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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-04
STATE ITEMS.

Progress says: Other states have press
ed themselves forward in the advance,
other statesmen have won tho presidency,
or the state department, Or the treasury,
Or high places in scholarship, but save
where the Democrats put Buchanan into
the presidency, or Meade Mcclellan and
Hancock in the army, the whole destiny of
the state of Pennsylvania was threatened
and controlled by Simon Cameron
Jacob Myers, an assistant brewer at St..
Vincent's college, near Latrobe, West
moreland county. who was fatally beaten
on the night of February 30, and left in
sensible, regained his senses for short
time, when he made a statement to his
physician, to the effect that, while walk
ing near the engine house he was accost-
ed by man and woman. The man sud-
denly drew a revolver and shot at him,
when he attempted to run, but four men
who had been concealed in the vicinity
sprang out and commenced beating him
with clubs until he became insensible.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-04

The severest of the great snow storms
of this winter is reported in the North
west. 1t ragged on Wednesday and yester-
day in Iowa. Wisconsin. Michigan and H.
inois. A high wind blew the snow into
huge drifts, and there was general sus
pension Of business and travel in the
greater potion of the states named. At
Madison, Wisconsin, ''about three feet OF
snow has fallen, and the drifts are from
sixteen to eighteen feet high.'
All the ice in Newark bay yesterday
morning moved down to the lon. bridge
of the New Jersey Central railroad and
broke nine Of the heavy timbers upholding
the structure. For time trains were
permitted to run only on one side Of the
bridge, until workmcn had strengthened
it. Last night most of the ice was broken
up by steam breakers. The OutflOwing
ice in the Shrewsbury river broke away
part Of the splendid bridge spanning the
river from Ocean Beach to the Highlands
of Navesink. The stone bulkhead at
Oceanic was also badly damaged.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-04
THE STORM,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

suow-Hail-wind- nd-Kain--Slush-al,,L.
Last evening snow storm set
il and continued violently all night,
attaining depth of sever.
inches. The wind blew violently and
towards morning the snow was follow
ed alternately by hail or rain until day
break, after which time the rain continued
to fall all forenoon, converting the snow
on the streets into slush and mud through
which it was almost impossible to wade.
Tho wind did considerable harm. Between
Lancaster and Dillerville ten or twelve
telegraph poles were blow down, and the
wires broken. Fences and trees were also
down. The roof of the court house leaked
SO badly that the janitor was obliged to
shovel the snow from it. Buildings with
leaky roofs, in other parts of the city
suffered severely. There were many
heavy snow slides from the roofs this
but We hear of no one being hurt
by them.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-04

THE editor of the NeU Era protests
that ne read it's editorial article denounc-
ing charity begging before it was printed,
and that he wrote the one begging for the
Y. NJ. c. A.; and that he can't see any
similarity between the begging he advo-
Gated and the begging he denounced. 1t
is right to beg for Christian associations
and wrong to beg for churches. AL
right. We see the difference. We have
suspected before that all churches were
not Christian associations.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-04
Send for the Old Man.

Senator Cameron is having 4 hard
streak of luck manifestly. To have
Mac Veagh put into the cabinet by Gar
field, although not SO requested to do Ly
him, may be said to afford just cause il,
Senator Cameron for Il feeling of dis
gust. Probably if the possibility OF
such thing had dawned upon him a
few weeks ago, We hi eht no. lave had
SO prolonged a contest for senator; AZ
Donald would have sccl! the advisabilitl
Of giving /, S,-li beside himself to brother
in-law Mac Feagh, and 50 earning 4 tit !e
clear TO naming the Pennsylvania meul.
Der of the cabinet.
The outset Of :, nrpuh!ic;n a'lninistr.t-
tiun seems to be very trying 20 the polit.
ical health Of THE FAMILY. 1t is not the
first time that it has been supposed tc
have caught its death of cold 1T the in.
augural ceremonies of the fourth o!
March. Thus it Was some twelve year:
ago that Gcncl:.l Grant chilled the mar
row of the Old WInnebago's bones 10y
his glance Of diSdain. And when the
iliustriOuS Hayes came in, the young
Donald, though his money and Boil
Mackey;s use of it had undoubtedly 81
cured Hayes the presidential seat, was
very much out in the cold.
This time THE FAMILY had no great
reason to look for presidential! favor.
since the rash Donald had put his for
tunes aboard the Grant boat, and that
cranky concern had been badly wrecked.
Still, the aged Simon had done some
thing..to turnsthe sun Of favor upon his
house 10y his valuable efforts tn bring tie
sullen stalwarts into the support Of ths.
ticket, when it was about 10 be sub
merged. This late help saved it and
elected Garfield. But our Donald was
not active in the cause at any time. He
sulked it in his tent in a way which has
apparently made him obnoxious to Gar
field. If not for that reason. then fer
some other ,he is out Of favor. Still there
is hope for him. Old Simon still lives :;
and if he will take hold of the fortunes
of THE FAMILY, he may make as sur.
prisins change in them as he did when
he turned Grant inside out many years
ago. Send for the old man.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-04

THE Democratic party has at no time
i'm the past twenty years been in control
of all branches Of the government, and
for only a brief period has it had a ma.
jority in both houses Of Congress. Re.
publican presidents have stood ready with
their vetoes to obstruct whatever useful
legislation might originate with them,
often for no better reason than that it
did SO originate. Al most the Demo-
Gratis could only prevent the wild waste
of corruption that had for years run
riot at Washington, attaining its highest
pitch under Grants administration and
emboldened to fresh raids upon tine treas
ury by his reelection in 1872. The Dem
ocratic succession to the control of the
House in 1874 was breakwater against
that flood, unquestionably. The record
of three Democratic houses is told in the
difference between the power of the lob
by in 1874 and spowerlessness.i If not its
extinction, in 1851. Tie outgoing of the
Democratic majority is not, how
ever, any better calculated to re-
call this comparison than the in
coming Of an administration with Gar
field at the head of it and Blaine as its
ruling spirit. These men Aourished
when jobbery and subsidies flourished in
the national capital, and when the lobby
waxed fat on the success of its schemes
for plunder. They were always for them,
never against them. 1t is auspicious Of
a return to the old times when they re-
turn and Mr.. Randall and his confreres,
who are now being eulogized by the in
dependent press for the Democratic pol
icy of retrenchment which they in
augurated and continued, may find that
their work has only fairly begun, or that
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-04
PURGED OF THE LOBisY.
The Independent Press the Democratic
Congress.

The Independent Press On the Democrat,
Congress.
Philadelphia Times.
The Democratic party, however, mus
forever bear tho honor of the first steps il
turning the government back to the cours
Of economy in administration which sig
na!ized the early traditions of the country.
They Set the example of selecting theil
best aud purcst men for responsible place
and they close their career with the pas
sage OF Il funding bill marking the highes,
water mark of national credit and enlight
ened legislation.
1t can never be forgotten that at time
when party domination had come to mean
the right to plumber the NATIONAL treasury,
to place notoriOusly corrupt men in places
of trust, the new majority, after fifteen
years. exclusion from power, chose
Michael G. Kerr to the speekership and
drew the lines openly against subsidy
and jobs. Since 1875 it has been the
complaint of the free handed in Wash
ingtOn that there was no longer a place
for the lobby. The jovial ranks of
these sinister make weights to the
legislation between 1861 and 1875 found
their occupation gone under the austerc
regime of Kerr. No member of the
lobby was permitted to 60 upon the floor
of the House, whereas before his day they
had swarmed in the seats of the members.
The opulent feasts of the rings which had
been wont to cnliven the social life of the
capital came to an end, AMI it is the glory
of the retiring party that their tenure
was denounced as dull and Improbable to
every form Of the shifty trade of lobbying
from the astute long-rolling of the
Pacific monopolists to the transparent bull
lying of the venal newspaper stoOl-piseons.
Mr.. Randalrs Vigorous Leadersnip.
New York Herald.
Under the vigorous and firm leadership
of Mr.. Randall, first in the appropriations
committee and next as speaker of the
House, the traditional propensity of the
party toward rigid economy was boldly
and persistently carried out, though the
pairing down OF expenses was sometimes
done with an unskilful hand. When
it is remembered that economy is
in the general opinion of mankind the
least gracious Of virtues and that to be
saving of the peoples money is almost
always unpopular, the courage and per
tinacity with which the House, under MIR.
Randalps leadership, cut down expendi-
lures and kicked jobs and jobbers out of
the capitol deserves greater praise than it
has got. 1t was said by shrewd Repub-
Iican when this needed reform was begun
81 am glad they have control OF the
House. We Republicans have got into a
habit of wasting public money, and we
have got 50 many friends to Oblige that to
as Randall is doing would be
IN ungracious and even an impossible un-
lertaking for u.s.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-04

Mrs. Henry Hess, residing mile and
a-half north Of Lititz, recently took up
some ground from the garden, and placed
it in box wherein she sowed some gar
den seeds. After the seeds had grown up,
she was surprised, on examining the
plants, to find snugly seated in the box ten
live grassh0ppers.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-04

Barr returped and said Senator, it is no
use. the members of the delegation will
not sign it." Thereupon Senator Cam
erOn said "Have one drawn up at once
recommending A. C. Harmer for postmas-
ter general" This was signed by Cam
eron and Mitchell, and by every Republi-
can member of the delegation. The
charge made against Mr.. MacVeagh is
that he is not SO good Republican that
he is not sometimes mistaken for Demo-
crat.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-04

Mr.. HAYES distinguishes himself on
retiring from his usurped office, by send
ing in to Congress message in strong
advocacy of the position of the national
banks. The veto imposes upon the peo.
pie the payment of millions OF dollars of
additional interest to these favored in
stitutiOns. 1t is harmonious ending
that Mr.. Hayes makes to beginning
that was born of fraud,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-04
it has to be done over under greater dis.
advantage than when they led the ma
iOrity.

In the course of his remarks on the re-
funding bill passed by councils on We'd
nesday evening last Mr.. Eberly, member
of select council and of the finance COM
mittee, said there was not 5000, 900 of the
existing city debt now due. Mr.. Eberly
should have informed himself better be-
fore hazarding such a statement. As a
member of the finance committee he
should have been better posted. We
have obtained the following from the re-
cord book of the city debt, showing how
much of each loan is redeemable:
Loan of April q. 1872. reedeemablc
after years and within 10 years. .......S Il, coo
Loan OF May l, ls72, redeemable April l,
looo ......... ....-................ Jo,Wo
Loan OF May Z. 1875. redee:nable after
and within 30 years $3.50
Loan of April H. 1873, redeemable afterl
and within 30 years. 10000
Loan OF Dec. 10, 1873. redcemable after
and within 30 years. ...........:.-......: 5000
and within 30 years .:.......:.......... 1900
L, AN OF July 10, 1878, redeemable afterl
and within 80 years. Observation-Disclosures. $500
Loan OF Aug. 8, 1873, redecmaDle afterl
and within 30 years. $1,000
The last two loans are 5 per cents; all
the rest are IS.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-04
Cameron and NIacYeayh.

When Cameron learned that Wayne
MacVeagh had been settled upon as at
torney general he had drawn up petition
favoring Beaver. This was sent to the
representatives from the state for sigma
lures. 1t was personally presented by his
private secretary, Mr.. ST. Barr. Only four
of the delegation would sign it, General
Bingham, Errett, Dick and one other.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-04

IT looks as though the crowd assem-
bled in Washington. yesterday, would
have been better pleased had it been
Hancock. But then the visiting
statesmen" from Lancaster had not ar
rived there vet.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-04

The members of Friendship fire company
No. 2, of this city, were agreeably sur.
prised yesterday afternoon, on receipt of a
handsome pair of White English poodle
pups, the gift of their friends the Paxton
No. 6, of Harrisburg. Tho youngsters
are beauties and are of excellent strain,
and will be known as "Paxton" and
"Bess respectively. The Friendship
boys are highly delighted with this kind
remembrance Of their Harrisburg f.iends.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-04

CONGRESSMAN SMITH, OF Lancaster
county, joined the train band to protest
against Wayne MacVeagh's appoint.
ment. For what good reason Mr.
Smith What do you owe THE FAMILY
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-04
The following petition was presente,


and read
To the Ifoa,robic Members of tho School Eoard
Of the city Of lancaster
The petition Of the undersigned respect
fully represents that they were sub-con-
tractors under Andrew Wilson, who had
contracted to build a school house for
the Lancaster city school district, on West
James street that they proceeded to fur
nish material and labor for the said ilsOn
to very large amount which was put into
the building that before they had fully
complied with the terms OF their respective
contracts the said Wilson abscOrded, lcav-
ing the building uncompleted, and their
claims ior materials and labor furnished
unpaid that it became necessary for the
bail of the contractor to finish the building
according to the terms of, the contract,
and the plans and specifications thereto
attached and in order to facilitate the
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-04

CHRIST. KACFFMAN's little finger
seems to be weightier with this admins
tration than the loins of a whole congress
siOMal delegation.
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Very Sad,

The Nevada state prison has twelve
cooks among its ISL cOnvicts, when tie
Virginia City Chronicle calls "a sad ver-
ification of the old saying that the
Lord sends victuals, but the devil sends
cOOks.'"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-04

IT was Il cold day in Washington and
Cameron was left.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-04

ou CtNtS per l.VVu lccC.
The Indiana House has by a vote dc.
| cidcd that reporters shall have the right
| to attend prize fights without danger of
arrest, so that they may inform the pub
lie of the violation of the law.
In the Pennsylvania delegation all the
Democrats but Hendrick B. Wright and
Morgan r. Wise voted against the rive,
and harbor job. The Republicans who
voted for it arc Bayne, Bingham, Dick,
Errett, Harn,er, Kelley, O'Neill. Shellcn-
berger and Ward. The Republicans who
voted no are Fisher. Godshalk. Killiuscr
Oslner, Overton, Smith and Yocum.
CAMERON, the elder, cn route to Cuba.
tells his scribe who publishes it in the
Press, that the tendency in America is to
ovcrcducate the whites and blacks. The
balmy air Of Southland does not abatc
S;mon's contempt for the "d-n literary
fellers - Yet son-in-law MacVcagh has
better chances of influence with the in
coming Administrations than brother-in-law
Don.
THERE is a man in the Camden. N. j.,
Jail, detained there technically for "con-
tempt of court" because of his failure to
pay tho decreed alimony to his divorced
wife. Meanwhile his defalcation increases.
While he is in Jail he cannot earn money
to pay it, and SO long as he does not pay it
he must remain in Jail. He thinks the
chances are good of him staying there for
ever-to the delight Of his vindictive
mother-in-!aw."
TIE New York Times calls attention to
the somewhat neglected, but certainly in
disputable, fact that "the duties Of the
state department. are Of far less importance
to a strong nation without any foreign
policy than those Of the treasury, the in
terror, or even the postoffice. The most
striking incongruity about Mr.. Blaine's
appointment as secretary OF state would
DO the association of SO much dash and
restlessness with position requiring
chiefly certain reserved dignity and
power of sitting still and doing nothing"
IT seems that the Republican factions
did not bury the hatchet in the election of
Mitchell rs senator at all, but transferred
their fight to Washington and a scramble
for the cabinet Office to be assigned to
Pennsylvania. Failing to get poultice
for Oliver in the shape Of a cabinet Office
the machine people rather incautiously
had it given out through their mouthpiece
Quay, that they would be satisfied with
Grow. That settled him. Gen. Beaver
and Harmer were both tried and papers
were passed around the congressman in
their behalf. But all the while the Inde-
pendents had their work in and such liter
ary fellers as Barker and MacVcagh took
up all the attention Garfield could spare
to Pennsylvania politics.
FoRNEY thinks the wrestlc of the age is
OF mind with money. "The French lc-
public is the real soldier of European civ.
and the seeds planted by Victor
Hugo, Laboulaye, Edmund About, Louis
Blanc, Emile Girardin, Ofenbach, the
leaders in the democracy in that one coun-
try, produce harvest of free thought, re.
Iigion, labor, science, satire of false society, /
lumor and song, placing all the races Of
nan under tribute. After the French
,ome the English, with Macaulay, Dickens
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-04

THE Indiana House has by vote de-
cided that reporters shall have the right
to attend prize fights without danger of
arrest, so that they may inform the pub
lie of the violation of the law.
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MINOR TOPICS.

An "cxpelt testifying before the gas
trust investigation in Philadelphia says
that coal gas can be put into the holder ut
so cents per 1000 feet.
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the same terms to all who wish to engage
in it. Even the existing banks will b. ia
danger of being driven from business by
! the additional disadvantages to which
they will be subjected by this bill.
In short, I cannot but regard the fifth
section of the bill as step in the direction
of the destruction of the national banking
| system.
Our country after a long period
of business depression has just entered
| upon a career of unexampled prosperity.
The withdrawal of the currency from Cir
culation by the national banks and the en-
forced winding up of the banks in conse-
quence would inevitably bring seri-
GUS embarrassments and disaster to
the business of the country.
Banks of issue are essential instruments
of modern commerce. If the present eff
cient and admirable system of banking is
broken down it will inevitably be followed
by recurrence to other and inferior meth
dds of banking. Any measure leading to
such a result will be disturbing element
in our financial system. 1t will destroy
confidence and surely check the growing
prosperity of the country.
Believing that q measure for refunding
the national debt is not necessarily con-
nected with the national banking law, and
that any refunding act will defeat it's
own object if it imperiled the national
banking system or seriously impaired it's
usefulness, and convinced that section
five of the bill before me would, if it
should become law, work great harm, /
herewith return the bill to the House of
Representatives for that further consider
tion, which is provided for in the constitu-
tion.
(Signed) RUTHERFORD B. HAYRs.
Executive Mansion, March s, 1881.
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Rlils Iald-HepOrts of COlnsnittees-Cigy
superb. .tsnde"t's kepOrt-Ihe James
Street Buiisiing-i'etitsOn for
Compensation for
, 1881-07-24
THE BAD NEWS.

WAsI1ISGToS, d. e., JuIy y1:l-The news that
the President was not doing so well spread
rapidly through the city, and, before long,
many foutstcps were turned toward the White
House. The sAllle expressions uf soiicitt.ie
and anxiety which marked all faces just
after tile President was shot were visible
everywhere. Those coming from the Airec-
ton Of the White House wcre s:oupcd fire.
uuen:lY by int,Iirers about the President,
Not much more than the fact that the doc
tors felt uneasy could be learned. The con-
,lition uf tht: cast seemed tn be such that the
attending surgeons did not care to venture
opinions. Runo:s Of all kinds could be heard.
What was generally regarded rs the nost
unfavorable sign, was the telcgraphing for
the consulting surgeons. The public con-
ciu&cu that there WAS something critical i'll
IT,. cast, Or cls: this Wuulu not have been
dune.
Early in the afternoon the symptoms ill~
proved, the fcyar declined, and
. THE DOCTORS FELT ENCOURAGED,
DR.. Bliss sdld, at 4 quarter past O'Clock this
afternoon: II have just left the President.
lle is sleeping now, and resting easier. There
is no great complication ii his case. The
rise i'll the Presidents temperature and res
piration IL about the rise: that would be prt,-
duccd BY 4 chill The cause of the change
is the confinement Of pus in some cavity. II
this were Ill ordinary case we would feel NO
anxiety about It, but it is not an ordinary
case, ami "t course there is snlnt anxiety"
At hatf-past O'Clock this afternoon Dr..
Bliss told .he reporter Ut the Western ASST
ciated Press that there WAS nothing in the
Presidents case to cause alarm. Said le:
If the President were an ordinary patient,
I would have no anxiety atail. have, how
ever, te!eeraphed for Drs. Agnew and
Hamilton, BECAUSE believe that, in cens8-
uuence Of the change that has taken place,
there should Dc 4 consnltsltio1l.''
"wuAT Is TIE CAUSE OF THE CHANCE,
Doctur?"
'Weli. the wound did not discharge as
freely this morning, and that may have caused
the RELAPSE"