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Gufteau'S Fate.

There are those who are still urging
the president to regard Guiteau rs in
sane. OF course their efforts at this late
day will be unavailing. There is very
good ground for considering him insane
and it would have been vastly more
creditable to the country if he had been
promptly so pronounced and been remand
ed to a mad house. But after the long in
vestigation which has been had into the
matter, and the adverse decision, it is
quite useless to reopen the question, and
those who consider him crazy might as
well submit themselves as patiently as
they can to another instance of the
blundersSf justice.
There are great many worse people in
the world and a great many who de-
serve hanging more than Guiteau men
who in the possession of undoubtedly
sound minds are assassins in heart if not
in deed. The men who inspired Guiteau
to tn. killing III Garfield are morally re.
sponsib!e fm his act far more than he,
because their minds were stronger. He
will hang On Friday without much COM
miseration from anybody, for he is not a
lovely character, nor can anybody think
that he is Of any use to the world. Those
who think him crazy will be shocked,
hut there are too many lovely people
daily slain unjustly for the violent
aasah sf one unlovely one to cause much
expenditure Of sympathy.
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Kansas the storm dealt destruction. Three
men were killed at Talmage. The crops
were leveled in all directions.
At st. Joseph, Mo-, the depot was un-
rooted. and at Lathrop seven houses vere
razed to the ground.
The damage to the crops in Nebraska
amounts, according to different estimates.
between S1OO, 900 and SO, GOO. The loss
in Omaha is estimated at $50, 900, aud the
loss around Genese, ILL.,, at about s15, 900.
The great bulk OF the loss seems to be
among the farmers, aud the amounts arc
very slow in coming to light.
1t is estimated that $50 persons have
been killed by the recent tornado in Kan
sas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Min
nesOta. and the total amount Of property
destroyed will exceed in value 81, 500, ,OOO
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minstrel, and P. T. Barnum are in Europe
looking for new attractions wherewith to
embellish the coming season of shows.
OSCAR WILDE acquired the title of "col-
onel :" during his visit to Texas. He was
generally mentioned as "Colonel Wilde"
He was to visit Jefferson Davis at Beau
vior yesterday.
PRINCE LoBANoFF's appointment as
Russian ambassador at Vienna, Baron
Mohrenheim as ambassador at London,
and NJ. Nelidoff as minister at CONSTANT
nople are officially confirmed.
GILBERT AND SULLIvAN's new opera,
"Princess PEARL" will be produced at a
Philadelphia theatre in September. Those
who have attended informal rehearsals of
the work say it is superior to Patience.
Mrs. MACKEY's dress at Minister Nor
toms reception in Paris was of point
l'aiguelle lace, over pale pink satin, and
a coiffure of pale pink plumes, held in
place by diamonds and very large tur.
quoises.
Miss CHAMBERLAIN, of New York, says
tho London Truth, is one of the "profes-
sional beauties :" of London. WEereupon
Chamberlain. then, in high dudgeon, took
his family of to Switzerland, like sensi.
ble man.
REV. w. w. HICKS, who is before the
country as Guiteau's spiritual adviser, is
given a pen portrait by the Albany Argus
According to this sketch Mr.. Hicks was
obliged to leave a pulpit in Brooklin in
1866 because of "impaired popularity
1t was charged that he tried to advertise
a certain brand of tonic bitters from his
pulpit by pretending to denounce the drink
as largely composed of whisky. Mr..
Hicks went to Florida and ran for Congress
but failing of election lie returned to New
York state to make "bloOdy shirt y
speeches on tho stump.
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Medals for Grants Friends

The Old Guard medals, commemorate We
of the 36 ballots cast for Ulysses S. Grant
at Chicago, arc ready for delivery. The
first installment for any state to be deliv-
eped was that for New York. Mr.. James
r. Davies received from Senator J. DON
aid Cameron 81 medals for the New York
delegates who adhered to Gen. Grants
cause until the field was lost. Each of
the medals is inscribed with tho name
of delegate, and they will be sent
to them Immediately. President Arthur
will receive his to-day. Those for dele
gates living in New York city and in
Kings county will be sent to DR.. Pierce c..
Van Wyck, at the assay Office. The
medals for delegates in other parts of the
state will be sent separately by express.
Each of the medals is about three inches
in diameter, of bronze, weighs about six
ounces, has head of Grant encircled with
the record of 36 ballots on one side, and
the commemorative inscription and name
of the person to whom it is issued on the
reverse.
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a POLITICAL JEREMIAH.
What the Papers Say About MIR. Camera
Own and Only BrOsius.''

What tho Papers Say About " Mr.. Cameron 5
Own and Only BrOsius.''
Philadelphia Telegraph, Ind.
The Democratic convention will prob.
ably wind up with an exhiarating display
of coEgressman-at-large spontaniety," "
but it will probably not strike anything
half so original in the blunderbuss line as
Mr. Cameron's own aud only Brosius. He
is a galvanized political gem. .........
What is tho matter with Marriott Bro
sius? He has not been heard from for
nearly week. Can it be that Chairman
Cooper has taken him in hand, and en-.
deavOred to reduce his swelled head by
sewing up his mouth? 1t will be a pity if
we are to have no more of Brosius for the
rest of the campaign. Our people just
now arc taking their politics very seri-
ously, and there is 4 real need for 4 little
comedy to offset the tragic features of the
contest that is being waged between the
bosses and tho people who have made up
their minds that they don't intend to be
bossed any longer
N. Y. Herald Correspondence.
The reassembling of the convention last
Wednesday is generally understood to have
been at Senator Cameron's order and
against tho earnest counsel of other veter-
an Republican leaders than Mr.. Lear. 1t
put in the worst and most avOwed shape
the fact of Senator Cameron's absolute
control of the machine. 1t nominated an
absurd person-who is called ut his homo
in Lancaster the funeral orator''--as
candidate for congressman -at-large. lie
made an idiotic speech in accepting the
nomination, beginning: Sc y distinguished
Frenchman, when nom mated to seat
in I'M Aon1op,xr coil hot 1,o
his nomination was premOnition
of death, and, what is worse, he
died within week." As if this we're
not sufficiently lugubriOus as to the pros
poets Of the party he closed with -" You
cannot say sought the post, and warn
you in advance that, whatever comes, you
can never shake your CORY locks at me.
daughter You can never point the
finger at mo and say, David, thou art
the man that brought this upon u.s."
(Applausc and cries of We never will"
The candidate, Mr.. Marriott Brosius,
himself gave III explanation OF these ex
traordinary outgivings at a screnade from
his fellow townsmen that evening. "Some
thing has happened" he cried. My
mind has not sufficiently recovered it's
poise to enable me to describe adequately
the surprisingly strange event. A bolt of
lightning from clear sky rent the air
and struck in the most unexpected quar-
ter"
Brosius," says Colorel Alexander
Mcclure, "refers to blow on the head
as sometimes benefiting the brain. About
the time he gets through with this cam
paign he will be like that western miner
who was kicked in the face for getting in
the rear of his mule. lie wasn't so good
looking afterward, but he had deal more
good sense"
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MAINE DEMOCRATS.
Governor flaisted RenOmlnated I'm Blaine, =
Stare

Governor fla1sted RenOmlnated In Hlafne's
STATE.
The Democratic state convention met at
Lewiston on Tuesday. George +. Emory,
oil Portland, was made temporary chair
man. The committee on credentials re-
ported that S24 delegates were present.
Harris NJ. Plaisted, the present governor
of the state and who has already been
nominated by the Fusion-G -Greenback con-
vention, was nominated for governor by u
unanimous vote. The following nOmina-
tiOns for congressional candidates were
made and accepted Samuel j. Anderson,
First district; Daniel II. Thing. Second
district George W. Ladd, Third district
7. II. Murch, Fourth district.
Resolutions were adopted denOuncipS
the system Of soliciting subscriptions from
corporations, capitalists and OfficchOlders
manding civil service reform declaring
that the government of the United States,
at present administered by rings and boss
es of the Republican party, has become an
O,igarchy of OfiicehOlderS, perpetuatinS it.
self by the corrupt use of money acquired
by assessments levied upon subordinate
government employees, Star Route contrac.
tors, and protected mOnOpOlies, and by the
piunder Of tho treasury by congressional
,jObbing and wasteful extravagancc, de-
bauching the people and making way to
centraliZatiOn and empire assertin. that
the right of the producer and the manu-
facturcr to sell the products Of their i'll
dustries in the dearest and buy what they
cannot prOiitably produce in the cheapest
markets is i right which government
ought not to interfere with or restrict, cx-
cept as may be necessary to raise revenue
for its own support !; stating that the
present tariff, whereby one hundred and
fifty million dollars of surplus revenue is
annually exacted from the laborins and
producing classes, should be reduced, So
as to leave this money in the pockets Of
the people protesting against the per-
petuation Of the ODerous taxation imposed
on American industry by tho so.called
protective tariff, and setting forth that
the ship building interests Of Maine have
been sacrificed to policy that has de-
stloyed commerce by shutting our mar
kets against return freights and making
competition with lower taxed nations i'm
possible.
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Loose LEGISLATION.

The way legislation is done in Con-
gress is illustrated by the trouble Mr..
Van VoOrhis has got into, and the people
can hardly he content to witness the
loose methods of their legislators. Mr..
Van Voorhis did not like some of the
features of an immigration bill in which
he was interested, as it was reported
from its proper committee; so he altered
it to suit himself, with the appreciation,
he says, of the chairman of the COM
mittee, Mr.. Reagan :; which, however,
the latter denies. 1t is a fact, however,
that Mr.. Reagan reported the bill to the
House and urged its passage and after
a half hours consideration it was passed
by large majority. Subsequently Mr..
Reagan discovered that it was not the
bill which his committee had recon-
mended, but the one Of his own manu-
facture, which Mr.. Van VOorhis had
given him. Accordingly the House was
asked to reverse its action and to pass
the committees bill instead of Mr.. Van
Voorhis', which it did after Mr.. Van
Voorhis and Mr.. Reagan and others had
given all the explanation they had
to make Of the occurrence; from
which it plainly appeared that
Mr.. Van Voorhis had altered the
bill according to his own notions,
not with any corrupt motive, but be-
cause he thought his ideas were the
right ones, and he did not suppose that
the committee cared how the measure
was shaped, and supposed that he had
its chairman's assent to his alterations :;
an assumption that was seemingly ma.
tural when the chairman presented the
bill and urged its passage. But he now
says that he did not know what was in
it. He confesses that he did not read it.
He thought it was the committees bill
which Mr.. Van Voorhis handed him,
but never examined it to be sure.
From which it seems that committees
chairmen are very careless and commit
tees very negligent, and that congress-
men have habit of taking very great
liberties with bills. There are compare
lively few members of Congress who are
fit for their duties, which require an
amount of labor and attention which the
majority will not give them.
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PERSONAL.

ALBERT c. BoaART, aged 10S, has died
at Paterson, N. j.
Mr.. DARwIN's will bequeaths $3.50, ,OOO
worth of property,
MIR. BLAINE sent his check for 81 200 to
the sufferers by the Grinnell cyclone.
MR.TENNysON' son Hallam is said to be
engaged to a daughter of the Duke OF
Argyll.
GOVERNOR COLQUITT drives his 81, OOO
pair of horses into Atlanta from Kirkwood
every day.
ELI BATES, lately deceased of Chicago,
left $40, 900 for monument to Mr.. Lin
coin.
JUDGE j. H. LEWIS, of the Third ap-
pellate district Of Kentucky. has been re.
nominated by the Democrats.
HENRY IRVING is coming to America
this summer to stay week and look
around.
MISS LEILA j. ROBINSON has been ad-
mitted to practice as lawyer in Boston,
under recent statute.
w. D. HILL has been nominated for
Congress by the Democratic conve 1tion of
the Sixth Ohio district.
NATHAN GOFF, jr., ex-secretary of the
navy, has rendered his resignation as
United States district attorney for West
Virginia.
THE New York board of aldermen YES.
terday appointed q committee to receive
the Prince of Siam, who is expected to visit
America soon.
E. WHITE, has been elected president
of the New York iron and metal exchange,
George n. Tompkins having declined the
position.
Ex-GovERNoR CURTIN, of Pennsylya-
via, and Ex-Governor Kirkwood, of Iowa.
are the only "war governors - still liv
ing.
Miss THOMAS, of Philadelphia, was
married recently, in Geneva, to Count de
Estalla, an Italian nobleman and army
officer.
MIR. AND MRS. JOHN B1GELow are
guests of tho Marquis of Abergavenny,
who has one of the largest and finest
estates in England.
J. H. HAvERL1, Backus, tho negro
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The Eric Delegates in Hard Luck

HARR1sBURG, June 2S.-Although this
city is unusually free from thieves for
convention day there were a number OF
hotel robberies last night. The Erie
delegates Jared worst. Five in number,
they occupied suite of rooms at the
Jones house, and this morning woke up
to find that somebody had cleaned
them out during the night. Orange
Noble lost gold watch and some twel, g
or fifteen dollars in cash, the thieves
having missed a roll of notes he had in
his inside vest pocket. The other Erie
delegates, except one, whose effects were
not disturbed, lost their watches and sums
Of money ranging from $40 to SIS.
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lancaster f,ltelliQencer.
EVENING, JUNE %. 1882.
Worthy OF the Place.

Worthy OF the Place.
Eckley Coke having finally consented
according to an apparently well-founded
report from Harrisburg, to accept a
nomination for governor, it is altogether
likely that he will be the nominee, and
yery excellent one will he be. He at
tanned high standing in the state when
he refused to take the oath as senator,
because he could not conscientiously
swear that he had expended no moneys
in the election except for the purposes
strictly limited in the law. No one
doubts that the other representatives
elected with Mr.. Coke had as good cause
as he to refuse the oath but the con-
sciences of no others were SO tender. 1t
is 80 unusual in a public man to show
such consciousness that Mr.. Coke
became at once famous, and with cred
liable fame. Before his public career
began in the Senate he was well known
to large circle of friends and business
men, for he has led a busy life and has
achieved a high reputation for honor
and sagacity. He is the manner of man
who will discharge most creditably the
duties of governor. All the candidates
before the onvention are very fit for
the place and the convention could not
have gone wrong in its selection. There
seems to have been no particular reason
why Mr.. Coke should have been
solicited to give up his own decided
preference for the private station,
since there were so many capable candi-
dates from whom to choose but if he
is content to receive the nomination the
Democracy certainly will be content if
1t is conferred upon him. His connec-
tion with corporations is not of kind
to hurt him, although the Republican
journals are thus early urging it against
him. He is in intimate association with
the Reading railroad management but
that management has been so clean that
the connection will help rather than
hurt him i'm public estimation. In truth,
the very strongest man the convention
could nominate would he Mr.. GOwen,
the Readings president; upon whom the
nomination would he very likely to be
urged if the road was in condition for
him now to leave it.
The nominees for supreme judge and
secretary Of internal affairs are pretty
surely indicated, in advance of the con.
vention's action, in Judge Ludlow and
Mr.. Africa and with their names no
dissatisfaction can be felt.
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Fixing tho Responsibility.

ST. PAUL, Minn., June 2S.-The coro-
ner's jury in the case of the late disaster
On the st. Paul, Minneapolis s. Manitoba
railroad censures the company for not
establishing a maximum rate of speed for
gravel trains, and attributes the death of
the victims to the reckless manner in
which the train was run,
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Slight Fire

Last night just before II o'clock an
alarm of fire was struck from Box As, cor
ner of Frederick and Market streets. Tho
firemen promptly responded and found
that the gun lock smith-shop of John
George Wanner, No. 62O North Queen
was on fire. 1t appears that a coal had
fallen from the furnace in the southwest,
corner of the shop had set fire to tM
woodwork and burned few of the boards.
The flames were easily .extinguished and
the loss will not exceed s.. No insurance.
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Election of Officers.

At the semi-annual meeting Of the Ian
caster MRnnerchOr, held last evening in
their hal, the following officers were elect
cd:
Presidsnt-Henry Rudy.
Vice Pres.-C. Hoefel.
Rec. Sec.-Geo. Pfeiffer.
Asst. Sec.-Adam Sauer.
Cor. Sea-. F. Offender.
Treas.-GeO. NJ. Berger.
Flag Bearers-L. Knapp, A. II. Ball.
Music committee-H. Schmitt, +. Hoe
fel. G. Pfeifler,
Auditing Committce-A. F. Offender,
G., Waiter, J. II. Schneider.
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High School alumni.
BG LAT NIGHT.
SiIverware, &C., Stolen From AN East Orans
Street leesfdchce.

Sllverware, &C., Stolen From AN East Orang o
Street Residence.
Some time during last night burglars
entered the residence Of +. II. KendiS, No
COS East Olange street. They pried ora,
the front parlor shutter into which they
went, then passing into the dining room
where they took fifteen table and tea
spoons, :. silver thimble with tho initials
rs. H." 50 in money and two silver butter
knives. The silverware was taken from q
side board. which contained considerable
more that was not touched. They left by
tho way they entered after ransack.
ing drawers and looking through clothing,
&c. A large number Of burnt matches,
which the thieves had used for light, were
found on the floor, which was also covered
with spit.
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MR. SfENsEE's fervent ejaculation
thsa he Thanked God there was no whip
crack heaxd ia the convention and that
tl.eEe jwass 40 gpal iig ehaugl, TO bass
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Held for Postage.

A letter addressed as follows is held at
the postOffice for want of . stamp:
"Mrs. w. B. McComsey, 1874 Bedford
Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa"
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BADLY BURNED WITH POWDER.
"A Caution To I:oys to Avoid the VIliainOus
Compound.

Compound.
Last evening Samuel Charles, aged II
years, son Of BENJAMIN Charles, residing
az No. 125 South Duke street, was terribly
burned in tho face with gunpowder. 1t
appears that like many other thouShtless
boys, he was seized with tho Fourth of
July fever and wanted to make a noise
He procured small quantity of gun pow
der, took it into tho yard, put it into
flower pot, and set fire to piece of paper
with which to touch it of. As it did not
explode as soon as lie expected, he ap-
preached the flower pot and blew into it,
to make the paper burn. INSTANTLY there
was IN explosion, followed by terrible
screams. The charge had exploded full
in the boys face, burning it almost to
a crisp, and burning off his hair, eye
brows, eye lashes, aud probably destroy
ing his sight. DR.. J. K. Shirk was sent
for and applied the proper remedies, and
says the little fellow may recover il he is
carefully nursed, thoagh he may lose the
sight of his right eye. Ho suffers in
tensely and has been deliriOus part of
the time since the accident. His suffer
ings should be a caution to other boys to
avoid handling gunpowder in any Of its
many forms, for all OF them are dangerous.
We SuIu nave CO rcCOfU Inc uStl1l numDcf
of accidents from firearms, gunpowdcr
| and fire crackers, incident to 4th of July
celebrations, unless great care is taken by
the boys and men who use and abuse
them.
High School alumni.
The movement to form an Orsanza-
ton of the graduates of the Lam
caster high schools has Tins far met
with great favor, and there are indications
that ut last there is to be an alumni assO-
ciation that will be y credit to the vcnera.
bic institution for which SO many of our
best citizens cherish an aflectiOnate re-
gard. This evening there will be 4 meet
ing ill the L" old high school, building,
corner Of Prince and Chestnut streets, of
those interested in tie work. A complete
organization will be effected, and the oc-
casion will be interspersed by musical and
literary exercises. 1t is desired that there
shall be q full attendance, and all grad
yates of the schools, both male and female,
are invited tn he nreSpnt
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four times. After struggling for half an
hour he succee ded in reaching land.
Carry the News to Cooper.
The burgess elected last spring in Media,
Delaware county, having declined to serve
on account Of y legal technicality, An
election to fill the vacancy was held. Stall
wart and Independent lines were drawn on
the issue and Henry Green. a rabid Stew
art Independent, was elected over William
Campbell, Stalwart, formerly prison in
spectOr. 1t was clear cut Independent
success in Cooper's own borough and
shows which way the wind blows.
Tragedy at a Masonic Festival.
A murder occurred at Frenchburg, the
county seat of Menifee county, KY, on
Saturday. There was Masonic festival
on that day and the town was full of peo-
pie. The town marshall, James B. Day,
admonished Joe Rothwell, who was yell
ing in the street, to be quiet. Rothwell
drew pistol and shot Day twice, mortally.
Day, in falling, seized Rothwell and stab
bed him six times. Rothwell died almost
Immediately. Then William Rothwell,
brother of the dead man, and Sam Roth
we'll, his cousin, appeared and opened fire
on Day and shot him four times killing
him. They then mounted horses fled and
escaped.
A Brutal Ship Omcor.
John Miller, chief engineer of the steamer
City of New York, of Morgan's line, was
arraigned in the Tombs police court, at
New York, yesterday, for having, on the
passage of the steamer from New Orleans
on Thursday last, kicked Patrick Walsh,
fireman SO brutally that he died soon
after. Walsh complained of sickness and
said he could not work. Miller compelled
him to 60 below. The latter claimed that
he thought Walsh feigned illness to get rid
of his work. The court directed Miller to
be taken before United States commits
sioner.