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Items From Down the River.

Items From Down the River
The transportation of coal and lumber
on the Columbia & Port Deposit railroad
is very heavy at present. An extra freight
train was run on this road for several days
last week.
The picnic to be held by the Church Of
God Sabbath school in Sherick's woods on
Wednesday Of this week. promises to be 4
grand affair. The NJ. L. Sunday school
has been invited and is expected to join
with the former. The Washington Star
cornet band has been engaged to furnish
the music for the occasion. Addresses
will be delivered in the afternoon.
Mrs. VIM. Brown and her two daughters.
of st. Louis, Mo-, are in town visiting
their friends. They are the mother and
sisters of W. C. Brown, esq, merchant ut
this place.
Fly. Weidenilamer has the sale here OF
tickets for Clark s. Schmidt's Atlantic
City excursion on the 18th from Columbia
and Lancaster. This experienced manage
ment offers tickets good for two days to
this famous resort 75 cents less than the
rate of last year, good only for one day.
A young friend of Mr.. Fred Charles is
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called upon the editor and requested him
to mind his own business. Next week,
however. the doughty Dimanehe des Famtl-
les returned to the charge, renewed its ac~
cusations against the offending young
lady and after describing the visit of IL.
Dumas to its editor, concluded by admon-
ishing the dramatist that he ought to
make his daughter abstain from acts
which are calculated to wound the ideas,
usages, and convictions Of the most re-
spectacle part of the population.
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Westmoreland, Armstrong, Clearfeld,
Centre, Clinton, Huntingdon, Mifflin,
Union and Lycoming, to Milton, North
cumberland county, the length Of the said
road to be 225 miles, gauge four feet eight
and a-half inches, capital stock 50. .625, 900,
president, James S. Neglcy.
At the tho Butler colliery in Carbondale
Evan Reese, aged 1S. was standing on the
upper screening wheel when companion
named Lawrie arrived. The latter told
Reese to come down or he would pull out
the iron bolt holding the screen wheel
which makes thirty revolutions a minute
when in motion. Reese refused to come
down. The bolt was thereupon withdrawn
and the screen turned so rapidly that it
threw Reese fifty feet. He struck his
head first upon large rock below and his
brains were knocked out and his whole
body disfigured.
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PERSONAL.

Mrs. JULIA WARD HOWE is writing q
comic opera.
JAMES GORDoN BENNETT is among the
foreign notables now paying brief visit to
this country.
EDWARD RICHARDSON probably is the
most wealthy cotton planter in the world.
The New Orleans P;cayuac estimates that
he is worth ss,OOo,0OO
From recent address before the Hart
ford (Conn.) county bar association by cx-
Governor HUBBARD it is inferred by his
brother lawyers that he intends to present
to the association law library to cost, it
is said, not less than 100000.
Mrs. SPRAGUE is an attentive reader of
the New York dailies. Any morning, soon
after the arrival of the train at Atlantic
City with the Gotham papers, couple Of
lads may he seen running neck and neck
up the avenue to the porch Of the Shel
burne, and the one who wins is certain
sure to leave four papers short.
GRANTS Income cannot be far from $50,
600 q year. He has an active interest in "a
New York business house which has been
very successful. Hc gets perhaps $25 600
year from the railroad company, and the
two funds raised by Jones and the Drexcls
for him amount to $3.50, 900. 1t is not true
that he has sold his St. Louis farm.
In Providence, r. l., Methodist Erisco
pal circles are excited by publication in
a local paper accusing the Rev. W. F..
WHIrCHEE, the leading Methodist clergy
man of the city. Of pilferins rare books
from libraries and dealers in old rublica-
tions. Investigation tends to confirm the
story.
WM. ID. KELLY and PETER HEHDIC are
having fine fight over the Hcrdic coach
business in Philadelphia which Herdic
projected and Kelly backed. Then they
quarrcled and the Kelly party has oh
tanned an injunction temporarily restrain
ing Peter Herdic from holding meeting
of the stockholders of that company, pur-
suant to Il call issued by him.
Brother MooDY's Christian convention,
Northfeld, Mass, is to last month.
Four noted exhOrters besides himself will
be present, and Mr.. Sankey will have five
sweet singing assistants. 1t is designed to
have two hours day only of religious SER
vice, and the rest of the time will be de-
voted to social recreations. The enterprise,
in fact, contemplates a place Of summer
resort for Christians.
DUMAS has been taking the waters of
Royat with his family. Mdlle. Jeannin
Dumas, the other Sunday, scandalized the
local public by working at her tapestry in
the most public part of the park. The
Dimanche DIES Families, having called atten-
tion to the lack of respect shown by Mdlle.
Jeannine to public opinion, NJ. Dumas
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STATE ITEMS.

A new railroad is to be built from Phia-
delphia and Norristown.
A new postoificc has been established at
Lawndale, Bucks county.
Burglars are making life unpleasant for
Norristown.
DOylcStuwn is thIcated with water
famine.
A weekly paper will make its appear
ance in QuakertowD, about the 1st of Au-
gust.
Francis Murphy has obtained three
thousand signers to the pledge at Frank
lin.
Bees stung' dog to death at Acorn
station. They covered him SO completely
that not u hair could be seen.
$4,000 men and boys are required to do
the work of the Philadelphia and Reading
railroad company.
Hon. n. II. Dill announces that the
Democratic state committee will meet ut
Bottoms hotel, Harrisburg, on the 10th of
August.
kinzua, Mexican county man, son Of 4
well-to-do farmer, stole into the hOase of
an old lady aged sixty, who lived alone,
and outraged her. He escaped.
The boy McGratl, shot near Norristown
last Sunday by Michael Taynor, while
purloining fruit, has had 1O4 shot removed
from his body. Taynor is under 81 900
bail bonds.
A Doylestown Democrats correspondent
says, better grain, especially rye, is raised
OH poor farms this year than on good, and
instances clover measuring four feet seven
inches grown OH poor soil.
Henry and Jourdon Kratz, of Doylcs-
town, have each taken an Indian boy from
Carlisle. They arc OF the Cheyenne tribe
and arc described as intelligent and in
dustrious. There names are Davis -
and Darlington" after the present and
late veteran editors of the Doylestown
Democrat.
An eleven-year-old POttstOwn boy was
gazing out of second-story front window
at his fathers residence day or two ago.
holding in his hand pistol. Espyins
several children sitting on the step beneath
him he drew bead and fired. The pistol
was loaded with shot, large numbers of
which struck the children. Neither of
them, however, were badly injured.
Farming under difficulties Henry Ker-
I'LL, ~ ldiMcf liSIuS q lS" HlicS stDOVe
Pottstown, lost two horses by death a
short time ago, and at present three arc
very sick. As the disease has been pro-
nounced epidemic by the attending vetcri-
nary, Mr.. Kerlin is unable to secure horses
to do his farm work, and on Saturday was
compelled to haul his grain into the barn
on q whcelbarrow.
John Mckay, of Halifax, challenges A.
E. Schacfcr, of Pittsburgh, to three mile
scull race, to take place within four weeks
for $500 or $1,000 side. He will allow
Schaeffer 5000 for expenses to have the
contest take place at Halifax, or he will
row on Silver Lake, Mass, each paying
his own expenses. Mckay has deposited
800 forfeit. The challenge remains open
for ten days.
Acharter has issued from the secretary of
the commonwealth to the Susquehaana,
Pittsburgh and Western railway COM
pany, to construct railroad from Pitts
burgh, through the counties of Allegheny,
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The Acting President.

1t is difficult to make any legal juStiii'
cation of the fact that Mr.. Blaine, secrt.
tary of state, instead of Mr.. Arthur,
vice president, is acting president of the
United States now, while Mr.. Garfield is
unable 10 discharge the duties of the
presidency. This last fact cannot be
disputed. No one claims that the preSi-
dent is able 10 perform his official func-
tiOns. lie is not able to attend
to business Of any kind, pri-
vate Or public, nor can he even
attend to his personal wants. For
nearly month this has been the
case; and bids fair to be SO
for more than il month to come. Since,
then, Mr.. Gariield's condition is ad-
mittedly within the words of the ccnSti-
tuition which consiyn his duties to the
vice president, the question is where
fore the latter is not summoned to rs.
sumo them. Certainly, if there are any
presidential duties to be performed, the
president being unable, the vice presi-
dent is the heir to them and if there
are none to be performed they are never
thcless ut any time liable to arise, and it
is The iuty of the vice officer to stand
ready t" discharge them.
There cannot be said to he an hour in
which no duty devOlveS upon the presi-
dent OF this great country. There is
need of constant executive supervision
thn,,n1, - 1nnn -,
the contemplation of the constitution
that the chief magistracy should be prac-
tically vacant for evena day and moth
ing could bc clearer than the injunction
upon the vice president to act rs presi-
dent whenever the president should
be unable to act there is no
limitation us TO the time or the
cause of the disability. The fact
of disability, and that alone deter
mines the question.
And it is just rs clear that the vice
presidents power to act us president
ceases us SOON us the president becomes
able t" perform his duties. He takes his
place when and while he is disabled and
as the president confessedly is so dis
ablel now, it is seemingly impossible to
say wherefore his duties have not de-
vOlved upon Mr.. Arthur. The consti-
stitutiOn does not, to he sure,
say how the presidents disability is
to be determined; but that fact
ought to create no embarrassment now.
when it is nos denied on any hand that
Mr.. Garfield is disabled. by that fact
Mr.. Arthur becomes acting president.
and he should assume the office. 1t
would indeed he better that the cabinet
of Mr.. Garfield should call upon the
vice president to assume the president s
place during his illness a thing they
show no disposition to do; and nat
urally, when we consider that
they are now, without chief,
in reality their own bosses, having
no one to make them afraid of admin
istering their departments just as they
please and then Blaine, the head of the
cabinet, being himself practically rresi-
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THE LANDISVILLE CAMPMEETlNG.
Its OpeninS TO-Day-A Large Number q
Persons the Ground.

Its Ofening To-Day-A Large Number of
Persons ON the Ground.
This was the first day of the annual
Methodist campmeeting ut Landisvilie and
the crowd in attendance is very large.
Nearly all OF the tents are up and there
arc but very few cottages which are not
occupied. between fifty and seventy five
families are on the grounds from Harris
burg, Reading, Columbia, Lancaster and
other places. The prospects are that the
camp will be rs large as any that has ever
been held at this popular place.
This being the first day no services were
held. Everybody is busily engaged en-
dcavoring to get comfortably fixed. Tents
arc being erected and cottages cleaned.
Since last year 4 great Improvement has
been made on the grounds. A large wood
en- awning with canvas covering having
been erected in front Of the pulpit in tho
woods. 1t is neatly painted and on each
post there is coal oil lamp which will be
found to be Il great improvement on the
torch used heretofore.
Jos. r. Roger, OF Lancaster, has charge
of the boarding house and refreshment
stands Board can be had for 81 per day
or 81 for the whole term of ten days. Per
sons taking single meals will be charged
as follows Dinner 80 cents. supper and
breakfast 40 cents each.
J. A. lIollinger, Of Lancaster, will act
as police officer OH the grounds during the
camp, and Isaac Powl Il Son, Of the Wal.
nut street livery, will run their line Of
busses and baggage wagons from the
depots to the grounds.
The singing will be in charge Of Messrs.
Kirkpatrick of Philadelphia and Ellen
berger of Harrisburg.
A great many LaIcasterians are on the
ground and among them is our jolly friend
Henry Shubert, who is celebrating his 62d
birthday to. day. He has been Oh the
grounds for the past two weeks. He looks
happy and says he has had 4 wonderful
appetite during his stay in the woods.
Persons are arriving in every train, and
among those who came this morning was
Rev. J. Dickerson, of Philadelphia, who
is presiding elder and has charge of the
camp.
The first sermon will be preached this
evening, and after that there will be ser
vices at and 10 a. M, and 3 and = pm,
with children's meeting every afternoon.
The campground is very dry and dusty,
and good soaking rain will be very well
come to the campers.
Both the Reading aud Pennsylvania
companies are selling excursion tickets to
the campmceting at reduced rates.
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LATEST NEWS BY MAIL,

In Cleveland 5000 irresponsible boys
and young men carry arms.
Ex-Judge Robertson took the oath OF
Office as collector of New York port yes
terday.
A Baptist society in New York gathered
in many sanctified nickles by running
lemonade stand on circus day.
Henry Kerr, of Warwick, an old man of
eighty years, swings the cradle in the
harvest field all day.
Gen. Hancock has accepted an invitation
to the Franklin veteran soldiers reunion
on the 25th of August.
A recently published report gives the
number Of Free .Masons in this country as
545, SS7, being 4 little over one to every
hundred of our population.
John Nichols and Mr.. Anderson, resi-
dents of Elizabethtown. New York. were
instantly killed by lightning under tree
where they had gone for shelter.
Jacob Swartlcy, of Line Lexington, who
died July 6, was the father Of nine chill
dren. twenty-tour grandchildren, and
twenty great grandchildren.
Thomas Hook. stock raiser, shot his
father dead ut Toronto Basin, Arisona
The trouble arose from the divorce ofthe
parents and a quarrel over the division OF
the property.
William Gavin, while suffering from de-
lirium tremens, leaped head foremost over
prccipice 125 feet high to the rocky bed
OF the Pocstinkill creek. He was terribly
cut and bruised, hut will recover.
A large pilo Of lumber fell by accident
in the lumber yard of Drew y Buckle,
New York city, and crushed two men,
Peter Malloy and William Moran, to
death.
The bodies uf II. NJ. LOchary and Miss
Jessie Edwards, of Cleveland, who went
rowing on the lake or Thursday evening,
have now both been recovered. They were
engaged to be married.
The engine Of i passenger train on the
Colorado Contra! railroad ran into cul
vert between Berthoud and LOngmOnt.
Frank Whitney, engineer. and an unknown
tramp were killed, and ". Tillcry, fireman
was badly bruised. The accident was
caused by heavy rains washing the bridge
away.
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dent, is not likely to see the necessity of
other. But the law imposes upon an
other the responsibility he usurps; and
if the country is to he directed under the
constitution, as perhaps would lie wise,
the vice president should step to the front
and the secretary of state to the rear.
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Foreign Duels.

Baron Won Geyso. a young officer of
much promise, has been shot dead in Ber-
lin, in duel with brother officer. Two
students of Gottingen fought duel with
pistols and one of them was mortally
wounded. A duel took place at Gibraltar
within the Spanish lines, by Spanish Off
GERS, a captain and lieutenant. The cap
tain was killed and the lieutenant serious
ly wounded.
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also in town spending his summer vacation
along the banks of THE Beautiful. ="
The youth lives with his parents in Dels-
ware county.
All day long the little boys. and big
ones too, may be seen splashing about in
the water Of The Beautiful"
Mr.. John Mellinger is doing finely.
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DR., Aynew's Humanity.

Philadelphia Times Washington Dispatch.
The arrangement to have one of the
consulting surgeons present all the time is
ut Mrs. Garfield's solicitation. While she
has not felt any want OF confidence in the
resident physicians, she naturally wants
to leave no precaution uudone to secure
the president against accidents. 1t is
said that DR.. Agnew was requested
to remain yesterday, but that he de-
clned because Of patients requiring his at
tention in Philadelphia. One of the resi-
dent physicians asked what kind of
patients they were, and the eminent sur
geons replied that one was a laborer at the
ship yard, who had a adly-fractured skull,
and the other one of the same character,
who was suffering from wound in the
abdomen. These were particular cases,
and he thought he might be able to save
their lives by his presence. When lit was
urged that tho presidents life was more
valuable, he remarked that the president
was attended by skillful surgeons, abund-
antly able to cope with any emergency,
while these poor men had nobody. Human
life was human life, and his presence was
actually necessary in Philadelphia at this
time
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Jurors for United States Court.

The following are the names Of the Ian
caster county persons drawn for the U. S.
district court, August term Grand jury
Joel L. Lightner; Petit jury: W. N.
Cooper, Samuel Truscott, Geo. W.
Mehaffey.
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MINOR TOPICS.

THE object of punishment is thus terse-
ly put by a western judge in sentencing a
prisoner: 'We do not send you for steal
ing horse, but that horses may not be
stolen"
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FROM his tender regard for his poorer
and obscure patients DIR. Agnew seems
to he democrat as we'll as Democrat.
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PAST ONE AND ONE.
How Aunt Nancy SterrtI Lived ami Died at
over Five Score.

How Aunt Nancy SterrtI Lived AMI Dlod at
over Five Score.
You hear and read Of Il good many bO-
gus ccntennarians, but old aunt Nancy
Sterrit, who died OH Sunday, near Safe
HarbOr, was genuine one. MIR. John
ROdaker, who has lived down 10 those
parts all the 81 years OF his life knows she
was woman Of advanced age when he
was born and though she has only lived
in Conestoga township 90 years, it is
certain she was born few
years after the Declaration, and had
grown almost to womanhOOd when Wash
ington died. She was pious Methodist
and was so greatly esteemed by all of her
neighbors that when she rounded out her
hundred years on June 30, 1880, . great
concoursc of them visited her house and
took her MANY presents. The glad sur
prise was almost too much for tho Old
woman, and she never quite recovered
from the shock of the friendly invasion
and has not had her wontcd health since.
Her death last Sunday, ut the age Of 1O1
years and "a days, was u notable event for
miles around her homo.
Her husband, Anthony Sterrit died 20
years ago colored Man named Walker
of this city, isher younger sister S husband,
aud her own children arc aged people.
Aunt Nancy once used glasses, but long
ago got her second sight, laid them aside
and before she died her vision was sOs.cute
that she could thread u needle without
artificial aid. She was fond Of the pipe
and smoked it to tho end of her days-an
example for Trask and Meta Lander"
Aunt Nancy, everybody who knew her BE-
lieves, has gone where good people go.
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'.TRUTH'' has consulted an astrOloger
and learns that lively times may be ex-
pected in October in political circles. AS
several elections occur about that time we
shall not pin our faith TO astrological di-
vinations should this prediction be veri-
fled.
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prisoner: ''We do not send you for steal
ing horse, but that horses may not be
stolen"
'.TRUTH' has consulted an astrologer
and learns that lively times may be ex-
pected in October in political circles. AS
several elections occur about that time we
shall not pin our faith TO astrological di-
vinations should this prediction be veri-
fled.
In one of his verses, Oscar Wilde, the
aesthetic poet, alludes to s'the barren
memory Of unkisscd kisses" An un-
kissed kiss, thinks the matter-of- fact
market editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin,
is the barrenest thing within the range OF
human experience.
THE proceedings of the Lime Kiln club
which We print offers an easy explanation
of some of the apparent stealings in
state supplies at Harrisburg. We rec
ommerd the audit of Hon. Burdock Can
teloupe's account to some of tho impli-
Gated state officials.
IT isn't always safe to rely too implicit
ly on the pacificatory influences of tho
gospel. In the presence of Rev. Henry
Wright, man out in Kansas expressed
the hope that Garfield would die. The
services closed right there. A committee
of brethren are trying to determine wheth-
CT knocking man into the middle of next
week comes under the head of righteous
Indignation.
IT was Richard Grant White who first
gave the name heterOphomy to that
sort of blundcrs in which the writer sets
down word entirely different from that
which is in his mind to use. 4 fine speci-
men of this sort of blunder was the use of
Dr. Gross name in the editorial columns
OF the INTELLIGENCEE yesterday when
plainly DR.. Agnew's was intended.
In the course of the evening about
bakers dozen Of people called
at the Office to claim the reward! for
their first discovery Of it. The incident
suggests that the study of heteroplomy is
a curious one and brings to light many
queer instances Of it in standard litera-
turc.
TIE PN IMtN Gazette discusses the
chances of an early financial crisis in the
United States 1t recalls the fact that IN
excess of cxportations only indicates a
debtor nation, the excess being needed to
meet its obligations. Our tariff and navi-
CATION laws cause us to incur further obi
cations We owe England largely for re
turns on the millions upon millions of
British capital invested in United States
mortgages, land reclamations, house prop,
erty, mines, etc. In one sense, top, the
enormous immigration constitutes us
debtors to Europe, for the prcscuc. Of
such great numbers of aliens involves a
steady drain of savings remitted to tho
relatives Of these aliens. The European
harvests this year will bc good, the expor-
tation of beef is not profitable, and all these
things, the GazcNe thinks, will make it
easy for the present raging spirit OF inflated
stock gambling to hurry lis on to Il finan-
cial crisis, if not disastrous panic.