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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-25
BOUND AND ROBBED.

Tho LII Treatment Of an Aged Couple.
A terrible outrage was perpctrated on
John Corners and wife, an old couple, liv-
ing in the little town of Catfish, Pa, about
fifty miles.east Of Pittsburgh, on the Al
legheny Valley railroad. About o o'clock
Wednesday evening seven masked men
called at COnners's, and finding the
old people asleep, forced an entrance.
Shey first dragged Conner, who is 81 years
of age, from bed, bound and gagged
him, and thel: similarly treated the wife,
driving her at the point of tho pistol.
Having rendered them helpless, the vii
lains tortured Mr.. Corners until he gave
up his key and revealed the combination
Of the safe, shooting him once in the head
and inflicting injuries which may prove
fatal.
From the safe. the robbers took about
$40, 900 in cash, and between 81, 1000 and
$S, 600 in government bonds and railroad
stock. They then fed, leaving tho old
folks bound. These remained in this con-
dition until morning. when they were re-
leased and cared for by q son who lives in
the neighborhood.
From the bungling manner in which
the work was done it is thought that those
engaged in the outrage were not profess
sionals. They must have been acquainted
with the premises
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ACCOUNTS differ as to how the nomi-
nations of persons to fill the federal
Offices in New York will affect the Re-
publican organization there and the re-
lations Of the two opposing factions to
the new president. One day the Conk
ling people had their innings and were
happy /; it was believed that the predic-
tions were to be verified of the supreme
control of the New York federal patron
age by the three harmonious United
States senators from that state-Conk-
ling, Platt and Arthur. But when the
Blaine people got their innings the score
ran up on their side at an alarming rate.
The best Office in the state, and probably
the best in the civil service, is given to
an anti-Grant, anti-Conkling, anti
Platt, anti-Arthur man. Mr.. Conkling
may sulk but he cannot defeat Robert
sons confirmation. The opposition in
his state has found spot whereon to
rest its lever.
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XIs. SwentzeI's Funeral.

The remains of Mrs. Margaret Swentzcl,
widow OF Rev. DR.. Frederick Swentzel,
formerly OF this city, whose death in
ChamberSburg ut tho residence of her son
Rev. ii. G.. swentzel, has before been re-
ported, arrived in this city yesterday after
noon, and were bcrne to the residence Of
Judge Livingston, North Duke street.
This morning the interment took place ut
Woodward Hill cemetery, the remains be-
ing followed to the grave by q large con-
course 81 s,rrowing friends, among whom
were Rev DE-. Spa;dling, of York Rev.
DR.. Knight, OF ST. James Rev. I. B.
Barker, o: St. Johns. and Rev. AlOnzo r.
Dillcr, of iArietsa. The burial casket was
covered with i!owers, and many beautiful
floral tributes were placed upon the grave.
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Mr.. GARFIELD has adopted Mr..
Hayes plan of lifting man out of one
Office to pnt him in another, SO that the
changes necessary to accommodate a de-
sired appointment can be accomplished
with as little friction as possible. But
Mr.. Philips, whom it was proposed to
put on the bench of tie court Of claims.
to make place for W.. E. Chandler. "a
solicitor of the department of justice. is
not willing to lend himself to this ac-
and declines to take the
new place. All the same he must 20.
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Workmen arc engaged in tearing down
the old Washington house at Chickies, it
being the intention of the owner, Mr.. A.
NJ. CARRIER. to erect new house upon the
site. Th. o!l Washington house was
built before the Revolutionary war and
vas remode,ed in 1850. In one of the cup-
boards is notice to the effect that Gen.
Washington drank glass of wine from a
bottle therein and also that he left his au-
tograph there when he visited the house.
The autograph was taken away when the
house was remodeled.
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A Fraud Even In HIS Temperance Pre-
V0nsiOnS.
Correspondence Philadelphia Times.

Correspondence Philadelphia Times.
A preacher named Lanahan, the pastor
Of Mr. Hayes's church here has published
a letter saying MIR. Hayes is a teetOtalIer
or total abstainer, and furiously denying
my frequently published statements. How
does Lanahan know that Mr.. Hayes never
drinks anything He knows he never
saw him drink-that's all know good
many men, and women, too, just as good
as Lanahan who say Hayes does
drink Lanahan, if he goes at
it quietly, can find a score Of people
right here in Washington who have drank
wine with Mr.. Hayes, and some, l am
sure, who have drank whisky and brandy
with him. will go further than this.
If DR.. Lanal,an will come to me l will
give him the name of lady (privately and
not to be used by him) in the highest Cir
cles and OF the highest respectability who
was offered first claret and then sherry by
Mre. Hayes herself in the White House.
Still further, will give him the name OF
a gentleman who offered to give Mrs:
Hayes a case of whisky shortly before she
left the White House, which was accepted.
Whether it was delivered 1 do not know.
Still further, will give him the name Of a
gentleman in West Walnut street, Philadel-
phia. who entertained Mr.. Hayes at breakfast
where several kinds of wines were fur
nished. will give the name Of the gen.
tleman who sat beside Mr.. Hayes, and he
will tell DR.. Lanahan what he told me,
that Mr.. Hayes drank moro wine than
anybody else at tho table, which was 8.
good deal. One more step and I am done.
II DR.. Lanahan will call on me will show
him a copy Of Col. FOrney's Progress Of
last August. in which is printed the fol-
lowing in large typo "R. B. Hayes, the
last timo saw him in Philadelphia. joined
me in glass of champagne at the Union
League" There has been altogether too
much maudlin hypocrisy about the Hayes
family.
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The most sensational chapter yet pub
lished in the Philadelphia Records en-
terprising investigation of the bogus di-
ploma business is that which appears tc-
day in its revelations of Buchanan's MIS-
doings made by the papers given by him
to the Record. He was a grand rascal
to be sure, and his downfall was as GER
tain from his tortuous career as his fate
now is unimportant, broken and ruined
as he deservedly is. But that part of his
disclosures which tells of hush money
paid to legislative committees might
profitably be followed far enough to let
no guilty man escape.
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PERSONAL.

Gen. E. w. MARBLE will likely remain
commissioner of patents.
Miss HELEN POTTER now includes i'm
presentations of Sara Bernhardt in her
repertoire.
HUGH J. JEwETT, president of the Erie
railway, has been chosen to the presidency
of the New York worlds fair commission,
to succeed General Grant.
H. ]. RAMsDELL has sued the city of
Washington for s2O,0 damages for in
juries received by a fall in the slippery
streets last January.
A. .REEDER MULLER, United States
gauger for the Easton district, has died
of consumption, aged "a years. He was
the youngest man from Pennsylvania in
the service of the Union during the rebel
lion, having enlisted September Is, 1861,
when he was thirteen and a-half years
old.
A West Philadelphia young and married
woman donned one of her husbands suits
ofclothes on Wednesday night in a mis-
chievous mood, and accompanied by a lit
tie girl took promenade. A sixteenth
district policeman detected the masquer-
ader by the awkwardness of her gait, and
took her to the police station. The mis-
chievousness was all out of her by the
time her husband came and released her.
Two young ladies of alleged respecta-
bility," of Buffalo, were anxious to see
Sara Bernhardt play Camille. but being
unable to pay the $3 per seat in the lower
portion of the house, blackened their
faces, and passing themselves off as ne
crosses, went into the gallery where the
admission was only 81. The ruse was
quickly discovered, and the young women's
associates, the gallery gods, "made it
pleasant" for them between the acts.
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STATE ITEMS.

Frank Shaw; a young man Of Towanda a,
shot and killed himself with an army
musket, without apparent cause.
g John Horton, we'll known boot and
shoe dealer. and Capt. Henry Wilson, an
old river pilot, arc among the late deaths
in Philadelphia.
There are in the trout pools of Mr..
Reuben Troxell, Lehish county, a num-
Der of double-ish, Joined at the sides as if
of one body, yet each having two heads
aud two tails. They arc quite hearty. and
dart about the waters OF the "nursery :"
as lively as the rest Of tine small fry.
A German peddler named john John,
while being tormented by party of young
men at McKeansburg. Schuylkill county,
ina fit of anger cut Monroe Settler with u
razor, severing the juguler vein and caus-
ing death within an hour. John made his
escape and has not been arrested.
Ella Heller, a three-year-old daughter
of Samuel Heller, died in EastOn from the
effects of large number Of strychninc
pills which she had taken from q table
drawer. The medicine had been used by
q member:Of the family which the child
was visiting. 1t was the large quantity
which produce death
The matter o! erecting suitable build
ing for the Philadelphia Homeopathic
hospital is meeting with great favor
thrOughout the city. S1O0, 900 are wanted
from the state and like amount by pri-
vate subscription. There are about 275
homeopathic physicians in Philadelphia,
who estimate that their clientage covers
one. e.fousth of all the patients treated
,,Ndor tho IiGfcropt svcfoms
Mr.. GOwen writes that tho arrangement
under which the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road traffic will pass to and from New
York by the Pennsylvania railroad lines,
does not in any manner interfere with the
construction of the new railway from
Baltimore to Philadelphia, to connect with
the Reading railroad, using the Bound
Brook 70 New York. This work is to go
on at once
A black wOodchuck, moro commonly
called grounding, in the possession of J.
A. BurgOon, Reynoldsvile, burrOwed itself
on the 10th day of October and has been
in lethargic state, with ono exception.
ever since until last Tuesday. The cxcep-
tiOn was on grounding day, when it pOked
out its nose, shifted the atmosphere and
withdrew. True to the sign. it has been
in six weeks from that day. It has alto
gether been burrowed, without a. drop Of
water or a pinch of food, one hundred and
fifty days, or about five months.
While Minnie Davis. who keeps q disre-
putablc house was gathering wood in
POttsville she came across an " Internal
mach inc " that would have done credit to
tho brain of Russian Nihilist. It con
sisted of q stick OF hemlock wood, about
two inches in diameter, which had been
bored with an auger from one end almost
to the other. The hollow was filled with
three minnie balls ana muslin cartridges,
such as wero used in the old muzzle load.
ing rifles, each cartridge being wrapped in
a piece Of newspaper. The open end OF
the machine was then plugged up and
carelessly daubed with mud.
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Watch PresentattOn.

Last evening the employees Of Joseph
Loeb & Co. presented their foreman, Mi
chael Burrs, with a handsome silver
watch. Lancaster movement, stem winder
and setter. The watch was put up by l..
Weber, jewcier, and handsomely engraved
by ]. J.. Henscl, engrayer at the same
place. The presentation speech was made
by Mr.. Ferd Loeb and responded TO by
Mr.. Burns, after which they proceeded to
w. A. Shoenbcrger's saloon, where grand
repa,t awaited them.
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The lInlit lalNTS.

The police report shows that last night
there was one unlit gas lamp in the Fourth
ward; three in the Sixth one in the
Seventh, and three in the Ninth.
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E;ecr,.,sl of Officers.

At the regular conclave Of Lancaster
commaudery No. Is. K. t., held at their
asylum, Masonic hall, March "a. the fol-
lowin. were elected officers for the ensuing
Templar year:
E.C.-D,yid ii. Wyiie.
Gener.,lissi.no-Geo. Il. Weicllans.
Capt. Gem'l-E- Dram .Lytc.
Treas.-Chas. A. Ueinitsh.
RecOrder-Hugh s. Cara.
Trustees-C Widmyer, John Il. Warfel
and John ReeS.
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LATEST NEWS BY NAIL.

The places Of business, including Law
sons market and the Excelsior hsuse, at
Plano, ILL.,, were destroyed by fro yester
day. Total loss, $11, 900; insurance, light.
Edwin Lockwood. ST., formerly a fore.
man at the Camden & Amboy railroad
shops at Bordentown, N. j., comitted sui
eide by jumping into the creek from the
railroad bridge.
The son of the late Lewis Clapp, of ILL.,
nois, has succeeded in breaking his fathers
will by which he bequeathed $3.50, 900 for
the establishment of an agricultural COL
lege. conditioned on the county raising
s100,0OO.
Mrs. P. F. Murray has died at Colum-
bus, Ohio, from tho effects of mal-prac-
tice. She made q statement. declaring
that it was performed by Dr.. Willoughby,
at her own request and in direct opposi-
tion to her husbands wishes. DR.. Will
loughby will be tried on a charge of man
slaughter.
Samuel MCGEE was shot and killed last
September in a saloon kept by Samuel
Hawthorn, in Vicksburg. Miss. Haw.
thorn, who is young Irishman, was ar
rested and tried for murder. He was con.
victed and admitted to bail, pending an
peal, after which he sold his saloon and
fled. Yesterday he was arrested while
boarding an outward bound steamship at
New York.
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, T. n. Sinclair.
managing partner Of the pork packing
firm Of T. d. Sinclair & Co., fell through
hatchway in the main building of their
establishment down upon the tagged floor
below, a distance of thirteen feet, produc-
ing conclusion OF the brain, from which
he died. He was unconscious until his
death. Although only IS years old, he
was one of the largest business operators
in tho West, the firm of which he was
head distributing annually through him a !
million Of:sdOllars from that locality.
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No Court thi. Nforniny !.

On account Of the funeral Of Mrs.
Swentzel, who is a sister in-law Of Judge
Livingston, no court WAS held ye3terl; y
afternoon or this morning.
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Dear Elections.
Springfield Republican.

SprinGhelu Republican.
The English election Of year ago proves
to be tho most costly in the history of
parliamentary government. Under the
law which requires each candidate to make
a return of his expenses, the total outlay
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Before the MayOr.

This morning the mayor committed two
DRINKS for ten days and :wo for five.
One bum was discharged.
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to the klnQ COnQ0ef0tl0n o. TIE he.
formers, forhis alleged saving in the inn
proved distribution of buckets, brcoms
and soap, is offset by the discovery that
he has created a new Office and new
salary of $1,000 for the distribution Of
postage stamps. letter papers and en-
velopes to the members of the House.
MINOR T0F1C6. -.
TIE House at Harrisburg spent an en-
tertaining hour or two yesterday morning
discussing that clause Of the APPROPRIATION
bill which provides pay for the stationery
storekeeper. This is brand new Official,
private enterprise Of Chief Clerk HUM,
and the law does not authorize the ap
pointment. Huhn wants $1,000 for his
appointee. ..- a.. :.-
SECRETARY BURcH Of the Senate with.
held Senator sharou's pay for the entire
period of the extra session Of 1879, and it
was covered back into the national treas
ury. Mr.. Sharon accepted the decision
without remark, although it is claimed
that he made the point that there was no
authority under which his pay could have
been withheld. :,... zig,
For the four months ended February
our exports of provisions and tallow were
s52, 16s, 800 against s34, 196, 425 for the cor.
responding period a year ago. For ten
months our dairy product exported in.
creased from &15, 800, ,6o7 to s22.-
21s,0o7. Despite the ':disessed pork >
scare our exports in that line for February
1881, were 30 per cent. more than TO,
February, 1880.
IT is significant Of poor management OF
the telephone system in the large cities
that at a public meeting of the Washing
ton subscribers, three hundred out of six
hundred resolved to give it up. The com
plant is that the prices are too high ever
for good service, and that the service has
been extremely bad. Gradually many o.
these people havs grown weary ofanswer
ing wrong calls, Of failing to get responses
to their calls, and of the vexa,ion Of spiri
which the invention causes by its bitches
delays and jangling errors.
IT has been generally supposed that tn
Pennsylvania railroad company was no
under the operations of the new constitu
ton, having never accepted its provisions
It seems, however, that in the Philadel
phia court of common pleas, No. 2, Judge
Hare, FELL and Mitchell, gave unanimou
opinion that the only authority given b!
councils by ordinance to this company t.
construct the Filbert street elevated roat
was by legislative authrity, subsequent t.
the date of the taking effect of the nev
constitution, i. e., January 1, 1874, and b,
the acceptance of an ordinance of council
which could become legally operative o,Il.
by virtue of legislation of June 8, 1874
the court has declared: "With the con
sent of the city, under the act Of 1874, sh
may longitudinally appropriate any stree
to the construction of a branch road. Tn
request of the railroad company for tn,
assent of the city is in law an acceptanc
Of the present constitution of the state.''
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The marvellous claim OF Harry Huhn
to the kind consideration Of the Re-
formers, forhis alleged saving in the inn
proved distribution of buckets, brcoms
and soap, is offset by the discovery that
he has created a new Office and new
salary of 1000 for the distribution of
postage stamps. letter papers and en-
velopes to the members of the House.
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IOT GIllk Case oil OSt6OuSnOu 4uICS VI SOh.
structiOn fall, and all common understand
ing of plain words is at fault.
The constitution commands that tho
members of the General Assembly shall he
compensated for their services by salary,
and salary only. All other kinds Of com
peEsatiOn are expressly forbidden. No man
will say that, in face Of these provisions of
the organic law, the General Assembly
could provide for paying its members ex-
clusively BY the day. To pay partly by a
salary and partly by the day is as palpable
an evasion and transgression Of the cOnsri-
tuition as to pay them per diem alone,
and the violation is worse because it tends
to aggravatc the mischief which the
trainers of the constitution meant to
I am of opinion, for the reasons stated,
that 80 much Of the act of 1874 as provides
daily pay of ten dollars for fifty days or
less, is unconstitutional, and that pay
ments made by the state treasurer under
it, would be unwarranted and unauthor-
izcd. In this belief, am confirmed BY an
able opinion of my predecessor. Hon.
George Lear, given on the 9th Of Decem-
Der, 1876, to committee of the Legislature
in which, after an exhaustive discussion
of this section of the constitution and act
of Assembly this language occurs
"a salary is defined to be m annual or
periodical payment for Services stlpu-
lated periodical recompense. This is not
only the established definition and popular
understanding of the term, but the con.
stitution, in the use of 1t, so qualified IT as
to exclude any other conclusion than that
it is a stipulated recompeuse or compen
sation for the session. The per diem al
lowance in the salary act was doubtless an
oversight. but it is nevertheless unconsti-
tutiopal."
And if further confirmation were needed
it NAV be found in "a Commentary on
the Constitution, a work by the Hon.
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section of the fourteenth article it is pro-
vided that in counties Of over one hundred
and fifty thousand inhabitants all county
officers shall be paid by salary. This salary
took tho place OF fees, and the legislative
construction of tho meaning of the word in
that case is to be found in the acts of
assembly providing the salaries to be paid
to sheri6s, prothOnotaries, district attor-
neys, treasurers, commissioners and audi
tors, in every instance a round sum is
named for a fixed period-as to the pro-
thonotary, $4,000 per annum; to the
district attorney, q, 900; to the commits
sioners. 81, 500.
In the twelfth section of the fifth arti-
Gle magistrates are provided for tho city
of Philadelphia. and it is said "they shall
be compensated only by fixed salaries"
The authority fixing this salary construed
the word to mean q round sum per annum,
and not daily compensation. A further
legislative Interpretation OF the word
salary may be found in the act of the 14th
of May, 1874, p. L.. $50, entitled An
act to fix the salaries Of the several state
officers of this commonwealth, in which
the compensation of over fifty officials is
fixed in round sums, varying from $500
TO SlO, ,eOO, and in no case IS dalIy amount
named. At the same session the word
wages" was used in sn "Act for the
better protection of the wages of me-
chanics, miners, laborers and Others"
p. L., 100. As such persons are usually
paid by the day, the General Assembly of
that year seems to have contemplated the
distinction between wages and salary. A
further Legislative recognition of such y
distinction is to be found in tho act of tho
18th of April, 1845. Purd., $40, which ex-
,mpts from attachment the acages Of any
aborer or the salary of any person in pub
ic or private employ yment
From these reasons the conclusion is to
70 drawn that, as used in common par
ance and in enacted laws, the word wages,
n daily pay, and salary are not synony-
nous, but that the one is applicable to a
ound sum given as recompcnse for a
'eriod Of service, generally official, and the