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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-30
PERSONAL.

Miss ELLEN G. THACKARA, daughter, of
VIM. Thackara, of this city, has gone on
a visit to Julian Furnace, Centre county.
She will be absent for about month.
Another Ohio man has been discovered
in office. His name is RICHARD NJ. JACK
SON, and he holds the Office of reader to
the king of Bavaria, with a salary of
5000 marks, suite of five rooms at tho
Academy, and the envy of all the court.
THE chair which the Liberals of Green
w;ch have presented to Mr.. GLADSTONE is
carved out of brown oak, and has a buff
morocco covering edged with blue and sill
yer nails. A plaque of silver bears COM
plimentary inscription the chair runs on
silver casters, and accompanying it is a
footstool of the same materials and style
of workmanship.
Mrs. WM. M. VANDERBILT is at Saratoga
with sixty bonnets. The lace on. her par
asols alone would fit out many a society
belle for the season, and her morning neg
ligee are all elegant in their way as the
full dress Of evening. Lace, fine, filmy and
exquisite, is used as though common as
the sands of the sea, and embroidery of
the most delicate and elaborate descrip-
tion covers her silk and satin carriage
dresses, while all the dainty accessories of
the toilet that women dote on. such as
handkerchiefs, gloves, belts and lingerie,
are OF the most perfect and most expensive
kind.
King KALAKAUA does not particularly
admire tho Parisians. His exceeding
frankness to to tho minister of foreign
a6airs must have astonishod that o@cial.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-30
Following FaIsehOOd.

Mr.. Gowen writes to the editor of the
London Times as follows:
A complete answer to the damaging cs-
Inmates alleged to be made by Mr.. Bond
OF the present condition of the company's
property is to be found in the fact that its
earnings for the present year will suffice
to pay all its fixed charges. Had those
who succeeded in electing Mr.. Bond re-
Trained from interfering with the old man.
agement of the company, the earnings
would have sufficed for small dividend to
the shareholders.
AS to tho allegations in the Philadelphia
Ledger that the subscriptions to the de-
fcrred income bonds were not boni .fde, let
me say that the Ledger disingenuously
emphasizes applications for thirty millions
Of dollars, il: respect of which only seven
millions eight hundred thousand dollars
at par were allotted, and payments upon
these allOtments would have been made at
the proper time had it not been for the
action of the court which restrained the
issue, and provided that no forfeiture
should cnsue by reason of non payment.
OF the total issue Of $34, 300, 600 there was
allotted pro rdtl to shareholders $19, $685.
$50, upon all of which, with the exception
of s91, 900. the first installment has been
paid of the remainder of the issue (S14,- :
634, 750) allotted to bondholders, the first
payment has been made upon all but ST.
$40, 900. the money for which will be paid
Immediately upon the removal of the in-
junction and to Obviate any appearance
of injustice l shall advocate that imme-
diately upon such removal, period shall
bo fixed for final payments, up to which
period interest shall be allowed on prior
payments.
The plan of financial reorganization pro-
posed by Mr.. Bond is illegal, in that it
proposes to distribute new share capital as
a bonus to bondholders for no other con-
sideration than surrender of their right
to interest in case it is not earned. But as
they will retain their right to higher rate
of interest if earned, and as in my opinion
such higher rate will be earned, certain
bondholders, like Messrs. McCalmont
Brothers Il Co., will gain large bonus of
share capital to the detriment of other
shareholders who are not holders Of the
particular class of bonds in respect of
which share capital is now proposed to be
issued. No share capital of the PhilaGel-
phia & Reading railroad company can be
issued as bonus or in any other manner
than upon payment into the treasury of
the company of fifty dollars per share, aud
in addition to his legal disability, the
right of tho convertible bondholders to
convert their bonds into shares practically
exhausts the power of the company to
make a further issue of share capital for
any other purpose than construction.
Your Obedient servant,
FRANKLIN B. GOwEN.
Great Western Hotel,
Paddington, august 10, 1881.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-30

THE Philadelphia Times recommends
the Lancaster county Democratic COIL
vention, to be held tomorrow, to nomi-
nate the Republican candidate for judge,
despite what it calls ''his amiable errors
of the past -" and his negative infirmi-
ties,'' which it thinks have been so en-
Ihatically corrected by admonition
from the supreme court that politicians
won't he likely to claim the Lancaster
courts as allies in the future.''
Sometimes the Times gives good advice
to the Democracy; sometimes it don't.
In this instance we do not agree with
it. Nor, from what we ehaveascertained
of the sentiment of the great body of the
party in this county, have we any idea
that tits in sympathy with the PROPOSE
ti0n.
Besides, we cannot believe that Judge
Livingston would feel any more gratified
over a nomination given him at the
Ifnes's suggestion, simply because " his
election is rs certain as the setting of
the sun on election day." or generously
bestowed with an honest admonition''
by the commendable magnanimity'' of
its bestowers, than he has been disposed
hitherto to accept in good spirit, 1" hon
est admonition" from his newspaper crit
les in Lancaster or Philadelphia.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-30

WHEN our esteemed contemporaries
of this city, or the local correspondents
of other papers, publish that the INTEL
LIGESCER, or "the INTEiLIGENCER fac
tion," or the editors of the INTELLIGENT
GER are for this man or against that man
for any local Democratic nomination,
they wilfully and deliberately say what
they know is not true. Inproof of which
they need not look beyond their own
columns to find themselves reporting the
chief adherents of the candidate whom
they call the INTELLIGENCER candi-
date" the very gentlemen in the party
who, in the usual differences in the
organization, almost invariably take sides
against the INTELLIGENCER, while a
large proportion of the friends of the very
candidates whom the INTELLIGENCER
is misrepresented as opposing, are as inva-
riably in sympathy with the INTELLI-
GENCER. The fact is, as any ordinarily
we'll informed person knows, that neither
the INTELLIGENCER, nor its editors, nor
any of its attaches, so far rs we know,
has taken any part in or exhibited the
slightest partiality between different can
didates, whose contest has no significance
whatever, except an individual competi-
tion. The readers of our esteemed contem-
pOraries will discover that for the truth of
local politics they will have to consult
the INTELLIGENCER in Democratic as
we'll as Republican campaigns.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-30
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Beginning of tho Fall and Winter +,

Beginning of tho Fall and Winter Term.
The public schools of this city will re-
open on Thursday morning next, after a
nine weeks vacation. During vacation
the school houses and school grounds have
been thoroughly repaired and renovated,
under direction of the property commit.
tee. Most of the teachers and pupils have
had good time during the holidays and
are prepared to re.enter upon their duties
and studies with renewed viger and dill
gence. During the day or two remaining
before the opening of the schools, parents
and guardians should see that the pupils
have their books and stationary gathered
together, and in readiness for use and
thus avoid annoyance and delay.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-30
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

Charles Kurch, living in Augusta county,
Va, accidentally shot himself, infiictiDg
injuries which will probably prove fatal.
Charles Assay, a son of Ambrose Assay,
of Burlington, was drowned while bathing
in the Delaware.
A heavy forest fire is raging in the vicin-
ity Of Atsion, on the Camden & Atlantic
road. 1t is said that the fire originated
from locomotive spark.
James COyle. employed as 4 clerk in the
drug store of II. i. Parson, at Orange, N.
j., was found dead in the store the other
morning.
Baseball : Philadelphia-Athletic, 10 ;
Baltimore, 2. Providencc-Providcnce,
12 Worcester, 0. Troy-Troy, 5; Boston,
4. Buffalo-Buffalo, 6; Cleveland, 3.
Lieutenant Commander 3. L. Edes and
Lieutenant Lyman G. Spalding, of the U .
S. N, have been killed by the premature
explosion of torpedo at Torpedo station,
Newport, r. l.
At Lick Run, three miles from Nelson
rel shot two brothers named Scott and
James Upton. Scott Upton will die.
Williamson was arrested at Zaleski.
Abbie D. Lawrence, of Newark, acci-
dentally set fire to the mosquito netting of
her bed on Sunday night and was so Sc
verely burned that she died. She was
seventy six years of age and an invalid.
William King, of Williamstown, N. j.,
has married the mother of his third and
last wife. King is about 50 years of age
and q farmer by occupation. His last
marriage is an indictable offense in New
Jersey.
In Cattlcsburg, Ky, Jacob Meek shot
G. II. Lawson 1T the Meek hotel. The
ball entered the face below the left eye,
and produced 4 wound that is likely to
prove fatal. The shooting was the result
of an old quarrel.
Chief of Police MckinnOn, of Belleville,
at Oh exhibition of hammcr-throwiDg at
Montreal on Saturday, beat all previous
records in America. He threw the heavy
hammer 90 feet and 3 inches and the light
hammer 121 feet Ond 10 inches.
Charles Aaron, a colored drayman, in
Vicksburg, Mississippi, was called to his
douse door on Sunday night, aud shot dead
by some unknown assassin. Aaron was
an untiring sick nurse during the ycllew
fever epidemic of 1878.
In BmSamtOn, N. Y, FRANK COnklInS
of Albany, a brakeman on tho Albany and
Susquehanna railroad, was caught between
the bumpers of a tender and freight car,
while making coupling, and was instant
ly killed. He was married and thirty years
of age.
Tho boiler at Henry Moody's saw mill,
at Campbellsville, KY, exploded. Henry
Gaines was killed instantly and John
Fletcher and Samuel Cook were fatally in
jured. Benjamin Allen was badly scalded,
but will probably recover. Two other EN-.
ployees were injured, but neither seriously
The explosion was caused by the use of
sulphur water in the boiler.
Two lads named Johnnie Miller and Viii
lie Smelts were resting under a sycamore
tree, in tho rear part of Wellsville, Ont,
when, without moments warning, a large
dead limb fell from the tree and struck
young Miller on the head, crushing it in a
terrible manner, scattering the brains for
quite a distance and causing instant death.
Young Snelts escaped with broken arm
and several other dangerous injuries.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-30
"GO BACK TO YOUR POST"

What Mrs. Garfield Said to the Surgeons
When Told to prepare for the Worst.
AS hope returns, more is learned in de-
tail of the terrible anxiety of last Friday.
It appears that the surgeons, after the
alarming symptom of the morning, de-
cided that it was useless to longer coI-
tinue the struggle, and two of their mum.
ber were selected to wait upon Mrs. Gar
field and to inform her that medical sci
ence could do no more, and that she must
prepare for the worst. The interview
which occurred between these surgeons
will, if reports are true, be regarded
as one of the most dramatic incl
dents in this extraordinary case. Cap
tain Henry Marshall, friend of the presi-
dent and his family, says that Mrs. Gar
field heard the news with great composure
and, smothering her emotion, arose and
said "Gentlemen, you shall not give him
up. He is not going 70 die he is going
to live. I feel, know it. Go back to
your post, every one of you, and leave
it not until every remedy is exhausted !;
until death itself has set his seal upon
him, for will not believe that he is dy-
ing. Go back and do what you can; you
cannot do more, but don't give up. I am
his wife. and say We will not give up
until the end itself is upon u.s." Mrs.
Garfield has never surrendered more than
a moment or two at time to her grief,
and then she has retired to her room, and
after brief absence has returned to her
post of duty at the presidents bedside.
Mrs Edison says that the president is
doing splendidly. He is taking his nour-
ishment and she is extremely hopeful.
DR.. Boynton, too, is more hopeful, and
says he thinks he notices an improved
condition in the blood. There are also
microscopic indications that the food is
assimilating properly. The president can
open his mouth easily and he tastes his
food.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-30
Contest.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.


Before Judge Patterson.
Benjamin f. Hiestand. John A. Heis-
tand, Henry Hiestand. Peter Hiestand,
jacob Hiestand. and Abraham Hiestand,
heirs of Samuel G. Hiestand, deceased, vs..
Robert Carroll and John w. Rich. Action
to recover purchase money of . lot in
Marietta, which was sold ON October 6,
1877, to Robert Carroll. Tho plaintiffs al
lego that that they sold this property to
Carroll for 1901 aud he entered into a
recognizance to pay the purchase money.
John w. Rich becoming his surety deed
was made out and rendered to him but he
refused to take it, hence this suit.
The defense was that the plaintiffs we're
unable to give the defendant clear title
to this property at the time agreed upon,
(April 1st), as about six inches Of the
building was situated ON the PREMISES of
Martin Hildebrant. Some months after
this the plaintiffs purchased the six inches
and rendered the defendant deed for it :;
he refused to take it as the plaintiffs had
agreed to give him . clear title on April
1st., and after that he invested his money
in something else.
In rebuttal the plaintiffs called wit
sold they owned the whole of it. On trial.
In the case of David f. Mayer, for the
use of Christian Rowe, Jacob Hildebrand
and David E. Mayer, trustees of Stras-
burg lodge No. 3G1, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, IS. J.B. Aument, with notice
to J. w: Johnson, esq.,, terre tenant,
verdict was taken in favor of tho plaintiff
for $1,000
Before Judge Livingston.
l. W. Grove and Elias Grove, partners
as the Grove brothers, vs.. Adam Eberly.
This was an action ON q promissOry note
given September %, 1877, for five months.
Tho note was made payable to James 8.
Marsh, and by him endorsed to the plain
tiffs, residents of Danville.
The defense was that the note was never
signed by the defendant. The jury
found for the plaintiff in the sum Of
S249.32.
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STATE ITEMS.

The log book has been published of the
eleventh annual cruise of the Second Pres
byterian fishing club of Philadelphia.
Girard avenue, Philadelphia, were damaged
by fire yesterday afternoon to the extent
of 500
In the convention of Schuylkill Demo-
Gratis, James B. Reilly, has been nomi-
mated for judge, after an exciting can
vaSS.
Harvey S. Wells, of Williamsport, says
that he will certainly prosecute the Lycom-
ing county commissioners for malfeasance.
If the taxpayers of the county will not
assist by answering the call for contribu-
tions, he will furnish the money from his
own private means. Instead of giving the
case to the district attorney Mr.. Wells
will probably employ other counsel.
William s. Dinsmore, arrested in Balti-
more, on the charge of stealing horse
from William C. Heaps, at Airville, York
county, and committed to Jail in default of
81, 600 security is fine looking young man
Of one of the best families of the lower
end, and was always popular among his
associates. He is a prominent member of
the State Ridge church choir, and his
friends are shocked at his departure from
the paths of virtue.
Some Chambersbuog people, while walk
ing along the embankment on the eastern
of the B. & G. r. r. overhead crossin g
near Chambersburg, found some bars Of
iron used for boiling the heavy trestle
timbers together, driven into the ground
and crossed over the rail in such 4 way
that had the engine struck tho obstruction
it undoubtedly would have been hurled
from the track. These bolts were driven
down SO tight they were unable to with
draw them, and as it was about time for
the train to pass along, they hurried down
the track just in time to stop the engine
by signalling tho engineer. =,
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Railroad Disasters.

Two men were fatally injured by fall
ing from hand-car near Campbellsville,
Kentucky, yesterday morning. One of
them suffered in trying to save tho other.
Two passenger cars were wrecked by
collision with gravel train on the Massa-
whippi Valley railroad in Massachusetts,
Yesterday and q number of persons were
injured.
Through the malicious displacement of
switch, a freight train ran into con-
struction train at Faunsdale, Alabama,
on Sunday morning. Two men were ia
tally injured and died soon after the eeli
sion.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-30

hafrlsDurG Liodorkronz COin1D8s
The Lancaster Iiederkranz ON Monday
next propose to entertain their sister
organization, the Harrisburg Liederkranz,
at picnic in What Glen p1rk, which is
designed to be q strictly private social
gatheaing, to which only members and
their families will be admitted. The
Harrisburg society, under the lead of our
we'll known tOwns.nan Prof. F. w. Haas,
now of the Lancaster Liederkrapz, years
ago distinguished themselves in this
city by carryin; off the first prize in y
singing contest AGAINST the competition of
organizations from Philadelphia, Reading,
York and other places, and their return
here after the lapse of nearly fifteen years,
to enjoy the hospitality Of a society led
by their own old leader and upon the
scene of their former triumph, will no
doubt be made tho occasion OF generous
entertainment and . "good time gsnss-
els, {"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-30

A CHANGE of heart never comes tco
late, they say, to save the sinner, or re-
form the politician. There is hope
for Edmunds since he recommends to a
Republican state convention such legis-
lative declaration of the final authority
of a state to declare its electors as would
have counted Florida for Tilden, if Ed
munds had respected his oath and lis
tened to his conscience in 1S77-if lie has
Q conscience.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-30
MaytOWn Items.

Corn and tobacco are dying for want of
rain.
Marriages depressed OH account. of
drOutll-tOO warm.
Mrs. Julia Leber, Of Mannheim, paid our
town visit. The guest of Miss Annie
Kendig.
There are rum9re of new life insurance
company, some of the Officers Of which are
from MaytOwn. They are reliable men and
the company will be styled the "Reliance
Mutual Aid association" we have all con-
fidence in the directors, and wish them
success.
Houscal & Gattacker, cigar manufac-
turers, are oyerrun with orders. They are
comparatively a new firm, but put up good
work.
We arc sorry to note the death 81 two
year-old daughter of Jas. f. JOhnstin,
also Mr.. Geo. Henderson, aged Sc, after a
continued illness.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-30

THE awful possibilities of the present
system of English spelling and pronun-
citation were never better set forth than
i'm the admirable paper of a New York
professor, which we publish on our first
page to-day. When Turner may he
spelled Phtholognyrrh' with show of
authority, and there can be made over
five hundred thousand combinations to
spell scissors" according to systems
now in use, the time for reform is at
hand, and it should not long I've delayed.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-30

A number of fires are reported in Al
geria. All the country around Philippe
vile, to the extent of sixty square
kilometres, is one vast confagration.
Stora, port Of Phillippeville, has been
destroyed. A forest of cork trees is
ablaze, and the flames, famed by vio-
lent siroeco, are carrying all before
them.
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zdrlrdstcr f,ltclltgenrer.
EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1881.
Unfair and Untrue.

Shortly after Mr.. Gowen's departure
for Europe the Philadelphia Ledger was
used by his antagonists to publish a
statement of discovery that had been
male that the subscription to the defer
red bonds, which Mr.. Gowen had an
nounced as full, had been made by certain
irresponsible and bankrupt parties. 1t
turns out that this statement was false
aud known to b. SO by Mr.. Bond and
his friends, who undoubtedly inspired
the Ledger article for that journal is
too respectable to make statements, even
for its friends, which it knows to be
false at least such has been its reput a.
ton !; but it won't do for it often to be
caught in such misrepresentation as it
has certainly been betrayed into in this
case, if it would preserve its fair fame.
The fact is that the first payment has
been made on the whole issue OF over
thirty -four millions of deferred bonds
with the exception of less than eight
millions, and payment upon that will he
made as soon as the courts decide the
loan to be lawful. Nearly two million
dollars are in the hands of the receivers
OF the Reading railroad and of the
Messrs. Glyn in London, being the pro
ceeds OF payments 50 far made upon the
deferred loan. 1t is, therefore, manifest
ly impossible to charge that Mr.. GOwen
has falsely declared that the deferred
bonds have been responsibly taken. The
money already paid upon the subscrip-
tions fully shows that. And the charge
against Mr.. Gowsn being itself shown to
be false, recoils upon its authors, who
are shown to be ready to resort to very
low and unfair devices to accomplish
their ends.
The scheme of Mr.. GOwen depends
upon the decision of the courts as to its
validity. Mr.. Bond has not yet got SO
far as this with his plan. When he de-
mOnstrates that he can obtain the con-
sent of the creditors of the road to abate
their interest in part in consideration of
the receipt of bonus in stock which they
may be willing to do if the bonus is big
enough, he will then have to show to the
courts that he has the power to issue this
additional stock. Mr.. GOwen denies it
to him, and on apparently good grounds !;
declaring that no shares of the Reading
road can he issued otherwise than upon
the payment of their full par value in
money; and that moreover the right
he'd by the holders of the convertible
bonds to exchange their bonds for stock
exhausts the shares the company can is
sue otherwise than for construction pur-
poses. If these statements are correct,
Mr.. Bond s bonds cannot be floated.