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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-01
SHOT WITH "A PAPER BAG.
How n Physician Captured a Burglar.
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How a Physician Captured Burglar.
DR.. Thomas H. Andrews, well-known as
the demOnstratOr of anatomy at Jefferson
college, returned to his home, No. 1117
Spruce street, Philadelphia, about o'clock
yesterday morning. He was about retiring
when he heard noise down stairs, and
going to the head of the stairway he discov-
cred the figure of a man moving about
the parlor The doctor, having no revolv-
er, was nonplussed for the moment how to
frighten the burglar if not capture him,
but noticing a small paper bag OH stand
he blew it up and clenching it at the top
cautiously made his was down stairs.
When near the bottom of the stairs he
saw the man coming from the parlor. The
doctor brought the bag down on the rail-
ing and it exploded with a deafening
report. The burglar tumbled over on
the floor in a fright and in an instant
DIR. Andrews was upon him. The man
begged the doctor to have mercy upon
him, and said he was shot. The noise of
the encounter awakened the inmates of the
house, and a servant was dispatched for
an officer. The frightened burglar con-
tinued to beg for mercy, saying that he
had a wife and several children. He said
his name was George Campbell he was
bookkeeper and lived in Camden. After
short struggle the burglar succeeded in
making his escape. On examining the
parlor subscription book was found, con-
tanning about a dozen names, for an edi-
tion of Shakespeare, of which sample
copy was left. 1t is thought that the bur-
glar called to see the doctor in the after
noon, and not finding him in, he hid himself
until the family retired, when he began
his search for valuables. This theory is
borne out by the fact that the servant did
leave a man in the Office in the afternoon,
who said he would wait for the doctor and
he was not seen to leave.
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APRIL FIRST.
All FOOLS Day-MOving Day-SettIin- DAY
A Fine Day-and u Big Day

All FOOLS lIay-MOving Day-Sett,in, Dax-
Fine Day-and a Big Day.
The First of April opened auspiciously.
with a clear sky and mild temperature.
Quite early our country cousins began to
arrive in all sorts of vehicles, and long be-
fore noon all the hotel stables were filled
with horses, long line Of vehicles stretched
around the blocks in the vincinty of the
hotels, and streets, stores, taverns, eating
an drinking saloons were filled with
country costumers. All the passenger
trains arriving during the morning were
crowded, many of them having extra cars
attached to accommodate the passengers.
But though the strangers in town to day
may be numbered by thousands. it is
thought the crowd is not so great as it has
been ON the First of April in former years.
The old custom Of crowding all the busi-
ness of the year into single day is being
gradually broken up, and the business is
being scattered over range of several
weeks, to the great convenience of all con-
cerned--and to the special convenience of
banks and large business houses.
Another custom indulged in By Young
people. and some not so young. of making
April fools of the green 'uns is still
largely rracticed. Greasy pocket-books
well stuffed with worthless paper, and
carefully tied up packages. containing u
brick Or something else of as little account
are dropped on the sidewalk or placed in
some other conspicuous place to attract the
attention or excite the cupdity of the
green un, who is greeted with .ieers and
laughter as he attempts to capture the sup
posed prize.
Up to the present hour there has been
but little drunkenness ant! no Serious disor-
der on the streets, and the mayor has not
thought it necessary to place on duty any
extra police. Not 4 single pick-pocket has
been discovered in the thronged streets
and we have not heard of a single pocket
being picked.
The custom Of moving or changing
residence on the first of April, is not SD
easily infringed. Almost all tenants lease
their dwelling for a year, and the year al
most always commences on the 1st of
| April and per consequence on or about
| that day there is Il great racket and wreck
ing OF furniture. To-day is no exception
| to this long established rule. On almost
every block of every street old tenants
are going out and new ones moving in.
There was Y large attendance at the
county commissioners. Office. and
the commissioners and their clerks
were kept busy issuing new county bonds
in exchange for old ones. The prothono-
tary and his clerks were also kept very
busy transacting official business. as were
also the county recorder and his clerks.
The other county officers We're not bother
cd with Il rush of Business, neither were
tho United States revenue officers.
From-infOrmation obtained from several
large dealers. we learn that the business
of the day has been satisfactory. especially
among those who deal in goods intended
for country consumption.
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custody. 1t was. supposed that when
he went to Camden he would
stop with his old friend Robe
son, but he had an appointment
to meet Benjamin Brown at Atlantic City,
and went through without stopping. He
expected to escape to Atlantic City unob-
served. His friends aver positively to-
night that he is only arranging his affairs
preparatory to giving himself up for SEN
tence, and will certainly return home in a
few days. On the other hand it is said
that he will probably move about from
state to state lodging acquisitions, until
his political friends patch up some sort of
truce with his prosecutors.
Mr.. Wolfe, who led the prosecution, is
said to be contented to let the law take its
course with Kemble, and thinks the moral
effect of his wandering as a fugitive will
be almost as good as though he were be-
hind the prison bars.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-01
A SDOtte(l Baby-

A special dispatch from Rochester, Ind,
to the Chicago Inter- Ocean SAYS Aspotted
baby, recently born to the family of Hugh
Bryant, jr., in this county, is rapidly at
tracing the curiosity of more than our
own people. The child when born was
covered from head to foot with spots of a
bright red color, which it was supposed
would disappear in few days; but they
still remain. The forehead is red, with
narrow stripes running downward through
the centre Of the face and neck, while the
breast and neck have more the appearance
of a leopard's body than any thing else.
This is the third child born to the family,
and the only one that has been otherwise
than perfectly natural. One man has
offered 81, 900 for the privilege of exhibit
ing the child next summer. Numerous
smaller bids have been made, but the
mother objects to all such proposals.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-01
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEIliHBORHOOD NEWS.
Events Across the County Line.

Events Across the County Line.
In York, yesterday. Philip Lehr, alias
Beekey, assaulted his wife with club,
cutting her head badly.
Reports from the peach growing districts
state that the peach buds have not been
injured by the late frosts.
Sallic. wife of Daniel Webster, station
agent of the P. & r. r. r. company at
Valley Forge, died at the residence Of her
husband on Monday night. She was quite
well on Sunday evening when she retired
to bed.
The business management of the Ilar-
risburs Patriot will hereafter be in charge
of Maj. A. n. DeVoe, formerly military
secretary under Gov. Robinson of New
York, and late business manager Of the
Elmira Free Press. Maj. DcVoe is an ex-
perienced newspaper man.
On Tuesday, at Hanover, York county,
Senory Bachman made a desperate assault
upon his wife. She is employed at Jacob
Walters hotel, where her husband called
to see her and found her busy at work.
lie asked her to accompany him to the
wood house, as he had something impor-
tant to tell her, and then he would bid her
good-by. Suspecting something wrong
she refused to do SO, when he grabbed
her by the hair, pulled her head back, and,
drawing large butcher knife from his
breast pocket, slashsd it number of
times across her throat. Fortunately in
the excitement of the moment he used the
back instead of the edge of the blade. or
he would have killed her. Bachman fled
to York where he was arrested and locked
up. Jealousy is said to have impelIed him
to the deed.
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Wherefore Does He Tarry2

Somebody reports that Mr.. Kemble is
staying away from Harrisburg and Judge
Pearson for few days until he can set
tie his business affairs, which he was
prevented from settling before by the
expectation that he would be pardoned,
that promise having been made to him
when he plead guilty, it is said. But the
precise truth of the statement may be
doubted when it is considered that if Mr.
Kemble had desired a little more time to
be given him before sentence he would
probably have been granted it on appli-
cation made to Judge Pearson. And,
furthermore, as Mr.. Kemble is now at
Atlantic City, it would seem clear
enough that he is not much more advan-
tageously situated for closing up his bus
mess operations that he would have been
at Harrisburg.
Still Mr.. Kemble seems to he hesitat-
ing, and his counsel and friends are full
of promises that he will report to Judge
Peirson some day soon; he is even said
to have declared that the period of his
sentence was immaterial to him. He
seems to he in a very accommodating
mood and as the Harrisburg court is
ready to be accommodated, wherefore
does he tarry? Everybody is at liberty to
guess, since manifestly there is reason.
For good cause discarding the explana-
tion that it is to arrange his general bust
ness, what remains? Can it be dicker :?
We all realize that Mr.. kemble plead
guilty to save the feelings of the other
fellows behind him for whom he was
offering himself up. He could not save
himself and he could save them. He did.
He expelled from his heart the natural
inclination which induces man, when
he is to be hung, to want to be hung with
all his companions in crime about him.
Probably he thus subdued his heart for
consideration. Part of it may have
been the promise of the pardon that
such high influence could hardly fail to
expect to get. We are told this was
promised him; and it was gained for
him so far as Dunkel and Quay and
lloyU NtlC COllCtlHCu. SSutty Ntto III
fact as criminal as Kemble. They
were in the same nest. The teSti-
mony showed Quay in the background.
He could not refuse Kemble his pardon.
Dunkel is but human tool, and IIoyt,
the fast comrade of the less than forty
thieves. 1t was unreasonable to expect
such a stumbling block in Palmer, and
it is ever SO surprising and creditable to
him that he resisted power of persua-
sion and weight of influence that we do
not believe has ever been exceeded in the
history of the affairs of the state.
But he did and Kemble stands at the
door waiting. What is he to get? Is
the raid on Palmer not over ? or does
Kemble demand additional reward to
compensate for the imprisonment which
was not in the original contract when he
plead guilty.? The one side having
failed to provide the pardon, is he de-
manding an equivalent ? and what is it?
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passed in the sound, belonged to the West

passed in the sound, belonged to the West
Wind.
Eight freight cars and span of the
Guyandotte river bridge on the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad, fell yesterday, and the
wreck was consumed by fire. The loss is
about $4,000. The disaster was caused
by the giving way of an imperfect rail as
the train was crossing the bridge.
The freshmen crews of Harvard and
Columbia colleges will row a two-mile
straight away race on the Thames river, at
New London, Conn.,, on the 7th of July.
Representatives of the Yale and Harvard
university crews will meet in New London,
to morrow, to arrange the conditions of a
race to be rowed on the same river on the
I'd of July.
A west bound freight train on the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad had the front
trucks of the car in the middle of the train
thrown from the track, by bad rail when
just entering the bridge over the Guyan-
dotte river. A span of the bridge was
knocked down, and eight cars fell to the
river shore where they were burned. The
engine has safely crossed the bridge. The
loss is $50, 600.
The British brig Robert and Mary sailed
| from Rio JaneirO on the 18th of February
| for New York, and the British ship City of
Mobile sailed from Rio on the 21st of Feb
ruary for Southwest Pass for orders.
| Neither vessel had bill of health, and it
| is said the last named lost fourteen men
from yellow fever while at Rio. The num-
Der of yellow fever deaths in Rio Janeiro
during the two weeks ending February
2Sth was 300.
Judge Brown, of the United States circuit
court at Louisville, yesterday delivered an
opinion in the suit of COmmerford to enjoin
the postmaster of that city from OBTAINING,
under instructions from the postmaster
general. letters addressed to a lottery COM
pany. The judge holds that the seizure and
detention Of letters to lottery companies is
unauthorized by the act of Congress that
the postmaster is liable to suit for dam
ages that the lottery is legal, and that the
remedy is legal and not equitable. The
| injunction is therefore, denied.
A mass meeting of the Readjusters of
Petersburg, Va, was held in that city on
Tuesday evening, to arrange for the spring
and autumn canyasses. Among the
| speakers were State Auditor Massey, Gen.
eral William Malone and Judge Arnold.
Resolution were adopted looking to 4
union Of all Virginians opposed to ''fun-
derism," Bourbonism, class legislation,
unequal taxation and political prescription ;
approving the of the Legislature in electing
Readiuster officers, and repeating the
Moffet punch bill, and condemning the
governors veto of the debt bill.
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HarmOny.

There ought to be no difficulty in the
Pennsylvania Democratic convention in
securing harmonious action. 1t is OBJ
vious that we need to draw all together
if we hope to carry the state. The one
object of all must be to secure presi-
Dental candidate and platform which
will he acceptable to the people. No
one need expect that the temper of the
convention will permit any particular
candidate to be named as Pennsylvania
choice, because it is sufficiently obvious
that the state has no especial lchoice, and
desires only the strongest candidate.
The feeling of the convention will run
towards compromise and harmony,
just as it ran in the Erie county conven-
tion, where the strongest friends and
opponents of Tilden met together and
agreed to be peaceful. There is not the
slightest danger that any obnoxious can
date will be forced upon the national
party by the vote of Pennsylvania. Our
delegates will go uninstructed, and with
no disposition to sacrifice the party to any
man. In our state convention no trouble
can arise unless the selfish ambition of
would-be leaders makes it. If anyone
should undertake to show that he con-
trolls the party in the state it is likely
that the glove thrown down will be taken
up and scrimmage occur; but the rash
man who provokes it will be likely to get
the worst of it. The Democracy of the
state have time and again shown that no
one controls them; and when one man
has thought that he has achieved firm
seat in the saddle one year, he has gener-
ally found himself unhorsed the next.
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LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

Christian Smith, of Perth AmbOy, n. j.,
was killed by falling off car at Hazard
vile.
Ebenezer Hawkins, wealthy farmer of
Setauket, L. l., shot himself dead yester-
day morning.
A fire in Kane & Bros block at Fort
Wayne, Ind, on Tuesday night, caused a
loss of about s45, 900.
Joseph Singleton, Of New Hampshire,
died the other day and left the sum of $3.50
cash to every cross-eyed person in that
state.
The Cotton Exchange of Mobile yester-
day adopted a resolution inviting General
Grant to visit that port rs the guest Of the
exchange.
Hanlan is in training at Toronto for his
match with Courtney, and will go to ROch-
ester tomorrow. Nothing is known about
Courtney.
The Western Union telegraph company
has taken possession of its lines between
Denver and Cheyenne, which were seized
by the Union Pacific railroad in February.
In Monroe. Ca, Robert Upshaw COM
mitted suicide by blowing his brains out
with shot gun. No reason is assigned
for the act. Upshaw stood well in the
community.
A man known as Frank Howard was
shot dead by a man named Atkins, at
Peyton, w. Va. on Monday. Atkins said
he acted in self-defense. Howard, it is
said, was "confidence OPERATOR
An unknown fishing schooner struck
L'Hommedieu Shoals and filled on Tues
day. Her crew were taken off by a pass
ing schooner, which remained off Fal-
mouth, all night.
The Democratic state convention of Ne
braska met in Columbus yesterday. Tele-
graphic communication being interrupted.
nothing is known of the proceedings. It
was believed that Tilden delegates would
be chosen.
Great damage was done to property in
Brunswick and Dinwiddie counties, Vir-
ginia, by tornado which passed over them
last Saturday night. Dwellings were dam
aged, out-buildings demolished, and trees
and fences leveled. No lives were lost.
Secretary Sherman spoke in Mansfield,
O., last night to large audience. He said
there was one condition upon which his
candidacy depends and that was that the
Republicans of Ohio support his name with
substantial unanimity in their convention
A man calling himself Frank Howard,
who had operated in Charleston, w. Va.
as a confidence man, was shot and killed
on Monday at Peyton, on the Coal river,
w. Va. by man named Atkins, who
claims that he shot him in self defense.
The schooner West Wind, ashore at
Nantucket, will probably be total loss.
Nothing is yet known of the fate of her
crew, but it is hoped that a yawl boat,
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$30,914 IL

LOSS OF MANUFACTURING DEPARTMENT. S 3.724 46
If the figures show a loss of 49, ,724. 46,
why do the directors say in their prelim-
mary statement that the loss is only
Sl,5l7.96? The taxpayers would like to
know, anyhow, what sort of management
it is which, with SO convicts at work, no
interest on capital, no light, rent, fuel,
clerk hire, nor ordinary business expenses
topay, conducts the manufacturing ope-
rations at an annual loss of So, ,724.46. If
an ordinary laboring man has to support
himself out of his daily wages, why
should convict |" at labor - not be made
to do the same, especially if, as these
prison inspectors tell us, " the cost of
each prisoner has only been 13 cents per
day? Any man running carpet weav-
ing, shoemaking and cigarmaking with
S3 hands, who could not feed them on
prison fare and clothe them in Jail gar
ments out of the profits would not be ac-
counted much of manager.
Again, we find the directors carrying
about SIS 900 worth or raw material and
manufactured goods to do their little
business-an amount of stock largely in
excess of the business done.
Another discrepancy is to be pointed
out in the fact that in the above state
ment, printed on page q, it appears that
the amount due the prison on book ac-
counts is only S3,694.51, while on page 6
of the same report the directors say that
the amount due the prison for goods sold
isSS, ,S93.75. Now which is correct of
these figures, which are s5,l99.24 apart?
In calculating the cost of the prison
last year the directors have deducted as
assets of the manufacturing department,
$S,S93.75 on this account. If this is an
error, then the actual cost of the prison
for the year was Sl9,149.93, instead of
$13, $500, as they report it; and these
facts are not evidence that the affairs of
the prison have been carefully and Judi
cially managed" as the managers mod
estly say of themselves. We are utterly
unable to reconcile these conflicting
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THE CONVICTED FUGITIVE,
Win. II. Kemble Finding a Temporary lie
fuge In New Jersey.

Win. II. Kemble Finding a Temporary Ke-
fuge In New Jersey.
New York Sun.
William II. Kemble, the bribery fugitive
is in Atlantic City. lie is occupying one
of the cottages of the United States hotel.
After leaving New York he went direct to
Camden, without touching Pennsylvania
soil, and thence to Atlantic City. He
makes no effort at cOncealment, but abso-
lutely refuses to talk about the bribery
cases. He will not say what his plans are,
but his intimate friends say that he will
certainly return to Harrisburg by the time
of the meeting of the next court April
"a. No requisitiOn has been made out,
and it cannot be learned that the prose-
cution has made any application for one.
1t is doubtful if Kemble has any definite
plan, and he will probably remain in
Atlantic City until he makes some arrange
ments. Meanwhile it is remarkable to see
how few real friends Kemble has left out
side of his select intimates. Nobody seems
to have the least pity for the fugitive bank
president. Even his friends say that he
has acted very foolishly. The fact of it is,
however, that when Kemble pleaded guilty
it was at the solicitation of bigger men than
he. Had the trial come off, the
whole corrupt work of the ma
chine which controls the state would
have been laid bare, and other men
with ambitions would have been impli-
Gated. To save them Kemble pleaded as he
did, with the understanding that he should
not go to Jail. The powers that be were
not sufficiently powerful this time, how
ever. and Kemble is fugitive. Nothing
has been heard from the others.
Kemble's sudden departure from New
York is explained by the fact that he was
warned of the pressure brought to bear on
the governor of Pennsylvania to issue a
requisition for his arrest, and he feared to
stay longer. 1t is quite certain that had
be remained at the st. James hotel he
would not have been 50 long out of