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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-10
NEIGHBOKHOOD NEWS,

Events Across the County Line.
Reading is discussing "a, 500 soldiers
monument to be put up in Penn Square.
The Brown baseball club of York has
disbanded.
The hosting apparatus of MOselin fur
mace, Berks county, was burned on Satur-
day. Loss, $4,000.
Howard X. Fisher, popular Reading
fireman, has died after seven years suffer-
ing from lung disease.
The Wilmington and Northern railroad
company have just placed new locomo-
tive on their'railroad to accommodate their
increased freight traffic.
Peter Handwork, as aged and much re-
spected citizen of Springfield, Berks coun-
ty, aged n, died last Friday night about
10 o'clock. DR.. S. B. Snavely pronunced
it a case of apoplexy.
Thomas Ben, colored man, died in
West Calm township, Chester county, on
last Wednesday, aged 81 years. He passed
much of his time in the employ of the
Perdue family.
Judge Futhey, of West Chester, sug-
gests that the name of "Green Tree"
station on the Pennsylvania railroad be
changed to 'Duffryn Mawr'' We object,
unless the photography be changed to
"Dufin MARI We have already too
many silent letters in our photography
without borrowing from the Welsh:
W. j. P. White, esq, as census super
visor of the Philadelphia district, appoint
ed on Saturday as snumerators Miss Mag
gle A. Mckee, of No. 900 Arch street, and
Miss Emily Kirkbaum, of Germantown.
The former was highly endorsed by ex-
Governor Hartmnft and a number of prom
inent ..clergymen of Philadelphia, and the
latter, who is the daughter of the first con-
ductor on the Reading railroad, by the
Hon. A. G. Harmer, and over one hundred
other applicants in her favor.
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DELEGATES TO CHICAGO.
The New York Tribune's View OF the 81
uaIiOn.

The New York Tribune's View OF the Sit
uatiOn.
Saturdays Tribune.
Six hundred of the 156 delegates who
will compose the Chicago convention have
been elected. They come from twenty
eight states and six territories. Ten states
and three territories are still to elect. OF
these 600 delegates the Tribune, after q
most careful examination of the conflicting
claims of the partisans of the various can
dates, assigns PAL to Senator Blaine, 224 to
General Grant, 81 to Secretary Sherman, 81
to Senator Edmunds, and 13 to the Hon.
f. B. Washburne. This gives no candi-
date a majority of the convention, 379
votes. Mr.. Blaine lacks 1873 votes, Gen
cral Grant 15j, Secretary Sherman 2SS.
and MIR. Edmunds, 3GG. In making this
estimate the Tribune assigns to Mr.. Blaine
only IA of the New York delegates and %
of the Pennsylvania delegates, although
the Blaine club at Washington claim % of
the former and % of the latter. The esti-
mate is made on the supposition
that the Chicago convention will decide
that the unit rule cannot be enforced, in
accordance with unvarying precedent.
When the question came up in the Cincin-
natl convention of 1876, Chairman Nc
Der had the right to vote his sentiments in
the convention. An appeal was taken from
the ruling and the convention sustained
the chair by vote of 395 to 359. During
the debate, the Hon. Eugene Hale called
attention to the fact that the same question
arose in the convention which nominated
Grant in 1868, and was decided in the same
way by an overwhelming majority.
The Blaine and Sherman estimates are
made by the Washington clubs of those
candidates, and the Grant estimate is
made by the Hon. A. NJ. Clapp editor of
the Grant newspaper at Washington. The
Sherman estimate is given Oh him only.
The states which are still to elect dele
gates are Nevada on May II, Florida,
Michigan and West Virginia on May 12,
Illinois, Nebraska and Minnesota on May
19, Alabama on May, 20, Louisiana on
May q, and Colorado on May %. They
will elect 146 delegates. There are four
to be elected in Massachusetts,, and six
from the territories. OF these states,
Michigan, Colorado, West Virginia,
Nebraska, Nevada and Minnesota are
counted as certain for Blaine, giving
him GO more votes, carrying his total up
to 2S1. Grant hopes for the solid delega-
tions of Florida and Alabama-2S votes
but he is sure of only portion of Louis
iana's 16 votes. and portion only of
Illinois's AZ. There is the best reason
also for thinking that Alabama and Flor
ida will both be divided. Neverthe-
less, giving him all the votes of these
four states, Alabama 20, Florida 8, Loui-
siana 16, and Illinois AZ, he will get only
S6 votes, bringing his total up to 80, or
SO less than majority. Instead of these
going solid for Grant, however, it is now
quite likely that Blaine will get enough of
them to bring his vote up to above 300,
with a corresponding reduction on Grants
vote below 800.
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FIRE..

Record OF Destructive COnflasratlOns.
The stables of the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre coal company, at Wanamie, were
destroyed br fire yesterday with 81 mules.
The Queens Lake ice house, in St. Clair
county, Mo-, was consumed by lighting OH
Saturday night. The loss is stated at
S45, 200.
A fire at Kinderhook, N. Y, on Satur-
ings, including the postoffice and two
hotels. Loss, $4,000.
Huse, Loomis & Co.'S extensive ice houses
on the river front at St Louis, were burned
yesterday morning in a tremendous thun-
der storm. Over 10000 tons of ice were
consumed. The loss is estimated at about
$4,000
Two wooden buildings in Danville, Va,
one occupied for the storage of tobocco,
and the other as a grocery and liquor
store, were destroyed before daylight yes
terday morning by an incendiary fire.
Samuel j. CroxtOn, who slept in the tobac
co warehouse, lost his life, and John Does,
fireman, perished in attempting to save
him. Over 22O, 900 pounds of leaf tobacco
were consumed.
Yesterday afternOan, gas explosion in
a stove, in the dwelling of Justice Cline, in
Rexford, II miles southeast of Bradford,
set the house ON fire. The flames spread
among the frame structures in the village
until 80 buildings were in ashes, including
the principal hotels and stores, and the
Kendall and Eldridge railroad station.
Forty derricks, the pump station of the
United pump lines, and two tanks con-
tanning together over 10000 gallons of oil,
were also burned. A large force of men
was set at work constructing dam to pre-
vent the burning oil from running down the
valley and setting fire to three other tanks
containing each 25 900 gallons of oil.
A fire in Allegheny City, Pa, last even
ing, which started in the stable of Keifer,
Steifel & Co.'s tannery on Allegheny ave-
nue., destroyed that tannery, Witlack's
tannery and twenty-eight other buildings,
slaughter houses, stables and dwellings on
Valley, High and Filbert streets. The 10.
cality being situated between two hills, it
was almost impossible for the firemen to
get at the flames until they had nearly
done their worst. The loss on property is
estimated at 1926, 900. About twenty poor
families are homeless, escaping with moth
ing but the clothing they had on. 1t was
that a young girl perished in the
flames. The fire is supposed to have been
started by two boys who were playing in
the stable.
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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
MOUNT JOY ITEMS.
From Our Regular Correspondent,

From Our Regular Correspondent,
On Saturday Captain Jacob X. Walt
man died suddenly from the effects of
hemorrhage at the home of his brother in
York, in the 54th year of his age. He
was born in Mount Joy, and at an early
age learned the trade of cabinet-making,
which he followed for some time. When
the war broke out he was commissioned
captain, and commanded company II of
18th regiment, body of infantry who re-
sponded to the three months call. After
ward he served as commander Of company
G of the 9th PENNSYLVANIA cavalry. He
was the recipient of a heavy gold-headed
cane which bears the inscription of the
numerous battles in which he participated.
The deceased was we'll known in this sec
tion of the state, and for while was en-
gagged at photographing at Lancaster and
later at Harrisburg. The funeral services
will DO held in the NJ E. church this
(Monday) afternoon. 1nterment in the
Eberle cemetery with the honors of war
by the few of his company who survive
him.
Abraham Longcnecker, father of l. s.
LOngenecker, of this borough, breathed
his last at his home near Campbellstown,
Dauphin county, on Saturday morning,
aged about IS years. Five years ago Mr..
L. was stricken with apopleXy, and grad
ualiy growing more and more impaired,
both mentally and physically, it resulted
in his total blindness several years before
his demise. He was twice married and a
wife and six children survive him.
A curious egg that was laid by COM
mon hen may be seen at d. II. Engle's,
West Main street. Within Il thin shell
which is partly broken, whose longest cir
cumference is nine inches and shortest
seven and o half, is an ordinary sized egg
with shell and all complete; also the yOlk
and white of another egg. 1t is Il rare
freak of nature and well worth look.
We have often heard of the common
land turtle reaching the age of hundred
years, but yesterday it was our privilege to
see one which has wandered about for
more than fifty years. In a leisure mo-
meut, fifty years ago, when John NJ. HES
tand was 4 young man Of twenty years, he
carved the initials ''J. H. and the date
" 1880 " on the shell of one, which he
chanced to pick up on a tract of woodland
adjoining the place where he was born.
On visiting this tract, which he still owns,
one day last week he was amazed to find
the turtle bearing the above inscription
has the turtle at his residence, West Marion
and it is evidently discontented, for it has
not eaten bite since at it's new home.
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STATE ITEMS.

The eleventh annual reunion of the So
ciety of the Ninth Pennsylvania Veteran
cavalry will be held in Harrisburg on
Thursday, June Sd, 1890.
Rev. Nevin Woodside, of Pittsburgh, on
trial before the Northern presbytery in
New York on charges of immortality and
lying, was suspended on Saturday. He
will appeal to the synod.
The funeral of James Dickson, the
father of Thomas Dickson, presi lent of
the DelaYare and Hudson canal COM
pany, took place at Carbondale yesterday
in the presence of about five thousand per-
sons.
Residents of New Hanover township,
Montgomery county, are greatly excited
over the mysterious and prolonged alb
sence of an eight-year-old daughter of
Benjamin NJ. YOst, who disappeared sew
eral days ago.
A Philadelphia company has purchased
$4,000 worth of land ON Duquesne
Heights, Pittsburgh, and intends erecting
five hundred comfortable dwellings upon
it to give the denizens of the Smoky city
a taste of real home comfort.
Near Scranton, on Friday, prize fight
was fought between Dave Richards and
Thomas Thomas. After twenty-seven
rounds the fight was declared draw. A
very large audience, among which were
several policemen and members of the
Scranton city councils witnessed the fight,
but no arrests were made.
The following speakers have been Sc
cured for the tariff picnic at Beaver,
on June 5th: Hon. James G..
Blaine, Gov. Hoyt, Hon. James
H. Hopkins, James A. Garfield, Hon.
Samuel J. Randall, Gov. Foster, of Ohio
Hon. w. S. Shallenberger, Jane. E. Emer
son, and many others of national reputa-
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a number of Southern men are mentioned
as favoring Mr.. Fields nomination, the
most prominent being Senator Gordon, of
Georgia, and these gentlemen are reported
as being confident that he would be the
most popular nominee the Democratic con-
vention could place before the country.
The voting for the gold-headed cane to
be presented to the most popular candi-
date for president, at the Hahnemann
hospital fair, in New York, closed as fol-
lows: Bayard 1G3, Grant 131, Blaine IS,
Edmunds II, Sherman 5, Jewett 6, Tilden
3, J. S. Phelps II, Seymour 2, E. B. Wash
burne $50 Mr.. BAYARD will receive the
cane and the honor of being ''up head"
If Gen. Grant receives the nomination at
Chicago, the friends of Secretary ScHURz
say he will Immediately retire from the
cabinet and relieve Hayes from any EN-
barrassment, by having in the cabiuet a
person who is against the nominee of the
Republican party. There are Republicans
who believe that Mr.. Schurz had better be
collecting his things together preparatory
to removal.
GEORGE ELIOT's new husband is Walter
Cross, of Weybridge, Surrey. He is or
was merchant and the representative in
London of the American banking house
of Brown, Shipley & Co. The papers
which recently depicted this bride of G2
as plunged in grief at the death of her
late consort, George Henry Lewes, pro-
nounced her marriage after seventeen
months widowhood as pressing the pre-
negatives of genius too far. But if society
tolerated her living with Lewes without a
ceremony, it will endure her taking a new
Cross after her sorrow has had nearly a
year and a-half to be assuaged.
WILLIAM II. VANDERBILT who recently
sailed for Europe with his wife, son and
a daugh ter, on board the steamer Britain
mic, of the White Star line, expect to be
absent about six months. Should he re-
main away SO long, it will be the most ex-
tended trip he has ever made to Europe.
His son, VIM. X. Vanderbilt, second vice
president of the New York Central and
Hudson River railroad company, will act
as president during his fathers absence.
Last year Mr.. Vanderbilt made a trip to
Europe occupying just % days from the
the time of his sailing until his return. In
1878 he made a trip also, in April, and was
gone 40 days, and in May, 1877, he went to
Europe, and was back in New York in 90
days from the date Of his sailing.
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EIGHT cOnvicts are to be sent from
Harrisburg to the Eastern penitentiary
this week. John Minnich gets a year be-
cause he swore he had no wife when he
had. Henry Romich stole Il watch and
a pistol year for him. Thomas John
son went through & trunk and gets
twelve months. Mary Mitchell dealt in
stolen meat and got year. John Neid-
man for the same Otfense is penned in the
penitentiary for two years. Frank Sha-
del, for stealing watches and clothing, is
to be immurcd for two years and a day.
George Brooks stole Il watch and will
have year to repent. John MountZ, "a
very bad boy, and leader of a gang of
boys as bad as himself,H will take a
fresh start in the world from the house
of refuge.
Kemble and his associates who tried to
bribe Legislature to plunder a COM
monwealth, are pardoned and ride to
home and freedom in a palace car.
The ten commandments are not in
force against the rich and potential i'll
Pennsylvania politics.
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lanrasttr f1ltelliger1rer.
MONDAY EVENING. MAY 10, 1890.
A Sinking Ship.

The unseaworthiness of the Grant
boat is being signally illustrated in these
days in the old-fashioned way-by the
rats that are leaving the sinking ship.
There is that old rat McManes, of Phila-
delphia, for instance-to get near home
with an illustration-and that young rat
Bum, and plenty other of the vermin
that are making themselves conspicuous
just now in opposition to Grant. MIR.
Bum goes back to the supper the city
gave the boys at the Grant reception and
at which, and the company assembled
the distinguished guest turned up his
nose, fresh from shifting the royal air of
Europe and the East. The Bunnies Of
Philadelphia didn't like the treatment,
but still the Philadelphia delegates to the
state convention went in for Grant and
the unit rule, because it then still seem
ed the strong card. They, at least, did
not see their way clear to show their
teeth. Now they do. They see the ship
going down ,and they are gleefully in haste
to quit it. Mr.. McManes has been quite
distinguished for the rapidity of his
growth in anti-GrantiSm. He was at the
Harrisburg convention, but he said moth
ing against Grant there, because OF his
friendship for Cameron and because it
was none of his business, because he
wasn't a delegate. So he says. But as
he says he is still a friend of Cameron,
and as he ought not to have been at
Harrisburg if he had no business there
and did not even take so much interest
in the party success as to express his
opinion against the policy of nominating
Grant-whichh The even then strongly held
he says-it is obvious that his reasons for
his acquiescence at that time and for his
kicking now are little tishy. AT pres
ent he is animated, he says, by high
idea of his duty to his party, whose
delegate he is to Chicago. But he
has been its delegate ever since
Harrisburg and has been very quiet
until lately and now his tongue gets
looser every day. y few days ago he was
still non-committal he hardly thought
Grant would he candidate but i'll the
little time intervening light has broken
strongly upon him and the weight of his
duty has become so extreme that he cries
aloud against Grant.
Meanwhile there are all sorts of ideas
current as to what the fair Donald is
going to do about it. AS we foretOld at
the time of the Harrisburg convention,
the time has come when he has to decide
to follow the Blaine flag or have his fol-
levers leave him. To keep his place at
the head of his forces he must go the way
the column wants to march. 1t is not
the way Donald is used to do. 1t would
be more in his fathers line. There is no
doubt as to what Simon would do i'll the
emergency; but whether Don has the
suppleness to get over to the other side
in the big hurry that is necessary, or
whether i'm fact he cares so much for the
shadow, when the substance of hiSpower
is gone is the question.
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elect Grant it could elect nobody, and
from his standpoint it must be conceded
that he is honest in this belief. He has
had good reason to despise the opposition
of the sentimental element of his party
and to contemn the I'D literary fel-
lers " who write against third term
and yet who, he knows, will vote for
Grant if nominated.
Everything now waits for Illinois. If
it should fail Grant the scheme to nomi-
nate him may be abandoned. But if it
be carried for him it may be safely as
sumed that Cameron, COnkling and Lo-
gan, with all the power of their three
great states, will press his cause and will
conscript into it all the struggling poll
ticians of their party.
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PERSONAL.

ANNA DICKINSON is to write her recOl-
lections of notable scenes and characters
in book form.
Hon. JOHN 3. STORM the ex-cohgress-
man, is a local NJ. f. preacher, and in the
absence of his pastor recently occupied
the pulpit to the satisfaction of the con-
gregation.
Mr.. J. LowRIE BELL has been appoint
ed general traffic manager of the Philadel-
phia and Reading railroad, in addition to
his duties as general freight agent, and
will hereafter have charge of the question
of rates upon coal as we'll as general mer-
chandise.
Senator PADDOCK, Of Nebraska, is out
in letter for Grant because he thinks his
trip around the world has greatly inn
proved him and he will do more for the
little state of Nebraska than any other
candidate.
NJ. VIEUXTEMPs, the violinist, has had
an unpleasant experience while travelling
Algeria. He was riding in an open car
riage, when all Arab, for no assignable
reason, threw large stone at his head,
giving him a severe wound.
The oldest practicing lawyer in the
United States, and probably in the world,
is the Hon. JOHN A. CUTHBERT, of Mobile,
Ala, who is ninety-one years old and is still
engaged in the active discharge of his pro-
fessional duties. He was an officer of the
war of 1912.
NELSON confesses that she is to be mar
ried shortly after the close of her present
engagement, and declares that it is positive
ly her farewell to the American stage. She
will play farewell engagement next fall
in London and the British provinces. The
name of the happy man is not disclosed.
FRED DOUGLAss's wife is a full-blooded
negress and she has never learned to read
or write. He engaged himself to her while
in bondage, she being free negress of the
same neighborhood, and after his escape a
sentiment of honor led him back to marry
her. He seems greatly attached to her.
BEACoNsFIELD is quoted as making a
cautious and practical answer to an Illus
trious lady who when English relations
with Russia were in dangerous state of
tension, asked him at dinner What are
you waiting for?" 81 am waiting for
mutton and potatoes" said the astute
premier.
A Republican newsmonger writes from
Washington that there has been of late
quiet work going on in the in
terest of Judge FIELD, as the Democratic
for the presidency. tits asserted
by the Democrats hostile to his nomination
that considerable money has been spent in
dining and wining members of Congress
in order to start Field "boom" Quite
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My Maryland.'

The Maryland delegates to Chicago
stand thus For Grant-Creswell, Wea-
yer, West, Brown, Miller and Tome-6 ;
for Sherman-Gary, Harris, Hooper, Lown-
des. Crane and Buhrman-6; for Blaine
Westcott, Mallalieu, johnson and Belt.
Westcott and Mallalieu are strongly fer
Blaine all the time, and as to the
Sherman and other delegates, in contin-
gency IA votes for Grant may be relied
upon and Sherman can get the IA if it is
found that he is available.