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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-24
A Joke IN Court.

In the argument on the Neal petition,
before the New Castle, DEL, court, on
Friday morning, Anthony Higgins, after
expatiating at length on the injustice OF
excluding colored men from the jury-bOx,
touched ON ethnOlogy little.
'There are five races of men, " said he,
"the Caucasian race, the Mongolian race,
the Malayan race, the Indian race and the
African race"
"And the Hanlan- Courtney race" in
terpolated Ignatius Grubb, loud enough
for the bar to hear.
"All of which sprang from Adam, "
commented Chief Justice Comegys, uncon-
scious of Grubb's joke.
"Who is said to have been red mar, :"
said Judge Wales.
"And hence" pursued the chief justice
" a colored mana highly-colored man, so
to speak"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-24
THE PEACE COMMISSION.
They Have a Conference With the Fnct
Leaders and Make An Arrangement.

They Have a Conference With the Faction
Leaders and Make An Arrangement.
The peace commission appointed by the
Democratic state convention were in Ses-
sion Saturday at the Girard house. The
body consists of ex- congressman William
Mutchler, Easton ex-senator A. II. Dill,
Lewisburg ; ex-Congressman w. S. Steng-
er, Chambersburg ex-COngressman K.
NJ. Speer, Huntingdon; r. NJ. Gibson,
Pittsburgh, and ex-COngressman G. A.
jerks, Brookville, candidate for supreme
judge. All were present except Mr.. Speer.
The commission heard the official opinions
Of the rival committees of the local De-
mocracy, as expressed by their representa-
tives.
Chairman Vaux, of the new committee,
and John r. Read conveyed to the com
mission the views entertained by their
side, while Chairman Flood and Treasurer
Berrill are the mouth pieces of the city
committee.
Both sides were warm in expressing a
desire to reunite in the interests of har-
mony and peace and each seemed anxious
to vic with the other in prOtestations OF
fidelity to the advancement Of the party.
The commission took a recess after a
heightened deliberation with the chieftains
named and the result of their session is
made known in the following official an
nOuncement:
"The committee having met and having
had a full, free and friendly conference
with gentlemen representing each organi-
zation of the city and county of Philadel-
phia, were gratified to find unanimous
determination to bury all past differences.
Inasmuch as the labor Of the committee
will involve many details which cannot be
Immediately furnished.
''ResOlred, That the respective Organiza-
tions of the Democracy of the city and
county of Philadelphia be invited to ap-
point a committee of five from each
organization, to meet this committee on
the Sth day of July next, at II O'Clock
a. m, and confer with it as to the best
plan of adjusting the differences between
said organizations. and that this commit
tee take a recess until that day."
Chairman Dill was found at the Girard
house in company with Colonel Dechert,
candidate for auditor general, and other
friends. He expressed himself rs much
gratified with the feeling which seemed to
pervade the Democrats of the city with
whom he had been brought in contact.
He was of the opinion that the meeting of
the commission, to be held next July,
would be but little hampered by any fac
tious opposition to the decisions then to be
made. He declared that the Democracy
in the interior of the state were tired of the
dissensions heretofore existing in the city,
which had often reversed the majorities
sent there. The country Democrats, he
said, were almost unanimous in wishing
this commission to sit down on any party
who should refuse to abide by the just set
tlement the commission desired to make.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-24
PERSONAL.

CHARLES AUGUST KERBs, the German
composer, is dead.
The Chinese embassy to Mexico hav'
arrived at Mazatlan, and are so numerous
that there is no hotel in that city that cal
contain them.
THEODORE THOMAS has left Cincinnati
for New York, and will sail on May Goth
in the Gallia, for Europe.
1t is reported that Archbishop GIBEoN
of Baltimore, who is now in Rome, will
be made cardinal before his return.
SToNEwALL JACKsoN's widow and he
daughter, Miss Julia Jackson, will unvei
the Winchester (Va.) monument to Stone
wall on June 8.
Mr.. GEO. II. SHOWERS, of the INTELLI
GENCER, and Mr.. JOHN SMALING, son Of
J. X. Smaling, of this city, left this after
noon on the fast line for Lincoln, Nebras
ka. They will be absent about one month
d. l.. MOODY, the evangelist, has left
St. Louis for Westfield, Mass, where he
will pass the summer. The owner of the
house in which he had lived while in ST.
Louis refused to accept any rental,
HENRY s. FooTE's death was the result
ofa singular accident. During a recent
visit to Washington, when rising suddenly,
the top of his head came in contact with
the sharp point at the bottom of chan
delier, dangerous wound being inflicted.
Don CAMERON is the latest card for vice
president with Grant, according to the
Washington rumors; but those who
started that story, the Times thinks, don't
know the golden-haired senator from
Pennsylvania. "He may tire of the Sem
ate, but he won't trade for the husks of
the vice presidents chair. Grant isn't of
the kind that either die or resign, and
Cameron won't take the cork under"
Mrs. ANN RANDALL, widow of the late
Josiah Randall, and mother of Samuel j.
Randall, speaker of the national House of
Representatives, died at her residence in
Germantown at o'clock Saturday after
noon, aged over eighty years. Speaker
Randall, who was summoned from Wash
ingtOn by a telegram, was at his mothers
bedside at the time of her death. Mrs.
Randall was lady of sterling character
and many virtues.
HoRATIO SEYMOUR hangs in the White
House gallery of the Times to-day: "Six
feet in height, erect and vigorous, almost
seventy years of age, but in appearance
not more than sixty, his brown hair and
scant side whiskers slightly tinged with
gray, his keen hazel eyes as full of fire as
in his youth, his face the kindliest and
most distinguished that meets the passer-
by, dressed in black broadcloth, with
the coat buttoned tightly over his chest,
and wearing silk hat in all weathers-
such is Horatio Seymour as he may lie
seen OH the streets of Utica any day.
Dignifed, yet always accessible, good
listener as well as talker, his is the rare in
stance of a public man who holds the
unbroken respect and admiration of the
people with whom he has made his home
for nearly two generations"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-24
lancaster frteIliqencer.
MONDAY EVENING. NAY ~, 1880.
The Primaries.

The Republican primary elections
have come and gone again, and the pub
lie breathes more freely since there is an
end of the decentralization, the intrigue,
the buying, the drinking and the shame
less political and personal corruption
which annually accompany them.
There is such prevalence
of all these foul circumstan-
ces, in the influences controlling their
conduct and directing their issue, that it
is utterly impossible for anybody to tell
just how far the real sentiment of the
party is expressed in the final de-
termination of the result. There is such
shameless use of money in the purchase
of the best workers in the ward" and
in their purchase of the individual voters !;
such travesty of popular elections in
the casting of fully one-fourth illegal
votes, and finally the return is so SUBJ
ject to alteration and tinkering that
it is generally very hard to tell
whether any man counted as elected was
really fairly chosen. Anybody who
stood at any poll in Lancaster on Satur-
day could see these things with his own
eyes and in the contemplation of men
and boys, selling their votes on the
highway, must have concluded that it is
time to stop this thing if there is to be
left to this community any vestige of an
honest popular election.
Under the old delegate system there
was,to be sure, some log-rolling and some
corruption, but it tainted only the few.
In the end the candidate nominated had
to have a majority of the party repre-
sentatives. Under the present system
corruption permeates the whole mass of
people and every voter becomes "politi-
clan with all that the name now i'm
plies.
A rich man who becomes candidate
has to "bleed" at every pore, and no
matter how strong he is with the people
he is compelled, in self preservation, to
furnish his lackeys with money to be put
where it will do him most good. Poor
men only have any hope of success by
putting themselves into the hands of
politicians to he run as speculation and
by mortgaging to them in advance the
emOluments of their offices.
These influences, exhaled like poison
Gus miasma from the Republican prima-
ries, have mildewed our politics and are
corrupting our social life. The law
which brings these primaries under the
statute regulating general elections is
ignored. IF it were enforced a dozen
men in every ward in Lancaster could be
sent to Jail for last Saturdays work.
The prostitution of justice in its own
courts is the logical outcome of the pros
titutiOn of the ballot. The betrayal of
official trust is the sequence of the aban-
donment of political integrity by the in
dividual voter. We are indeed fallen
upon evil times.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-24
MOUNT JOY ITEMS.
How the Republicans BaItled There

How the Republicans Bartled There.
Waves were running high in the politi-
cal sea at Mount Joy on Saturday afternoon.
There was no contest between the Bull
Ring and the Hog Ring. They were mixed
| and the Smith faction mustered but 81
votes. 1t was question of how big ma
jOrity could be cast. 1t was as large as
promised, and the ringsters are happy like
tethered monkeys to IN Organ-grinder
would. Many Of the voters follow them,
the tether being fifty cents and few
drinks. ''Bow, you cheerful ape cried
they, drawing the chain. 6 Hand around
your hat! Gain favor! Somersault and
show your influence" And it was so.
When the board of election officers was
organized over hundred voters were on
hand. Some humbly acceded, and being
arranged in row, when the signal was
given, each deposited a marked ticket.
There were some exciting scenes and blood
was drawn. A quarrel that had its incep-
tion in disparaging remarks resulted in Il
broken nose of our efficient deputy high
constable, his assailant being his nephew.
Prof. D. Denlinger, of Cedar Hill semi
nary, having purchased a building in Man.
chester, Carroll county, Maryland, will
remove to that place in August, to organ
ize an academy. We regret the contem-
plated change and wish him success.
There is no telling what effect the pres
ent drought will produce. Sometime dur
ing Saturday night a hogshead Of water
was stolen from a well known tobacco
grower in this vicinity.
John L. Gish, of West Donegal town.
ship, who died after short sickness, was
buried yesterday. The deceased was
we'll known in this neighborhood and was
a most estimable old gentleman.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-24
"A Great Fall of Rain.

In Columbus, Ca, from Friday at 9 a.
M, to Saturday at 5 p. m, nine and nine
ty-two one-hundredths inches of rain fell,
eight and fifty-one hundredths falling in
ten hours. All the railroads are injured,
and the through freights and accommoda.
tion train from Macon to Montgomery ran
into Schatulga creek, on the Southwestern
road. Engineer John T. Wade, Fireman
George Schalfer, Woodpassers Charles
Taylor and Joseph T. Brown were killed.
Ali are white and from Macon, Ga.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-24

THE Grant and Quay managers made
an expensive contest for instructions in
behalf of these candidates. Theybrought
plenty of money here, and much of it
was spent for the local candidates. 1t
helped Mylin, Davis and Eberly, and it
got an unexpectedly large vote for Grant
and Quay. But it instructs nowhere ex-
cept in the city districts, where, perhaps,
such instructions will be most fatal
Mylin can better afford to run instructed
for Grow than Demuth instructed for
Quay.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-24

About seven hundred cases of old tobac.
co were sold last week at private rates
some four hundred cases being a resale at
an advance. Old tobacco is becoming
very scarce in the market, and prices tend
upward, though the exact figures are kept
secret. Of new tobacco, about one hun
dred and fifty cases were sold within few
days past.
During and after the rain of Saturday,
some of the farmers went to their fields
and commenced planting, and this morn
ing others followed their example. The
ground, however, has not been sufficiently
soaked to make planting advisable, even if
the plants were full grown, which they
are not. Planting will not be generally
commenced until after there shall have
been soaking rain.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-24
The Disbarment Case.

Harrisburg Telegraph of Saturday.
In court this morning Attorney General
Palmer, one of counsel for Judge Patter-
son, of Lancaster, in the matter of appeal
of Steinman and Hensel, lawyers and edi-
tors of the Lancaster INTELLIGENcER,
asked the court if it was the intention to
hear the argument next week, and stated
that he understood it was to be argued
before full bench. Judge Mercur said
that the case was on the list for next week,
when it was probable there would not be
full bench. Counsel could agree among
themselves and if they insisted on a full
bench they would have to take the chances
after next week.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-24
Murdered After n Brief Marriage.

Mrs. Johann Breimann, wife of Ger
man baker, was found murdered in her
room on the third floor of tenement house,
No. sig East Sixteenth street, New York.
On the table lay letter written by her
husband, in which he stated that he had
killed her because she was unfaithful to
him. The woman had lain dead since
Thursday night,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-24
An ExcursOn Train Wrecked

1t is reported that an excursion train
from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, ON the
narrow gauge road, went through trestle
at Santa Cruz. Ten men were killed and
sixty wounded. No particulars have been
received. =
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-24

THE Bull Ring and the Hog Ring are
no more. They have been divided and
parts of each will pick themselves up
and form new combinations. johnson
and McMellen both betrayed the Neu
Era, and each is at dagger's points with
the other. Hay Brown seems to have
abandoned the Bull Ring candidate for
district attorney, and Levi Sensenig does
not appear to have done much in behalf
of Grant. Taken altogether it is just as
well that they have gone to pieces and in
the reorganization of the politicians it
will be hard for them to avoid some new
combination that will not be more de.
cent than either of the old ones.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-24

QUAY is "a bigger man than ole Grant, -
according to the Republican primary le
turns in Lancaster city. Why not take
Quay for President and Grant for Vice
President ?-IlmSs.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-24

GRANTS personal friend Of the Galena
Gazette deems it necessary to make this
announcement: "Gen. Grants name has
never gone before the public as a candi-
date for the presidency by any word Or act
of his own, and he most certainly will not Or
der his name withdrawn. A very large class
of American people have chosen to make
him their candidate, and if the Republican
national convention at Chicago sees fit to
tender him the nomination he will not
decline it, This we know to be fact and
we publish it because it is well that the
Republicans of the country should cease to
hold the matter in doubt
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-24

TON COCHRAN says that "brushes
brooms and soap" cleaned the deck.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-24
THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES,
THE OLD STORY OF BRIBERY.
SMITH COCK OF THE WALK.

MyIin's Crushing Defeat OF ReinOehl.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-24

WELL informed Democrats 1T st. Louis
No., claimed last night that the state con-
vention will contain large majority of
delegates favorable to Tilden.
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to the keeping of few honest men han

to the keeping of few honest men han
afew dishoneskones. ~
r Ons result of the legislative contest
that will give general satisfaction ID. the
defeat of the two old members who voted
for the riot bill, while their two COL
leagues who voted against it are re-elect-
ed. With the other results on the Assem-
bly, both factions claim to be satisfied !;
each expects to have the better of it.
For prison inspectors and poor direc-
tors there seems to have been less than
the usual contest, as the result would not
alter the present factional complexion
of these bodies. Any result would have
secured better men than the average
Republican nominees, and Mr.. Henry
Musser, nominated for poor director, is
an especially proper kind of a man for
the position. All parties seemed to agree
that Colonel Gerhart ought to be county
surveyor he is fit for better place.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-24
MINOR TOPICS.
SATURDAY was . bad day for Adam.

THE political nomenclature of Lancaster
will have to be revised.
, 1880-03-10

ME4 81 1890 VS. - IA ISL
afsrd6comfort and convemences for those
who VISIT. There will be "front seats"
numbered for the accommodation of ladies
and young people,. Behind these a Prone
nade.n 19There will be attached to the Poll
theama Q first class Restaurant where con-
dictionary, ice creams, cakes, a soda water
fountain, and all the addenda of such an
establishment will be found. 1t is now
being fitted up with extreme care, and will
furnish every luxury at the lowest possi@
Die rate compatible with first class arti-
cles. And a noteworthy feature of this is
that, to ladyryisitants to the Bazaar during
the day, q luxurious, shady and delightful
retreat will be furnished where they will
he able to enjoy-as- at Delmonico's in New
York or Frascati's in Paris-ice creams,
JellIes and Refreshments undisturbed by
Other intrusion than that of the upper ten
OfKingsfon..n - LLG i lin l.
, 1880-03-10
BARBADOS.

The shipment of the crop of 1880 had
begun, and the harbour was full of vessels
waiting their turn to load. The Governor
opened the Legislative Session on the 18th
ult and in his speech thus refers to the
financial condition of the colony.
The balance in the Public Treasury, from
the precedingyear, was $50, 1914, and the re-
ceipts for the year 912i, 75,, making a
total revenue of G:4l ,945. The expendi-
ture was Ell, $50. The Estimates for the
current year amount to Gl3o,360, and the
estimated expenditure to &l3o, $40. These
Estimates, however, as His Excellency
stated, do not include works which have
not already been sanctioned by previous
enactments, and satisfactory as is the sur
plus to the credit of the public, we must
not look to this source for the accomplish
ment of the important works contemplated,
but some other mode of raising the neces-
sary Revenue must be resorted to.
Amongst the expedients suggested by the
Governor, is the imposition of a Stamp
Duty.
, 1880-03-10
NEW ADVERTISEMENT
BANK OF ST.. THOMAS
n @ T I G 3

! shereby giventhat asemi-
Annual General Meeting
of the Shareholders of the
BANK OF ST. THOMAS,
will be held on WEDNES-
DAY the l7thinst. at the Bank
p~remiseF, when the Report of
the Directors for the past six
months will be submitted,
The Chair will be taken at
II o'clock noon.
St. Thomas, 3rd March 1880.
BY order Of the Board of Direc-
tors.
ED. S. PETERSEN.
Manager.
, 1880-03-10
OF NEWS
BY THE MAIL.

The mails arrived here on Saturday
morning. The question Of a general
amnesty was brought before the
French Chamber of Deputies by NJ.
Louis Blanc on February II, and
was rejected, after some discussion.
by 312 again 115 votes. The chance
Of the Communists being able to re-
turn to France seems therefore rather
remote, a good thing for the country,
to judge from the following account
of a report prepared and submitted to
the Chamber before the discussion. r
NJ. Casimir Perier's report on the
amnesty proposal states that of the
S05 Communists still unpardoned, SAB
were tried in person and 262 by de-
fault. Five hundIed and nine had
, 1880-03-10
ANTIGUA.
We take the following from the Weekly

We take the following from the Weekly
Registe1k:N
"Ihe most Interesting and exciting events
OF the, past week were, the arrival at this
Port, on the 9th ult. of Vice Admiral Sir
f. H.. McLintock's flagship Northampton,
preceded by the Gribon also a cricket
match on the Goth between the A.C C. and
northampton Eleven and a very grand
Ball at, Government House on the evening
OF the Goth. There was to have been a
return hop on board the flagship on the
afternoon of 9th, but to the great grief of
the invited, the agitated state of the sea
prevented it, and the band came on shore
and played within the inclosure of the Gov
crnol's residence; then followed, on same
evening, the departure of the Northampton
and her tender for the islands to leeward.
The reception of the distinguished Admiral
on landing was more than usually enthusi-
astic, this not being the first time that Sir
Leopold has visited Antigua.
The Ball at GOvernmenthouse was nu-
merously attended and altogether a most
brilliant affair, dancing was continued
until 2 o'clock the following morning.
The Cricket match, strange to say, was
won by the Antigua club, with, it is said,
9 wickets to go down"
"The Attorney General gave notice that
at next meeting he will introduce q bill to
amend the immigration Act, so as to ena
bic the Planters to import Chinese labour-
ers into the island. 1t is intended to intro
duce at least 500 immigrants from China.
The Colonial Secretary said the government
would exercise no control over these immi-
grants, and that all they had to do was to
provide the $1,000 at credit Of Immigra-
ton Fund, he thought that some compe-
tent person might be sent for the immi-
grants"
, 1880-03-10
C-HRLSTTANSTED, ST. CROTX
Wednesday lob March 1880.

The West India Military Bill at its
first reading in the Folkething on the
9th ult: was handed over to a Com
mittee consisting ofnine members for
consideration and report. The measure
has not been received so cordially by
the Folkething as by the Landsthing;
but there is nc reason to doubt that the
Folkething will also perceive that
these Colonies are too small to bear
the Military burden, while at the same
time a military force is necessary to
the maintenance of order.
, 1880-03-10
DOMINICA

We have not received.exehanges from this
island, but in the Grenada Chronicle we
fnI the following interesting note tit o.
The Dominican states that according to-
reports from Laudat, the Boiling Lake has
ceased to exist. The %wellknown woods
man, Ellie Role, declares that he reached
on the 30th Jan. the place where the Lake
used to be, and found that it had disappear
ed, it's bed being occupied by a mound of
sand withsa cone in the centre fronrwhich
issued dense columns of smoke and sulphu-
rous vapour. Are we to suppose that the
Lake was emptied by the upheaval of its
bed during the late volcanic eruption, and
that the heavy mass of ash-waters and vol
canic mud which fell over Roseau on the
4th ult. was the Boiling Lake cooled in it's
passage through the air. va