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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-19

HULL's daughter to the Duke of Argylrs

HuLL's daughter to the Duke of Argyll's
son turns ont to be wholly untrue the
young lady who is SO marry the duke s
son is an Irish heiress Of good family liv-
ing in County Clare. Now a lot of papers
which held their mats pending the news
will turn in and denounce the Woodruff
most bitterly.
When ARTHUR was rendered the vice
presidential nomination, on behalf Of the
Ohio delegates, by Governor Dennison. at
Chicago, Senator Conkling urged him for
half an hour to refuse it. as be already had
got Levi P. Morton to do, on the ground
that ''the ticket would be beaten, and that
he should not be dragged down with it. -
He said ''The ticket will be beaten if we
lose New York :; if l take this, I'll see New
York is carried. l think the success of
any Republican preferable to that Of any
Democrat, and will accept"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-19
THE MISSING BULLET FOUND.


1t Lodges in the BOX Of a German GIazier.
District Attorney Corkhill found yester-
day the missing bullet which was fired at
the president and for which there has been
so much search. 1t appears that y German
slazier, who tramps around the streets
repairing windows, went into the depot
to get ten dollar bill changed on
the morning the president was shot. He
was standing in the main room about 40
feet from where the assassin stood and in
Il south cast direction. He had begun to
unstrap his box in which he carried glass,
and had got one strap Off his shoulders
when he heard the noise of the pistol, and
Immediately three panes of glass in his
box were shattered. He 1t once rushed
from the depot, thinking it WAS 10 place
for safety. On Saturday he was cleaning
out bis box and found tho ball in his putty
and was narrating the fact to his friends,
when one of them told him that it was
fired at the time the president was shot,
and took him to the district attorneys
Office, where he gave his statement, and
gave up the ball. lie thinks it was the
first shot that broke the glass, but says
they were SO, close together that he had
not time to get away His position con-
firms the statement Of Scnor Camachc, the
Venezuelan minister, rs to the exact posi-
ton of the assassin at the time of the firing
OF the shots
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-19
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
SUPT. KITCh.
HIS Reasons for His lsosl.nal

HIS Reasons for His Resignation.
Superintendent Of Water Works kitch,
whose resignation, to take effect Aug. |,
was noticed yesterday and who was
called upon BY tho INTELLIGENCER
to give his reasons for his sudden
departure, has freely accorded an
interview TO representative of the In
TELLIGENCER and frankly stated his rea-
sons for his resignation. They arc, briefly,
Ovcrwork and the prospect of complete
physical exhaustion if he does not retire
from them. in which case more serious re-
suits would happen to him and to the city
than if he resigns giving tho municipality
timely notice to choose his successor.
Mr.. Kitch says that the labors of this
position. as he has tried to perform it's
duties, are entirely too great for any one
man to accomplish properly without an
utter and early breakdown. He is ac-
customed to arise before daybreak, go to
the reservoir and thence to the water
work., inspecting both, get into town
in time to start his Iaborers
out ON their daily work do
his Office work; spend the day riding
over town, back and forward to the water
works, supervising in detail every depart
mcnt of labor, subject to call at all hours
OF the night and often to long stretches of
labor, between nightfali aud sunrise. Mr..
kitch says that lie has discharged these
duties to the best Of his ability, Satisflc-
torily he believes, honestly he knows, and
without sparing himself. 1t has over
worked him and he cannot continue
it without an entire breakdown. lie is
proud Of what he has done in the way of
water works improvement aud challenges
examination of it. To continue his ex-
haustive labOrs he does not feel justified
in view Of his duty to his family aud him
self.
Without suggesting any special i'm
prOvcments or changes in the administra-
ton and duties of the water works super
inteGdency, NJ. Kitch explains how it's
duties are too manifold for any one man to
give attention to in the ordinary
hours of labor. Those duties COM
prise complete supervision OF the
works and the whole supply system
the reservoir and all the distributing mains;
the purchases and delivery of all supplies
the levying of the water tax the progress
Of new buildings in the city aud their
water connections !; the increased supply
and all new facilities added by individuals
the supervision Of labor ON the streets and
dICentlOn 10 Ill complaints OIL inadequate
supply. In a general way lie says one man
could and should give supervision to these,
but the details OF every branch are too
numerous for his proper attention. There
are no foreman of gangs, no assistant super
intcndents, no one to relieve him from re-
sponsibility and no one to share it with him
down to the minutest details Besides
the ordinary laborS, special improvements,
like the new boilers and houses soon to be
erected, require constant attention. These
alone will take one mans time, aud to do
justice to them and to the ordinary oner-
GUS work of the department is more, he
feels, than he can do properly and any
other Way he is not willing to do it.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-19
THE OTHER SIDE.
"A Different View of the Christmas Ga ines
Murder.

a Different View of the ChrI.imasG,,nes
Murder.
Washington Cor. Phfl'a Times
The indictment and arraignment of Jas.
T. Christmas, in Washington, d. c.. YES
terday, for the murder OF VIM. G.. Whit
ney on the 25th of last month attracts
some attention, chiefly from the general
impression that the evidence devcloped
since the cOroner's inquest puts a
new light on the case. The murdered
man, it will be remembered, was the son
Of Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines. and the
accused is her son-in-hw. The former
was a worthless drunken fellow and the
latter reputed 4 model young man. There
was mutual hostility between them
owing to the real or imaginary favoritism
of Mrs. Gaines and the possibility of q cor
responding division of her propertv
which is said to involve millions. Tie
local press has done a good deal toward
wrongly prejudging the case in favor of the
model son-in-law, if subsequent stories
may be relied upon. The fact that
the mother Of the murdered man
was believed to sustain the murderer
did much toward this sentiment
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Mrs. Gaines regards the deed with the
utmost horror. A boarler in the house
at the time informs your correspon-
dent that no doubt now exists in her mind
that it was deliberately planned murder.
coolly executed when it was thought the
plea OF self-defense Eight be successfully
made, whatever the subsequent develop.
ments: The court acted upon the evil
dence before the coroner and fixed the bai,
at 50. OOO. Mrs. Gaines was asked to 90 his
bail by some of his friends, proposition
which she Indignantly refused.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-19
The Wafer Works.

Superintendent of Water Works Kitch
frankly supplies us with the reasons
for his resignation, and against their suf-
ficiency nothing can he said. Manifest
ly the public has no right to expect a
man to fill position the labors of which
are breaking him down physically, and
has no interest in continuing him in
an Office of which he says the work is like
ly TO render him unable to discharge his
duties ut any time. At the same time
we believe it would have been
better for Mr.. kitch to have en-
bodied all these reasons in his re-
signation, so that the city coun-
cils might have taken them into con-
sideratiOn at the special meeting called
in view of his proifered resignation. The
duties of thepOsition eof cou rse mani
fold and Onerous. 1t is very certain that
our present system OF making the tenure
of those in charge so precarious and brief
is an evil one. The whole water works
management, as provided for by the exist
ing municipal regulations, is insufficient
and unscientific. With the immense in
crease in the consumption and demand
for water and of the ordinary duties of
the chief magistrate, the plan of combin-
ing the presidency of the water works
direction with the duties of the mayoralty
is awkward and for it and the annual
changes of water works superintendency
should be substituted some plan by
which the whole system could he
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-19

put and kept into the hands of
a. competent engineer, with enough
time and help at his command to afford
him opportunity for working out the
best means to supply the city with am
pie water at the lowest expense. If Mr..
Kitch's resignation, and the reasons he
gives for it, should lead our citizens and
councils to think of these things and to
originate and adopt an improved system,
they may lie recOnciled to it. Meanwhile
it would be we'll to take no decided steps
in the matter without reference to a
general reconstruction of the present
system in the near future.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-19
VICTIMS OF THE HEAT.
An Alarming Kscord-500 Deaths In Ci
cinnati IN Six Days.

An Alarming Kecord-j00 Deaths In Gill;
cinnati IN Six Days.
A special despatch from Cincinnati SAYS:
Appalling as was the number of pros
trations from tho heat daring the past
week, rs reported in the daily press, the
official returns show that the story of suf-
fering and death was only half told. The
press reports made the number of fatal
cases about forty each day this number
is more than doubled by the official re-
turns, which show than in six DAYS there
We're 500 fatal cases. To this number
should be added large number
of other deaths which are credited
to old age and various diseases, but are
really due to the excessive heat. Such a
death rate is without i parallel in the his
tory of the city. The deadly heat came
without warning and did its work with a
merciless swiftness that The most fatal
epidemics have rarely egualled. Men were
stricken, and died while being carried to
their homes. Others fell in the streets or
ut their places of business, and were dead
before intelligent assistance couk: be rem.
dered them. Bolts of vengeful lightning.
could hardly have done their work quicker.
From the first warning to the last-coming
breath the victim was conscious only Of
suffering, and night brought almost
no relief. People died in their beds
who had retired in the best
of health. and tho hospital ambulances
were kept running until tho fiery rage of
another sun broke over the city. Many of
those whose circumstances would permit
fled to the North, but this number was
small compared to what it would have
been had the fearful mortality been
known at the time. People became
gravely apprehensive, but it is only now
that the official report of deaths has been
given that they realize the fiery ordeal
through which they have passed. 1t is
remembered, too, that many hundreds
were severely stricken who escaped death,
but will henccforth be particularly sensi.
tive to excessive heat, and are prepared
for the most obstinate Of diseases, brain
trouble. The weather is cool and refresh
ing to-day, and the congratulations which
areheard on every hand are earnest and
reverent.'
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-19
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL,

Baseball: In New York-Mctropoli-
tans, ); Athletics, 2.
Dispatches from SflN report that dur
ing the bombardmcnt and capture 400
Arabians were killed aud 800 wounded.
John Weiseman, aged 55 years, com.
mitted suicide, yesterday, by hanging hiu-
self. in Baltimore. Domestic trouble was
the alleged cause.
state Of Vermont, just completed, shows
total valuation of S1G3, 301, 1898. Last
year it was s1O0, $50, 900.
J. II. Dean, broker and son OF the prcsi-
dent Of the clearing house in Milwaukee,
committed suicide, in that city, by taking
Iaudanum. No cause is assigned.
The body of John W. Vincont, ex coun-
ty clerk, was found in Wappingcr's creek,
Poug ghkecpsie. He disappeared lasts Fri
day night, and is believed to have COM
mitted suicide in a fit of insanity.
1t seems to be settled now that the num-
ber of Russian peasants shut up in barn
and burned to death was one hundred and
ninteen, instead of only nineteen, as re-
ported last week.
The village of Wallace, sixteen miles
north Of MenOmonee, Michigan. consisting
of saw mill and twenty-five other build
ings, was totally destroyed by fire yester-
day afternoon.
Two outlaws visited the camp of the
Mule Lac Indians near Aiken, and MUIR
dered the chief and four Indians. The
murderers were arrested, and Agent Tib
bett has asked for instructions regarding
them, rs there was much excitement.
The Williams Brother, the Wisconsin
outlaws, are entrenched in 4 cave in the
Eau Gale woods, near Durand, and are
surrounded by 800 men. Governor Smith
has been asked to call out the militia, that
they may be overpowered and taken out
without loss of life.
Mary J Truscott, died in the Office of
day evening, while under the influence of
present and assisted in administering the
drug. DR.. Clelland is practising physi-
clan and professor of electro ro-therapeutics
"A man went to Augusta, Me-, recently
to look for his pension. On his way home
he met his wife, and thought she was the
devil. With more courage than most men,
he attacked her ferociously and now her
life is despaired of. He had never beaten
her before, and never mistoOk her for the
evil one.
Mrs. James Sarvin. woman III middle
life, lies dying in Kingston Point, New
York. Less than two weeks ago, while
stepping to the ground from her stoop,
she ran a splinter of wood into her foot.
After suffering some pain for several days
the wound apparently healed and she felt
no more of it, but a day Or two ago symp-
toms Of tetanus developed, and her jaws
are now firmly locked together.
Billy, the ''Kid," the notorious murder.
er and outlaw, who for several years has
been the terror of New Mexico cattle men,
was on the 14th inst. killed by Pat Garrett,
sheriff of Lincoln county. Garrett had
been on his trail some time, and on the
18th he overhauled Inn in cabin at Fort
Sumner and he shot him dead. The
''Kid" is native Of New York city, his
real name being Mccarthy.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-19
DEAN STANLEY'S DE ATH.
Peaceful End of one OF tho Most Noted Ems
lish DiylneS


Peaceful End of one OF the Most Noted Eng
nsh Diylnes.
The Dean Of Westminster is dead. He
was attacked by erysipelas in the head on
Friday, and little hope of his recovery was
entertained. He was attended by Sir VIM.
Jenner and DR. Harper, and was nursed by
his sister, Mrs. Vaughan, who has rarely
left his bedside. Inquiries respecting his
condition have been continuous since Sat.
urday, all classes evincing the deepest coll
Germ in the condition of the reverend and
beloved dean. The Queen, the Prince and
Princess Of Wales, the Crown Prince and
Princess of Germany have made constant
inquiries. During last night the erysipe-
las extended to the deans shoulders.
Early yesterday morning Canon Farrar
administered the sacrament. At a quar-
ter to twelve last evening Dean Stanley
passed calmly and peacefully away. The
Archbishop Of Canterbury arrived at the
deanery of Westminster just in time to
speak few words to Dean Stanley before
the latter became unconscious. The dean
will be buried beside his wife in West
minister Abbey. The Daily Netes says that
no living divine will be more deeply re-
gretted or more widely missed than is
Dean Stanley.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley was born De-
cember 13, 1915, at Alderley, Cheshire,
where his father, DR.. Edward Stanley,
subsequently Bishop Of Norwich, was rec
tor. At an early age he was sent to DR..
Arnold's school, at Rugby, and figured in
:: Tom Browns School Days" rs the ''fair
haired little Arthur" at whom some bad
room mate threw a boot while he was
saying his prayers, for which IT,
reverent deed the bad roommate
had Tom Brown to fight. Young
Stanley graduated at University college,
Oxford, in 1888, and was tutor there till
1850, when he entered the church. He did
not have to wait long for promotion, be-
coming Canon of Canterbury i'm 1859, chap
plain to the prince cOnsort a little later,
and in 1856 professor Of ecclesiastical
history aI Oxford. where no remained un-
til made Dean of Westminster in 1864.
His duties as such involved his preach
ing in Westminster Abbey at the regular
Sunday morning service. In November,
1874, he was made rector Of the Uni.
versity of St. Andrew, in Fife, Scot
land. His attainments in educational
and theological matters made him leader
in ecclesiastical politics, and he has
been for some years regarded rs the head
Of the broad church party. He has pub
Iished number Of books, the best known
of which are his life of DR.. Thomas
Arnold, his Rugby teacher !; sermons and
essays on the Apostolic Age, a common
tary on Corinthians, Historical Memorials
of Canterbury Cathedral and Westmin-
ster Abbey The Bible, Its Form and
Substance ; Scripture Portraits and Other
Miscel'anies and various compilations of
the most celebrated of his lectures. Dean
Stanley visited America three years ago.
and preached one Sunday in st. James
Protestant Episcopal church at Twenty
second and Walnut streets, Philadelphia.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-19

Fosdick was SO old aud feeble that per-
haps somebody had written it for him.
This satisfied Fields questioning and the
amount was added to the list. That the
whole thing is poor joke, designed to in
convenience Fosdick, there can be no
doubt" Inquiry in Cincinnati showed
that Fosdick never heard of the subscrip-
ton list and like the rest Of Ohio didE' t
propose to subscribe. The fact is the
Ohio man has no faith in the precept that
it is more blessed to give than to receive.
His best hold is in taking all he can get
and in keeping vigilant lookout for
something more.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-19
SADsIsURYyILLE NEWS.

Just Over the Chester County Border.
The mail carrier, Samuel Jackson, has
been unfortunate, having had COW
choked to death Oh apples aud his horse SO
severely injured by stepping on nail that
he has been compelled to hire one in his
stead.
The tobacco crop is excellent. John
Beard, the pioneer tobacco raiser in this
section. says there is better outlook for
tobacco this year than ever before, and he
has been raising it for nearly dozen years
and universally receives \ good price for it.
Our Lancaster county neighbOrs in pass
ing along look at it with Open-cycd aston
ishment-anOther indication that it must
be good. Ii no accident befalls it We can
offer the buyers next winter an article that
will certainly be up to the standard in
every way.
Colonel Evans, for years an honOred and
prominent citizen Of Davenport, Iowa, has
returned to the scenes Of his early life in
very poor health.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-19
JOHN BURNSIDE.

A Romantic Story Of the Dead Louisiana
millionaire.
New Orleans Picavune.
l see great deal written about this gen.
tleman, lately deceased, about whom no
one seems to know much, but all agree
that he was born in the north of Ireland,
and claimed all his life to be British sub
tject. have heard a different story,
though do not'vouch for it. In my boy
hood spent two years in Greenbrier and
other counties adjacent in the mountains of
Virginia. Andrew Bierne, an Irishman, was
the capitalist of that region. The story
current there was that one afternoon as he
was riding and had stopped to water his
horse at 4 little rivulet or brook. he found
an infant boy carefully wrapped up asleep
on bed of rushes. Quite startled at the
sight, after riding around and hallooing
half al hour for the owners Of the child,
night approaching and wolves being mum
erOus in the forests he took the child and
carried it to his house, where lie placed it
under the care Of his iAvOrite attendants,
John and his wife. The parents never turn
ed up, and in due time the boy was named
John Burnside, name suggested by the
locality where lie was iouud-buy the side
Of burN Or brook, 4 word common in
Scotland and in the nortl. Of ireland. [
often saw this yDans man in the
several mercantile establishments of
Andrew Bierne, ia West Nirg ginia,
where he seemed to be sort
of supervising clerk OF ase.Ii, visiting tho
several stores alternately, ;ind | never
heard there any other account Of him.
From his business cXactitudC aud indus
try, he was great lavOrite with MIR.
Bierne, but with few others. lie was taci.
turn, reserved and NOR, Sc, even when a
young man. But his business habits and
talents recommended him, and Mr.. Bierne
established him in New Orleans with his
brother or son, Oliver Bierne, where his
characteristics remained as they were in
early life. lie had no social feeling, no
sympathy, no public spirit, but was pre-
emincntly successful in trade. do not
vouch for this account Of his origin, but a
friend tells me that he met with Andrew
Bierne in Congress, in 1856, and
he did not contradict the story, but
only laughed and winked and Shrugged
his shoulders when it was repeated. II
my story be correct, it is amusing to re-
member how pleasantly Mr.. Burnside
jockeyed Gen. Butler and got back his
great crop of sugar on the plea of being Il
British subject. One thing is certain, the
deceased never cOnversed or would permit
any one to converse Will, him about his
origin or birthplace. One of his fellow
clerks with Mrs. Bierne, Andrew Mennis
(brOther of the late Hon. C;,llohill Mennis.
of Bedford county, Ea.), told me that lie
called on Mr.. Burnside when in the zenith
Of his mercantile glory in New Orleans,
was received kindly, but happening to
recur to the story OF his birth, and con-
trssting it with his great success, Mir.
Burnside flew into 4 rage, jumped up from
the table, and never spoke to him after
ward