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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-18
Gown DESTROYED.
C"A!:d.raiinn Ia fiaVer!,iii, Mas:

C":!:t.rs ii0:i II HaNer!iili, Mass:
!.'.lortS from ilavarhill state that Iire
started in :he business portion Of the
town, an,l spread with great raptiity, the
buildings being mostly Of wood and iguit
ing very quickly. The small iirc depart.
mcrt was unable to cope with tie flames,
which soon got beyond their control. At
80 4. III. the town seemed o.! ab!aZc
i despatch from Havcrhill says "The
loss will be several millions. Engines are
coming from Ncwbmrypor. and Dover. \
humbe: of families n!, Wingate street lave
been tarnad out. This is the biggest fro
that has ever ucaurreti in this vicinity.
The streets are lined with merchandise
and ;urniturc'
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Court Oi Common Pleas.

BEFORE JCDGE LIVINGSTON.
In fhe case of Emma Haverstick and heI
husband John J. Haverstick. for the use
of the said Emma Havcrstick, VS.. John y.
Brubakcr, administrator of David Blu
baker, deceased, the jury rendered q.
verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $780,.
BEFORE JUDGE PATTERSON
Eliza Keserring VS.. Charles Mark!ey,
This was an action of breach of promise.
Both of the parties reside at Maytown.
The plaintiff alleges that in the year 1873
the defendant proposed that they get mar
rcd. She made preparations for the
event, but the defendant backed ont and
would not marry her. She was put to
expense, &C.. and she brings this suit to
recover damages. The defence is that
Mr.. Markley never proposed to Tic de
fendant to whom he had no intention of
marrying himself, and all the couiting
that was done was on her part.
On trial
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CARTEE'S LIBEL SUIT.

Now Noa See 1t ana Now Ynu Don't
The weekly Mqairer of this morning has
the following article in its editorial col.
umEa:
DOES THE INTELLI'ENCER Lac: On
Monday evening last the Lancaster daily
INTELLIGENCEE, in al editorial article,
written by the junior member Of ths firm,
Mr.. w. L. Hensel (Mr. Steinman being
absent on his wedding tour), made the
following statement:
I'VE ,lo not know whether Mr.. Calvin Car
ter has sued the INTE!LIGENCER for libel or not.
r we 1o mo & e f W. s propose "t or 10 @ i unt n s
than we would say ifhe has done 80 or pro
poses to do so.'
Alderman Jacob X. Barr. of t;la Third
ward, this city. says that on Saturday
evening last Mr.. W. L. Hensc Of the
Lancaster 1NTELLIGESCEE, called at his
Office and inquired whether Mr.. C,iter
had sued him for libel. Ai;ierm,n Ba":
promptly informed him that ie hal
Does the 1NrELLIGENCER lie ~
Last Saturday l was informed by Mr..
Carter's counsel that he had conc to t;is
city to bring libel suit against ,,a pub
fishers of the INTt:TIIC ESCEH and had
left the city without having done 50.
Having read in the Et:lmiuer thai a suit
had been brought, promptly went to the
Offices Of several aldermen to give bail il
any warrants in such case had been issued.
was promptly told by them that they
had issued no such warrants. Aide.
man Barr being pressed 10 answer
whether any suit had been brought,
or any sort of proceeding had
finally admitted that complaint had
been left there, but that afterwards inc
had received instructions from Mr.. Car
ter's counsel to withhold all proceedings
in it unit! he had further orders.
saw Mr.. Carter on Sunday-iio; i'll the
manner described by the Inquirer. NJ
| reference whatever was made to I libel
suit ; nor did he intimate that he had
brought or intended to bring one.
No such libel suit has yet been dock
eted by Alderman Barr, and though
he has couple Of complaints in his safe
he has received no orders to g Jn with
the suits, and he seems to be waiting for
Carter to come and withdraw his com
plants and pay the costs.
Whether he does so or not is :. matter
of no concern to anybody connected with
the 1NTELLiGENcEE. And as his confiden
tial adviser of the Inquirer, who ti:st in
ducel him to make the complaints, still
seems to think he was libeled, obviously
Carter should 60 on with his suits so as to
vindicate his editorial friend and relieve
him from his present ridiculous position
w. L. H.
LANCASTER, Pa, Feb. Is, 1892.
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THE LATEST NEWS.
CLEANED FROM THE MORNING MAILS
Matters of Moment That make up the Rec
ord of the Day.

Matters of Moment That make up the Rec
ord of tho Day.
Victor w. Mcfarland, lard refiner. Of
New York, suspended yesterday. His LA
bilities are stated at $780, coo.
4 vein of pure camel coal, five fee:
thick, has been discovered in Marion
county, Iowa, thirty miles from Des
Moines. A vein Of common bituminous
coal, six feet thick, lies sixty feet be
meath the camel.
The receiver of the Mechanics national
bank of Newark announces second d!vi-
dend of 20 per cent, making in all 4j pec
cent. in less than four months.
The Macon savings bank and the Farm
ers' and Traders bank, of Macon, Mis-
souri,, suspended yesterday. The assets of
the former are 1913, 4SS liabilities, $243,
1876. The latter's liabilities are placed at
s43, 049; assets, s46,940. Efforts will be
made to resume.
The Pennsylvania railroad company has
nearly completed negotiations for the pur-
chase of the Union railroad, which runs
from the Union depot to the Canton
wharves in tho city of Baltimore. 1t will
complete the links of the through line of
the Pennsylvania railroad between New
York aud Washington.
Our total exports Of domestic provisions,
tallow and dairy products during Janu-
ary, were valued at S13, 199, ,53l, against
s15,2l1,2 ,2S2 during January, 1881. Our
total exports Of dairy products during tho
nine months ending January 81. 1882,
amounted to ZIG, ,334, ,571, against $2l. 1O2,-
15G during the same period OF 1891.
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York County Tobacco Saie-.

} Of!- I'!-!Ittc!'.
II. 5. Scott is sending his tobacco to
Lancaster to kendig & Co., with J. 4. &.
Gaily and 4. F. GLADDEN..
Shuman bought Of \. $ Smth :; acres
at 10. 9, }, 3; Caleb Atkins acres at
IA, 8, ), 3 Of John Taylor two acres on
private terms.
Twenty two THOUSAND pounds OF TO-
bacco were loaded in two cars ut Wood
bine Tuesday by NJ. Il. Hoffman, lain
bridge. Mr.. Hoffman yesterday received
tobacco at Shrewsbury.
These shipments about close N, all the
tobacco sold at present in the lower end of
the county.
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An American in a British Jail.

4 memorial, signed by large number
of merchants of San Francisco, has been
sent to the secretary of state asking that
steps be taken for the release of Mr.. Nc
Sweeney, of that city, an American citizen
now confined in British jail.
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Chicago News.

1t is stated that the Ant. Monopoly
league nsChicago will begiu crusade
against rent raising landlords on the first
of May.
Preparations are making in Chicago irr
4 grand tiremen's tournament. to take
place in September next. 1t is expected
that 800 fire companies from 800 cities and
towns, representing all branches Of tie
service, will be represented. Four New
Orleans companies, and the Pompicr Corps,
of St. Louis, have signiieA their intention
to participate
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Mysterious MisnaD.

Last evening Miss Evana Dull, residing
on Christian street, below Chestnut, start
ed for her home to visit her brother, who
lives near the corner of Prince and Straw
berry streets. At or near the corner Of
West King and Prince streets she was
knocked down, but how or by whom she
does not know. She remained unconscious
for some time, and in dazed condition,
wandered down Prince to Vine street,
where she regained consciousness. She
knows nothing that happened from the
time she looked into Martins store win
dow, corner of King and Prince streets,
until she reached Prince and Vine streets.
The right side Of her forehead is badly
confused as if from a blow. but she has
no recollection Of being struck by any one
nor does she know o. any one who wouli
be likely to assault Ter.
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ing was raised, not even grass. There are
farmers in tho county as we'll as people
not farmers who are as near starvation as
they we'll can come without actually
starving" Local charity organizations
are forming for the relief OF the sufferers.
The reports on the crop prospects from
that section are encouraging.
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Chief Eng neer Howell has requested
the various fire companies, in case of an
alarm of fire, TO stay within their respec-
tive districts. The Friendship company
having received the request, last evening
at a meeting uaaaim ously agreed to com
ply with it.
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Cnlnailable Letters.

Letters addressed as follows, are held
at the postotlice
For postage" Alfred Croft, White
Hall P. o., Ian. Co., Pa
For better direction--Lewis Seibert.
Washington Barracks, in care Of Robert
F. Roche, Hospital Steward, L. ).
Army"
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.scriieNts and Crimes.

Charles Lindemyer was fatally stabbed
by his brother Christian, in Warren county,
Missouri, last Tuesday, in il quavre! about
land sale.
Two men were killed and Il third wound
ell in shooting affray on Devils river,
Texas, last Wednesday,.
W. w. Ezra was kicked tn death by !,
mulo in Carroll county, Georgia, "''
Thursday.
By collision between freight tram
and switch engine 1t Toledo, Ohio, yes
tcrday, two engines were wrecked anI
Charles Clark, engineer, was fatally III
jured.
The boiler Of the Georgia car works, at
Cartcrsville, Georgia, burst yesterday
morning, killing six men and injuring sew
eral others, one Of them fatally.
\ saw mill was demolished and two men
were killed by the bursting Of boiler
near Ekmound, Wisconsin, on Friday.
\ telegram from San Francisco reports
the destruction Of the house OF Charles l..
johnson. 4: Coiiey's Cove. Oh the Russia!
river, by landslide last week. Mrs.
Johnson, her infant and man employed
in the house We're killed.
Archibald Johnson, wife aud children
and farmer, named Murphy, attempted,
on Thursday night, to cross Buckham
lake, near Lakeiield. Ontario, in a sleigh
on the ice. The night being dark they
mistook open water for clear ice. and drove
into it, but only Murphy was drowned.
C.S. Coone. jr., general ticket agent TO:
the OHIO & Mississippi railroad, was killed
Oh that railroad yesterday near North
Vernon, Kentucky. He put his head ont
Of the window and it was strucl. by i
bridge.
S. n. Snow, Publisher OF the Ete"iny
Nens, of New Bedford, Mass. having been
detected in number of forgeres, at
tempted suicide at Narragansctt on
Thursday night. Ills father had paid the
forged notes.
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If the roll call Of Stauffer's police
were to be made there would be found
on it names that would recall
official escapades withou! parallel in
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THE Republican newspapers have sad
denly discovered that Mayor StauiIer
was soldier, and therefore would be
able to select a good police force. This
claim might be urged with more force
had the city not had an experience of
four years under Mayor Stauffer and his
police force. \ more illy-discinlinel ana
ineffective force the city has never had.
The scandals which arose from the lax
ity of its government have not been for
gotten, and it is we'll for the Republican
candidate that they were not revived
earlier i'm the campaign. Let any one
who has any doubts about this take the
policemen one by one from the respect
i've wards, and compare those now in
with the police under Stauffer. In per-
sonal character and public efficiency the
Democratic officers will not suffer by the
contrast.
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police circles, officers taken to their places
of duty like other drunken men, on the
wheelbarrow, and the badge and mace of
those asleep" at their posts carried to
the mayors Office. Whatever breaches
Of discipline or neglect Of duty on the
part of the present force have been
brought to Mayor MacGonigle's notice
have been promptly investigated and
punished. The mayor has been enough
of s: soldier = to do this without fear,
favor or affection.
Few travellers to the East have made
more intelligent report Of their operations
than Hon. S. S. Cox, and those who read
with pleasure and profit the account of his
visit to the Holy Land will follow with
equal interest the story we print to day o!
what he saw in Egypt.
Tue Eranincr, which, unlike the Nsc
Era, has not 4" lost faith in the multipiica-
ton table," may be able to compute what
Stauffer's election to the mayoralty would
be if his appointment as census supervisor
would have been--as 1t said-a cataSt'''-
phe.' TO describe the results OF ms e'ec'
ton the Eramtner would oe "rl'e" 10
"bolocaust' or kindred term
As MH. MACGONIGLE' ndmtn istrati0n
~, oy :,- ooo NJ NE .;,v ,,e,, anil
~ ,;on.au.,a ,Io o,,r Ivr5e, ao ceots
49, crsru a1oO ,o,yo,o. uud ne " D.
Couasr'. aJ,a;,,s,ro,;o. increased Me Jsbt
cao0 Ooo ,,9 ne,efors ;.,raosed he tar
hawaiian :, ~, ,,,,v 500 ,,yvotiou. there.
for, e,,r. o,cuc, of @..oo,,ty IN this r;fy aria
.. =, f,.o,. nj. Ian, torcs and e,e,. tenno,
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THE Ner E'r is mist AIKEN in :,scrib-
ing to the INTELLIGEN ENCEE the original
statement that Mayor Stauffer':' ) charac
teristic is his - facility for lying" 1t
was oar esteemed Republican, conlem-
porary, the Ertnti,,e,, which said he
was man who was once made Il can
didate for Office, and elected, because Of
his facility for lying, but 50 overdid th,,
lying business that he was defeated for
reelection and said even his appoint
ment as a census supervisor would have
been 81 catastrophe.' If the peculiarly
" prominent business man who has
told the -Etr Ere that Mayor Mact;O ;Oni-
gle can beat Staufer SiN Ia one ut
lying will only let his name he known
We suspect that it will be found
to be Republican politician
whom Stauffer has lately denounced
as a notorious liar and who has
himself lately spoken of Stauffer
rs an unexampled prevaricatOr. Harsh
terms like these CRATE unpleasantly on
our ears, but if the Republicans will use
them to describe each other, let the Nr,r
Era give credit where it is due.
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TIE PERUVIAN COMPANY.
List Of Prominent Men Supposed t" be
tcreste;i in 1T.

List OF Prominent Men Supposed to be III
terestest in It,
The president has transmitted to the
House letter from the secretary of state,
accompanied by mass of documents.
concerning the correspondence in regard
to the Peruvian company. Included in
the correspondence is letter fro M Jacob
X. Shepherd, of New York, to Minister
IIurlburt, which contains the names Of
persons supposed to be interested in tho
Peruvian company, and which were with
held by the state department when the
correspondence was sent to the Sen
ate some days since. These names
are Z. d. Morgan, William. f.
Dodge, Hugh McCullOch, Norvin Green.
w. r. Garrison, \. Belmont, S. Is. Chit
tenden. John Hay, Amasa Stone, William
II. Vanderbilt, John Sherman. Eugene
Hale, Murat Halstead, Whitelaw Reid,
Fisk & Hatch, Samuel Sloan. Marshall
Jewell, II. l.. Dawes, S. d. Babcock, J. A.
Stewart, Jay Cooke, w. NJ. Evarts. South
mayd & Choatc, L. $. Grant, A. A. Low,
J. II. Wade, H. Il. Payne. Horace White,
David Dows & Co., Joseph Mcdil!, II. E.
Hyde, A. S. Hewitt. w. l. Scott, }. u.
Cameron, Howard Crosby, Hobson, Hur-
tado & Co.. Sydney Dillon, Morton. Bliss
& Co., II. i. Claflin, A. s. Barnes, Henry
Hilton. J. & w. Seligman & Co.. N X.
Jessup & Co., Drexel, Morgan & Co..
William ". Astor, Horace T. Caswell.
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Thieves Arrest ed.

Officers Pyle and Gilbert have arrested
VIM. Armstrong and Jacob Tobias, Of
Marietta, who are charged with having
thrown from the cars Of the Pennsylya
mia railroad number Of steel bars which
they intended to carry away. This hap
pened near Chickies on Wednesday and
the men were arrested yesterday. They
were taken before Squire Frank, of Col
umbia Armstrong gave bail for
hearing and Tobias was committed in de-
fault.
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The StauiIer Policy.

U:.r of Mr.. Stauffer's editorial de-
Tenders tries to point out that in i>1:, he
expressed himself in favor of npeNpendi-
lures III excess of appropriations. Likely
he did. lie has often expressed himself
in favor of good measures. But the
trouble with him is that he is not equal
to the performance of his promises. lie
falls into the hands of the Phi!iStines.
The water works tinkerS and street job
bers always got hold of him last and per
yerted him from his good intentions.
lie left them go ~ far, to the very latest
day of his term, that when he went out
OF office many of the appropriations
were nearly if not quite exhausted.
though half the fiscal wear had not yet
passed. lie had SD little nerve in ex-
ecuting the policy which he now claims
to have favored that Ills administration
saddlel a floating debt of S%U,OO0 upon
the city TO he paid off by its successor
Ii Mas only 10y Mayor MacGonigle that Il
business system of managing municipal
affairs was vigorously enforced: and
when nothing else would avail to pre-
vent llwIessneS> and extravaganza he
went into court and asked for IN H. unc-
tion to restrain the lawbreakcra. He is
the mayor of whom and of whose efforts
to check Il lawless Republican, street
committee the Ernmi.mr said in its
issue of August l3, 1873:
We express but the sentiment oi all
right minded, considerate. tax paying cit
izens, of both parties, when we extend to
Mayor Mact:Onigle thanks for having
called the attention OF councils and the
public in general to the illegal and extrav
agant acts of the street committee or
rather the ring which has been running it
and the tool called the street commissioner.
We hope the mayor will not stop at "pro.
testing" aud calling the attention Of cOun-
cils to their extravaganza and illegal
proceedings, but will. il necessary, pro
coed by injunction to restrain them, and
also hold the rinsleaders individually lia
bic when they shall run the city in debt
II is notorious that there has been in this
department at least RECKLG3SSNE>s and
EYTRAVAGANCE IF NOT CORRUPTION, and
so far as we are concerned WE SHALL
SUSTAIN THE MAYOR in his efforts tu
compel an observance at all events Of the
forms of law, and VIC hope ne will not hes
itate when occasion requires to call the
attention of councils and the public to the
shortcomings of those in authority.
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Horses shipped.

Lazarus Pioso shipped 90 horses iIon
the stable of Frederick Brimmer to Henry
Dahlman in New York city.
Fiss s. Doerr shipped 81 head ot horses
to the same city from the Franklin house
stables.
Both lots are of excellent horses and
were purchased in this city.
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DestitutiOn in Southern Illinois.
1t is we'll known that several counties i:

1t is we'll known that several cOuntie. in,
the southern and southeastern parts of
Illinois suffered shortagt of crops last
summer, and in consequence are under
going great Inconvenience. Lately it has
been reported that some of the people arc
starving. This statement is much cxas
gerated. None are starving or in great
danger Of it, hut that many are in need is
true. Reports received by the State Jour
nal Of Springfield indicate that
in Wayne, Franklin, Wabash, Sa-
line, Gallatin, White and some other
counties corn was scarcely worth harvest
ing and wheat practically a failure. The
result is that small farmers and the poorer
classes of tenants were deprived Of the
means of subsistence and have been
obliged to sell their stock and in some
cases their teams to buy food. The worst
report yet received comes from Saline
county and says "In this county moth
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Jacob Henry, sworn lived rext door
to Masch's two years ago Mrs. MascIl,
the prisoner, appeared to hc very kline! to
the old lady; last fall she complained that
she had Il great deal Of trouble the ci.ii.
dren and everything else seemed to annoy
her ; she said she did not know wl,y :-!.f.
had such trouble, that she had a good Ina,.
and he was good to her.
Geo. Il. Marrow live next door to the
Masch's took notice last fall tia. the
prisoner acted strangely SHE'D aSay from
everyone !; would not speak to me ran
away whenever she saw me coming since
Christmas | have heard Il good deal of
noise in the house 8; during the morning.;
abOut o'clock there often seemed to be
trouble Of some kind could hear Mrs.
Masch crying and talking loadly; IN MY
opinion she was weak-ninded and that
was the opinion Of the neishbors.
Vim. McElwee, sworn Wen. into
Masch's house yesterday morning in,me
diatcly after Mr.. Masch went in; saw the
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PERSONAL.

LANCASTER, Pa, Feb. Is, 1882.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-06
LOCAL MENTION.
Two Attorneys and their
Encounter.
Marriage of Lieut. Schwatka
and Miss Bracket.
Various Criminal Happen
ings of the day.
LOCAL MENTION.
LEGAL GORE.

g. r. Hill is a young lawyer from Mo
line who has had a grievance. and he came
to this city yesterday for the purpose OF
settlement. He imagined that his name
had been associated with Moore, another
legal light of Moline who figured in the
alleged seduction of a negro girl OF
that town. He disliked that kind OF
notoriety and determined to have some
body's gore or else sacrifice his own life
in vindicating his good name.
Yesterday afternoon he visited
the law office of Wilkinson,
Kenworthy & Beardsley, who have acted
as the attorneys of Moore in his little
trouble. He intimated that his name had
been used by the firm in connection with
the affair without any ground or reason,
and he proposed to have it stopped then
and there. The senior member of the firm
as the public are aware, is confined to his
room by broken leg. The other members
were at the Office, and informed their Wis
itor that his insinuations were out of
place, as they were not in accordance with
the statements made by the firm. A few
words passed when Hill felt it
npon himself to whip somebody,
and he commenced with those members
of the firm who were near at Inland. Ma
jor Beardsley thereupon accepted the
challenge, and for brief space of time
there was lively set TO in the legal sanct-
uary 1t was not divided into rounds, for
the Maline men was soon on the floor,
covered with blood and fully satisfied that
he had got into threshing machine.
The Major was in the act of pitching his
antagonist out of the window, when he
was prevented by Mr.. Ken
worthy who counseled moderation.
Thereupon the major visited a clothing
and furnishing store, and having supplied
himself with such articles as were consid-
cred necessary, he returned to the office
and assisted his antagonist to readjust his
disordered apparel, and conveyed him to
the street car, when Hill started on his
way to Moline. Hill is evidently more ex-
perienced, and now labors under the idea
that Major Beardsley is the man who
struck Billy Patterson, about whose iden
tity there has always been so much doubt.