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BEES DO STING FRUIT
4 Good Case Against Thcl,,.

~ Good CHSo Against IhcuH.
An intelligent lady in this city who is :,
diligent and experienced hOrticulturist ex-
presses her disgust ut tho scientific and
sentimental defense made by the Lancas-
ter Fdrerm and other horticultural authOri-
ties of the bees against the charges thatthcy
sting and despoil fruit. She says she care
fully watched 4 grape vino for four hours
the other day and after examining u cer-
tain bunch and satisfying herself that every
grape on it was sound she saw the bees come
and assail it. Two of them went to work
on grape apparently with the weapons
which they use to gather honey, and when
they left it she found slight puncture in
the skin that had not been there before.
After awhile along came other bees, and
working at the perfOratiOn thus made, tore
Off the skin and soon the grape was ruined
She says that if the bees do not "stin."
the fruit, they at least puncture it with
sOme weapon, and their technical defense
should not avail. An attempt is also made
to transfer their guilt to the wasp but our
informant maintains that the wasps and
bees are cOngenial plunderers, they work
together and 20 on their predatory excur-
siOns in the best of good feeling. Even if
the wasps do the damage the bees are their
partners and qui facit per alum .faet per Sc.
Altogether the fruit growers think they
are q bad lot, and that the mayor should
issue a proclamation muzzling the bees
and wasps, at least until the peaches and
grapes are ripcned.
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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE,
a BUTTERFLY.

Satisfactorily Scientifically Treated.
The following correspondence will cx-
plain itself
QUARRyvILLE August %, 1880.
DIR. S. 8. RATHvON :
SIR send you a butterfly caught by
Benz. F. Ferguson, near Puscyvillc, which
l think is something rare. If SO, please
answer through the INTELLIGENCEE, and
oblige,
Yours, truly, R.C. EDWARDS.
Answer.
DEAR SIR: Your " butterfly" was duly
received and turned out to be 'moth -
and, not because it is "rare,' but because
your friend Mr.. F. thinks it is, and there
fore seems to be in blissful ignorance of its
character, deem it worth while to say
something on the subject.
This moth (Ndcrosiuo 5.maeulata),
commonly called tho Five Spotted
Sphinx Hawkmoth'' and "IIummins-
bird Moth" is the parent Of the green
Hornworm," which, about this season OF
the year 50 seriously infests tobacco plants.
There are two species of this insect that
seem to be partial to the tobacco plant,
but they also occasionally prey upon the
tomato and potato the ono above named
and the "CarOlina Sphinx''ss (ldcrosIlo
CdrOlina). The later is 4 Southern species
and the former Northern species, but we,
occupying intermediate or overlapping
territory, have therefore both species.
These moths usually remain quiet or
concealed during the day, and when their
wings are closed they arc inconspicuous,
and may be sitting on the bark ola tree OF
old gray wall, or fence, and not be seen.
But when evening approaches they take
wing and fly to the various kinds of trump
ct flowers, especially to the jamestown
Weed,' and, poised on their wings like a
humming bird, they suck the nectar from
the flowers and then go forth to the tobacco
fields to deposit their eggs on the plant,
which, in due time, arc hatched, and from
which the destructive worms arc in time
developed. These habits are, and ought to
be, we'll known to tobacco growers, and
also suggest means for the destruction of
the moths. Some introduce poison into
the flowers some station themselves near
the plant they visit, ant, strike them down
with paddles, and others use various kinds
of traps into which the moths arc decoycd
and are thus destroyed. Mr.. Gibble, Of
Mount Joy, has invented 4 trap that seems
to answer the purpose very well. The Or
der LEPIDOPTERA (mealywlnged lnSectS)
is usually divided into three sections, viz !:
the Diurnia, or day flyers (Which includes
the butterflies); the Nocturnia or night
flyers (including the larger number of the
moths), and the Crepuscularia, OF twilight
flyers (Which includes the hawk and hum
ming bird moths), and the species under
consideration belongs to the last named
division.
A female moth of this species will deposit
during the season from 600 to 1000 eggs,
each Of which may be capable OF producing
a worm. The tobacco grower will, there
fore, perceive what an immense amount Of
labor he may save, if he can contrive to
kill the females before they have deposited
any eggs. The eggs are not all deposited
at one time, nor in one place, but here and
there ut intervals, as long rs any remain.
r.
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FREE SPEECH.
In Enlightened Chester County.

EnDSnteu0O CneStcE SOChtys
Oxford borough was the scene of great
excitement on Wednesday last, caused by
the advent of John Harris, the Democratic
colOred orator. Mr.. Harris came into town
in the forenoon and soon the report spread
on the streets that no was to make I Ha Il
cock speech in the evening. The colored
men gathered in groups and consulted with
each other prominent white Republicans
were called in council, and the conclusion
was that violence was to be employed to
prevent him from publicly expressing
his political opinions should lie
attempt to do So. Open threats
of personal injury We're made him
if he did not Immediately leave. and these
threats would have been carried into exc
cution early in tho evening had not IN in
tclligcnt coiored citizen promptly inter!er-
cd in his behalf. When the riotous feeling.
had reached this height it was reported
from satisfactory source that MIR. Harris
had not come to make 4 speech, was not
going to speak and had left the town.
This ended the cries Of tar and feathers.
hanging, etc, and tho mob dispersed. 1t
is Il shame and disgrace that many prom.
incnt, influential and intelligent Republic
ans Of Oxford. tho advocates Of free speech.
free ballots and equal rights, give cncour-
agcmcnt to the lawlcss, mobbing spirit
that manifested itself on this occasion.
The Hancock and English club intends
holding u Democratic meeting in Oxford
hall, ON Saturday evening next, the 2S:h
inst, and it is said Mr.. Harris has been
invited to address the meeting. Ii this is
correct, the Republicans may again have
tho opportunity of disgracins the great
principle of free speech which they pro
fcsscdly uphold.
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ence TO the revised statutes and oneor two
other points fn brief way. will do 50
yet, but not today, as I am house hunt
ing:
"The proposition for the joint committee
insures peaceful solution of the presiden-
tial question if it becomes law, and in my
opinion gives to General Hayes chances he
did not have before. l have considered
that Mr.. Tlden's chances were impregHa.
bic. Not so Mr.. Hendricks's. Now il
seems to mo that Governor Hayes has some.
thing more than an equal chance, but the
definite results cannot be foreshadowed.
Fortunately trouble need not DO provided
against by the use Of the army should the
bill become a law.
eff tho bill passes and General Grant
vetOes it, Mr.. Tildcn's chances will be
stronger than befOre-certainly if he and
his friends supported the measure. Public
opinion will strengthen his position.
The danger in the compromise question
or joint committee plan is that the defeat
cd candidate might appeal to the supreme
court on grounds of illegal (unconstitu-
tiOnaD decisions.
g am very truly yours,
"WINFlELD HANCOCK"
General Sherman writes the closing let
ter of tho correspondence Gas published) }.
1t is dated Washington, January 90. He
says;
"GENERAL: The passage Of the bill fol
counting the electoral vote approved by
the president, ends, in my Judgment, all
possible danger of confusion or disorder
in connestion with tho presidential i'm
brOgliO. l feel certain that the dual
governments in South Carolina and Louis
lana will he decided by the same means
which determines who is to be tho next
president. Therefore, with the consent
and approval of the secretary of wal
now absent, l want to return the troops
temporarily detached back rs soon rs pos
sible to the posts occupied before the cleo
tiOn, with the exception, that twelve com.
panies (nOw thirtcen) or the equivalent Ol
a regiment remain here in Washington fol
a time"
The remainder of the letter relates to the
disposition of troops in the South.
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STATE ITEMS.

Wilbur Chamber was seriously if not IA
tally injured by the explosion of a 25- horse
power boiler near Bradford.
A son of James Kelley, of Gay street,
PhGnixville, was overcome by the heat
on Tuesday and has since died.
John Marshalrs large stone dwelling
house in WesttOwn, Chester, was destroy.
cd by fire on Wednesday. Loss, 81, 900
no insurance. ..|
Tho jury in the case of WolfSanS HOff-
man, on trial in Somerset for tho murder
of his wife in June rendered = verdict OF
not guilty.
Rev. DR.. John r. Chaplain, presiding
elder of the Lehigh district, Philadelphia
Methodist Episcopal conference, died yes
terday after an illness of three weeks.
The second annual picnic of the Bucks
and Montgomery county musical associa-
tion will be held ut Neslaminy Falls grove
on Saturday, September 4.
Valentine Hummel, born in Hummels-
town and a we'll known German printer
and publisher in Harrisburg, died yesterday
aged GS.
Hon James H. Hopkins has written a
letter accepting the nomination for Con-
gress by the Democrats of the Twenty
sixth district. He will make strong can
vass.
A gentleman was at the Harrisburg de-
pot last evening waiting for the train from
the Williams grove picnic grounds, with
tho hope of identifying the party who
picked his pocket at the grove, of fine
gold watch for which he had paid $3.50 in
gold.
Near Gilman's, in Wayne county, has
been found the dead body of man slight
ly decomposcd. 1t is supposed that he was
murdered. There appears to be no clue
to his identity. His skull was pierced in
two or three places by bullets. but it is
thought he may have committed suicide.
The Pennsylvania railroad company arc
making more than twenty freight cars per
day, sometimes as high number as
twenty-eight per day. They are making
something like $50 car wheels per day.
There are at present employed at Altoona
more than 1000 men out of 4 population
of 10000 people. This road has about
10000 cars.
Two great fairs will be held in Philadcl-
phia at the permanent exhibition within a
few weeks. Ono will be the sheep and
wool exhibition which will, no doubt, be
the finest display Of the kind ever made
upon this continent, and tho other will be
the fair of tho state agricultural society.
This will be something more than the Gus
tOmary state fair. 1t will contain exhibits
from many other states. and will he re-
markably attractive.
The largest non-political meeting ever
held in Milford occurred yesterday, the
occasion being tho third annual clam bake
Of the Fat Mems association Of Pike
county. Governor IIoyt, $. s. Cox, Robt.
KlOtz and other notablcs were expected to
DO present, but wcrc unable to attend.
Several fine speeches were made and 4
magnificent cane presented to the prcsi-
dent. Large parties were there from New
York, New Jersey, and Wayne and Mon
roc counties.
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sparring match. A post-mortem cxamina-
tion pronounced that death was caused by
q nevOus shock. Wetherby was exoner.
ated.
A large and vicious monkey kept in a
small geological garden in Chicago broke
its chain and attacked the keeper Of the
place. The keepers cries broug ght Henry
Martin to the rescue. The monkey imme.
diately turned upon Martin, ard fastening
its teeth and claws in his lower limbs, tore
them in 4 fearful manner, after which il
escaped, and hid under the sidewalk il
Wabash avenue. Martin suffered greatly
from loss of blood, but it was hoped he
would survive.
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COL. M'CALMONT FOR HANCOCK.

| Why He Has Concluded That a Change is
Necessary.
John S. McCalmOnt's Letter in the VcnangC
Spectator.
Since the nomination of Hancock and
| English by the national Democratic con-
vcntiOn my reference for their election has
become so decided that it seems proper to
give it the form of public expression.
regret to go against Gen. Garfield, fol
whose political and moral worth have a
| sincere regard, in spite Of some specks in
his record. But I cannot say as much for
the nominee for vice president on the Re
publican ticket. His virtual dismissal
from the post of collector of customs at
New York by an administration which
| recognized civil service rules is prima
facie evidence of disqualification for the
| dignified Office of president of the Senate.
On the other hand tho Democratic candi-
dates, Hancock and English, present a
| clean record of efficient and faithful service
to their country.
The executive power of the country can
be no better placed than in the hands of
General Hancock. His love of Justice is
provcrbial, his firmness for the right in
| vincible and his honesty and integrity un-
questionable. His conspicuous services
arc a part of the cOuntry's history, and
his excellent civil attainments arc firmly
imbedded in the principles of Magma Chart,
and the common law. Nor is Mr.. English
wanting in my esteem. The only Obicc-
tiOn made to him is that he has been faith
full in the management of his own affairs
since his retirement from an honorable
office, which he ably and worthily filled.
He has not been charged with the misuse
| or the prostitution of public trust.
The leading Democrats of the country
behaved so handsomely in the last count
of the electoral vote that it would now be
fit that their reward should come in such
a decisive majority for their ticket as to
preclude in the next count all grounds for
the interference of the House of Represen-
tatives, or, what is worse, the executive
arm Of the government.
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LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

Charles Brush, constructing cn Sinccr OI
the Hudson River tunnel. has rendered his
resignation, which has been accepted.
The census Of Hudson county. N. j., has
inst been completed. Jersey City has q
population of l233, 2O7 and the county one
Of 102, 900.
Baseball At Buil;alo-Bullalo. ;; Bos.
ton, 3. At Observation-Disclosures, 4
Cleveland, 3. At ChicaSo-Chicago, .;
Worcester, 4.
Miss Addie Clark, u highly cultured
young lady Of Brooklyn, aged 81, in fit OF
hysteria, parted from her parents to 20
shopping, sailed for Europe and committed
suicide by jumping from tho steamship
Arizona in the British channel.
Two sisters while waltzing OH tho deck
of a canal boat opposite Cornwall, N. Y,
stumbled on q coil of rope and fell over
board. Both were drowned. The bodies
have not yet been recovered.
James McIlvey was shot and killed by
5. Il. Phelps, representative of Washington
county, Ky., in Congress. 1t was. the result
of an old feud. Phelps has surrendered to
the authorities.
Messrs. Frangopulo AgclastO & Co.,
merchants of London, Liverpool, Alexan-
dria and Aboukir, have suspended pay
ment in consequence Of the discoveries of
Irregularities in their Alexandria business,
Their liabilities are e25O,OO
An adroit and unknown thief robbed
the treasurer's box at the Hampden races
kt Springville, last Friday afternoon of
81, $50. The robbery was committed on
the judges stand while the trOtting was in
progress.
The yacht Emma, of HobokeD, with an
excursion party composed of six men and
two boys, was wrecked opposite Seabridge
during the severe storm. Life-saving sta
tion No. 4 saved the party, but the yacht,
valued at 50, GOO, was lost.
Burnett Boyd and Calvin Conklin, farm
ers, quarreled in Penn Yam. Boyd struck
COnklin below the temple killing him in
stantly. He gave himself up. The mur-
derer lis 4 young, unmarried man, and
Conklin was IS years old and leaves fam
lily. Both were drunk.
jefferson .WolfOrd, colOred man en-
ployed on the farm of W. 7. Commins,
near Smyrna, Del, was killed by blow in
the breast from the fist of Lester Wetherby
also colored, while engaged in friendly
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"Your Money or Your Office. :"

The stalwarts do not propose to ALLOW
any officer who refuses to pay his assess
ment to escape. In April last the con.
gressiOnal committee sent a circular to al
government employees requesting (virtu
ally demandingl a contribution of 2 pei
cent, of their salaries to the Republican
campaign fund. In this circular the com
mittee said: "The committee believes
that you will esteem it both privilege
and pleasure to make to its fund a con.
tribution." Some of the clerks did moi
respond. Collectors were then sent
through the departments to confer with
those clerks who had not made voluntary
contributions. The collectors raised con.
siderable money, but there are many who
still refused to pay. The national COM
mittee has now taken the matter in hand,
and the delinquents have been served with
the following notice:
HEADQUARTERS REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CoM-)
N1rTEE, 24l FIFTH AVENUE, NEW York,
AUGUST 10Th.
Sir: A circular was issued under
date Of April IA, 1880, by the Repub-
lican congressional committee request
that contributions in aid of the campaign
fund be at once forwarded to the treasurer
of that committee. Some of the officials
addressed having through a misunderstand-
ing failed to respond to this circular the
national committee and the congressional
committee, injoint session in New York city
on the 5th instant, have directed that cir
cular be prepared requesting on behalf of
both committees that immediate payment
be made to George Francis Dawson, treas
urer of the congressional committee, at
1917 F street, northwest, Washington d.
c. The occasion is urgent and prompt
response is desired.
MARSHALL JEWELL, Charm Nat. Com.
JAY A. HUBBELL, Chairman Con Com.
s. w. DORSEY, Secretary Nat. Com.
EDWARD MCPHERSON, Sec'y Con Com.
1t is understood that the clerks who re-
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CnangeS That Count.

1t is quite notable how many CONVEX
sions of Republicans to tho Hancock
party arc announced from all parts of the
country. We published good string of
them yesterday, and we follow it to-day
with others whose names, residences and
other circumstances of their affiliation
with the Democracy are given rs guaran-
tees that they are bona .fde. 1t is equally
notable that very few changes are an
nOunced Oh the other side. The Repub-
licanS have to content themselves with
noticing that some one or another of the
Greeley Republicans who went out and
went back with Schurz will stay in the
fold this year, or that some Temperance
man-whO tries annually to get his
Democratic brother to vote the Temper
ance ticket, while he himself stands by
his political party-will this time vote
for Garfield. Their list of accessions
from straightout Democrats to the sup
port of Garfield is very short one, soon
numbered and easily accounted for on
other grounds than sincere political con-
victions.
1t is fact that the Democracy have
on their side this year, not only the sur
face enthusiasm, but the strong under
current of healthy political revolution.
While the shadows murmur the praises
of their heroic soldier candidate the
dumb running deeps move with resist
less force and volume for statesman
who in all his analysis of public questions
has shown himself wiser than the crafts
man.
. 1t is not only the magnetic influence of
Hancock's name and the glory of his rec
ord that produce these changes in mems
political action. The results of the last
eight or ten years elections have con-
clusively demonstrated that the leaven
of change in political sentiment has been
gradually working to the increased
strength of the Democracy, not only in
the South, but until they number more
than half the voters in the great CEN
trail states of New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
Business men, professional men, mechan-
les and laborers, are getting tired of Sec
tiOnalism, Capitalization, corrupt civil
service and legislation for the few against
the many. 1t is such considerations that
induce change, and we know that the
many whose change is publicly an
nounced are only a few of the great host
who have already decided to follow. Be
fore the late mayors election in Lancas-
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LANCASTER DAILY NTEILiGENCER FRIDAY AUGUST $780,

fuse to answer this summons win be dis
charged. Civil service reform order No.
1 Is still in force. Mr.. Hayes, however,
approves Of the action of the Republican
committees and he has promised not to in
tcrfcrc in their work.
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Picnic.

The Union Bethel and Green street mis-
sion Sunday-schools, under the control Of
the church of God, held their picnic yes
tcrday at Shenk's woods near Millcrsville.
1t was largely attended and social through
out. There was but little rain there, and
the party enjoyed themselves in boating,
fishing and in innocent plays.
After singing by tho choir, prayer and
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an address by the pastor, Mr.. James Abra-
ham entertained tho company with a hu-
morous recitation. They returned in the
street cars at an early hour and were sur
p:ised to find that there had been 50 mucl,
rain here.
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MINOR TOPICS,

MINOR TOPICS.
Am now tho Republican poles lcan i'm.
plorinSly toward tho South. No good.
No returning boards this time.
An autograph letter of Burns. in which,
he quotes "Scots wha hac," was lately
sold by auction for 1910.
WILLIAM CALHOUN, the Hancock Re-
publican cx-councilman, of Philadelphia,
"don't amount to anything they say.
But some time ago the Sunday transcript,
Rep, declared that he was a worker and
an organizer
THE Examiner calls the Democratic
headquarters "Snake Hail." We knew
its editor was little down-hearted ovcr
the outlook in Indiana, hut he was hardly
expected to "sec snakes SO early in the
campaign.
We arc glad to see our esteemed local
Republican. contemporaries Ring and
Bull Ring-agree that the Democratic
demonstration on Wednesday night was a
flat failure. Tho Examiner has pronounced
it "grand fizzle, and the Era declares
it tame, spiritless affair."" In view of
this it will tax the resources of both Off
ces to describe some of the successful,
lively and spirited demonstrations which
the Democracy will show them before the
campaign closes.
HARVARD COLLEGE has had in its 242
years of existence twenty-five presidents,
an average length of service of eleven years.
President Edward Holyoke was the longest
time in Office, thirty-two years; Cornelius
Conway Fulton the shortest, two years.
Tho first graduate Of Harvard who was
president was Leonard Hoar, 1674-1675, ut
which time tho Office was regarded as a
"bed of thorns." Increase Mather was
tho first native American who became
president. The first president was Henry
Dunster, 1640-1645, who was probably
thirty years Of age at the time of his ap-
pointment, but nothing definite as to his
age is known. With that exception, Pres
ident Eliot is tho youngest person ever
elected to the presidency.
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Two hundred and fifty Montgomery far
mers have voted to build a creamery at
Limerick Square.
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soldier, Of venangc, and Marshal

soldier, Of Venango, and Marshal
Swartzwelder, lawyer and publicist, Of
Pittsburgh, will he followed by thou.
sands whose names do not appear in the
public prints. These men are all emi-
nent in their walks Of life. They come
from the three great representative sec
ticns of the state. They are nc, rsNfes-
sional politicians. They a,r not seeking
favors and fW all these reasons thei,
support VI Hancock is significant and
grateful.