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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-02
HE DRAMA.
Wallacx's Company In London Assn


Wallacx's Company in London Assur-
A fine audience was present at Fulton
opera house last night to witness the rep
resentaticn by Wallack' theatre company
of Boucicault's comedy Of London As
surance." The hall was not crowded, how
ever. as it should have been when tho
merits of the troupe and the worthy oh.
ject of their appearance here are cOnsid-
cred. Perhaps the local management
committed mistake in putting their
prices peg too high. but that has no.
thing to do with the performance, which
was distinguished by uncommon evenness
and real excellence throughout. So adj
mirable combination of talent has never
been surpassed upon tho stage of this
city each member of the company is fin
ished actor, so that what is said
of any one may with almost equal pro-
priety be said Of any other, and mere
reproduction of the cast, if that were nec-
essary, would furnish complete index to
the character Of the performance. The
names have already been published in these
columns, thus obviating tho necessity of
any word Of ours-each carries its own
comment with it, each holds undisputed
place on tho roster of the metropolitan
drama. 1t was capital entertainment in
all respects, and the most captious criti,
cism would bo put to the test in the effort
to pick flaw in the representation, sew.
orally or in its entirety.
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LAW AND LYNCHERS.
Murder, Suicide and RetributiOn.

murder, SUICIDE ana KetrlDutlOh.
DR.. Joseph A. Beggs, bookkccper and
chemist at the Alice furnace, Ironton,
Ohio, was cruelty murdered on Wcdnes
day night about 8 o'clock a short distance
above the city. Tho murderers used a
shotgun, loaded with buckshot and slugs.
John Wagner and Bill Seek have been ar
rested rs the murdercrs. Wagner con-
fesscd firing two shots at Beggs, but says
it was in self-defensc. Bcggs bore high
character.
About three o'clock yesterday morning
a party Of masked men, numbering IS or
100, took from the Jail at Oxford, Gran
vile county, N. c., John Brodie and Shad-
rack Hester, colored, charged with tho
murder of T. NJ. Lynch, and hanged them
in a grove of trees near the spot where the
murder was committed. To get at the
prisoners the jailer was taken from his
home and forced to open the doors, when
the guards were disarmed and shut UP in
the guard house.
It was believed in Hunnewell, Kansas,
yesterday that Danford, the broken bank
president, would probably bc lynched be-
fore this morning. A committee appoint
ed by the unfortunate depositors to go
to Wichita and investigate the value of
the collaterals "abstracted " from Dam
ford's Caldwell bank, has returned to
Hunnewell and reported that not more
than 20 cents on the dollar can be paid.
The mob having Danfori in charge was
on the lookout yesterday for the arrival
OF militia to protect the prisoners
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FIRE At A PUBLIC sCHOOL.
Principally Prompt Proceedings Prove
MI

Principally Prompt Proceedings Prevent
Panic.
Owing to defective flue the wainscot-
ing surrounding the register in w. H..
LevergoOd's male secondary school, on
Chestnut street, took fire to-day about
II 4. m., in the portion of the building oc-
cupied by Miss Hantch, who promptly and
quietly dismissed her school and notified
Mr.. Levergood, who procured an axe and
cut away the wainscoting, giving him a
chance, with the assistance of the boys, to
extinguish the fire with water. The
property committee, Messrs. Slaymaker
Cochran and Hartman, were notified, and
they reported at once, closely followed by
Messrs. Richards and McComsey. On
their arrival they ordered the janitor to
clear the room so that the school opened at
o'clock as usual. The necessary repairs,
which are trih;ng, will be made at once.
The building is fully insured in the Deia-
ware Mutual.
During the excitement Miss Palmer's
school, adjoining, was kept in perfect order
and tho recitatiOns were held as though
nothing had happened. Had this fire
happened an hour later or during the
night, it would have been impossible to
save the building. Too much praise can
not be given Mr.. LevergOod for the service
he performed in extinguishins the flames,
nor to the other teachers whose presence
Of mimi and prompt proceedings prevented
what might have proved panic among
their pupils.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-02
Murder Mysteries-

Two small boys were searching for
bones in a pile of rubbish, consisting of
dirt and brick, in the upper section of
Reading. In digging they unearthed an
arm, to which skin and sinews still ad-
hered. The discovery created quite an
excitement in the community where it was
found. An examination developed the
fact that the arm was that of woman,
and it is to be Investigated by the police
authorities.
Fifteen years ago two peddlers disap-
peared i'm mysterious manner in the vi.
cinity of the Kintzler murder, committed
four years ago, in Snyder county, and
now Joseph Meyer has been arrested for
completely in the murder of one of the
p,ddlcrs. Meyer is also charged with
having pursued Detective Lyon a short
time since with a view of shooting him,
as a punishment for arresting the Kintz-
ler murderers.
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NOT MUCH cMUsIC."

Little Friction at the state Normal.
EDS. INTELL1GENcER In your article
Of to day, entitled "More Music at Mil
lersville, " some things are stated as facts
which are not facts, and an erroneous inn
preston is conveyed by the general tone
of the article. DR.. Brooks did not, as
was stated, refuse Mr.. White all informa-
ton as to why he was asked to leave the
school. DR.. Brooks distinctly Informed
him that it was on account of his continual
absence from class, and his connection
with mischief. Very little excitement
prevailed at the time. The majority of
the students, always in sympathy with a
fellow student in trouble, and believing
Mr.. White to be in some measure falsely
accused, informed the faculty of this, and
drew up respectful petition, asking
that Mr.. White be given further trial,
and pledging themselves for his good con
duct in the future. Tie petition was
gotten up in the utmost good will on all
sides, and was Immediately taken up and
considered in the most respectful manner
by the faculty, and not by the "chief"
of the institution. No such answer was
given as that " it could not be considered
for want of time." 1t is still under con-
sideration, and his friends have every
reason to expect that it will have favor
able termination to themselves. The
writer of the article evidently wished to
convey the impression that the faculty and
students Of the school are still arrayed in
hostile opposition. We, as a student, ask
you to say that never was better feeling
manifested between the students and the
authorities than at present.
One OF THE STUDENTS.
Millersviile, Dec. 1.
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Cndulv Excited.

The Harrisburg Telegraph will never
get over the grievous loss inflicted upon
the boarding houses of that city in the
new districting of the state by the su-
preme court judges, so as to consolidate
nearly all the business in Philadelphia at
the loss to Harrisburg and Pittsburgh
Of the genial presence of a dozen or more
lawyers for an average of several weeks
during the season of spring lamb: cham
payne and draw poker. To the people
of the state it makes very little matter
where the court meets; they are will
ing to let the judges and the lawyers
settle it to suit themselves, and
they seem to have done it and to those
of the judges who travel on free railroad
passes, issued in contraventiOn of the
constitution they swore to support. it
would not seem to matter where they
went nor how often they had to move.
But the Telegraph sees in the new order
signs of the decay of the commonwealth
and abuses the judges who made it like
pickpockets. None of the steals which
have disgraced Harrisburg, nor the par
don of the bribers, nor any shame that
has ever fallen upon the state has awak.
ened the Telegraph to such bitter resent
ment as the removal of nearly all the
supreme court business to less mephitic
atmosphere than that of the state cap
ital, polluted by the Legislature in win
ter and by the failure of the river to
carry off its sewer filth in the summer.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-02
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

The public debt statement for NOvem-
Der shows decrease of 81, 240, 126.
Black bears are unusually plentiful in
the Catskill region.
Connection between the Texas Pacific
and Southern Pacific railroads, in Texas.
was effected yesterday.
Heavy rains impeding travel and the
cigarmakers' strike have caused large
falling off of revenue collections in Mil
waukee.
The output of coal from the Nova SEQ.
tia mines to November 25 was $50, 600
tons, or %, 900 tons more than for the full
year of 1880.
The house of Melvin Smith, at Montreal
was robbed Of several thousand dollars
worth of jewelry and watches on Wednes-
day night.
Judge Tourgee and some Philadelphia
capitalists have started upon a FOOLS er-
rand into Our Continent publishing
company with $50, 900 capital.
Bids arc being received for the construc-
ton Of the grain elevator at Canton. 1t
will have a capacity Of one million
bushels, and a pier is also to be built 100
by $50 feet in size.
Kings tailor shop, Crossley's dry goods
store, Kerr's drug store and the Canada
business college, all in Leater's block,
Hamilton, Ont, were damaged by fire
yesterday. Loss, S25, 900; insurance $23,
900.
The excess of exports over imports dur
ing the twelve months ending October 81,
1881, was 1887, 35S. The excess of
imports of gold aud silver coin and bull
ion during the same period was $G9, 931 :
13S.
At the Alexandria park races the other
day betting man known as "HOppy,'
because he is lame, attempted to leave the
grounds without paying those who had
made wagers with him. He was mobbed
and nearly killed, his carriage burned and
his horses stampeded.
On Thanksgiving day somc men who
were engaged in hunting, about two miles
west of Watkins. N. Y, suddenly
came upon John Breitmire, an insane
man, nearly naked and frozen. He had
been lost from homo for week and his
feet and hands will have to be amputated
to save his life.
Yesterday was Florida day at the At
lanta Exposition grounds. Gov. Blox-
ham, accompanied by all the State officers,
was in attendance, and the Florida build
ing was formally opened to tho public with
appropriate ceremonies. Postmaster Gen.
cral James, accompanied by Assistant
Postmaster General Elmer and party,
was present, and left at night for WASH
ington.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-02

RECEIVER HUNTER and Controller
Pattison have begun to lay before Phil
adelphia councils the evidence of the
stealing in the tax offices and that which
has been SO far produced justifies what
has been promised. Ex-Receiver Smith
asks for an investigation, and he would
have got it without asking. 1t is of
quite as much Importance to the public
as to him to have it disclosed whether
he profteI from the operations OF his
wicked partners, or was truly good and
blind in both eyes.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-02

PROBABLY nothing severe has heen
said of the new administration than the
current report that "a petition is in cir
culation requesting the president to ap-
point General o. f. Babcock superiE-
tendent of public buildings and grounds,
the place formerly occupied by Colonel
Rockwell" Like most public men Ar
thur has cause to pray to be delivered
from his friends. Next Brady will be
asking for the postmaster generalship
and Dorsey aspire to be attorney gen
pra1
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-02
laucaster fnteIIiQenrer.
Inharm onIous Tariff Hen.

1u0Ak u UutVu0 4 - 81 ~S~S
The tariff convention in New York
does not seem to have made very much
impression. Like most tariff agitation
the prime movers in it were each bent
on securing the greatest advantages for
his own special interest and, while
the country at large is committed to the
doctrine of moderate protection for
home industries until they can fairly
sustain themselves, there has been such
log-rolling, extortion and patchwork
about our tariff legislation as to create
q widespread dissatisfaction with and
opposition to the whole scheme. 1t
seems to he the law of trade to try and
sell for the most and buy for the least,
and every manufacturer spells Protec-
ton with a big p: only when it
covers his own shop. He likes the prin.
ciple when it puts money into his own
pocket, and dislikes it when it takes the
money out. 1t is human nature. Neither
of the political parties is harmonious
within itself On this question and
now that peculiarly and eXclu-
sively tariff convention has met and
parted, We hear grumbling that Kelly's
free whisky and free tobacco plank was
not adopted, that popular sympathy in
New York was not with the convention
and that John Roach's marine subsidy
scheme was disc6untenanced. Thetruth
is the tariff is inseparably bound up with
other questions of revenue and taxation
and cannot he considered regardless OF
them. Thepresent internal revenue and
tariff systems produce an enormous sur
plus and constitute an oppressive taxa.
tion. 1t will require we'll considered
and temperate legislation to adjust them
to each other and to the wants of the
country. One of the odd features Of its
discussion is that extreme free traders
and out and out tariff men unite in cry
ing down with the internal revenue
SyStem,''
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-02
LOCAL MTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS,

Tho First Week Of tho November Term.
BEFORE JUDGE PATTERSON.
Emanuel Neif and Amos Neff, executors
of Henry Neff, decd, VS.. BENJAMIN D.
Meyer, summons in trespass. Both par
ties own mills situated in Strasburg and
L:mpeter townships. Tho plaintiffs al
lege that defendant by raising his mill
dam floods their land and damages it.
The title of Henry Neff was offered in
evidence. It showed that he held it under
a sale issued out of orphans court by the
guardian of Maria Ann Brackbill, who
was a legatee under Christian Brackbill's
will. The defense objected to this, con-
tending that that portion of the property
occupied by Neff was not covered by that
order, and he therefore had no legal title.
The court would not admit the evidence
and plaintiffs suffered non suit.
In the case of Jacob Gable, administra.
tor of Jacob Gable, decd, VS.. Gideon
w. Arnold, summons in debt, a verdict
was taken in favor of the defendant.
BEFORE JUDGE LIVINGSTON.
Henry w. Diffenbaugh and Emma NJ.
Difenbaugh, his wife, to the use of said
Emma NJ. Diffenbaugh, vs.. Herman Mil
Ter. This was an action brought to recover
the price of 129 sheep hides bought by the
defendant. The testimony for the plain
tiff showed that he made a contract with
defendant to furnish him hides for six
months, payment to be made at the end of
three months for what had been deliv-
cred to that time. The defense was that
payment was not to be made until the end
of the contract, and the suit was prema-
turely brought. The jury found for the
defense.
Tho Jurors Discharged,
No more cases were ready for trial and
the jurors were discharged at 10 o'clock
this morning. Court adjourned to 10
o'clock tomorrow morning.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-02

loves: rank Of gentlemen, and where
everybody is equal to everybody else,
there is 10 real sense in addressing any
one as a shield bearer yet the custom
comes down to us from England, and if
people choose to adhere to it, we cannot
see that it destroys their morals or under
mines their religion. Mister is an abbre-
Walton Of the Latin, magister, master, and
in England it is applied regularly to per-
sons in an inferior social condition. Any
mechanic or workingman, who is there
looked down upon by the more gorgeous
and fortunate portion of mankind-every
man in England looks down on somebody
and looks up to somebody's addressed
as Mister = while gentleman who has
no specific title is addressed as Esquire. ,
In this country there is no such distinc-
ton between the two; yet if snobbish
people prefer to set it up, we cannot see
that they do any serious damage
THE Philadelphia Press is little late
publishing suggestion from r. II. Chase,
that when Garfield in his illness wrote
strangulatus pro republica,' he did not
mean "slaughtered for the republic. ;" as
has been claimed in some quarters, but in
tended to give the phrase its proper mean
ing "tormented'' or tortured" Already
in the Tribune John Hay had discussed the
same question and intelligently pointed
oat that Rockwcll's translation was very
bad. ''The Latin strangulare, in its lit
cral sense, applies exclusively to death by
choking or suffocation. 1t is derived, with
out change or meaning, from the cores.
ponding Greek verb, which comes in turn
frcm the noun straggla, halter. So good
a Latinist as the president would scarcely
have chosen word of such narrow and
inappropriate meaning, when the better
word occisus, to describe death by wound
ing, must have been ready to his hand.
But there there is metaphorical meaning
of strangul0tus which is used in the poets
and in writer's of post classical prose, es-
pecially writer's upon law, which was pro-
badly in General Garfield's mind, as he
lay chained to his bed in that long mid
summer agony. The word in that sense
means tortured or torncnted. There is
authority for such use of it in Ovid, Sen
eca and Juvenal. All the evidence we
have indicates that on the 18th day Of July
the presidents own hope of recovery, as
as we'll as that of his attendants. was still
strong.'
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-02
A Terrible Explosion.

The boiler in the Yazoo oil works, at
Iazoo City, Miss, exploded at eleven
o'clock yesterday morning with terrific
force, tearing away the boiler-housc and
the end of the main building. Seven COL
ored men were wounded, fonr Of them
fatally. The boiler, which was an old one
forty inches in diameter and thirty feet
long, with five flues, was blown across the
street, under houes opposite, tearing
away the supports of the house.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-02
BAD BOYS.

Stealing Rags aud Selling Them to Their
Owner.
VIM. Brady and Lewis COulman, white
boys, and John Jones, colored, were ar
rested aud held for hearing before Alder
man Spurrier for stealing some bags full
of rags belonging to VIM. Hanncke, and
selling them to Mrs. Hanneke during her
husbands absence. 1t appears that Mr..
Hannekc left the bags standing in front
Of Il customers door. while lie went into
the house in search Of "more goods
When he came out the bags were gone
and when he got home he learned his
wife had bought them from the boys
named
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-02
STATE ITEMS.

Preventive IS cheaper than cure so Al
legheny will borrow s11, 900 to build a
pest house next to cemetery.
Levi Strasscr, alias John Snyder, a horse
thief in the Norristown Jail for three
years, has utterly lost his speech, but his
eyes are good enough for Lim to feast on
the pictures with which his cell walls are
adorned, tho most prominent among
which, is an illustration cut from the
Police Gazette, Of a band of train robbers,
masked, "going through" sleeping
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-02
A Sharp Gunner.

A young York county lawyer went
cunning the other day after having pur-
chased number of shells for q brcech-
loader. He did not know much about
shells and thought that tho load was in
them when bought. He shot al day but
hit nothing. as the cap only exploded and
he did not know what was wrong until he
returned home.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-02
Obituary.

Among distinguished persons lately de-
ceased are Tracy r. Edison, founder Of the
American Bank Note company, patentee
of the greenback green Solomon Lin
coin, banker and statesman, of bingham,
Mass, aud Richard Barton Hoxall, lead
ing flour merchant of Richmond.
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Sale of Real Estate.

Henry Shubert, auctioneer, sold last
evening at the Fountain Inn hotel, a two
story brick dwelling belonging t, Mrs.
Maria Rockafield, situated on the north
east side of East Strawberry street, near
South Queen, to Jacob W. Trees, for
1,43O.
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Railroad Accidents.

Near Raritan broken axle wrecked a
train on tho New Jersey Central yester-
day and land slide at Reigelsville, on
P. r. R., blocked travel for five hours
with forty tons OF earth and rock.
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A Breakdown.

Abraham Beck, driver of a wagon be
longing to the Bird-in- Hand steam mills,
met with a mishspby running his wagon
against the rail of the Millersville railroad
in front of the mayors Office, and wreck
ing one of the axles. The unfortunate
driver was scared almost into fits when
the " fat" reporter Of one of our esteemed
contemporaries pulled out his note book.
asked him who he was, where he came
from, who owned the team, how the
wagon happened to break down, and
dozen other questions such IS impertinent
reporters are wont to ask. The driver
mistoOk the reporter for a bailiff and ex-
pccted at the very least to be locked up
for obsrructing the street.
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Grade OF PupilO.

The following is the general grade by
classes Of the pupils in attendance at the
boys high school for the month of No.
vember. The second column shows the
number of different kinds of leaves, each
representing it's own distinct species of
plant or tree presented by the boys in their
herbals during tho month as part of the
practical work of the season in the study
of botany
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-02

TolephOno COnnecnOn.
To-day the watch factory was connected
with the telephone exchange.
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GENERALLY the sheriff has to hunt his
man, but the Kansas banker, who is in
the hands and at the tender mercy Of a
mob OF lynchers, would gladly seek the
seclusion that the sheriff grants
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-02

"JOHS CESSNA will contest We
thought he did contest ut the November
election. Well. we'll, he wasn't satisfied
to be beaten only Is. lie will come out
of court with about 1870 against him.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-02

UNCLE JOHN CESSNA had better sub
side. He has barely enough of life left to
devote it all to repentance.