Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-19
"THB END OF THE WORLD"
sTARrLlNG EFFECT OF CONKLINGS
WRATH.

srARrL,NG EFFECT OF Combines
Tho Story OF tho True Condition or tho
Capital That was Suppressed.
Tho following graphic account Of start
ling events at Washington Monday. sent
to tho Cincinnati Gazette, seems to have
been suppressed to this section, probably
by Mr.. Blaine. General Boyntoa says
The cry, Conkling has resigned"
spread through tho buildings, and from
the committee rooms, restaurants, rOtunda,
supreme court room, library and House
wing, attendants, judges, senators, Office
seekers, lobbyists, visitors and wOrkmen,
great crowd poured cut into the parks,
each fleeing from the conviction in every
mind that such dire event must bo fol-
lowed by an earthquake. With the
flight rose cries, The dome is
faiiing!" "Tho Senate columns
arc swaying ~ "The House wing is
settling p "Out for your lives !'
In half an hour tho extras wero spreading
the news throughout the town. As the
cry "Conkling has resigned went up and
down tho streets the same impulse which
cleared the capitol caused men, women
and children to swarm into the streets and
parks. Tho sick, too, were brought out, and
in the short space of two hours the public
grounds of Washington were like those
Of Chicago ON the night Of the great fire.
Families wore crowded in group, shelter
ing themselves as hest they might, guard
ing the effects they were able to snatch in
their flight, and many of them caring for
aud comforting the sick who had been
rescued from tho impending earthquake.
But even dread of the earthquake gave
IL -, ~ <l,A
The cry spread that COnkling would surely
stop the earth's turning; that hc was tho
axle, and he knew it, and his anger WAS
such that he would never be satisfied with
paltry earthquake. Not ne! And SO
men, especially the New Workers., began
to lash themselves to trees, and iron posts,
and fences, SO that if the earth did stop
turning east, they, at least, would not spin
Off eastward into tho Atlantic. Those who
know COnkliug best, in addition to lash
ing themselves fast, put Oh life preservers,
for, as they explained, Conklins might
stop tho earth with such jerk that no
l.shinSs would hold, an,l they might bc
hurled into tho ocean in spite Of ropes or
cables
President Garfield has left the White
House and is campcd in the yard Of his
private residence Oh tho corner of Tllir-
tccnth and l streets. lie will not enter it
until after tho earthquake, and until tho
earth has stopped turning and settled
down to work again, according to Mr..
COnkling's directions. General Garfield
recognizes tho fact that tho republic is
topping to its downfall. Everybody seem
cd instinctivcly to know there would be
nothing loss tl0n an earthquake. The
president only stopped to gather up his
Il. 1,ol<l
and having secured these he drove hastily
to his private residence aud campcd in the
yard as before.
The late government has taken tho fol-
lowing steps, feeling authorized to do
whatever tends to ameliOrate the national
suff. rings which must follow in the train
OF the great disaster which has Ovcrtaken
tho nation:
A PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT.
Whereas, in i time Of great and gen
cr..l public prosperity never before cx-
cacded in tho history of the republic,
Roscoe Conklings, powerful citizen Of tho
sovereign state of New York, has let go
the hold upon the wheel which was steer
ing the ship Of state through these pleas
ant seas and declares llc will let her
drive to destruction;
"Thercforc, it is mcct that ;lII COOL cit
liens, abandoning their usual pleasure and
labOrs, should assemble without delay in
the camps, and all other public places
where they have taken refuge from the
impending catastrophe of nature, and sup
plicate this mighty Conkling that hc will
allay his anger and spare his children and
allow the land to resume its prosperity.
JAMES A. GARFIELD"
by the President,
JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretary of State.
Tho signal service bureau sent out tho
following:
"Ordercd-Tllat danger signals bc dis:
played at all coast stations of the United
States, and that masters OF vessels in every
port bc warned that this Office expects
tidal waves and tOrnadOes for ut least i
month to como. Observers should care
fully watch and correct their Instruments.
Those in this Oilico arc badly paralyzed,
and the explanation must be found in the
expected earthquake which must follow
the COnkling resignation.
The secretary Of the treasury has re-
scinded his circular for refunding tho is.
lie says:
"The unexpected blow which has been
inflicted upon the United States by the
resignation of tho mighty Mr.. COnklins
must, of necessity, sink it's credit to u
low ebb, if it docs not destroy it altogether.
The secretary is, therefore, unwilling to
urge his fcllOw-citiZcns to ask that their
bonds be extended at tho rate famed in
his last circular, and it is, therefore, sus-
pended until tho full measure of tho pun
ishmcnt which Mr.. COnkling intends to in
fiict upon this country and the world shall
become KNOWN"
The secretary Of state has tclcsraphed
to all ministers of tho late government rs
follows:
You will at once inform the nations to
which you arc accredited that Roscoe COnk-
ling, Of New York, has blOttcd out tho
duo time announce the kind of mOnarchi-
cal government which it may suit his
lOrdship to establish. TO you, privately,
l may say, with duo shamefulness, that
tho turkey gObbler strut has won
that mud has become diamond the satyr
is now Hyperion the New York singcd cat
is now a Bengal tiger