Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-18
COUnT or QUARTER SESSIONS.
October Adjourned Term.

| This morning the October term of ad-
ijourned quarter sessions court began with
Judge Livingston on tle bench.
! The first case attached was that of
com'th VS.. Catharine Eshlebrenner, who
was charged with assault and battery by
Elizabeth Eshlebrenner, her daughter-in-
law. The prosecutrix stated that on the
7th OF July last she and the defendant got
into quarrel and defendant struck her in
the face with a hot smoothing iron !; she
also pulled her hair and scratched her face.
The defendant denied having struck the
prosecutrix with the iron, but claimed
that the latter began the fight and pulled
her hair, &c. The jury rendered a verdict
Of guilty.
Com'th vs.. Christian l.. Brackbill, as
| S;iult and battery. Levi Habecker was the
prosecutor. He lives in Warwick town.
ship and he testified that upon one day in
July last he went to the defendants house
to see Il man named Watson. He was Or
dered away by the defendant, wIO hit him
several times while lie was in the road.
The defense was that the prosecutor
came to Brackbilrs house on that day. He
abnsed the masons who were at work and
the defendant ordered him to leave the
premises. He took him by the arm and
told him to leave and just tapped him on
the face defendant was not angry. Jury
out.
A Disprderly Gang.
The Republican clubs of this city did
not look 50 rery much amiss when tney
left Lancaster for Mannheim on Saturday
evening" but when they returned late at
night they were fearfully demOralized.
There may have been, there probably
were, some sober men among them, but on
the whole more drunken, disorderly,
noisy gang never yelled throug the streets.
and the disturbance was kept up into the
early hours Of Sunday morning. It is re-
ported, on Republican authority, that the
conduct of many of the men during their
stay in Mannheim was outrageous in
the extreme. They overawed the hotel
and saloon keepers, demanded and
were furnished liquors and beer for which
they refused to pay, threatening to gut
the houses if their demands were refused,
and in other ways exercised temporary
reign Of terror over the people of the quiet
country borugh. Their msbehavior dis
gusted Democrats and Republicans alike
and made votes for Hancock.
Democratic Excursions.
Generals Mcclellan. Sigel and Sickles,
Senators Bayard and Wallace, Speaker Ran
dali and other eminent Democrats will he
at the grand mass meeting in York next
Thursday. The Hancock and English
battalion of Columbia will participate in
the parade in the evening and will turn out
it's full strength. :. Besides the battalion
there will be many other, Columbians who
will 80 to hear the speaking. The fare
for the round trip will be fifty cents, and
the cheapnesS Of the trip will be taken ad-
vantage of by many Arrangements have
also been made to run an excursion train
from this city over to York and return.
The fare will be only G5 cents for the round
trip, and many members of the Lancaster
clubs will visit York on this occasion.
There will be Il grand Democratic mass
meeting in Ep!lrata, this county, next
Friday afternoon and evening. The rail.
road company offers to take 40 men out
and return from this city at G5 cents
apiece for the round trip.