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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-11-21
CRIMINAL CALENDAR.
A HAN KILLED ron a ALoap or coRn

Tbe Brat.I Mord.r Of = FOor Fsrmsr-Bow
Tragic Happenings.
Andrew J. Mitchell was bruially mur-
dered in Goochland county, Va, last Fri
day evening by Alexander L. Parrish. It
seems that the two men farmed conjointly,
Mitchell renting barn from Parrish in
which to store his crops. Parrish SUBJ
Mitchell's crop of corn for an alleged debt
Of Gao. Mitchell, who is poor, being in
aotual need of food for his family, hired a
team to get his corn from the barn to
market. Upon arriving at the barn the
driver of the team was warned by Parrish
who said he would shoot him as readily as
he would Mitchell. Soon afterward Mitch
ell came up, and as he reached the door Of
tho barn Parrish walked up from behind
and without warning. shot Mitchell in the
back with shot gun, inflicting wounds
from which he died in few moments.
Much excitement prevails in the neighbor.
hood at tho unprovoked crime.
A Physician shot and Killed.
DR.. Henry Willis Bassett. a prominent
physician of Huntsville, Fla, aud for
several summers resident physician at
Blount Springs. Alabama, was shot and
killed by Levi Esslinger, farmer. The
trouble grew out of an account between
the two for Bassett's professional SER
vices. 10 the quarrel Bassett, who had
been drinking, threatened to cut Esslin-
gers throat, at the same time running his
hand into his pocket. Esslinger immedi
ately drew a pistol and fired, the ball
passing through Bassett's left side. Ess-
linger made no attempt to escape and was
arrested.
Numbered Ills Friend For Love.
Claud Lester, an Englishman, aged 90
years, who formerly worked in the neigh
borhood of Niagara Falls, but who has
been in the United States for year, re-
turned on Monday, went to the house Of
his former employer, man named Smith,
called Smiths son, aged 18, out, sho. him
and Immediately afterward shot himself
through the head. Both will probably die.
They were good friends and no motive can
be assigned for the deed. Lester claims
that he was impelled by love for the boy
and desire to be always with him.
Double Tragedy In New YORK.
Guiseppa Pelleta, aged IS years, of Bax.
ter street, New York, instantly killed his
cousin, Francesca Robescia, a married
woman with whom he had been criminally
intimate, and then shot himself in the
head. inflic.ing fatal wound. The mo-
tive for tho double tragedy is wrapped in
mystery.
An Editor Sued for Libal.
William NJ. Deer, editor of the Lebanon
County Independent, weekly paper, has
been arrested and held under s. 900 bail
to answer the charge of libel preferred
against him by Joseph Funk. who was
recently a candidate for the Office Of asso
ciate law judge.
A Young Switch Tender Killed.
John D. Kerns. aged Is years, switch
tender on the West Shore railr:.ad at
Cornwall landing, Now York, was run
over by construction train on Sunday
morning aud killed.
Another sane DIan COnfuod.
Captain Martin Luther Smith, another
alleged lunatic, who has been confined on
Ward's Island, New York, has been de-
clared sane by three physicians who ex-
a,nined MIN in court
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HOW THEY "sErrLED IT.,
"A Ncfsree Soandiy Thrnslled fOr . Decis
In EOOI RkacA

"A Akcteree SOundly ThrAsiled foe q Decisio On
In u Foot Kace.
Considerable excitement has been occa-
stoned among the sporting element in
Pittsburgh over the result Of ten-mils
foot race. which took place last Saturday
between Ted Johnston, of Allegheny, and
Mike Phelan, of Wheeling. The RAGS was
for $500 a side and was won by Johnston,
but Phelan, who came in about a quarter
OF mile behind, claimed q foul, and Eph
Morris. ex-champion oarsman of the
United States, who was referee. decided
to reserve his decision until Monday alter.
noon. The parties met in AN alderman's
Office to hear the decision, which Morris
gave in favor Of Phslan. The friends Of
Johnston turned On Morris, and alter
locking Tao doors set upon hin: and nun
ished lin very severely. Severed pistols
we're drawn. but were rot used. and final.
ly, after police assistance had been called.
the assau!tipg party Withdrew. Morris was
pretty badly used up. but it is thought h,s
injuries are not Of q dangerous character.
Large sums Of money we're put upon the
-acc and great deal of bad blood has been
at the result.
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''AcrOss tho COntlnent" nc tho Opera HOuse.
Oliver DOud Byron, with his '' dramatic
cyclone" entitled ::Across the Continent"
played to good sized audience in Fulton
opera house last evening. This partic'i
lar "cyclOne" consisted of sensational
probabilities and imprObabilities iucid ent
to border play. in which gunpowder and
knives and Indians are brought out in
generous prOfusion. Mr.. Byron and Miss
Kate Byron were all that could be expected
in their roles, and the audience. lenient in
their judgment. gave unstinied applause
to each telling feature Of the play.
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PERSONAL.

GcvERNoR-ELEcT CLEVELAND of New
York has resigned his msyoralty of Buf-
falo.
Ex-GovERxoR JOEL PARKEHSf New
Jersey, is dangerously i'll at his homo in
Freehold.
Rev. HENRY WARD BEEcHER has
finally won his case in the Wilkinson
breach of-contrsct proceedings.
HENRY JAMES, jr, is somewhat lightly
referred to by the London World as OF the
'tepid, invertebrate, cartau s. s.b;scuit -
sort.
SENATOR BEcE is known anywhere
within fifty miles 0. his celebrated blue
grass farm in Kentucky as ;sJim Beck, "a
man whose splendid hospitality is famous.
JoHN RUSSELL. YoUEG will soon return
from China. 1t is averred that the Climate
does not agree with bis wife and that the
mission is not entirely agreeable 70 Mr..
Young.
LoNaFELLOw' study remains just as he
left it. Not book nor a piece Of furni-
ture has been moved. The poets grave
at Mount Auburn, as yet, is only marked
by the flower wrcaths daily placed upon it
by loving hands.
BRAVE DEAR, Inc lnd:an murderer, VINO
was hanged in Montana the other day,
went to the scaffold in black trousers and
linen duster. The full dress suit will 70
longer be fashionable on such occasions.
Brave Bear will be remembered as a re-
former.
PROFESSOR HENRY DRAPER, the astron-
omer, died in New York yesterday. He
was born in Virginia in 1887. He was
professor of physiology in the University
Of the city OF New York, but devoted a
great deal of his time to astronomy, hav-
ing built tho Draper telescope, tho largest
in the United States. He was the son Of
John William Draper, tho chemist and
Psychologist.
DR.. H. L. GETZ, Of the class of 1874,
Jefferson medical college, has been elected
to the choir of physiology in the College of
Physicians aud Surgeons, Chicago. DR.. G.
is an old Lancaster county boy, son of Levi
Getz. He is at present practicing ply
sician and surgeon in Marshallton, Iowa,
whence he has been called to Chicago by
the distinction conferred upon him by the
medical institution named.
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Concerning Campaign Cash.

The Phil,delpkis Eresing Telegrayh
makes a good point when it speaks Of
the irresponsfbility attached 70 the fna,i.
cial management q political campaigns,
and the duty of those who sre entrusted
with such funds to demand an audit of
taeir accounts. Obviously there is no
occasion for such public audit as the
Telegraph suggests, insomuch as the
management of political campaigns is a
private matter, and many contributors
10 the fund have O natural and entirely
proper aversion to having their subscrip-
tons made public. Moreover, nominees
OF party who are elected to Office should
not know the extent of their obliga.
tons to such contributors, lest their of
ticial action be suspected of being con-
trUlled by such considerations. But that
the chairman of a state committee
should collect and disburse funds with
out any accountability, is an anomaly,
and it might subject such an officer to
suspicious from which an honest man
would be glad to be relieved. Hereto
fore there has been no proper authority
provided for such an audit, and in Dem
ocratic state campaigns it has been the
rule for the chairman to retire consid
cradle loser, no one but himself caring
to know how much, and he being hope
less of retrieving his losses. In the future
re organization of the party, under the
new rules, provision for such an audit
will be made. As to the Democratic
campaign just closed, out of which the
committee came with no deficits, we are
authorized to say that the chairman is
perfectly willing to have his accounts
scrutinized either by an audit ap
pointed by the new committee or
by a committee of the voluntary
contributors who raised the funds. For
there were NO contributions of which
the committee is ashamed, aud they
were applied to no uses for which those
who gave them have any occasion to
blush.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-11-21

MAJOR. RYAN, of the fencibles, whose
escort to the Inauguration the governor.
elect declined, seems to he a little net
tied at it, and writes a letter to show
that on all the occasions upon which his
troops danced attendance upon governors
and presidents, elect and inargurated,
they paid their, own way. We under
stand Mr.. Pattison to assert nothing to
the contrary. What he objects to is the
pageantry and display on the simple oc.
casion of a citizen taking the oath of
civil Office. And he is right. Ryan
should subside.
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No FUSS AND FEATHERS. {

Nor BayOnets Barrlng the Peoples Way.
Philadelphia Inquirer, Rep.
Governor elect PatsisOn long ago con-
vinced his fellow citizens that he had cor
tain very decided convictions, and also the
courage OF them. He has again shown
the maniiness and independence of his
character iu his letter to the adjutant and
secretary Of the state fencibles, a mill.
tary organization, the officers of which
rendered him the services of the battalion
as an escort from his home to the capital,
on the occasion of his Inauguration as
governor Of Pennsylvania. Very courte-
ously, but very decidedly, Mr.. Pattison
declines this proposed honor, basing his
Geclination apon the ground that simple
and undemOnstrative Inauguration of pub
lie Offices is most in accord with the spirit
of republican institutions. ns...............
When Genera, Garfield was inaugurated
the soldiers were every where, aud even
senators and representatives were kept
out of tho capitol by presented bayonets
in the hands Of regular soldiers who had
no business there. Member after member
as no made his way into the Senate or
House, protested against tho presence Of
armed troops il the capitol, and demand
representatives were kept out, of it. There
should be a reform in this matter, and the
next president inaugurated should bs
permitted to take the oath without the
tawdry raree show and the presence of
armed soldiers surrounding the capitol.
Mr.. PattisOn has set an example of re-
publican wisdom which should be follow
ed closely by prospective Presidents and
governors.
Notes to tho Isoys.''
Philadelphia Ledger, Ind.
Governor. elect Pattison's public acts
thus far appear like notices served on ''tbe
boys that the economical principles Of
administration that have prevailed in the
controllers Office are to DO continued " on
tie !,ilr' a. Harrisburg. Fl, has started
out right, and, if he holds to it through
out his four years Of administration, will
'eaye the governors chair (sinco he will
he ineligible for re. election) with as good
a record as that no has Won while in the
service o! the city. There arc few men of
his age with y better past, or more
promising future before them.
Likes His Idea.
Pittsburgh Leader. Rep.
We like Pattison's idea. Thecs is no
reason why a Pennsylvania governor
should 60 into Office with the fuss and
parade of a king going to his coronation,
and the bills for inauguration expenses
havo been steadily growing into great
scandal for the past twenty years. When
Hoyt went in the bills amounted to many
thousands of dollars which the Legislature
after much hagslins agreed to nay.
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The Court aud Corporations.

A bare majority of the supreme court
judges have decided the case of the state
against the Standard Oil company il?
favor of the company. 1t is notable
that cases in which corporations are par
ties are apt to result in the decision of
the lew of Pennsylvania in favor of the
corporations by majority of our su
preme court. Among the four judges
making the present decision Judge
Sharswood is the only cne whose judg-
ment will have great weight with the
people while the three dissenting
judges, Sterrett, Turnkey and Gordon,
have been in the habit Of taking a view
of the relations between the people and
corporations that is in accord with the
spirit OF the day and one that is certain
eventually to be vindicated in the court.
The Democratic member of the supreme
court, just elected, may be relied upont to
be in sympathy with this spirit, which
has placed him on the bench and in
future we have a good assurance that in
the adjudication oe suits between the
state and the corporations that are the
states creatures the interests of the peo-
pie will not suffer.
There is no need to follow critically the
argument of Judge Paxscn in deciding
the case of the Standard oil company. 1t
does not apply to the case. 1t may be a
very good argument upon the facts as
they are arranged to suit it. But it does
not cover the issue between the state
and the Standard oil company. That
corporation has an immense capital
upon which it has reaped immense pro-
fits; and nearly all of these profits have
been essentially made in Pennsylvania,
out of the unfairest possible manipula-
tion ola Pennsylvania product. The
sperations Of the company outside this
state have not yielded it it's enormous
winnings we can not call them earn.
ings, andit may not be legally correct to
call them stealings and yet it has been
by worse practice than highway rob.
berry that they have been gained. Justice
to the people would require the confis-
cation of all the Standard oil company's
property in the state and the imprison-
raent for life of the men who have gath
cred it; and we cannot even get the
tax that the state levies on corpora
tiOn of its creation. ..lg.. H.
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Ber:er Times Anticipated When tho Tax
Shall be RemOved-A Few Recent
Sales Reported.
At last Il e buying of 'S2 has fairly com
meEced. During the last week there has
been q considerable amount taken, and
most Of it at private figures. Enough is
known to assure cur readers that the prices
have been good. We know positively Of a
lot of four acres in Drumore, at %, II, 8
and cents. il tho same township. aud in
Fulton there have beeu several large lots
sold.
Mr.. Strick!er, OF Washington borough,
is reported to have sold ~ acres at 20
cents through Tobias Hershey, 4 acres at
% cents through, and several others have
sold their crops at from IL to 90 through.
As yet comparatively little Of the
80 crop has been stripped, and it is not
likely that there will be any general move
ment of it until after the holidays. Then,
if Congress shall show 4 disposition to
abolish the tax on tobacco. We may look
for such a revival of trade as has not been
seen for years.
In the old tobacco, especially the 80
crop, there have been numerous sales, aud
as the quantity in market grows smaller
tho quality is said to be great deal bet
ter than it has ever been credited with
being. The quality of the fine wrappers
in it are excellent, whilst the filters are
said to be among the hest ever raised in
the county. There would be no difficulty
in making sales Of 'Sl if packers would
break packings to sell out certain grades,
but as they will not do this, sales are
slow, but in all probability their day will
soon be here, for, in the estimation OF
packers, they never put up better crop.
Philadelphia Seed Leaf Market.
Handling of cigar leaf the past week
has been tardy aud unsatisfactory, aud
confined to the crop of 1881, which is now
claimed excellent in color and quality.
These remarks arc intended especially for
Pennsylvania leaf. Dealers hold prices
firm. while manufacturers claim prices
asked too high for manufacturing. pur-
poses. Old leaf is being sold gradually at
full tiguaes, while Havana seed Of various
grades seems to receive the first call from
buyers generally. Sales Of Sumatra in
Havana-Nov;ng steadily at full prices.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-11-21

THE Warren county authorities have
not returned to the state department the
vote polled there for the Democratic can
didate for congress-at-large. That does
not alter the case. Elliott got them.
He is entitled TO have them counted for
him. His total vote in the state is 3d.
s55, and not 35l.0i3 rs reported from
Harrisburg.
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Sent To jail.

%as bs,y in b,nds SS tSs
police was arrested by Railroad Officer
Kautz this: morning. Coulman has pre-
sisted in visiting the waiting room in the
Pennsylvania railroad depot, and spending
the night there, sometimes sleeping on the
settees and sometimes on the floor. Re
peated warnings and ejectments having
failed to scare him of. so he was at last ar
rested and taken before Alderman Nc
Conomy, by whom he was committed to
the county Jail for ten days.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-11-21

On Sunday last two young ladiss--one OF
whom resides in this city and the other in
Elizabethtown-walked from Elizabeth-
tovn to Lancaster, distance Of "a miles.
Thew commenced their tramp at nine
O'Clock a. m. and arrived hero at 5 P. m.
They say they could have walked ten
miles farther without being fatiSued.
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HOkss AND BUGGY STOLEN.

On Monday evening. Nov. Goth. thieves
visited the premises OF David 3. Graham,
in Paradise township, and stole therefrOm
a gray marc about nine years old, Ches-
terfield buggy and plain set Of black har-
ness. As will be seen by tho advertise
ment in another column MIR. Graham offers
a reward of $50 for the recovery of tho
property and the conviction of tho thief OF
thieves.
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LledSrkranz Concert

The Lancaster Liederlsranz will give
the first of their winter series of concerts
and sociables On Wednesday evening of
next week, Thanksgiving eve, in Schiller
hall. A full programme has been pre-
pared.
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ALMOST UNDER THE CARS.
\ Careless Driver waved by tho Wisdom Of
His Mules.

a Careless Driver waved by tho Wisdom OF
His Mules.
This morning as 4 countrynaan, whose
name was not ascertained, was driving q
six-mule team at Mellinger's crossing, on
the Quarryville railroad, he made a narrow
escape from being crushed beneath an ap,
preaching train Of cars. His mules.wer
on the track when the train was seen to
approach, only few rods of. The driver
piled the whip in hopes OF being able to
clear the track before the cars reached
him, but the mules. wiser that he, turned
quietly around and got Oft the track just
as tho train came whizzing past them.
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Chaplain G. G. McCabe, D. D., is to
deliver his now famous lecture, The
Bright Side Of Life in Libby Prison. at
the Duke street NJ. E. church this oven
ing at 7:4i "'c!uck. One who has heard
him ,s.ys il,. chaplain is . humorist; he
l.; an ,r.,ur lie is fOrcible and pleasing
speaker, h:sving the power to carry his
bearers from uproarious laughter into
tears cf syn pathy and sorrow.
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UnmsilablO LISTERS.

Richard Joseph, Interior Department,
Washington, D. c." and IS Miss Katie
Fritz, Button Department Of Strawbridge
s. Clothier, Philadelphia, Pa.," neglected
to put postage stamps on them, and they
arc detained at the postoffice.
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Drunk and DisorderIy.

Aldermen Spurrier this morning com
mitted George Atlee and Nary Weise,
for thirty days each, for drunken apd
disorderly conduct.
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The mill property, belonging to E. NJ.
Stauffer, in Drumore township, which was
offered at public sale On the 2Oth inst,
was Withdrawn at $1,000.
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Republicans may muster 103 out of 4O1
votes in the next electoral college. They
may beat the Greenbackers and Prohibi-
tionists.
IT is said that the community most dis
consulate over Mr.. Pattison's election is
that made up of the inmates OF the eastern
penitentiary. Davy Mouat, unmindful Of
what cold days these ara for 306-ers. is,
nevertheless, striving for pardon.
The returns as far as made up show that
the next Nebraska House of Representa-
tives will consist of 45 straight Republi-
cans, % Anti -Monopolists, 1S Democrats,
and 8 doubtful. In the Senate are II
straight Republicans, Democrats, 6Anti.
Monopol;sts and doubtful.
DURING the campaign Mr Brosius in
formed his Independent friends that he
was in full sympathy with them "in the
speedy application of the best practicable
remedy for existing abuses in the civil ser.
vice as we'll as in all political manage
ment." Since the campaign is ended Mr..
Brosius can afford to be more definite,
Herr Smith is waiting to hear upon what
issue his rext contest is to be waged.
A NUMBER of important federal appoint
ments were slated several months ago by
Cameron, and deferred only from consid.
erasions of expediency until ateer the cleo.
tion. These appointments will compel
Cameron to show his hand at an early day
and it is not doubted by his friends that
he will WELD Arthur's patronage more vim.
dic.ively now than ever before. A. Wilson
Norris is expected to Graw prize in Phil
adelphia and Maj. John NJ. Pomeroy in
Chambersburg. 3 l''
Bishop TUIee, Of litigious notoriety.
seems to have come out ahead in his en-.
counter with Father Sheehan, the recalci-
trant Allegheny county priest. Father
Sheehan, after disagreement with his
bishop, not receiving his salary, brought
suit to recover over So, 600 of it, alleging
that contract had been made with him
by the bishop. The lower court deciled
in his favor, but in the supreme court
Judge Paxson has just hold that there Was
no such contract ~ would sustain the |
action, and therefore reversed the judg. |
ment.
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Grand Enoa,npmeut, 80. o. r.

The Grand Encamprnent Of the Indo
pendent Order of Odd Fellows Of Pennsyl-
vania met in semi-annual session yester-
day afternoon. at the Odd Fellows hall,
Sixth and Cresson streets, Philadelphia,
with Grand Patriarch John w. Stokes in
the chair. The following officers were
nominated, to be voted for several months
hence: Grand patriarch, Joseph E. Nc
Cabe, of West Bridgewater, Beaver
county grand high priest, Henry w.
Bailey, Philadelphia; grand senior warden,
Alfred Fackenhall. Of Doylestown grand
scribe, James B. Nicholson, Philadelphia ;
grand treasurer, John S. Heiss grand
Junior warden, VIM. A. Withcrup and DR..
$. Hastings Brown grand representative,
F. NJ. Rae, NJ. Richards Muckle repre-
resentative 70 tlls i.:." association. G. w.
Tyndall.
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ACCORDING to the present outlook the
Republicans may muster 103 out of 4O1
votes in the next electoral college. They
may beat the Greenbackers and Prohibi-
tionists.