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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-13
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL,

Baseball: At Clcvcland-Clevcland 8,
Worcester 5. 1T Bu.falo-Troy :, Buffalo
1. At Chicaso-Providencc G, Chicago 4.
In Trenton, n. j.. the wife Of John Fl.
Sutterley hanged herself in her own
house. aud when found was dead. The
cause of the act is unknown.
William Heiler's fur factory at Bush
wick, L. l.. was burned yesterday morn
ing, fnrs valued Mt $4,000 being de-
stroycd.
Philip n. MaltZ, ,ir.. has been arrested
in Ashland county, Ohio, for bigamy, the
brst OF his two living wives being at Will
Transport. He deserted her and her boy
there and welded another in Ohio.
The information from Maine indicates
that the Democrats are hard Mt work with
good prospects Of success and that the Re-
publicans are alarmed at the size and en-
thusiasm of the Democratic meetings.
A fire ut Sherlock's mills. New York,
| destroyed the steam mill belonging to
Robert Sherlock, store and twenty
dwellings. The loss is severe. The insur-
auce is about $40. .OG0.
Annie jackson. 4 servant IN the Carleton
house, corner of Frlnkford and William
streets, New York, fell out Of an eight
story window OF that house yesterday
morning while asleep. as supposed, and
was instantly killed.
The police raide,l, yesterday morning,
on the low dens Of Baxter street, New
York, and captured over forty wrctched
men and women. all Of whom were subse-
Iuently sentenced to terms Of imprison-
ment on Blackwclrs island.
! At the soldiers reunion in Columbus
| yesterday there was grand parade Of vet
Grams of the late war in the afternoon
Each regiment organization, with its old
battle flag and ensigns. preceded by tho
attending military companies and followed
by = great troop Of cavaly, marched in
procession when was over three miles
long and l5,GOO strong. Scvcnty-fi
thousand spectators were present. MIR.
Hayes and General Sherman were honOred
with prolonged cheers.
Heber Cahoon. Angus McIsaac, Benja-
min Burke. Duncan Campbell and Edw.
Cunningham were picked up ut sea in Il
tlOry, on the morning Of the 9Th inst, by y
Norwegian bark on Il voyage from Spain to
st. Margaret's bay, The men belonged to
the schooner Laura Nelson. Of Gloucester,
and had been adrift thirty hours when
rescued and landed ut SambrO, N. s.
American consul Jackson has taken them
in charge, and will forward them to BOs-
| ton.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-13

FROM THE WEST.


1uc OuIlOOk OulO anu tuOB8uo.
Special to the ISTELLIGENcER.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Aug. 12.-To say
that the Democratic party in Indiana is
not united is simply preposterous. They
stand better to-day than for many years
past, and an unusual amount of cnthusi-
asm is being manifested all over the state
to carry the elections in October and No.
vcmbcr for the Democracy, with larger
majority, if possible, than ever before. It
cannot be doubted. Letters are coming in
by the hundreds from every portion of the
state daily, announcing the enthusiastic
meetings being held and the largo number
of new recruits from the opposition ranks.
Counties that gave small majorities in pre-
vious elections are now rated in the thou
sands, and the indications are that the
state will so Democratic at the governors
election by a large majority. Negroes are
still being imported into the state for elec-
tion purposes by the Republicans. They
are far better trained than they were in
the beginning Of the exodus, but a quietus
will be put upon it. The Democracy have
plan which, if carried out, will effectually
purge the state OF a large number oi
fraudulent votes OH election day. A fea'
turc Of the Indiana campaign is the forma,
ton Of glcc clubs in every county, the
songs for which arc now being proposed by
Mr.. English after an idea of his own. Oh
forty towns in Ohio which your CORES,
pondent has visited and talked with
leaders of all parties, he has learned that
ifthc Republican party carries Ohio it will
he the fault Of the Democracy. Grant
men will not be reconciled, and many OF
them will vote for Hancock. Sherman
men arc doing nothing. Garficld's name
| inspires no enthusiasm. Grcenbackers are
waiting. Ohio is ours if we want it, anG
with proper aid from outside sources we
can have it. Indiana will make her re-
cord. HIS.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-13
" ROSY"
Gariield's Old Commander.

Gen. W. S. ROsecrans has written let
ter to the Democratic national committee,
from San Francisco, under date of July
%, 1880, in which he says:
"We organized Hancock legion some
two weeks ago. Think We shall organize
ut least five thousand strong in the city and
probably ten thousand in the state. The
nominations please the Workingmcn, who
are uniting with the Democrats, and in
fact it appears more like 4 popular uprising
than anything known Oh this coast. We
arc desirous Of perpetuating its effects by
getting the best brain and energies Of the
country SO enlisted that VIC shall create a
new Democracy"
General Rosecrans enclOses in lis letter
a circular which has been distributed
throughout tho state calling upon all SOL
dcrs, without regard to party, creed,
color or race, to unite for the purpose Of
procuring the election Of Hancock and
English.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-13
SEVENTY KILLED AND INJURED.
The Accident to the Excursion Train Oh the
WeNt sleraeY kallrORd.

West Jersey RaIIrOnd.
The collision OH the Atlantic City branch
of the West Jersey railroad at Mays land
ing on Wednesday evening, has proved to
be Of 4 far more serious nature than was ut
first supposed. Sixteen deaths had taken
place up to midnight last night, while fifty
three persons arc suffering from inju-
ries, the lives of at least half dozen Of
these being dcspaired OF. TwOyoung girls
who participated in the excursion have not
been seen since the collision. The follow
persons are reported dead since yesterday
afternoons tclcgraphic report M'Govcrn,
aged twelve years; Rose Murphy and
Kate Murphy, sisters, aged eighteen and
twenty respectively, and Mary Gallagher,
aged twenty-five. Sarah Wright, aged
sixteen, died ut her residence in Camden
in the afternoon. and last night the death
of her mother, Elizabeth, occurred.
Harry Bender and Mary Green died in
Philadelphia; Mrs. McCrystal died at
Mays Landing, and Miss Lille Grace will
not recover. Engineer Edward Aiken and
Conductor Charles lIoaglad, Of the
colliding train, were put under arrest by
the coroner and held in 600 bail each
pending the result Of the inquest.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-13

The railroad officials at New York de-
cline to give any information respecting
the accident yesterday on the New York
and New Jersey road, near Spring Valley,
where the cars fell over an cmbankment.
As far as can be learned only babe was
killed.
James Mcdonald was instantly killed,
Warren Pages left leg was badly crushed,
and John Ketteridge was badly bruised
auout the head and body yesterday after
noon by the fall of brick archway, which
they were completing, under an extension
to the Clinton wire cloth company's build
ing, at Clinton, Mass.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-13
Flromen's Tournament.

In the Colorado state firemen's tournament
the Bates hose, Of Denver, won the belt
for hose trains, running 500 feet, for max
ing the connection at the plug, for laying
200 feet of hose, breaking coupling, at
taching a nozzle, and getting water i'll
thirty-five and a quarter seconds: In run
ming off ties for hook and ladder team.
Hook No. 2, of Denver, won the belt, run
ming off 500 feet raising twenty-five foot
ladder and putting a man on top in twcn-
ty-five and half seconds, the best time on
record.
The st-aight-away race for hook and
ladder companies, a distance of 600 feet,
was won by the same team in twenty three
and three-quarter seconds.
The straight-away race for hose carriages
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-13
At tho National CAPITAL.

The Democratic ratification meeting in
Washington city on the 2Gth will be one Of
the finest demonstrations ever made. A
platform is to be erected capable Of hold
ing 500 people and to be profusely dccOrat-
over the meeting, and among the speakers
expected are Senator Bayard, Speaker
Randall, $. s. Cox, Senator Vance. Lieut..
About fifty delegations will attend from
the surrounding country. Daniel Dough-
erty has promised to speak, and DOrsheim-
er is expected to reply to Snhurz's Indian
apOlis speech.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-13
PERSONAL.

DIR. T. DEWITT TALMAGE tells the Salt
Lake Tribune that "guns alone can uproot
tho vile weed Mormonism."
General HANCOCK will visit Governor
MCCLELLAN at his home on the Orange
Mountain on Monday evening Gf next
week.
FRANKLIN B. GOwEN, ex-president, and
one of the receivers of the Philadelphia
and Reading railroad, has left Philadelphia
for rest and recreation. II was not asccr-
tanned rs to the direction he had gone, but
it is generally believed that he has sought
the White Mountains.
Current personal: ''Mrs. HARRIET LANE
JOHNSON, who presided at the White
House during the administration Of her
uncle, Mr.. Buchanan, is visiting the wife
Of Augustus Schcll, at Newport. The
once famous leader Of society, who retains
all her winning manners, will he given Il
reception to-day"
B. X. JAMIsoN, the banker, camped out
recently in the vicinity of Easton, and,
being an admirer of the ''superb" SOL
dicr, named his camp in honor of General
Hancock. A Sunday school picnic near
by learned of Mr.. Jamison's action and
paid him a visit, accompanied by brass
band and cheering for Hancock and Eng
lish.
Mrs. LAWRENCE BARRETT, the actor,
has written letter appealing to American
actors to assist in the defense of Edwin
Forests will against the legal assaults
now being made by William B. Forrest,
who sets himself up as the tragcdian's heir
and seeks to divert to his own use property
in New York which serves now to support
the Forrest Home for old actors at Holmes
burg.
Workmen at tho capitol have placed in
position in Statuary hall Vermont s second
contribution, a life-sized statue cf the late
Senator COLIAMER, who was senator
from that state during the war of the re-
bellion, and who died in 1865. The statue
is from the hands of the sculptor Powell,
it is life size, of white marble and stands
upon pedestal of Vermont granite, and
is an excellent companion to the former
contribution, a statue of General Ethan
Allen.
At the BENTRICK-LIvINGsTON wedding
in Newport, r. l., yesterday, prominent in
the main hall was a gigantic cluster of
sunflowers, the BRIDES favoritc blooms.
Palms and bcgonias lowered on every side
wall baskets and hanging baskets of
flowers threw out odors roses and smilax
were grouped in the windows, and the fire
places were smothered in ferns and palms.
The bride and groom stood under gar
land of roses. Among the bouquets was a
huge one that cost 800 presented to the
bride. The most brilliant of the presents
to the bride was a gold bracelet, sent by
by Prince Leopold. 1t nearly met around
the arm, and at each end was ducal cor
onet and a monogram in blue enamel. On
the back of each bracelet blazed a dia-
mond. The brides present from her father
was a check for 500 and receipted
bill for her bridal outfit.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-13

TIE Republicans are much disappoint-
ed at the results of the census which
fails to give them the congressional
gains they had SO fondly expected. The
immense gains in Democratic states like
Texas and Missouri, fairly offset the in
crease in Kansas, Iowa and Minnesota,
while the comparative losses of the Re-
publicans in the New England states,
and the even balance of political parties
in the central states make it reasonably
certain that the new apportionment will
give neither party any decided advantage
in the distribution of congressman on the
whole. Consequently we hear reports of
frauds" in the Southern returns, which
are to be made pretext, no doubt, for
alterations in them for the benefit of the
Republican party. n Democratic con-
gress will see that this is not permitted,
and that a fair showing is made Of the
wonderful development in the great
southwest since the carpet-bagger'S heel
was taken from the freeman's neck.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-13

QUEER cOlncluCncc Lll:aC the new KING
and "qucen'' of the turf should be dis
covered on the same day. Let them trot
for the crown.
THE scheme for educating. Indian chill
drcn at Carlisle and Hampton has worked
we'll, and eighteen Cheyennes and Arapa
hoe children are en- route for these schools
On motion Of Secretary Patterson, of the
Mount Joy school board, brother of ou1
great and good Judge Patterson, Editor
Messimir of the Mt. Joy Star has beer
disbarred" from attending and report
ing the proceedings of tho Mount Joy
school board. 1t seems to run in tho
flmily.
DURING the year ending June 39th
3, 4S2 new post Offices were established ir
the United States, and /, 1923 discontinued, .
much larger increase than for any previous
year. OF the 42, 9S9 offices now in opera
tion, 1,7Gl were filed by presidential ap
pointments and 41,s by those of the
postmaster general. During the past yeal
1881 pcstmastcrs were appointed, te
cover vacancies caused by death, removals
or designations.
POE had such wonderful power of ana
lysis that when B:rraby Rudgc began to
appear he outlined the story so accurately
from the hints in the first numbers that
Dickens wrote to inquire if his reviewer was
i'll league with the evil spirit. Such stories
as the "Gold Bug" were written with
such intense and painsta!sing effort that nc
ordinary financial success was any sort ol
compensation for them. His imagination
Was always held in check by his analytic
faculty, SO that he produced with ''fasti-
dious, and rarely to thc satisfaction of
his cxacting judgment.
THE Press tells us to-day that when the
presence of John II. Harris, a colored ora.
tor became known at a colorcd picnic neal
Chester, yesterday, ''the feeling was ram.
pant for revenge. lie was knocked down
and beaten and quite severely injured by
the colored people upon his returning from
the grove. 1t is to be hoped that he will
not again appear here and thus antagonize
his colorcd brethren" Thus mildly does
the Press deal with this Outrage" But
then Harris is 4 coiorcd Democrat. Sup.
pose that Harris had been 'sknocked down,
beaten and quite severely injured" at a
white picnic in the South? How differ
emily the Press would have tod the story
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-13

ANY honest and intelligent man who
takes the trouble to fairly investigate the
facts can see that the South is solid for
that preservation of local self govern
ment which would have made any other
community solid under the same circum-
stances. It is not necessary to ascribe
any sinister reason for the unanimity of
the South when we examine into the
condition of things which the Republi-
can party imposed upon it in its abortive
efforts at reconstruction: Following the
close of the war the South could have
been won to the allegiance of any politi-
cal organization that promised it mate
rial prosperity for the future, and those
who were most interested in it held aloof
from politics for a season to see in what
direction their best interests lay. The
Republican policy of reconstruction
foisted upon them and upheld state
governments that were run by
the worst class of men nOurished
at the South or imported from the North.
They plundered the people remorselessly
and imposed upon the commonwealth
without securing any compensation for
them-a heritage Of debt which will be
a tax for generations that have no benefit
from it. Thus North Cardinals debt
which at the close of the war was some
eleven millions, was run up to S3l ST.
49,. IS by January /, 1872. South Caro-.
lima was burdencd with an increase dur.
ing the same period of thirty-nine mil
lions, Georgia fifty millions, Florida
fifteen millions, Louisiana forty millions
and other states proportionately. Nearly
all this represents waste and plunder. The
South was bound to rise against the
spoilsmcn the North itself felt the he.
cessity of revolution, and now for the
first time there is a chance for all sections
to heartily approve that policy of self
government i'm the states through which
alone prosperity can come to the whole
country.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-13

THE Tennessee Democracydid right to
squarely vote down and out of sight the
Reputation element in their party, and
they will lose nothing by the slight de-
fection from them on this issue.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-13

THE railroad accident in New Jersey
was caused by the omission to obey the
rule which requires trains to stay five
minutes behind one another. 1t is the
same protection that is offered by the
block system on the Pennsylvania rail-
road, 10y which but one passenger train is
permitted at time in a block of three
miles. The regulations are good the
difficulty is that they are not always car
ried out. In this case, it appears, that
the engineer closed up the space by virtue
of another direction which required him
to do SO at this siding, SO that both parts
of the excursion train might get on it
simultaneously, and thus not keep the
express train waiting. If the rules of a
railroad were inflcxible, accidents would
rarely occur; it is their exceptional vio-
lation to meet emergencies which makes
the trouble.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-13
MINOR TOPICS.

QUEER coincidence that the new liking -
and "qucen' of the turf should be dis.
covered on the same day. Let them trot
for the crown.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-13

The scheme for educating Indian chill
drcn at Carlisle and Hampton has worked
we'll, and eighteen Cheyennes and Arapa-
hoe children are en- route for these schools.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-13


tho omnipresence of office, if the men paid
out of the public treasury to do the work
of the government were not regular
pratorian guard, there would be no more
chance of decent vote for General Gar
field in November next than there would
for Mr.. Weaver, tho gentleman who has
been named as the Greenback candidate
for that high Office. But rs it is, this
official army, blind and deaf to reason,
driven by men who receive almost
royal remuneration for doing nothing, is
an influence that would be entirely rest
less, if in this world of republic
there were not other agencies before
which the hired dependencies of the gov
ernment must quail and fall. The argu-
ment have attempted to address to you
tonight, my fcllow-countrymen, would
fall upon cold years if l had only to ad-
dress the adherents of power. But there
is another audience, an audience that earns
its own wages, an independent, inquiring,
fearless audience, made up of the skilled
labor of the United States. It is the happy
fact of the present time that while an im-
mense amount of money is squandered in
what is called civil service, there are mil
lions of men who earn their livelihood, not
only by mere physical labor, but by their
skill of hand, by applying art to mechanics
by making industry science, and by ele-
waiting what are called tho trades of the day
to higher plane, until the word artizan
dignifies and signifies human product
without parallel.
It is among these millions that find the
antidote to the disease of official interfer-
ence in our elections and in the manage
ment of our parties. The substantial COL
leges of the country, and in tLese, as am
talking to you tonight, there are found
thousands of fabler men discussing the great
issues we are now debating, Do you think
the skilled workingmen of the United
States, free to think and fearless to act, in
the present struggle, sympathize with
the ofiiceholders Do you think they
read the blighted record of James
A. Garfield and accept the party
cry that it is not q faithful picture of
his public life E? Do you think these men
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-04-01

ONE of the latest curiosities, which
is causing a great many surmises as to
it's origin, is the finding of lock of
hair, at Bowling Green, Wood county.
The circumstances are as follows: H.
Canning was splitting rail timber on
his place, Tontogany, and found in the
oak, three inches from the bark lock
OF red hair, folded up in piece of
newspaper. 1t seems to be in good
state of preservation. Owing to the
natural dampness of the wood, it is
some moldy, but the printing on the
paper is not obliterated so but what it
can be read. According to the natural
laws it has been there about forty
years. Had it been the days of witch
craft we could imagine it was put
there to keep witches away, but as it
is, and has been the custom of some
superstitious people to bore in and in
sert hair in living trees to cure cer-
tain diseases, it may have been done
for that. There may be legend con-
nected with this lock of hair, that will
forever remain mystery.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-04-01
A MAN WIG BREATHEs FIRE.

a. w. Underwood, the colored man
whose breath sets combustibles on fire,
was interview ed by Courier reporter
on Tuesday evening. He says he is
twenty-four years old. When about
twelve years old he held handker-
chief to his mouth and blew upon it,
and it took fire. He says he is unable
to account for it; says that ply sicians
have examined him, and they are as
much in the dark as himself. He set
a piece of paper on fire at the Dyck-
man House Tuesday evening last, be-
fore large crowd. A respectable
citizen Of Paw-Paw says that this fell
low was out with him at hunting
party last summer, and none of the
party had any matches, and that Un-
derwood took up both hands full of
leaves, breathed upon them awhile and
set them on fire, from which they
built fire in the woods. He seemed
much exhausted last evening after his
effort; says he could not endure it
more than twice in one day. Parties
present last evening said they had ex-
amined his hands, had him rinse. his
mouth out and drink glass of water,
and then saw him set paper or cloth
on fire by his BREATH Paw Paw
(Mich.) Courier.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-04-01
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