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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-27
NEIGIIHOXHOOD NEVIS.
Near and Across tho County Lire.

Near aud Across tho County Line.
John BOrdner was terribly injured by
being thrown from load Of lumber near
Swatara, Danphin county, Tuesday after
noon, the accident being caused by the
horses taking fright and running away.
o. 3. Keeley, of Spring City. Chester
county, has received so 600, the amount
of insurance upon his stove works re-
Gently destroyed. He is to erect ware
house at Eighth and Willow streets,
Philadelphia.
Abiah Sellers, Of Pocopson township,
who few weeks ago turned up at his
home in nearly furnished condition after
a mysterious absence of nine weeks. dur
ing which time he remained hidden in the
heart of tract Of woodland covering
about one hundred acres, near his own
home, and where he subsidcd entirely
upon apples. supply Of which he carried
to the spot before entering upon his fast,
is now lying in 4 critical condition from
the effects Of having devoured too much
strong food for the first few days immedi-
ateiy following his return home. Abiah
is subject to spells Of melancholy which
some times linger for weeks at a time, and
it was during one of these that he hid
himself in the woods as above stated.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-27
ELECrRIC LIGHT DANGERS.
A serious Subject for Fire Commissioners
to Deal With,


to Deal With.
The question Of the safety of the electric
Ii ,ht wires, as CT present arranged, is be-
ginning to excite the attention of the fire
commissioners. In New York yesterday
ono of the wires came in contact with 4
fire telegraph wire down town, the power
full current from the former flashed into
the alarm box in William street, near New
Chambers street, and destroyed it. On
Monday the woodwork the entl ance of the
Germania theatre, at Broadway and
Thirteenth street, was set on fire by the
accidental breaking of the material insulat-
ing the wire that feeds the electric lamps
over the door. The unprotected wire
came in contact with some lead ornaments
which were quickly melted, and the wood
work was set on fire. The fire commits
sioners fear that when the wires, which
are now new, become old and worn, much
trouble will result
There is another difficulty with the cleo
tric light wires. If it should be necessary
for the tiremen to cut them from the roof
of burning house, they would run the
risk of losing their life in the work. 1t is
necessary to cut the wires with wooden
handled instrument to protect the man {;
but should the wood happen to be vet, as
it is very apt to be at fire, it would be-
come conductor, and the strong elect, ic
current might kill man, just as Il flash of
lightning would. The utmost care has
heretofore been exercised, but serious
harm may result at any moment. The
fire commissioners have the matter seri.
ously under discussion.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-27
STATE ITEMS.

" Founders Day" at Lafayette college,
Easton, was appropriately observed yes
terday.
There seems to be a suicidal mania in
Philadelphia, no less than three cases of
self murder being reported from there
yesterday.
The second trial of Theodore McGurk
convicted in January, 1880, of numbering
James Neads, colored porter at Whites
Dental depot. No. 52S Arch street, Oh
October 8, 1865, began yesterday morning
i'll the court of oyer and termine-, at Phil
adelphia before Judge Briggs.
William Slack, Is years of age; John
Hatfield, Is years William Brogan, II
years George Correll, 12 years, and Ed.
ware! p. Cody, 13 years. all residing in the
vicinity of Twenty fourth and Girard
avenue, Philadelphia, left their homes,
armed with revo!vers, with the intention
oc going West to fight thesIndians. Vel
low covered literature is the secret Of this
crusade.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-27
THE BOARD OF PARDONS.
Dozen Convicrs Let Loose.

The board of pardons met in Harris
burg yesterday and heard fifty-nine appii-
cations for pardon. Twelve of the num-
Der weIc pardOned as follows
Robert Miller, ir. Perjury. Bedford
county.
Frank IIoruer. Larceny. Beaver coun-
ty.
r. f. Reed. Larceny. Lawrence couu
ty.
John Burns. Aggravated assault and
battery. Northampton county.
VIM. WiudOwmaker. Burglary. Cum
berland county.
Charles Hurst. Attempt tn procure al
abortion. Westmoreland county.
Wolf NJ. Jacobs and n :. Goodman
Arson. Crawford county.
Joshua Mulley. Burglary. Delaware
county.
John Rcams. Larceny. Beaver county.
Wenzle Wesie. FeloniOus assault and
battery and larceny. Allegheny county.
Morris Sprin yfield. Murder in the Sec
ond degree. Philadelphia.
A hearing was granted in the case Of
John Echtcrnacht, of Lancaster county,
convicted of burglary, and of three other
cOnvicts from other counties, Nine cases
were continued parions were refused in
fifteen cases, and six cases We're held under
adviscment. The board adjourned until
next month.
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key and Tyner.

1t .rusi lie conceded that the admis-
sioN by tie late Postmaster General
Key that lie had received the report of
his first assistant. Tyner, on the star
routes, and had ordered its suppression,
relieves Mr.. Tyner from responsibility
for that ac!. Certainly lie could not
publish it, @: put it on file, or act upon
it in any way. when his chief forbade
him. lie could. however, have resigned
his Office if he lad considered that a
wrong was being done the government,
and he would have explained the cause
temper and disposition would SO lave
acted but il is more than can reasonably
he expected from the ordinary Office
holder. 1t would have been damaging
to the administration and the party with
which Mr.. Tyner acts and have dcmol-
ished his position in it, besides making
him the target O: the powerful postoflice
ring of corruptionistS who would have
been shown to control tile administra-
tion. Probably it never entered into
Tyner's head to perform any such re-
marka:'Ic feat OF political honesty.
Doubtless he was quite content when he
considered that the postmaster general
had taken from his shoulders the respon-
sibility OF silence as to the wrongs being
done. Ii is not 10 he supposed that he
sought even to Iissuade his amiable
chief from hi: course, nor did he seek 10
convince him Of the rascality of the
things he reported. For Mr.. Key now
says that he investigated the matter and
found that Brady's proceedings were
strongly based on statements and afli-
davits of important public personages,
and lie came to the conclusion that they
were all right. Tyner admits that he
knew they were all wrong. Presum-
ably he could have SO convinced the
postmaster general if lie had tried, and
have shown him the falseness and fraud
in the documentary evidence which de-
ceived the department head. However
innocent of actual wrong doing himself,
Mr.. Tyner cannot pose before us as a
vigorous and vigilant foe of the wrongs
of others that he had knowledge of.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-27
ALLENTOWN STUDENTS IN LANCASTER
The Senior Class OF Muhle nDerg College On
u VISIT


The Senior Class OF Mulle nDerg College Oh
VISIT.
The senior class Of Muhlenberg college,
Allentown, now on = nlineTalogical tour
through the state, arrived here from Har
risburg yesterday afternoon and registered
at the Cooper house. The members Of
the class are Mcssrs. Aaron L. uassler,
David r. Horne, ThOs. N. Yuudt, Oscar
]. Slime, Robert ID. Poeder, Andrew J.
Heissler, Edward l.. Miller, Horace Rel
ter, Edwin II. Small, WIN. Il. Grim. w.
Fl. Medlcr, l.. ]. Bickel, Samuel G..
Schumacher, J. Ii. Zwenzig, J. w. Laza-
rus, Nj. w. Richards, Austin A. Click and
Benjamin Sadlcr, jr.
This morning they left in an omnibus
for the Nickel Mines, near the Gap, and
will return this evening. They will re-
main in the city over Tomorrow and will
then leave for Philadci .,hia, and after
spending some time thors will visit the
Bethlehem zinc mines, returning to Allen
town on Saturday.
The class left home on Monday and on
that day were at Fritz's island near Read
ing, from where they sent home :, box of
specimens, and inspected two cabinets of
mineralogical specimens in Reading. On
Tuesday they spent six hours at Cornwall
and Prof. Edgar F.. Smith, Ph. d., who
has charge of the class, sent home another
box OF specimens obtained there. They
also visited the Robert Coleman and other
furnaces while at Lebanon. They arrived
in Harrisburg late on Tuesday night.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-27
East Pennsylvania Eldersl,ip.

The East Pennsylvania eldership OF the
Church of God has made the following
ministerial appointments for tho ensuing
year
Stations.-Philadelph W. Miller
Lancaster-G. w. Seilhamer.
Mount JOY. B. Lockwood.
WashingtOn-J. Hunter.
Columbia-J. II. Esterline.
Bainbridgc and Maytown--G. W. GetZ.
Elizabethtown and Highspirc-S. W.
Nail.
Middletown-D. S. Shoop.
Harrisburg. First church-C. Price.
Harrisburg, Second church-D. A. l..
Laverty. Harrisburg, Third church-A.
Swartz.
Mechanicsburg-O Il. Belts.
MELVILLE and PlainfeId-C. /. Behney.
Shppensburg-J. NJ. Carvell.
Newburg and Green Spring.. NJ.
Speese.
Chambersburg and Orrstown-W. J. d.
Edwards.
Altoona-J. w. Deshong.
MELVILLE, Brownsville and Harrisburg
(colored)-J. w. Jones.
Ciruits.-East Laucaster--T. Still.
West Lancaster-A. II. Long.
Dauphin-J. G. SaybroOks.
Palmyra-F. l.. NicOdemus.
! Shilemanstown and Camp Hill, ctc-C.
G. Bartells.
Reading and Kimmer SIS. c. Stone
seifer.
Lebanon-I. Hay.
MahantOnga-S. Smith.
Northumberland W. Long.
East York;. E. Arnold.
West York-H. E. Reever.
Churchtown-W. p. Winbigler.
Dublin Gap-W. Smith.
Fayetteville-S. Spurrier.
Upper Perry-J. F. Maxwell.
Lower Perry-W. ]. Grissinger.
Morrison's Cove-G. Sigler.
Stonerstown-J. G.. Hoover.
Fort Littleton-J. T. Fleegle.
Matamoras-J. A. M'Dannald.
Marysville-S. B. Howard.
Houtzdale-I. Bergstresser.
Clearfield-D. II. Mumma.
Mssions-Lower York;. Hackenber-
ger.
Bedford-(to be supplied.)
General Missionary-W. Sauborn.
G. II. Forney, D. D. editor of the ChOrch
IdrO?6fe
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THE rIl;EMEN'S UNION.


Reception OF tho Washington Company.
Last evening the Firemen's Union held
meeting in the American hose house to
make arrangements for the reception of
the Washington company. President
Charles NJ. Howell was in the chair.
A committee, consisting of Messrs.
Howell, Bi.hl, IIaines and Goodman. was
appointed to make arrangements for the
parade.
They reported the following route ::
Form on Chestnut, right resting on North
Queen, to Square, to East King, to Ann,
to Orange, to Duke, to Lemon, TO North
Queen, to Washington engine house and
dismiss.
Philip S. Smith, oc the American COM
pany, was appointed chief marshal, with
power to appoint aids.
The American and Empire companies
siguified their intention OF turning out.
Whether there will be any others is not
known.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-27
PERSONAL,

The Car OF Russia is all cpicure.
Queen VICTORIA once wrote leader FOR
tho London Times. Mrs. NORTON fire.
quently did the same thing.
President HARRISON is to have an un-
usual but appropriate monument. A
church is to be erected to his memory at
S>uth Bend, Ind.
DAVID MoRwITz, for the past 90 years
bo,kkeepcr of the Philadelphia German
Democrat establishment, died or Monday
night in his 5Sth year.
ARTEMAs HALE, of Bridgewatcr, Mass,
6" the Oldest living ex-member of Con-
gress," passed his ninety eighth birthday
last week. He expects to round out his
century, with few years to spare.
Mr.. JOHN TAYLOR JOHNSTON has bought
for Sc, 600 and presented to the Metropoli-
tan museum in New York the collection
of engraved gems, formed by the Rev. G..
W. King, of Cambridge, high authority
on this specially. 1t numbers 331 pieces
many of them of great beauty and rarity.
Twenty thousand dollars is the sum
which Mrs. ADEL1A BEERS claims from
William McCarty, the slate mantcl manu-
facturer, of Twelfth and Race streets,
Philadelphia, as a panacea for her wound
cd feelings, and as plaster to bind up the
pieces of her broken heart. Mr.. Mccarthy
says lie never promised anything of the
kind and denounces the suit against him
as a blackmailing scheme. They all do.
Mss ELIZABETH S. PARKER, the second
daughter Of Cortland Parker, was married
to Malcolm Campbell, Of New York, in
Grace church, Newark, yesterday after
noon. The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. DR.. Eccleston, rector of Trinity
church, assisted by the Rev. Cort-
landt Whitehead, bishop-slect of Pitts
burgb, Pa, and Il cousin Of the byide.
The bridal marty entered the church pre-
cedcd by the ushers, the bride leaning on
the arm of her father, by whom she was
given away. The bride wore heavy,
rich corded white silk en- train, with old
point lace veil reaching nearly to her feet.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-27
THE NUPTIAL KNOT.
Another Wedding at st. Mary

ANother eddinS AT 81. hArys.
The parish of St. Mary 5. S.recently so pro
life in weddings, made an additional con-
tribution to the hymeneal band this morn
ing in the marriage Of Mr.. Joseph j.
keenan,, superintendent Of Stewards stock
yards, and Il we'll known and popular
young gentleman of this city, and Miss
Lottie Boyle, daughter Of Mr.. George L.
Boyle, depot master of the Pennsylvania
railroad here. The ceremony was per-
formed at 8 o'clock by Rev. Father Hickey
pastor of St. Mary's, in the presence Of
small company Of invited guests and q
number of interested outsiders. The
bridal purity comprised Mr.. Chas. E. Stew
art and Mr.. William Widmyer, ushers
Miss Mamie Boyle and Mr.. Frank keenan,,
bridesmaid and grooms,nan, and respec-
lively sister of the bride and brother of the
groom the bride and groom; in which
order they entered the church, while tha
tones of the march from Tannhauser,"
skiilfully executed by the organist, Miss
Lizzie Strobel, pea!ed out in merry greet
ing. The bride was handsomely and be-
comingly attired in brown silk en- traise
and sumptuously made she wore a bonnet
Of garnet velvet, aud all the accessories of
her toilet were in keeping with
the richness and elegance Of the dress
After the knot had been tied by the
officiating priest, mass was said, feature
of the service being Miss Della Doyle's
rendition Of an " Ave Maria" which was
sung in the finished style that marks all
the efforts of this promising young vocalist.
Miss StrObel played 4 march by Peifkc
as the bridal party retired. \ reception
was held ut the residence OF tho brides
father, West Chestnut street, from to II,
and this afternoon the ncwly-wed pair
started on a trip that will include, Phila-
delphia, New York, Baltimore and Wash
ingtOn.
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a Lady's ISenevOlence,

The will of Mrs. Alice B. Schoonmaker,
wife of Col. in. Schoonmaker and daugh-
ter of the late William H. Brown. the
Pittsburgh "coal king" was filed in the
registers office at Pittsburg yesterday
afternoon. 1t disposes of about 500, 600
worth of property. Among the bequests
is a conditional one of $4,000 to found a
hospital in Allegheny City for ruptured
and crippled children, similar to the one
in New York, to which the sum of $40 900
is also bequeathed. The sum Of $1,000
goes to the Third Presbyterian church :;
5000 to the Homeopathic hospital,
and s1o, 600 to found chiIdren's depart
ment in that hospital provided the insti-
tuition is out of debt within five years.
$500, 900 is given to an only son and the
balance to the husband of deceased.
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Tyner's Resignation.

First Assistant Postmaster General
Tyner hacded in his resignation yesterday.
He obtained Il written statement from
Mr. James that his resignation was not
called for on the grounds assigned by the
public prints and that the charges against
him as to star route matters had no fOun-
dation. AS it was to clear himself of this
imputation that Mr.. Tyner proposed to
make fight, the matter is now dropped
and Tyner comes forward to exchange a
resignation for certificate of character.
He has given to the public to night long
and dry statement regarding his official
career.
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ICE IN THE ATLANTIC.
A Huge BerG Slowly r loating Towards tho
Track of European Vessels.

Track of European Vessels.
A special dispatch from st. Johns, N.F.,
says:
The British clipper brigantine Isabella
Helen, of Plymouth, England, Captain
Stevens. arrived at this port last night,
after passage through terrific storm and
furious sea, protracted over forty days from
Bristol. On Tuesday last the sea, making
a clean breach over the vessel, washed
overheard the cook and steward. The gale,
varying from southwest to northeast, never
abated during twenty days in its destruc-
tive violence. The bulwarks of the
vessel, blabored by heavy beam
seas, were swept away or shattered,
her sails were torn into shreds, and nothing
but the strong part Of the main hull re-
mains intact. On Saturday last, at noon,
with Cape Race bearing north-northwest,
distant ninety-three miles, the Isabella
Helen fell in with the floating wreck of
some ship that had recently met her doom
in one of those terrific ocean storms that
every day arrivals are putting on record.
Pieces of the mainsail, portions Of bal
warks, with stanchions attached, and Sec
tions of ships side, apparently new,
were observed floating about OH either
side. The inside of the bulwarks was
white painted, the outside was black. The
approximate estimate of the size of the
vessel was 500 tons. ,
The vanguard eberg Of the huge Arc.
tic armada now sailing southwark along
the coast of Labrador and Newfoundland
made its appearance this morning off tie
harbor of St. Johns. 1t is one of twenty
three huge masses Of glacial drift ice 10
ported during the past twenty days as
slowly but surely deploying downward
across the track of European aud Ameri
can commerce, and ranging in their long
drawn line at present between the
parallels Of 522 and 47.5Oo north
The berg now in sight from tht
harbor of St. Johns is about four
teen miles distant, bearing southeast. L
is OF enormous dimensions, being not less
than a quarter of mile in length, and
soaring through one of its turrets to q,
altitude of 800 feet. There is vast p!a
tcau rising not more than few feet from
the surface of the sea, extending about 20
feet from its southern side. Its mean rat'
to-day, with head wind from tho south
ward, is approximately two and three
quarters of mile per hour. Navigator
between America and Europe will sool
require to keepa visilant outlook for thi
formidable invader Of the domain O
commerce.
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Convicted of Murder,

The jury in the case of John Coyle, jr.,
who has been Oh trial in York since We'd
nesday of last week for the murder of
Emily Myers, agreed upon verdict yes
tertlay afternoon.At II 80 yesterday morn.
ing they retired, having been charged by
Judge Wick's. At 1 80 in the afternoon
they had agreed, and upon being brought
into court rendered verdict of guilty OF
murder in the first degree. The counsel
of Coyle gave notice that he would make
a motion for new trial.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-27
sunday.school Entertainment

The first entertainment of the Presby-
terian Mission Sunday. school for the fall
and winter will be held in the chapel on
South Queen street tomorrow evening.
The pictures will be presented by Mr.. J.
D. Pyott, and are expected to be the best
selections ever shown by our local exhibi-
tors. The scholars, with their parents and
frieEds. are specially invited to be present.
No tickets are ever sold by the managers,
but every scholar and friend of the church
and school are expected to be present
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Getting Better,

Edward II. Cole, who was shot at the
City hotel by Emanuel H. Gundaker, and
who it was feared for a time would not
recover from his wound, is much better
and in fair way of recovery. He was
promenading on the street yesterday and
took look into the court house, where
his own and Gundaker's trials are soon ex.
pected to take place.
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SILLY INEATUATION.
A schoolgirls Eiopement and The !

A schoolgirls Eiopelnent and The Result.
Justice of the Peace Hayes, of New
Haven, Connecticut, on Wednesday of
last week married George Clayton Allyn
to Florence E. Harding. Allyn is "a and
the bride IS. Allyn told the justice that
he was commercial traveller from Phila-
delphia and that the girl belonged in Bos.
ton. After the ceremony he said he forgot
to bring any money with him but that he
would return the next day and pay for
the trouble the justice had been to. He
did not kcephis word, and it was subse-
qucntly learned that the coin he had paid
the register of vital statistics for license
had hole in it that had been plugged up
with tin foil. These facts were published
in local Sunday newspaper, and read by
the girls mother, Mrs. E. c. Harding,
keeper of boarding house at 1877 George
street, this city. She at once ordered
Allyn and her daughter out of the house,
and the couple have not been heard from
since Sunday night.
1t seems that Allyn once peddled ca.
tarrh remedy through the country. Mrs.
Harding's daughter, who had been at a
boarding school, returned to her mother s
homo in Springi Mass, last spring.
She was an accomplished pianist. Allyn
met her at musicale in Springfield and
three weeks later she eloped with him,
and for six weeks was lost to her mother.
She then wrote that she had been married
to Allyn in New Britain, Conn. This was
in May last. In August, Mrs. Harding
gave up her position as matron Of the
Home for the Friendless in Springfield and
came to join her daughter and Allyn, who
were boarding in this city. With the
mothers money boarding house was
opened here. Allyn would do no work,
but lived with Mrs. Harding and her
daughter in idleness. Despite repeated
requests of the mother he did not produce
certificate of the alleged marriage.
Mrs. Harding finally threatened to drive
him out unless he obtained a certificate
that he bad married her daughter. Then
it was that on Wednesday last he took the
girl to Justice Hayes Office and had the
ceremony performed. Mrs. Harding did
not notice tue date Of the certificate, and
her daughter was SO completely in Allyn's
power that she kept quiet the fact that she
had just learned, viz, that the New Brit
ain marriage had been mock one. The
newspaper publication Of what had oc-
Cured in Justice Hayes Office opened the
mothers eyes, and the ejectment Of the
couple from the house followed after
Allyn had confessed that the other cere
mony was fraud.