Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-09
NEWS BY THE MORNING r-AlLs.
Now York Democracy.

The Democratic state committee met al
Saratoga on Tuesday. Itattracted q large
attendance of Democratic leaders from all
sections of the state, in view of the efforts
proposed to be made in the interests Ol
union and harmony in the party.
| Daniel Manning, OF the AlabaDy
Argus called the committee to order.
A number of communications were re-
ceived from the rival factions in New
| York city, all of which were referred to a
committee, which afterward reported that
I neither possessed nor would attempt
to exercise any control over tho methods
| by which delegates to the state convention
may be chosen, but nevertheless, express
| an earnest desire that but one delegation,
and that fully representative in it's char
acter, may be sent to the convention to
represent each assembly district of the
| state. Syracuse was selected as the place
and the 21st of September the time for
holding the state convention.
The Lightning In Northampton Coanty.
During the heavy thunder and rain
storm which passed over the upper end of
Northampton county lightning struck the
barn of Louis Keller, in Nazareth town.
| ship, and killed ono horse and stunned
three others which were standing in the
stable. Mrs. Walters, who was standing
| on the porch of the residence near the
barn, was rendered senseless, but recover
ed from the shock in q short time. For
tunately the barn was not burned. A
large walnut tree in the neighborhood
was first struck, and tho lightning trans
mitted to the barn by wire clothes-l line
which ran from the tree to the barn.
Alabama Immensely Democratic.
The official vote will not be known in
the Alabama election till Saturday, but
enough is known to indicate tho election
of the Democratic ticket by an immense
majority. The vote on both sides will be
light, but the opposition much lighter in
proportion than tho Democratic. The
Senate will be unanimously Democratic,
with perhaps three exceptions, and there
will not be moro than twenty opposition
members out of the one hundred in the
House.
Buckalew for Congress.
The Democratic convention of Columbia
county has nominated William Elwell for
president judge, Senator Buckalew for
Congress, E. J. McHenry for state senator,
T. J. Vanderslise and William Bryson for
representatives and John Mourey for
sheriff. A resolution was passed con.
Oemnlng the LAVISH appropriation OF public
money by Congress and approving the
course Of Mr.. Klotz in opposing the river
and harbOr bill.
The SaratOgs Monument Association.
The annual meeting of the trustees of
the Saratoga monument association was
held there on Tuesday. Mrs. Walworth,
from the monument committee, reported
that several prominent points on the bat
tle-field had been located and suitable
tablets secured to mark tho same. The
monument is now forty-five feet high,
and much carved work is ready to be put
in place.
Deliberately Walking Into the River.
An unknown man deliberately walked
into the Sohuylkill river a short distance
below Reading, Tuesday afternoon. Two
men on on the opposite side saw the man
and Immediately repaired to the other
side to rescue him, but when they reached
the spot life was extinct. The man is ap-
parently thirty-two years old. The body
was removed by an undertaken. An in
quest will DO held.
An Editor stabbed ON . Steamboat.
As the steamer Silverth0rn was taking
. delegation of colored citizens to the |
emancipation celebration at Metropolis,