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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-03

Among our lecturers, writes Mr.. Cong
don in the Tribune, was Rev. John Pier
pont, who came down from Boston to ex-
pound to us the mysteries of phrenology
He died not long ago, a wonderfully we'll
preserved old man, considering all the
trials and troubles through which he
passed. His Airs of PALESTINE fine
poem of the kind, written in the sinewy
Pope metre and published in 1916, is be
fore me as | write. He was one of the
most pugnacious of mortals, and lectured
furiously in behalf of the enewpseudo science,
surrounded by skulls which he handled
much less gingerly than Hamlet did that
of YOrick. He invented stoves and razor
strops; he preached temperance at the
Boston wine and spirit merchants, who
constituted the wealthiest part of his con-
gregatiOn :; he would not be put down nor
go out until he got ready to go out, and so
he fought good fight to the end. Hun
dreds of American youth learned to read
in his " "American First Book" and found
taste insensibly cultivated by the excel
lence OF it's selections. Old men, who re-
membered it aifectionately, have asked
me where they could get copy of the cdi-
tion in which they were drilled in the far
off school days.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-03
STATE ITEMS.

In Allentown Mrs. Kern, aged sixty
years, was killed by a piece of flying stone
striking her on the head.
The anthracite coal product last yeal
was 1000, 600 tons in excess of any prcvi-
GUS year.
The tricnnial assessment in Allegheny
county has reduced the valuation about
$40, 100000.
DIR. Luther, agent of the state board OF
charities, approves of the tramp act and
says it is of great benefit.
Augustus Williams, who was injured
by the fall of the roof of the Edgar Thomp-
son steel works, in Pittsburgh, on Sun
day has since died.
The Altoona Gull has changed hands
and henceforth its editorial and business
department will be under the charge of
Edward B. Haines, late editor and pro-
prietor of the daily and weekly Banner, OF
Williamsport.
At meeting of the Western iron associ.
alton at Pittsburgh, yesterday afternoon,
it was decided to advance the card rates on
bar iron to 81 cents per pound on and
after Monday next. This will also increase
the wages of pudleIs..
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-03
johnny Diehm in Jail.

Johnny Diehm, who aforetime was an
almost constant customer OF the city police
but who for some few years past has al
most passed out of sight, has turned up
again in rather unenvable light. Hugh
Denning residing near Safe Harbor, made
complaint before Alderman Barr that on
the 25th of November last on the public
highway Johnny pointed an army musket at
him and pulled the trigger. The gun didn't t
SO off, and HenninS called to Johnny not
to shoot. Johnny's excuse was that he
did not know Iienning, and mistook him
for 4 robber. The two men then sepa-
rated, and IIenning alleges that after he
had got some distance away, johnny again
aimed the gun at him, pulled the trigger
and fired. Henning made complaint day
or two afterwards charging felonious as
sault and surety of the peace, but Johnny
managed to avoid arrest until last week,
when he was captured, and gave bail for a
hearing. This morning Alderman Barr
heard the case, and in default of bail john
ny was committed to answer at court.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-03
The Temperance Cause.

LANCASTER, Dec. 80, 1879.
To tie Citizens Of L0ncaster
Temperance hall, in krampfs building.
near corner of East Orange and North
Queen streets, will be opened at $3.50 on
Sunday afternoon Jan. 4, 1880. for meet
ings for the promotion of abstinence from
the drink, and regularly thereafter Oh
Saturday evening OF each week. In con-
nectiOn thewith, there will be small IL
brary of temperance books, tracts and
newspapers for free circulation. 1t is
hoped to have the presence and participa-
ton Of the ministers of our city in the
earnest effort to AROUSE influences, cOrrcc-
tive of the intemperance which is destroy
ing so many of our young men and women,
and blasting the peace of SD many homes
in our city.
All citizens have an interest in the sue
cess of such endeavors and all are earnest
ly invited to give their presence and ut
most aid to these meetings. Unsectarian
and nOn-partisan efforts for the same oh
ject have been wonderfully successful in
other places in educating the young in
warning and saving those unaware of their
danger and aiding in the reformation of
many who had succumbed to the power of
the drink habit, and were lost to them
selves, their families and society. Com
bining our efforts and relyin. upon God
for his guidance and blessing, the same
happy results may be expected in Lancas-
ter.
These meetings axe not designed to pro-
mote any sectarian, partisan or personal
ends, but are alone intended to subserve
the public good.
VIM. j. Mcconnell, from the western
part of Pennsylvania. well endorsed for
character and ability as a popular speaker,
has been invited and will commence series
Of meetings in Temperance hall and such
churches as may be opened for him on
Tuesday evening, January 9th, at 7:3O
O'Clock. Your presence and cooperation
is earnestly asked.
Very respectfully,
JAMES BLACK.
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which it entails is beyond the

which it entails is beyond the
salary of the Office. We suspect
that in this case, too, some gentlemen,
who might otherwise be'induced to take
it, stand back because they fear pur-
pose to get them out of somebody's pO-
litical way and because any one who goes
to London now feels uncertain us to
whether he will be allowed to stay there
after March 4, 1851. The longer the va
cancies continue the less likely they are
to he filled during Hayes's administra-
ton, and if we should get along as well
without ministers as with them, the ex-
perience would be valuable in demon
strating that our diplomatic service could
be much modified, if not entirely dis
pensed with.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-03
The Political Cauidrun.

1t boils furiously in view OF the organi-
zation of the poor house and prison boards
on Monday, and the great scramble for tn
petty places in their dispensation. The
Hog Ring, having captured the prison will
make a clean sweep of the understrappers
there even the devoted head of Doctor
Compton, who has been physicking the
prisoners for sixteen years out of the last
twenty, must fall into the basket; DR.. NJ
L. Herr is named as his probable successor.
For clerk there are nearly score of candi-
dates, and altogether the Hog Ring has so
many overdue obligations to meet that the
Bull Ringers are chucklinS over their di-
lemma and glcefully saying 1t is no
funeral of ours
In the poor house the changes will be
less radical, as ''hOnors have been easy"
there for the past year. 1t seems likely
that Cox and Brock will both be retained
Recorder Goods appointment of Keller
and Fasnacht, as clerks, to the exclusion
of Amaziah c. Barr, is {" little. mat
ter tina: may kindle "a great fire.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-03
The BRIBERY Trials Ouashed.

Yesterday, before Judge Pearson. evil
dence was heard on the part of the
commonwealth in the case of A. w. Lei
senring, of Mauch Chunk, charged with
corrupt solicitation. Some of the at
torneys from a distance Qor and against
the commonwealth were not pres
cnt. The commonwealth declined to sub
NIT evidence to show cause why the
motion to quash should not be sustained.
The counsel for defendants next submitted
the evidence disclosed in the former cases,
as evidence in the remainder of the cases
against the parties accused of corrupt
solicitation. To this the commonwealth
did not object, whereupon Judge Pearson
promptly quashed all the indictments.
New bills will be sent up to the grand
jury at the session of the court which is
to commence on the third Monday of the
present month.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-03
Tho Poultry Show.

Everything has now been nicely ar
ranged in the rooms i'm Locher's building
in which the poultry show is being held,
and the exhibition is floating on in the
full tide of success. Last night the rooms
were visited by large number of poultry
fancicrs and others, among the number be-
ing many ladies' The verdict of the Wis
itors is that the show is by far the best
ever given i'll Lancaster, and those who
visited the late state fair say the display of
really fine fowls OH that occasion is sur
passed by the display now on exhibition
in Locher's building.
This morning there were about 400 visi-
tors at the xhibition-including the hon
Orable judges of the courts, the mayor of
the city and many other distinguished
persons
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Contributions to the Soup Fund.

The following cash contributions have
been received by the mayor for the week
just ended, to be devoted to the soup house
fund Hon. II. G. Long, $40; realized on
donated trkey, sS.15 81. ST." Plum street
s.; cash 81.
The following contribution Of provisions
have also been received: Theo. Wenditz,
200 oysters; Amos Deverter, 200 oysters
CIV. .Eckert, $50 oysters Metzgar Bros, 4
pounds cracker dust;C. w. Eckert, 1
pound cracker dust VIM. Blickenderfer,
200 pounds candies; BENZ. Evans, 1s
pounds pudding; John Ochs, 2 bushels po-
tatoes; Geo. Want, bushel potatoes a;
butchers Of city ond county, beefheads,
100 pounds pudding and so pounds beef !;
Kepler & Slaymaker, one cleaver P. Leb-
zelter, load wood Isaac Diller, 1 meat
saw.
The 1000 oysters credited last week to
John Hartman, should have been Hart
man & Reese.
The number of ofrations issued at the soup
house this morning was Az.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-03
(,OIum lyi:l Irnn Works

The old Columbia rolling mill has been
sold, the purchaser, it is reported, being
the Chestnut Hill iron company. 1t is
expected to be put in operation at an early
day, and Columbia rejOices in the pros
pect.
II. NJ. North, esq, who purchased the
Kaufman furnace about a year ago, sold
it on Tuesday to Isaac McIIose, of Read
ing, on private terms. Mr.. McIIose will
make all necessary repairs and put the fur
naca in blast as quickly as possible. The
sale includes the ore leases, and all the
real estate connected with the furnace.
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Shot Dead by his Partner.

In Leavenworth, Kan, Thomas c.
Thurston killed w. w. Embry, yesterday
afternoon. Embry was the man who shot
Col. Anthony, of the Leavenworth Times,
about four years ago. He and Thurston
were partners in the publication of Sun
day paper, which is in business troubles.
They have been quarreling for week,
having had each other arrested on counter
charges of embezzlement. Thurston was
playing cards in a saloon yesterday after
noon, when Embry, having given bail on
his arrest, entered an approached the
table,. Thurston drew revolver and shot
him through the heart, so that he died in
side of three hours. Thurston was ar
rested. He says that he shot in sclf-de-
fense, because he believed Embry intended
to kill him.
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LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
A. sudden thaw causes approximations
that Vienna and Pesth will be flooded.
The treasury department announces .
purchase of $50, 600 ounces of silver for the
Philadelphia mint.
Immense quantities of war material
have been sent by way of Odessa for new
expedition to Merry.
Harris's cotton warehouse, on Buchan-
ans wharf, Baltimore, burned last night
with all its stock. Loss 500, 900 insuredi
The St. Petersburg Golos protests
against the recent attempt on the Gar S
life being made an excuse for reactionary
measures.
In County Line, N. j., Martin Nusent.
| telegraph operator, shot himself and was
found dead ON Wednesday evening. He
had been in depressed spirits.
In Freeport, L. l., Bergen Smith,
eighteen years old stabbed Melvin Smith
| four times. They had Guarreled several
times during the day.
A fire in the dry goods and carpet house
Of NJ. Ruff & Co., Quincy, Illinois, dam
| aged the stock $40, 900 tOS15, 900 and the
building $1,000. The firm carries over
$25, 900 insurance.
TIE first collision between the striking
stock yards men of Chicago belonging to
the union and the non union men occurred
yesterday morning, the assault being made
by the former, who dispersed the work
men by means of missiles, but without Sc
riOus consequences.
| A quarrel arose between John Schilling.
a respectable German, and a negro named
johnson. at dance in Allegheny, n. y,
on New Years eve, when the latter drew
a knife and stabbed the German short
distance above the heart. The wound
will i'll all probability prove fatal. The
negro was arrested, but broke away from
the officer and escaped.
\ party of seven or eight nell visited
the house Of Guy Frey, Gallipolis, Ohio,
evidently for the purpose of robbery, he
having received payment the preceding
day for some property which he sold.
Frey ordered them to leave. which they
refused to do. He then fired on them and
they departed, after which he went peace
ably to bed. Next morning Frey found in
his front yard the body of dead stranger
whom no one has been able to identify.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-03
The Hat-Makcr'S Strike.

The Reading hat-makcrs maintain their
striking attitude and having received let
ters of sympathy from their co-workcrs
in Adamstown sent committee to see
them and stir them up. The Adamstown
hatters adopted resolutions to stand by the
hatters of Reading in their present demands
and appointed a committee to attend the
meeting of the hattcrs' union to be held
this afternoon in Kerbs's hall. The hatters
of Adamstown represent five factories, and
their action, it is expected, will have an
important effect upon determining the
question for the satisfactory settlement of
which the Reading hatters are at present
standing out
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-03
Missions Going Begging.

1t is quite an anomalous condition of
things under which this government
finds itself unrepresented by a minister
at two of the courts of the five great
powers of Europe. Of all of them it
would seem most fitting that we should
have representative at st. Petersburg
whose government was most friendly to
us in the great national crisis, and at ST.
James because the relations between
England and America are the closest and
most important of all our international
comities.
1t may be that there is no use for min
listers at these courts at all-and, consid-
ering how well we have got along with
out them, this view seems to be rational
But if there is no use for them there,
there is no occasion for them anywhere
and the general uselessness which they
exhibit confirms this opinion also. We
have seen that these missions remain I'M
filled for months without Occasioning any
trouble to our own or the foreign gov
ernments. We have also seen
ministers away from their posts
for months, some of them COM
ing home OH leave of absence which
keeps their pay running on, others vary
ing the routine of official life with
junketings abroad, and no serious incon-
venience is afforded anybody by their
inattention to duty. Whence there is
a widespread popular conclusion that
our diplomatic service is very useless
affair.
The present vacancies, however, are
not caused by any such high patriotism
as would induce appOintees to decline
filling them because they could not serve
their country. The private reasons which
compelled Mr.. Welsh to resign, were
doubtless good and true; Mr.. Stoughton
regarded the Russian mission as sort of
political Punishment, and anticipating
the important services to be rendered by
a adiscoverer of clerical errors" in pend
ing presidential campaign, has come back
no doubt to be of such use as he can to
his party. OF the various persons named
for his successor, Van Zandt and Burn
side each declined when he found that
the other was trying to crowd him out of
the narrow field of Rhode Island politics,
and no other name has been mentioned
whose possessor would be willing to go
to Russia for the year left that Hayes
has power to fill the place. Nobody, we
are told, can be found to ill the English
mission because the style of living
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STILL KICKING.
But it will not Jump the Traces.

NcW EIG
The Republicans of Pennsylvania are
now asked to go back upon their record
and trample upon 1.-The unwritten law of
the republic, sanctioned by the example
of Washington and our patriotic fathers,
merely to crafty the ambition of Don Cam
eron, Matthew S. Quay, and the brigade of
office-holders under Grant, whose controll-
ing principle is expressed in the cry,
"Give us back our old commander''-a
cry which comes not up from the veterans
of the rank and file who love General
Grant as their great Captain, but mainly
from those who kept out of danger and
grew fat on the pickings of the quarter
masters department. We are much mis-
taken in the sentiment of the Republican
masses if they will sanction such bold
and shameless attempt to trample not only
OH the records of the party in this state,
but on one of the wisest and most sacred
traditions of the fathers who founded and
nursed it through infancy to vigorous
manhood.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-03
European Hares.

VIM. ROehm, of the Schiller house, is
the owner of a pair of European hares, i'm
ported from Germany. They are very
large, weighing from 12 to u pounds. On
Christmas eve the female gave birth to
eight little hares, being probably the first
native hares from imported stock ever seen
in Lancaster. The little fellows are about
had not yet got their eyes open-they. like
puppies, passing nine days probation Of
blindness.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-03
DIR. Orville Dewey.

In 50 The Record of Fifty Years. pub
lished in the Tribune, Charles r. Congdon
writes:
Our plain, unprctending wooden church
was my first college, it's pastor my first
professor of rhetoric, and the only one l
ever had who was good for anything. The
first clergyman to whom l really listened
was DR.. Orville Dewey, who, for ten
years. preached to us sermons which I
thought as fine as those of Mas
sillOn or Bossuet or Jeremy Taylor
to speak frankly, whatever critical .judg-
ment l have since acquired has not
much modified my opinion. l still place
some of DR.. Dewey's sermons in the front
rank of literature. Unfortunately, few
people read printed sermons with much
relish, and the general style of pullet elo-
quence has undergone marked change, not
much for the better but if great purity and
force of language, a rich rhetoric well kept
in hand, sinewy logical power, vigorous
and uncOmprOmising earnestness, with
gentle liberality-if all these together
make great sermons, DR.. Dewey's were
great. The best of them are in print, and
the reader who does not care to take my
word may judge for himself. The doctor
had a way, of which we did not complain,
of preaching his sermons over and
over again until they were per-
fectly familiar to us, and we knew
when the finest passages were at hand. So
when dapper little young man fresh from
the Cambridge divinity school ministered
unto us and treated us to the best parts of
one of them, which had been published,
astonishment and indignation filled all the
pews. Those who, in their righteous wrath
at the larceny, refused to attend church in
the afternoon, missed the opportunity of
hearing the youthful apostle repeat the
Offense. If there had been people enough
at our vespers for mob, think We should
have had one. Pulpit plagiarists are
always getting themselves into divers
trouble, but have never heard of fool
harder defiance of detection than this.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-03
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
POPULAR EDUCATION.

Lancaster County Teachers' Institute,
The publishers have favored us with a
copy of the printed proceedings Of the
twenty-eignth session of the Lancaster
county teachers institute 1t contains
fOrty-one pages of the proceedings as re-
ported by ]. D. Pyott, together with lists
containing the names, residences and
grade of certificate held n each teacher,
the length of the school tenn in each dis
trict, and the names of ali school directors
who attended the institute. To this is
added an appendix, containing list of
stars and star groups with explicit direc-
tions for locating them two interesting
lectures on the solar aud stellar systems.
and much other matter of interest to
teachers, scholars and the general public.
The proceedings are printed in size and
style uniform with the SchoolJourndl
The star list includes one hundred and tliir-
ty stars and some forty consultations, etc.
prepared by Mr.. McCaskey for the special
use of teachers and pupils who are now
giving attention to this grand science in all
parts OF the county. In his official notices
County Superintendent Shauh announces
that, under the head of general informa-
tion, teachers will be questioned more fully
than heretofore as to their knowledge Of
the solar system. the leading stars and the
more prominent star groups. This is prog
ress in the right direction. There is no
reason why ten Thousand people in Lam
caster county should not find pleasure in
recognizing, by name, all the brightest
stars as we'll as the more striking constel-
lations. Put this knowledge into the
schools and it will soon be abroad among
the people, and once there it will not be
lost in 4 hundred years. .
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Serenad0d.

Last evening, DR.. II. f. Muhlenburg,
who was recently married and who is
member of the Empire hook and ladder
company, was serenaded by the members
of the company, who had Clemmens' city
band with them. After the music the
boys were taken to Fulmer's saloon by the
Doctor where they were nicely entertained.
The company afterwards serenaded Dr..
J. o. Boyd, and then went to the
saloon of John A. Snyder where the band
played number a tunes and the tiremen
partook of refteahln1a1s.
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Floods in Europe.

The rivers Rhine and Main arc sw ollen in
consequence of ice blocking their currents.
The towns ofRusselheim, Kosthem, Floers-
heip, and Rudesheim are inundated.
There is great alarm in the neighboring
districts. A sudden thaw causes fears
that Vienna and Pesth will be flooded.
The flood in the Seine is becoming very
serious. Great blocks of floating ice have
made clean breach of 200 feet in the
temporary wooden bridge opposite the
Invalides. The river is still rising fast,
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Died in the West.

Isaac Davis, native of New Holland,
this county, died recently in eastern Ohio,
of which section he was pioneer settler.
He was rs years old and since 1884 had
been weaving and farming. He was Of tie
Tunker religious persuasion and left nine
children, his wife having gone before a
few years ago.
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"A Man Tran.

Complaint is made that there is dan
gerous man trap in front of a now building
being erected on East King street, near
Middle. 1t is reported that two or three
persons have fallen into trench, which
has been dug across the sidewalk and in
securely covered with loose lumber.
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Grade Of Pupils,

The following is the grade by classes of
the pupils in attendance at the boys Sec
ondary school, North Mulberry street. for
the month ending December 81, 1879. the
first column Of figures indicating progress
in the several branches of study. and the
second column the conduct of the pupils