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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-06
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

Governor Holiday, of Virginia, has ve-
toed the readjusting bill.
The spinners in ihe Union mills, at Fall
river, struck for an advance Of wages yes
terday afternoon.
The British steamer Massachusetts,, at
Liverpool, from Boston,. lost overheard 70
head of cattle.
Lehrkins' brewery, near Davenport,
Iowa, was burned on Thursday. Loss,
$21 900 !; insurance, 81, 900.
The Chilian fleet has attacked africa.
The commander of the iron clad Huascar
was killed during the engagement.
A boiler exploded in Glasgow yesterday.
Six persons were killed outright and 30
severely injured by the explosion.
The New York Republican state COM
mittee met yesterday afternoon and Gen.
eral Chester A. Arthur was reelected
chairman.
James Sanford, while digging mari at
Marlville, N. j., on Thursday, was buried
alive and killed by the fall of an embank-
ment.
The Denver News, the leading Demo-
cratic paper of Colorado, says that on a
sound platform that state can be carried
&C., SS !Ns democrats "''n majority OF D.
Wills Schroon river pulp works and
planning mill, at Warrensburg, N. Y, were
burned yesterday. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, $1,000. The fire is ascribed to an
incendiary.
The starch manufacturers of Cincinnati
have determined upon an advance of half
cent per pound on the higher grades,
provided the firms unpresented at the con-
vention agree to the advance.
In Norwich, Conn.,, in attempting to
kindle smouldering fire with the con-
tents of a kerosene oil can, Lizzie, a
twelve-year-old daughter of Edward Nc
Mann, was horribly burned from head to
foot, the can exploding and scattering the
burning fluid in all directions
Two men were killed at Shurtliff"s
iron ore bed, New York, on Thursday, by
the breaking of bail to skip, in which
they were being raised. The skip was
nearly at the top of a hundred and eighty
foot shaft when it broke, and the men who
were working at the bottom and several
others were injured.
There is at present $45, 900, 900 worth of
gold bullion in the New York assay Office,
ready to be transported to the Philadelphia
mint for coinage. The appropriation made
for this purpose for the fiscal year was but
81, 900, which is already exhausted. The
directors of the mint yesterday made ap-
plication for All additional appropriation of
S25, ZOO,
Marsh Dyer, w. E. Ames and DR., w.
Wolf, white men, with one Metcalf and
another colored man, in attempting to row
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-06
Important Trials.

The legislative bribery trial will come
up before Judge Pearson in Harrisburg on
Monday, and will present the largest array
Of Of o, our courts t:s at one time. Messrs. Judge
J. S. Black, Senator Matt Carpenter, Hon.
Elias Hollinger, George H. Irwin, J. C.
McAlarney and John W. Simonton, esqs.,
appear for the prosecution of Messrs. Gen.
Charles A. Albright, Hon. William H.
Armstrong, Hon. F. Carroll Brewster,
Hon. Lewis c. Cassidy, Hon. A. J. Herr,
b. Mann, Hon L. w. Hall, Wilbur F.
Salter and John II. Weiss, esqs.. for the
defense,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-06

THE Eoaminer is as severe on its for
rner Republican friend w. d. Stauffer
as it has been cruel to its old protege j.
w. Johnson. The INTELLIGENCER
could not have followed the ex-mayOr
with more terrific assault than to
charge that he was first elected because
Of bis faculty for lying, and then defeat
ed because he overdid the business. OF
course he did not tell the truth when he
swOre that the ISTELLIGENCKR libelled
him and he added cowardice to false
witness when he sneaked behind our
hacks and had the case settled and the
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-06
1a1lcaster fntelliqe1lcer.
EVENING, MARCH Q, 1880.
Is He In Earnest /!


An ex-Confederate and Journalist
coached by Col. Forney, has written
what he calls ga tract on the political
condition of the country addressed more
particularly to the thoughtful men of the
South its aim being to prove that " the
hour and the mar" " have met in the can
didacy of Gen. Grant for a third presi-
Dental term. The writer is at least en-
titled to credit for the frankness with
which he lays down his premises, and if
these are admitted the logic of his conclu-
sions will probably not be dis
puted. His argument differs from
that of most of his associates in his
premises, or at least in the fact that he
makes no concealment of them. 1t is
not upon Grants personal rectitude, his
military services, his civic virtues, nor
his display of administrative skill, that
this writer bases Grants pretensions
to another and probably numerous more
successive terms in the chair which
Washington and Jefferson and Jack
son voluntarily abdicated after eight
years of honorable occupancy. In short
this writer believes that the country
needs king, and, assuming this, he
thinks, with Judge Black, that
Grant is filter than anybody else we have
to ''herd with vulgar kings" In the view
or this ex-Confederate, we have come to
realize what Macaulay predicted, that
our constitution was all sail and no
ballast" and we are speeding to destruc-
tion for want of a g strong man. at the
helm. He needn't be pure of heart, nor
great Of intellect, but he must have a
strong arm. The count of noses," he
says in speaking of popular suffrage,
"male and female, Jew and Gentle,
young and old, white and black" never
having been resorted to strictly to decide
civil questions, what we have of it might
as we'll be Obliterated and the manage
ment of things entrusted to a select few
selected by themselves of course. The
ignorance Of the negro voters in the
South, and the discomfort and disorder
of the labOring classes in the
North, and the influx of for
eigners with taint of communism,
convince this writer that all the demands
for a strong government are at hand ;
and so he favors Grant for the head
of it.
And it does not occur to the people
who are circulating this pamphlet in
Grants interest, that it is most power
full satire against the third term
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-06
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
Events Across the County Line

A Rev. DR.. Fowler, who has been
lecturing on "Great Men" through the
Cumberland Valley, is severely criticised
for his political partisanship.
Charles Walters, residing above Davids-
burg, about sixteen miles from York, met
with a sudden death on Wednesday after
noon. While burying rocks on farm,
one of them fell upon his breast, crushing
the life from his body. The deceased
leaves a wife and one child.
The borough fathers of York have re-
solved to purchase for the tiremen of that
borough 1900 feet of Oak-tanned leather
hose, nine inches in circumference. The
city council of Wilmington has voted a
semi-annual appropriation Of $40, 900 to the
firemen of that city.
Col. J. P. S. Goblin, of Lebanon, one of
the counsel of Isaiah Brandt and Josiah
Hummel, convicted of the murder of old
Joseph Raber, in IndiantOwn, made appli-
cation yesterday before the recorder Of the
board of pardons, for a communication of the
death sentence to imprisonment for life.
Mrs. Alice Engelbright, Of Harrisburg,
wife of Mr.. Engelbright, the engineer en-
ployed at the State Capital Touring mills,
died yesterday. as is alleged, from the
effects of an abortion produced by DR.. j..
w. Bechtel, who has been arrested and
locked up. The doctor declares he is i'll
nOcent, and that the crime was committed
by Mrs. Engelbright herself, with the
knowledge of her husband.
A gentleman who has had considerable
experience as gardener and nuseryman,
has been making observations of the con-
dition of fruit trees and prospects for the
next fruit crops in this and several other
counties. He reports the trees to be in
excellent condition, and the indications are
that there will be a heavy crop of fruit.
Grape vines are not SO promising.
The Wrightsville Star says ''Since our
last issue the receipts to tobacco at the
warehouses in this place have been very
large, the amount being nearly if not
quite equal to that of any previous week
during the season. On Friday last,
especially. the receipts were very great,
nearly one hundred wagon loads having
been received by Skiles 6 Frey alone.
Notwithstanding the fact that so much to-
bacco has already been bought and packed
there is considerable amount of tobacco
yet for sale through the county, and good
lots are still bringing fair prices.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-06
THE GROTWALD OUTRAGE.
All of tho Accused Discharced.

All Oh Cn0 Accused D10Cn8fE0Os
Alderman McConomy last evening gave
a hearing to half dozen young men,
charged with attempting to rob Gotlieb
Grotwald and to outrage the person of
Sarah Adams, the woman, who passes for
Grotwald's wife. The particulars of the
outrage, which occurred about week ago
in the southwestern section of the city,
have been published, and but little
new light was thrown upon the
affair by the testimony taken last
evening. 1t was, in brief, that Grotwald
and his companion, who are peddlers and
junk dealers, were assaulted in their camp
at midnight by about dozen young men,
who upset their wagon, scared Grotwald
off by firing pistols at him, robbed the
wagon of two pistols and some other
articles, and then assaulted the woman
Six or seven young men were arrested on
suspicion, and warrants were issued for
the arrest of several more. On account of
the darkness the assailants could not be
identified and they were discharged.
Ever since the outrage was committed,
GrOtwald and the woman have been de-
tanned in Jail as witnesses, while their
alleged assailants have been at large.
Grotwald's outfit, consisting of miser-
able looking horse, a rickety old wagon,
filled with all manner of scraps of iron,
brass, lead, &C., &C., and about half a
dozen vicious-looking dogs, has been,
meantime, confined in the grounds at
tached to the lookup, to the great disgust
of the turnkey, policemen and
others having business therein-the
dogs guarding Grotwald's wagon with
vigilant faithfulness and allowing no one to
come near it. Even the carriers who at
tempted to deposit several loads of Bel
gian blocks in the lookup grounds were
driven off by the dogs. This morning
s property was handed over to
him, including $45 in money which was
handed over by him to the police for safe
keeping the morning after the robbery.
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prosecution withdrawn without our
knowledge, and his editorial defender only
equalled him in meanness in refusing ever
afterwards to publicly confess the falsity
of the charges he had melted Stauffer
to make against us. Nevertheless We
feel so certain that the whole party are
ashamed of themselves that we must,
in a Christian spirit, sympathize with
them in the Examiners laceration of
their feelings,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-06
The Examiner on w. ID. stauf;er.

Oho. "A. AACSt<hAu . CAdAAAACA.
Being aware that two of the youngest and
most active of the local machine eng ineers had
been sent or post haste to Washington on
Thursday Of last week, to receire further in
suited in issuing the call for u meeting OF the
county committee sooner than was CCi:tem-
plated in the original programme. Nc.-Ne'0
As we have said, it was true that two
young men did 90 to Washington. but not
with any purpose connected with this ques-
tion. But as the falsehOods, which follow
this fact are given plausibility because of
that one grain of truth, we shall proceed
to tell the business which these two young
men went to Washington for. And if it is
not pleasant to certain ones to have it said,
it is not our fault. The cause of truth and
justice to others demands that it should
be told. As our readers are aware the name
of Joseph Samson has been before the Sen
ate for confirmation for supervisor of GEN.
Sus for this district, and there were
doubts as to his confirmation. Our con-
gresham, MIR. Smith, to be prepared for
the emergency of his rejection, came to
Lancaster, and it is reported after a con-
ference with Mr.. WarfePs editor and a
few others of like dark ways, returned
with the written application Of a chronic
office-holder, to present to the president
for the appointment. It was to see
Senators Cameron and Wallace, to have
Samson confirmed, rather than take the
chance of having the president send in 1.-THE
name of man who was once made can
didate for Office, and elected, because of
his facility for lying, but so over-did the
lying business that he was defeated for re-
election. 1t was to avert that catastrophe
that they went to Washington. Now you
know all about the visit to Washington
and we hope it is satisfactory to all con-
cerned.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-06
Very Drunk.

Last night, man calling himself
Charles Grey, was found coiled up in the
doorway of Reed, McGrann & Co.'S bank
ing house, in an utterly helpless condition.
The policeman borrowed the postoffice
hand-cart, boarded him into it and ratified
his bones over the stones to the lookup.
This morning Mayor MacGonisle COM
mitted him to the county Jail for 20 days
to give him a chance to get the whisky out
of him.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-06

across the PROV of the steamer Idlewild,
lying at Caseyville, Ind, were carried by
the current against the bow of the steamer
and thrown into the river. Their cries
for help attracted the attention of the
officers of the Idlewild, who took yawl
and went to the rescue. They succeeded
in saving one of the colored men; the
others were drowned. They were all
prominent and highly esteemed citizens of
Caseyyille
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-06

THE only excuse thus far offered for
the confirmation of Marshal Kerns,
through the active efforts of some Demo-
cratic senators and the passive assent of
the others, is that perhaps he has prom
ised, in consideration of his confirmation,
to aid in securing some Democratic EMU
meratOrs of the census and some Demo-
cratic marsllalls in Philadelphia. This
excuse is as bad as the offense of con-
firming Kerns. He was proven to be a
notoriously unfit and unfair partisan,
who abused his office to serve the worst
ends of the Republican politicians. Sem
ator Wallace's investigation disclosed
this and his speech declared it on the
Senate floor. Hayes had promised to ap-
point a decent, Christian gentleman to
this Office and was bull-dozed out
of his purpose by the politicians. Seeing
that he could not be confirmed Kerns
was doubtless very willing to promise
that hereafter he would only be one-half
or two-thirds as big rascal as hereto
fore. But what are we to think of Dem
Ocratic senators who would make such
bargain with him, or huckster with
confirmed Republican rascal for a little
petty patronage
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-06
Washington Borough Items.

On Thursday night Christian H. Wit
mer, who had been confined by sickness
to his bed for some length of time, died at
his home in this borough, at the age of Al
years. He leaves a wife and a large num-
Der of children to mourn his loss. His
funeral will take place ON Sunday morning
at 10 o'clock services in the Bethel
church.
The hum of the mosquito has been
heard.
A flock of wild geese, 80 in number,
flew north this morning.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-06

Blaine touched 80 years on last of JAN
uary. Grant was 81 last April. Sherman
was SO last May. Washburne was 63 in
September. Conkling was so in October.
Garfield is in his 10th year. Bayard was
81 In October. Thurman reached his Goth
birthday in November. Hendricks was
60 in September. Tilden was 66 this
February, and in the same month General
Hancock was 55. Seymour will be 70
in MAY.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-06
More Old Printers.

To our list of old printers, noticed in our
columns yesterday, we might have added
the names of Alderman VIM. 3. Wiley
who set type before 1910, and of Jacob
Stauffer, ESQ.,, who before that date had in
troduced the first printing press into Man.
helm and in 1910 introduced printing into
Mount Joy.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-06
The Chestnut street Sewer.

The Chestnut street Sewer.
Sealed proposals are asked for the con-
struction of a sewer on West Chestnut
street from Pine to Nevin. Specifications
may be seen at city regulators office.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-06

JUDGE PATTERSON, in filing batch
of opinions this morning, remarked that
they finished up all the opinions he had
to file-except one. That was probably
the suspended judgment in the Seventh
ward election case. Probably not.
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su,., Brought and withdrawn.

Mrs. Thomas Baxter brought number
of suits before Alderman Barr against two
orocers of the Third and Seventh wards
for selling hard cider on Sunday but be-
fore a hearing was had she withdrew
them, g county for costs.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-06
Will be Interesting.

Philadelphia Inquirer, Rep.
General Logan is displaying such extra
ordinary zeal in the matter of General
Fitz John Porter's $50, 900 back pay that
it will be interesting to watch his course
when the $500, 1000 grab of the "star
route" postal ring comesup.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-06
Telephone Blown Down,

Last night the telephone line connecting
the Office of the Penn iron works with the
residence of Mr.. Middleton, the superin-
tendent, was blown down by the wind.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-06
Marshal Kerns's Confirmation.


BellefOnte Watchman.
At this writing we do not know what
Democrat has disgraced himself by en-
dorsing this radical rough, whom all the
evidence before the Wallace investigat-
ing committee showed was unfit and un-
worth any position.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-06
Tho First Dividend.

The Lancaster Inquirer printing and
publishing company has declared Its first
semi-annual dividend of 3 per cent.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-06

Mr.. EDw. MCPHERsON'S Press has
heard the news that Mr.. Edw. McPher-
son is about to quit it.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-06
The Programme.

The retiring editor of the Philadelphia
Press fires his parting shot at Christie
pher l.. Magee, the cheerful political
oracle" of Pittsburgh, whose oracular
utterances are to the effect that Grant
stock is not on the decline; the Pennsyl
vania state convention was not in any
sense friendly to Blaine; the "unit
rule" was virtually adopted unani
mously while the Delaware and Ches-
ter district alone has pronounced against
it, yet its delegates 'will fall into line
when the time comes - the delegation as
whole is satisfactory to Senator Came
ron; and, finally, that there will "not be
any trouble with the delegation" All of
which rose-colored Cameron view of
things the retiring editor of the Press
thinks will be dissolved when the politi-
cal realities of the Chicago convention
are realized.
Mr.. Mcpherson, having engaged upon
a course of labor in which he can benefit
Mr.. Blaine or Mr.. Sherman more than as
editor of the Press, may know whereof
he prophecies. We assure him that the
little oracles here in Lancaster talk ex-
actly in the same strain as Mr.. Magee !;
and the apparent consent of the local
managers to the selection of national
delegates at the primary elections is only
a bending of the reed until the storm be
past. They have no idea that delegates
thus elected will be admitted to the Chi
cagO convention, the preliminary control
of which will be in Don Cameron's
hands. But they do know that unless
they made some show of consenting to
such selection the primaries would he
called and held ,and delegates chosen any
how. They will see to it that their dele
gates already chosen are not put up to
he bowled down at these primaries. If
Lancaster county Republicans expect to
get Blaine delegates into a national con-
vention, they will not accomplish it by
merely electing them. They will have
to hold a little national convention of
their own. They might secure Johnson's
famous " back office'' for the purpose.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-16
Rather Nervous.

The pastor of one Of tho London
churches is notorious for his nervous
ness On a recent evening, having
given out hymn, he forgot to make
an announcement until the organ was
pealing its loudest .'Oh, stop! stopi
stopl" he cried, to the great surprise
of the congregation. The organist
pulled up very short. Then. with
perspiration on his brow, the parson
turned to the congregation and began !:
s.puripg the singing of this collection
the hymn will be devoted to the -pur.
pose Of" Then he saw his mis-
take. 1t was too late too mend it. He
looked in horror and paused, forgot
what he was going to say, made tre-
mendous attempt to recover his mem.
ory, and, failing, cried with piteous
plalntlveness 1.-The purpose o-what
what told you this morning"
The whole congregation burst into a
loud laugh, which no effort could re-
strain, and the remainder of the SER
vice was nothing better than q '.merry
noise" - - - -..----
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-16
Grades as Mixers.

A recent writer suggests two very
important questions, the facts in rela-
tion to which, and the principles con-
trolling the case, should be well under
stood by all dairymen and breeders OF
dairy stock. His query is; Do heifers
from native or scrub mothers, by bulls
of thoroughbred milking stock, make
better mixers than their dams; and,
if SO, why3 Why take the qualities
of the stock from the sire rather than
the dam? I ,asaI+
1t is an indisputable fact atmany
native cows are superior milkers and
butter-makers, and this quality is
transmitted to their daughters, in
some cases until family exists of To-
cal celebrity. This characteristic,
however, has generally been lost in
three OF four generations for want of
care in keeping up the regular line, or
by the yearly infusion of blood of base
or unknown quality. 1t is quite pos
'ble that remarkable milking quail
es in an individual native COW might
perpetuated to remote descendants,
and even increased by careful selection
OF sire, and in-and- in breeding. But
that is the method by which thor
oughbreds are produced, and requires
ohltl huO AhtCiAASCuCC Va . HlSh OIucI,
and years of observation and labor.
With good native COW as the basis
of stock, much anxiety and time may
be saved, by an immediate infusion Of
the fixed blood of thoroughbred of
the desired type, and the result will
always answer the first query in the
affirmative. The calf will be better
than its dam III some respects, and
worse in none. AS an accident or
sport, it is possible that the dam
might be u better milker than the dam
or breed of the sire, and the calf TAX
ing the type of the sire be inferior to
her, but the rule taught by experience
is the other way. In this case the
characteristics of the offspring are de-
tcrmined by the long known law
that the longer q class Of animals is
developed in q single line, the creator
is their transmitting power, and with
the more certainty do they impress
their qualities on the offspring. Tho
blood Of the darn having no line of de-
scent, and no accumulated force, is
oyerborne by the thoroughbred sire.
Theoretically, the progeny of such q
connection is more than half thor
oughbrcd, and should develop more
than half of the sire's stock qualities
in milk and form. There is but little
danger of. .reversion to original form
if this method of breeding be adhered
to but even if there were, it is un-
doubtcdly the cheapest, quickest and
surest way to develop fixed milking
qualities from native cowa-C CAmeri-
can Agriculturist.