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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-07
LOCAL CORRESPONDENCE.
NEWS FROM EAST AND WEST.


our regular Correspondence From Bart
Township.
Mr.. Peter Lewis has a curiosity on ex.
hibition at w. S. Ferree's store, in George
town, in the form Of q corn-cob grown on
ID. Jackson's farm, in this township. The
cob resembles the wrist and hand of a
human being. 1t terminates in a perfect
representation of hand, having four
fingers and . thumb we'll shaped, The
butt end from the hand down represents a
well-formed wrist. The fingers are slightly
turned towards the palm of the hand, re-
sembling hand about to grasp some oh.
ject. The cob is about nine inches in
length.
Milton Heidlebaugh, of Nickel Mines,
lost his driving horse in an unusually sud-
den manner. While coming home from
Christiana it took something like collie and
died on the road in less than thirty min
utes. Mr.. Heide lbaugh has for several
years been proprietor of the store at
Nickel Mines. but this spring takes into
partnership W. Snead and Charles Tyson,
making the firm Of Heidlebaugh, Snead &
Tyson.
just east OF the mines, about half mile,
is collection of lately erected dwelling
houses, among which is the residence and
workshop of Philip Shube. to be known
hereafter by the name of "Villa- Mar"
Our constable saddler has taken an ap-
prentice and will hereafter be less encum-
bered when the law calls on him to trail
down an offender.
The raisers of tobacco arc looking
around for favorable locations for planting
next years crop and looking with longing
for buyer for the last crop. No buyers
have as yet made their appearance among
u.s.
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it necessary. The deceased died quietly
in her bed, and during her illness had
every attention from her kind friends.
Philadelphia has q law that says when
person, sick less than twenty-four hours,
dies, with no attending physician cor
oIer may hold an inqusst, provided it is
established by oath or affirmation that
there were suspicious circumstances attend
ing. By analogy, such an extreme law
could not apply here no one had the least
suspicion of wrong, and deceased had been
sick for seventy two hours. By these in.
judicious inquests the county is made to
pay for what were far better left undone.
if private opinions are ever considered
Of any account. In the above case the
jurors declined to take their fees (being
barren of official culture, presumably,
but signed Z certificate that they had re-
ceived them. COroners are Of course re-
quired to furnish correct bills of expenses,
and these false receipts for jurors fees
can be produced against the county and
some one receive the benefit. But the
pecuniary wrong that may be done the
public is not near SO great as that suffered
by private citizens who are impcrtuned or
frightened into measures through fear of
subsequent unpleasantness. In grief at
the loss of friends there should be no in
trusion on the privacy Of home but for
good and sufficient cause. And we are
indeed tame to submit to the bOOrish in
'terference and demands OF busy officers
whose presence is sacrilegious to the
sanctity of death.
1t would be we'll for our deputy corOners
to make themselves familiar with the laws
of the commonwealth provided for their
guidance. CHESTNUT LEVEL.
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DRUMORE DuINGS.

Our Regular Fairfield Correspondence.
At meeting of the directors of the
Southern Mutual Hail Insurance company,
at its headquarters in Fairfield, last week,
the following officers were unanimously
elected. President, Davis Brown Vice
President, Samuel Dorsey Treasurer,
Jas G. McSparran Secretary, VIM. Nc
Spartan. The friends of the company are
very sanguine of it's success aud expect it
to sweep almost everything in the insur
ing line in tho lower end, The secretary,
whose address is Greene, solicits cores
pondencc from any one interested.
Last week Joseph Carrigau sold his to
baccO to Musser for 10, s, 3; Joseph Den-
linger to same for 81, 10, Z, 3; Jonathan
Stout sold for 20, 6, 3.
The funeral of Gilpin Stubbs was very
largely attended at Penn Hill, Sunday.
Our enterprising and progressive peddIer
David Markiwiez, has "made a raise, !"
and now makes his calls OH his numerous
friends and patrons with horse and wagon
David is not inclined to indulge in ex-
pensive experiments, having purchased the
entire outfit for the neat little sum of four
teen dollars. We are pleased to see these
evidences of our friends prosperity, and
wish him success with his shcep-slip
breeches, his treasure team, and valuable
dog, that, with its bells, like the old
woman with bells on her toes, makes
David his music wherever he goes.
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EVERYBODY will agree with Prison
Keeper Burkholder that "parties who
seldom fill an order honestly, whose bills
are always little higher, and whose
weight is invariably wrong seem to me not
the best firms to buy carpet chain FROM"
But such vague insinuations will also
lead the public to desire to know what
firms are aimed at and the testimony
which convicts them of honesty and
fraud. The prison keepers last message,
of which we published an abstract yes
terday, is unjustly vague. It deals in
generalities and every firm selling car
pet chain to the prison as well as every
subordinate official in the institution,
may rightly complain that he is by i'm
plication publicly charged by the prison
keeper with dishonesty. This is not fair
to the innocent. When the keeper has
anything to say to the inspectors and the
public he should say it more plainly.
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THE T.. X. h.
I.s Income and Expenses for 1881

The Pennsylvania railroad company re-
port for 1881, prepared and published in
anticipation of the annual meeting of the
stockholders, Oh March IA, shows that the
gross earnings of the main line and
branches from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia
were $2T, CAT 900 expenses, $15, 46S, 469
net earnings from operating, S12, IFS, $40,
to which add interest on investments in
cash, So, 466, and sundry other items,
S512, 1G0, aggregating SO, 723, ,626, making
the total net earnings $4,000, 1876;
from which deduct rentals paid
branch roads, interest on bonded
debt, interest on car trusts and state
taxes. IS, 77O, 449, and it leaves tho net in
come of the Pennsylvania railroad division
at 10,131,71S. The United New Jersey
railroad canal company shows gross earn.
ings of S13, 022, S65 Expenses, 1851, 1881
net earnings from operating, S4,211, ,5S4
to which add interest OH investments in
cash, S210, 1886, which makes tho total net
earnings 81, Az, ,42O, from which deduct
the payments on account Of dividends and
interest anG the interest ca equipments,
81, 725 ,2S5, showing net loss in operating
of 4302, S65, which deducted from the net
income of the Pennsylvania railroad divi-
sion, leaves balance of S9,828, ,S53. The
Philadelphia s Erie railroad shows gross
earnings of SO, 454, 300; expenses, SO, 4SO,-
060 net earnings, S1,024, 249, from which
deduct interest for use of equipment and ex-
traordinary expenses, $500, 1924, and it leaves
balance of S723, 625, which was paid over
to that company as rental. From the let
income of the Pennsylvania railroad divi-
sion 50, S28, ,S53 have been deducted-pay-
ments to the trust fund, 5000. 1000; to the
consolidated mortgage sinking fund,
$3.50. 4S0, and sundry other payments on
account of the guarantees, 1881, ,S91. as-
eregatiug 81, 7G7, ,S71, leaving balance of
So, ,05O, 9S2, out Of which were paid divi-
dends aggregating eight per cent. and
leaving balance of So, 199, ,2G5, to which
add the amount realized frem settle
ments Of old accounts, profits on
the sale of securities, &C., $3.50, ,cs6
making $3.50, 131, which is the
amount transferred to the credit or profit
and loss for the year. This amount at the
beginning of the year was $7,793, $40, SO
that the total amount to credit of profit
and loss December 81, 1881, is $40, 344 $50.
The lines west of Pittsburgh show profit
in excess of all liabilities Of 81, 81 927, out
of which was paid dividend Of five rer
cent on the capital stock, $1,000, 900 { all
of which goes to the Pennsylvania rail-
road }, and sundry amounts charged off,
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lalllas1e1 flltelItgenrer.
TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 1881.
Tricks or Ballot Thieves.


One of the tricks Of the Philadelphia
election officers has been brought to
light by the Committee of One Hundred.
It has been developed that in the 18th
division of the XIV. ward last Novem-
Der, nearly every name on the poll list as
returned by the election officers, from
No. 22S to No. o52, was that of man
who did not vote. They were taken
alphabetically from the register, and the
peculiar sequence in which they seemed
to have voted first directed attention to
the probability of fraud. It transpires
that seventeen of the men named had
moved from tho division before election
day; five say they did not vote at all ;
four voted two were absent ; one voted
without the necessary papers and one
was dead. There is no doubt that voting
on lists of this kind was common in all
parts of the city; but the proof against
the election officers of the division cited
above was so clear and conclusive that
warrants were issued for the arrest of
the election officers. This sort of thing
has been going on for years in Philadel-
phia, and by this means the big Repub-
lican majorities there have been main
tanned and swelled when necessary. Be-
cause the Committee Of One Hundred
proposes to terminate this sort Of thing
the bosses hound its members as allies
Of the Democracy.
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MOUNT JOk AND VICINITY.
The News From the Northwest.

Tho News From the Northwest.
Early on Sunday morning Mr.. Henry
Lichty, aged Ga. died at the residence
of his son-in- law, Adam Root, Marietta
street, Mount Joy. He had been partially
paralyzed for a long time and suffered
from diabetes. He was a respect
ed citizen, and several years ago removed
to this place from near Petersburg, East
Hempfield township. His funeral will
take place on Wednesday forenoon burial
in the Mount Joy cemetery.
Tobacco dealers put in an appearance
again near Landisville and bought the fol-
lowing lots: j. Lichty, acres, at Is, IL,
6 and 3; Adam Dietrich, acre, at 20, 10,
5 and 3 /; Christian Musselman, 3 acres, at
25, 6, 10 and 8; John Armand, acres,
at Is, 6 and 8; and 1 acre at II,
and 3.
NJ. G. Bowman has left for Kansas City,
Missouri.
John Shroff, one of our oldest citizens,
has gone to Franklin county to engage in
tobacco farming.
Recently stove oil hand lamp exploded
at Newcomers Railroad hotel, Landis-
vile. The fire was extinguished before
any damage was done.
The cattle market at Philadelphia was
overstocked on Saturday. A number of
the farmers of this neighborhood came
back with long faces.
A prize fight is likely to take place any
day. Albert jackson and James CAN'T,
twoyoung colored men of this place, will
be the principals if the prize can be
raised.
j. r. Missioner. editor of the Star and
Ne,cs, who was down with infammatory
rheumatism, is able to be up again.
The telegraph operators on the Penn.
sylvania line are rejoicing over the news
that their salary is to be advanced 81 per
month, making it $40.
Marsh s. Comp intend to put their
reaper works in operation in the course of
q week or two.
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CoNkLING has declined the judicial
nomination rendered him, rs it was ex-
pected he would do. The outcome of
the affair. neither proves his unfitness for
the place, nor that the president offered
it to him in anything but perfect good
faith, as his enemies will argue. Mr..
Arthur has a perfect right to make the
tender and Conkling had just as good a
right to decline it. There is nothing de-
veloped in the whole transaction which
detracts from the dignity of either of the
parties to it nor Of that which should
characterize the bestowal of high office.
1t is in striking contrast with Hayes
nomination of Stanley Matthews, and
Conkling's was much more creditable
appointment. If Arthur follows it with
another such selection as that of Judge
Gray he will do more to establish himself
in public esteem than by selection
which the people will have reason to be-
lieve is made chiefly at Mr.. COnkling's
request.
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ONLY one explanation has been offered
of the unprecedented acknowledgment
in a Wilmington newspaper that there
will be a good peach crop next summer.
This rare admission is accounted for by
the fact that the late editor of Every
Erening has gone to the management of
the Baltimore Gazette and his successor
on the Wilmington paper has not yet
learned that it is the first duty of Della
ware journalism, regardless of party, age
or color, to never tell the truth about the
prospects Of the next seasons peach
crop.
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Justices Of the Peace.

Joseph Engle, of Mount Nebo, has been
appointed a justice CT the peace of Maitic
township, to fill vacancy. His comu,:s-
sion dates from the 9th of March, 1882, and
runs to the 1st of May 1882.
Z. II. Burkholder, of West Earl, has
been appointed a justice of the peace for
said township from March 9Th to May 1st.
Commissions for the above named officers
are at the recorders Office in this city.
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a LOWER END CORONER.
!. Complaint Against tho Chestnut Level
Deputy.

a Complaint Against tho Chestnut Level
Deputy.
EDS. INTELLIGENCER On Wednesday
of last week an old lady died in our village
Of heart disease. We are happy in having
the honorary and remunerative Office of
deputy corOner bestowed on one of our
citizens, and as his appointment is CON-
paratively new and novel to him, he is
quite boy in the matter Of enthusiasm
and his desire to act in his official capacity
whenever shadow of an opportunity pre-
sents itself.
The lady spoken OF above was sixty five
years of age, and for a number of years
has been subject to heart disease, which
both she and her friends expected wonld
cause Eer decease. She had been seriously
i'll three days previous to her death and
received the best attentions from her
friends with whom she had for snnIe time
been living. AS she did not require con-
slant attention, the family was in an ad.
joining room attending to other duties,
with the door between tho rooms open.
After an absence Of about fifteen minutes,
the attendant returned to tho sick room
and found the patient dead. Certain
meddlesome cranks of the neighbOrhoOd
informed the deputy coroner that the old
lady was alone when she died, aud that it
was necessary to hold an inquest. And
the wiseacres further delivered them
selves Of expressions Of fear that
if an inquest was not held, some busy
body might inform the coroner elect of the
very suspicious circumstances Of the death
and the body be resurrectcd for inquest.
The deputy, cooked and prined by his
advisers, called on tho friends and rela.
tives of the deceased and presented his
case. The protestations, objections and
reasonings urged availed nothing and the
official proceeded with his "duty." A
jury and physician were secured and a
verdict of death from heart disease rem
dered.
Thus the jackars feast of dollars
and cents. In such cases as this,
where there cannot even be the
suspicion of anything, wrong through
ignorance or design, an injustice
is practiced on tho county and an outrage
committed, unnecessarily on the feelings
and affections of bereaved friends. The
law for our county, as we understand
it, says an inquest may be held in case Of
death by violence, when the coroner thinks
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Police Cases.

This morning the mayor had six persons
before him, among the number being
Mary Wise, who while very drunk was
arrested by Officer Holman. As it is not
a new condition for Miss Mary to be in,
she was sent out to the mansion which is
superintended by Mr.. Burkholder. to con-
suit with him in regard to the advisability
OF furnishing inspectors with dinner on
meeting days. Two men who were drunk
will not be seen on the street for ten days.
Three vagrants were discharged. Mary
Craig was sent out by Squire Barr for
being drunk aud disorderly.
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If, as is reported, there are some Re-
publican representatives who want to
smother the Grant retiring bill by all
means let it be smothered. The Demo-
cratic congressman should be solid
against this Infamous scheme to vote q
we'll paid man ten or twelve thousand
dollars year. 1t will be a cold day for
the Democratic member who helps along
the vile job.
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THE state supreme court, by the intel
lectual as well as numerical preponder-
ance of its members, has affirmed the
propr;ety of Mr.. Gowen's deferred bond
scheme and the matter is one of now
disputed legality between the state and
federal courts, with the chances of the
latter deferring to the former. But now
that Gowen has got his victory, what
will he do with it ? The scheme which
was good enough as desperate resort to
eXtricate the road from the danger of
bankruptcy, is not rs good rs the ordi-
nary way of borrowing money, (which can
now likely be successfully invoked since
the prosperity and credit of the company
are rapidly being restored. Mr.. Gowen
has his vindication, but he may profit.
ably pause before he puts the scheme into
operation.
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The last annual report of the Penn
sylvania railroad company, of which we
print an abstract, again illustrates the
wonderfully productive resources of this
colossal corporation. With the decided
drawback of loss Of over three hun
dred thousand dollars on the operation of
the New Jersey lines, the company last
year earned all eight per cent. dividend
and carried more than two million dol
lars to the right side of its profit and loss
account, and besides making extensive
permanent improvements it has not a
dollar Of floating debt. Such an exam
pie of the power of corporations to earn
enormous profits and the fact that the
present main line of the road can hardly
accommodate the business within its
reach, suggests the inquiry as to how long
it will be before another through line
east and west trayerses this wonderful
state of ours.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-07

IT preposterOus-nay but it is true
that the Senate committee on commerce
has voted to report favorably on Capt.
Eads's scheme that the government shall
lend 100000 of its endorsement to
his project for ship railway. Eads has
apowerful lobby at steady work in his
interest and gives big dinners to the
congressman. He has tackled the right
sort of Congress to help his subsidy
through, but Holman, Randall, Cox and
other advocates of retrenchment on the
Democratic side of the house will hard
ly let his big job pass without riddling it
with shot and shell. The people want no
more Credit Mobilier ard Pacific rail-
way subsidy steals
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The Reading bar-a considerable por-
tion of it at least-was lately looking
around for a judge outside the county
limits. Now Berks county claims to be
able to spare one of its local judges for
the state supreme bench. AS both Berks
and Lancaster have already put forth a
favorite son there is no occasion for any
Of the other sixty odd counties to be
backward in coming forward.
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A Frightful Scene In a Circus.

A terrible hailstorm visited the city Of
Mexico, on Sunday neght, causing great
CONSERVATION among the crowded audi
ence in the tents of circus. Within five
minutes tons of hail bore down the canvas
and with it the poles and extinguished the
lights. The scene was frightful, women
and fainting and the pauic-
stricking people scrambling for the exits
and rushing ankle deep in water for shel-
ter. Fortunately the casualties were slight,
two men only being seriously injured.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-07

ONLY one preacher, and he a coiored
man, has called upon Guiteau or mani
tested any interest in his spiritual wei.
fare. Do the clergy differ from the Jury
as to his moral responsibility
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READING will ask for the next Demo
cratic stateconvention. 1t has two halls
and plenty of taverns, and proposes a
local candidate in the person of Judge
Hageman for the supreme court. For
all that it is very near to Philadelphia
and we wouldn't be surprised if the next
Democratic state convention got rs far
away from that city as possible. Did
we hear ANYBODY say Altoona or Rrie?
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-07

John S. Hoover, of Meanwhile, this
county, sold in Philadel hia, 4 few days
weighed 8, 12O pounds. The steers lacked
month of being two years old.
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An Old Pensioner.

Alderman Wiley, for twenty years, has
regularly filled up every quarter the pen
sion papers of Mrs. Rebecca, widow Of the
late Col. James Cameron, killed very
early in the war for the Union. Her pen.
sion was granted September %, 1862, the
date from July 81, 1851, under the law of
July IA, 1862.
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A VILLAGE BURNED.
UALvERr's COUNTY SEAT DEVASTATED.

Prince Frederick, Nd, with the County
Records Destroyed.
The village of Prince Frederick, the
county seat Of Calvert county, was almost
entirely destroyed by fire Friday night
last, only few dwellings, remaining. The
new Methodist church and parsonage, tn e
court house with all the records, the Jour-
nal (newspaper) Office with all the type
and press, the hotel, the store of J. W.
Shemwel & Bro, the dwelling of S. r.
King, the law Offices of ]. A. Wilson, J.
P. BriscOe and John B. Gray, with all
their books and papers, were entirely con-
sumed, as also the recorda and papers Of
the county commissioners Office and the
Office of the register of wills. A
few papers and records were saved
from the Office of the clerk of court, but
most of the records, as far back as 1850,
with many valuable papers relating to the
early settlement of Mary land, were con-
sumed and cannot be replaced. The fire
originated by accident, in the Methodist
church, new building just completed,
which had not been dedicated. All the
buildings were of wood, except the court
house, which was a substantial brick
structure. The hotel and furniture were
valued at $780, 900. The total loss is prob
ably not less than $4,000. 1t is said there
is small insurance on the stock of Shem-
we'll & Bro, but with this exception there
were no insurance.
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Southern Industries.

Iu Montgomery, Ala, work was started
by the Adams cotton factory at three
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. This is the
first cotton factory venture in the city, and
the event caused great enthusiasm. The
capacity of the mill will be aboHt 1900
bales of cotton per annum.