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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-30
Hanc0ck's Acceptance,

The New York Herald to-day says that
the publication in one of the city evening
papers yesterday of what purported to be
the leading points of General Hancock's q
letter of acceptance is purely the offspring
of lively imagination. In other words it
was simply guesswork. General Hancock
has not shown the letter to any one, and,
what is more, it is stated, ON the most un-
questioned authority, that he wrote the
letter without taking advice from any one
on the subject. The only cause for delay
in the publication is waiting for Mr.. Eng
lish to write his letter, and when this is
done both will be given to the press stimuli
taneously, which, beyond doubt, it is
confidently stated, will be to-day or to-
morrow.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-30
4 Trustworthy Leader.

We have watched with great interest
Senator Eaton course since his entrance
into the Senate. and have admired its
straightforward consistency and good
sense. He is always a reliable exponent
of sound Democratic doctrine and can
ever be trusted to act us he talks and
thinks. In the strength Of his common
sense, and the resoluteness with which
he obeys its commands, he stands above
all his associates in the Senate, Oh the
Democratic side at least. He displayed
his fine quality conspicuously in the cleo
toral commission folly, being the only
Democratic senator to vote against it..
He believed it to he an unconstitutional
and vicious eXpedient, which took from
him the discharge of Il duty imposed
upon him us senator of Connecticut,
which he had no right or power to shirk
He was not the only Democratic senator
who so believed but he was the only
one who had the courage to act upon his
conviction. Everybody now admits that
he was right. 1t was as easily seen then
rs now. The principle upon which he
acted was fundamental. 1t was sound
Democratic doctrine. 1t was not
hidden from any one of ordi-
nary comprehension, average honesty,
and Democratic education. Yet but
one Democratic senator objected. This
is mortifying to realize, but it is not
strange. 1t only shows how weak men
are, and men esteemed great, at that.
These senators knew they were voting
against their principles when they voted
for the electoral commission bill. They
did it because they thought the peaceful
compromise of the dispute thus secured
justified the lawless device; and they
were SO thoroughly persuaded of Tilden S
election that they could not believe that
the commission could find it otherwise.
They have been justly punished for their
abandonment of principle. They did it
in weakness. Senator Eaton only was
strong. And it was not an accident.
We have never known him TO fail on any
trial of his good sense and Democracy.
1t is such men that our party needs as
leaders; men who are at once honest,
sagaciOuS and bold.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-30
A Clerks Secret.

mercial.
A rather romantic affair, with pathetic
incidents has developed in the office of Col
Casey, the commissioner of public build
ings, within the past few days. The chief
clerk of the Office, named Sunderland, is a
Scotchman, who has held the place for
twelve years, having rendered faithful SER
vice during all that time. 1t
is said that he has handled vouchers for
over s9,OO0,OOO, and all his ac-
counts have been kept in the best manner.
He was regarded by Col. Casey as a very
valuable man. His salary has been 81, 200
a year. lie had personal friend in the
office, for whom he had obtained the ap-
pointment. Five years ago he impaired the
fact in confidence to this man that he was
deserter from the Seventh United States
cavalry. 1t seems that he enlisted soon at
ter his arrival in tho country, but not lik-
ing the hard service under Custer, he
deserted and came to Washington. He
changed one of the letters of his name, but
did not hide ut any time, and succeeded in
obtaining clerkship. He got into a
quarrel last week with his friend in the
Office, who revenged himself by revealing
the fact that Sunderland was descrtcr
from the army. There was nothing for
the adjutant general to do under the cir
cumstances except to direct that he be ar
rested, and this was done. He will, of
course, lose his place, and if he is not
court-martialed, he will at least be given :,
dishonorable discharge from the service,
which will prevent him from getting any
employment under the government.
Sunderland married a Washington lady
some years ago, and has family. The
wife appeared at the department to plead
her to do SO. Sunderland himself says he
has long been burden to him, and he is
relieved from any further dread of ex-
pOSure.
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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
THE NEW COUNTY BARN.
Cards and Counter Cards.

NdEUD bhet NOuhtCA SHhNSs
Mr.. d. B. Landis, president of the board
of poor directors, has been so much per-
turbed by the adverse criticism on the
action of the board at it's late meeting i'll
awarding the contract for the erection Of
the new county barn to Mr.. Bachman in
stead of Mr. Smith, the lowest bidder,
that he came out in card in the Ntsr Era
last evening in which he declares that ''he
will take no blame whatever in being i'm
plicated in setting up 4 job in awarding the
contract. After stating that the con-
tract was awarded" in good faith by 4
full vote of the board" p" Mr.. Landis puiis
Mr.. Bachman as "a tirst-class barn builder
and employs from sixteen to eighteen first
class hands - and adds, latter the barn
is finished l would invite all tax
payers to come and inspect, and if
helped to rob and cheat the county ont of
any money in awarding the contract to Mr..
Bachman, let them say so, and Twill will
ingly pay the difference between the two
bids which is s265.13, out of my own
pocket" All of which is very kind in Mr..
Lands, but does not at all meet the issue.
The trouble is that the directors advertised
for proposals to build the barn after certain
plans and specifications prepared by their
order. A number of bids were received
and opened, after whicA Mr.. Bachman's
bid was received and although it was not
the locest bid, nor for barn of such pat
tern as the directors had asked proposals
fo~ <ho h:I %o1 NJ
man was given the contract to the cxclu-
sion of the lowest bidder. Thus
the asking for proposals from other
bidders was mere mOckcry, as they were
bidding to build barn in accordance with
the specifications furnished by the dircc-
tors-and such barn, the directors by
their action say, they don't want! 1t is
this circumstances connected with the de-
lay in handing in MIR. Bachman's bid and
the refusal to allow other builders chance
to bid for the erection of barn after Mr..
Bachman's pattern, that gives the whole
proceeding very "crooked" appearance,
even though their action was in good
faith and by full vote of the board.
We are in formed that Mr.. E. N. Smith,
the lowest bidder for the erection of the
barn under the directors specifications, has
notified Mr.. D. B. Lands, president of
poor directors, that he would sue out an
injunction against any further proceedings
in the erection of the barn, unless the di-
rectors give him good and satisfactory
reason why they let the building to much
higher bidder. Mr.. Smith says the Bach
man barn can be built after his plan at Il
less figure than q, ,S51, 81 which was Mr..
Smiths bid for building the barn after the
directors plan.
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PERSONAL.

Speaker RANDALL visited General HAN
COCK at Governors Island yesterday.
There is rumor that the Princess
LOUISE is weary of Canada, and will not
return there.
Mr.. w. H. H. MURRAY is reported to be
engaged in large and profitable commits
sion business in Liverpool.
ROBERT TooMBs is POLITICALLY described
as possessing rugged face, deep thun-
der-scarred," +" and set in grizzly locks.
Senator CoNKL1Na has good luck as a
fisherman. He has just caught and sent
to a friend in Utica New Brunswick sal
mon three feet long.
The New York Herald to-day notices
among the late arrivals in Paris Messrs.
Michael Zahm, H. z. Rhoads and son and
J. w. B Bausman, of this city. They
were registered at the Hotel Byron.
General WILLIAM MALONE, senator
elect from Virginia, and leader of the Re-
adjusters Of that state, was taken danger
ously ill at Fort Monroe, Wednesday. He
left for his home in Petersburg yesterday,
somewhat improved.
A head slighly bowed, bright and in
telligent face, twinkling eye-glass, . well
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-30

UP in Luzerne county, under the stim-
ulus of an occasional local victory, the
Republican politicians are rapidly learn
ing to be as accomplished as the Eram-
iner and NeU Era would have us believe
their political friends here are in the
purchase of nominations. There was a
Republican nomination for assembly in
Wilkesbarre the other day and Murphy
was chosen over Dimmick, to the sur
prise of Dimmick's friends and
his own chagrin, since he had
Dragged that he had, before
the nominating convention, bought
enough of the delegates to elect him and
had their receipts. Failing to get all he
had thus counted on, he became commu-
NEGATIVE, and in an alteration between
his friends and those Of his successful
competitor the Dimmick men finally pro-
duced and tlourished under the noses of
their opponents receipts signed by two
of the delegates Of the 9TH and
Newsbigle Of the llth-for money paid
them by Dimmick's : nanascrst I" vote for
Dimmick. although they afterwards
voted for Murphy. \ Democratic re-
reporter got a copy of the receipts that had
been given for the bribe money. They
ran us follows:
WILKEs-BAHRE, July Goth, 1880.
Received Of l. Long forty dollars in con,
sideration Of my expenses ut the district
convention in support If 4. NJ. Dimmick,
candidate for representative and for my
vote. GEO. w. NEwsBIGLE.
| 1t is further stated that their second
sell-out was for $50 apiece. Lancaster
county must pony up or Luzerne will
| take the cake.
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Democratic Unity.

The New York, Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania Democracy spoke on Saturday
evening at the ratification meeting in
New York, through their eminent rep
resentatives whose speeches we print on
our first page, and they spoke with no
less of hopefulness for the issue than of
serious concern in the cause for which
they were spokesmen. 1t has been the
aspersion of the opposition upon Demo-
cratic attempts to gain power that its
leaders were widely divided in sentiment
upon fundamental issues and that there
was no cohesive principle among them.
No one who reads and compares the
speeches of Mr.. Tilden, Mr.. Randall,
Gen. Ewing and Mr.. Tucker, or the let
ters of the distinguished gentlemen
whose unavoidable absence was regretted
by themselves and the audience, can fail
tob impressed with the very slight differ
enceS that divide Democrats i'm this cam
paign, and how easily all can be accom-
modated on the platform built for them
ut Cincinnati. The vital wants of the
country, the reform of administrative
abuses, the exposure of wrongs and the
purging of frauds by some other party
than that which is responsible for them.
offer every opportunity for Democrats
from all sections to heartily unite i'll
common effort ut common purpose.
The money question is virtually settled.
and between the policy which General
Ewing would now urge in Congress. and
that of the most extreme eastern hard
money man, there would probably be the
slightest shade of difference. On the tariff
question, Mr.. Randall, who is conceded to
be careful student of economic subjects,
and whose devotion to Pennsylvania S
interests has not been questioned, shows
conclusively that there can be no tariff
fOr revenue only accommodated to our
present financial necessities that will
not afford to American industries all the
protection they need or deserve. Mean.
while it is wisely recommended that some
such authority as the Eaton tariff COM
mission bill cOntemplates can settle the
tariff question far better than it can he
adjusted in the noisy debates of Con.
grcss. The tariff issue is one of details
its phases change with shifting conditions
of our material development. The time
comes when its bencficences are nurtured
up to Il point beyond which protection to
them is plunder of some other interest
and from such abuses the country has
unquestionably suffered in the past
What is needed now for our development
are new markets for Our products rather
than protection of our industries. The
party which can devise measures to pro-
vide them and which can restore our pres.
tige and put our flag upon the highways
of ocean commerce, is the party of the
future. The enlightened craftsmanship
of the Democratic party is reaching a
common conclusion on the questions that
concern our material development nc
less than upon those that affect oul
moral welfare.
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LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

Snow fell on the summit of Mount
Washington, N. II. yesterday, from about
noon until 2 o'clock.
The actual and estimated census returns
from Illinois indicate the population of the
state to be 3, 125, 900.
Baseball: At Troy-Troy Q, Buffalo 2
at Observation-Disclosures s, Cincinnati 2 ;
at PrOvidence-Providence 8, Chicago ;
at Boston-Boston 2, Cleveland 0.
The large building at West and Bank
streets, New York, occupied by q sewing
machine company and several other firms,
was partly destroyed by fire last night.
Loss, about $4,000.
John Fl. Clementshaw of San Francis
CO, was convicted of perjury yesterday in
the superior court. He is the witness who
swore SO strongly that1 Charles DcYoung
fired shot at l. NJ. Kalloch.
Yesterday morning all but seven of the
seventy five men employed on the govern
ment buildings at Albany struck because
the superintendent would not allow them
to quit work at S p. m. on Saturday.
Joseph Thomas, workman, fell into a
tank of boiling oil, at Vail & Osborn's
fish oil factory at Bray's landing, New
Jersey, on Monday, and after great suffer
ing from the scalds received died on Tues.
day night.
A violent storm of hail and rain visited
the truck and fruit section around Nork-
folk, Va, on Wednesday. The wind blew
down barns and outbuildings, and the hail.
stones, some of which were as large as
hens eggs, destroyed vegetables and
fruits.
The Dublin correspondent of the Lon.
don Times states that the improved condi.
tion of the country and the prospects Of
an abundant harvest have caused the re-
lief committees to prepare to dissolve.
There is little doubt, he says, that the
money on hand will be enough to meet al
pressing demands.
The West Virginia Democratic state con
vention yesterday completed the ticket as
follows: Governor, Jacob J. Jackson
auditor, Joseph S. Miller treasurer, ThOs,
O'Brien Judge of supreme court, Thomas
Green attorney general, G. G. Watts: sul.
perintendent of schools, p. l.. Butcher
presidential electors, E. w. Wilson, E. G..
Cracraft.
On Wednesday night fifteen disguised
ruffians went to the house of a cOlOred man
named Joseph Thompson, about 20 miles
from Atlanta. Georgia, savagely beat him
and his wife, fatally shot his son, and killed
his daughter. The people of Jonesboro,
near the scene of the crime, have offered
$500 reward for the arrest of the murdeIcrs.
Four men were arrested on suspicion.
Thompson recognized the leader of the
gang as John Gray, whom he recently had
convicted of assault and battery.
DIR. Tanner was last evening weaker and
sicker than at any time since the begin
ming of his long fast, and as he lay upon
his cot, pale, emaciated and with sunken
features, it was difficult to imagine that
he was not dead. One of his watchers
asked whether he had not better partake
of the brandy and beef tea that had been
procured in case of instant need and put
an end to his suffering, but the stubborn
man resolutely refused, saying that he had
no alarming symptoms and that when he
did have them, such as hiccoughing, he
would then break his fast.
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BOGUS BONDS.

Scheme of u Florida Orange Packer.
Detective Pinkerton, with Captain W.
c. Cooper, chief of police Of Jacksonville,
Fla, appeared at the Tombs police court,
New York, yesterday, having in custody G..
NJ. BranscOm, of G. NJ. Branscom & Co.,
orange packers and commission merchants,
of Jacksonville, Fla, who is charged with
the forgery of bonds, representing $137,-
600, known as the Sanitary Improvement
bonds Of Jacksonville, drawing interest at
the rate of 8 per cent. per annum and pay
able in 1898.
The information which enabled Pinkcr-
ton to prevent the flooding of the market
with these forged bonds reached him about
the LIST of July, when an attache of Il q
Brooklyn Eagle informed him that a man
stopping at French's hotel had induced a
friend of a boy working in the Eagle Office
to sign number of bonds, and that Cir
cumstances were Of a suspicious complex
ion. 1t was learned that the boy was
Arthur Ryerson, of No. 1913 Eighth
street, South Brooklyn, who while
out of work, was sitting in City Hall
park, when man asked him about
his handwriting and invited him to
French's hotel. Here he copied a letter,
and his penmanship appeared to give sat
isfaction. He was then told he would be
written for within week. In a few days
he was directed to call at the hotel, when
he signed the name of A. J. Baldwin,
chairman, to large number of bonds, re-
ceiving 81. so for his services. Detective
Pinkerton communicated the particulars
to the mayor of Jacksonville, J. Ramsey
Dey, and requested him to send an officer
to assist in working up the case. Captain
Cooper came on, and he and Pinker-
ton took the boy Ryerson to French's
hotel, where the latter identified Brans-
com, who, after some evasion, admitted
having perpetrated forgery. Pinkerton
found in his room ninety-two $500 bonds
and forty-one 81, 900 bonds, all purporting
to be signed by the proper authorities and
attested by the seal of the city of Jackson
vile and common council. Other sigma
lures to the bonds were written by differ
ent persons and proved to be fac-simile,
of those of U. Stokes Boyd, T. J. Daniel
Theodore Hartridge and James B. Crab
tree. The name of A. J. Baldwin, executed
by Ryerson, was that of a former mayor of
jacksonville.
Branscom said that about S25, 900 of
bonds were in the hands of merchants who
were innocently betrayed into aiding his
scheme. His intention was to put up these
as collaterals to get goods and to procure
money to move the orange crop north this
fall. He had made partial arrangements
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UrnulLDINl3 OF THE SOUTH.

u W DCCCUcr III NuTaSutNu NuAO".
We note in some of our Southern ex-
changes u variety of incidents more indica
tive OF tho regeneration and rebuilding Of
the South than all political movements put
together. for they concern those elements
of social life which unicrlic and produce
bcniiiccnt legislation. Among these are
tho formation Of IN an:i-duclinG assOcia-
tion. the object of which is both to de-
vclop public sentiment against
ducling and to enforce laws hitherto dead
letters upon this subject. And this
association has the warm endorsement Of
Senator Butler and the Charleston Neacs.
In South Carolina restrictive regulations
whisky. The grand jury in nearly every
county has made some uttcrancc against
it. and an attempt is to be made to recOg-
nize the Sons of Temperance of that state
and to secure the cooperation of temper
ance workers in vigorous anti liquor
campaign. The Normal institute of the
same state is announced during the
month of August, lasting three
weeks, with course Of study
which will include all branches
taught in schools, and special instruction
in advanced methods OF teaching disci-
pline, the first institute of the kind ever
held in South Carolina and Ill important
step in the educational progress of the
state scarcely less important as an indica-
tion of advance is the proposal, coming
from the Mississippi Valley Cotton
Planters association at Vicksburg
to the chambers of commerce and
the cotton exchanges of New Orleans,
Memphis, Little Rock and Montgomery,
to cooperate in arranging for series of
fairs to be held in those places during the
coming autumn and spring, for the pur-
pose of exhibiting various patterns of az
ricultural machinery in use upon the
cotton plantations Of the South.
The improved plows and cul-
tivators familiar in the Northwest
are almost unknown in Southern fields,
and the fact that these great representa-
tive bodies are inclined to work together
is an indication not only Of an increasing
readiness for agricultural improvement
but of that hopefulness which is born of
an increasing agricultural prosperity. A
| community which can put down violence,
whether in the form of Il duel or in a less
reputable form, can give effective battle
t" whiskcy, can establish good school
system, and can develope its agricultural
interests, is Oh the high road to prosperity
whatever its politics and whoever is prcsi-
dent.
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punished the guilty offenders are liable
to be elected general officers and to per-
petrate their tricks against the Demo
cracy. It may suit the Republican re-
turn thinkers and ballot box suffers to
cheat each other on this scale. We want
none of it in ours.
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Tobacco Plants Destroyed.

Some days ago party Of bad, or at
least thoughtless, boys got into the tobsc-
co fields of Emanuel Denlinger, at Gordon
vile, and John Denlinser, near Leaman
Plact, and topped number Of immature
tobacco plants, injurins Emanuel Denling-
er's to the extent of ut least $50 and John
Denim. ,er's to lesser extent.
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Assault and Isartery.

Charles Wilmer and Charles Stone, two
white boys, who a3 charged with assault
and battery on a colored boy named An
drew Kcels, had partial hearing before
Alderman McConomy this morning. It
will be concluded tomorrow.
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st. Louis Dispatch.
1t is $40 to 81 that you can't name the
nominee for vice president on the Green
back ticket without smoothing your nous
tache or scratching your nose for minute
or two.
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Events Across the County Lines.

Events Across the County Lines.
\ large dwelling house OF John LOrah,
near Amity, Berk county was built in 1897
and it still bears it's first shingle roof, which
will yet last number ofyears. The house
was built by Mr.. Loral,'s grandfather,
George Lorah.
Henry Buck, while working in the fields
near his house, in Amity, BcrkS county,
killed copperhead snake which had with
in and around her IS young ones, mcasur-
in. from three to fifteen inches in length
The snake measured nearly five feet.
Ben Fate, u young man formerly OF
Reading, was drowned in some manner
unknown while engaged in washing a
buggy in thccreek at Emporium the other
day. How the calamity occurred is not
known, but the horse came home driver
less and Fate's body was subsequently re-
covered and taken to Reading for inter-
ment.
The fourteen-year-old daughter Of VIM.
Gummery, of Pike township, Bcrks cOun-
ty, was so badly burned some time ago
while tryin. to light a fire with the aid
Of petroleum, that she finally died Of the
injuries received, and was buried on We'd
neSday
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New Telegraph Line.

The American Union telegraph company
is engaged in the erection Of a new line of
telegraph posts and wires on Christian
street between Chestnut and East King, to
connect their Office in the Pennsylvania
passenger depot with their new Office in
Hciss's building, Centre square. Their
poles will carry fourtclegraph wires on tho
upper arm, and the wires of the telephone
exchange ON the lower arm.