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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14
Delaware County Politics,

Tho Republican convention Of Della
ware county elected Col. D. F. Houston as
senatorial, and G. P. Denis and v. G..
Robinson as representative delegates to
the state convention.
A resolution was offered den0uncipg
Senator Cameron and the alleged inter-
view held at Washington, at which Gen.
as the candidate for governor. State
Senator Cooper, who was present, asked
Leave to make . statement, in which he de.
MED that any such interview had ever been
held, and said that he and Beaver alone
conferred together, and that he withdrew
in Beavers favor. The resolution was
tabled by Q vote of 10 to 20.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14
"l'm q DADDY,

Our solid Democratic friend, Benjamin
Phillips, East Chestnut street, near
Franklin, is almost thrce-score years of
age and his good wife was fifty on last
holy eve. This morning was born to
them their thirteenth child, a bouncing
girl of IA pounds. There was on the
streets this morning. widely circulated
report that Mrs. Phillips had been favored
with triplets, but the report was untrue.
One at time is enough. We congratulate
the happy parents.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14
FRENCH LEAVE


Howeate Escapes From Custody.
H. w. Howgate, who has been lying for
some months in jail in Washington, on &C.
count Of his inability to procure the
amount of bail required by the court for
his appearance to answer the charges made
istration Of the financial affairs of the
q s: Signal service, escaped from his
S Sis fa%iIys and has NOT sinoe BEEN seea
The circumstances we're as follows:
In accordance with precedents already
established in similar cases, Mr.. Howgate
has at various times during the past four
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14
Pool and Billiards.

John Cline, Lancaster's champion, yes
terday played match game of pool with
VIM. II. Gill, of Philade phia, at Horting's
rooms, North Queen street. The match
was for twenty-O ono games, S25 a side,
player to name his shot, and the balls all
counting the same. The game was well
contested and was witnessed by a large
crowd of spectators. Cline won by scOre
of 12 to 9. The day previous Cline beat
Gill in match game Of Billiards, one hun
dred points up, for $40 . side.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14
Ex-ConFsdcrates IN Trenton.

The ex-Confederates from Richmond,
Virginia, who are visiting Trenton, New
Jersey, yesterday, went to the state capi-
tol and were presented to Governor Lud-
low. After visiting the charitable insti-
tutions and various industrial works, the
party were taken to the Fashion Stud
Farm, where race, in which Goldsmith
Maid participated, was got up for their
entertainment: In the evening there was
a grand reception at the opera house.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14
Tho finance Committee

Tho finance committee of councils met
and organized last evening by the election
Of Robert A. Evans, chairman. but failed
to agree on clerk, the Democrats voting
for T. F. McElligot for twelve ballots and
the Republicans voting for ]. X. Barr,
without coming to any conclusion.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14

"boycotting' Msssachusetts' Merchant.
The Irish Catholic citizens of Turner'S
Falls, Mass, have banded together to
boycott" G. L. Rist, q merchant, and
refuse to trade with or have anything to
DO vita him: Rist was . member ok-the
grand jury that indicted David McMillen.
WHO killed Father NoCarty, for man.
slaughter, and the boycotting is based
upon the fact that . bill for murder was
not found against HcMillen. There is
much excitement here over the matter.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14
Robbed the Safe.

Robbed the Sale.
Burglars who understood the coEbina-
tion of the safe entered Craig & Co.'s pro-
vision store at Wilmington, Del, on We'd
nesday night and stole $12O in money aud
some negotiable paper.
Burglars blew open the safe in the store
of Heard, White & Co. at Covington, Ga,
on Wednesday night and got away with
$1,000.
Settled Cp.
Starr H. Amber, the wholesale drug
gist, against whom an action was begun
in the supreme court of New York, by the
College of Pharmacy, to recover a de-
hciency in his accounts as treasurer of the
college, amounting to $1,000. IS, was yes
terday discharged from arrest, the claim
having been settled.
Steamer Sunk.
The steamer Joe Kinney, bound from
St. Louis to Kansas City, yesterday broke
a tiller rope while passing through the
bridge which crosses the Mississippi river
at Glasgow, ana swung around and struck
the pier and stove in one Of her sides. She
then sank. No lives were lost.
Torn by q Tornado.
Morgan City, Louisiana, and the sur.
country were visited by terri
bic storm on Wednesday. Houses were
damaged and demolished and twenty
dwellings at Drew's mills were swept
away, but no lives are known to be lost.
A Boys Suicide.
William Beck, aged 12 years, shot him
self fata0g on Wednesday, at Racine,
Wis, because, after having been out late
the preceding night. his father awoke him
with harsh words the next morning.
Illinois Wheat crop.
Reports of the Illinois state board Of
agriculture show that there has rarely
ever been better showing Of winter
wheat than on the 1st of April.
Fast Day in Maine.
Fast day was observed in Maine yestef-
lay. The usual services were hold in the
and business was almost entirely
suspended.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14

or five months applied to the court for
temporary leave Of absence from the Jail
to visit his family. These applications
have generally been granted, the court
sending an officer with the prisoner to
prevent his escape, and limiting to q few
hours his absence from the Jail. Yester-
day for the first time in two months or
more Mr.. Howgate asked leave to go to
his house for the purpose Of seeing
his daughter, who has recently returned
from Vassar college, and OF looking
over certain papers. Judge Wylie,
to whom the application was made,
granted the request, and sent with the
prisoner Mr.. Doing, one Of the oldest and
most trustworthy of the court bailids, with
orders to bring him back to Jail in two
hours. 1t was then about three O'Clock.
At Mr.. Howgate's house the bailiff, for
some reason, which is not fully explained,
lost sight Of the prisoner for moment,
and when he turned around Mr.. Howgate
was no longer in the room. The bailiff
asked Miss HOwgate where her father had
gone. She replied that he had stepped out
but would return in a moment, and asked
the bailif to sit down. The officer sus-
pecting that something was wrong rushed
out Of the house but could see nothing of
the prisoner. The house was searched, the
police headquarters notified, and the police
everywhere put on the alert, but up to this
time no clue to tho fugitive's whereabouts
has been obtained.
Marshal Henry thinks that he is still in
the city, but as a precautionary measure
police authorities of Baltimore, Richmond,
New York, Philadelphia and Boston have
been notified of his escape. If he should
not be arrested at once reward of $500
will be offered for his apprehension.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14
a Close Contest.

l.AtltZ 0cCOrO.
For Congress it seemed as if there
would be no opposition to the present in
cumbent, but Mr.. Huusecker, of Mannheim,
has announced himself as a candidate.
Both are very popular gentlemen. and it
is difficult to state which one will win.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14
Death OF Judge Ross.

The people of his immediate district,
and indeed of the whole commonwealth
between whose borders he was well
known, will be shocked and panied to
hear of the death of Hon. Henry p.
Ross, judge of the Montgomery county
district, just as he had entered upon the
duties of new term to which he had
been elected by highly complimentary
popular vote. Born of family whose
history is conspicuOusly and honorably
identified with that of the state, and
called at a very early age to high honors
in his profession, he reflected credit on
his ancestry and on the bar by his brill
iant service on the bench. Believing
that there is no place of such fitness for
the exercise of judicial qualities as on
the bench, and that good judges should
be kept where they are too scarce, the
INTELLIGESCER never sympathized
with the political ambitions of
Judge Ross nor aided his friends
in their promotion, but to man
of his years and aptitude for poll
tics they were not unnatural. Despite
his strong political and even partisan
predictions, none testified more heartily
to his uprightness and fairness as a judge
than his political opponents, and his re-
cent triumphant reelection ne had accept
ed as an invitation to make the bench
the sphere of his future labors and honors.
That he would reap them was as Ger
tain as that he would merit them. Few
common pleas judges in the state had a
better record there was none who more
fearlessly met and more ably decided
new questions as they arose, nor whose
opinions were more popularity quoted.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14
Marble Company.

The Mosaic Marble company, to operate
in Lancaster county with principal office in
Philadelphia, was chartered yesterday BY
the state department. The capita! is $780,
600 and the corporators, except one, are
Philadelphians.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14

Samuel Hess s. Sons auctioneers sold
at public sale on Wednesday for Jacob S.
Foitz at Petersburg sixteen head Of driv-
ing horses all from Ohio at an average
price of $50 40 per head. The highest
one sold brought S218.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14

Intelligence has been received from Rio
de Janeiro, by way Of Lisbon, that jewels
to the value Of e20. 600. belonging to ladies'
Of tho Imperial family Of Brazil, have
been stolen, There was no clew to the
perpetrators of the robbery.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14

THE ex senatorial editor of the Exam.
tner is q man of changeful mood. Some
time ago he began a "red.hot - warfare
on Senator Kaufman and the editor of
the Netv Era, accused them of venality,
raked up alleged records Of 1881 and
anterior dates, and altogether boldly
sailed in to fight over old and almost
forgotten questions" The Ns,c Era, in
reply, revived and reiterated charge
that in those days the editor of the En-
an,iner betrayed his constituents and
sold his vote for $4,000 in the state Sem
ate. The INTELLIGENCER, shocked at
this charge, called upon theaccused Gen.
.sor of public morals and journalistic
ethics to clear himself. After some
delay and avOwed indisposition to
"tight over old and almost forgotten
questions, )" the editor of the Examiner
indirectly denied the accusation and de
clared anybody verdant beyond relief
who believed that he had sold his vote
when the market was overlooked and
there was no demand for votes. We
cheerfully accepted his complete vindi.
cation, but his accuser does not, and
insists that he did naughty
things in 1861" We won't be-
lieve it, and we are glad to see
that the Examiner man has taken a fresh
lease on life and finds it long enough to
flight over old and almost forgotten
questions. He calls on the Nsso Era's
editor to explain his past "venality" and
wants the Ns,e Eros publisher to tell
about his career in the Legislature and
his relations with that notorious legisla-
tive briber, Boss Bill Kemble. Life is
not too short for the Examiner game
cock to buckle on the gaffs once more.
Now the feathers will fly.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14

The auditors will find q nne subject
for a coroner's inquest in the bill Of
1900 paid to Barnes & Huber for
patent files for the prothonotary's Office.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14
Tho sun FiFo Steamer.

The Sun fire steamer and hose cart
have been removed from the old quarters
on East Vins street and placed in the
room designated for their reception in
Beaver street, between No. I aud No. 3
cotton factories.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14
Al.DEIs1l EMS FEES.

Alderman Spurrier Not Present at the Ex.
animation BY Reason OF Ili0ess.
Ten o'clock this morning was the hour
set by the county auditors to examine AL
derman Spurrier relative to some of his
bills for dismissed cases, which tho au-
ditors thought needed explanation. At the
hour named, 3. F. Eshleman, ESQ.,, cOun-
sci for Alderman Spurrier, appeared and
stated that the alderman was i'll, unable
to appear.
The auditors who have had some expe-
rience in investigating the ways of alder
mauic darkness, decided that it would be
necessary to have physicians certificate
attesting- the alderman's disability, and
word to that effect was sent him.
After waiting for three quarters of an
hour DR.. ]. o. Boyd appeared and was
affirmed. He testified that he was not the
attending physician Of Alderman Spur,
rier, but that that gentleman had called
on him, suffering with a severe attack Of
neuralgia in the head aud neck. He pre-
scribed for him and directed that he go
home and 90 to bed. He thought it
would be improper if not unsafe to have
him appear before the auditors to-day.
The auditors thereupOn excused the
alderman until 9 o'clock to morrow.
An order was then directed to Alder
man Patrick Donnelly, of the Eighth
ward, to appear before tie auditors at 2
p. III. to-day.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14
MAUvEAGH On ARTHUR's RULE.
Garfieid's Attorney General Deplores the
Work OF the BOsSep.

Garfieid's Attorney General DeplOres the
Work Of the BOsses.
At the meeting of the Philadelphia Civil
Service Reform association last night in
the hall of the college of physicians, MIR.
Mac Veagh, who was in the chair, said that
he was consulted by Mr.. Hayes in regard
to the civil service order that was publish
ed at the beginning of the Hayes admins
tratiOn and was in part author of it. The
difficulty in enforcing it was that unscrup-
ulous men overpersuaded and overpOwered
the authorities and it was virtually killed
when the desperate political adventures
of Louisiana were rewarded. The
movement undertaken by Hayes was a
long step forward, but the end of his ad
ministration saw Sherman trying to NOM
mate himself for the presidency by the
use of all the powers of the treasury de-
partment. While Hayes showed good in
tentions it was seen that he failed. What
Arthur was in the New York custom
house he is in the White house. "My party
leaves me in this predicament," continued
Mr.. MacVeagh " it has but three princi-
pies and 1 find myself opposed to all three.
Its first great principle is the spOils sys-
tenn, the second is opposition to civil ser
vice reform, and the third seems to con-
sist of reputation in old Virginia. Then
tho boss system is degradation it goes
subsists on the spoils of Office. The duty
of this association and Of the country is to
supplant these bosses. Unit! that is done
your work will not be executed. You eau
not pretend to be interested in the de-
grading spectacle Of Mahoneisn in Vir-
ginia-the deliberate prostitution of gov
ernment powers to aid reputation of 4
states obligations. If VIC could charge
that upon tho Bourbon Democrats it
would be some relief. But, to our sorrow
and humiliation, these things are done in
the name of the party of Abraham Lin
coin. Instead of going forward TIE Ar
thur administration makes a retrograde
movement"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14
sale Of Stoeks.

j. B. Long,. broker, sold to day at phi
vate sale 10 shares Farmers National
bank stock, at s11O per share, and LOCO
Qnarryville Il. X. per cents boad at
Silt.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14

CAMERON dined "the Farmers club"
yesterday. He proposes to give some at
tention to his fences.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14
The New Postage Stamp.

The new five cent postage stamp has
been received at the pOstoffice in this city,
and it il very pretty. the following is 4
description of it: "On tablet is sus.
pended an incised shield decorated with
an oval Of heads forming frame work to
the portrait of the late president of the
United States, James 4. Garfield, looking
toward the lett engraved in a line.
At the base of the oval is dark six
pointed star relieved by white outline
and in its centre the figure as" Disposed
on the right and left of the star flows a
ribbon containing the legend " five cents"
in white Roman capitals. Below the star
and ribbon on the lower portion Of the
tablet appear the words e. S. Postage
engraved in dark letters.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14

LAST year the meeting of the auditors
was farce this year it is a tragedy.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14

As q diplomat Mr.. Blaine knew rs we'll
as Talleyrand that the best use of Ian
guage is to conceal ideas-unless you use
it "on the margin" of the dispatch.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14

" Go it, Stephen u
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14

TIE detective who has sued the Press
for libel complains that he was called ga
convicted thief" and explains that "there
are lots of people who are thieves who
can't be proved SO and who have never
been convicted" This is fine distinct
ion for prosecutor in a libel suit to
draw.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14

We take it for granted that the ex-
premier" never got down on his knees and
asked the editor of the World to let him
have back that marginal dispatch.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14

AS a matter of fact the editor of the
Now York World never saw OF spoke with
Shipherd in his life save on the occasion
of single visit which Shiphcrd requested
permission through two or three interme-
diaries to pay to him, nor did the editor
of the World ever inform Shipherd that he
had in his possession any dispatch what
ever sent or inteiided to be sent by ex-
Secretary Blaine to the United States min-
ister in Peru.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14

IT is gel g on toward the weather
which makes Elaine liable to sunstrokes.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14

DIR. WICKRRsHAM for charge d. affairs
to Denmark Couldn't Senator c. s.
Kaufman be sent to the Sandwich Islands,
Ed. X. Martin to the South Pole and
Editor Geist to Patagonia Then "the
family might yet have peace !" down
there
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-03-01
A Trip.

must redeem the promise given in my last
letter, and tell you something of the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian Church and the Christian
work in connection with it. The building it.
self is the largest and handsomest Presbyterian
Church IN the world, and is of simple and
elegant Gothic style, with lofty and graceful
spire The site alone cost se75 900, and 9lO0-
600 were expended in its erection The interior
is very handsome and comfortable, with rich
carved and painted ceiling, beautiful stained
glass windows, and an excellent organ The
woodwork is American ash, trimmed with oak
and the pews, sloping upwards away from the
pulpit, enable every nearer to see the preacher
There Is accommodation for 1000 people, and
the average Sabbath attendance is about 700
Large as the church is it is impossible at pre-
sent, to rent even a sitting but thanks to the
hospitality of the stockholders, and the civility
OF the ushers, stranger experiences no dscom
fort. | need not dwell on the persuasive elo
quence of the pastor. His gracious presence, the
ringing clarion tones and scathing words with
which he condemns all that is base and wicked
the tender, loving voice in which he appeals to
the sinner, all are well known to Irish Pres
byterians. Behind the church is a superb lee
ture-room, with its pews cushioned and carpeted.
Here are held the Wednesday evening lecture,
the ladies Bible class on Friday and the Satur
day evening prayer meeting. In this room also,
on the first Sabbath in each month, meet the
Young Mems Social and Benevolent Society,
established not only for the profitable discussion
of questions of vital interest, but to promote
Christian friendship among the young men who
choose to join, and very specially offering kind.
ly sympathy and companlonship to those who
are strangers and alone in the city. Over this
lecture room is the bright and cheerful apart
ment in which meets the congregational Sun.
day school. This is quite a luxurious room
heated and carpeted, and each class, comfortably
seated on chairs is grouped round its teacher
instead of being perched, as with us, on hard
upright benches, producing WEAKNESS and mat
tention. An the end of this room, but divided
from it by a movable glass partition, Mrs. Hall
teaches large class of young women A gal
lery runs round the school room in which are
seated several classes Of boys, and very large
infant class meets in a room off it. There are
besides, in separate class rooms, two classes for
young men taught by gentlemen, well fitted for
the work, and a second adult female Bible class
and class for domestic servants in the after
noon. The attendance averages $50. In this
school giving festival took the place Of the
usual Christmas tree
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-03-01

The Greek philosophers not only
taught in the schools, but discoursed on
the excellence of wisdom and virtue in the
markets and the streets. The Stoics and
Cynics especially lifted. their voices against
sensual pleasures, and feebly strove to
stay the tide of corruption in the world.
Their fine words and rhetoric had little
influence even with the refined, and were
powerless to reform the rabble.
What they could not do by the Owls
dom of the wise, can be done by the
power of the gospel. Jesus commands
his followers to eco out into the streets
and lanes of the city and bring in the
poor and the manned and the halt and
the blind )" to "Go out into the highways
and hedges and compel them to come in. :"
The gospel will succeed where philosophy
failed. Christians cannot be too often or
too earnestly reminded that it is the great
business of the Church, with all its agen-
cies and all its members, to preach saliva
ton to sinners.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-03-01

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGo.-Soon
alter the Declaration of Independence
the American Congress passed the follow
ing resolution:
Whereas, True religion and good morals are
the only solid foundation of public liberty and
happiness
ResolOed. That it be and is hereby earnestly
recommended to the several States. to take the
most efectual measures for the announcement
thereof, and the suppression of theatrical enter.
talnments, horse racing, gaming, and such other
diversions as productive of idleness, dissina.
ton and general depravity of principles and
manners.
Has the theatre got any better since
that time? We may not be competent
to answer, but give the following from
the New York Evening Post:
There has probably been greater mass of
meretrlclous rubbish set on the New York stage
during the last ten years than during the whole
OF its existence. We do not, of course, refer
solely to pieces that appeal to the baser in
stlncts, but to the whole body of sensational or
emotional products-to the feverish slop of a
French melodrama, etc.