburg, who was SO dan
gerously paralyzed some months ago, is
now able to move about the house but has
not yet entirely recovered the power of
speech.
When Senator BAYARD was in Richmond
last week, he was invited to pay visit to
the Readjusters' Legislature, where no
doubt formal reception would have been
rendered him. He declined with thanks
and said he did not care to visit people
who were opposed to paying their honest
debts.
Senor ZAMACoNA, Mexican minister to
the United States, is POLITICALLY described as
tall and slender, wearing flowing locks
just touched by frost, and having mobile,
spiritual face, delicate features, and man
ner gentle and polished His wife has
ga sweet, smiling, amiable countenance,
and a soft, quiet bearing"
ERNEST LONGFELLOw, son of the poet,
is exhibiting twenty-seven pictures at a
gallery in Boston. The foreign scenes are
notes of travel in Spain, France and the
countries bordering the Nile. The con-
spicuous picture of the exhibition is a
canvas large enough to fill the entire end
wall of the gallery. 1t is an allegorical
representation of the temptations of youth.
In view of STEPHEN S. CLAIE's pros
pective removal from Columbia to become
Pennsylvania railroad agent in Middle
town his friends have rendered him din
ner at the Franklin house, to come off on
next Saturday evening. That the affair
will be success may be inferred from the
| fact that it is in the hands of Harry Schell,
Andy Kaufman, Milt Wikc, John c.
Forty and A. w. Rambo.
Rev. DR.. G. F. KRoTEL, formerly pastor
of Trinity Lutheran church, now of New
York city, has withdrawn from the gen.
eral editorship of the Lutheran and M:ssion-
arg. The persons now constituting the
executive committee of stockholders and
having on them the entire responsibility
for the present management of the paper,
are Rev. Prof. F. A. Muhlcnberg, D. D.,
Rev. J. A. Seiss, d. D., Rev. G. D. Frede-
rick, Rev. S. Laird, Hon. Daniel NJ. Fox,
Charles E. Blumner, esq.,, and John r.
Baker. esq.
The Philadelphia. Times, commenting
upon the recent articles in the North Amer
icdn Rerieu, OIL the third term question
states !: "In fact, setting BLACK on Howe
looks very like seizing sledgc hammer to
brain a mosquito. Not since poor Mr..
Stoughton, of clerical error notoriety, was
| vivisected bv the same hand has such
bloody work been done on the pages of the
North american Reriew as this slaughter of
the mild but raging Wisconsin third
termer, whom the ex-president was once
half inclined to make chief justice Of the
United States"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-26
Gas In Mount 10Y.

Last evening, for the first time Mount
Joy was lit up with gas, supplied from
the works of the gas company recently
organized in that borough. The gas works
are on the site formerly used as Brady's
edge tool factory, and cost about $50, 900.
They have capacity Of $4,000 cubic feet
Of gas per day, which can easily be increased,
at small expense. The gas is manufac-
tured by the same process used by the new
Lancaster company. The stock is nearly
all held by citizens of Mount Joy. The
gas furnished last night gave brilliant
white light and the consumers appeared
to be much pleased with it.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-26
What 1t Thinks and Why.

The Lancaster INTELLIGENCER thinks
"it is of no great consequence when the
state convention is called, so that it
meets before June 90, and late enough
to give every county plenty time to
select its delegates" Certainly it is of
"nO consequence if no effort is to be
made to organize the party in this state.
The editors of the INTELLIGENCER must
be aware that it is impossible for the
state committee to give proper attention
to the registration of voters if it does not
begin work before midsummer. Nor can
campaign literature he circulated effectively
until the state committee has in it's hands
properly classified lists of voters with their
postoffice addresses. To obtain such lists is
the work of months. Campaign documents
circulated in the heat of the canvass pro-
duce no effect. When the battle is on
such publications so unread to the re-
ceptacle for waste paper. But suppose
that the Democratic state committee were
now organized that by the middle of
April it would have a record of the post
Office address and politics of every voter in
the state, and that a good weekly news
paper (such as the INTELLIGENCER, for
instance) were sent regularly by the state
committee to intelligent, reasonable,
thoughtful men of Republican proclivities,
from that date until the the election, is it
not fair 10 presume that the party would be
greatly benefited? Suppose, too, that just
for once an effort were made by the state
committee to have the early registration in
the large cities correctly made, could not
the opportunities for fraudulent voting be
considerably lessened? Besides the work
of organizing Democratic clubs should be-
gin at once. Every township and ward
in the state ought to have its Democratic
club. Under the direction of the state
committee the organization of such associ-
ations could be made general throughout
the commonwealth. Hence we believe
that the present state committee ought to
move or-be moved
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-26
An Excellent Suggestion.

The name of Edward Herrick, the pres
eng efficient and accommodating chief
clerk of the auditor generals department,
is thus far the only one mentioned in con-
nection with the nominntion for auditor
general by the Democracy of the state, and
if his should remain the only one, it will
be entirely satisfactory to the large army
of friends which Mr.. Herrick has gained
since his advent in public position. Mr..
Herrick is Bradford county lawyer of
superior legal and administrative ability,
whose election to the auditor generalship
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-26

THE Office of hangman is one that has
not been very satisfactorily filled by the
average country sheriff of late years.
The unpleasant and demoralizing motor
iety attaching to executions has been
greatly aggravated by the tendency
of the eXecutioners to get ner-
vous the liability of their machin-
cry to become disarranged and the
frequency with which their ropes
break or stretch to an unexpected length
and thus increase the horrors of the job.
In New Hampshire very sensible law
has been passed that as soon as person
is sentenced to death he shall be removed
to the state prison and kept there until
the end of his case; and if he he hanged
it shall be done privately and by expe-
rienced hands,, If a community must
suffer from these repulsive incidents it is
we'll that the influence of them should be
centred as much as possible, and that the
work should be entrusted to those entire
ly competent to do it.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-26

MR.. CONKLING did not stop short OF
the execution of all his purposes in the
New York convention yesterday. TO
emphasize his dictatorship he made Chas.
E. Smith permanent chairman of that
body-Smith being notOriously the one
leading Republican of the state who
has approved the nomination of John F.
Smyth for insurance commissioner, an
appointment that is denounced and con-
demned by all the respectable elements
in the party as that of a disgraceful job
Der. Mr.. Conkling, like Cameron, gen.
orally goes to the full length OF his
string. Where he has to take hold OF a
nettle, he knows that it is prudent to
g take it like man of mettle."
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-26
Verbum Sap.

VerDum sap.
williamsport Banner.
The Democrats carried the city of Lam
caster by over eight hundred majority.
Cameron and Judge Patterson had better
arraign the Whole city for contempt of
court.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-26

would secure to the commonwealth an Off
cial in every way qualified to perform the
important duties and at the same time
guarantee continuance of the many and
wholesome REFORMS inaugurated by the
present incumbent, Gen. Schell.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-26

The New York Tribune is delighted at
the harmony that prevailed in the New
York convention yesterday. This is very
much as if the lamb should rejoice at its
chance to lie down with the lion, even
though all were on the inside.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-26
WITH ARBUTCS

So much of patience-cold frosts and virgin
SHOWS.
So much of prOmise-sun and wind and show
erS
Of brave increase and in these heeting flow
Such end to sweetness of the springs will go
Out of Times urn with measured, ceaseless
flow
Somuch in little bring thee the hours
Thou wilt not say nay to these blooms know.
But taking, friend, will see them fair dag,
Call them half sweet a little ere they die,
And, mayhaps, looking in thy glass will say
Thy honest blush, Not half so fair as L.
And taking, dear, will lend a grace complete
To unlocked hours and idle, wantOn feet.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-26

THE circumstantial narrative which
we reprint from the Pittsburgh Post OF
what Mackey said to Hayes and what
Hayes said to Mackey, and of how
Mackey closed the conversation con-
cerning Don Cameron's appointment to
a cabinet office, is an interesting chapter
in Pennsylvania politics. 1t reads like
Mackey-and like Hayes, too. The orr
gin of the Grant movement is, no doubt,
properly attributed to the Cameron re-
sentiment at Hayes. His policy has been
represented as slap at Grant; and the
people who are for third term want it
plainly understood that what they want
is something very different from Mr..
Hayes. Conkling boldly proclaimed yes
terday that the present administration is
against Grant, and that Grants friends
are against it.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-26

IT is quite notable that the word "im-
perial" favored all the speeches of COnk-
ling and his henchmen yesterday.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-26

Mr.. SMITHS position, in urging Mr..
Samson for census supervisor of this
district, would be stronger if his candi-
date were an unexceptionable man. He
is not. He is only persistent and OBJ
noxious Office hunter. Mr.. Smith first
strongly recommended Mr.. Frank Z.
Lefever for this Office. Judges Living
ston and Patterson both gave him a
strong letter of cOmmendatiOn. He
would have been chosen but Mr.. Smith
heard that away back in 1872 Lefever
had voted against Hartranft and for the
Temperance candidate and though Le-
fever had been good soldier and was
admirably qualified Mr.. Smith made him
get off the track. There seems to have
been only political reasons for Samson's
recommendation.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-26

THE race before civil service reform
examination is not always to the swift.
Lieut.. Parker, of the 9th cavalry, the
nephew of Attorney General Devens, who
experienced some difficulty in passing ex-
animation before All army board, but was
commissioned nevertheless, passed West
over the Union Pacific not long ago with re-
cruits. He certified on the transportation
order that &C the Pullman palace car COM
pany has furnished me with one birth, :"
the al" being dotted.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-26

his election. This was conceded. MIR.
Mackey referred to his own services and
expenditures in Florida, and how he had
saved that state to Mr.. Hayes by securing
and paying for {" an honest count of the
votes" Mr.. Hayes again assented to the
services of Mr.. Cameron and his friend,
Mr.. Mackey, but regretted he could not
appoint him secretary of war-he had de-
tcrmined to make a clear sweep of the
Grant cabinet and would retain none of
the old secretaries.
but your pledge. sir" boited out
Mackey. /" that Mr.. Cameron should be
retained"
"My dear, sir, circumstances have
changed. 1mu It consult the wishes of the
country, and the country evidently does
not desire Mr.. Cameron as a member of
the cabinet Of the new administration.
appreciate continued MIR. Hayes, his
services and abilities very highly, and any
the English mission, the most honorable
diplomatic place in my gift
"Damn the English mission"' said
Mackey, now thoroughly aroused and an
gered, and caring no more for the in-going
president than for a street-corner lOafer
with whom he had been setting-up ward
politics. Cameron don't want the Eng
lish mission he would not touch it and
his friends would not allow him. We will
accept no favors from you. You have
rcpudiated your pledged word to the
men who made you president Good
day sir, good day. My opinion of you
is at your service. I think you -
- lying, scoundrelly y--!' And
then Mr.. Mackey and the two friends who
accompanied him left the room in high
dudgeon. 1t is doubtful if any president
of the United States before or since had
such plain talking to. 1t was highly char
acteristic of "Bob' Mackey. He never
saw any wrong in an "honest count"
in Florida, but he did sec great wrong in