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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-25
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

Lewis Brennan, aged 35, an inmate of
the soldiers home at Washington, COM
mitted suicide yesterday. He leaves wife
and children in Baltimore.
An English squadron has arrived at Sa-
lOnica to see what can be done for the re-
lease of Col. Synge, who, with his wife, is
held by brigands for a ransom.
The greater portion of the delegates to
themselves strongly against third term.
The sentiment for Senator Edmonds for
first choice is very strong.
The body of an unknown woman, with
the hands tied together, has been found in
the water near the Amboy coal wharves in
Perth Amboy, NJ. Except the tying of
the hands there was nothing about the
body to cause a supiciOn offoul play.
Aspecial dispatch from Bismarck, D. r.,
says The worst snow storm ever known
in the Northwest has ragged here for two
days. For two months a succession of storms
has interrupted travel on the Northern
Pacific railroad, causing very large loss
to the road and to the Black Hills stage
company. Only three trains from the
East have arrived since February 1. All
extensions, improvements and repairs are
suspended.
A colOred man named Brown and his
wife, having been arrested at Galesburg,
Illinois, on suspicion of having robbed the
Galesburg bank of several thousand dol
lars, part of which was found in their
house, some citizens took Browns son
to the outskirts of the town, and, by
threats of hanging, got from him a full
confession, throwing guilt also on y Bilr'
Stamps, of Knoxville, Slew EllwOrth
and 9 Ed" Adle, of Maguon, all of whom
have been arrested.
In Baltimore last night fire broke out
in the warehouse of Rauch & Bowen, on
commercial wharf, which was almost entire
ly burned out. The damage to the build
ing was s1,5OO. Robert Turner & Son had
stored in 200 tons of super phosphate valu-
ed at $40, 900, nearly the whole of which
was destroyed. There were also some
hOgsheads of tobacco which was slightly
damaged by water. Rauch & Bowen are
fully insured in the city offices and Turner
& Son are partially insured.
In Buffalo, N. Y, yesterday, while JUS
tice George Barker, of the supreme court,
was busy trying cases, Mrs. Ella A. Hig-
ginsOn, lady well-krown for her philan-
thropy, walked up to the bar and said {:
''Justice Barker; you have sentenced Carl
Manke to die by the hangman's moose for
the murder of John AtlOff. You only act
ed in accordance with the law of Moses :;
but as the law of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ is to save men, we shall make
an effort to have Manke's sentence COM
muted to imprisonment for life." The lady
withdrew and the petitions are now being
circulated and will be sent to Governor
Cornell.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-25
TURBULENT STUDENTS.
Disgraceful Scenes at q Female Minstrel
PerfOrmance-A City in an OprOar.

In Ithaca, n. Y, the Nine. Rentz
female minstrels gave an entertainment at
Wilgus hall and about two hundred STU
dents, who were in attendance, cOntrived
to break it up. During the first part of
the performance the. shouting, cat calls and
horn blasts grew so fierce that the mall
ager was compelled to ring down the cur
tain, but on the prOtestation of the STU
dents that they would thereafter remain
quiet the curtain was raised and the per-
Torrance resumed. When the last piece-a
"PinafOre' burlesque-waS attempted
the noise became Sc loud that the singers
could not be heard, the whole mass of
students joining and singing a Cornell
version of "Pinafore at the tops of their
voices. The town roughs who formed a
large portion of the audience, became
angry at the proceedings and commenced
an assault on the students. Chairs
and benches were broken, eyes were
blackened and heads pummelled, and to
add to the confusion the gas was
extinguished. A rush was then made for
the street, and the fighting continued.
The police arrested freshman named
Whitney, and after a severe struggle got
him to the lookup. Several attempts
were made by the students to rescue him,
but each time they were prevented by the
policemen and young men of the town.
After considerable wrangling trial was
held. The freshman was fined $780, and
on President Russell becoming surety for
the fine the offender was borne off in
triumph by the students. Until late
hour at night occasionally fights occurred
between tOwnsmen and gownsmen, a great
many sore heeds and bleeding noses result
ing therefrOm. Three or four students
were carried off insensible or bleeding, and
a great number of both parties were badly
hurt with clubs, although no one was fatal
ly injured. 1t is thought that the matter
will not end here, as both sides are thirst
ing for revenge, and it is fair to presume
that the warming will: continue for some
time.
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Organization for Safety.

At Sand Lot meeting in San Francisco
on Monday, a demagogue named Cannon,
said that they would finish their rounds
among the employers of the Chinese this
week, after which there would be less
noise made, but the meeting would be Sc
cret and dangerous to those who had re-
fused to comply with their demands
The board of supervisors, chief Of police
and a number of private citizens have held
a consultation, which is believed to have
reference to some threats made by Kear-
neg last week. Some business men favor
a committee of safety.
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The Next Stare Fair.

President w. S. Bissell and his COL
leagues John Mcdowell, Of Washington
county; J. l.. Morris, of Susquehanna
county; DR.. A. L. Kennedy, of Philadel-
phia; Elbridge McConkey and d. W.
Seller, of Harrisburg, of the Pennsylvania
state agricultural society, were hard at
work for eleven hours, yesterday, at the
Girard house, Philadelphia, getting into
shape the details for the state fair and in
ternational sheep show, to be held next
September at the international exhibition
building. The state society will have its
show from the 9th to the 18th of Septem-
Der, after which the sheep show will come
in and hold the ground for week longer.
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What Grant Has Not Learned.

" nat OT0nI mas NOT L00f00Os
New York Nation.
The argument which Grants friends
have used most effectively with those who
do not share their dislike of the "uncer-
tainties of government" and are not
attracted to General Grant by the prospect
of his doing his own counting after the
presidential election is, however, that the
scandals which discredited his administra-
ton during his two terms are not likely to
recur, should he he elected again. He has,
they say, learned SO much during his tour
abroad, both about politics and men, that
he would certainly not be again betrayed
into the indiscretiOns, the remembrance
of which constitutes with large
body of voters such formidable
objection to his candidacy. We have
always thought it very unlikely
ter and by no means wanting in self-con-
at. the ripe age of fifty-seven by two years
wrong motives and influences during his
presidency. His journey abroad was that
of sight-seer with extraordinary advan-
tages. He stayed few days or weeks in
each place, looking at the curiOsities and
dining with the most distinguished people
all of whom treated him rs hero, and
poured out flattery on him without
stint. That he bore himself under
all this with exceeding modesty
and good taste, every one admits.
But his tour was not period
of study and reflection, or deep OBJ
servatiOn of any kind. He was altogether
rather less than three months in Eng
land and Scotland, and the time was passed
in incessant feting. In the remainder OF
the two years he accomplished Journey
round the world, which took in Egypt,
India, China and Japan, SO that it was on
the face of things very unlikely that he
saw or heard anything OIL his way calcu-
lated even 10 raise doubts in his mind as
to whether his mode of administering the
United States government had been in any
degree Objectionable. He was enjoying
the leisure and freedom from care, and
the congratulations and compliments, to
which the part he had played in the wal
fairly entitled him; but he was not
studying institutions OF comparing
experiences with foreign statesmen
A full account of his trips
has been published in large
and handsome volume by a sort of histOr
iOgrapher who accompanied him through.
out, and we have looked through it in vair
for any account of an attempt on Genera
Grants part to go below the surface o.
things or lay aside the character of a much
feted guest in any country which he visited
There is no trace of his having given any
time or attention whatever 10 an examina
tion Of mechanism or principles of admin
istration anywhere. From first to last ht
amused himself, as he had good right tt
do, and almost resented any attempt OF
the part of his hosts to instruct him, or tt
show him anything on the ground that i
was Gin his line
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lancaster f1tellige,lrer.
WEDNESDAY EVENING. FEB. IS, 1890
Bayard's Availability.

The New York Sun has procured and
republished a speech said to have been
delivered by Senator Bayard, then
young man, on the village green of Dover
in his native state on June q, 1851, in
which he favored letting the Southern
states secede in peace and in which he
is reported to have said Why, then
NAV not two American confederacies ex-
ist side by side, without conflict, each
emulating the other in the progress of
civilization 20 and " believe solemn
ly. that the war inaugurated by Abra-
ham Lincoln and his cabinet is worse
than fruitless, that it will prove more
disastrous to the North than to the
South, and never will accomplish its
professed Objects" The Sun thinks that
the revival of such sentiments, expressed
at that period by Senator Bayard, would
make him an unpopular and unavailable
candidate and render his election i'm
possible. The Philadelphia Times,
which only recently manifested
a disposition to L" boom for Bayard.
repubishes the speech to-day and editor
ially comments on it as the 8 fatal weak
ness in Bayard's armor," concluding
with the .Suu that. however able and hon
est and worthy Mr.. Bayard is, no man
who expressed the anti-war views attrib-
uted to him can secure enough of the
doubtful Northern states to command
success as Democratic presidential
candidate.
These newspapers represent large
portion of the independent political SEN
timents of their respective states-the
most populous two in the electoral col
lege and each having its share of indie
pendent voters. Neither the Times
nor the Sun has expressed any very
positive preference for president the iSu"
has manifested slight inclination to-
ward Tilden and the Times is quite as
much indisposed to him. Their present
attitude must reasonably he taken there
fore as an index to the feelings of many
persons who, if not in active sympathy
with the Democratic party nor a part OF
its organization, yet hope to see it win by
adopting popular ideas and available can
ddates. Besides the sentiment that is
adverse to Mr.. Bayard on account of his
war record" it is known that Mr.. Til
den is actively hostile to him on account
of hissupport of the electoral commission.
All these present features of the cam
paign. inimical to Mr.. Bayard, only 60
to show the likelihood of each of the
more prominent candidates arraying
against himself influences potent enough
to accomplish his defeat. The nearer
the convention approaches the more Ger.
tain this appears; and though of 12l Dem.
ocrats, casually met on the street here in
Lancaster, each can readily tell our local
editor his choice for president, they may
find that none of them has named the
Democratic candidate, and that when
the convention names him he will he as
heartily supported by each of them as his
own first choice.
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Liberal Donation.

The stockholders of the PENNSYLVANIA
academy of fine arts have ratified the ac-
ton of the board of directors in accepting
Mr.. Jos. E. Temples endowment of $780,
600. The gift is conditional upon the di-
rectors giving one free day in each week to
the public for three years, and at the end of
that time two free days in each week.
The directors have decided to give one Or
two medals yearly, either to meritorious
students of the academy Or American ex-
hibitors.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-25

Mr.. CoNKLING~ having his state in
hand about as completely as Cameron
had his, the query in the latter case like
the former, becomes interesting: "What
will he do with it ?" Being much the
same order of men in their love of polit-
ical dictation. it is easily predicted that
.Conkling will do just as Cameron did.
Not having to ask any quarter he will
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-25
Died of Her Injuries.

Little Harriet Fastnacht, aged years,
daughter of Peter Fas.nacht, of Campbelfs S
alley, who was so terribly burned on
Monday afternoon by the upsetting of a
pot of boiling mush over her head, face
and neck, as reported in yesterdays In
rELL1GENcER, died yesterday evening
about seven o'clock.
Coroner Mishler visited the family of
the deceased child this morning, and being
satisfied of the manner in which the child
came to it's death, deemed it unnecessary
to hold an inquest.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-25
Horse Badly Hurt.

Yesterday afternoon one of Jacob Leip
pes grey match horses met with an acci-
dent that will probably lame it for life.
MIR. Leippe's team was standing close to
the curbstone Oh East King street, near
the prison. when wagon came
along loaded with furniture. A
piece of the furniture falling from the
wagon frightened the horse, and he ran tow
ards Mr.. Leippe's team, and the wheel of
the furniture wagon struck Mr.. Leippe's
horse on the right leg, bruising it badly
and splitting the pastern bone. The horse
was taken to its stable and the injured
limb was bandaged and splinted by Drs.
Croft and Cattell. The horse is a valuable
one, worth from $50 to 5000.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-25

Many adjectives and long-winded SEN
tences the character of a NANCY
cur eager for something to eat. the case
with the half starved Democrats of the
day namby-pamby stuff =
Black and his hounds know it. 4
The copperhead contributor of the Reciew,
and the Democratic newspapers of the
North. 1t is their dirty work to
traduce the soldier. *The old
man was beside himself,
tantrums of excitabiity.
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Death of u Prominent New Jersey Man

Judge David Naar, for many year editor
and proprietor of the Trenton True Ameri-
can, died in Trenton, n. j., yesterday, aged
80 years, He was born in st. Thomas,
West Indies, his ancestors being Portuguese
Hebrews, and came to this country with
his father when boy. He was educated
in New York, but emigrated to New Jersey
after the great fire of 1885. He was sue
cessively Mayor of Elizabeth and Judge of
a special cOnrt of Essex county; was y
member of the Constitutional Convention
of 1874, L. S. Consul ut st. Thomas from
1915 to 1S4S, Clerk of Assembly in 1872,
and State Treasurer in 1865. He removed
to Trenton in 1853, and became proprietor
of the True american, which he controlled
until 1866. He was one of the oldest Free
Masuns in the United States.
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fields. She did not return during the
night, but nothing was thought of this by
the family, as it was supposed she had
concluded to remain with her sick parent.
Next morning she was found frozen dead
in an intervening field.
A shocking murder was committed on
Tunnell street, in Pittsburgh. The mur-
dercd man. whose name was William Penn,
was observed walking up Tunnel street in
company with John Kinlan,a variety actor,
and passers-by heard angry words between
them. Just as the parties reached a pri-
vate alley Kinlan pulled long knife from
his pocket and thrust it into the left side of
Penn, and then showed him into the alley.
Penn died in few minutes, being unable
to give the name of his assassin. After
the stabbing Kinlan walked quietly away,
and has not been arrested, although the
the detectives are on his track. Penn was
twenty-five years of age, and was unmar-
ried.
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Sale of Horses.

Samuel Hess & Son, auctioneers, sold at
public sale on Monday last at the Merri-
mac house, for Daniel Logan, 16 head of
horses at an average of s151 per head.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-25

GEN. BUTLER makes point against
the admission of the present strength of
Massachusetts, in the electoral college,
which, if made against any Southern
state, we are very sure would be regard
ed as quite formidable by our political
opponents. According to Butler the
reading and writing statutory qualifica-
tion of voters i'm that state excludes
10000 men from the polls who are
Otherwise qualified voters; and therefore
under the late amendments to the fed
eral constitution its representation in
Congress and in the electoral college
must be cut down about three votes.
If South Carolina or Georgia or Alabama
had such statute, tens of thousands of
negro voters would be disfranchised and
there would be an eager clamor for an
according reduction of their representa-
ton. The power of Massachusetts in
electing president must be graduated to
her voting population, and she has no
right to count anybody in getting con-
gresham whom she does not count on
election day; but it will surprise great
many people to hear General Buffers
statement that Massachusetts, has 130, 900
MAJ, adults who cannot read and write.
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give none. Had he even Tess desire than
he has to cast New York's vote for
Grant he would seek to demonstrate his
ability to do it. He has given out
that it was to be thus cast. and
he has two-thirds of the conven-
ton under his control. Consequently
it is almost certain that New York will
declare for Grant, appoint a delegation
to cast its vote for him, put the collar on
it and let Mr.. Conkling carry the key to
Chicago.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-25

The Democratic National Convention.
The executive committee of the National
Democratic committee met yesterday at
the Arlington hotel with full attendance,
Hon. VIM. H. Barnum in the chair, and
issued the following call:
The National Democratic committee
having met in the city of Washington on
the 23d of February, 1880, and has ap-
pointed Tuesday, the 22d day of June next,
as the time, and chosen the city
of Cincinnati as the place of
holding the National Democratic con
vention. Each state is entitled to a rep
resentatiOn therein equal to double
number of its senators and representatives
in the Congress Of the United States. All
Democratic, Conservative, and other cltl-
zens of the United States irrespective of
past political associations or differences,
who can unite with us in All effort for a
pure, economical and constitutional gov
ernment, are cordially invited to join us in
sending delegates to the convention. At
the last national Democratic convention i'll
st. Louis in 1876, the following resolution
was adopted
"Resolced, That the states be requested to
instruct their delegates to the national
Democratic convention to be held in 1880,
whether it be desirable to continue the two
thirds rule longer in force in the national
convention, and that the national commit
tee insert such request in the call for the
next convention"
WM. H. BARSUM Comm,
Chairman.
FREDERICK O. PRINCE (Mass.),
Secretary.
The committee then voted to adjourn tO
meet at the Grand hotel, Cincinnati, on
Thursday, the 18th of June next.
The committte of nine appointed by the
national committee held meeting at the
Arlington hotel and organized by
the section of John G. Thompson, of Ohio,
| as chairman, and Frederick o. Prince, of
Boston, as secretary. All the members
were present. The following resolution
was adopted
Resolced, That Col. l.. A. Harris, Gen.
| II. b. Banning, Benz. Robinson, Col. c.
w. Woolley, John F. Follett, Alexander
Long and ii. E. Roach be and are hereby
constituted the resident committee, of the
city of Cincinnati, under the national exec.
utive committee, and are authorized tc
make all the needful local provisions and
such necessary arrangements as shall be
required for the convenience Ofthe cOnven'
ton to be held in that city on the 22d O
June, 1880.
The committee then adjourned to meet
at the Grand hotel: Cincinnati, Thursday
June II.
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The Democratic State Convention.

The Harrisburg Patriot is much dis
turbed because Chairman Miller does not
call the state committee together to fix
the time for holding the state convention.
II would have been premature to do so
until the time of meeting of the national
convention had been fixed. Now the
committee may properly he assembled,
although it is not a matter of great i'm
portance that it should meet at once.
since it is of no great consequence when
the state convention he called, SO that it
meets before June %, and late enough to
give every county plenty of time to select
its delegates. Politicians always get into
a great fret over the time and place of
convention meetings, and discuss the
pros and cons rs though the question was
of vital Importance; which it certainly
is not. On general principles it may
he said that late conventions are
best, since they take the sense of the
people at the latest moment and save
the worry of a protracted campaign and
concentrate the energy of the political
movement. To move deliberately in the
selection of candidates and the promul-
CATION of principles and to await the en-
emy's disclosure of its hand is generally
wise. But the matter has not that great
Importance customarily attached to it.
1t is considereda a mOmentOus question in
Pennsylvania probably, by state commit
teemen, because it is about all they are
ever called upon to consider. In long
observation of these committees we find
their duties to he generally confined to
meeting once, organizing and directing
the chairman to run the machine as he
thinks best, and meeting a second time to
select the time and place for the next
convention.
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PRESIDENT MCCOsH says that Princeton
means to put an end to the gross personal
attacks which have occasionally found a
place in some of the speeches on class day,
and this without stopping class day, or
it's wit and fun.