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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-29
PERSONAL.

SAMUEL Z. RUGGLEs, of New York, has
died of paralysis at Fire Island, aged 80
years.
Senator DON CAMERON, with his wife
and family, are at the Oriental hotel, on
Coney Island. Mrs. Cameron's admirers
"find no objections to their claim that she
is easily the belle of the house.
Rev. Father NUGENT, Of Liverpool, Eng +,
and Locock Webb, a prominent English
lawyer, have arrived in Ottawa on their
way to Manitoba. Father Nugent goes to
Canada to further the immigration of
Catholic children.
Mrs. HOPKINS has been removed by Judge
Halsey, of San Francisco, from the admin
istration of the Mark Hopkins estate,
worth $13, ,O00,000 The reason given is
abuse of administration and failure to file
an inventory of the property in the proper
time.
CHARLES G. KING, of the cotton firm of
William J. King & Co., of Providence,
Rhode Island, died on Saturday. Rev.
Austin Craig, d. d., principal Of the
Biblical institute at Stanfordville, N. Y,
died Oh Saturday of cholera morbus, hav-
ing been taken sick on Friday night.
CHAs. A. HEINITsH sends us Kansas
City papers with full accounts Of tho
annual meeting of the American Pharma-
ceutical association, in session there which
he has been attending. The druggists had
good time Of it, q fine banquet and an
excursion to Denver. Next year they will
meet at Niagara Falls.
JAMES F. d. LANIER, one of the found
ers of the banking house Of Winslow,
Lanier & Co., died at his residence in New
York on Saturday, in the Slst year of his
| age. He was also one of the founders aud
incorporators of the state ba nix of Indiana,
and later of the Third national bank of
New York. lie retired from active bust
| ness about ten years ago.
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zallrdster futelltaenrer.
MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1881.
Fate and the Doctors.

We ought to have known better than
to have given the president up because
his doctors did but there are SO many of
them and they had been SO sanguine that
their Lopefulness was hard to with
stand. We know better now, however,
than to unduly trust TO their present
hopefulness. 1t may be justified, but we
cannot permit ourselves to follow their
blind moods. Prudent doctors never
speak confidently of the issue of their
cases. They are too wise to predict life
or death, knowing how liable they are to
make a wrong forecast. 1t seems as
though fate takes malicious pleasure in
putting to confusion doctors predictions
in the case of distinguished men upon
whose beds of illness the eyes of the
country are turned. The notable case OF
Charles O'COnor, who recovered after
the doctors said he must surely die, will
rise up to the recollection of our readers
and give them comfort in their
thought of the president. 1t may be
disquieting that now Bliss is again hope
full :; but Bliss ought to be without
power to affect anybody's views but his
own agreeably or otherwise. The fact
seems to he too plain that Bliss don't
know anything, or not much anyway
We are sorry for Bliss. If he had but
kept stiff upper lip day longer, may.
be his hopefulness would have been re-
warded with his patients recovery, to
the great benefit of his reputation. The
obvious moral is that when you don't
know anything about a thing concern
ing which you are expected to know 9
great deal, it is wise when you pick yOul
side to stick to it till the last horn blows
and calmly take the even chance you
have of coming out right. This is the
lesson experienced doctors have learned
by heart; ard you can no more smoke q
decided opinion of the event of theil
efforts out of the sly old dogs than you
can get stone to speak. But Bliss is
an innocent.
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Guarding (Suiteau.

Although the authorities have denied
from time to time that there was any dan.
ger Of mob demonstration against Gui-
teau, General Sherman has thought it
prudent to order four companies of troops
to Washington as a safeguard against any
possibility Of all attempt to lynch the
prisoner. The general refused to ans wer
when asked if he whould have additional
troops there to prevent an unlawful attack.
He indicated, in his characteristic manner,
that it was subject which in his opinion
did not concern the press. and he did not
feel called upon to declare his intentions
in advance. Nevertheless, it comes from
best authority that lie has so far consid-
cred it advisable to move in that matter,
and that additional troops will he brought
on there Immediately. The troops that
have been ordered Oh there are four com
panies Of infantry from Fortress Monroe.
They will be stationed in the vicinity of
the Jail, and with the artillery already
there, will make comparatively strong
force, certainly large enough to cope with
any organized body of men who will be
gathered together for purposes Of violence
against the prisoner.
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EAST END NEWS.
From Our Gap Correspondent.

From Our Gap Correspondent.
Rain is needed badly in this section, the
roads are very dusty.
Samuel Kaufman of tho firm of Kaufr-
man & Livingstone, is erecting 4 new
house in the Gap.
Chas Mason, of the White Horse, is the
happy owner of pet crow. which can
initiate the chirpins of Il wren, the Growing
of rooster, and the choking Of a hen.
It will steal and hide any small article
that it gets holdOf. 1t was captured when
it was quite young.
b. S. Weiler's store at White Horse, was
robbed Friday night, and all the small
change left in the drawers was taken.
Nothing else was disturbed. Mr.. Weller
had a bag of gold and silver amounting
to several hundred dollars in the store, but
the thieves overlooked it. and only sue
cecded in getting few dollars for their
trouble. They gained entrance by prying
open Il window shutter.
On Saturday afternoon the Friends Sab
bath school of cold Salisbury held their
annual celebration at cold Salisbury :"
meating house. The tables were laden with
all the refreshments of the season. 1t was
largely attended.
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BY RAIL.


Wayward Wives Caught In Transit.
Rev. E. Bowen, Welsh clergyman of
Gibson, Pa, fell under q moving passen-
ger train at the Deleware, Hudson and
Eric railroad depot Carbondalc, and had
one leg taken off and the other badly
bruised. He is in a critical condition.
He was at one time pastor of a church at
Wilkesbarre and was one of the earliest
settlers of Carbondale,
Killed on Hts Wedding Tour.
A very sad and painful accident near
Amsterdam, n. Y, resulted in the killing
about thirty-twO years of age, and resi-
The unfortunate man was on his wedding
tour and was on his way to Niagara Falls,
together with his wife. They were seated
in drawing room car attached to train
No. 5. When about a mile from the
station, Mr.. Hobbs, in a state OF forget
fulness, allowed his left arm to rest par.
TALLY on and out of the window. At that
instant q freight train came east, which
had a loose, swinging door that scraped
the cars badly and crushed Hobbs arm in
shocking manner. lie was Immediately
taken from the train aud amputation was
necessary, but it was OF no avail. The
young man survived only 4 few hours
after the operation was performed. The
shock has completely prOstrated his wife
with grief.
They Did Not '.lio West.''
David Walker, of No. 8 Commercial
street, Newark, a respectable manufacture
er, received note on Friday from an un.
known source, advising him that if he
watched certain train at the Erie rail
way depot he would find something of i'm
portance to him. He went there and found
his wife, who is 40 years of age, with a
Saratoga trunk and Mrs. Augusta thinner.
man, ready to start for Jersey City and
thence to Leadville, Col. They had already
purchased their tickets. There was one
man in the case, who seemed to be
very busy looking after the baggage.
Walkers wife readily disposed OF
all questions by informing her husband
that she had made up her mind to
leave him and ego to the far West, where
a woman would have better chance than
in Newark" Her husband reasoned with
her and begged and entreated her to re-
turn home for the sake of her children il
not for his and her own. 1t was no use,
however. Her husband then called police
man and had his wife arrested, but the
police Justice decided that the woman
could not be restrained of her liberty as
she had committed no crime within the
law. The husband seized the trunks The
wife would not go home, and her where.
abouts arc unknown. She held the purse
for herself and comprehension it is be-
lieved the man referred to as caring fol
the luggage was their company. Mrs:
Zimmerman had no funds and was obliged
to postpone her trip. Mrs. Walker has
two grown-up daughters, who are now
away visiting. She took advantage OF
their absence to start. The mother is a
comely woman of forty-tive. 1t is said
that shc was influenced by Mrs. thinner.
man. who told tales of luxury and wealth
to. DO secured among the rich miners OF
Colorado.
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Noisc at An Engine House,

Jacob Gable, president of the Sun fire
company, has brought suit before the
mayor against Samuel Shroad, John
Shroad, Albert Demuth, John Ef1inger
and Alex Leaman for drunken AMI disorder
ly conduct. These men were in the Sun
hose house, on Vine street, at an early
hour yesterday morning. They had keg
of beer and We're intoxicated. They sat in
the yard and sang and in other ways made
so much noise rs to disturb the whole
neighborhood. Col. 8. II. Price went
to the station house and informed
the chief of police who sent
Officers Merringer, Harman, Holman,
Stormfel:z, Titus and Adams to tho engine
house where the mel were found. Saml
Shroad, who was out Oh the pavement, be-
came impertinent, and when an attempt
was made to arrest him he resisted, and
Officer Merringer was compelled to hit him.
He was finally landed in the lookup. All
of the parties are to have hearing on
Thursday morning. Most of them arc
members of the Sun fire company, and it
is against the rules to have beer on the
premises or to misbehave there.
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A Terrific Storm.

The easterly storm at Charleston, South
Carolina, was especially furious Oh Satur-
day from noon to midnight. A heavy sea
ran up the harbor, and broke furiously
against the sea-wall, throwing vast sheets
of spray forty feet into the air. Trees,
fences, signs and chimneys were blown
down and houses unroOled throughout the
city, the damage being estimated at $780,
600. On Sullivanac's Island cottages were
swept away, and the loss here is estimated
at $40, 900. Four lives were lost by the
storm, three negroes and young white
man being drowned. The latter was
swept from sea wall by the wind while
watching the tremendous sea. The ship
ping, having received due warning IF tile
storm, no marine disaster is reported.
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F'arr's Black Morning.

The Berks county Republicans de-
clined ut their convention to permit the
governors private secretary to be men,
ber of the committee on resolutions {;
which was very rough treatment of the
secretary, who would like to have been
the candidate for acknowledgements; !;
upon which aspiration the convention also
sat dcwn, recommending instead Mr.. J.
Howard Jacobs. Altogether the gov
ernor's private secretary may consider
himself a very much abused individual
in the house of his friends. AS he is a
right clever gentleman he has our sym
pathy and we regret that his fellow
Republicans of Berks. who ought to
know him better, do not seem to esteem
him SO well. Still, convention verdicts
are n very unreliable test of merit, and
We may be permitted to suppose that even
though Col. Farr is not fit to resolve the
Republican sentiment of Berks county,
or represent it as lieutenant-govenor
he still may lie good enough fellow
and not wholly worthy Of being cast into
the outer political darkness in which he
at present appears to rest. 1t is always
darkest just before the dawn, and we see
to-day the resurrection twinkle of little
star amid the CimmeriaI darkness of
Col. Farr's political morning. The
New York Sun publishes-somewhat
prematurely--a cabinet for President
Arthur, in which Governor Hoyt is set
down for the fat post of the
interior. Such prospect is calcu>
lated to bring comfort to the governors
friends and dependents, high among
whom Col. Farr stands enrolled. The
present private secretary to a coming
secretary of the interior, ought not to
be wholly disconsolate, even though the
Republicans of his county have just un-
dertaken to drown him. Mr.. Arthur,
to be sure, is not quite SO much of a
president to day as he was, and Cover
nor HOyt is not yet secretary; but still
Col. Farr's blacklist day was Saturday
as it was the country's. The morning
dawnS.
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Contest.
An EXPLANATION.

We understand that in some of the
wards OF this city complaint has been
made as to the order in which tho names
Of candidates for delegates at the primary
meeting were printed. In justice to county
committeeman and others it is to be said
that the invariablc rule ut this Office is to
set all lists of candidates in alphabetical
order, unless expressly directed otherwise,
and this rule and no person is responsible
for the fact that the AS came first and rs
last, on Saturday ticket. This is the
obviously sensible rule of all parties and
we hear Of no complaints against it, ex-
cept, strange to say from ward where
there was no contest whatever.
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Unclaimed Letters,

The following is the list OF letters re
naming unclaimed in the postoflice for the
week ending August 90:
Ladies' List.-Nliss Mary Bahlinger,
Miss Nellie Chandler, Mrs. Kate Frey,
Mrs. Ann Flynn, Miss S. Jane Good, Miss
Hetty II. Herr, Miss Rosa Kipp, Mrs.
Adelia Kingston, Miss Maggie Miller,
Mrs. Mary McLanc, Miss Hattie Young.
Gents List.-Mr. Barnitz, Henry Den
linger, Harry Daley. John George, Henry
H. Harnish, d. N. Keemer, Henry Long.
Chas. F. McClam, B. F. Martin, Robt,
Mitchell, E. G. Schmidt, John H. Stouff,r.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-29

THE Harrisburg Patriot, in comment
ing upon Republican newspapers re-
mark that there is a tendency toward
the elimination of politics from the elec-
tion Of Judges" thinks the tendency
when exhibited generally comes from the
Democratic party, and, with the single
exception of the case of Judge Ludlow,
of Philadelphia, it cannot now recall
a solitary instance Of the endorsement
of Democratic candidate for judge by
the Republican party in this state in the
last twenty years, and that has been re-
paid with compound interest by the
Democracy. In the Bedrord-Somerset
district the Republicans are bringing all
the appliances Of party zeal to aid the
election Of such a bitter partisan poll
tician as John Cessna to the bench in
Montgomery they are opposing Judge
Ross's reelection on purely political
grounds, and as net fesult of their de.
sire to lift the bench out of politics there
are two Democrats out of twelve of the
judges in Philadelphia and not one out
Of five in Allegheny county. The Re-
publicans are never for a non-partisan
judiciary at any expense to their party.
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A Vito Assaulted.

On Saturday evening Cyrus Minnicl,,
residing on South Queen street, was ar.
rested OH complaint of his wife for assault
and battery. She is rather delicate look
ing woman and has a child only seven
months old: She alleges that during a
dispute she had with him ON Saturday he
took her child from her and kicked her out
OF the house. Minnich was arrested and
locked up for a hearing before Alderman
Barr on Tuesday. He alleges that his
wife called him foul names and is more to
blame for the trouble than he is.
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Sessions Beaten.

After almost an all-night session of the
convention, and on the fiftieth ballot, the
Republicans of the Chautauqua and Cat
taraugus senatorial district, New York,
succeeded in defeating Loren B. Sessions
and nominated Norman NJ. Allen for SEN
ator. One of the prominent actors in the
convention was Assemblyman Bradley,
who was greatly rejoiced over the defeat
of the man who gave him $4,000, as the
ungrateful Bradley alleged and the modest
Sessions denied. Mr.. Allen, the nominee,
is by no means a new man in politics, and
like Mr.. Sessions is half-breed 1t is the
exchange of one half-breed for another,
and only victory for the stalwarts mas
much as it is the defeat of Sessions.
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THE dedication of Mennonite church

THE dedication of Mennonite church
in the city of Philadelphia is land
mark in the history Of this denomina-
ton. The plain but worthy people who
compose it have hitherto generally kept
clear of the cities. But their thrift lead
ing them to engage in the varied bust
ness interests Of the day, has directed
large numbers of their people to the
centres of trade, and to hold them to
their faith and provide for their spiritual
wants the church has promptly followed.
Each branch of the denomination has
for some time past had its meeting house
in this city, where year after year the
Mennonite population increased.
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GLIMPSE of Silver Lining

"A SI!hpS0 Oh SllNer
The slight amelioration of the prcsi-
dents condition on Saturday afternoon,
following the profound depression and
alarming symptoms of tho morning of that
day, was maintained throughout Satur-
day night, and yesterday SO perceptible an
improvement of the systoms was noted
that the physicians and attendants did not
hesitate to express hopes of his ultimate
recovery. After the issue of the noon
bulletin yesterday, DR.. Agnew is report
ed as saying that she thought that the
president had more. than an even chance
and DR.. Hamilton said "We have passed
the breakers and are now atloat.'' There
was an improvement yesterday in pulse
and temperature; in the condition of the
swollen gland, which was again lanced and
relieved of a quantity Of healthy pus in
the patients digestion, and in his mental
condition, he being entirely flee from hal
lucinations. At $50 a. M, yesterday the
pulse was 100, temperature 99.4. respira-
tion II. At 1880 p. m., the pulse was
104. temperature 99.5, respiration IS. At
6:20 p. M, pulse 40, temperature 99.7,
respiration 20. Secretary Blaine telo-
graphcd to London, at 10 o'clock last
night that the presidents condition con-
tinued as favorable as could bc expected,
and that the general feeling was one Of
hopefulncss, but that two or three days
more improvement would he needed to in
spire confidence"
Dispatches from New York, Boston,
Montreal, and other cities in the United
States and Canada, report great public
anxiety on Saturday, and general rejoicing
yesterday over the improvement in Presi-
dent Garfield's condition. Prayers were
offered in the various churches for his re-
covery, and crowds surrounded the bull
lctin boards to get the late reports.
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CAMPMEETINGS EkTERDAI.
Largo Crowds at New Providence an
ENeD

Largo Crowds at New Providence an.,
The Church of God has been holding a
campmeeting in Providence township,
some distance from the village Of New
Providence, for q week past, and yestcr-
day was the big day The crowd was
very large. A special train was
run from this city to New Prov
idence, and when it had arrived there;
it had about 800 passengers on board.
most Of whom attended the campmeeting,
going to the grounds i'm buses, which were
run from the station. Hundreds Of people
drove from this city to the camp and the
whole surrounding neighbOrhOOd was
there. The roads, and even the grounds
on which the campmceting were held, was
very dusty and the heat was intense. Sew
eral sermons were preached during the
day and the services were quite interest
ing
Tho train ON the Reading road arrived
here at 1888 last evening having been about
a hour and quarter on the road from
New Providence. Persons who rode mp in
it became quite as tired as during the
whole day at the camp, as the train stopped
at some of the stations for 10 and Is min
utes and it ran very slow. The manage
ment of this road would have done we'll to
have made the time shorter and people
would not be compelled to sit so long and
become tired. A man with a good horse
can drive from New Providence here in
the time on the road by this train.
A colOred campmeeting was also held
near Eden yesterday and last evening. 1t
was under the management Of the well
known colOred preachers, Revs. Matthew
Diggs, John Francis and WIN. Keels. The
two latter preached to immense audiences,
the crowd being very large. The camp
will keep up during the week.
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Pistols and Politics.

In Petersburg, Va, Mr.. Thomas G..
Watkins, young lawyer, was arrested on
a warrant sworn out by tho Rev: Horace
Stringfel!ow, before Judge E. NJ. Mann,
charging that Mr.. Watkins and Waverly
n. Ragland were about to engage in a
duel. Mr.. Watkins was placed under
bonds of $4,000 to keep the peace. Mr..
Ragland's whereabouts are not known.
The hostile correspondence resulted from
an editorial published in the Virg;ntin
Readjuster journal, in which Watkins was
characterized as political scavenger, of
which Ragland admitted that he was the
author.
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Malignant Typllus.

Typhus fever recently appeared among
the childred in the Roman Catholic orphan
asylum, on Fifty-first street, New York,
aud about thirty of them were removed to
the Riverside hospital, one of whom died.
-Four more children in the asylum were
Frustrated with the fever yesterday, but
they were placed in rooms apart from the
healthy inmates. 1t is not known how the
fever was introduced, as tho asylum is kept
clean and well ventilated, and has not been
overcrOwded.
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The Democrats of this county exhibit
unusual animation this season and the
delegate elections on Saturday were
largely attended and spirited. We are
glad to see it. Animation is a good
thing for a minority party and all tho
more gratifying because it is unusual
and unexpected in an off year. We
trust this interest will not flag before
the fall election, and if it continues an
excellent report for the Democratic can
didate for state treasurer may he looked
for from this county. All the same the
aspirants Cor the local honors in the gift
of the party will do well to keep them
selves in the good humor which has
thus far prevailed, SO that all may be
prepared to cheerfully abide by the will
of the party, as expressed by the major
ity Of its representatives.
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need of being differently constituted so as
to make it more efficient.
The coamitte appointed is good one,
and no doubt will report better organiza.
tion for our state forces that will at least
bring out our utmost strength if it does
not bring victory.
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THE cabinet-makers had already got
to work for Mr.. Arthur, before his Sue
cession was assured. Their disappoint-
ment at not getting their new places will
not diminish the qualification of the pub
lie over the likely recovery Of the presi-
dent.