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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-30

SOME of our Republican contempor-
aries are discussing in the most refresh
ing manner the prospect of an election of
Il successor to the deceased secretary of
the federal senate, ana seem to assume
that the Democrats will proceed to swear
in the New York senators before they
organize the body, on purpose to give
the Republicans majority and a chance
to elect the secretary. This kind of
talk may do to keep perspiring editors
cool: but it will not survive any fall of
the mercury. The Democrats now have
a clear majority in the senate and will
organize it duly, promptly and decently.
If any Republicans chosen to fill vacan-
cies then present themselves with un-
tainted credentials, they will he sworn
in. But the Democrats will not likely
reverse the proper order of things to
give their opponents control-incOmrre-
hensibly as the Democratic senators
have sometimes acted TO the detriment
of their party.
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been arrested at Rochester, N. H..
charged With murdering her child, found
in the Mopsam river 1t Kenncburk, Me.
The child's tongue had been cut off.
Solomon Oden, residing at Brentwood,
Tenn, loaded gun snd started in search
of Thomas Mack. with the intention of
killing him. The gun exploded while
Oden was handling it, and fatally injured
him.
! Baseball At Providence, r. I.-Prov-
idence, 8; Worcester, G. At Boston
Bostons, 10; TrOys, 3. At Chicago
Chicagos, 3; Cievelands, 8. At New
York-Veterans, 6; MetrOpolitans, 8.
At Detroit-Detroits, 0; Buffalos, 5.
At Cape May Point two boys, Lewis
Philadelphia, and Frederick Colson, Of
Wilmington. Del. aged respectively
twelve, and fourteen years, were drowned
at II o'clock yesterday while bathing.
Near Baskerville, Shelby county, Ten
nessec, J. a. Renfroe shot and killed J. Z.
Wilson. They had quarreled about dog
and Wilson shot at Rcnfroc with musket,
but missed him, whereupon Renfroo re-
turned his fire fatally with a revolver.
Prudence Arch, colored girl, aged ii,
living at Ouaguage, N. Y, had bee or
hornet fly into her mouth and sting her in
the throat; she swallowed the insect,
which was afterward found. Her throat
swelled SO that her life was in danger, but
the doctors saved her.
With the aid of 3, 600 workmen, between
1 a. m. and 8 p. m. yesterday, the work of
changing the gauge Of the Chicago, St.
Louis & New Orleans railroad (Jackson
route) from five feet to the standard gauge
of four feet eight and half inches on the
entire line from New Orleans to Cairo, a
distance of five hundred and fifty miles,
exclusive Of sidinss, together with Kos
chusko branch Of twenty ono miles, was
completed, aud trains were running in all
directions.
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LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

Tho Rev. Jesse Way, of Wabash, Ind,
eloped with his daughter-in-law.
The Hebrew residents and visitors at
gogue.
Horses are dying of collie around Long
Branch, and drought, bugs and rot arc
eating up the Jersey crops.
Be it noted that the internal m achiues
shipped to England were made in Bob In
gersolPs town.
It cost NJ. Ward, of Auburn, Mass, a
81 500 barn to smoke out his bees, but he
got them out.
Temperance enthusiasts at Cambridge
City, Ind, dynamited Thomas Hubb's
saloon. He willquit.
It was the cat, which fiercely and dan
gerously bit Mrs. Thomas, wife of Assist.
ant General Superintendent B. Thomas, of
tho Erie railroad.
Maud s. is booked to give an exhibition
trial of speed on Thursday, August 4, at
Buffalo, for purse of SO, 500, to beat her
record of 2:1O4.
In Monmouth county, New Jersey, an
unknown, elderly mans decayed, we'll
dressed body has been found in au old
limekiln Any ono missing?
Hank Shaw, a driver on a Barlow and
Sanderson stage coach, was fatally stab
bed by an unruly passenger who was eject
cd near Echo City.
The fifth recent duel in Berlin was fought
yesterday between a student and an Off
Ger of tho army reserve. The weapons
were pistols. Tho student was killed.
1t is proposed in New Hampshire to
celebrate tho one hundredth anniversary
OF Daniel Webstcr's birth on the 18th of
January next.
Hans Christopherson, a Dane, IS years
OF age, committed suicide at Cicero, Ill,
by taking dose of arsenic, because girl
whom he was waiting upon received the
attentions Of another man. i
The shipping at Clenfuegos has been in
vaded by yellow fever, and the American |
brig Ortolan and the Spanish bark Vala- |
dosa, bound for Philadelphia, are suspected
vessels. .,:-
Sarah Wilton, of Alfred, Me-, has
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PERSONAL.

Guess GRANT has been fooling with a
toy pistol aud got the 'lock7jaw. Nothing
was made in vain.
Senator MALONE has twice been the
father Of triplets. No wonder hc wants to
repudiate.
Rev. II. NJ. KIErrEI, pastor of the Re.
formed church Of tho Ascension, Norris
town, and family are in Lancaster visiting
his father lin law, Mr.. Amos Miley.
Among tho names recently written on
the register at Bedford Springs hotel are
those Of JACOB BAusMAM, Hon. T. E.
FRANKLIN and Miss BLANCHE FRANKLIN
of this city.
Rev. G. S. ALBERT, son-in-law of Mr..
W. G. Baker, formerly Of Christ Lutheran
church here and now of the Carlisle pas
torate-and his family, are visiting friends
and relatives in town.
Mr.. PAEKE GOODWIN, having retired
from the editorship of the New York
Ecening Post, is now devoting himself en-
tirely to his Life and Poems of William
NA0u DA JtsuC, uIS ldIucr' lH-ldW.
Hon. H. r. REvELs, tho first colored
United States senator, has declined to
serve another year rs president of Alcorn
university, as he intends to give himself
wholly to the ministry, and has become a
presiding elder.
, Bishop SCOTT, tho senior bishop of tho
Methodist Episcopal! church, is seventy
nine years of age and has been in the Epis-
copal office twenty-nine years. Bishop
PAYNE, senior bishop of the Methodist
Episcopal church South, is eighty years
old, and has been in tho Episcopal Office
thirty five years.
When his Bricks Without Straw" was
Judge ToURGEE gave his wife
the copyright, expecting that she would
obtain but a small sum from it, but so
great was the sale that from the proceeds
of it his wife was able to buy their present
house at Chautauqua Lake. After they
had refitted it and got comfortably settled
the judge claimed the right to name their
new home. It was granted, and lie gave
1t the namo of "Thorheim''-"a fools
home,"
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mOUNT JOY NEWS,
Mr.. ShaTNers Fuuernl nc M~nheim !
to-day.

Mr.. ShaEner's Fuuernl nc Mannheim Yes
terd0y.
The funeral of Henry Shaffner took
place from his lato residence East Main
street, Mount Joy, on Friday afternoon
About thirty members Of Mount JOy
lodge No. 277, l. U. o. F. assembled at
their hall and proceeded in body to his
residence. Rev. Lockwood, of the Bethel
church, made an appropriate address and
after offering prayer the funeral procession
proceeded on its way to Mannheim, the Odd
eran church at that place was we'll filled,
and Rev. Peters preached a sermon basing
his remarks on the text, Ecclesiastes vi, :,
eff man beget an hundred children, and
live many years, so that the days OF his
years be many, and his soul be not filled
with good and also that lie have no
burial say that al untmely
birth is better than he.'' After his dis
course the remains were handed over to
the knights Templar, about thirty Of whom
were present. The cOrtego moved toward
fairview cemetery, headed by tho Key
stone band, Of Lancaster, which played i
dirge. A long line Of vehicles followed the
hearse and the SJreets along the way were
thrOnged with lockers OH. Arriving ut the
vault the last sad rites were performed &C
cording to the ritual of mcknight Tcmplar.
DIR. Geo. Il. Welchans, of Lancaster, de-
livering the charge, and all that was NOR
tai of Henry Shatfner was consigned to the
tomb. Tho corpse, which lay in an elegant
silver mounted metallic casket, was viewed
at Mount Joy and in tho church at Man
helm by hundreds, and as they took a last
look at the form SO long familiar their eyes
filled with tears, and the occasion was one
of sorrOwing.
On Thursday runaway horse attached
to market wagon and belonging to far
mer named Risser, Of RaphO township,
created considerable excitement on Main
street. The horse starting at Breneman.
LoDgeDecker & Co. 8 shoe store, ran some
distance, overturned aud damaged the
wagon and run the broken shaft into his
body inflicting painful wound.
Diphtheria is prevailing to an alarming
extent i'll this borough, and several fatal
cases have already resulted from its ma
lignant effect. Lewis Seeman lost q
three.year-Od daughter ON Wednesday
morning, and William Metzgar lost
little girl on Wednesday morning. There
are others afflicted and moro deaths may
follow.
On Monday some hot iron ran into Que
of Harry MONEYS shoes and severely
burned his foot.
Yesterday several showers OF rain visited
this vicinity, sufficient to revive the grow
ing crops.
Tomorrow many of our town folks will |
go to the campmeeting ut Lanaisville.
There will be no services in the Nj. E. |
church on Sunday.
Next Tuesday tho Bethel Sunday school
will picnic in Detweiler's woods.
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THE CIRCUS,
What They Hatl-Real Live Zulus.

Last evening the Batcheller & Doris cir
Gus had big house despite tho threaten,
ing appearance of the weather. Tho ring
performance was very good and it gave
unusual satisfaction. The show was all
given in one ring, and there was not two o,
three to confOund the audience. The fea
lures Of the entertainment were the rid
ing of Romeo Sebastian, Juggling of
Satsuma, and the ladder act of the Rus.
sian athletes. Johnny Patterson was very
funny as clown, but two others tired the
audience with very tiresome act. Zazel
was shot from tho cannon successfully,
but tho act is not quite as thrilling und er
canvas rs on 4 window lithograp6.
A concert was given after the show,
which pleased those who remained, for it
was quite good. On the side show canvass
a picture of fierce looking Zulus were seen.
The reporter thought he must SEQ them so
he walked in for the "small sum of 10
cents, two very ugly darkies with moth
ing on but feather belt anu Il turban.
wcro walking around tho tent chatting to
the members of the band in good English.
Afterwards they were seen eating peanuts
and enjoying the circus performance.
They were nothing more then razor carry
ing darkics, and there arc plenty of hotl
carriers i'll town who would make better
Zulus.
When ut Sunbury last Wednesday, the
attaches of Batchelier & Doris circus
marched to the grave of NJ. l.. Kerlin,
who was killed at Bradford by the upset
ting OF 4 circus wagon, with band and
bouquets. Mr.. Doris made few remarks
eulogistic of the deceased, and then Of
fered up touching prayer. The female
members of the company sang beautiful
song, and with many tcar-dimmcd eyes
the company dispersed.
The circus men yesterday declined to
pay $3.50 assessed upon them for the use
OF tho city water and Superintendent
kitch was kept busy in endeavoring to
prevent them from using the water sur
reptitiously. Finally he cut of tho supply
from the pipe leading to the circus ground.
While the superintendent was badgerinv
them they watercd their horses in the
creek.
The company did not get away from
Lancaster until near 8 o'clock this morn
ing and even then some eight or ton of the
party, including two or three women,
were left behind, having had fight with
the management. They arc said to be
tfampS, WHO were plckcU up along the
road and merely hired to supply a tempo
rary want.
hoy SwinGletl.
Yesterday 4 boy named Jimmy Hamil-
Ion, from Millersville, bought ticket and
went to the circus. On entering the tent
he was met by a swindler, who assumed
HRS Of authority and insisted on having
ten. cents extra from the boy before giving
aim scat. The boy offered quarter and
;he scamp handed it back, saying he took
nothing but grcenbacks. Jimmy had
'en dollar note and rendered it to the
'windler, who, after pretending to mako
change handed the note Gas Jimmy sup.
9osed back to him telling him to take
eat and never mind the ten cents. Jimmy
ooked at the note after he got to his seat
md found it to DO only one dollar-the
'windler having dexterously exchanged it
md disappeared.
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Bogus Insurance.

Yesterday two men appeared at a beard :
ing house in this city and asked for board.
ing. They could not be accommodated.
They then asked if they could secure a
room from 10 o'clock a. m. until p. M,
and were given one. It was soon suspected
that they were swindlers, who were follow.
ing the circus; and a watch was kept upon
their movements. They seem to have
suspected that they were watched and took
an early opportunity to leave. They left
behind them some papers which showed
that they were bogus insurance men. Ono
of them was a tall slim man with. SLOUGH
hat and tho either small, dark man with
derby hat. A large fat man, supposed to
have been in collusion with them, was seen
lurking near the place at which they
stopped. .. - ..'' E.
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Prof. Hal,lomau's Memorial.

The elaborate, timely and truthful me.
mOir Of the late Prof. S. s. Haldeman, by
Chas. Henry Hart, historiographer of tho
numismatic and antiquarian society of
Philadelphia, has been reprinted for gen.
eral circulation, with an appendix, from
the Penn Monthly for August. The appon-
dix has list of his 122 scientific pubiica-
tiOns and the twenty eight societies which
from 1887 to 1876. in all parts of the world,
honored him and were honOred by his
membership in them.
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Concentrated CramD.

To the cucumber is ascribed untold rc-
serve force. 1t is sort of internal engine
loaded with collie and destructive of the
internal economy of mankind. Ordinarily
It is deceitfully fair and deceptively allur-
ing. Occasionally nature has spasm of
conscience and gets in honest work. We
have before us perfect allegory of cholera
morbus in the guise of a cucumber raised
by Mrs. Elizabeth MUIR, of this city. It
is triune, three in one, collie, cholera and
contortion, and is a. monster of hideous
mein," weighing Upward of two pounds.
Think of the dynamic. power oftwo pounds
of concentrated cramp.
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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
a REFRESHING RAIN.
n 1.ltllG IIail-TOb0cCO DAMAGED.

n u.tiIG ta1l-TOD0CcO Damaged.
Yesterday afternoon Lancaster and
vicinity was visited by refreshing rain
tho first that VIC have had for several
weeks. Our streets wore cleansed and
vegetation Of all kinds greatly revived.
Tho rain extended over u great part of the
county, but was not SD general rs could be
desired. Very little foil in Columbia, and
ut Slackwatcr there was scarcely enough
to lay tho dust. At Ncwtown, two or
thrco miles south Of Mount Joy, there
was fall Of hail that riddlcd the tobacco
\ good deal. Tho hail was not larger than
cherry stones and does not appear to have
covered any very great extent of territory.
There arc reports that somo damage was
also done by hail southeast of this city.
Reports from Brickerville, New Holland,
Boarville, Fairville, Vosansville and Hin
kletown state that there was considerable
damage done to tho tobacco by hail which
fell during Yesterdays thundcr-gust.
- At Mannheim there was fiue rain, but
no hail
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"A Watch stolen.

August tOst, tailor, lives at 3l6 Beaver
street. Yesterday his daughter aged four
teen, was sweeping the house between 0
and 10 a. IN. aud at that and other times
during the day his front door and window
were open. August's blue blouse was
hanging in tho room back of tho parlor
with patent lever silver watch, marked
Sophia Rost, in the left hand inside pocket.
Some thief slipped in and stole the time
piece and Mr.. ROst would give five dollars
to get his hands on the thief and the
watch.
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of the people, the late constitutional
convention, eulogized in this very ad-
dress of Judge Agnew, solemnly de-
clared against the freepass system. How
any officer of the state, sworn to obey
its law, can accept afree pass in the face
of such condemnation, is something We
could never reconcile with a nice sense
of the prOprieties. True, some of the
railroad companies are able to evade its
penalties for the time, but that makes
their offending none the less an infraction
and affords no moral excuse to those who,
having sworn to respect the law, violate
it. Yet judges of the supreme court,
before whom their benefactors are in
constant litigation, ride on their favOrs.
We believe this was first called to public
notice in these columns, after the writer
had seen four judges of the supreme
court tender their free passes to 4 Penn
sylvania railroad conductor. If his
eyes did not deceive him then, or his
memory now, Judge Agnew himself was
one of them. We have been told, not
authoritatively, that for long time he
declined a pass, but finally took it after
he was jibed about his own reflection on
his weakness. If such sophistry could
mislead one whose integrity and culture
and learning gave lustre and weight to
and won popular confidence for his opin.
ions what can he expect of judges, con-
spicuOus only for their ''judicial in
firmities?''
1t needs 10 reasoning to show the i'm
propriety and indecency Of judges riding
on free passes, received from railroad
companies whose contests before their
courts they are constantly upon to ad-
judge. There is not one of them who
has not again and again set aside viewers
and arbitrators' reports because they had
been subject to some real or fancied
favor from one Of the disputants. Who,
therefore, wants his case with railroad
company heard and determined by judges
carrying in their pockets the favors
of the adversary, worth from S. to $25
every time the judge takes a railroad ride?
On this one point Judge Agnew might
expand his observations into an address
whose electricity would purify the atmos-
phere of this latitude.
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"A SAD STORY.
Richmond Society Badly Duped.

Richmond Society BADLY Duped.
During the early part of this month, a
young lady, whose widowed mother keeps
a boarding house in Richmond. Va,
CHANGED to read in the Hartford, (Conn. J
Churchmdn, an advertisement for a gov
erness to take charge of a young child of a
widowcf. I She at once applied by letter
for the position, at the same time forward
ing letters of recommendation.
In answer to the application the advcr-
tiser camO in person to Richmond and
represented himself as Mr.. Thomas Mar
vim, wealthy widower from tho West.
He expressed such satisfaction with the
character given Of the young lady that he
said he had come on at once to secure her
services. He remained several days, and
tho result Of his visit was that, instead cf
q gOverness, he secured a bride, upon
whom before their marriage, he "settlcd''
$4,000.
The parties were married last week, and
left for an extended tour. Tho return of
draft which Marvin had negotiated in
the First national bank, with the state
ment that it. together with the letter of
credit, were base forgeries; first revealed
the truo character of the impostor, and
detectives were Immediately put upon his
track.
The first intelligence received from the
bridal party was contained in telegram
from the lady, dated Albion, New York,
July 25, inquiring into the truth Of re-
port in the papers there that 4 fatal acci-
dent had befallen her mother. From this
it would appear that Marvin had concoct-
ed and had published the story of the acci-
dent in the hope that his wife would i'm
mediatcly return home aud thus give him
the opportunity to desert her. Friends
from Richmond went to Albion to the
relief Of tho young lady, and she is now on
her way home. Marvin is believed to have
made his escape into Canada.
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MINOR TOPICS.


The Lutherans count 100 congregation,
and 30, 600 members in Brazil, who col
there without any subsidized lines OF
steamers.
The Churchman takes strong ground
against the report of a committee of Epis.
copal clergymen who tried to ''whitc.
wash" Shepherd COwley. The report, it
says, "places the church in the attitude
of shielding, by one of her officers, a man
whom civil court has condemned, and
whom no court of her own has acquitted, ~
THE lato Justice Nathan Clifford is said
to have left in manuscript detailed his
tory of the proceeding of the electoral CON-
mission of 1877. 1t will be mighty inter-
esting reading, especially if it should DIS
close that Judge Strong's prayer meeting
altered Judge Bradley's vote on tho Flor
| ida case.
|. CONGRESSMAN CARLISLE, on returning
from Europe, gives his opinion, which is
entitled to weight, that Secretary Win
dom could have just as successfully 10.
funded both the two hundred million skies
and the four hundred and seventy million
fives at three per cent. as at three and a
half, thus saving the. treasury three mil
| lions of dOllars-as tho Democratic House
proposed to.
nj, or
people against giving money to street beg
gars. They say that careful investigation
shows that 900 out of every 100 is not too
high to put the proportion of swindlers,
and "in fact, is being very lenient to the
hundrcth." This recalls Archbishop
Whate!ey's remark, that "hc had given
away largo sums in charity, but he thanked
God, not penny to street beggars," or
words to that effect.
ADAM was the first man to resign his
position, but he didn't 60 bowling around
for vindication. When lie threw up his
job as head gardener he went to grating
sprouts on his own hook like an honest
man. Adam had some trouble because
another fellow came browsing around his
domestic preserves, but that only illus
trates another point of difference between
him and some others that might be men,
toned.
IT is stated that copper lodes generally
run from east to west and lead lodes from
north to south. This scientific fact will
60 far towards explaining the presence of
copper-colored denizens in the West and
will set at rest forever much mooted po-
litical question. Some twenty years ago
many loads of lead were discovered going
from the north to the south, and the big
wigs have ever since speculated as to the
cause. We are glad it is settled. Now
when Susan B. Anthony's age is deter
mined Gabriel might as well begin his
cornet solo.
Pore LEO's Encyclical Letter, issued on
the nth of June, two days before the
shooting of President Garfield, treats of
recent attempts on the lives of sovereigns
and declares any man peculiarly and
atrociously guilty who will take the life of |
the chief ruler OF a nation. The Pope de-
clsres that the precepts of Christ are emi-
nently fitted to comprise both those who
obey and those who command and to pro:
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Killed BY LiShtniDg.

Patrick Lavelle, at Centralia, Pa, while
standing under tree.-Mrs. Jopenski,
at Shenandoah, while sitting at an open
window.-Mrs. Harry VanVorst, at Car
bondale, by the side of her husband and
an old man picking whortlebcrries near
the house.-Bcnjamin Howe, of Camden,
N. Y, while walking through an oat field
near Oriskany Falls.-A mule and stallion
in B. C. Wendalrs barn near Wilkes
barre.
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Short Weight.

Market Master Dorley this morning
seized and confiscated eight Jumps Of but
ter purporting to be pounds; but which
did not weigh sixteen ounces. They were
sold by public auction and brought from
~ to IA cents per lump.