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



C00Parod with that OF 1S5O-SOme
Notable Features.
Below will be found the full returns Of
the population Of the several districts Of
Lancaster county, as made by the census
and filed in the Office of the
prothonotary. The figures arc not in all
cases official, as quite number Of the
neglected to furnish the totals
of their enumeration, and it is NO small
matter to count up accurately the names
Of 1S5, 900 or more persons, written down
in about eighty different books. Besides.
after the names have been counted and
the totals ascertained, it has frequently
happened that more names have been
added by the enumeratOrs, and in few
instances names that were taken by mis-
take have been taken of the lists and
transferred to others. Doubtless many
additional corrections would have been
made had the enumeratOrs been directed
to sit for the revision Of their lists il. some
central part of their respective districts,
instead Of sitting in the court house, this
city. It seems to be the height of folly to
have the enumeratOrs from CarnarvOn.
Conoy, Fulton and other distant townships
come to Lancaster with any hope of hav-
ing corrections made to their lists, and the
result has been that very few names have
been added during their sitting. The law.
however, directed them to sit in Lancaster.
and it is no fault of theirs if omissions
and errors remain uncOrrected.
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LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

The population of Chicago by the CON-
pleted census is sol ,979.
The steamer r. D. Cazenove, with one
hundred Syracuse excursiOnistS, was sunk
in CazenOvia Lake yesterday. No lives
were lost.
NJ. J. Deyson's house, between Sea Plain
and Ocean Beach, was struck by lightning.
Mrs. Deyson was probably fatally injured.
The house began to burn, but was saved.
Baseball: At Buffalo-Buffalo 2. Wor-
cester 3; at Cincinnati-Cincinnati 5, BOs-
ton 2. The Albany has been disbanded.
At Cleveland-Troy 8, Cleveland 1; at
Chicago Chicago z, Providence 1.
Russell Vincent, of Rochester fireman
on the Central and Hudson River railroad,
fell between two cars at FairmOunt on
Monday evening. Five cars passed over
his right shoulder and arm. He was taken
to Rochester and the arm amputated. He
died at midnight of internal injuries.
Information has been received of de-
structive storm in Brunswick county, Va.
which demolished barns, uprooted trees and
did great damage to crops. The barn OF
Peter Williams was blown down and his
entire crop of tobacco GEO, 900 pounds) was
completely ruined.
In Bodie. CAL, Patrick Carroll, miner,
was elected from meeting of the miners
union and on attempting to re-enter the
hall he was shot dead He was native OF
Lynchburg, Va, and is said to have been
a grandson of Charles Carroll, of Carroll
ton.
In St. Louis, as Phelem Toole, fireman,
was using a Holloway fire extinguisher, it
exploded and killed him. Toole was cap
tain of the Pompier corps of the fire de-
partment and the man who made himself
famous by rescuing SO many people from
the Southern hotel when it was burned
several years ago.
A party of seven young ladies, in charge
of single boatman, were enjoying sail
on Wesley lake, Ocean Grove, when a
squall capsized the boat, precipitatins the
occupants into the lake. The boatman
brought two of the ladies safely ashore
and the remainder were gallantly rescued
by young man named William Lewis.
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STATE ITEMS.

Jacob Duenee, of Wayne county, stole
gun from his grandmother's house and
killed himself with it getting over fence.
Hayes has appointed w. A. Stone to
succeed Mccormick as United States dis
trict attorney at Pittsburgh.
Wesley Ellsworth, of Crawford county,
had his head nearly severed from his body
by flying splinter from lath machine of
which he had charge.
Michael and Patrick Matthews made an
assault at Pittsburgh ON medicine stand
guarded by Carrie Bird, aged seven years.
One of the men kicked torch against the
girls breast and she was fatally burned.
They are in Jail.
Near WaynesborO, Franklin county,
Joseph Stephy was engaged in hauling in
wheat, and when in the act of running the
wagon from the barn floor his feet became
entangled in the chains on the end Of the
wagon tongue, causing the wheel to strike
the side of the door, throwing Mr.. Stephy
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for active service in the field, relieved q
staff officer of the regular army, and on
the 23d of September, 1862, appointed a
brigadier-g general of volunteers. On the
Goth of November, 1862, he was promoted
a major-general Of volunteers, and with
this rank he continued to command until
he relinquished it after the war closed and
returned to the regular army, in which he
had been meantime promoted to major
generalship.
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JUDGE BLACK.

Probabilities Indulsed in Regarding Him.
Providence Journal.
1t was asserted in biographical sketch
of Judge Black, in the list of possible
Democratic candidates for the presidency,
that he intended to make the final and
crowning effort OF his life an onslaught
upon Bob Ingersoll and a smashing of his
arguments against Christianity. 1t would
be worthy contest. Both arc of tile same
order of intellect and education, both ac-
complished gladiators of debate and
masters of the argumentum ad hOminum.
IngersOll's arguments against Christianity
and Judge Blacks defense would neither
touch the essence of religion and they
would meet on the common ground of the
petit juEy Interpretation of the Bible. In
weight of learning and strength of rhetoric
as against sharp persiflage and humor it
would be like a combat between Richard
CGur de Lion and Saladin, and we are in
clined to think that the victory would rest
with the grimmer and stronger warrior
but, to continue the metaphor, the
preservation of the Holy Sepulchrc would
not depend upon either.
A Counsellor for Troubled Men.
Washington Cor. Philadelphia Times.
The politicians here are wondering
where the venerable Judge Jere. Black will
60 politically upon his return from Europe.
It is almost silly to answer such a sugges
ton of doubt. Judge Black is Democrat
and was never accused of anything else.
True, he is a very close friend Of Garfield,
but his friendship goes no further than
love for the man and admiration for his
brain. They are excellent friends, but the
subject of politics never comes between
them. With Hancock it is different.
Judge Black not cnly loves the
man, but the two are in ac-
cord on politics, which no doubt
makes the relation more binding. BY the
way, how naturally everybody in trouble
turns to Judge Black. When President
johnson was impeached Judge Black was
his counsel; when Blaine was in trouble
about the Mulligan letters and Fort Scott
business, Judge Black was his counsel :;
when Hallet Kilbourp was in Jail for refus-
ing to give his private books and papers to
the committee of Congress, Judge Black
was his counsel when Secretary Belknap
was impeached. Judge Black was his coun-
sci; when Garfield had some trouble re-
gartling Credit MObilier shares, Judge
Black was his counsel. Everybody seems,
very properly, to have confidence in the
mans Judgment. It is we'll founded.
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to the floor with such violence a. to render
him unconscious, in which condition he re-
manned for a few hours, when he died.
Fred Mass, a German, went to Pitts
burgh some time ago and while at his
boarding house on June 26 he was at
tackled by some unknown person, and
after being beaten with blunt instrument
was shot in the breast. He recovered
from the injuries and finally disappeared
from Pittsburgh. He was not heard Of
until few days ago when his body was
found in Lake Erie. at Cleveland.
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PERSONAL.


Rev. BARNES SEARS, of Staunton, has
died at Saratoga, aged seventy seven years.
Deceased was for many years president Of
Brown university, Providence, and was
also prominent in educational matters in
Massachusetts, tecore going to Brown uni
versity.
SARA BERNHARDT and complete COM
pany will sail from Havre on the 10th of
October next for New York. She will
make her debut at Booths theatre on the
9Th of November, in Adrienne Lecoucreur.
Jeanne Bernhardt, her sister, is among
the members of the company which is now
forming, and the stage manager will prob
ably be NJ. Belvaux, who was Rache's
stage manager during her American
tour.
Miss MAUD BANKS, the youngest daug h.
ter Of the general, will shortly sail for
Europe with her mother, with the inten-
ton Of studying with NJ. Delsarte, in Paris.
The young lady has not finally determined
to 60 upon the stage, but will at any rate
thoroughly prepare herself for the work.
She has already made some progress in
dramatic study. Her elder sister, Miss
Blanche Banks, is to be married next
! month.
Princes VICTORIA, Of fSchleswig- Holstein,
who is going to marry the eldest son OF
the German crown prince, was carefully
educated by an English woman, and has
travelled much about Europe. Senior in
years and experience to Prince William, the
court gossips have already decided who i:
likely to be the ruling spirit in the future
household.
CARLYLE, like many smaller men, ha!
his " fashions mornings. One day
nothing went right, he sent away the no
coffee as not hot enough. That which
came back was nearly boiling, but that al
SO he ordered away as too cold. I'M!
DEAR" said Mrs. Carlyle, blandly, "wha
would you think of holding red-hot Gin
der in your mouth, and drinking your ccf
fee through that?'' At which the see
collapsed, and took his bitters like lamb
Mrs. Carlyle is the heroine of the prett!
verses beginning, Jenny kiss me whe1
We metz
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-07
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
The Largest, Cheapest and Best Local
Weekly.

The Largest, Cheapest and Best Local
Weekly.
Elsewhere notice is given of the en-
largement of the Weekly INTELLIGENCER
t, dimensions not exceeded by any news
paper in Pennsylvania, and far beyond that
of any previous journalistic effort in Lancas-
ter county. To the thousands of firesides
in this county to which the INTELLIGEN-
GER has been for generations a vel
come visitor. this will be good
news and We feel assured that it's old friends
will be stimulated to new exertions in its
behalf and in the service of the good cause
for which it has so long done
stout battle. During the pending
campaign its publishers propose
to make it such a newspaper rs has not
yet been published in these parts, and to
that end neither labor, expense nor enter
prise will be spared to make'it complete
register of all the local events occurring
in Lancaster county. For years the In
TELLIGENCER has been distinguished for
the fairness, fullness and accuracy
of its local news, and while
these features of its local depart
ment will be maintained, arrangements
have been made to extend its facilities for
gathering the news of the county. In all
other respects it will retain and i'm
prove upon the features which have
SO long kept it in the front
rank of the newspapers of the state. 1t
will continue to publish, in addition to its
original editorial matter, short stories and
poetry, original and selected, special cor
respondence from different parts Of the
country and from Europe, agricultural
and household information, the news
Of the day, carefully compiled state
items, markets, personal news, comments
on minor tOpics-and in short it will be
such a mirror Of the times as Journals
tic enterprise can make first-cIass news
paper.
To further introduce it into homes
where it is not a regular visitor as yet. its
publishers have made special rate of sub
scription for those who desire to take it
"on trial " from now until after
the close Of the presidential campaign. TO
all such, the following terms are offered
for subscriptions, casA liz aduance, from
this date until after the election to the
DOUBLE SHEET INTELLIGENCER.
Single copy. 6O cents.
len copies. 0U cents, each.
Twenty-Five copies to one pOs+Office, 81
cents, each.
Subscribers to the DAILY INTELLIGEN-
GER, who want to send weekly letter of
Lancaster county news to tl."ir friends
cannot make better investment than by
sending them the weekly INTELIIGENCER
for year.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-07
ABOUT A lsCG.

DR.. RathvOn ll"parts Some Information.
QUARRYvILLE, july 6, 1880.
DR.. s. S. Rathron:
SIR: send you a very nice bug that
was picked up here this morning. If you
think it worth taking care Of you can do
so II not, you can make what disposition
of it you please. If not too much trouble
please answer through the INTELLIGEN-
GER. Yours truly,
X. e. EDWARDS.
Your "bug" came duly to hand, and is
a most brilliant specimen. 1t is the Chry-
sochus Auratus, the.' Golden Green Lady
bird, and is no very remote relative Of
the Colorado potato beetle, belonging to
the same family (CHRysoMELIDG), but has
never occurred very abundantly so far
North as this, nor has it any preference for
the potato. Yours with thanks,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-07
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
Events Across the County Lines.

Events Across the County Lines.
Henry Taylor, a wel-knOwn young mal
who resided in West Chester, committed
suicide on Monday night by shooting him.
self III the head. Trouble was the cause
Samuel Greenwood, esq.,, of fCOatesville,
has received contract for 10,5OO shawls
from the government. They are for the
Indians. This will require the full capac,
ity of the mill for three months.
While at a picnic at the mouth of the
Codorus, in vaulting over pole held by
two of the party, Col. Levi Maish, of York,
tripped and fell, straining his left knee
severely and tearing the tendOns.
Geo. w. Welsh, aged So, of Hanover,
York county, was married week ago to
Miss Emma LeFevre of Littlestown, and
OH Monday he died.
The large stone barn Of Daniel KEN
merer, in Obey township, Berks county,
six sheds and farming implements, together
with a colt and mule, were destroyed by
fire yesterday. A portion Of the dwelling
house was also burned. The loss, which
was very heavy, was nearly covered by i'll
surance
The West Chester Daily Republican
enters upon its third year with pardOnable
pride in singularly successful career,
deserved by high journalistic enterprise.
Mr.. Benjamin Pickering, who has farm
about one mile south of Oxford, had field
of nine acres in with wheat. He harvested
and threshed it out, and the total amount
was 365 bushel and 81 lbs., which he sold
for 81 per bushel.
John S. Black, a former resident Of
Pittsburgh, died at KokOmo, Colorado, on
Saturday. The deceased was a son of the
late DIR. Alex. Black, and a nephew Of the
late Col. Sam. Black.
The people at Madison, Chester county,
are not pleased because the postOffice de-
partment has given the name "Suawn" " to
their Office.
Harry Taylor, young man wellknown
to West Chester people, suffering under
temporary attack of insanity, took his life
while walking along Darlington street.
between Gay and Chestnut streets.
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The Contrast.

The Ner Era makes very pointed
comparison between the manner in which
the Philadelphia judges received the no.
tice of the improper conduct of the clerks
in the quarter sessions office and that
with which the Lancaster judges heard
of the wrongful behavior of the district
attorney and his assistants. In Phila-
delphia the grand jury failed to indict
the sessions officers for offences of which
they admitted themselves guilty. They
acknowledged receiving illegal fees. The
twelve judges consulted over the matter
and concluded that it was their duty to
demand from the clerk of the sessions,
although he was an elected officer, the
dismissal of his guilty assistants. They
were influential politicians and he was
unwilling to act against them. But the
judges were determined and he was COM
PEELED to ask for their designations.
In this case it will he seen that the
judges were without power to act direct
ly against the offenders, and they might
readily have avoided taking action which
would offend the political friends of near
ly all of them. But they felt that it was
their duty to purify the precincts of their
courts, and that it was not seemly to
have violators of the law officiating as
the ministers of justice. The Lancaster
judges do not seem to have had this
feeling, or they had not the boldness and
virtue to manifest it. The act of the
district attorney and his assistants, in
obtaining the release of one of the best
workers in the ward, because of his
value to his party, was as clearly shown
and confessed as it was possible to be.
The offenders were officers of the court,
acting directly under its eye in doing the
wrong, and Immediately under its hand
for punishment. That hand was not
raised against them, but it was swiftly
thrust against us when we intimated that
political feeling secured this judicial len
iency.
The contrast between the conduct of
the Philadelphia and Lancaster judges
cannot be an agreeable one for the latter
to contemplate. Certainly it is not pleas
ant for their fellow citizens. No doubt
it damages the influence of the court in
this community, as its counsel urged be-
fore the supreme court. It cannot be
otherwise. The peoples good sense tells
them that the judges here have failed to
defend the integrity of the court when it
was audaciously assailed for political
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HANCOCK.
His Position In 1877.

His Position In 1877.
On Saturday last, in the Boston Globe,
Mr.. Hiram Atkins appeared in a state
ment which was as follows:
''It will be remembered, says Mr.. At
kins, that during the controversy it was
claimed by the Republicans that Senator
Ferry, of Michigan. the acting vice presi-
dent, had right to count the votes
independent of the direction of the
Senate and the House that they should
be mere spectators Of the count. On
the other hand, the Democrats claimed
that Congress alone had the riSht,Of count
ing the votes. and the vice president could
only open the envelopes. 1t was also
claimed by Republicans that General
Grants term of office did not expire until
Il new president should be inaugurated.
While these questions we're pending, and
prior to (nOt after) the establishment of
the electoral commission, General Hancock
informed General Sherman (not Sheridan)
that it was due to him (Sherman) to be
apprised of what his General Hancock's)
position was in the matter. He, therefore
would say that he considered that
Mr.. Tilden had been elected presi-
dent of the United States and that
General Grants term of office expired
at midnight on the Sd of March that, re-
gardless of anything that MIR. Ferry might
do, if Congress declared that Mr.. Tilden
was elected president. he (Gen. Hancock)
believed he had a right to take the oath of
office wherever he might be {; and that if
Mr.. Tilden did take the oath of Office, and
he should receive any orders from Mr.. Til
den, as president of the United States, after
midnight ON the Sd Of March, he should
obey them. That is the story. During
the progress of the telegraphic transmits
sion and composition the name of Sherman
was changed to Sheridan, and by some
means or other was made to say that the
letter was written after the decision instead
of before the establishment of the electoral
commission. Gen. Hancock, like Mr.. Tilden
and all patriotic. Americans, acquiesced in
the decision OF that tribunal, unconstitu-
tiOnal as it undoubtedly was. AS to the
source whence l obtained the story, it is
such that no one can help giving it Gre
dence. first heard of it at dinner which
gave ut my house in Montpelier last April
to General William F. Smith (Old Baldy)
and several other gentlemen, and General
Smith afterward repeated it at Waterbury
publicly in the presence of over sixty of
the prominent Democrats in the state.
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SOME of the Republican newspapers
which affect great horror at the prospect
of the Confederate brigadiers getting into
power, have no answer to make to the
startling comparison that, of the two
great opposing corps commanders on the
field of Gettysburg, the rebel Longstreet
has recently been appointed by Repub-
lican administration minister to Turkey,
while the Union General Hancock is the
Democratic candidate for president.
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Its Immense Value to tho County.
The outside world and not a few of our
| own people will bc surprised at the i'm
! mense production and value Of tobacco
crops of Lancaster county, when the
figures taken by the census enumeratms
shall have been compiled. 1t will be some
time, however, before those figures can he
obtained, as the enumeratOrs file nOthin. in
the prOthOnOtary' s office, except the names
the inhabitants of their respective districts.
In conversation with number of the emu
out exception, that while they have not
completed their farm statistics and cannot
give the value of the several products, it is
evident that the tobacco crop is much more
valuable than any other, and in some town
ships more valuable than all other crops
combined. Mr.. J. II. Bowman, Of West
Lampcter, states that one farmer in that
township grew last year 10000 pounds of
the weed, and several others from 10000
to $4,000.
Some Old People.
The Oldest person in the county SO far
as we know is Mrs. Nancy Sterrit, Of Con
estoga township, who is returned by Peter
Hitler, census enumeration, as 30 years Of
age, but who on the 1st Of June, the date
upon which the census was taken. lacked
only four days of being 100 years old, and
who is therefore in her 1O1st year and is
in pretty good health. Mr.. Hitler also
reports Barbara McAllister, of COnestosa,
as 93 years old, and sixty-five other resi-
dents of the same township as having
passed the allotted "threc score years and
ten"
Mr.. J. F. FOltz, enumeratOr for Caer-
narvon, reports Robert Springer, colOre'l.
as being SO years old. The Oldest white
man in the township is VIM. NOrtheimer.
SO years, and the oldest woman Mrs. Kerns,
SO years.
The oldest inhabitant of East Earl is
Mrs. Lizzie Foltz, aged 90; the oldest in
West Donegal is John S. Gish, aged SO,
and the oldest in Springville. VIM. Rittcn-
house, 80 years, with six or eight others
ranging from 80 to 50.
The census enumeratOr found the follow
ing old people in Drumore township:
Nancy Trimble, 9l years Of age: James
Barnes, 90; Nancy Richie, 81; Margaret
Rodgers, S3 Lydia Moore, "a.
Mrs. Elizabeth Warfel, 81 years Of age,
is the Oldest resident of Martic.
The oldest inhabitant of Eden is a COL
ored woman named Annie Morgan aged
sc. The oldest white person is David
Myers, aged "a.
The oldest in the eastern part of Sails
bury is Susan Zell, the very last name on
the list of Enumerator Albert v. Hurst.
She is 81 years old. John Myers and
Catherine Weaver are each SO; Christian
Overholtzer and Mary Kurtz, each SO, and
Mary Camp and Elizabeth Dunlap,
each 81.
John Bowman is the Oldest man in Provi-
dence township. being 80 years old.
Michael Harnish and his wife, Susan
Harnish, aged 80 respectively, are the
Oldest couple in West Lampeter. Samuel
Cassel is the Oldest man, aged "a, and Ann
Hagy the oldest woman in the township.
Susan HUM, aged 91, is the oldest in
habitant Of Mannheim township.
Elizabeth Maiden is the oldest resident
of West Cocalico, being "a.
The oldest inhabitant Of the southern
part Of Warwick is Martin Eckman, aged
80 years.
Jacob Hecker is the oldest resident of