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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-24
NEAR ZERO.
The Dropping Mercury.

Temperatures were reported by the sly
nal Office Yesterday, as follows Duluth l.,
Alpena q, indianapolis %. Madison 3.
Marquette %, LaCrosssc A., Milwaukee
40, Port Huron s., Denver -.
Cleveland s., Detroit g., st. Paul
50, Pittsburgh 80, Yankton s., Gin
cinnati 81, Breckenridge 10o, Sandusky
1Oo, Boston 12o, Chicago 12o. Eastport
i2o, Buffalo 49,, Grand Haven 13o, Roch-
ester 13o, St. Louis 13o, Toledo 49,, Port
land, Maine, a., Burlington, Vermont,
15o, Louisville .150. North Platte Is,
Washington 15o, Davenport 15o, New
London 15o, Erie 160, Keokuk 49,. Albany
IL. Cairo 17o, New York 10, Baltimore
1So, Cheyenne 49,, Knoxville 19o, Nash
vile 1872, Omaha 2O0, Fort Gibson 90,
Oswego 211, Memphis 21o, Leavonworth
90, Wilmington 25o, Vicksburg 2GN, Nor
folk 26o, Shreveport 2So. Augusta. Geor-
gia, 3Oo, and Montgomery, Alabama, 81.
A temperature of9o below zero is reported
at Sorel, Quebec, and go below at Winni-
peg, Manitoba.
Last night tho temperature in the north
west, which had risen slightly, was again
falling, SO that severe weather may be ex-
pected for several days. 1t is believed at
Quebec that all the vessels in the st. Law
renee, as we'll as those remaining i'll port.
will be frozen in, and the destruction of
some of the great lightships, as we'll as
large numbers of buoys in the lower St.
Lawrence is apprehended. The severcst
storm for seventeen years was experienced
at Anticosti Island on Monday, and yester-
day morning the shore was strewn with
shell fish, showing that the sea was heavy
enough to break the beds. A telegram
from Detroit reports Lake St. Clair
finally closed with ice, and navigation
rapidly closing on the entire chain Of the
great lakes. Seyenty-four vessels bound
from Buffalo for Chicago are frozen in at
different points on Lake Erie; 2S vessels
from Chicago for Buffalo arc in the St
Clair river or Lake Huron and 81 vessels
from Escanaba for Lake Erie ports are
frozen in ON Lake Huron. There seems
very little prospect Of any of these vessels
reaching their destinations. Navigation
in the Connecticut river and the Kennebec
river, in Maine, was closed yesterday.
The Hudson river, above Coxsackie, is
blocked. and its tributaries are
frozen. Tho ice is from to inches
thick on tho New York canals west of Al.
bany, and many boats are biockaded. The
value of grain alone embargoed by the ice
is estimated at 81, 600, 900. Ice 81 inches
thick is being stored in the ice houses at
Long Branch. The Schuylkill and Union
canals arc closed, and the Scl.uylkill river
1t Reading nearly frozen over. The Del
lware river at Bordentown is frozen from
shore to shore.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-24
PERSONAL.

The serious illness Of the emperor Of
Germany is announced. Prince BIsNAEcK X
is also said to be very ill.,
Rev. OLIVER II. STRuScK, formerly of
this city but now pastor of the Reformed
church at Bloomsbury, Columbia county,
is in town on visit to his friends.
Mr.. VICTOR NJ. HALDEMAN, son of the
late Professor Haldeman, of Chckics, has
been married to Miss Josephine II. Kam-
merer.
1t is considered I. singular coincidence
that the late Lord Chief Justice Cock
BURN, i'll expressing his admiration for
the new law courts building, added 81
shall never live to sit there
After enjoying Cameron's Harrisburg
hospitality, GARFIELD went to Washing
ton yesterday and the first nan to greet
him was Ingersoll. tHello! Bob" said
Garfield, just as chcerily rs If Bob be-
ieved in hello.
A story comes all the way FROM Atkin-
sou, Kan, to explain why CLARA LOUISE
KELLoaG has never married. In her school
days she fell in love with poor boy, and
they exchanged vows of constancy.. She
went On the stage aud made fortune. lie
declared that he would not become her hus-
band until his wealth cqualcd hers and it
has never done SO, though he has strug-
g!ed hard to increase it to the required
amount.
JAMES CRAIG WATSON, LII. D., the IA
nous professor Of astronomy and director
of the observatory of the university of
Michigan, died yesterday at Madison, in
his forty second year. He was graduated
at Ann Arbor in 1851 and, becoming
teacher of mathematics, has been in the
service of the university ever since. He
has discovered score of asteroids; has
observed several eclipses of the SUN, and
was the head of the American expedition
to China to observe the transit of Venus in
1874. He received the gold medal of the
French academy of sciences in 1870 and
various other honors. He was the author
of several astronomical works, including a
Treatise OH Comets
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-24
MORE MIRACLES AT KNOCK.
A Man With u Crushed and Stiffcnel LIE
RestOred-A Deaf Hlan Hears.

Man With Crushed and Stlficne,s Leg
KestOreti-Ii Deaf nlan Hears.
Two men living in Port Jervis, n. Y,
have just returned from their pilgrimaGes
to the Virgins shrine of Knock. Ireland,
cured of the diseases with which they
went. One was Owen Tatfeny, aged about
40, a former tlagman of the Erie railway,
who, in February, was fearfully injured
by all accident. His left les was crushed
between the knee and ankle. The
bones were brokn and splintered, and
the calf OF the les was torn into
shreds. The physicians decided that
amputation was necessary, but Taffeny
objected. 1t was bandaged and care
fully attended by physicians, and finally,
after months of intense pain, he was able
to 60 about Oh crutches. Seven pieces of
bone had slOughed of, and the calf of the
leg had dwindlcd away until the leg was
no larger than good sized wrist. The
knees were stifiened, and every attempt to
use it was attended with severe pain. He
started about October for Knock, where
he was directed to battle the affected leg
IN holy water taken from a pool near the
chapel, in which was mixed s9me of the
clay that forms the Soil about the building.
The application was attended with prayer
and an exercise of faith. The first treat
mcnt was had on Friday, and by the next
day Taifeny discarded his cane and crutch
and walked 4 mile and half. On
Sunday, the third day Of the treatment,
he walked three miles. and did it.
he says, without Inconvenience or pain.
His leg has really undergone singular
transformation. The mucles, that had
bech SO lacerated and shrunken, have nearly
regaincd their former size and appearance.
The bone, which had been thinned and
weakened by the loss ofsevcn large pieces,
seemed to be firm. The knee joint, for
merly set stiff aud swollen, has become linn
ber, and can DC freely bent OF worked in
all the natural directions. The crutchcs
on which lie has for many weeks, hObbled
around painfully are thrown aside, and he
walks about without even cane, and with
only slight limp.
The other patient was IL young man
named Collins, who has been deaf for sew
eral years, and GENES back restored to
hearinT
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-24

of the accession of the reiguing sovereign
is also day OF thanksgiving.
In Great Britain thanksgivings have
been frequently heldby authority in mod
ern times, among which may be mentioned
that Of January IA, 1914, for victories over
Napoleon, and January Is, 1916, on resto-
ration Of peace also, February G, 1888, by
the Canadian government, for success i'll
supprcssins the patriot riot; July16, 1856,
by the authority Of the British Indian gov
ornment. throughout all India, for the sue
cess Of the British troops in the Indian
war.
Outing the Revolutionary war there
were on eight different occasions solemn
days Of thanksgiving ordered by Congress,
when the exigancies would allow, always
suspending its own sessions Oh the
occasion. On one OF these Oc-
casions, December ls. 1777, Samuel
Adams, r. II. Lee. and Daniel Rotterdam
were the committee Of the Continental Con-
gress which presented the resolutions for
the object, and the order was proclaimed
by Genera! Washington to the army, then
1T Valley Forge, and with great solemnity
observed, "for signal success lately over
the enemy" On these occasions during
the war General Washington often, antici-
pated Congress in his orders for such OBJ
servancc to his troops, as We think he did
OH this occasion. On the 10th of February
1895, General Washington, as president Of
the United States, ordered national
Thanksgiving On the occasion Of the sup
preston Of the whislxey rebellion in west
ern Pennsylvania, which at one time Great
ell serious alarm for the safety of the
Union.
A few days before the adjournment of
the Congress Of 1889, after they had salts
facrorily considered and disposed of the
proposed amendments to the federal con-
stitution made by the minorities Of the
several state conventions which ratified
that instrument, q resolution was adopted
requesting the president OF the United
States to recommend :. ,iay OF public
thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed
by the people of the nation in acknowledge
ment of the many signal favors of the
Almighty in permitting them to establish
iii peace q free government.
Soon after the treaty Of December, 1S14,
which terminated the second war, another
national Thanksgiving following the
proclamation Of peace was appointed and
observed with great devotion throughout
the Union.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-24
1ancastcr fntell.9enrer.
WEDNESDAY EvEN'a, NOV: a., 1880.
Now and Then.

Senator Cameron naturally has high
er esteem for Garfield as an elected pres
ident than as his party's candidate for
the office and manifested it 10y the
greater cordiality and attention which
he showed him at Harrisburg, a day or
two ago, than he found it in his heart
to exhibit,a few months since. Then his
GOODNESS was as marked rs his present
warmth. On both occasion the sena-
tors conduct was such rs might have
been expected. It was wise and just.
Then Mr.. Garfield was known to the
senator as man of more than doubtful
character, about whom a committee OF
his fellow congressman OF like politics
had reported facts showing him to be
dishonest and false. Senator Cameron
was fully possessed Of the estimate of
Mr.. Garfield'S character current among
his fellows at Washington. He knew
him to he man of intellect encountered
with character that it did not guide,
and that WAS wont therefore to fall into
the way-side ditch. Thus besmeared it
did not look to the senator like a soodly
presidential character, and he was not in
haste to embrace it as likely to be the
elect. Events having shown that his al'-
prehension lest the people should prefer
a pure to Il soiled character in their presi-
dent was unfounded, it was right in
Senator Cameron to reverse his conduct
and to treat with distinguished COLI
sidcration him whom the people have
chosen to the chief magistracy. \ politi-
clan who is not able thus readily
to adapt himself to the popular idea of
the fitness OF things is lacking in the first
qualification OF hiSart. Men who are un-
willing to follow the judgment Of the
people, and who would rather be right in
their own esteem than in that of the ma
jority, mot of the common kind whose
prime instinct leads to the places
where the fatness is found and to whom
no sentiment is valuable that will not
bring profit and power. Those who
would sneer 1T our senator that his bold
ness to Garfield changed to warmth sole
ly because Garfield las been elected to
the presidency, have need to reflect upon
the substantial reasons that may be urged
for such Difference to the popular will in
a democracy; and how gratifying it must
be to men who have waxed fat by stealing
and lying that one like unto themselves
has become the accepted of tue people,
possessed of full knowledge of his charac-
ter. 1t would really have been wonder
full if our senator had not fallen upon
Garlield's neck and embraced him
warmly when he came to him in Harris
burg thus ;nointc'! by his fellow
citizens.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-24
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
Events Across tho County Lines
NEIGHBORhOOD NEWS.

Events Across tho County Lines.
On Saturday Henry Davidson, Of
Phenixville, while temporarily deranged
attempted to commit suicide by cut
ting his throat with knife although lie
blcd to considerable extent he was not
successful.
Mrs. Mary D. Swavely, wife of DR.. S.
3. Swavely, of Springfield, Chester county,
has died, aged 20 years. She had an
ovarian tumOr removed, weighing four
teen pounds, and death resulted in eight
and half hours afterward.
There has been considerable excitement
during the past few weeks regarding wild
catamOunt that is now. and has been for
some time, roaming over the hills Of
Greenwich township, Berks county, and =
party has been organized to hunt and kill
The recent death of George A. Miller,
senior member of the firm of George A..
Miller s. Son, dealers in general hardware,
Chambersburg, will not affect the busi-
ness of the firm. Mrs. Miller has assumed
her husbands s interests and the business
will be conducted as heretofore under the
same firm name.
The Pennsylvania steel compay, ut Steel
ton, Dauphin county, has contract to
finish ten thousand tons of steel rails to
the Northern Pacific railroad company.
The steel company are putting up a number
of new buildings and increasing their
facilities in every possible manner for the
successful carrying on of its immense
operations.
Miss Margaretta Porter. of Norristown,
died on Saturday last. She was 4 niece
of General Andrew Porter, of the army of
the Revolution, and daughter of his
brother Stephen Porter, an uncle of Gov.
David r. and Judge James NJ. Porter
Stephen Porter; after being for some time
a teacher, was later an eminent citizen Of
Montgomery county until the time of his
death. Miss Porter was a sister Of tine
late Mrs. William Hamill, with whom she
lived until the latter's death few years
ago. The subject Of this sketch was for
many years a worthy member Of the First
Presbyterian church Of Norristown and a
muniticent contributor to its Improvement
and support.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-24
Divided Responsibility.

The Examiner should not rush too
fOolisllly to the defense of the prison
keeper against the charges for his due
share of responsibility in the miSmanage-
ment OF that institution. Before grand
jury. where the inspectors are not heard
lie his every chance to make out lis case
and to induce them 20 lay On the white.
wash very plentifully. The specific
charges made against him remain unaIl-
swered and unexplained. We do not lie
lieve the inspectors are all that they
should be nor that they act with an eye
single to the public good in their service.
But We do not believe either that they
would iinl the keeper willing and anx-
ious to cooperate with them in meas
urcs having no other end in view than a
sound. economical management OF the
prison. It Was manifest that he Was
able to make the grand jury believe, in
the absence Of the inspectors. that all
the blame lay with them. 1t is not man
ifest, nor in the remotest degree likely,
that this is the fact.
The truth is tia: the management of
our public institutions has been for years
stake, for which rival rings of the Re-
publican party play desperate game.
They spend far more money to secure
control of the boards than the salaries
amount to, and when they get in their
chief concern is to reward their ponies
with the subordinate positions, to create
new places, to Oblige and favor their
friends in the purchase ofsupplies, land to
make the almshouse and Jail nursing
place for new political expeditions. Ex-
perienced and fit men are turned out and
inexperienced and unfit men turned in
regardless of any sound public consider
alton and the result Of all this is seen
in wasteful, crude and imprOvident
system of management.
The superficial examinations Of grand
juries will not bring all the faults of the
present management to light. The re-
examinations of the rings cannot be de-
pended upon to furnish the public with a
cOlOrless view of the existing defective
workings of our public institutions.
They need complete Overhauling by
expert: honest and intelligent men, seek
ing no favors ut the hands of interested
political managers and with no white
wash for the dishonest or inefficient.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-24
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION.

ltOunIIoss 1nrCe.Sku8EIeTS Oh ~ SeuIuTys
On Saturday, November 20, John S.
Wentz, leading citizen of Drumore town.
ship, celebrated the scventy-fifth anniver-
sary of his birth, or rather his friends and
relatives celebrated it for him with sur
prise party that was as unexpected as it
was grateful to the honored recipient
Assembling to the number of sixty at the
residence of MIR. Hugh Penny, the com
pany proceeded therefrom to Mr.. VIM.
Morrison's, OH the state road, west of the
Buck. Mr.. NJ. is sOn-in-law of Mr..
Wentz and the latter makes his home
there, his wife being deceased. The COM
pany included Mr.. Wentz's nine children
and twenty-one grand children, no death
having as yet broken tho family circle ex-
cept that Of Mrs. Wentz.
Arriving at Mr.. MOrrison's ut noon, the
relatives, neighbors aud friend paid their
respects to Mr.. Wentz, and his children
presented him with large easy chair and
cane, the presentation being made by Mr..
David Earnhart and the acceptance by
Mr.. Thomas Wentz. Timely addresses
were made by others present. The COM
pany was handsomely entertained and the
afternoon pleasantly spent. /.
MIR. Wcntz was born in Martic township
in 1906, and has always been an hOnOred
resident of the community in which he
now resides. lie has seen vast changes
and improvements in the neighborhoOd.
and through them all has maintained the
character as we'll as the reputation of an
upright citizen, good neighbor and be-
loved father of tho offspring who have
grown to womanhoOd and manhood and
established for him worthy posterity.
He is a staunch defender Of the Demo-
cratic faith and upheld it with vigor in the
late campaign. In all the relations of life
his integrity, consistency and sturdy char
acter gain and keep for him the esteem Of
his fellOw-men.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-24
SNAIL ROTATION RUTATE.
DIR shall Presbyterian Elders be Life FIX
lures?

Or shall Presbyterian Elders be Life FIX
lures?
The death of Elder Jacob Stau;;er, of
the Presbyterian church, this city. Great
ing an apparent vacancy" i'm the cider
ship Of the church, and the increase in
membership of the church suggesting an
increase in the established number of el-
ders, there has been an undercurrent of
active discussion for many months in
church circles over the election Of elders,
involving the selections to be made and a
proposed change in the number and their
tenure. A congregational meeting was
held last evening to consider these sub
jects. After prayer and singing Rev.
Mitchell announced the purposes of the
meeting.
Bro. Thomas G. Wiley moved that the
congregation adopt the rotary system Of
eldership and that the number 0! elders
be five.
By the rotary system elders would hold
their Offices for three years, subject of
course to c-electiOn Or succession at the
end Of that time. This system has been
adopted by some churches and sanctioned
by the highest Presbyterian jutlicatories.
1t has good many friends il the Lam
caster church. The present elders are
Hon. ID. W. Patterson. DR.. John McCalla,
Mr.. A. Mckim. They hold their elder
ship indefinitely.
Brother Hugh S. Cara favored proceed
ing Immediately to elect under the present
system.
Elder u. w. Patterson opposed the rO-
tary system in vigorous speech. and de-
precatcd the introduction OF frequent elcc-
tons into the church pOiity. They are cal
culates, TO excite unwholcsome contentious
and riva!ries and to engender such feelings
as are evoked BIZ primary and civil cleo
lions.
Brother Thomas G. Wiley held that the
Presbyterian WAS democratic with a lit
lie "d') church. and that elections for
elders were different things from primary
elections for judges,
Brother J. W. johnson. anticipating and
'eeking to avoid a heated comparison OF
Presbyterian and primary elections moved
hat the whole matter bs deferred unti!
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-24

Young Jefferson NJ. Hauck, who was
ground to pieces in the pipe mill of the
Reading iron works between three and
four o'clock yesterday morning, had gone
to the cog wheels for the purpose of pro-
curing weight Of some kind, and to get
at what he wanted, it was necessary to re-
move several planks that cover the i'm
mense wheel and chain. After taking
away the boards he reached down for the
weight, when in some manner, with a ter
rible crushing of bones, he was drawn into
the cogs and mangled in a terrible manner.
The workmen near by could render no as
sistance, and before the unfortunate man
could be extricated from his appalling po-
sition he was terribly mangled. Shreds of
flesh, pieces of bones, and clots of blood
adhered to the cogs after the lifeless body
was removed,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-24

GeorgeiSchoonover, an old andircspected
resident Of Bushkill, was found dead in q
kneeling position. The rope was too long
for him to hang clear of the floor and he
had slowly strangled, with his knees nearly
touching the floor. Schoonover was a
weH-knOwn citizen and lived entirely
alone. He conducted tannery, ut which
he made comfortable living. His isola-
ted life and protracted illness form which
he was just recovering caused mental de.
preston which led him to take his life,