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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-01
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

The First Weak of the November Term.
BEFORE JUDGE PATTERSON.
In the case of L.Powcr VS.. B.F. Hockey,
action on a promissorY note, the evidence
on both sides was the same as upon the
former trial. The case was given to the
jury shortly before noon and they found
for the plaintiff in the amount of $149.96.
In the case of Joseph Vanleer and Caro-
line Vanleer, formerly Carmen, his wife.
for the use Of said wife, VS.. the executors of
Necdliam Wilson, deceased, the jury rem
dered u verdict in favor of the plaintiff for
$1,000.
BEFORE JUDGE LIVINGSTON.
Anna L. Miller, by her husband George
IL. Miller, VS.. Abraham II. Reist. This
was an issue to try the right of property,
levied upon by the sheriff on Il f. .fa. of
April term. 1880, as the property Of George
II. Miller but claimed by his wife. The
jury rendered u verdict in favor of the
plaintiff.
Divorce Gases.
Iu the case of Thomas Pcndcgrast VS..
NJ. A. Pendergrast, his wife, action for !,
divorce, the court On the 18th of October,
decreed that libellant pay respondent the
sum of 81 per week for her maintenance
pending the suit he failed to pay the
money for three weeks and he was brought
into court OH an attachment. He purged
himself of any contempt by testifying that
he would pay all that he is in arrears on
his next pay day at the watch factory.
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STATE ITEMS.

A photographer in Bethlehem displays
in his window a picture of 4 farmer and
his wife and fifteen children. That is a
group to rejoice the heart of a patriot.
Reuben Bretz, a coal train brakeman,
aged 40 years, aud employed on the road
for the last twenty years, has been killed
at POttsville.
There arc 433, 600 bushels of grain in The
Anchor line elevators at Erie, which the
Philadelphia and Erie railroad is unable to
transport east because of the scarcity Of
cars.
Jacob Gcycr, i dissipatcd son OF Stephen
Geycr, a well-known lawyer of Allegheny
fatally injured, while attempting to stab
his father.
Cattle arc now shipped from Pittsburgh
to Philadelphia in fast trains in order to
comply with the law which forbids
the keeping Of live stock in cars over
twenty four hours without unloading to
feed.
Judge Ludlow in Philadelphia sentenced
Michael Leonard to three months i'm
prisonment, a fine of 500, and to be alb.
solutely deprived of the right of suffrage
for iour years, he having pleaded guilty to
VOLln1 OH announcer man nllilc tlC inc l3SC
election.
John Shields, seven years old, residing
in West Manayunk, son of one of the
wOrkmen at Randolph & Sons paper mill,
was caught in the shaftlng at the mill.
lie was whirled around and around many
times, his head aud one arm were torn
from his body, and every bone seemed to
have been crushed. He died at once.
DIR. Samuel Walsh, Of 1908 South Sew
enth street, Philadelphia, has been COM
mitted by Coroner Janney, for the action
of the district attorney, he having ac-
knowledged committing an error in an
operation performed upon John Rush, of
G19 Hallowell street, resulting, us was
testified, in the latter's death.
Sophia Gable, aged 10. belle of Min
ersville, motherless and petted, betrayed
by an atlmircr, took strychnine, then the
antidOte, and she is now in a fair way to
recOve: again. The drug lett her limbs
paralyzed, but it is expected this will wear
off with the effects of the poison. Much
sympathy is manifested for her.
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hired for the purpose by Mr.. Abbey, tho
manager of Patti, who understands the
art of ADVERTISING

hired for the purpose by Mr.. Abbey, tho
manager of Patti, who understands the
art Of advertising.
THEODORE S. FAxToN, ex-Mayor of
Utica, New York, died yesterday in that
city, aged 81 years. He was one of the
earliest promoters of the electric telegraph
and was the first president of the Utica
& Black river railroad. He was the
founder of the Old Ladies' Home and the
Home for Aged Men in Utica, and also
gave Faxton hall to that city.
The Philadelphia Record, which seldom
has good word for the ex-speaker. thinks
it may be said to the credit of Mr.. SAMUEL
J. RANDALL that when he gets q good idea
in his head he retains it as tenaciOusly as
he retains his bad ideas. The country will
stand behind him in his efforts to get the
funded indebtedness of the nation into 3
per cent. bonds.
Mr.. TILDEN has three traps on each
sewer pipe in his premises his collection
of engravings is the second largest and
choicest in the country, and he speaks of
the other mans as "job" :" and hand
me-down lot'' His household consists
only of himself and secretary, with four
servants, and they arc all quartered on the
third floor, which thoy reach by an elcva-
tor. All tho parts of Mr.. Tilden's house,
except the top floor are therefore open to
his guests, and the splendor of their furni-
ture, the interest of the pictures upon the
walls, and tho treasures of his vast library
are only items in the good measure of en-
tertainment he can offer. He rides on
horseback less and moro in a cab than
formerly.
Rev. DR.. P. S. Davis says Of Rev. DR..
b. BAUsMAN's handwriting cit must
have reminded you of a map of Boston.
We would like to see a page of it en-
larged to the sizc of the modern Athens,
and get some foot weary man to tread the
labyrinth, following the lines as the words
wee to he arranged by a compositor. He
would have to 60 out into by-ways, and
turn corners, move all around the plot,
and come back to tho point of departure
very unexpectedly, but only to make the
journey over and over again. lie would
realize how far man may walk without
going out of very small area, and be.
lievc that the serpcntinc paths OF a gen.
tleman's grounds might, if stretched out
into a straight line, be measured by the
mile"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-01
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.



Besides four accidents on the New York
division p. II. r. yesterday freight
train on the New York & Now England
railroad struck a boulder while passing
through a deep cut at Ironstone. and the
engine and twelve cars were piled up in i.
wreck. AS there is but single track,
the road was effectually blocked by the
disaster.
A miners train on the Reading railroad,
returning to Pottsville from Locust Gap.
ran into al empty coal train standing on
the main track. The coal cars were piled
up together and the engine wrecked, but
no person was seriously injured.
A freight train was thrown from the
track On the Indianapolis & St. Louis
railroad, at a point fourteen miles west of
that place, this morning, by brokena axle.
Seventeen cars were wrecked. A brake
man. whose name is not given. was killed,
and Cond uctor Brown seriously injured.
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Cigar Making Machine.

Mr.. F. p. Hart, OF Lititz, formerly OF
the Examiner, now of the internal revenue
department., has received letters patent
for an ingenious cigar-making machine.
The leaf and filling are laid upon plate
and with one motion like that of kraut
cutter roller is passed over them and the
cigar is made, lateral knife clipping the
ends as the cigar is made. 1t then drops
into mould, twenty of which arc in a
sliding box under the machine to receive
them as rapidly as made. With ono mo-
tion the machine does the work now re-
quiring five or six manual movements, and
the inventor claims that one operator and
a boy Or girl to carry off tho moulds will
do the work of five cigar manufacturers.
Castings are now being made to put the
mach n IS into market. If they arc IS
practicable as the model promises they
will revolutionize the trade aud make
cigars SO cheap that the whole family can
afford to indulge in the weed.
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SNYDER'S SPECULATION.
Another Countryman BIackmai.ed.

Another COuntryman BIackmai.od.
1t has been developed that IN the case
OF Jacob Fritz, jr., Of Quarryville, ac-
cused by J. Kahler Snyder of practicing
medicine without registration, the case was
settled and the prosecution withdrawn in
consideration of S25 paid to Snyder on be-
half of Fritz. The defendant is an old
man, and formerly was \ farmer. He is
now somewhat reduced in circumstances
and has of late made a mixture which he
sells as 4 sort of cure-all in bottles, duly
stamped. He never practiced nor pre-
tended to practice medicine or surgery,
and is no way amenable to tho alleged act
under which Snyder assumes to prosecute.
lie was SO advised by his counsel and
was urged to pay nothing and make no
concession to the prosecution. On Monday
his son being in the city, was induced to
pay s25 to Snyder under promise of having
the suit withdrawn, though Snyder and
Rowe had both previously assured Fritz
counsel that the case would be dismissed,
as they were satisfied there was nothing
in it, and that Fritz had not practiced med
icine.
All the same, Snyder took the $25 and
urged young Fritz to say nothing to his
fathers counsel about the amount paid.
OF course, no settlement that could be
made by Snyder, would protect Fritz or
anybody else from any number of future
prosecutions of the same kind, and as long
as he finds geese to pluck he will, likely,
wait for the feathers to grow to resume
operations.
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GOVERNMENTAL FINANCES.

How the Money Comes and Goes.
Public debt reduction for November
about seven and half millions.
50, TIA 500 of three and half per cent.
bonds offered and accepted yesterday
under the recent letters of the department
authorizing the receipt of five millions.
The 1O6th call for the redemption of
bonds is for twenty millions of the extend
ed skies, interest on which is to cease on
the Goth of January next.
Commissioner Raum reports that the
internal revenue taxes collected last year
amounted to s135, 229, ,912, and estimates
that the collections during the current
year will reach the enormous sum of $751;
O00,O 900. Mr.. Raum is of the opinion that
an internal revenue pension list should be
established for wounded and disabled Off
GERS.
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Did What They PROMISED.

Yesterday it was stated that Clayt
Myers and Buck Leibley had offered on a
wager to drive drove of hogs bclongin.
to Levi Myers to MOuntville (not Martic-
ville) and that the drove had left the
stock yards before they put in an appear
ance. They were not to be Outdone, how
ever, and securing cab they drove out
the Columbia pike, overtaking the boys
in charge of the hogs near Hambright's
tavern. They paid the boys and sent them
back and then took charge of the porkers,
which they drove to their destination. 1t
is said they have not yet received the
amount Of the bet, however.
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Married by the Preacher.

A Salisbury correspondent having by
way of joke, we assume, noted a marriage
ceremony performed by Judge Patterson,
VIC are requested for the truth of history
to say that Oh the 10Th inst, 1T the resi-
dence of the BRIDES parents, Rev. Mr..
Cooder, pastor of the Pequca Presbyterian
church, securely tied the nuptial knot for
Mr.. Ed. Wallace and Miss Flora, daughter
of Alfred Ellmaker. The judge was there,
but his legal services were not called into
requisitiOn.
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Kancaster fnteIIiQeilrer.
The Steel Duty.

1uC JlCCA
The "Parsee merchant" who has be-
come well-known under that title as a
writer on questions of revenue and
tariff, addresses letter to the convention
of Protectionists in session in New
York, of which we reproduce elsewhere
the portion which forcibly presents the
enormity of the present duty on steel,
by which the American manufacturers
of Bessemer rails are given clean
twenty eight dollars per ton profit by the
duty of that amount put on the foreign
article. We have several times called
attention to this matter and it is to us
very surprising that SO great wrong
should not ere now have attracted the
attention of Congress. What is espec-
tally singular is that the railroad compa-
nies, which pay this tremendous profit to
the railmakers, do not seem to grumble
at it at all. 1t can be explained by the fact
that the great railroad managers may be
interested in tine ownership Of the Besse-
mer mills. They fill their pockets by the
great price they pay for rails, and save
their stockholders by charging the public
all they can get for freight and passage.
Moreover, the existing trunk lines prob
ably consider it to be their interest to
keep up the price of rails, TO discourage
the building of new lines and to avoid
the depreciation in the estimated value
of their own tracks which would come
from a great lowering of the cost of tie
rails.
So the dozen corporations which are
banded together in the Bessemer steel
manufacture are permitted to obtain
for their product Il profit of over fifty
per cent, which they nave generally eX-
pended in increasing their capacity for
production. The works at Troy, New
York, fifteen years ago, produced less
than hundred tons of steel week, now
they turn out three thousand tons. The
Pennsylvania steel company, which was
starteda few years ago, near Harrisburg,
after failing to obtain the necessary land
near Lancaster, has already a surplus of
three million dollars, and its stock IS
quoted at three times its par. The Cam
bria, Edgar Thomson, and the other
works are in equally flOurishhlg condi-
tion. So rich are they that they could
afford TO pay several hundred thousand
dollars to Thomas and Gilchrist for their
process of dephOsphorizing iron ores SO
as to make them fit for steel, and quietly
lay the thing away until more conve-
nient season for its use. At present they
are in no need of economizing in the cost
of their pig iron, and they have no time
to change their operations. Certainly
they have 10 need for such duty as
S2S a ton to protect them. They can
make Bessemer rs cheap as in England,
by reason of the superior facilities and
skill which they employ in the business.
They could afford to spare the whole
duty and there can be no possible qmes-
tion that the protection given them
should not he greater than that given
the iron manufacturer, which i; but
eleven dollars per ton.
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BOTH WANT THE BOX.
Republican Quarrel In Salisbury

Republican Quarrel IN Salisbury.
Salisbury is i pretty big township and
gives big Republican majOrities. 1t has a
good deal of politics to the square inch all
the year round. The Hog and Bull rings
grunt and below from ono campaign to
another and the strife for county commit
tccmen and over the place of holding the
primary elections is generally pretty warm.
Sometimes it is held at John MasOn's
White Horse and sometimes it is moved
up to Spring Garden, At the late general
ELECTION Jos. Reeser Was cut very seriously
by the Republican Of this district, though
friendly Democrats saved his record by
complimentary votes for him. After the
election there was u dispute rs to where
the ballot box should be deposited. Squire
Sam. Henderson, under claim of being the
nearest justice to tho polls, insisted upon
being the custodian of it. Harry Warner,
Judge of the election, who does not train
with Squire Sam, was determined that he
shouldn't have it and carried it over to
Squire A. F. Slaymakcr at tho Gap and
left it there. Whercupon Henderson
issued a warrant, had Warner arrested,
heard the case and held him in $1,000
bail to answer ut court, when all Salisbury
hopes to be there to see.
What the people want to know is, why,
if the secrecy of the ballot is to be pre-
served, it matters which of Salisbury's
justices guards sacrcdly the seal upon it
and sees carefully to it that the ballots arc
burned without anybody nosing among
them. Now, if it was proposed to have
tho prying politicians peep in and find out
what Republicans of Salisbury voted for
Wolfe and who cut Rceser, SD as to make
4 "good list to mark" for the February
election, it could be easily understood
why such zeal was exercised to get guard
of the ballot box. But such sinister sus-
picion never entered the head Of even a
Salisbury Copperhead.
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A Blackmaflin- Speculaticn.

When IT was made puDllc that >.
Kahler Snyder appeared us prosecutor,
District Attorney Thomas J. Davis as
counsel for the prosecution and Benz. +.
Rowe as alderman i'm some fifty criminal
suits against citizens of this county for
alleged violation of an act requiring med
ical practitioners to register in the FRO
thOnotary's Office, the auspices under
which these complaints were made were
apt to suggest that the laudable aim of
serving the public good was not their
purpose. The name of the prosecutor
was calculated to revive recOllectiOns
which he was about the last man in this
community who should have contributed
to awaken. Nobody, we trust, would
lay a straw in the way Of him earning
an honest livelihood, but when his pros
titutiOn of the law and his abuse of the
authority of the commonwealth are fully
developed us Il scheme of blackmail it
becomes apparent why he seeks the tri-
bunal and secures the aid which seem to
be marshalled with him in these prosecu-
tiOnS.
OF the law itself, its objects, its &C.
fects OF its operation we do not propose
now to speak. That examination may
deferred. But when its enforcement
is purely blackmailing operation
it fairly merits the indignation of decent
citizens and the exposure of honest jour
nalism. J. kahler Snyder is not an in
dividual whom anybody would ever sus
pect of any disinterested or patriotic
purpose in moving to enforce a criminal
law. 1t needed not the fact that one of
the penalties of the law in question is
500 fine, half to go to the prosecutor, to
indicate what his purpose was in appear
ing in a criminal cOurt-On the prose-
cutor's side of the table. The presence
of the buzzard is sign of carrion.
That there can he no mistake about
his purpose in these cases being solely to
level blackmail We conclude from the
fact that in at least two cases this week
and likely more he extorted money from
defendants to "lct up" on them he
SttOll tbluCl
settled" the cases, the magistrates
costs being Obtainable from the county
treasury if not otherwise. In either case
if there was evidence to make it out the
suit should not have been abandoned
and if there was no such evidence the
bribe should not have been extortcd.
If the law was wise one, seeking to
protect the public, to prevent wrongs
and correct abuses, its attempted ell
forcement even by disreputable agencies
and without disinterested purposes,
might not be wholly beyond the pale of
public sympathy but this law, if not ut
terly impotent, defective and imperative,
is, at least in some of its features, so sense
less and ineffective for any good purpose
that we unhesitatingly declare that no
decent man would ever seek its enforce
ment and no intelligent one can show
the benefits thereof. When Dr."
Potts can comply with its requirements
as readily as DIR. Atlee, and experienced
pow-wows find the same shelter under it
rs graduates of the schools, the regular
profession will, we know, scorn to own
it. Moreover, there is not a single man
Of the 2Oo or more now registered, and
who were registered before the Snyder.
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Irishmeu in Council.

The Irish National convention met yes
terday in Chicago, and was largely at
tended. Ex-Congressman VIM. j. Hynes,
of Illinois, was chosen permanent chair
man. The committee on credentials not
being ready to report in the afternoon, the
convention adjourned until this morning.
In the evening a reception was given to
Messrs. OConror and Hcaly and Rev.
Father Shecny.
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NEW YORk's OFFICIAL VOTE.

The Half-Brced Bald Eagle 80, ZOO Behind.
The official vote of New York state
gives the following pluralitics Carr,
Republican, for secretary of state, 1902 !;
Davenport, Republican, for controller,
14,0S4 Maxwell. Democrat, for treasurer,
O,943 Russell, Republican, for attorney
general, IL, 1856 Seymour, Republican, for
engineer and surveyor, $40 Finch, Re-.
publican, for judge of appeals, II, 800.
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BARNS AND STORES BURNED.

Fifty Head of Holsiein Cattle Perish.
The hardware store of Ballary s. Co., at
jefferson, Texas, was burned on Sunday
last. Loss, $5O,O0O.
The barns of the Maxwell Brothers, on
their farm, near Geneva, New York, were
destroyed early yesterday morning by an
incendiary fire, with fifty head of Holstein
cattle, fifty hogs, five horses and guam
titY Of feed. The loss is about s45. 600.
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A CLASS.
The Petersburg Shooting Case.

VIM. Gnyer, who was accidentally shot
by Nathan Graybill as heretofore reported,
was alive this morning, but his doctor says
he cannot survive his injuries. Last even
ing he regained consciousness, and
talked to his friends, but rather incoher-
emily. He appears to think that he
accidentally shot himself.
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sale Of Real Estate.

Henry Shubert, auctionec1 and real
estate agent, sold at public sale, at the
Caldwell house, November 30, the prop
erty belonging to Geo. W. Zecher, situated
on the east side Of North Queen street
between Chestnut and. W alnut streets. Nos
ssl 4 22avJ. L. stenmetz, esq, fcr
$4,000.
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To day there was considerable rain on
market, and consequently q great fall in
it mud was plenty, but not in any de-
mand. Umbrellas went up freely, but
were sought after eagerly, at almost any
price anu the risk of paying for them.
There was no dust to be found. and no,
much hunted for.
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brought to Trial.

Despite Miss Ida V. Baisht's' denial that
he tried to wrong her, Enscl was put Oh
trial in Philadelphia yesterday. Masis-
trate Brown, who drew up the affidavit
upon which the defendant was arrested and
bound over, testified that Miss BaiSht
swore that its contents were true. $50 help
her God" Other testimony of a corrobo-
ratiye nature was given. On trial.
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lmportant-it True.

None of the current literature of the
day, history, fiction or biography, finds
a reception among our farmers.
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Grade of Pupils.

The following is the grade of pupils in
attendance at the James street first
grade secondary school during tho month
of November