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'lessness he says cannot readily be explain
ed or excused.

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ed or excused.
AT least one clergyman in the church
Of England has taken a decided stand in
favor of the revised version. Rev. Philip
Hedgland, of Penzance, writes that actual
experience is the only test by which the
work of the revisers should be judged =" l
have so far used the revised version in my
church daily from the first Sunday after
its appearance, and shall probably con-
tinue the use. unless my Diocesan should
forbid it. But, of all things, an appeal
to the bishops should be avoided. They
cannot conveniently authorize what is un
certain in law, but they can tacitly allow
the use of the revised version, just as they
allow the use of hymns, And if the clergy
who wish to set before their people the
truest rendering of the original scriptures
will only do their part, not being hindered
by authority, the revised version will, if
found worthy, gradually take the place of
the Authorized as the Authorized grad
ually (and probably without formal au-
thority) superseded the Bishops Bible"
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LITTLE LOCALS.



The devOut editor Of the Lancaster weak
ly Inquirer says "Judge Black is brill
liant, but blacker than his name has been
his anti-Christian record in tho political
arena
George w. Childs and Tony Drexei
have started 4 town ut Wayne station Oh
the p. X. r. Il reservoir and hotel are
already built and many handsome cottages
are in progress.
The number of logs gathered and to be
gathered by MIR. Jacob SOngmaster be
tween Columbia and the Chestnut rifles
will amount to over four thousand. This
will put over $1,000 into the hands OF
those who caught them.
Miss Louisa Miller, of Bcrne Station,
Berks county, who took two spoonfuls OF
arsenic, hoping to end her days, is in fair
way Of recovery, and is now anxious to
live. Her father is tho unfortunate car
penter who, for so long time, was in 4
semi-cataleptic state, in the Philadelphia,
hospital.
The wheat crop averages So for tho
whole country corn shows III increased:
average. and its average condition is 90
against 100 last year.
John NJ. SheetZ, who moved from Mt
Joy. to Dickinson county, Kansas, in
1879. has had his barn. hogs and old grain
burned by lightning.
Willie GrOsh, son of jeff. GrOsh, in
Neffsvillc, jumped off Il separator and ran
fork prom. into his foot, inllicting such
severe injury as to bring on convulsiOrs
and danger of death.
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court of quarter sessions of Philadelphia,
that these acts are unconstitutional, so
far as they apply to the carrying of arms
for self-defence, and that it is competent
for the accused to rebut the unlawful
intent raised by the statutory provision.
That ruling, if we recollect rightly, was
made in the case of a negro who was dis
closed on the witness stand to be carry
ing a concealed revolver. 1t was at a
time of great excitement and when
many people felt, and encouraged
negroes in Philadelphia to feel,
that their color put them at con-
stant risk of assault. Under that
pressure Judge Allison made this ruling.
II there was any occasion for it, that oc-
casion has passed away, and such re-
mark expressed gratuitously at the time,
would hardly be made now, to afford
encouragement to the evil-disposed. The
right to bear arms in self-defence is OF
course natural and constitutional right
which the statute cannot take away,
but few people in Philadelphia or in
any other part of this state would need
to carry arms in self-defence if all were
stripped of them. 1t is against the row.
dies with their slung-shots and billies,
and dirks and pistols, that decent people
have to arm themselves, and if the for
mer were shorn of their weapons of Of
fense, the latter class would be glad to
lay down their defensive equipment, es-
pecially as most peaceably disposed peo-
pie who have to carry a pistol are in
constant dread of shooting themselves,
from inexpertness. Moreover, when the
arms are borne in self-defense, that is a
matter of evidence, which can be shown
by testimony. There is nothing in our
state of society to create presumption
that man who carries a pistol carries
it for self-protection. But if he does he
ought to he able to establish it to the
satisfaction of a court and jury. Only
i'm that case is his constitutional right
invaded by the prohibition. Even then
it is question whether his theory of
self-defence would not be more manifest
if he carried his shotgun over his should
er, or wore his dirk in girdle,
rather than by concealing his weapon
and his purposes.
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A Wise King.

The end of Mayor King s enforcement
of the ordinances regulating the sale
and use of explosives in Philadelphia 90
admirably crowned the Work that he de-
rives therefrOm great moral reinforce
ment in his present avowei purpose to
prosecute to punishment all violators of
the statute law against carrying con-
cealed weapons. lie has positively ell
Joined upon officers that they use their
best efforts to arrest and prosecute all
persons who shall carry any firearms,
slung-shOt, or other deadly weapons
about their persons, and to apprehend all
those that they may have reason to be-
lieve are violating the law in that par
ticular. The benefits resulting from
vigorous and thorough enforce
ment of this order would he i'm
measurably greater than even the
wonderfully gratifying exhibit from
the hospitals of the philanthropic
services performed 10y his regulation of
the late Fourth of July observance. To
the prevalence of the habit of carving
these weapons and the readiness which a
large number of city loungers display in
their use may lie traced much of the
crime, accident and disorder that dis
tinguish city annals and put the life
and limbs of all citizens in peril. There
can be no doubt that if they were ban
ished the police and hospital records
would he greatly shortened and all the
best interests of society conserved.
1t is true that i'm the enforcement of
this order the mayor is confronted with
the ruling of, we believe, Judge Allison's
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Going West.

To-day Mr.. George A. Shelly, of the In
TEILIGENCER composing force, and son
of John B. Shelly, esq, Of Mount Joy
borough, sewers connection with this
office, which began twelve years ago, and
on Monday the 25th inst, he will leave for
Minneapolis, Minn., where he has accepted
i position in the hardware establishment
of Janney Brothers. The relations which
Mr.. Shelly has ever maintained with the
INTELLIGENCER have been of q nature
creditable to himself and to the Office,
where his loss will be sensibly felt, and
the regret Occasioned by his departure only
tempered by the knowledge that the new
field of activity upon which he proposes
to enter presents prospect that
is altogether inviting and full of promise.
In his retirement from tho art prescrvative
and venture into mercantile pursuits in
the distant West, Mr.. Shelly is accom-
panied by the cordial good wishes of his
associates in the several departments of
this Office and OF his brother craftsmen
elsewhere, as well rs by his many friends
in the social circles of this city and coun-
ty, in which his qualities of head and
heart have long established him rs IN es-
teemed favoritc. A clever gentleman al
ways, he is assured ola hearty welcome in
his new home.
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IT is from Wilmington, DEL, that the
news comes of an outrage upon negro
who was made drunk and helpless and
his landlord then for sport, tied his feet
and hands, bound him to post by
rope around his neck, gave his head, face
and hands a coat of wlitewash and re-
moving part of his clothing applied
the lime to his person. The negro was
so stupidity drunk as to be helpless, and
besides the discomfort his eyes were in
jured by the lime before the coating was
removed by policeman. The perpetra-
tor of this act was Il straightOut Re-
publican and had been 4 deputy provost
marshall during the war. We mention
this fact lest Mr.. Dawes might get up in
the Senate next year, or Mr.. COnkling
should he ever get back--and locate this
incident in Mississippi to point the moral
of Democratic depravity in the solid
South.
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A BOLD STREETROBBEKY.
Nearly Ten Thousand Dollars Stolen
Three Peddlers from u Wagon.

Nearly Ten Thousand Dollars Stolen by
Three Peddlers from Wagon.
Word was received at police head-quar-
ters in New York, yesterday afternoon
from the Grand Central depot that three
men, apparently peddlers, had stolen
$40, 900 and escaped. The men were in a
licensed vender's wagon, the number of
which is known to the police. The rob-
berry, upon investigation, was fonnd to
have been committed boldly in the open
street. At noon Charles Messersmidt,
clerk in the employ of Jacob Rupert,
brewer, drove in . light wagon from the
brewery, at Ninety y-second street and
Third avenue. down to deposit sum of
mtncy in the Germania and Nassau
banks. With him in the wagon was Gus
tave Akerlon, an Office boy. They carried
SO, 300 in bills done up in a package. and
bag filled with silver dollars. At Forty
seventh street their wagon was run into
by vendors wagon. in which three men
were seated. The supposed peddlers sprans
from their wagon, two attacked the clerk,
while the third cut the reins of his horse
In an instant they seized the package Of
bills and jumping back in their cart drov g
furiously down Lexington avenue, the bag
of silver falling in the street.
The city swarmed with detectives in
search of the vender's wagon in which
the robbers carried off their plumber, in
bills ranging from s1O9 to SO. The wagon
was marked 2, ,450, and bore also the name
of Boenkamp, grocer of Third avenue.
Boenkamp informed the police that he had
sold his wagon three weeks ago to two
strange men, whom he had never seen be-
fore OF after The thieves at the time of
the assault fired shot over the heads of
the frightened employees of the brewer.
They were all masked and brandished
pistols. One jumped into the wagon and
collared Messersmidt, the clerk, holding a
pistol to his head. Another of the rob
bers seized the package of bills an6 silver,
but dropped the latter, as it was too
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Police Cases.

The mayor had before him this MORN
ing six cases of drunken and disOr,lcrly
conduct. Two, of a mild type, We're dis.
charged two, more serious were mulcted
in costs and two aggravated cases were
sent to limbo for ten days each.
Joseph Shoemaker, an old offender was
before Alderman Patrick DOnnclly for be-
ing very drunken, boisterous and abusive.
He was jailed for 60 days.
Margaret Gallagher, arrested for beastly
intOxication and other filthiness, was sent
to Jail for renovation and deodOrization
after which she will have hearing before
Alderman Spurrier.
Alderman Donnclly, of the Seventh
ward, sent Lucinda Miller to Jail for five
days.
The young men who were charged with
setting fire to 4 lot Of balloons belonging
to Dominic Pratz, an Italian, On the Fourth
of July, had a hearing before the same
alderman and they were discharged for
want of evidence.
Annie Hollicker, aged 1G years, WHO is
wild girl, was arrested by Chief of Police
Deichler at the instance of her father,
who state she is incorrisiblc and beyond
her control. She was locked up.
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THE "INrELLIGENCEK."
One Who Is Satisfied With 1t.

One Who is Satisfied With 1t.
EDS. INTELLIGENCER l notice that
the INTELLIGENCER and tho Philadelphia
Telegraph are at issue regarding the pub.
licatiOn Of the reports of the doctors hav-
ing charge of President Garfield's case.
Bath papers seem to agree upon the fact
that the daily reports of the physicians
contain much that had better remain un
said, and both condemn the official and
ofticlous nastiness of the doctors. The
Telegraph evidently believes, with huE-
dreds of thousands Of the public, that the
disgusting details of their clinical prac
tice should not be "dished up "--as the
president has himself expressed it-for the
people. The analysis of excrement and
secretions may do we'll enough for med :.
ical report (for the books, l mean), but
i report of it through the newspaper
press is nauseous. Think, however, that
the animus Of the attack upon you by the
Telegraph is to be found in the fact that
you cannot see how the onslaught OF the
assassin upon the president can wash
away, Or has blotted out and satisfied for
his political sins. If. this be ''the head
and front . of your offending" don't
let the matter trouble you, You have an
immense following. 1 hope, and so do
you. that the life of the president may be
spared that we may be saved from the
curse of Arthur, Conkling, and his puppet
Grant, but it does not follow that we
should become the adherents of one po-
litical heresy to escape another.
We all thank the INTELLIGENCER for its
reproduction, from the New York Sun, of
Mr.. Chauncey F. Blacks article upon
Adams and Jefferson. That is the kind of
reading the young men of our day should
have, in order to a proper understanding
of the radical difference between Federal
ism and Democracy. The young should
have before them every day some lesson
drawn from the history of the past that
they might he saved from tho l,eresies of
the Adams and Hamilton tribe. The ad-
dress of the Hon. Samuel J. Randall at
Dickinson college is one that cannot be too
widely circulated or generally read. Give
us more such things.
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PERSONAL.

Rev. DR.. LEONARD WooLsEY BACON, of
Connecticut, attacks tho American Bible
society, and calls it "fat, overErown,
lazy monopoly and public nuisance.
Justice CLIFFORD, Of the United States
supreme court, has had his foot ampu-
tated for gangrene. and is as comfortable
as could be expected. The chances for
his recovery, however, are slim.
Rev. RICHARD NEWTON, D. D. has re-
signed the rectorship of the church of the
Epiphany, Philadelphia, to take effect
after October 1st next, and has been made
Rector Emeritus. Failing health COM
PEELED him to vacate the place he has held
for nineteen years.
Rev. HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET, D. d.,
formerly chaplain Of the United States army
and for many years pastor Of the Shiloh
Presbyterian church in New York city,
has been appointed minister resident and
consul general in Liberia, West Africa.
Mr.. Garnet's father and mother were born
in Africa, which leads him to call that
continent his " fatherland and mother
land" His daughter, Mrs. Barboza went
to Liberia few months since to establish
a school for the education of the native
African girls.
1t is by no means certain that the Ohio
Republicans will not discover the Demo-
cratic candidate for governor to be some-
thing more than mere ''bar'l." Mr.. Book
WALTER is of good Pennsylvania Dutch
(maybe Lancaster county, y)stock. He is self
educated and well-versed in mechanics and
natural philosophy. He married 4 daugh-
ter of James Leffel, inventor of the tur
bine wheel, and owns the industry of its
manufacture, employing $50 men. He IS
4 man of liberal thought as we'll as hand,
making large improvements in his city,
owning wide lands, patronizing the fine
arts. raising his mems wages when other
employers were cutting down aud exhort-
ing them to vote as they pleased when
other bosses were bulldozing their hands.
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That spanking little bay mare Purity
did excellent work on the half mile track
at Spee1well stock farm yesterday, in the
presence of Il large number of spectators.
She flew twice around the course
with the precision OF piece of
machinery, with never a "hop or
a skip, and covered the mile easily and
without apparent effort in 2:23I. There are
undeveloped possibilities " in this hand
some five-ycar-Old that make q her a
treasure to her owners. Shamrock, the
bay stallion, surprised his best friends by
trotting half a mile in 1:12ss, and judges of
horseflcsh predict for him bright future.
Lady Orange, Nillie Gardner, Middletown
Chief, bog Meadow Girl and several others
of the Speedwell flyers were taken around
the course in excellent style, and visit to
the farm, near Brickerville. any Tuesday
or Friday afternoons, when the public trials
take place, will surprise anyone not ac-
9uainted with the quality and capacity OF
the stock Mr.. Youtz is raising.
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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
SAD ACCIDENT.


Yesterday afternoon four year-old
daughter of Mr.. Abram Nissley, Of near
Nissley's mill, Mt. Joy twp, fell into the
cistern and was drowned. The house-maid
had been washing, and the stock being out
of order, she was obliged to draw water
through an opening in the cistern bed.
While doing so the little girl stepped from
the house, falling through the opening.
The cistern is about eight feet deep and
contained about three or fOur feet of
water. A man who was near by refused
to go to her rescue, because he said he
didn't want to risk his life Deputy
Coroner Gallagher went out this morning
to hold an inquest
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Summer le1suro

Among the present sojOurners at Bed
ford Springs, the following names are Of
local interest Mr.. Gilliarl Dock, of Har-
risburg; Louis Shaffer. Lancaster l..
Backenhcimer, wife and son, Philade.-
phia.
William A. Keller and Frank L. Hostel
ter, started for Asbnry Park, N. j., this
morning.
Prof. VIM. Z. Hall, teacher "f music at
the Indiana state normal school, arrived
home last night.
MIR. Israel Aaron, looking hale and
hearty, is home from Cincinnati for cOu-
pie Of months recreation and relaxation.
Mr. Aaron, although he completed his
university studies with signal honors a
year ago, is following it up by a rigorous
study of Hebrew and Arabic.
DR.. A. Il. IIirsll, Of tie jefferson medi-
cal college, and attached to the hospital
corps of that institution. is indulging in a
ten days s1journ ut his home in this city.
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The Amusement Season,

The FootligM Of this week contains
list of amusements which will be played
over this circuit the coming season by
Manager George NJ. Miller, of the Grand
opera house, Reading. The list includes a
number Of excellent attractions, and it
shows that Mr.. Miller has used very
good judgment in making his selections.
All the bill boards in the city have been
covered by Batcheller Il Doris show.
The agent of the Sells Brothers circus is
having large boards erected in different
parts of the city to accommodate his bills.
The latter show appears here on August
10
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MINOR TOPICS.


In recent actual canvass Of eighty
towns in Connecticut, $4,000 people were
found who never attend church.
The American Bible society has pro-
cured stop cylinder press, upon which
an entire copy Of the Bible can be printed
every minute.
THE Oneida community has become SO
orthodox since it threw overheard its sys-
tenn of " complex marriage" that it now
advertises its goods in the regular reli-
gious papers.
THE Plymouth church in Worcester,
Mass, has been presented with $40, 600 by
Mr.. E. Goodnow, for a chime of bells in
memory of his wife, lately deceased, and
an organ in memory Of his son who died
some years ago.
THE question Of the proper length of
sermons, it seems, might be settled by
agreement that if man has anything to
say he should take his time to say it: ii he
has nothing to say he should not waste
much of anybody's time over it.
The New York Observer has discovered
that two political societies in New York
have expelled members for being suspect
ed of unsOundness of political faith, and
yet 1t has observed none Of the clamor
about intolerance " which fills the air
when religious body casts out hereto.
A LADY in Taunton, Mass, received last
week from Europe bouquet containing
a clover from George Eliot's grave, a
violet from Melrosc Abbey, u buttercup
from De Quincey's grave, sprig Of ivy
from Water Scott's old home at Abbots
ford, and a bluebell from the grave of
Helen Macgregor, near Loch Lomond.
In a North Carolina unday-scllool an
imperfectly educated colored person was
asked how the Israelites expressed their
joy after having crossed the Red sea. He
replied 81 reckon dey shot off de big
guns and hOllared.'' The rest of the i'm
perfectly educated colored persons nodded
assent to this doctrine.
OHIO takes the cake every time. OF
the III missionaries in India from the
United States-Ohio has sent 1S New
York 1G; Pennsylvania 12; Massachu-
sets z; Connecticut 5 Indiana 5; Illi-
nois 4 Kentucky 3; Maine 2; Vermont
2; New Hampshire 2; Virginia 2 Ten
nessee /; Michigan +; Wisconsin !;
Iowa other states Cor unknou ny 20.
DIR. w. Fl. RUssELL's later letters de-
scriptive of the Duke of Sutherland's tour
in America are devoted exclusively to the
lawlessness, murders, lynching, itc., i'll
the far West. He aninadverts severely on
the discreditable. condition in which the
central and state governments are permit
ting many districts in California, Colorado,
Texas and New Mexico to remain. Ad
mitting the peculiar and difficult condi-
tions which exists, and fully sensible of
the short. comings of the British and other
European governments in the repression
Of crime, yet he does not think there is
in any other part of the world. or ever has
been any civilized country, such shoot
ings, stabbings and murderings, as have
filled these lands With bloodshed. The
absence of any great abiding movement
for the SuDnression of y;oloroo on6 Ioxv
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Crushed IN the Elevator.

Patrick Harrison. aged 81, who ran an
elevator in the New York hotel, was
crushed between the elevator car and the
wall of the shaft and instantly killed. He
was endeavoring to lock over into the
compartment for baggage attached to
tho car below" the passenger compart-
ment, where were two girls cleaning the
car, when the car started upwards, catch
ing his neck between the edges of the car
and the door, breaking his neck in the
twinklinr of an eve,
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An IrakcIble NIayOr.

At the chamber Of the Newport, r. L.,
board of aldermen Mayor Slocum publicly
called the writer of an article in the Daily
Ne,cs villain. Hearing that Mayor
Slocum had given the name of the writer,
Lucius D. Davis, editor Of the Daily Neps
said that he was the writer and the mayor
then repeated his original remark, follow
ing it up with profane language of the
most insulting character. The board, out
of respect for itself and to protect the
mayor from further disgrace, adjourned.
Davis is one Of the. most influential citi-
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RIFLE PRACTICE.
Good Shooting at Lon. Hang

Yesterday afternoon the Lancaster Rifle
association met for practice at Stewards
Range, McGovernville. They shot at 500
yards, u shots each, a 2a-inch target.
Mr.. A. G. Kepler made II bulleyes and
a centre, scoring "a points out Of 4 possi-
bic 75. John Fl. Baumgardner scored 72
points, making 12 bull eyes and three CEN
tres. Israel Carpenter scored 65, and one
or two others made good scores. The as
sociation meets at the Range for practice
every Friday afternoon.