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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-22
LOCAL lNTkLLlGENCE.
THE METHyDIsTs.

Adjournment OF the Conference.-The Ap
pOintments.
At a meeting of the Methodist confer
-ence, In Ehiladelphis yesterday, Rev. I.
B. Neoly offered the40llowing: 4
Resolred, That We deprecate the multi
plication and continuance of small charges
that arc not likely to give a fair support to
pastor and his family, and thatwe do
precate the policy Of admitting preachers
to such an extent that true and tried mem.
bers of the conference are crowded out.
The motion was adopted after sharp
debate
The following persons were admitted Oh
trisl Olin W. Mintzcr, G. w, Green, 10
seph II. Smith, John d. Martin, Arthnr
Oakes, Charles Edgar Adamson, George
w. DUNCAN, Harry Hess, A. NJ. Millison,
A. Heebner and William Bamford.
The afternoon session Of the conference
was largely occupied in the presentation OF
reports from the various organizations
sustained by its. 9 e
Tho Home missions aud Sustentation
society was represented to bei in a salts
factory condition. The reportof the trac,
cause was adopted, as was that of the
committee on temperance.
The church extension committee re.
commended 81, 500 for distribution in the
conference, while the Froedmen's aid So
ciety thought $4,000 pupils was a good
showing for its $500, 900 investment. TIE
statistics made a gratifying showing o,
the numerical and financial strength of the
conference. The next session will be held
in Union church, Philadelphia, in March.
1889.
In the evening the appointments wero
announced by the bishop, among which
the following are of local interest: Ian
caster-First church, W: G. Robinson
Missions, r. a. McIlvaine, one to be sup
piled J; st. Paups, A. I. Collum. Church
town and Morgantown-S. w. Smith
Georgetown and Gap-E. c. Yerkes Balm
bridge--A. N. Millison; Strasburg-J
Stringer Mount Joy-C. Roads New
Holland and Bareville-To be supplied
Columbia-R. W. Humbriss Washing.
ton-To be supplied Marietta. G,
Wood ; Mount Nebo-R. c. Wood ; Nil
lersville-J. NJ. Wheeler Safe Harbor-
A. ]. Jamther Union and Octoraro-W
w. Weisgarten Mount Hope-G. T.
Hurlock.
The presiding elders of the districts il
which the local churches are situated, arr
respectively West Philadelphia districts
]. Dickerson; South Philadelphia dis
trict, ]. S. j. Mcdonald.
Rev. Mr.. Downey, the hero of til,
"Goose Sermon" at the Broad stree
church, whose troubles were yesterday
reported, was reappointed to his charge il
spite of the opposition that had been man
ifested by some members Of his congre-
ton. Rev. C. F. Turner, formerly of thi
CITY. was appointed to Summerfield church
Philadelphia Rev. S. o. Garrison, t.
Catawissa :; Rev. L. M. jackson, 10 Eben
ezer church, Manayunk; Rev. Dr. J. b
Dobbins, to st. Peters, Reading Rev. ]
Liudermuth, to ,Asbury, Philadelphia
Rev II. Wheeler, to Christ church, Phil
adolphia Rev. Boyle, to Western. Phil
adelphia Rev. W. II. Aspri!, to Dauphil
(supernumerary); Rev. J. G. Gregg, t.
Bethany, Philadelphia Rev. H. T.. Smitl
to. Salem, Philadelphia Rev. p. Ccombc
to Fernwood.
After the appointments were read TIN
convention adjourned until next year.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-22
A THREE DAYS TRANCE.
DR. FahnestOck's . Wow of the Reading Mys-
t0ry.

I,r. Fahnestock's Wow Of the Reading AIys-
tOry.
EDITORS 1NTELLIGENcER In your paper
of the Goth inst, we notice the account of
''Trance," in the case of a young lady of
Reading, Pennsylvania, of three days con
tinuance, and there scarcely q week passes
that some of the papers do not detail
cases of even longer duration-and from
the accounts generally given the condition
does not seem to be underst ood, even by
physicians who are called in to restore
them to consciousness
We are constrained to ask, why is this
SO?
We answer, simply, because tho trance
condition is considered a disease-achieh, Il
is not J.! and as physicians do not study its
true nature before they are called to such
cases, they are not only ignorant Of its
nature, but incapacitated to afford any re-
lief.
The trance condition, as we have often
before stated, is simply natural somnam-
bulism, and when deeply entered, neces
sarily presents symptoms of catalepsy,
which are natural to it when the condition
is not understood by the patient. But
when the patient has been taught its true
nature. instead of it being disease re-
quiring medicines, it is absolutely itself a
remedy for the relief Of human suffering,
as we'll as for diseases of the mind and
body.
If, therefore, physicians desire to be of
any use whatever, We would say to them,
study the true nature of the condition and
apply the only remedy, which a true
knowledge of the powers of those who are
in it will render ef:evident. We are
sorry to add that medical works do not
give the necessary information which the
study of statu-volence can only impars.
VIM. BAKER FAHNEsTocK, M. D.
LANCASTER, Pa, March 81, 1882.
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went to Deventer to perfect h1 education
and became associated with the BROTHERS
of Common Life, and to Mount St. Agnes,
near ZWolle, where he bscams a Canon
Regular of St. Augustine, and dwelt the
greater part of his long life. In person,
Thomas a Kempis was somewhat under
middle height, with fine broad forehead
and thoughtful, massive oouutenance of
the Flemish cast. The color of his face
was fresh, with slight tinge Of brown.
His eyes when in repose were large, grave
and bespoke mind engaged in contem.
plation, as if he were absorbed in looking
at what was beyond the present.
A FRESH fraud seems to turn up every
day in Washington and it keeps the most
alert person moving to get the run of
them all. When Mexico and the United
States settled the claims Of their citizens
who alleged to have suffered damage from
the dspradations of persons under the pro-
lection of the other state, our people had
much the larger claim, and Mexico has
been paying the three or four millions in
which it was mulcted in installmsnts Of
$500, 600 each. Since the money has been
paid out in part to American claimants, il
is found that the two largest claims, about
half million each, one for cotton de-
stroyed by the Mexicans and another for &
mine taken by them from an American
are unmitigated frauds, the award having
been based on perjury and secured by
means of a conspiracy. Our government
will warn and protect Mexico from further
loss by this rascally imposition. Nov
comes the Grand Forks, Dak., chamber
of commerce and tells the people of th'
country that bill now pending in Con
gress, introduced by the Hon. w. D
Washburn, Of Minnesota, which proposes
to vacate all the Indian reservations o
Minnesota, except that of White Earth
and to assemble all the Indian bands upol
the reservation of White Earth. puts i
within the power Of "rings," or combina.
tions of capitalists and SPECTATORS, t.
purchase from the government vast area!
of pine timber lands at one-tenth of theil
market value. Also it virtually abrogate
the homestead and pre-emption acts ovel
nearly one-half of Northern Dakota, in
! cluding the finest portions of the terri
tory, ard throws tho land open to non
resident spectators and "bonanza farm
ers," who, it is calculated, are to &c
$40, ,0O0, 900 worth of pire lands at nom
inal value, and 10000 sections for from
$500 to $400. This should be looked afte
by cur statesmen.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-22
A PHYSICIANS CRIME
He Attempts to Assault . Young Lac
Patient.

He Attempts to Assault q Young Lady
Patient.
At Haz!eton, Pa, on Saturday tho trial
of Henry Stauffening, charged with das-
tardly assault On q woman, had hardly con
cluded when the news spread that DR..
Robert Blakeslee had assaulted lady pa
tient while in his Office. Blakeslee was ar
rested and lodged in Jail, and having had
a hearing he was lodged in the Wilkes
barre Jail tOawait trial. ''
The story of the girl, who is sixteen
years old, is that she and her aunt went to
the hotel where Blakcslee's Office is, and
that, in order, as the physician said, an
examination might be made, the aunt re-
mained in the parlor while the physician
took his patient into his private Office.
Here the assault was made. The girl re-
sisted and called for help, and was finally
allowed to depart. She Immediately in
formed her aunt, and the arrest followed.
This is said to be Blakeslee's third offense
of this kind.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-22
More Disaster in the South.

There were high winds and heavy rains
in the Lower Mississippi region on Mon
day night, and, as result, more disasters
to lsvees are reported. The Terrene levee,
at the junction of the White and Missis-
sippi rivers, caved in during tho night, and
several small buildings were washed away,
but no loss of life is reported. The Alsatia
levee in Thompson's Bend, on the Loui-
siana side, below Helena, IS also broken in
three places. These breaks, which will do
great damage, caused a fall Of several feet
in the river at Vicksburg. The Largent
levee, opposite Natchez, is also broken in
two places the levee around Lake Con-
cordia, at racony, and the Henderson
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Too Bad.

James Toogood, colored, was too good
to walk and not quite good enough to pay
his fare on a passenger train. He chose
to steal a ride on freight train last
night, but Officers Pyle and Gilbert found
him, and Alderman McConomy this morn
ing sent him to Jail for 10 days.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-22
sale Of Horses.

Samuel Hess & Son, auet:oneefs, sold
yesterday at public sale at Petersburg
Lancaster county, for Jacob s. Foltz, II
head of Norman and Clidesda'e horses at
an average price Of S919 the highest one
sold brought 1918,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-22
Ashley lsvee, the hrssst in Concordia
Haris6, Lepisiana, aroa11o broken. Terri-
le dstres exits on ~ 0e lowlands below
Ae'e @S \NxgEzsA

In the supreme court at Providence, r.
l., yesterday Hon. e. B. Farnsworth,
custodian of the Quidnick company
property, took out writ against William
Sprague and Superintendent Carey, Of the
Arctic min, for contempt Of court. It Il
alleged that Sprague and Carey deuied
Farnsworth admission to the mill for the
purpose of taking an inventory. ,Sprague
threatening TO throw Farnesworth into the
river.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-22
The Fish nuestion-A Dealer who Rises for
Information.

The Fish nuestion-A Dealer who Rises for
Information.
LANCASTER, March %.
EDITORS INTELL1eENcER: Will you
allow me ask through your columns, what
the fish dealer is to do, or where he is to
90 to dispose of his fish? After the first
Of April no dealer is allowed to offer any
fish for sale in Penn square, or sell them
from his wagon through the streets. The
old fish market, corner of Vine and South
Queen streets, has been declared nuisance
by the court. Councils have taken no &C.
ton in the matter to procure another
market. The fish season is at its heighth,
fresh slad are coming in market, and
unless some place is agreed upon by coun-
ellis in the next two weeks Lancaster will
be without fish market. 81
FISH DEALER.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-22

THE horrors of Andersonville may
have not been exaggerated, but the re-
sponsibility for keeping Union prisoners
amid them has never been satisfactorily
located, and the article from New
Orleans paper which we reprint to-day
is at least worth reading as a Southern
statement of the Confederacy's willing
ness to exchange prisoners.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-22
A Rt4 Chicken.

T. A. Steiner Of Ephrata, yesterday
killed q chicken that weighed four pounds
dressed. -tfhe liver was 6 inches long,
81 inches wide and q inches through the
centre and weighed one pound.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-22
The Wrong Date.

1t was inadvertently stated yesterday
that Managers Hartmyer & Daley had con-
tracted for the appearance of Miss Ada
Gray in East Lynne on Friday evening
Of next week 1t shouid have read We'd
ncsday evening, the Goth.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-22
PERSONAL,

The fact that Judge TRUNKEY declines
to be candidate for governor makes him
in the sight of the Times, man likely to
be called.
HARRIET MARTINEAU declared that she
had never met but three men who knew
how to treat women Has that been the
trouble with Annie Dickinson, too?
Besides Col. S. B. DICK, the Press
thinks tho Republicans have timber for
Congressman at large in Gov. Hoyt, Gen.
Henry White, Gen. w. H. Koontz and
the left candidates for governor.
By the death OF Miss BURR, OF New
York, the benevolent Christian lady,
whose estate is valued at $3,000,000 the
Mount Sinai hospital and the Hebrew
orphan asylum will each receive the sum
Of 10000.
A Chinaman in Bradford fell desperately
i'll love with = young colored woman. His
affection was returned but sparingly by
the dusky beauty, who finally cast him off
entirely, which cut the Celestial's tender
soul to the quick, and he took whopping
big dose Of morphine to end his woes.
Medical attendance, however. resuscitated
him.
Miss LILLIAN TAYLOR, daughter OF
Bayard Taylor, studying art in New York,
says her father never wrote up a place
without making a careful study of it,
which studies were the origin of the hun.
dred and fifty sketches lately exhibited,
which were surprise to those who did not
know Bayard Taylor painted with any
other pencil than his glowing words.
The late JOHN NJ. HABL1sToS, cashier of
the Baltimore Suu, whose death on Mon
day was noticed in our news columns yes
tcrday, was married to Miss Mundorf, of
this county, and was a brother-in law of
DR.. j A. E. Reed, of this city, who at
tended him in his last illness. Mr.. Hab-
liston was in his sixty-frst year; and had
for continuous period of forty-two years
been connected with the Sum-
Col. Mulberry Sellers is to the front in
the person of Mr.. MORTON FERvEn, Of
New York, who tells of marvellous caves
out in Texas, reached by recent railroad
extensions" where billions of bats have
roasted doubtless for millions of years
and made guaro deposits thirty feet deep.
"There's millions in it, A few shares
of stock in the railroads leading to these
manure bonanzas may yet be had at par
THoMAsJ. MCKEE, New York lawyer,
has the largest and finest collection Of
books and pictures relating to the stage in
America. He is an amateur of
the drama, and spares neither
time nor money to make his collection
complete. Not long ago a dealer
called upon him with an original bill of a
performance of the School for Scandal"
given by the British officers in New York
during the Revolution. The name of Major
andre is in the cast. "These bills are very
scarce, said the man "and worth good
deal Of money" eyes" said Mr.. Mckee,
81 know they are. There are but eight in
the country. I own five, besides the proof
of the first copy corrected in NJ ajor Andres
hand"
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The CItv's Credit Abroad. J.

At Thomas's auction sale in Philadel-
phia yesterday, 81, 400 Lancaster city per
cent. bonds sold at s105. This is pretty
good showing for, the credit Of our city
away from home.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-22
Death Of o Divine.

Rev. DR.. Orville Dewey, a well-known
Unitarian divine, died yesterday at Shef-
field, Mass, aged SO years.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-22

Ar the late nesting Of the Pennsylra-
Mia railroad stockholders, President
Roberts said, I" the local business is at
the bottom Of tbs road's prosperity"
Wise men will not kill the goose which
lays golden eggs nor will they overtax
the fowl and expect her to lay two day.
In an opinion, of which we print an alb
stract to-day, Judge Baxter, of Cleve-
land, lays down the eminently sound
doctrine that s. railr0ad officers are in q
qualified sense trustees for the public as
well as for the shareholders, and are in
law as well as in morals bound to exc
cute the trust imposed upon them by
their charters, so as to furnish to every
one applying therefor equal facilities in
the use Of their roads and upon the same
terms" A discrimination against local
supplies is not only inconsistent with
good material policy, but it is repugnant
to good morals and sound law. There is
no more Odious form of discrimination
than that which takes advantage of the
necessities of local shippers to charge
them many hundred per cent. higher
tonnage than is imposed upon unprofta-
BILE patrons Of the railroad company ;
and to suck the life blood Of local manu-:
facture1s in order to supply the vam-
pires Of the rail as Railroad Commits
sioner Adams characterized the fast
freight lines, express companies and par
lor coach companies.
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Grant In the White House.

ington yesterday afternoon, and were
driven to the White House, where they
will remain for several days as the guests
, Of President Arthur.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-22

GLxAsED FROM rae Monx1No MAlls.

~ * rES-- A5-N $% sssJ
Record OF the Leading Evenrs That Maze
Up the Budget Ut the D.y-The
Small Pox.
Fifteen cases of smallpox and nine
deaths were reported in St. Louis last
veek.-Four new cases of the disease
have been reported in South Bethlehem
since Sunday thus far there have been
152 cases and 30 deaths from the smallpox
in that place.
Judge Advocate General Swain has
the case of Sergeant Mason. 1t is under
stood he recommends q modification of
Nason's sentence, on the ground that
"Guiteau was not in position where he
could possibly have been killed by Mason
when the latter was shot, and that, under
such circumstances, the charge of assault
with intent to kill cannot be sustained"
The New York board Of aldermen yes
terday adopted q resolution asking that
Mason be pardoned.
The Connecticut House Of Representa-
tives yesterday refused to receive q reso.
luton asking an unconditional pardon for
Mason. ~ .- &
At yesterdays cabinet meeting the
court martial case of Cadet Whitaker was
disposed of by disappearing the sentence
of dismissal from the service imposed by
the court, on the ground that the techni-
cal evidence taken at the trial was inn
properly introduced. The decision of the
cabinet sustains the opinion of the attor-
ney general.
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The Fire Record.
For beaver ana Brown.

The Republican committee of Indiana
county, Penna, yesterday instructed its
delegates to the state convention to sup
port Beaver for governor and Brown for
judge.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-22

THE toll-bar must 60 sooner or later
and the sooner the better.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-22

\ ROMANTIC interest always attaches
even to the most bootless search for the
North Pole. The popular apprehension
of failure throws around every new ex.
pedition a glamour, and the uncertainty
which nearly always attends the fate of a
portion of the explorers gives perpetual
melancholy interest to the lost mariners,
and stimulates new efforts in the direc
tion in which they have failed. Though all
trace of Capt. DeLong of the Jeanette,
since October 9, has been lost, like Sir
John Franklin, he will be an object Ct
interest until the similar fortunes Of
some new expedition supersede him in
popular attention. The Jeanette was
crushed and sunk by the ice on the 18th
of June. 1881, in latitude n deg. Is min.
north, longitude 155 deg, after having
drifted twenty-five months in the tre-
mendous pack ice of the Northern seas !;
and, of her crew, Melville's party and
the two relief men who reached him
from De Long, are all as yet who have
reported. They search in. vain across
trackless ice fields and during the foes
of the upper zone for their ill-fated COM
rades. The story of their adventures
and sufferinga is much the same as that
of all Arctic explorers, and for anything
except newspaper sensation the Herald
expedition has thus far been as profitless
rs any Of those sent to that region.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-22

The wrangling Philadelphia Demo
Gratis are at it again like Kilkenny cats
If they would only finish each other of
like the Kilkenny cats did. there woult
he peace with honor.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-22

There is a prospect of the reopening Of
the Antonelli will case, the Court of Cas-
sation having decided that the Countess
Lambertini, who alleges that Cardinal An
tonelli was her father, has right to call
evidence in regard to her paternity and the
frand which she asserts exists in the regis
ter of her baptism. ~ .t.F.~'.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-22

Four dollar bank notes are popular in
Canada.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-22

Out OF the leaping furnace flame
A mass of molten silver came:
Then beaten into pieces three,
Went forth to meet its destiny.
The first a crucifiX was made,
Within a soldiers knapsack laid:
The second was locket fair
Where mother kept her dead child: lair;
The third-a bangle, bright and warm,
Around q faithless woman's arm
Il f. VeutheyIy
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-22

UTAn's Mormons keep it from becoming
a state, but New Mexico with half the
population is likely to get in for the bene-
fit of very few men who would run the
machine, as large proportion of the popu.
lation is Mexican in origin, language, and
personal characteristics, who care very
little for public affairs, and know almost
nothing about American politics.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-22

1T has been found that pensioncr of
the war of 1919, down in South Carolina,
has been drawing his pension regularly
through the agent-thoush he died in
1872. The agent likely thought he was
who have been grabbing under the arrears
Of pensions act.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-04-20
PHYSICIANS Fees.

Fifty years ago physicians in New
Bedford, Mass, were paid fee of IL
cents per visit. A few years later the
price rose to % cents visit, including
free medicine. In 1880 an advance was
made TO SO cents, which brought forth
an outburst of indignation from the
people, and the medical fraternity were
obliged to explain that if they received
pay from ali Of their patients they might
be able to gain a livelihood, and some
thing besides, from their old prices. By
the time people became reconciled to
this advance another was made to 81,
and then again to So, and in some casei
more. This is the history of the pro.
fession in nearly all of the Massachu.
sets cities and towns, and is said to ac-
count for the favor with which patent
medicines are regarded there, people
preferring to doctor themselves rather
than to submit to what they term ruin.
GUS charges. Chicago Herald.