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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-11
Obituary Notes.

The widow of Gen. E. V. Sumner died
in Charlottesville, Virginia on Thursday,
The was the mother of two sons in the
regular army, and Of four daughters, all
married to army officers.
S. Prigg Campbell, stock broker of
Richmond, Virginia, and formerly busi-
ness manager of the Richmond Enquirer,
died yesterday, aged 81 years. lie was
born in Wheeling, West Virginia, and
served during the war in the Confederate
army.
Oliver F. Winchester, head of the Win
chester repeating arms company, died yes
terday in New Haven, Connecticut, aged
II years. He was lieutenant governor
of Connecticut in 1856, and was founder
Of the Winchester conservatory at Yale.
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caster have long had warm side for Mr..
Hark, and the success of their efforts to
secure his appointment is at this time es-
pecially gratifying. A call extended few
years ago to this able young preacher was
for reasons deemed sufficient by the powers
that he not confirmed, but the present re-
newal of the call, has, as the trustees Of the
congregation have been informed by
Bishop de Schweinitz received the sane
ton of the Provincial Elders conference.
Mr.. Hark is an accomplished pulpit orator,
whose intellectual power combined with
his known energy and popular manners
will be certain to enure to the benefit of
the Moravian congregation here.
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STATE ITEMS.

The Clarion Democrat is forty years Old
but looks as young and vigorous rs ever.
Three members Of Harrisburg firm
have been drawn AS jurors to serve at the
same week of court.
ga Friend of the Newsboys" has con-
tiibuted s., 900 to the Philadelphia News
boys Aid society.
Philadelphia can have double ce!ebra
ton in 1882 the 2O0th anniversary CT the
landing of Penn and the I5Oth Of the birth
Of Washington.
The NorristOwn hospital commissioners,
by leaving $175, 900 worth Of their work
for the state to finish hereafter, have re.
turned $4,000 to the state treasury.
The Democrats Of the Sixth senatorial
district in Philadelphia have endorsed Dr.
S. Clark Frisby. independent colored can.
didatc against A. Wilson Norris.
Mrs. Anna NJ. Mccartney, daughter OF
Alderman Rose, Of Altoona. was terribly
burned on Thursday by her clothes taking
fire at the kitchen stove.
A travelling printer, who, for want OF
employment at his trade, went to work on
a Columbia county farm, came in one day
to ask his employee if 4 hen should he set
solid.
Officer Victor, Of the Seventeenth dis
trict, Philadelphia while conducting a
prisoner to the station house fell dead at
Twelfth and Bainbridge streets. Heart
disease, il is believed, was the cause.
In 1851, Reading which was then ham,
let and had but a couple of hundred ill.,
habitants, was known as "Schwabe Shtet-
tle." on account Of the majority of citizens
being Swabians or " ScLwopes.' It then
belonged to Philadelphia county.
The register of, wills admitted to pro-
bate yesterday in Philadelphia, the con-
tested will OF James Burden, an engineer
on tho steamboat John A. Warner, who
left his estate, amounting to about 540,-
900, to Captain Tyler, a friend, and Annie
E. Harris, colored, stewardess Oh tho War
ner.
Rev. J. FearOn Brown, member of the
Central Pennsylvania conference, has died
in Lock Haven of cancer of tho liver, aged
40 years. He entered the ministry in 1859
with Revs. NJ. l.. Smith, Of the Martins
burg charge. w. A. Houck, of Lock
Haven, and E. J. Gray, president of Dick
inson seminary.
All the anthracite coal mining interests
have agreed to suspension of mining the
last three days of each week, commencing
the 10Th instant and continuing through
December and January and if necessary
February. 1t is stated that this suspen-
sion is necessary in order to "stiffen the
backbone of the coal market" and get bet
ter prices.
Mrs. Jennie Witt, the Johnstown woman
who eloped with David S. Sweeney, a
painter, Of Huntingdon, and was married
in Harrisburg by an alderman, was releas-
cd from the Dauphin county Jail yesterday,
and left with her husband for Johnstown,
on the mail train west, in the afternoon.
Her infatuated lover, Sweeney, is still ir
Jail, and what disposition will be made of
him was not known last evening.
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THE WALES DISASTER.
FOUR MEN RESCUED.


Description Of tho Disaster,
Late yesterday, at the scene Of the
Rhondda valley colliery disaster in Wales,
the rescuing party began operations
Eighty-six men imprisoned in the upper
pit are beyond question dead. Four men
have been rescued from the lower pit.
Ono Of these states that after hearing a
deadened report Of the explosion at half
past one a. m, he and his mate noticed a
heavy depression in the atmosphere.
Shortly afterward tons Of rubbish fell
about them. They kept in stalls, taking
all possible precautions. After some hours
of anxious suspense they heard the voices
Of the rescuing party and were able to
converse little with them. They
climbed over the fallen rubbish to where
the cage was and were hauled up uain-
jured. He himself. however, was par
TALLY insensible. He asserts that there
are other men still alive in the lower pit.
Later.
The exploring party soon discovered six
teen corpse at the Penygraig mine. The
search was impeded by after-damp and
debris. Seven corpses were brought up
within twelve hours after the explosion.
One account states the expulsion occurred
at forty minutes past one o'clock in the
morning. The damage was 50 great that
the explorers were notable to descend into
the mines for some hours. One shaft was
chokcd. Twenty-Five bodies have been re-
covered SO far. and thirty four more have
been seen in the Penysrais pit.
Mining Disasters In South Wales.
South Wales, in which the Rhonti.la
| valley disaster recorded above occurred,
is getting fatal pre-emincnce in colliery
disasters. Scarcely two years have
elapsed since the terrible explosion at
Abercarne, in which 3GJ out of the 3S7
people in the mine were killed. This dis
aster, one Of the most terrible
on record, occurred Oh September II,
1873, at Abercarnc, near Newport.
in Monmouthshire. The scene 6f
this explosion, however, was some distance
to the east of the Rhondda valley. The
explosion in the same vicinity referred to
in the dispatches occurred On January u,
1879, ut the Dinas colliery, near Ponty-
pridd, in Gla:nOrganshire, and 50 lives
were lost. A much more serious disaster
than either occurred in the same vicinity
on July Is, 1855, when III lives were lost
by an explosion in the Cymmer colliery.
The inquest in that case showed that
the plainest precautions had been dis
regarded, for 4 lighted candle had been
placed before a heading which was sup
posed to be dangerous, for the purpose OF
testing the extent of the danger. An even
more fatal accident than this was the
explosion at Ferndale, South Wales, on
November 8. 1867, when 1G7 out of 40
men and boys perished and on June 10,
1869, the same pit blew up, killing GO out
of 120 workers. The RhOndda valley,
where three disastrous explosions havenow
occurred, is denseiy populated, and the
excitement on these occasions is terrible to
witness.
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WHAT Il singing rebuke the Rev. DR..
Leonard Woolsey Bacon gives to the un-
easy spirits agitating life senatorships
for ex- presidents and eN-vice presidents! !!
How completely he shows that 4 man
who has been exalted in this free repuE-
lie cau, with the serenest dignity, resume
4 private place in society without any
lerogatiOn of himself or the Office lie has
held, What an eXemplilication of the
splendid republican simplicity ofOur free
institutions that no citizen worthy to
hold high place under them need
suffer by honorable retirement therefrom
back 10 the rank OF citizen-equal to
president in all that makes Ill Ameri-
can citizen. When any one shall
have filled these i.iy;l trusts with shame
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PERSONAL.

JENNY LIND is fifty-nine years old.
Lord BEAcOSsFIELD was four years in
writing Endymion."
Mr.. ANDREW D. WHITE is visiting
Paris.
JEROME BoNAPARTE is about to publish
a newspaper under the probable title Of
"Le Napoleon.'
DON PEDRO, Emperor of Brazil, has
translated number Of Whittier's poems
into the Portuguese language.
WENDELL PHILLIPS celebrated his sixty
ninth birthday on Monday, November
Goth,
The Prince Of WALES recently entered
upon his fortieth year. His mother is now
in her sixty year and has reigned
forty-three years.
Mr.. p. T. BARNUM. the sreA Snowman,
is sick in New York, but, though very
weak, is not considered in immediate dan
ger.
A. Bronson ALCoTT began to keep a
diary when he was twelve years old, and
haskept it up ever since. Hc learned to
write by practicing with chalk on his
mothers kitchen floor.
Geu. Miles is reported to have said that
SITTING BULL is one Of the best specimens
of a crafty and unrelenting savage he has
ever met man who is cunning rather
than diplomatic.
Prof. w. A. NJ. DILLER, the well-knOwn
organist of New York, a frequent visitor
to this city and son OF the late Rev. DR..
Diller, who perisiled Oh the Seawanhaka.
has died suddenly of apoplexy in Elmira,
whittier he removed only two weeks ago.
CnAs. f. LELAND, of the DelavaD Honse
in Albany, N. Y, has been notified that
the subscriptions to build the "American
Palace Hotel" in London, have been sc.
cured. He will take charge Of the hotel
when it is completed in 1882.
"Mr. TILDEN takes great interest in
farming at Greystone. The farm consists
Of sixty-scven acres, we'll situated and
cultivated. The barns and stables are
commodious. This fall Mr.. Tilden has
gathered over 2, 600 bushels Of apples from
his trees, and has planted 800 pear and
peach trees. He has also recently pur'
chased team of large farm horses in the
West. They weigh fully $500 pounds.
Mr.. Tilden is very enthusiastic about
Greystone and its agricultural products.
He does not seem to think Of anything
but his farming. He very seldom reads .
! paper. Sometimes he does not look al
one for weeks" So says his young man
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SENATOR BAYAED, in a speech not
long ago, said that Senator Conkling,
Collector Arthur, District Attorney
Noah Davis, Secretary of the Treasury
Boutwell,, and Jayne, the infOrmer, had
been present ut the New York custom
house when the senior partner of Phelps,
Dodge x Co., who was president of
the Chamber of Commerce, a men,
ber of the Union League, an
exalted church member, and a
giver of $4,000 to President Grant,
hal been compelled to pay out S27G,OO
on account of his frauds Oh the revenue,
and that the money had been divided
between the assembled inquisitors.
To-day Conkling, Boutwell,, Davis
and Arthur appear with joint
letter in the Philadelphia Press
and say that the statement is not
true. Or course everyone will await
Mr.. Bayard's answer tef0re believing
them; and it is safe TO say that his word
will no! Ike outweiglei by that OF tho
four. Possibly there is some misappre-
hensiOn as to what Senator Bayard
stated: and these people are entitled to
the benefit of tina. :srnposition for the
present.
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\ Terrible Tale.

Mary L. Hollingsworth, 4 young girl
who five months ago was turned from her
home III White Mills, Pa, and who was
found in basnio in New York, told ter
iible story in court. She alleges tha. she
had been taken by y man called French
Lewis to the house of Annie Haurtz alias
Harrison, who paid him five dollors for
her. She had been kept prisoner in this
house for i've months. Annie Hauritz was
arrested On q warrant issued by Justice
Bixby and commi tied to await the action
of the grand jury. The girl is in the house
of detention as a witness.
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to himself and discredit to his country
when he shall have consorted with pull
lie thieves and shall have been the tool
of plunderers when his administration
was cess-pool of corruption-for such
an one the private station may be a posi-
ton of unrest. But in the exaltation OF
such an one anew there is no good to the
government and no honor to the people.
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Regina Dial Gin.

The eloquent story of Regina Dial Gin
which we print on our first page to-day
is as useful as it is interesting, 1t is true.
Long before she came to this country the
fame of this wonderful Italian woman
was established in her own land and
throughout the continent. Many Amer
leans had visited her and tested her skill
with satisfactory results; and of all the
witness borne to her sincerity and al
most inspired surgical skill none is more
intelligent and authoritative than that
of our own townswoman upon whose
recommendation We print the narrative,
to the perusal and study of which we in
vite every readers attention. Tie story
of this peasant woman's life and iabors,
her persecution and triumph, is more in
teresting than any fiction we wot Of. She
IS a marvel of original genius well direct
ed, of obstacles overcome and Of merit
finally recognized and fifty rewarded.
But she is most useful in illustrating the
perversity of medical sciencc--if medi-
cine is science-in refusing to hear TO
new discoveries or to need fresh inspira-
tions unless they come in the g regular"
Way. There is a great deal Of 'pOw-
VOW" and humbug in medicine; much
of it among their regular practitioners
and not little among the pride of the
schools. 1t takes great vigilance in the
profession to keep the public from being
victimized by quacks. In their zeal to
protect their patients from being dOsed
and drugged, and butchered in an
" Irregular way, the " regulars" may
he excused for the exercise of a little
countervailing humbug, and their phi
lantLropy may sometimes pardon their
stupidity. But for Il profession that calls
itself liberal and which pretends to aim at
the relief of mems suffering, its reat-
ment of those who have claimed TO have
new insights into the healing art has
been singularly discreditable to itself
and we'll calculated to make people cred
ulous of the quacks and distrustful of
the regulars. The story of Regina Dal
Gin S prosecutions is the story of Jenner
and Harvey; and who knows how much
more valuable discoveries have been
hidden by the rebuff which their dis
coveres met from the schools. The
greatest charlatahry in any human
science is that which assumes to 4
knowledge of all that is movable in its
branch, and which fails to recognize that
4 beginning Of all knowledge is the ap-
probation of how much there is to learn.
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The Annual Mail Count,

The annua! count of mail matter, origi-
mating at the postOffica. in this city, for the
first seven days in December, 1880, is as
follows:
No. letters in plain enyelopes.............. 8,31
No. letters IN special request, stamped en-
velOpe5 printed by +. y. D.. .............. LOTT
No letters in ordinary stamped envelopes 3ii
not printed by r. u. D.................. 4, ,4OG
No of official letters ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 3J3
No. of postal cards .....................4, 4, 49j
No. OF newspapers to subscribers. 1893
No. Of magazines and periodicals. to sub
scriDcfS.. ''S"'
No. OF packages OF transient printed mat
...................... 1863
No. of pieces OF merchandise. .-........... 2Sl
Total No. Of pieces. ....................222 22l
Increase over the first seven days in No
vember 1879 (when it was taken last year,
Of q, 1872 pieces, divided as follows Let
ters 1, ,7G0 newspapers and periodicals. 49,
34S; transient printed matter 1904.
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Henry Williams, his wife and child have
died since Sunday on farm near Bryan,
Texas, from eating poisoned beef. Four
others are sick from the same cause.
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THE editor of the Lancaster Inquirer
is determined to have a clear track for
Congress-. He recommends Hon. A.
Herr Smith to Mr.. Garfield for secretary
OF the treasury and u. +. Esl,leman,
esq, for the other cabinet position to
which Lancaster county is entitled.
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MINOR TOPICS.

NINE per cent. of the Yale college grad
yates during the past ten years have be,
come clcrgymen.
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ant and edifying.
THE Baptist Weekly remarks with con-
siderable subtlety that the brethren who
have been able to attend political meetings,
gaze at torchlight professions and do con
siderable shouting besides, cannot consist
emily plead the risks of night air rs an ex-
cuse for absence from prayer meetings.
The first peal of bells ever hung in Eng
land was put up at Croyland Abby A. D.:
9G0. Many years ago it was estimated
that there were 9, 262 peals of bells in Eng
land. The cathedral of Antwerp, celc-
brated for its magnificent spire, has peal
of 80 bells Oh which the most elaborate
music is played every half hour.
THE EpiscOpalians of St. Louis dubbed
together lately, hired a theatre for week,
paid the manager the salary Of the players,
selecting, Of course, a moral play, stirred
up their friends to patronize the play, and
at the close turned over the profits to the
local charity for the sake Of Which this
new departure was made.
THE older DR.. Hodge, when writing to
DR.. Broadman letter Of thanks for a
kind tribute, said: every man knows
that in his own heart, whatever others
may say Ofhim, that he is a poor shotc.
Again he writes: "Job must have been in
q desperate state of mind when he scraped
his bois with potsherd, for | cannot
touch mine with feather"
TIE church was warm, the minister was
dull, and everybody fell asleep except the
half witted nan, Jamie Fleming. "My
brethren,' shouted the indignant pastor,
"you should take the example of that
fool there. lie keeps awake" "Ay, ay,
minister" shouted Jamie; but il
hadn't been fool would hive been
asleep, like the ithers.''
BRETHREN, read this and be wise Min
lister Ito Rory. "Why weren't you at the
kirk on Sunday" Rory. ~ wis at Mr.
Dunlop's kirk" Minister. II don't like
your running about tae strange kinks in
that way. Not that object tae yer hear
ing Mr.. Dunlop; but I'm shurc yc widna
like Yer shcep straying away into strange
pastures" Rory. 81 widna care gr.ir-
sir, if it was better gress.''
THE vacancy in the local Mo:aviau pull
pit occasioned some time since by the res
ignation and removal to Bethlehem of
Rev. c. b. Shultz, the former pastor, is
soon to he filled by Rev. J. Max Hark,
pastor of the Second Moravian church of |
who is to he installed in !
charge of the flock in this city about the
first of January. The Moravians of Lam
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AT a recent heather festival in India,
the offerings to the idol were valued at
81, ,O0O,O 900. Pull up, Christians.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-11

RUSSIAN translatiOns of Buny.ln's ''Pil-
grim's Progress and Holy War; are
to be published shortly, with illustrations
of an English edition.
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In Louisville, Ky, the Northern and the
Southern Presbyteriaus joined on Thanks
giving Day, for the first time since the
war, in union services, which were pleas
ant and edifying.
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lOuf IElcHu ttull pslllSlllOUCI,
l.. F. S. FOSTER.
have been in the habit, these two years
that have been neighbOr to Mr.. Foster, of
looking upon his diligent, fruitful, and
honorable old age as presenting the very
type and ideal OF worthy close to the
career Of q great statesman and public off,
cial in republic such rs ours. l have
been glad that such an example should be
before the eyes Of my sons; and, when
visitors from the Old World have come to
see me, have taken pride in pointing to
the late acting vicc-prcsident Of the
United States, taking the modest place
and work on an equality with all the rest
of us. as noble and characteristic exam
pie Of what is best in American rcpubli-
canism.
l find now, from the reading of letters
from your distinguished contributors, that
this has been all q mistake on my part. /
learn, to my surprise, that these later
years of my beloved and vcneratcd friend
were not "dignilied," that two things
were lacking which are essential to the
dignity of man in his position. First
that he should be in the habit of draw
ing lot of unearned money every
year from the public treasury SO that
he could l;;c without honest and
usefu! work second, that some cxpedient
should be contrived by which he could
get into Congress wi hout being elected.
Il is a painful revelation this which Your
college presidents and other great Dons
have made to us as to what constitutes
dignity. could wish that they had even
left us under our old illusion.
Norwich, Conn. Nov. Goth, 1850.
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"A BABY

"A BAB
Is well.spring Of happiness IL it is good and
healthy, but a frettul, crying child mNkss =
martyr OF its mother. Soothing Syrups in
common use are not satisfactory. DR.. L. l..
Brown Soothing Spherules are Just the thing
for Collie, Gripping Pains, Irritation Of Teeth,
Ing, slight DiarrhGa, and Nervous Fresting.
Try them.
0te. |. Browns Diarhoa 4 Dysentsy Pills
are JUS. what the most intelligent y.AyslCiAa
in the world might use. They cure HArrhea,
ordinary DysenieEy aud Cholera Morbus.
possessing aaodyne and some anti spAsmodie
properties, they relieve all pain from tooth.
ache to erAmp collie.
DR.. E, L. BROWNS LIVER PILLS
are made of the best material, a. great cost,
and are perfectly reliable. For further 10.
formation see Guide Post. Sold BY Druggists.
f. l.. BROWN 4 co.
nor l5-Gm New Windsor, Nd.
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"a -
HAVE just returned from the Lumber
\ Regions-And am now receiving the lar
gest selection Of LUMBER ever offered al
this place, at Reduced Prices, consisting Of
Yellow Pine, Spruce and Hemloek
JoIsT AND sCANTLING
Of al lengths and sizes, "a, 81, GA and 8 4
White Pine Boards end Plank, yellow and
White t'ine Flooring, Dressed and Undressed
Misunderstanding, White Pine Cypress and
Chestnut Shingles, Walnut and Ash Boards
and Plank, Plain and Headed Pickeits, Shin.
gle and PlasleriRg laihs, a prime lot Of Chest.
nut Rails and Posts. Also all the different
KINDS OF COAL,
Thinking large sales with small profits bet
ter than small sales with large profits, have
concluded TO adopt the former Is my guide,
and hope shall be enabled 20 carry il out by
persons in want Of anything in my line giving
me call before purchasing elsewhere,
EDWARD LYNCH,
Near Depot, Westminster, Nd.
~ ~5A
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Ia the Circuit Court for Carroll County
Jokm +. Wsrehime and Henry S. Warehime,
Mortgages. rs. Sarah A. Ham and Daniel
r. Ham, her husband, Morsgsgors-
nKDERED this 10Th day Of March. A. d.
" 1880, that the sale of the morighged
property made and reported in the above en-
titled Gauss, BY yirtne Of power OF sale con.
tanned ia mortgage FROM Sarah A.. Ham and
Daniel 7. Ham, her husband, 10 them hear
ing date December 15th, A. D. 1873, and re-
corded among the Real Estate Mortgage Re
cords Of Carroll county, 10 Lber ]. B. b.,
10. 7, folio 400, he, be finally ratified and
confirmed, unless Cause to the contrary be
shown on or before the 9Th day Of May next;
provided copy Of this order be inserted in
some newspaper pubIshed IN Carroll county,
MARYLAND, once 4 week for three successive
seeks previous to ths 9th day Of April next.
The report states the amount Of sale 20 be
100000.
FRANK 7. SHAW, Clerk.
True copy,--'fest:
ap s-8t FnASK I. SHAW, Clerk