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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-14
and finished piece of political oratory
as this campaign has yet produced and it
loses nothing in vigor because of the
pathOs and beauty of its diction.

A CUSTOM House clerk in New York,
who gets 500 a month. has received no.
tice from Edward McPherson's COM
mittee, that Edward McPherson's COM
mittee sis organized for protection of
the interests of the Republican party in
each of the Congressional districts of the
Union" In order that Edward Nc
Pherson's committee may prepare,
print and circulate suitable documents
illustrating the issues which distinguish
the Republican party from every other"
and may meet all proper expenses Incl
dent to the campaign, Edward McPher-
sons committee feels authorized to ap-
ply to all citizens whose interests or prin-
ciples are involved in the struggle - and
" under the peculiar circumstances in
which the country finds itself placed -
this tide waiter is asked to make a ''vOlun-
tary" contribution of not less than S775 to
enable Edward McPherson's committee
to inform the community wherein the Re-
publican party is distinguished from
every other. The black-mailed Custom
HOuser seems to think that the best way
to perform that service is to publish the
letter, showing that in raising corrup-
ton fund by abuse of the civil service,
the Republican party is distinguished
high above any other that has ever rose
or reigned or fell in this republic.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-14
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

Considerable quantities of ice are being
shipped from Norwegian ports for the
United States.
Sergeant & Ham, carriage makers in
Boston, lost 81, 900 by fire yesterday. A
fire in Summer street silk stores wrought
s75, 900 damages.
The physicians have stopped keeping a
record of Tanner. The doctor took break
fast yesterday in a restaurant, and re-
ceivcd a present Of 4 mammoth turtle
from Pensacola.
The Hagerstown division of the Shcnan-
doah Valley railroad, running from Ha-
gerstOwn to Shcppartlstown, was COM
pleted yesterday. The first train which
passed over the track contained q large
through excursion party from Harrisburg,
Pa, to CharlcstOwn, w. Va.
A general escape of state prisoners re-
Gently occurred at Laredo. Texas. Two
prisoners swan across the Rio Grande to
New Laredo, Mexico two were drowned,
and the remainder were prevented from
crossing by United States troops. The
fugitives have had protection from horse
thieves with the cognizancc of the Mexican
Government officials.
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STATE ITEMS.

a little daughter of Washington Davis,
Of NOrristown, was fatally scalded by falling
into a tub of boiling water.
John Wcidman, Lackawanna county
farmer aged 78, while crossing the railroad
at Hyde Park with load of farm produce,
was struck by a train and terribly cut.
Preparatory to going to Chicago Tan
cred cOmmandery of Knights Templar,
Pittsburgh has been presented with a
splendid gold banner costing $500.
Judge Rockefeller has appointed cx-
Judge Linn, Gamble and Bentley rs dis
tributing committee Of the fund sent to the
suffering poor of Milton.
Professor Marion Thrasher, recently
principal of CARVER seminary. Clarion
county, and son of Hon. w. II. NJ.
Thrasher, a leading Republican OF Indiana,
has taken the tump for Hancock and Eng
lish.
The third Sabbath of August 18th }
has been selected by the railroad mems
Christian association Of Mauch Chunk, Pa,
for the second observance of day of
prayer for tho railroad mcn of tho Lcl,igll
Valley.
While Henry Fitzpatrick, a Philadelphia
merchant, stood for 4 moment at Now
York ferry house last evening, his five
ycar-old boy got away from him and until
midnight the police worked incffcc tually
to find the supposed abductOrs.
George B. Strouch, formerly of Potts
vile. lato prominently connected with
tho James Riving mining and !stcel COM
pany, at Lynchburg, Virginia, as consult
ing engineer, has died there, aged 81 years,
Of consumption, after an illness Of several
weeks.
In Williamsport last evening Luppert' 8
large furniture factory, jack mill and u
brick dwelling house, together with a
large amout Of lumber were destroyed by
fire. Tho fire originated in the engine
room. Loss about $jG, 600. Insurance
$35, 900.
PHILADELPHIA has the largest number of
churches of tho large cities in the United
States-434 New York comes next with
354, Brooklyn follows with 24O, and all
other cities have less than 200 each. Bos-
ton has ono church to 1850 inhabitants,
New York one 2, 500, Buffalo one to I, CTS,
Cleveland one to 1, $50, Cincinnati one to
1900, Providence has ono to 1900.
In Pittsburgh Alex. Morgan, of color
and aged As, with a young white wife,
caught her and yellow paramour as they
were about to elope. He missed him with
the razor but got the LothariO sent to the
work house. Carrie Anderson was tho
maiden name of tho young white woman.
She married the negro nine months ago.
She comes of good family, is we'll educated
and very pretty.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-14
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
Events Across the County Lines.

Events Across the County Lines.
The state capital has 1000 Odd Fel-
lows.
A company of Harrisburg tennis players
have gone to Johnston for match
game.
Emma, young daughter, aged 32
months, of MIR. Jonas Gish, residing in
Harrisburg, while the mother was tempo
rarily absent, fell into tub Of water. She
was taken out and resuscitated by \ ply
sician, but in four hours after the occur
renee, the child died.
James Pasco was arrested in Allentown
yesterday and committed OH charge of
swindling by representing himself as a
canvassing agent for different newspapers.
He has been operating in EastOn, Lancas-
ter and other cities.
Tho second annual exhibition of The
York County Horticultural and Industrial
association, will bc held in the York bor.,
market building, corner Of Duke and
Princess streets, York. Pa, on Wctnes-
day, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Sep
tembcr Is, 1G, II, IS, 1880, and will be
open day and evening.
The opening of the Hancock wigwam ut
MiddletOwn announced for tonight has
been postponed until Saturday evening 2lst
inst, on account of the tent not being
ready. On Saturday evening next tho
wigwam will be opened i'll grand style
| and number of addresses may be expect
| ed.
A committee of arrangements, representa-.
tives of each company in the Harrisburg
fire department have in charge the matter
of giving grand open air concert for the
benefit Of John lIokc, disabled member
| x>f or MI
serious injuries at late fire.
Tho Hancock and English club of the
First ward, York, held Il meeting last
night to receive and fling to the breeze a
handsome flag presented to the club by its
president, +. u. Zicglcr, csI., nominee fOr
district attorney. More than two thou
sand voters lent their presence to the pro-
cessiOn and the aid of their lung power
to the immense applause which was accord
cd to the speeches made by John Black
ford, N. NJ. Wanner, John w. Bttinger,
esq, and Hon. John West, who addressed
tho meeting in the German language.
The infant child Of John f. Bcchtcl, of
COlcbrOokdalc tOwnsip, Bcrks county,
which was just three weeks old, is II boy
and his entire length is ten inches. His
wrists arc about the size of u mans little
finger, while his head is the size of a nlcdi-
um sized peach. He is healthy, but has
not yet made any sound.
Eighteen acres of wheat had been left
standing in shocks OH the farm OF Town.
send w. Evans, near the Buck, Chester
county, OH account of some dispute
with the tenant, Charles Showaltcr. This
week the tenant put in an appearance and
thrcshed the wheat out in the field, but it
| was badly spoiled, and $50 bushels of
wheat were lost by "spitc work."
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THE EAST END.

New Ii"lian'i-ChurchtOwn and Vicinity.
The recently organized Hancock cam
paign club of New Holland held u large
meeting at their rooms in the Styer house
on Tuesday evening. President Levi ii.
Bare was in the chair and DIR. Yun,lt, acted
as secretary pro TEN. in the absence Of
Secretary Townslcy. Reports Of the several
committees were heard and approved, and
II new committee. composed of Mcssrs. ID.
Yundt, August Hascy, Ed. Dillcr, Benz.
Ranck and jackson Iundt was appointed
to poll the township and bring out every
voter to join the club. The committee on
uniform could not report rs yet, but in all
probability 4 cap and cape will be adopted
as the equipment. The club numbers
nearly 15O members and seem determined
to make themselves felt as Il power for the
cause of our gallant standard bearers.
Diphthcria is very prevalent in this 10
cality. There are y number of children ut
present afflicted with it. and within the
last week two have dic'l-thc children of
Mr. Mason and q. w. Shcaifcr.
The train Oh the New Holland branch
was delayed several hours Oh Wednesday
night, caused by q wreck on the main line
of the Pennsylvania railroad.
The New Holland Lutheran Sunday
school spent II delightful day in Eby's
woods. about two miles from town, on
Tuesday.
Conductor Dcson, of the New Holland
branch, has his annual vacation and went
to the scasl,orc. Mr.. John Lowcry is con-
ductOr pro tenn.
A large number of persons ip this sec
ton arc attending the BrOwnstOwn camp
meeting. Every evening largo number
of teams bear wOrshippcrs to that place.
Mr.. &. W. Smith, the wcll-knOwn hard
ware merchant, is ''dOing" Atlantic City
ut present.
The Great Church Debt Extinsuisher,
Edward Kin,ball, whose fame is widc-
spread. will be ut the Pcquca BAPTIST
church, ut Gains, OH next Sunday, August
-.
Martin Myers, u years of age, living
with Mr.. Jacob Myers, just late Of New
Holland, met with u painful accident
which nearly lrld !, serious termination.
In tryin:;; to take u cartridge from Il single
barrclcd pistol it exploded, and the ball
entered his left breast, just below the nip
pie, and passing upwards lodged in his
shoulder. The ball was extracted after a
time when Ire was removed to his home in
Spring Grove, where he is doing finely.
The old Bangor church, 1T ChurchtOwn,
is undergoing u course Of repairs. The old
wall will stand but tho structure will be
remOdclcd in handsome Gothic style. To
help raise funds for this lalitl;.blc object Il
festival is now being held in DeIlavcn's
orchard. Tho new church when COM
plctcd will be ono of the prctticst places Of
worship in Lancaster county, and will rank
f.yorabIy with the city c,iiiccs of the same
kind.
New Holland will be well represented in
the coming Atlantic City excursion.
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PERILS OF TRAVEL.
Danger ON tho Rail.


A smash-up yesterday occurred on the
Northern Central railroad, near Millers-
burg. Five freight cars were wrecked, but
no one was injured.
At noon yesterday the second section OF
Pennsylvania railroad, ran off the track
while rounding curve within short dis.
tance Of DuncannOn. The engine and two
cars were turned completely around and
the trucks under these were badly DAM
aged, but fortunately the box portion Of
the cars resisted the shock and no person
the breaking of the flange of wheel.
steamboat Bonnie Lee on Monday, in ad.
ditiOn to the casualties already reported,
six roustabouts and one cabin boy were
drowned.
Two extra freight trains collided ort
mile east Of COOperstOwn Junction on the
Susquehanna division of the Delaware and
Hudson canal cOmpany's railroad. Paul
Simpson, fireman on one of the engines,
was instantly killed. John Reilly, fireman
on tho other locomotive was fatally injured
One of the engineers named Learned, was
injured by jumping from his engine. The
engineer on the other train escaped unhurt
A brakeman named Mullen received inter
nal injuries. Seventy-five freight cars
were demolished and the freight strewn OF
the ground in all directions.
The coroncr's jury at Mays Landing
after hearing 4 number of witnesses, re
turned verdict that, in their opinion, TIN
collision which caused the death of James
Sweeney was accidental. The coroner o
Camden began an inquest on the bodies o
Mrs. and Miss Wright, who died i'll tina
city. The inquest on the bodies of thos'
who died in Philadelphia will be held OF
Tuesday next.
Michael Dolan, an employee of the Phila
dclphia and Reading railroad, was on a ca
boOsc attached to train which was being
shifted at Port Richmond, and in putting
| down brakes the brake chain snapped ant
Dolan was thrown to tho track and a por
tion of the car passed over him, inflictin.
fatal injuries.
The regular night freight train over thu
New England road ran into an extr;
peach train of empty cars which was takin'
water at North Widdham and was on tn
line of the regular train. The engineer Q
the regular train, Frank Way, was killed
A number of cars were wrecked.
Tho train from Flushing, L. l., t
Whitcstone, when near tho latter station
struck Charles Albrccht, saddler, of Col
lcgc Point, who was walking on the track
His injuries are probably fatal.
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SINGULAR ACCIDENT,
A Child Falls Fifteen Inches and Is Instant
Iy Killed.

The child on which Coroner Mishlcr yes
tcrday held IN inquest, ut Monterey,
was Harry Wolf, son OF Abraham Wolf,
aged one and u half years. On Thurs
nay cvcnin. Mr.. Wolf and his wife went
to work in their tobacco. leaving the chill
drcn, the one that is dead and an older one,
in the care Of half grown girl,
who reside with the family. The girl took
them to the barn to play and while they
were there the little child attempted to 70
out of the door. In doing this Inc fell to
the ground, distance Of but u inches
from the top of the step. His head struck
against stone and he was instantly killed.
The girl was badly frightened, and not
knowing that the child was dead, she pick
cd it up and carried 1t to the house. She
then ran to the field and informed the pa
rents. The mother found that the child was
yet warm, and believing that it was not
yet dead she sent for Dr. A. NJ. Miller who
soon arrived and pronounced the child
dead. Coroner Mish!er impaneled jury
consisting of J. b. Shaeffer. II. n. Arm
strong, w. NJ. Morrin, b. F. Sel;lomridge.
z. F. Stacy, Hehry MUIR. They found
that the boy " came to his death from con-
gcstiOn of the brain the result Of fall"
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Nimmo, jr., chief Of the bureau Of statis-
tics, who generously places tho resources
of the clerical force under his orders at
the disposal of Mr.. Mcpherson. It is to
be presumed that the secretary of the con-
gressional committee gets literally paid
for the exclusive use of such wares, aud
as he, of course, turns in the money to
the Republican campaign fund, the neces-
sity Of giving liberal contributions to the
congressional committee is thereby pro-
portionately lessened. That considcra-
ton may serve to console our dissatisfied
contemporaries who do not enjoy the &C
quaintance of Mr.. Mcpherson"
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it and became violent. Satisfied that he
had not the hydrophObia, the doctor pro-
cured cOwhitle, entered the cell, gave
his patient 4 right good thrasl,ins, COM
pletely cOwed him, and in day or two
sent him home WELL 1t was not hy,lro-
phObia, but the fear Of hydrOphobia with
which the man was affected.
Book knowledge.
DR.. George Il. Wclchans says he never
saw 4 case of hy,lrophobia and knows
nothing about it. except rs it is set forth
in the books. The theory Of accepted
writer's on the disease is that dogs, cats,
foxes and some other animals contract the
disease spontaneously and import it to other
animals by means Of 4 virus in their saliva.
If there he successful incubation Of this
virus, hy,lrophobia follows. There are about
five chances out of six that persons bitten
by 8: rabi,i animal will escape being success
fully innculatcd with the virus and thus
escape the disease. lie believes that
tctanus is often mistaken for hydrophObia.
\ wound made in the hand or foot by
nail or similar instrument is not unlike
that m:l,!c by the tooth OF 4 dog. Tetanus
may and often does result from either.
The nervous paroNysms i'm tetanus and
hydrOpllobia are much alike, the most
marked difference being that in the former
the nerves OF respiration are most
severely attacked and in the latter the
nerves Of the throat. The spasmOdic con-
traction of the organs of the throat pre-
vent the patient from swallowing, and
hence the belief that he fears the water.
DR.. Wc!chans did not believe there were
many mad dogs in the country and thought
the newspapers were doing great wrong
by publshin" from day to day stories
about dogs that were shot, Showing I'M
mistakable evidence of hy,lrophObia, >"
when perhaps not u single person or paper
making the statement has any conception
ofwhat are the unmistaha bic cy mlcnc cs y
of hydrophol,a.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-14

s. A. James, of Sigourney, gives tho in
formation on tho authority of an eye.
witness, who is also responsible man,
that the notorious Bender family, four in
number, were captured soon after the dis
covcry of the murder of Colonel York.
The eyewitness says that the four were
stood up in a row, facing nine riflemen, and
were told their fate that Kate was plucky
to the last and called upon the captors to
"shoot and be damned" and that the
four bodies were buried at the corner OF
the four counties of Labctte, Wilson,
Ncosho and Montgomery.
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says: 1--WE do not see colored conductors
on the horse cars nor colored salesw0men
in our stores. COlored carpenters, colored
printers, colorcd factory girls are hardly to
be found, and chiefly, we presume, because
they would not be welcomed by their assc-
ciates. Colcred men are, therefore, doomed
to be walters, or BARRIERS, OF whitewashers;
and colorcd women tc be laundrcsses or
servants"
An Episcopal clergyman is in the habit
of saying after each answer from the chill
deem, "Vcry good capital very we'll.
One afternoon he asked What will be
said of the righteous at the last day?' And
the children answered, as with one voice
"Come ye blessed Of my Father, inherit
the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation Of the world" Aud the good
curatc said every good capital very
WE'LL" And then he asked the children
what would be said to the wicked And
the children again, as with ono voice, an
swered: Depart from me, yc cursed,
into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil
and his angels" And the curatc said
every good capital very WE'LL"
JUDGE BLACK has said: 81 don't know
any one who has properly appreciated the
parallels of Jesus. l don't believe that the
! man ever lived who could have written
| any one Of them, even the least of them
They arc unlike anything in literature OF
| philosophy in their spirit, purpose ant
character. IL they were all that Jesus llat
left us, they would be conclusive proofs OF
his divinity" Judge Black then went on
to say that Inc had asked Il lady friend to
lend him some books for Sunday reading
and, among others, she had sent him vol
umc entitled "Alonc with Jesus And,
said hc, "thc title :cpclIcd me for two
reasons first, it is Il piece Of spontaneous
cgotism for any man to assume that he is
Of SO much consequence in the universe tha
Christ would shut out all the rest o
the world and attend to him; ant
everything he could lay his hands Oh, an,
then ran away in the night. lie left he
hind him diary full Of the most piou
cjaculations, and the last entry lie made il
it was this: Spent an hour of sweet com
munion alone with Jesus. This rcmem
brancc spoiled the book for me, and SO
have not read il.
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A Long Ride.

Ellsworth Black, lad Of sixteen has
reached Petrolia having travelled tho en-
tire distance from Fort Worth,
Texas, on Texan pony. He left Fort
Worth May 10th, and has travelled steadily
but leisurely since that time, except three
weeks, when he was detained by sickness,
fording streams where there was toll to
pay, foraging for sustenancc, and at times
using tho broad canopy of the heavens for
q blanket.
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At Rochester yesterday Wedgwood won
the 2:23 purse in 2:194; Matte Hunter
beat Lucy three out of five in the FREQ fol-
all. It was thought Lucy might have won
the fifth heat, but for collision with Sor-
rel Dan and Rowdy Boy, due to the jock
eying. Third race-2:25 class-fora a purse
Of 81 500, won by Hattie Woodward. To-
day St. Julien and Maud 8. will be shipped
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What the Law FOrbIds.

The district attorney has nearly two
hundred indictments Oh the trial list at
the August sessions. We would that
the fulncss of the number indicated the
efficiency of the committing magistrates
as clearly as it manifests their industry.
II is safe 10 assume that the large major
ity of the cases are improperly returned
and that the only good they subserve is
TO make fees for the officers who handle
them. Notwithstanding all the criti-
cism that has been expended upon the
magistrates and the district attorney
concerning the unnecessary multiplica-
ton of complaints and indictments there
is no dimunition Of the evil. Tho busi-
ness is too profitable TO Ike readily abated.
The district attorney does not seem to be
disposed to drop any possible fees that
the law allows him, and is not seemingly
any 100 careful to construe the law
against himself. We observe, for in
stance, that fifteen separate indict-
ments have been prepared against as
many persons for melting to riot, -
and eleven against as many others
for violating fish laws" Whereas
the laws seems to plainly forbid the
making of more than one indictment on
each case.
Section Is of the Act of March
81, 1860, provides that: " In all cases
where two or more persons have COM
mitted an indictable offence, the names
of all concerned shall he contained in one
bill of indictment" In the cases We speak
of the eleven men i'm the one and the lif
teen in the other were, we believe, engaged
at the same time and place in the alleged
violation of the law, and therefore there
was but the one indictable offence in
each case for which the law provides that
there shall be but one bill of Indictment.
The attention of the court is respectfully
called to this matter in the fond hope
that it may find itself clothed with au-
thority to correct it. We have so often
been mistaken in supposing the judges
to have authority which they thought
they did not have, and to be without
that which they conceived that they pos
sessed, that We are not sanguine that we
have rightly judged their power of cor
r.ction in this case; but we are not dis
posed to have them fail to correct the
wrong through an omission to invite
their attention to it.
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interesting Services.

Bishop Vail, of Kansas, is expected to
preach in St. Johns Free church to-mor-
morning at the usual hour. Prof. Diller
will preside at the organ.
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to Springfield. Mass, where they viii trot
in the free-for-all and 2:19 races, unless
special arrangements arc made otherwise.
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REPUBLICANS may say or think what
they will of Gen. Chalmers. Their
thoughts or speech will not make one
hair of his head white or black, but
they ought all to read his presentation of
the Southern case, which we present to.
day, for its own sake. It is as forcible
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-14

HENRY WARD BEECHER's Chrissnn
Union thinks free trade is !. Christian duty
since neither nations nor individuals have
a right to grow rich at tho expense of
others, and will not profit by it event
ually.