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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-19

clans, i'm contrast with the fact that Will
iamsOs, of the Examiner, ran the last
grand inqaast. 1t is not often lawyers
get into the jury wheel. Prison Solicitor
Beyer's father is also ON the grand jury.
Do 81 do. Charley Triple!
Matt Fridy and Skiles were both sctive
Yesterday. DR.. Compton never let up until
) O'Clock. when ho sailed home with
a lean looking shad ON his arm.
Ere dSmitl, gave his knife in the NsH Era
faction q fresh twist and told al. it should
stay there. Geo. W. Eaby is losing time
in court, aud Abe Settley Is making good
use of his he has gained several len
this week. Wissler is fully committed to
the Era combination and will stay there.
Burkholdcr will be the McMellen- Mentzer-
Geist candidate for prison keeper. San
SlOkom got scared and withdrew, leaving
Sunny aud Myers in the front Of the race
for commissioner. Henry Shubert has
drawn ON his campmeeting boots and ex-
poets a walk over Mishler and Shiffer. For
county treasurer either ring will have
work to beat Squire Grider; it is the
only Office for which the issue WILL Do
doubtful between three, and nobody cares
much (which is hindmOst.
The hotel license fight between Sensenig
and Croft is at white heat and y ono Of
the side issues Of the fierce pOlits:aI con-
tentiOn.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-19
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.


Last night burglars attempted to break
into the shoe store of W. II. Gumpf, at
No. 1884 North Prince street. Christie
pher Gumpf, the father of the gentleman
who has the store, resides in the house
over the store. This morning about three
o'clock he was awakened by his daughter
who said that she heard a noise. Mr..
Gumpf went out on the balcony and no
ticed that the back shutter of the shoe
store was open. He went down and lock-
ed the shutter, telling his daughter that
she had forgotten to shut it when she
went to bed. About four o'clock
Mr.. Gumpf went down stairs to
see what time it was, and went
back to bed. This morning when
the family arose they found that the back
shutter was again open; holes had been
bored in the shutters which had been
pried open with jimmy. An auger was
found lying on the cellar door. It is SUP
posed that the thieves were first fright.
ened off about three o'clock by Mr..
Gumpf, but after his return to bed they
again tried the shutter, when he arose the
second time. Although they had again
succeeded in opening the window they
left without getting into the store. Moth
ing whatever is missing.
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STATE ITEMS.

The wife of John Smeltz, Plum
Creek coal miner near Pittsburgh, left her
bed at dead of night and jumped into a
we'll thirty-five feet deep, and her body was
fished out by Mortified searching party
next morning. She had been insane for
two years.
Simon McGOugh was struck by a
freight train near Altoona and literally
ground to pieces, his head being cut of,
one leg cut entirely off and the other
mangled, one arm cut off and tho entrails
were torn out. Pieces of the remains
were were strcwn for hundred feet along
the track.
Benjamin H. Rose, tho wealthiest far
mcr in the Delaware valley, was going
home, intoxicated, when his horse be-
came frightened and jumping to ono 81 de
of the road, precipitated the wagon down
an embankment. Mr.. Rose was thrown
out and his neck was broken. He leaves
two children.
II. Kessler, near Salem, Snyder county,
committed suicid c on Saturday by hang
ing himself: The evening previous he and
his wife had difficulty that ended in
blows in the morning, his wife attacking
him while he was in bed pulling the
clothes off and kicking him. He got up,
left the house, went to the barn and hung
himself. He was about 20 years of age.
Jonas Haywood and Thomas Forsythe
got into quarrel at Monongahela City.
Haywood being the larger man of the two
quickly gained the mastery, and after
beating Forsythe over the head with the
butt Of large revolver, in spite of his
antagonists repeated cries of enough"
took deliberate aim and shot him through
the head, causing instant death. The
murderer has not yet been apprehended.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-19

LANCASTER is honored by the propo-
sition of wealthy Philadelphians to erect
q statue to the memory of her distin-
guished soldier, John F. Reynolds, and
the project starts with a subscription
that can hardly fail to meet with gener-
GUS response. AS one of the heroes of
Gettysburg, "A Pennsylvania of the three
great Pennsylvanians who fought on
that field for Pennsylvania, it is fit that
his chief memorial should arise in the
metropolis of his native state from which
his mailed hand and lion heart helped
to roll back the wave of war.
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PERSONAL,

In a poll of 700 votes at the Tammany
election for officers JOHN KELLT's ticket
won by so majority.
The late HORACE GREELEY is reported tc
have said that ''of all horned cattle a
college graduate is of the least value in
newspaper work"
DR.. ANDREW ]. WARNER, a native OF
Berks county, later of Duncannon, visited
a patient in Aliens Cove, Perry county,
last week, and while returning home in
his carriage was stricken with heart dis
ease, and died Immediately.
BERNHARDT will appear on Thursday at
Booths theatre, New York, in "La
Princesse Georges" at strictly profess
sional matinee. Invitations will be sent
to the managers of the different theatres,
to each member of their companies, and
to the heads of the different departments
in each theatre. No seats will be reserved
and no tickets will be sold at the box
Office, the public being entirely prohibited
from admission.
Referring to the vote of JOHN STROHM
against the Mexican war Gen. Davis, of the
Doylestown Democrat, says: "While
quartered in the city of Mexico, we one
day went into the Office of E Rspu1licana
Aericana, the leading newspaper of the
city and country, and asked for paper of
a certain date, which was handed us by
the proprietor himself. In it we read the
of the Mexican Philanthropic
society, which contained resolution of
thanks to Tom Corwin, John Strohm and
other members Of Congress, who both
spoke and voted against their own country
and in favor of Mexico. We still have
that newspaper.
Gath, who lately saw our uncle SAMMY
TILDEN lodging around among the New
York book stores, says: 'tT never saw him
look better. His skin was clear as girls
and his eyes open and intelligent. His coupe
was being walked little distance behind
him, and now and then he would throw
out his hand like switchman on a rail-
road motioning to the engineer, and the
coupe would move up or stop. Tilden
generally wears brown clothes and high
;ilk hat. He is seldom seen in company
With anybody, and OILY one or two per-
ions out of hundreds rushing by were
ware who he was. Yet he will be re-
nembered when many a president is lost
N the miscellaneous obscurity of a long
roll. He is g."
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Council Committees Orxsnizsd.

Last evening the police committee of
city councils organized by the election of
Mr.. Geo. M. Berger as chairman, and the
committee on fire engine and hose com
panies elected Mr.. s. B. Cox chairman.
The latter committee after some informal
discussion resolved to report with an af.
frmative recommendation the ordinance
introduced by Mr.. Cox at the last meeting
of councils providing for the increase OF
the annual appropriation to each fire COM
pany to $500, and $500 to the hook and
ladder company, in lieu of the amounts
440O and s20O respectively-provided by
existing enactments. The committee will
make their annual inspection Of the engine
houses and apparatus on the first Monday
in May. -
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ONE of our Oldest, best established
and most reliable local business firms,
which had long declined to fall into the
excellent habit of advertising, at last
yields to the prevailing idea and recog-
nizes the substantial results of such en-
terprise. Far-sighted and successful
merchants everywhere recognize that
the best means of advertising is the
newspaper which goes into the
family and counting room and upon the
file of public places. All other advertis-
ing devices are catch penny and unprofit-
able in comparison with this, and the
business man who ignores it might as
well roll down his curtains and turn off
the gas.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-19
Powder Mills In Danger


The following dispatch from Wilkes
barre under date of yesterday will be read
here with local interest because Mr.. Henry
G. Burrows, son of the late Hon. Thos. II.
Burrowes is the manager of the endangered
mills:
''The Wilkesbarre mountain, east of this
city, upon the apex of which are the ex-
tensive Oliver powder works, is now skirt
ed for miles with a fiery band, and hun.
dreds of men are out at this hour-9 o. clock
p. m.-fghting the flames. The winds
favor the advance of the fire, tanning it up
the hill sides, and the danger breaks
out anew with the most aggravat-
ing frequency and at times attain appalling
dimensions. The forests are full of
sparks, which, dropping sometimes at the
most secluded points, soon confront the
fire brigade with fresh outbreaks. The
mills are only three miles from the city,
and few of our people 60 to bed tonight
with a real knowledge of their danger.
A little more than three years ago the ex-
plosion of the powder works above Scran-
ton, nearly 80 miles distant, was felt in
Wilkesbarre."
So far a. this dispatch conveys the inn
preston that Wilkesbar1e city could be
damaged by the explosion of these mills it
is erroneous.
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Tho War at Bethlehem.

The postmastership at Bethlehem, Pa,
is not so large place as the collectorship
at New York, but it is one of the most
important in the commonwealth. The
Office being vacant two candidates were
put forward. One Of these found favor
with the politicians, from Mr.. Cameron
down. The other was supported by the
business men and corporations of Bethle-
hem. Mr.. Garfield and Mr.. James decided
for the latter, and his nomination is one of
the two hundred which may or may not be
confirmed before December. Cameron is
hot.
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Tales of Blood.

w. j. Stanley, a lawyer of Whitevillc,
North Carolina, committed suicide, leav
ing wife and six children.
A colored man charged with murder
was taken from the Jail at Quincy, Florida
and hanged by a mob.
Hezekiah Mattox was shot dead by his
brother William in quarrel near Liberty.
Missouri.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-19

Last evening the Lancaster MGnnerchOi
gave its Easter concert aud sOeiablo- in,
Mmnnerchor hall, rear Of Knapps buibl-
ing. While there was lacking the dense
crowd which upon tho OCCASION " The
masquerade thrOnged the building. the
attendance was gOOtlly and tho enjoyment.
of those present was rendered more COM
plete by reason Of the absence Of the
''crowdinS" ON the previous occasion. The
concert portion of the entertainment, un-
de,' the capable direction of Prof. Carl
Matt. was entirely up to the standard Of
this exec, lent organization, despite several
unforeseen circumstances that prevented
it from bein. carried out as prepared,
the instrumental d 'rtion being ne. ,essarily
cnt and :. substitution made in the vocal
part by reason Of the una, H'dable absence
of the gentleman whose name was I'm the
programme for Mehring's g TrinkA 70.
This fine composition was admirably n W.
dered by Mr.. Christian Waiter, in spite u
the latter's hasty preparation for it. Mr..
George Pfeiffer's excellent tenor was heard
to advantage in the solo " Selma, BY
Heisen. The programme included atsSo
tho fOllOwin. chOruses, which were given
in fine style and elected the warmest ap-
plausc Stern dcs Attends" (M@hring),
Blauveilchen," (Abt), and " SOldaten.
march, (Abt).
At the conclusion Of this portion Of the
entertainment dancing was indulged in
until i late, or rather early hour. Tay-
lOr's orchestra furnished the music, and
the entire affair may be added to the long
list of similar successes that have marked
the career of the Nl;enne rchOr.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-19

Mr.. JOHN KELLY has maintained his
control Of Tammany by very. slender
majority. It is enough of course, but
should be enough to teach both sides to
tho controversy there how little it will
take for the Democracy to lose New
York, and for the matter of that, how
little it will take for them to recapture
the state this fall.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-19

Last evening the following gentlemen
were re elected vestry of st. Johns (Free)
p. +. church : VIM. o. Marshall, Henry
P. Carson, J. NJ w. Geist, Isaac Diller,
George DiIler, James Miller, John I. Hart
man.
On Tuesday even next the vcstry will
Barker, the retiring rector Of tho par
ish.
the Lutheran church Of the Holy Trinity,
Elders-RObert L. Eichholtz, John F.Seh-
ner, VIM L. PEPPER. Wardens-John II.
singer.
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No Cause for Alarm.

Harrisburg Patriot.
The prudent councils of Lancaster have
become alarmed for the safety of their
city that is threatened by a pipe line for
the transportation of oil and have memoir
ialized the Legislature against the passage
of free pipe law. While the prudence of
the city fathers of Lancaster is highly COM
mendable they betray an undue anxiety.
If the law is passed the pipe line on its
way to Philadelphia might switch around
the city of Lancaster and thus save it
from cOnflagration. But from all accounts
a pipe line is not quite as destructive and
devastating as the tail of comet, and
When the line is made it is not likely that
the rates of insurance in Lancaster will be
greatly advanced in consequence.
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Conkling's state would help to keep pol
itics interesting all the year round.
ANDY EIcHHoLrz ia after anot]

ANDY EICHH0LTz is, after another
county constableship. It is Lancaster
township that he proposes now to make
his bailiwick. Is there nobody out there
fit for the Office, and how much longer is
this barter in public Offices to 60 on
The court should inquire some Of these
days how much the countrymen are
paid to run for an Office and then sell it
out.
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LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
Baseball Princeton. 8: Metronolitan.

Baseball Princeton, 8 Metropolitan, Z.
Professor John Errierdo, a trapeze per-
former, while rehearsing at Hoboken foil
and broke both legs. 1t is feared both
will have to be amputated.
Alfred Reed, a rough, was struck ON the
head with scale weight, and killed, by a
young man named Carr, in revenge for .
beating, in Clermont county, Ohio, a few
nights ago.
OF the EOS students charged with viola-
sing the rules of the university at St. Pc
tersburg, 18 were sentenced to expulsion,
II to remain under arrest for sever
al days, 100 were reprimanded and 13 ac-
quilted.
While cunning Rev. Charles Elder, pas
tor of the Methodist church at Dennisville
Cape May county, had several of his fin.
gers on his left hand shot by the explosion
of his gun. Two of his fingers will have
to be amputated.
A cyclone passed over Chewacla Limo
Kilns, Lee county, Ga, sweeping every
thing in its course. Many houses were
unroofed and the house of Mr.. w. H.
Howard was completely torn to pieces. A
heavy wagon in his yard was lifted in the
air and carried seventy yards. No one
was killed.
Kiah Barker, an old colorcd man, was
fatally shot by an unknown person, near
Hopkinsville, Kentucky, last Friday night.
According to Bakers account, he was
wantonly shot by man on hoseback, whom
he met on the road, but there is q general
suspicion that the shooting was provoked
by the robbery of henroost.
Three men were seriously wounded in
fight between circus men, near Ennis, Tex
as, on Sunday. In Dodge City, Kansas,
on Sunday, three men, named Masterson,
Peacock and Updegraff, meeting in the
street, which was full of people, drew re-
volvers and blazed away at each other.
Updegraff was killed, and a passer-by,
named Anderson, wounded.
In Watertowr, N. T., Louis Jarvis,
aged 80 years, q sober and industrious |
man, was called to his door at 10 o'clock |
1t night by two men named Cummings
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Sho Wanted Ham.

Yesterday afternoon Maggie Black.
woman who does not reside in this city
was passing by tho grocery store Of Philip
Ginder on East King street when she
picked up a ham and placing it under her
shaw! walked off with it. She was seen
by Mr. Ginder. who had Officer Merringer
arrest her. She was committed for hear
ing before Alderman A. F. Donnelly.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-19

One hundred and ninety excursionists
from Boston and other portions Of New
England left yesterday afternoon for a
journey across the continent. They con-
template visiting all points of interest on
the Pacific coast.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-19

WE hope the report is true that Carl
Schurz will 60 to New York and edit
the Erening Post. It is a splendid OPEN
ing and Mr.. Schurz in the editorial chair
of an old established newspaper in Mr..
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ueush Of a, Old co,ered Man

John Brooks, colored man, died at his
home in Middle street this morning after
an illness Of several weeks. He was
about 7S years Of age and was very we'll
known in the city. He was originally
from Maryland, but has resided here for
twenty or thirty years.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-19
Magic Lantern show.

Last evening magic lantern show was
given in Centre Square, by the agent of
the Barnum- London circus. which exhib-
its here on Saturday next. Tho pictures
were excellent and the square was packed
with men. women and children, who en-
loved them.
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Tho Political Field.

The town was pretty well visited yes
terday by politicians-the Republican
country editors soliciting s3 cards and the
buck negro politicians attending court BE-
ing conspicuous. The presence Of John b.
Warfel, of the Neo Era, on the grand
jury, as foreman, is noted BY the politi-
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Tno Finance Committee.

Last evening the finance committee of
councils held a meeting at the Office of
Alderman J. K. Barr. They examined the
books of ex-City Treasurer w. S. Shirk
and found them to be correct. This morn
ing Mr.. Shirk paid over by check to tho
present city treasurer the amount remain
ing in his hands. The bo ks of ex-City
Solicitor Lands were also examined and
found to be all right.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-19
sale of Horses.

Samuel Hess & Son, auctioneers, sold at
public sale on Monday at the Mcrrimac
house for George Grossman 20 head of
horses At an average of $1S3.20 per head
the highest one sold brought $211.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-19
MINOR TOPICS.

Ii groweth nigh unto the season when
tho revival of that beautiful poem about
its being "a little too late for oysters and
little too early for cream" will be pop
ular.
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On OafY.

Officer Swenk, who has been confined to
his house for a week past by reason of An
immense carbuncle on his neck, is ON duty
again to day.
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Tobacco Items.

Samuel Snyder, of Hammerton Kennett
township, has sold his crop of tobacco to
Levy & Co., Kennett Square, at 1S, IL, 6
and cents. James E. Webb, Pennsbury
has sold his to Philadelphia firm at Is,
and 3 cents. Mr.. Webb had one acre in
the past season. The coming season he
will plant two and half acres. Eusebius
Barnard, .Pocopson, sold his crop to the
same firm at II, and 8 cents. Franklin
Fra Frame, Locust Grove, Pocopsen township.
Square, at 10, and cents. Mr.. Rogers
POcopson, sold his crop to Levy g. Co.,
and was comp imented by the buyers on
having the best handled tobacco in the
township. This was his first attempt at
tobacco raising and he fatters himself
that he can do better next season. VIM.
B. Barton, Pocopson, sold his crop to the
same firm on private terms.
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John Horting, liquor dealer, took pos
session of the Keystone house to-day,
John Cramer, tho late proprietor, will 60
into the horse business.
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In the spring most every IcllOW
Feels 30 bad he thinks he'll die,
And our editorial writer
Wears with grace q blue ncck-tie.
1T is the opinion, officially expressed, of
New York justice that there is a certain
sociability in collaring an umbrella at the
house of friend, but that the same thing
done at theatre is quite another matter,
and an actionable offence.
TEN pages AMI a-half-seventy-fOur
columns-of good, solid, official advertis-
ing, that's what the Philadelphia Erening
News showed last night and that's one of
the advantages of unadulterated stalwart-
ism in journalism in the City of Brotherly
Love.
JOHN G. THOMPSON has expressed the
opinion that if the deadlock in the Senate
is broken within twenty days the Demo-
Gratis will carry Ohio at the gubernatorial
election next October. Mayor Means, of
Cincinnati, he thinks, would make good
candidate for governor.
SOME men are SO particular. Here, for
instance. is a man named Mike Mahar,
who knocked an usher in a church down,
because the usher asken him for ten cents
worth Of pew rent. We suppose if Mr..
Mahar would 60 to church fair he would
feel himself called upon to clean out the
entire establishment.
The Titusville Herald pleads for justice
and new county and closes double
loaded argument in favor of bill now be-
fore the Legislature providing for divis-
ion in this glowing peroration Senators!
Signalize your reign of power by
giving to this grand old COM
monwealth at least one new county at
Titusville, on the identical spot where Col.
Drake first struck oil, to commemorate
the great discovery of the third of our
nations exports, the cheapest and best H.
luminator tho world has ever seen, one of
the brightest jewels in the crown Of the
Keystone state"
JAY GOULD has lately ordered from the
inventor in Philadelphia number Of car
seats for his Western lines which may rev.
olutionize railroad travelling. The seat
is like those in ordinary day cars, but at
night it can be converted into a comfort
able bed by the passenger without the in
tervention of porter. 1t is proposed to
use this seat on all passenger cars, and the
rate to be charged the passenger will, it is
said, be merely nominal. By an ingenious
arrangement an upper and lower berth can
be made which are distinct and separate,
and a curtain makes either as private as
necessary. Eventually Mr.. Gould pro.
poses to place these seats in all his cars,
and the first class passenger and the cmi-
grant will be able to travel as comfortably
at night as in All ordinary sleeper. A
shipment of the new seats will shortly he
made to the Missouri Pacific railroad,
which will be the first company to use
them.
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DlschaPEOl.

The mayor had but one vag this morn
ing, he was DISCHARGED.