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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-08
ElOgging Criminals,

1" MIR. Henry Bergh is against cruel
ty to animals and in favor of cruel
ty to men. Such are the apparent incon-
sistencies of genius says the New York
Sua, because Mr.. Bergh has publicly al .
vocated punishment by flogging for i
certain grade of crimes and has added
that if fit executioners of the law cannot
he found among men, steam might he
employed TO do the logging. The S"a's
objections to Mr.. Bergh's devices are
not gooI, nor are his suggestions weak
ened by the fact. that Mr.. Bergh has
earned a reputation for soft-heartedness,
and sometimes soft-headedness, in his
zeal TO protect animals from cruelty.
We understand Mr.. Bergh to be entirely
consistent in his advocacy of severe phys
ical punishment for criminal offenders,
lie proposes it out of kindness for his
fellow men who are SO often the victims
of cruelty at the hands of those whom
he proposes to punish. The burglar, the
ravisher, the ru!lian, the thief and the
incendiary are cruel, and it is only ade
quate protection to others from their
cruelty that such punishment should be
held in store for them by the law as will
deter them from their crimes. Jails do
not alright them. They are made COM
Portable in them and if they become
uncomfortable they break out of them.
What "cruelty'' would it be to whip
;lem-by steam il You please compared
with the cruelty of exposing men, women
and children to the terror of crime
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-08

On Friday, the Sd inst, John L. Lylcs.
of Newbery county, N. c., at 4 sale near
Maybinton, shot John Thomas, his brother
in-law, J. J. Thomas, his father-in-law,
and Jas. Thomas. The latter had pistol
which would not shoot. He threw it at
Lyles and attempted to hide behin,l a tree.
Lyles pursued, shooting. Thomas seized
stick and with it killed Lyles in self-tle-
fence. Lylcs had married two daughters
of Thomas, and both dying he had a third
wife. All the parties implicated have hith-
crto borne good character. They fell out
about the sale of property belonging to
Lyles' dead wives. j. J. Thomas is Sc
verely wounded, the others slightly.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-08
The Reading Pauacea.

Mr.. GOwen is 4 man Of wonderfully
temperament, and if all his
resembled him in this re-
spect there would be no trouble ut all in
putting the Reading railroad company
on its feet. Nor do we think that there
is any danger that in the course Of time
the owners would be disappointed in the
lucrativeness of their investment. 1t is
an immensely valuable property anu in
trinsically worth Il great deal more than
has been paid for it. The coal lands,
though they would not now fetch in
the market the price that was paid for
them, are yet worth much more than
that amount to the holders. The market
price is not the criterion 10 judge of
their value to the Reading railroad com:
pany, nor did Mr.. Harris get the right
criterion when he undertook to put
their present value at even below what
would probably he the present market
price. We quite agree with Mr.. Gowen
that the coal property has been
valued by him at very much too low
Il rate. We do not think that
there is room for reasonable suspicion
that the stockholders will eventually lose
their money il they can hold on to their
property. But just there is the rub.
The plain policy for them is TO settle
with those creditors who do not consider
themselves secured beyond doubt, at
the best price they will accept for their
claims and then to put their hands into
their pockets and pay this sum. But
this will not be done by the stockholders
consent. Some have not sufficient faith
in their property and some have not
the money needed. Mr.. Governs aim is
to save them from the necessity Of paying
more or losing what they have already
paid. He proposes to find outside the
circle of the owners of the property the
money to pay it's floating debt. He can
find it if he can offer fer it sufficient
inducement. Most persons doubt his
ability to do so. His idea seems to be that
he can offer a loan that has sufficient
advantages to creditors over the present
form of Indebtedness to induce them to
make an exchange; or that will be
sufficiently seductive to capitalists
to induce them to provide the
money to take up the existing indebt'
edneSS. lie is I. man of great fertility Of
resources, but if he can do this thing he
will be some thing more. 1t will almost
he Il necr0mancer's feat. Yet he says
he has the men and the money We
hope he has.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-08
a Long Lived Family.

Leah Hull, widow Of the late Augustus
Hull, died in Lititz, yesterday. ut the age
of u years. Mrs. Hull was member Of
a remarkable family. She leaves four sis
ters living, all Of whom are widows. Their
names, ages and residences are as follows !:
Mrs. Steinmetz, of Schaefferstown; Leban-
on county, aged 9l years &; Mrs. Stuck. of
Oregon, aged SS years Mrs. Rogers, Of
Reamstown, aged IS years; and Mrs. Ell
maker, of Sterling, Illinois, aged - years.
Her youngest brother, John Withers, did
not die until he was II years Of age.
George, another brother, died at the age
of 20, and Curtis, who is now living, is
q. Curtis is widower and SO were his
brothers when they died.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-08
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEItiHBORHOOD NEWS.
Events Across the County Lin

Events Across the County Line.
Tho Lebanon county teachers institute
meets in January.
A Womelsdorf minister tied the knot
eight times last Saturday. Five eights
are forty.
MIR. Il. L. P. Reifsnyder, formerly OF the
Norristown Register, but Of late editor of
the POttsrown Chronicle, has severed his
connection with that paper and goes to
Colorado.
The wedding of Miss Mary Geary, daugh-
ter of the late Governor Geary, to q
wealthy oil operator is announced for to-
day in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Salina NJ. Withcrs has been found
dead in bed in Reading.
A petition to the Harrisburg councils
asks for Belgian block on part of Market
street at two thirds Of the cost to the prop
erty owners, end one third to the city.
Another petition is for cobble stones.
Judge Pearson gives notice to liquor
dealers in Harrisburg and Dauphin county
that the number will be reduced at the
coming license court. cit is perfectly
manifest that the number now existing is
too great, and ought to be diminished for
the welfare of society, the benefit of pub
lie morals and diminution Of criminal Of
fences.''
On Sunday morning there We're thirteen
hundred cars in the Harrisburg yards Of
the Pennsylvania railroad. The third
track and all the sidings to Rockville were
filled with cars.
Thomas Brokes, blind cOlored soldier
beggar at the state capital grounds, gets
$1,000 back pay and q pension of s72 per
month-owing to a Democratic Congress
liberality.
A young son of Isaac Montgomery, OF
Eden township, this county, accompanied
by little girl, attempted to cross the rail-
road at Christiana. They were driving a
one-horse team, and had calf in the wagon.
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LOST IN A SWAMP.
Terrible Experience of an Aged woman In
Potter COGnty-Kescuec After y Weeks
Search.


Potter COGnty-Kescuec After u Weeks
Search.
Mrs. Lucy A. Still, lady nearly 60
years of age, residing near Sharon's mills,
was travelling through ono Of the great
nameless swamps Of Potter county on her
way to visit her son, who lived about SIX
miles distant from her home. There had
been slight fall of snow day or two be-
fore, and the road was partly hidden
from sight, but the old lady had made up
her mind to go, and so she started
out on foot to walk the six miles, p task
she had frequently accomplished. Before
she had reached the centre of this great
nameless swamp the snow again COM
menced falling and in short time the
road was hidden from sight. Still the old
lady plOdded bravely on, but when dark
ness overlook her she must have strayed
from the road, and finally found her
self struggling in the mire. She became
frightened and confused, and the more
she struggled the deeper she sank,
until she found it would be impossible
to extricate herself. She screamed
for hclp, but in vain. She at last, after
almost superhuman efforts. succeeded in
reaching tree which she climbed. The
dense foliage of the tree afforded her con-
siderable warmth. and she determined to
remain there until morning. The follow
ing morning dawned comparatively warm,
and the bog by which she was surrounded,
instead of getting harder, became more
and moro soft and perfectly impossible.
Before starting from home Mrs. Still had
put some bread and crackers in her
pocket to eat along the road, and,
fortunately had in her pocket a large
flask of brandy, which she was taking to
her son. Upon these provisions, and a
quantity of snow which she ate, Mrs. Still
managed to subsist for seven days, never
daring to descend from her perch in the
tree. She screamed almost continuously.
and OIL the following Monday, just week
after she had started to walk to her sons
house, her cries for help were heard by a
party of hunters, VINO Immediately made
preparations for her rescue. Mrs. Still
was so exhausted and weak that she could
hardly move when found, and a serious
illness has resulted which may yet prove
fatal.
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Not hearing the noise of the locomotive,
they started to cross, but just as they
reached the track a moving express train,
eastward bound, which was two hours late,
came laundering along At the rate of forty
miles an hour and struck tho horse head,
cutting the blinds from the briddle, knock
ing the horse down and bruising its head,
but strange to say did not kill him nor in
lure the children
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-08
OBITUARY.. ,
Death of an Old Soldier.

John Gilch, q soldier Of the late war,
died at his residence, No. 52S West Orange
street, yesterday afternoon, in the 5Oth
year o: his age, after a long and painful
illness from gravel and dropsy. Mr.. Gi'ch
was a German by birth, having been born
Uhinsen. Wittenburg, in 1881. At the age
of 1S years he came to this country and
soon afterwards shipped on whaling YES
sci and cruised in Northern seas for three
and half years. Rcturnin. to New York
he married Miss Catherine Sto!l, and went
into the baking business, which he carried
on in Brooklyn until the breaking
out Of the rebellion, when he
enlisted, in 1861, as private in Captain
Mehring's Company F, Col. Franke's SD
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-08
CRACKING THE GLASS.
How jewelers. Window was Plundereti
OF Diamonds


OF Diamonds
All. A. Lchman's jewelry store, No.
100 South 18th street, Philadelphia, about
six o'clock last evening Lehman was sit
ting 1t his work table, with his back tow
ard the door, when he was startled by
crash of breaking glass. Turning quickly
MIR. Lehman saw the heavy plate glass Of
his show window shattered into hundred
pieces, aud caught a glimpse of a man
running away with his hands filled with
jewels. The .jewcler leaped over the
counter and rushed 20 the door, to find
it firmly secured on the outside by piece
ofrope, fixed upon the knob and bound to
the railing ut the side OF the steps. By
dint of hard work he lOosehed the fasten-
ing. but too late to follow tn thief. On
the sidewalk lay confused mass of glass,
in which sparkled several diamond and
ruby rings, dropped by the plunderer in
his haste. The miscreant had plunged his
hands into the trays that filled the win
dow, and seizi,g Us many of the jewels as
both could hold, started on his flight.
Costly rings scattered along the pavement
marked the course of the thief until San
som street was reached, where rich clus-
ter diamond pin lay glittering in the gas
light, but giving no sign of the direction
taken by the racal from that point.
No one could be found who observed the
movements of the man, as a time had
been chosen for the robbery when the
street was clear Of pedestrians. The thief
had waited until the policeman Oh the beat
had passed ont of sight, and, taking ad-
vantage of the opportune moment, shivcr-
ed the glass. Lying under the window
was found q mallct, which had been used
to break the glass, and beneath it were
discovered six or eight rings.
Among the articles taken were two soli-
tairc diamond rings worth 500, three dia
mond rings with engraved settings valued
at $40, two engraved solitaires worth $50,
one turquoise and diamond horseshoe
worth $40, one ruby and diamond ring
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-08
STATE ITEMS,


The Altoona Presbyterians are getting
81, 800 organ.
Sunbury still pays seven per cent. inter-
est on school board loans.
Benz. F. Stem, A. NJ, Ph. D., leading
citizen of Easton, has died there, aged IS.
In Pittsburgh row Fred Schmid cut
Jimmy Quinn so deeply that it may be
murder.
The Allegheny county. ministers want
the new state penitentiary at Huntingdon
made refOrmatory institution.
In the dispute between Bishop Tuigg,
of Western Pennsylvania and a Father
Hickey out there the "Judices Causarum
decide in favor of the priest.
Mary Alice Oldenwelder, infant daugh-
ter of Owen Oldenwelder, Of Northampton
county, was LETT alone by her mother, and
her clothes taking fire she was burned to
death.
At the Roaring Springs paper mill of
Morrison, Bare & Cass, in Blair county.
312. 900 of damages was done and David
Mckee was fatally injured by the terrific
explosion of boiler.
Pittsburgh will hold grand prohibition
meeting at which ex-presidential candi-
dates Neal Dow and James Black will be
oratorical attractions. They both carried
Allegheny county, you know.
Samuel Gunnegan, brakeman EN-.
ployed on the Stony Creek railroad, fell
from the train near Chalfont station, and
was instantly killed. His remains were
taken to Doylestown, where his family
live.
Patrick Corcoran, aged six, was crushed
to death by a safe wagon in Pittsburgh
John Cannon, drunk aud disorderly, wa;
put off street car and another Ole com
ing along crushed him to death.
General Harrison Allen, OF Warren
county, formerly auditor-general of tho
state, says Don Cameron is for him, an(
he thinks lie has pretty sure thing or
the appointment to the United State:
marshalship of the Western district o
Pennsylvania.
VIM. Dunstan, employed in the Cole
brook mines for the last 12 years as :
miner, was dangerously if not fatally by :
fall of 500 pounds of rock in his min'
chamber. His fellow-workmen were 81
minutes removing the rock and top Goa
which had fallen upon him. 1t was will
great difficulty that the man was extricatet
from under the pile of rock and coal.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-08
LANCASTER, Dec, 8, 1880

LANCASTER, Dec, 3, 1880.
DEAR SIR : | have received your letter
Of the 7st inst. requesting ME to pay to
you the sum of seventeen hundred and scv-
enteen dollars and eighty-one cents (s1,
717.8D alleged by special committee of
councils to be due by me as treasurer to
the city of Lancaster for city taxes for the
years 1877, 1878 and 1870 and for water
rents for the years 1878 and 1870.
have fully settled with the city for the
years named and have paid over to 1t cv-
cry dollar which came into my hands.
therefore owe it nothing and decline to ac-
cede to your request.
/ am yours respectfully,
EDWARD WELCHANs,
City Treasurer.
To CuAs. l. Lands. Esq,
City Solicitor.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-08
PERSONAL.

DR.. LANDS is playing Hamlet in New
York.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT has given s25,-
600 toward the proposed fund Of s2j0, 900
to be invested for the benefit of General
Grant.
The news comes Of the death, in his
twenty ninth year, Of NJ. EDMoSD GRAs-
SET, a young French sculptor, who was
said to have a brilliant future, and was a
pensioner of the Academic de France, at
Rome.
Us. Supreme Judge STRONG, though
in good health, proposes to retire, it is
said as an example to the older Justice
Clifford, who is paralyzed, but who
vowed not to resign until a Democratic
president could pick out his successor.
Philadelphia Erening Telegraph, Rep. ::
"Mr. HAYES is good, well-meaning man,
who desires to do we'll, tut who does not
exactly know how to do it, and whose dis
position is strongly tictured with senti-
mentalism that at times approaches the
verge Of positive ferocity.'
In Princeton, n. j., yesterday Mr.. WILL
LIAM LIBBEY, jr., son of Mr.. William Lib
hey, Of the firm of A. T. Stewart & Co.,
Of New York city, and Miss MARY ELIZA
beth GREEN, eldest daughter Of the Rev.
VIM. Henry Green, d. d., professor of
Hebrew in the theological seminary, were
married at the residence of the brides
father.
Old JOE WINROw, the trainer Of Hyer
and of Morrissey, in dying in San Fran
cisco, leaves his family in rather poor Cir
cumstances. Once when Broderick was
delivering a speech in front Of the Plaza
in San Francisco, 4 bully knocked him
from the stand and he fell into Winrow'.
arms. Joe stood Broderick up on the
stand again and told him to go Oh with
his speech. Tho crowd went for Broder
ick, but tho first man was knocked so fal
by Joe that the rest left.
JOHN 3. COUGH has been public
speaker for thirty-cight years and has
never met an audience that he did not fec
like running away from. The older III
grows the more timid he becomes. HI
| was SO frightened in Spurgeon's church
: that he was obliged to calm himself in tho
vestry. He has frequently been compelled
to walk up and down street in front of :
, lecture hall IN order to cool off. He say:
that tho trouble with platform orator is
that his best stories do not take with tn
, audience.
r NAvIER AUBRYET, the French author
t is dead, after seven years of atrocious sui
r ferings from the horrible malady that tor
} turcd and killed Henri Heine, namely dc
; cay OF the spinal marrow. The agonie
, that the poor author endured were by hin
described in vivid terms. In his preface t.
Our Neighbors' Homes and Our Oion, Ii
) speaks Of himself as having his who'll
!, skeleton "as sensitive as decaye
y tooth.' In one of his notes addressed t
e NJ. de Eillemessant Qfor he was for year
e attached to the staff Of the Figaro he dc
n clares that "his body contains Marinon
t engine that issues $1,000 pangs day.
S To add to his misery, his eyesight gra,iu
t ally forsook him, and when he died Il
t was barely able to distinguish light fro,
t darkness. This blindness brought upo
0 him an added stroke, perhaps the sharpes
e of them ali.
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Demanded and Refused.

LANCASTER, Pa, Dec. 7, 1880.
DEAR SIR am instructed by the
finance committee Of the councils Of the
city Ct Lancaster to demand from you the
sum of seventeen hundred and seventeen
dollars and eighty-oEe cents (S1,717.SD,
that being the amount found by the spec
ial committee OF couhcils to be yet due by
you to the said city for city taxes for the
years 1877, 1873 and 1879, and for water
rents for the years 1878 and 1870. You
will please pay to me Immediately the
above named sum, otherwise am instruc-
ted to proceed to the collection Of the
same.
I am yours respectfully,
CHAs. I. LANDS,
City Solicitor.
To +. WELCuANs. esq,
City Treasurer.
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valued at $50, six turquoise rings worth
$64, one emerald worth $15, one solitaire
with English setting worth ESQ, one ruby
horseshoe worth 81, making total value
of 1926,
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their state making cclorc,l men eligible to
the Legislature.
The way in which Foster is said to have
made sure Of fixing things for the senator
ial succession in Ohio was by putting his
money into the close legislative districts
and thus securing the men whom it elect
ed. To make assurance doubIy sure he
had Sherman asked and refuse to do like
wise.
THE late earthquake in Austria has set
Paris to wondering what would become of
it were an earthquake to set in. The in-
terminable underground galleries of the
Catacombs, supported by columns Of ma
sorry merely, would be shaken into one
vast subtcrraneoas ruin by 4 single smart
shock, and then what would become of
the houses, and the churches, and the
palaces that have been built above them?
SINCE 1921, it is calculated that at least
3, 900, 900 Germans have emisrated, and of
these 5000, 900 have gone to the United
States. Between 1921 and 1889, both years
inclusive. the total number OF emigrants
was only 5000 between 1881 and 1910 the
number reached 177,O0O; between 1s41
and 1850, 4S5, 900; between 1851 and 1850,
1,13O, 900; and between 1861 and 1870,
$4,000. From 1870 to 1872 inclusive
again of both years, 27O, 900 emigrants left
Germany, but in the seven years which
followed, from 1878 to 1879, she whole
number only amounted to $50, 600,
THERE are over one hundred destitute
immigrants in Castle Garden who would
probably starve il the commissioners of
emigration did not feed them. There are
about twenty families, including infants
in arms and old me, and women. They
are mostly Germans or Poles and few
are Russians. Some have just arrived, but
many have been in the garden for more
than month. They sleep on the floor
and benches of the rotunda, and rs very
few have bedding they suffer from cold
and exposure, from the effects Of which
sickness has already appeared among the
children. Twice day bread and coffee
and milk are distributed among them by
the commissioners.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-08

THE Pittsburgh Post calls it hasl, from
Hayes" and then is cool enough to nomi-
nate Mr.. Waring from that town for
secretary OF the treasury.
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TIE people of Iowa adopted at the late
election, by majority of IS. aa9l. pro-
cosed amendment: to the constitution Of
their state making colorcd men eligible to
the Legislature.
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MINOR TOPICS.

THE Blaine people expect to bc tie po-
tent force in Garticld's administration. 1t
looks like it.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-08

APPLICATION will he made to the
Canadian Parliament for Il charter to build
an elevated railroad in Toronto.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-08

The whist party recently formed here
met last evening at the residence OF A. j..
Kaufman, ESQ.,, on South Second street.
The membership is about eighteen. The
following officers were elected:
President-A. J. Kauffmap, esq.
Secrctary-Lucius K. FOndersmith.
Treasurer-Mrs. F. \. Bennett.
Adjourned to meet ut the residence OF
DR.. J. X. Lineaweaver one week hence.
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