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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-12
STATE ITEMS.

The Oxford mines, in Hyde Park, caved
in OH Saturday night. badly shattering
Thomas McNicholls's and John OHara' S
brick store.
William Rinehart, an extensive tobacco
dealer, and wcll-knOwn citizen OF Pitts
burgh died on Friday.
Daniel Fahey, of Pittsburgh, an EN-
plOyee of Anderson Il Co.'S steel works,
was killed on Saturday by being caught
in the betting of Il wheel, and dragged
under it.
Nelson J. Lee, former temperance
apostle who lectured to large audiences i'll
all the middle states a year ago, but who
now keeps saloon in Erie, gave a public
lecture in that city last night Oh his fall
from grace.
Several hundred coal miners at Irwin S
station, who have been idle for two months
have gone to work again, their demands
having been acceded to. Railroad
miners at different points are idle now,
awaiting the outcome OF Wednesdays con-
vcntiOn.
People on the upper Delaware are get
ting anxious about the ice crop. The
river is free from ice and the houses are
all empty. Hundreds of hands are patient
ly waiting for cold snapto come and give
them employment in cutting and storing
ice.
The regular criminal term of court for
January, before Judge Cummin, ended at
Williamsport, on Saturday evening, with
the sentence of sixteen prisoners, ten of
whom go to the Eastern penitentiary for
terms ranging from twelve and a-half
years to two and a-half. Two others, coll
victed of grave olfenses, were not sen
fenced, motions for new trials having been
made.
A large meeting of persons who claimto to
be heirs to the BlackmOre estate, which is
located in the District of Columbia, was
held in Pittsburgh on Saturday. Some of
the heirs live in Beaver county, some in
Sewickley and some in Pittsburgh, and
altogether number upwards of fifty. The
estate of which they desire to possess
themselves is said to be worth two or three
million dollars.
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The tracks are now clear of snow and the
wrecks of the sheds, and trains again run
regularly.
Burglars attempted to enter the Thayer
jewelry manufacturing company's build
ing, at Astoria, L. l., on Saturday night,
but We're driven off by the watchman, who
fired several shots and wounded one of the
burglars, a trail o: blood being discovered
in the morning. Two shots were fired at
the watchman. but without effect.
John c. Keyser and John W. Palmer,
painters, formerly of Pennsylvania. EN-
ployed on a farm in Zuma township. Rock
Island township, Illinois, became involved
in fight on Thursday last. when KeyseI
fractured Palmer's skull with a hammer,
causing his death. They We're rivals for
the hand of a young lady. keyser is il
Jail at Rock Island.
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How RetrcHchment Is StranSieil.


New York Sun.
1t is more than doubtful whether the re-
forms proposed by the committee on rules
for the better management of the business
of the House of Representatives, which is
constantly growing, and for removing OBJ
structive forms that now cucumber the
accepted manual. will be adopted. A long
and sharp debate is expected by the
friends and by the opponents of the report.
The principal point of controversy will be
the proposition to refer the annual river
and harbor bill. now reported from the
committee on commerce to the committee
on appropriations, from which all the gen.
eral supply bills emanate.
This bill, though not enumerated
among the general appropriation. has
become as much so as any OF the others,
and if uniformity and system of regulat-
ing the public expenditures are to be OBJ
served, it ought to take the same direc-
tiOn as they do. Otherwise, the work of
retrenchment, if pursued as policy,
might be materially harmed by an exception
which casts the country millions every
year. without valuable return for the eX-
penditure.
Although there are important standing
committees, representing military and na-
val and diplomatic and Indian affairs, and
the postal service, and pensions, yet all
the money bills relating to them come
from the appropriation committee. The
committee on commerce wants to be ex-
cepted from this rule, and to be indepen-
dent in it's action. so that the river and
harbOr bill. which is made up by CON-
bination of local interests, and without
proper regard to public works of impor-
tance, MAJ be los-rolled through the
House as it was last year, with a grant of
seven and a half millions, without even
being read!
That surely canuot be called legislation
| in any proper sense, which takes the i'll
terest on nearly two hundred millions OF
four per cent out of the treasury to squan-
der ON trout streams, creeks and bayOus,
that by no possibility can be rendered
naviGable. Scltishness rises above party,
and professed principles are east aside
when its desires are to be gratitied. Dem
Ocrats. Republicans and Greenbackers
forget their differences and join hands in
a common raid for the plumber Of theil
own constituents, who at last have to foot
the bills.
If the proposed reforms arc beaten on
this test, as is probable. the interest IL
the rest of the work will necessarily bt
diminished. and the committee cannot
look for any well sustained support OF
either side. Reform OF any kind has ;
hard road to travel in these days. especially
when its pretended friends, who got int
power by loud atfectation Of zeal for the
cause. are the first to abandon it and tt
combine with their opponents in waste
of the public money, which ought to bt
branded as brazen stealing.
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4 MAINE GIRLS CHRISTMAS.
Her Petition TO Santa Claus Intrusted t.
Knit Glove.

Her Petition TO Santa Claus lntrusted to q
Knit Glove.
\ customer trying on knit gloves i'll the
furnishing store of Keith Bros. 4 Co., in
Chicago, found in one of the gloves a scrap
of paper. On the paper, in the awkward,
heavy handwriting of child, was the fol
lowing?
81 am a little girl. years old, and l
live in Bucksport, Maine. My name is
eight cents pair, and l wish the gentle
doll for Christmas present. l have not
got any and want one real bad"
On December II, 1879, box accom-
panied by way-bill, was started from
Chicago. The bill was headed: United
States express company-to X. P. r. w.
Co.'S Exp. Money and valuable parcels
way-bill from Chicago ILL.,, to BuckspOrt,
Hancock county, Maine." The blanks
near the head of the bill were filled out so
that they read as follows s. Description, 1
box !; consignor, Keith Bros. & Co., fur
nishing goods, Chicago, Ill. address,
Cora Norwood destination, Bucksport,
Me-; advertising charges, gift ; X. p.
charges, gift collect, nothing-prepaid
with love !; remarks, be happy"
On the way-bill was written, over the
signature of B. Schermerhorn, Chicago;
ILL.,, the following: ''The letter pasted on
is request found i'll pair of gloves, and
this box contains the desired wax doll,
being the gift of the employees of the firm
selling the gloves. Please let this way-bill
go through and be delivered with doll.
Those who handle the way-bill may endorse
on back their happy New Year, &c.
On the back of the way-bill are the fol-
lowing endorsements
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Dec. II, 1879.
Merry Christmas. Cora.
Il. SCHERMERHORN.
4. Carlton sends his compliments.
Mich. So. Rte.
Schneider wishes that all your requests
in life be granted as readily as this.
Dunkirk and Toledo Route.
J. G. Rac-Heaven's blessings be with
you. Hoping you happy New Year.
TO Miss CORA-As you gently glide
down Life's Rugged Rirer, be ever watch
full of the many deceitful rocks that so
thickly line its banks and you will always
have a happy Christmas. 4. SHAW.
Train II, Dec. II, 1879.
L. S. Ex. Co. Money Dept, New York.
w. H. Phclon wishes Cora merry Christ
mas.
A merry Christmas and happy New
Year to Cora Norwood.
WM. HUTCHINSON AND PARTNER.
BOsTON, Dec. q, 1879.
fully concur with the above.
A. d. KEITH, Bos. and Ban. Rte.
The endorsements show that the box and
way-bill reached Boston safely and on
time, and were started East, and there is
no doubt that Cora Norwood's Christmas
present was duly received.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-12

General Walker, superintendent Of the
census, has announced his determination
to appoint General Robert B. Beath as
supervisor of the district of Philadelphia.
The choice Of the Philadelphia delegation
was DR.. Sherwood, but Senator Wallace
was opposed to him because Randall favor
cd him.-Special to the Times.
Mr.. Randall had no interest whatever
in DR.. Sherwood and never saw nor heard
of him until his three colleagues from
Philadelphia-Harmer. Bingham and
O'Neill-joined in his recommendation
and at their request Mr.. Randall verbally
cOncurred. Mr.. Beath was especially
urged by Kemble, who secured Con-
gresham Kelley's aid; and Senators
Cameron and Wallace, for reasons
that were doubtless sufficient unto
themselves, preferred Kemble's and
Kelley's man to Harmer, Bingham and
O'Neill's man. We do not presume that
Mr.. Wallace would let his senatorial dig
nifty down to oppose Republican ap-
pointee simply because Mr.. Randall
Joined in his recommendation nor that
Mr.. Randall is so anxious for /" fight -
in his own party that he would precipi-
tate one over a Republican scramble for
spoils. But the slangwhangers of the in
dependent press cannot be expected to be
content unless they can get the Democ-
racy of Pennsylvania a-quarreling.
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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
POULTRY PREMIUMS.

a Gentle Iirowl and Few Words or ADVICE.
Editors INTELLIGENCEs:
Now that the poultry show is over and
the premiums awarded by the judges have
been paid to the winners, it may not be
amiss to call the attention OF the society
to what appears to have been mistake in
the arrangement of the premium list, An
examination of the list will show that con-
siderably more than one-half OF all the
premiums paid by the society were award
ell to the pigeons and bantamS exhibited
i'll the small room of Locher's building.
while considerably less than one-hali' was
received by the owners of the magnificent
display of fowls which filed the two large
rooms. To be more exact. the pigeons
were awarded s3S, the bantams $50. and
the other fowls. including more than
twenty choice varieties. only 500.
The best coop Of pigeons received
4 special premium OF - the
best coop of bantamS, $40, while the
magnificent coops of Brahmas. Cochins,
Plymouth Rocks, and other varieties of
large fowls, received no special premiums.
and only Il few of them any premium at
all. This remarkable result cannot Justly
be charged to any uniairness OH the part
of the judges. for they performed thcii
duties with impartiality. The mistake
was in the premium list itself. 1t not only
awarded as high a premium TO bantams Is
to large and valuable fowls. but it allowed
these pretty little pets to come in con!reti
| tion with the others as the best birds OF
exhibition, and thus carry off the highest
prizes. These remarks are not made in g
spirit of iault-tinding, but rather as timely
warning. SO that the same mistake may
not bo repeated next year. y poultry So
ciety to be OF any practical value must dc
all i'll its power to encourage the rearing oi
the best varieties uf iowis-tnosc varieties
best adapted for supporting the marke;
with meat and eggs. These are the heavy
Asiatics, the Plymouth Rocks, the Leg
horns, lIambI,rgs games, &c. An ex
libition premium list should be So arranged
that the bulk of the. valuable premium.
should fall to the breeders OF these valu
able fowls. even though they happen to tai
or point or two below the bantamS. wher
judged Oy the ftncier's standard.
| HD.uH.
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SWe;leMbOrSi::n Lectures.

There were large audiences in the meet
ing 70 III of the New (Swedenborgian)
church, third story of Longs drug store
building. yesterday morning and evening.
to hear Rev. J. f. Bowers, the missionary
of the church who has been visitin. the
society here. and whose Friday evening
lecture we published in full ON Saturday.
Rev. Bowers. preached in the forenoon and
in the evening lecturcd on Angels and
Spirits-Whcre do they dwell: Their
bodily forms and the garments iii which
they are clad. Their state of life, employ
ments and heavenly enioyments." The
discourses on both occasions were exposi-
tions of the Swedenborgian doctrines, cs-
pecially with reference to the relations of
the angelic heavens and the human race.
Rev. Bowers is Il graceful, easy writer and
4 modest, unpretentiOus pulpit orator. and
his addresses were listened to attentively
by an audience that included people of his
own faith, Catholics, Lutherans, Reformed,
Methollsts, Presbyterians, Episcopalans.
Moravlans allu nOndescripts.
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Watch 1t.

We trust that public attention will he
resolutely fixed upon the pending strug-
gle in the House of Representatives. to
have the revised rules adopted. Those
rules were agreed upon during the vaca-
tion by committee with Speaker Ran
dali as chairman, and including Garfield,
Alex. II. Stephens, Blackburn and Frye,
leading members of both parties and rep
resentatives of the five great divisions of
the country. The feature of them which
meets the most intense opposition is that
which proposes to take from the commit
tee on commerce the pow er to report the
appropriations for riversand harbors and
lodges it where the control of all other ap-
priations is placed-with the appropria-
tiOns committee. Heretofore these ap-
preparations have been a grand larceny
on the public treasury, members of all
parties and from every section, each
putting in his claim to a divvy, and
all log-rolling together at the close of
the session to get millions of subsidies
through which would have had no chance
had they been subject to the rigid scrutiny
and deliberate investigation of the appro-
priations committee. Any member from
a close district who bethought himself to
get $1,000 or $4,000 or $4,000 to i'm
prove some trout stream in his district
would "put in" for it, to gain the favor of
his constituents by giving them share
in the nlunder of the treasury,
The new rules, as we understand
them, are framed to prevent this and the
jobbers are arrayed against them. The
issue is plainly made up and the contest
ought to be watched closely.
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Our racy Alabama correspondent
writes freely of things in the sunny South,
but it is more imagination than reality
that depicts us shivering in the Northern
blasts. With pansies blooming in our
yards and plowing progressing i'll the
fields, ,hisipicture of the tropical, perfume
laden breezes, is not so tempting as lie
fancies. "E. M confesses to the polit.
ical indifference of his people and theil
lack of national spirit. but it is reassur'
ing to be told that their love of Anglo
Saxon liberty will oppose third term
and all classes will rejoice in the dawn
ing material advancement in the South
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WHEN Roman emperors fed their
horses on gilded oats, and their guests Oh
the Ova of brook trout and dishes made
of nightingales' tongues, the empire was
in its degenerate days, and its virlllty
was being melted away in pampered lux
ury. The clamOr for third term for
Grant and of the need of a strong
government in this country is fifty sup
plemented by such experiences as that OF
which an account is published on our
first page, when 4 New York eplc'lre
entertained his company with strawber
ries costing fifteen cents apiece, and fur
nished them bills of fare that cost ST.
each.
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LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

The semi-annual meeting of the Union
of the American Hebrew congregations
was held at Cincinnati yesterday.
Three boys were drowned while skating
on the Connecticut river at Longmeadow,
Mass, on Saturday.
Two houses and several small buildings
in Taylorsville, Ohio, were demolished by
tornado on Friday night. No person is
reported injured.
A large meeting of friends of Ireland
was held at indianapolis yesterday, and
Mr.. Parnell was invited to visit thai
city.
John Hall and Brunell Smith, both
cOlOred, have been sentenced to be hanged
at Nashville, Tenn, for the murder of
Major Push, committed in May last.
The work of improving the sanitary con-
dition of Memphis, in conformity with the
suggestions of the national board of health
commission, will proceed at once.
A severe wind storm in Montreal on
Saturday morning proved very destructive
to trees, telegraph wires and chimneys. A
massive cross on the dome of st. AIMS
church was blown down.
The exposures of grave robbing at Oak
wood cemetery, Richmond, Va, have
stopped the traffic in dead bodies, and it is
now proposed to prosecute all who have
have been concerned in the transactions
All the Catholic churchei Lowell,
Mass, took collections yesterday ON behalf
of the suffering tenants in Ireland. The
m ,ncy subscribed will be paid to Mr.. Par
nell ON the occasion Of his visit there to-
morrow.
The Democratic caucus of the Mississippi
Legislature to nominate United States
senator to succeed Senator Bruce had six
ineffectal ballots ON Saturday night. The
last vote stood-Barksdale, SO !; Walthall,
So Singleton, SO, scattering, 5.
Martin Paquette, former tenant of the
Hon. James S. Barnes, shot and killed the
latter last Sunday in New Madrid, Mo-.
firing load of slugs from a shotgun into
his left breast. The affair grew out of a
disagreement while settling their landlord
and tenant accounts.
The snow blockade on the Central Paci-
fic railroad, in the Sierra Nevada noun
tain, in consequence of the forty-eight
hours snow storm which ended ON Satur-
day morning, terminated last evenin
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PERSON

General GRANT will probably sail this
week from Florida for Havana, and may
call at Nassau. n. P.
Prince OSCAR, of Sweden, was married
on Friday to the Princess HELEN, of Wal
deck.
4 dispatch from Lisbon announces that
Mr.. MORAN, the American minister to
Portugal, is seriously i'll.
Mrs ELIZABETH F. PAEMEIE, the wife
of General A. S. Badger, died in New Or
leans yesterday, aged "a years.
The arkansas Republican, published by
w. JASPER BLACKBURN, ex-congressman
from Louisiana, has appeared at Little
Rock.
Hayes is said to have offered the Russian
mission to JOHN STEVENS, of HobOken,
the richest man in New Jersey. but he
don't want it.
The will of WILLIAM l.. RIPLEY. pro-
bated at Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday,
gives about s75, 600 to the Ohio Wesleyan
university, at Delaware, to endow Il 'Rip-
ley professorship.'
Count FELIX WIMpFFEN, the new Aus
tro-uungarian ambassador to Italy, had an
interview Oh Friday with Signor Carroll,
the Italian premier, and very friendly as
surances were exchanged.
The Senate committee OH military af-
fairs will take up the case of General FITz
JOHN PORTER on Tuesday. The commit
tee has decided to report for confirmation
all the pending army nominations, about
100 in number.
JOHN HUMPHREYS PARRY, of London,
the eminent surgeon at law, and one OF the
leaders of the home circuit, is dead, at the
age of Gj. His disease was congestion OF
the lungs. The death of Mrs. Parry, from
grief at the loss of her husband, is also an
nOunced.
FRANK MAYO is cndeavuring to obtain an
injunction from the United States court Ill
New York restraining TIE production OF
"The Poor of New York. at Abcrle' S
theatre, having bought the copyright
from Dion Boucicault. The defense deny
| DOuClCdulC duGiOi .ii''' WAN
play is taken from Fraud and It's Vic
. TINS" etc. The court reserved decision
"FRANK LESLIE" whose familiar non
de plume was much better known than hi
real name, Henry Carter, died i'll New
York, on Saturday, aged 50. HIS was bon
in Ipswich, Eng, and easily displayed ;
taste for wood engraving. He came tt
America in 1S47 and since 1854 has pub
lished many illustrated papers with vary
ing financial success. He was divorced
} from his first wife. His second wife wa
the widow of the late E. G. Squier, tie au
thor and traveller, and she has been TO
some time past editor of three of her hus
bands periodicals. Two sons by his frs
wife survive him, Henry Carter Cor Franl
Leslie, jr.) and Alfred, and third son
Scipio, died last year. Mr.. Leslie was cx
tremely popular with his employees, ant
dispensed elegant hospitality at his resi-
dence at Saratoga, where he passed mncl
, Of his time.
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Peter Heraiic Again in Trouble.

In Williamsport, on Saturday morning,
the Jury in the case of Peter Herdic and
Horace E. Taylor brought in a verdict OF
guilty. The charge was conspiracy to de-
fraud creditors in connection with the
operations of the banking house of H. E..
Taylor & Co., which suspended couple
of years ago. Motion was made for a
new trial, bail given and the hearing on
the motion put down for March. Judge
Mayer, of Clinton county, presided at the
trial, which continued several days and
has attracted great deal of attention.
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Revival at BrOwnstOwn.

Il revival of great interest is now in
progress in the church of the Evangelical
association, in Brownstown, West Earl
township, of which Rev. F. Sechrist is the
pastor. 1t has been going on for thirty
five days and already sixty persons have
been converted. On next Saturday and
Sunday the quarterly conference will be
held in this church, and Rev. Joseph Say
lor, the presiding elder, who has been a
minister for great many years will preach
his farewell sermon.
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Arrest of an Alleged Horse Thief.

John Lichtcnberser, of Litiz, is under
arrest i'll Reading, Oil the charge of steal
ing a horse, carriage and harness from John
Dutt and VIM. Gantz, near Mannheim. lie
was lodged in prison. At the time of the
theft, a young man who formerly resided
in Reading, was suspected, and constable
of Lancaster county was in Reading look
ing into the case
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The Dance.

There is quite a breeze in the Prcsby-
terian circles of Marietta over the prohibi-
tion of dancing among the members OF
that denomination by their pastor. The
recent brilliant masked ball at Mr. Duffy's,
which was attended by some Presbyterians,
furnished the special occasion for the
anathema, and since that Rev. J. NJ. Neil
moyle has several times announced his dis
appreciation of this feature of social life
At his last prayer meeting he announced
that if his members persisted in dancing he
would resign, and yesterday he said from
the pulpit that if any OF his members at
tended dancing parties, public or private,
they would be scssioned.' \ New Year
party is to be given by some of the Mari
eta ladies this week and some Of the Pres
byterians say Rev. McE. will have a chance
to enforce the threatened discipline.
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refused to do SO. Her refusal preyed upon
his mind, and he has been in the habit OF
repeating expressions apparently wholly
irrelevant, in a crazed manner, to the mys-
tification of his friends, who could not
imagine their meaning. Both are married
men, Jocolman having one child. Curtis S
wound is probably fatal. He claims that
JocOlman came to him for the purpose OF
matchmaking, and had been to him on
similar errands before.
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Brisbin Skiles, proprietor Of the Mount
Vernon hotel, Salisbury township. noted
fox hunter, has recently caught at different
times seven foxes, which he has chained
on his premises. Mr.. Sk;les proposes to
have grand hunt with these foxes at no
distant day.