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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-12-04
I.lTiAfi l.OC.ALS.
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Yesterday being The first Sunday IN
Advent, services hlvins refer, nee to the
iirst ministry Of the Shv;c: were had il,
nearly all our city church,s.
Samuel Hess & Son, auctioDeers, sold at
public sale, Dec. 2, at Bird in- Hand, Tor
John c. Carpenter, of Picua, Ohio. fo..:
teen head Of Ohio Norman horses, a, an
average price Of $aa2O par hea.!.
There was q break in tho four ii:ch
main ON Water street, betWecu Chestnut
and Walnut streets Oh Saturday Super
intendent Halbach has made til. repairs
and everything is right again.
At the pOOrhOuse the stock WAS sold Oh,
Saturday. Three horses brought s215,
s276 and $29:; COWS, sjO5O and si1.5
heifers, s3S. so, s3S so. s33, $50 50 and
$31 so.
This morning tho second week Of c,m-
mon pleas court began, with Judge I.iy-
ingstOn presiding. No cases were attached
for trial this morning, AMI it was found
upon tho calling Of the list that there are
seventeen cases left for trial. Court :.d
jOurned until p o'clock this afternoon.
Samuel Hess Il Son. auctionecrs. sold
ut public sale, Dec. 9, 1892, ut the Foun-
tain Inn hotel, Lancaster. for Andrew IL.
Shenk, executor of Frederick We5r..
deceased, lot of ground ironiin" ~
South Prince street So feet, and cxtcn,i.,..
in depth 200 feet, with improvements, -
Henry Weber, for 81, ZIG.
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OBITUARY.
Sudden Death of Phillip Cast

Suuu0u Dootu O1 uast.
Philip Cast, tailor and cutter, residing
at 222 West James street, died on Sunday
night from a stroke of apoplexy with
which he was visited on Saturday morning.
Mr.. Cast was a German by birth. He
came to this country when a small child.
He was brother of Christian, Henry and
Conard Cast, of this city, and of Fred
erick Cast, of California He leaves
family of one son and seven daughters.
He was member OF Lancaster Lodge I.
o. o. F., and perhaps of some other bene-
fetal societies. He was about GA years of
age, was an excellent workman, and was
employed as cutter by some of the best
clothing houses in this city. lie had been
in failing health for some time past, but
nothing serious was apprehended until he
was stricken down on Saturday. He will
be missed by large circle of warm friends
and acquaintances. His funeral will take
place on Wednesday at 2 o'clock p. m.
Interment at Lancaster cemetery.
sudden Ueath Of Josiah Burgess.
Josiah Burgess, well-known farmer
residing IN Providence township, below
the Union hotel, died suddenly on Satur
day morning. He had been in apparently
good health, up to very short time before
his death, when no was attacked with
neuralgia or cramp in the stomach, and
died while sitting in his chair. He was a
man in good circumstances, about 60 years
of age, and leaves . wife and an adopted
daughter. He never had any children
of his own. His funeral will take place
Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
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New YORK city had new experience
on Sunday, which was the day set for
the execution of the provisions of the
new law that forbids the conduct of all
avocations on Sunday, except the sale of
drugs and some other specially named
articles. The police gave notice of
their intention to enforce the law,
and the consequence was a great
change for the better in the quietude
of the streets. What traffic was done
was carried on without obtrusion on the
public attention. Many arrests were
made and the justices took upon them
selves to make liberal construction of
the law bootblacks, for instance, were
discharged as not guilty of its violation,
although they had not the benefit of a
direct exception in the words of the law.
which seems to be drawn with strict.
ness of expression which will render its
literal execution very oppressive. The
only thing that is possible in securing a
decent observance of the Sabbath is to
provide against the public exhibition of
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Dolan, 81, 500 loss, on building occupied
BY Frank Bensinger. grocery, loss 500.
Henry Stride, loss $500. L. Williams,
loss, $500, insurance q, 500; on building
occupied. loss $500. insurance 81, 500 ;
on building occupied by T. W. Spur, or.
gaas and pianos, loss 81, 500 insurance
1000. P. Linton, shoe store, loss s., 500
Mrs. Conner, millinery, $1,000 no insur-
ance. Shenandoah and Tamaqua, in re-
sponse to an appeal for aid, sent all their
apparatus. The sufferings Of the fircmen
while at work were intense. The citizens
did all in their power to relieve them, and
a subscription was taken up for their ben
eft. Miss Katie II. Rebo, aged 90, an
invalid, was SO overcome by excitement
that her life is despa;red of.
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A MANS HEAD OFF.
D!sts ess:nS Accident at ReadinS-Man;
While Coupling Cars.

D!sts ess:nS Accident at ReadiDG-ManEled
While Coupling Cars.
A distressing accident took place in
Reading at o'clock Sunday morning dur
ing snow squali. B. Frank Hahn, living
near Auburn, had his head cut off near
the Philadelphia and Reading depot, He
was engaged in coupling cars when an
engineer of another shifting train threw a
number of cars against those that Hahn
was coupling. He was not prepared for
this, and was knocked down, falling on
the rails. The first wheel cut off his head
the second his left arm and the third
rested on his shoulder. The car had to he
pulled off Of him before tho mangled re-
mains could be removed. Hahn was about
thirty-two years Of age, and leaves a wife
and children at Hammond station, He
was tall aud fnely-built young man, of
handsome appearance and excellent health.
The engineer who backed the cars upon
him says he was given signal which he
thought came from the proper person, but
OF which the unfortunate brakeman, it ap.
pears, knew absolutely nothing. The
engineer claims to be entirely blameless.
Coroner Kelly will hold an inquest, and
the remains will be sent homo by Under
taker Henninger. Hahn was employed on
a freight train running from TamaIua to
Philadelphia.
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SUICIDE FROM SHAME.

A Young Woman Driven to Dcath.
Miss Laura Speakman, young lady of
about 20 years of age, and resident of
the hamlet of Chatham, Chester county, a
short time ago became mother, her child
dying short time after its birth. The
father of the child. although he promised
to marry her, ran away, and since that
time she has been very much depressed in
spirits. A physician recommended that
she should pay visit to Kirkbride's, at
Media, Delaware county, but instead of
going there she went to Kennel Square to
her sister, Mrs. Albert jackson, where she
became the patient of DIR. Price, of that
borough. Her mental condition, however,
grew worse, and few days ago she was
caught with butcher knife in her posses.
sion, which was taken away from her and
a close watch put over her. One day last
week she asked her brother. in-law if the
water at Plankington's bridge over the
west branch of the Red Clay creek was
sufficiently deep to drown a person. Mr..
Jackson told her he thought it was and
did not give the query any further
thought. Saturday night at supper time
she did not appear and after searching for
her about the premises the family became
alarmed. 1t was then that Mr.. jackson
recalled the conversation about the creek,
and with some neighbors went to the spot
and, few feet below the bridge. found
the unfortunate woman lying dead in
about FIVE feet of water.
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A Hundred Short.

Mr.. Henry E. Shimp, who was one of
the Democratic candidates for Assembly in
the Northern district of the county at the
recent election, informs US that in the
computation Of the vote cast for him a
mistake of ono hundred was made, and
that he should have been credited with
4, 369 instead of 4, ,269, as printed in the
returns. We gladly make the correction.
and may add the wish that the additional
100 were enough to change the result and
send our good Democratic friend to the
Legislature.
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Arab pNSllQ'S Fate.

1t not being deemed expedient to have
protracted trial of Arab Pasha, con-
venient arrangement was made with him
10y which he agreed to plead guilty and
England agreed that the khedive should
commute his sentence Of death to ban
ishment for life. 1t was a very sensible
way of disposing of the matter. Anything
like fair trial, in the fashion recog.
nized in English Jurisprudence, where
the accused is allowed free latitude to
show the circumstances surrounding his
offense, would not have been profitable
to the English government which sus-
tained the tOppling power of Turkey in
Egypt and any other manner of trial
would not have suited the English SEN
timent ut home. The easiest Way of
disposing of these embarrassing state
criminals is the best. When they are
shot down in the melee, Providence does
a kind turn for the conqueror. When
they are not, prudence requires that they
be shutfled out of the way in the most un-
obtrusive manner. jeff Davis was great
embarrassment to our government when
he was captured and the enterprising cap.
tain who was stupid enough to do the
deed got small thanks for it from the
authorities. We got rid of Davis after
long delay with tOlerable success. We
made a great botch of it with the Lin
coin and Garfield assassins. The first
were tried and condemned in hot haste
by al unlawful cOurtmartial and in a
shocking and indecent way while Gui.
teau, who should have been summaril,
shut up in an insane asylum, agonized
the country for weeks through long
and unseemly trial. The world cared
little what fate befell Arab Pasha who
has not recommended himself to it's
good opinion by his wisdom or valor
but as the civilization of the day does
not permit the execution in cold blood
of great rebels the English government
has been fortunate in the arrangement
it has been able to make to punish its
enemy in appearance while really not
Furnishing him at all.
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List of Unclaimed Letters.

List Of Unclaimed Letters.
List Of unclaimed letters remaining in
the postoffice for the. week ending Dec. 4,
1882:
Lad;es' LtSl-Mrs. b. Breneman, Mrs.
Annie NJ. Boyd, Miss Lear, Jane Cooper,
Mrs. E. G. Eckert, Miss Lille Elmer, Mrs.
Ellen Frank, Mrs. Kit Fink, Miss Mag
gle Green, Halle X. Geise, Miss Emma
Miller, Miss Maggie Payne, Miss Amanda
Rigcle, Miss Venie E. Rayel, Elizabeth
Schnavely, Miss Elizabeth Sawyer. Mrs.
Kate Sliper. Jennie Smith, Miss Hattie
Yeider.
Gents List.-J. B. Baker, S. Fur Boyd,
Carl Bremer, SsOner BrenemaD, Mr.. Burk-
holder, Conyingham. Paris S. Eppler, ].
w. Gross, Reuben CARRIER, A. G. Hawk
ins, r. p. Jamisop, Bert l.. Kelly, Andrew
Myers, VIM. Power, J. w. Pattison, S. P.
Reist, Abra!c Sheak, Israel Wanbaugh,
H. T. Wilson.
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THE POULTRY ASSOCIATION.
Preparations for the Annual Exht

Preparations for tho Annual Exhibition.
The Lancaster Poultry society held a
stated meeting this morning in the rooms
of the Agricultural society. The follow
ing named members were present Geo.
A. Geyer, Florin J. Is. Lichty, city {;
John E. Schum, city Charles Lippold,
city Joseph r. Trissler, city F. Il. DIFF.
fendertfer, city G. A. Cast, city H. H.
Tshudy, Lititz ]. Il. Shultz, Elizabeth
town :; H. ID. Shultz, Elizabethtown :;
Isaac Brooks, West Willow DR.. Z. H.
Wilmer, Neffsville J. NJ. Johnston, city;
Peter Bruner, Mt. Jon J. W. Bruck-
hart, Salunga.
j.. L. Bruner, of Mount Joy, August
Long, of Pittsburgh, Simon Tshudy, of
West Willow, wera nominated and elected
members.
The following names were placed in
nomination for officers OF the society for
the ensuing year:
President-H. Ii. Tshudy, Lititz !; J. Is.
Long, city George A. Geyer, FIorin.
Vice Presidents--M. l.. Greider, Mount
JOY; T. Frank Evans, Lititz.
Corresponding Secrotary-JosepA r..
Trissler, city.
Recording Sccretary-J. 3. L;chty,
city.
Treasurer-John E. Schum, city.
Executive COmmittee-Peter Bruner,
Mt. Joy;J. A. Stober, Schoeneck Chas.
Lippold, city VIM. A. Schoenberger,
city DIR. L. II. Wilmer, Nefsville A. S.
Flowers, Mount Joy ; S. G. Engle, Mari
eta.
The candidates will b. ballOted for at
next meeting.
The secretary stated that he had rented
Excelsior hall in which to hold the coming
exhibition, and room above for storage OF
coOps, for $50.
Letters were received from Messrs
Bicknell and Besher, the gentleman Sc
lected rs judges, announcing their accept
ance of the position.
Tho secretary further announced that
he had made arrangements with the Penn.
sylvania railroad for the issue of excursion
tickets during the exhibition.
Joseph r. Trissler was appointed super
intendent of the exhibition, he to devote
his whole time to 1t. and to be paid there
for.
Adjourned.
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Police Cases.

Tho mayor had ten cases befo.a hi..,
this morning. Four vasrants were .l.,-
charged. Four drunken and GiscItIc.!y
persons were committed to the county Jail
and two disOrderlies were discharged ON
payment of costs.
Lewis Beerle who was arrested for pei-
ling without Ecense, had Il hearing befole
Alderman Samson and Was discharged Oh
payment of costs.
On Saturday evcnin., John WeiGiier and
Frank Appleton entered A. Btzer's cigar
store, North Queen street. Weitller hal
behaved in q disOrderly manner few
days before and had been elected from tho
store twice. He then threatened to max
MIR. Bitter ON Saturday, and when he en
tered the store Mr.. Bitzer ordered hin, L,
leave and not come back again. Refusing
to do so. Bitter stepped from behind tie
counter to put him out, when no was
seized by Appleton who dreS revolver
upon him. Officer SweEck being present,
arrested both Appleton and Weidler, ard
Bitter made complaint against them be
fore Alderman Barr, who held them for
hearing on Wednesday.
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COLUM s;lA NEWS.

Late Intelligence from tho River St.ir.
Driving party from York here yesl,s-
day.-John Miles, aged II, slipped on III.
pavement and broke his right arm
Tramp cut his head and broke his thumb
trying to board u freight i'll the eat yard.
Officer Gilbert took down Jour tram; ;s.--
Bachman Il Forry's horse was SD b..,:ly
kicked that it had to BE- kiiIcd-M.s,
Emily PIeitzman, visiting Miss Ev.
NOlen, has returned to Millersvi!l,
Miss MOllie Hamaker, OF Philadelphia,
is visiting Miss Georgia Bennctt.-F. T..
Crause aud Thomas iIamaker gone To
Philadelphia.-Mr.P Paul home from East
mans business cOllege.-Next Sunday
Rev. Soaring will preach his third ami
versary sermOn.-Rev. Babcock delivered
= temperance lecture in the NJ. f. cLurci,
last evening.-OM Joe Eandyke, fiddler
and hermit, who had lived for 90 years n
cave on Greenwalt's island, died ON Sat
urday.
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PERSONAL.

PERE HYACINTHE says: "Ideal mar.
riages are rare, perhaps impossible"
CHARLES L.LAMBERToN,o of Wilkesbarre,
gives notice that he does not want to he
attorney general. Next?
UNCLE Rufus HATCH began life as a
chain carrier on Wisconsin railroad and
afterward locomotive engineer.
GOVERNOR CLEVELAND, when asked
why he didn't marry, said 81 am too old.
I've missed my chance"
Ex-REv. GEORGE c. MILN is to make
his debut in the character of Riclelieu. on
the 9th Instant at the Coates opera house,
Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. HANCOCK, the wife of General
Hancock, has written "Te Deum Laud-
anus" which is dedicated at St. Cornell
ius' chapel Governors Island. 1t is to be
published shortly.
CLAYTON McM1cnAE1, one of the editors
and proprietors of the North american,
Philadelphia, has been made marshal of
the District of Columbia, vice Henry re-
moved. He is friend of Arthur and
Brewster and popular and accomplished
gentleman.
JOHN HUMPHREY MOVES. the founder of
the Oneida community in New York, who
fled the state about year since to escape
indictment is now an exile. The last heard
of him he was at Clinton, Canada, near
Niagara Falls. living with his wife, al
though three others of the community
women went with her when she joined
him.
ARABI was yesterday condemned to
death and his sentence was at once com
muted to exile. English correspondents
insist that there was not flaw in the evi.
dence connecting him with the burning of
Alexandria. His troops began their work
of incendiarism "as regularly" says one
witness. cas- if they were going out to
battle.' "All his statements ON the sub.
ject. says the London Times, "are lies,
gross and palpable."
Nnssox's crab be did not touch tho stony
heart of the Records New York CORES
pondent. He says: "There is too much
study about her mourning to make one
feel badly for her. A bit of shabby Grape
on old hat will bring the tears to my
eyes, but this wealth of Grape, these long
black gloves held at the wrist by q jeweled
band, this sparkling order on the breast
did not touch me as it did some people.
And her manner was not that of one who
mourned. Inever saw Nilsson more gay
and festive than she is this time. She is
almost undignified in some of her songs"
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RUNAWAY ACCIDENT.

A MILK Wagon Lrusnod ny q Seer Wagon
This morning about 7:3O the driver os
Frank Reiker's beer wagon allowed his
horses to stand united, while no went into
the Centennial saloon corner Of Vine and
Mulberry streets to attend to his business
Tho horses became frightened a, lime
wagon and ran furiously down Vine street.
Opposite Alderman Spurrier's Iesidcncr
the beer wagon struck the milk wagon of
N. Shultz upset it, broke it to pieces, and
spilled all of Mr.. Skultz's milk and cream
except one small can. Mr. Shultz escaped
with only . few bruises. The runaway
horses were captured at the corner Of Vino
and Beaver streets. They were cut semc-
what about the legs, but not enough to
disable them.
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CHRIsrIANA NATIONAL BANK.

Fully Organized and Directors Elected
Ali the stock Of the Christiana National
bank having been taken the stockholders
met ON Saturday and organized by the
election of the following named directors
Samnel Slokom, James ID. Reed, Thomas
J. Phillips, Amaziah d. Brackbill, Aaron
Hartman, Thomas McGowan, Abraham
Rupp.
Samuel Slokom was chosen president
and VIM. Sproul temporary cashier.
The preliminary papers have arrived aud
will be sent at once to the controller OF
the currency. The money subscribed Tor
stock is to be paid on or before the 18Th
of December and the bank will be opened
for business as soon thereafter as possible.
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FATAL kAsLKOAD ACCiDENT.

Charles j. Swartz, a brakeman OH tho
Pennsylvania railroad, while walking on
:hs s"p Of freight train .Ss,a on SATURDAY
struck by an overhead bridge and had lis
skull fractured. He was knocked oil and
fell between the bumpers and had his arms
badly crushed. He was brought to this
city where he was examined by DR.. AtI.e
who pronounced his injuries fatal. lie
was taken to Columbia but died Just be-
f0re reaching that place. lie was about II
years Of age and leaves q wife and three
small children. He had been upon the
road but q short time. Ills funeral will
take place tomorrow.
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Methodist Missionary Meeting.

A very interesting meeting is to be held
in the Duke street NJ. E. church on Wed
nesday evening next, 9Th inst. BY the ap
pointment Of the Philadelphia conference
missionary society, DR.. James Morrow, of
Philadelphia, and DR.. A. l.. Urban, Of
Steclton, Pa, arc engaged to make ad.
dresses. There are to be no collections or
subscriptions. The public are invited.
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MISS Sharp, the Revival:sr.

Miss Lizzie Sharp. who labored so sue
cesssully in the revival at the Duke street
NJ. E. church, ended her labors there last
evening before very large and deeply in
terested congregation. She goes to Phila-
delphia to engage in revival work in that
city.
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FIRE AT MAHANOY CITY.
Battling Furl0usly With the Flames.

BAtIIuS FufI0us1y VIII tho FI0m06.
A fire originating in G.. F. Depper's
carpet store in Mahanoy City burned six
buildings in the business section, and for
. time threatened the entire town. High
winds prevailed. aud the water supply,
owing to the recent drouth, was short.
The losses are as follows G. F. Depper,
house and stock, s., 500 insurance un-
known. p. F. Dillon, wholesale liquor
store, $1,000; insurance $1,000. VIM.
Phillips, hotel, $500 no insurance. VIM.
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1ancaster .9ntelligenrer.
RvEN1Na DEC. 4. 1889.
Our Returning Board.

VUE 1SCSUA UAhAB OV11Vs
An analysis of the " scattering" votes
officially reported by the returning
board of this state shows that very
number Of ballots cast at
the state election are lost to those for
whom they were intended by reason of
slight errors in the manner OF printing
their names. To be sure these losses
are confined almost entirely to the nomi-
nees of the weaker parties and are
therefore inconsequential in the general
result. 1t makes no difference in the
awarding OF the certificates of the
election that the Prohibition candidate
for governor loses five hundred
votes for governor because his CHRIS.
tian name and surname are reversed
on the return sheets Of one county :;
nor that a superfuous ga" in the
name of another candidate loses to him
thousands of votes nor that thousands
cast for /" LOwery J. Dewoody cannot
be counted for 81. Lowery Dewoody."
But it is highly important to consider
the rule followed in these cases which
might SO easily have been invoked in the
count of the vote for candidates who
had chance of election.
There has been a storm of Indignation
raised because the secretary of state in
Mississippi refused to count for J. r.
Chalmers votes returned for " j. Il.
Chanbless." But under the rule adopted
in this state, had the returr:s from Phil
adelphia, for instance, represented the
vote for the Democratic candidate for
lieutenant governor, as cast for
Black, Chauncey F." as is often
the manner of writing the name on
such returns our state department would
not have included this in the vote for
''Chauncey f. Black" and would have
given the certificate for that Office to
Davies. Such a decision would have
raised a storm of Indignation, and it
would have been bitterly resisted by law
and probably by force, and yet it is ex.
actly logical with computation of the
vote for Dewoody, Williams and Others
which are tabulated like the tabulatiOn
that counts out Chalmers.
1t is difficult to see how the state Off
cials whose business it is to tabulate the
vote could safely be intrusted with the
discretion of counting it otherwise than
it is returned such power would prob
ably he subjected to abuse. But it is
not a proper condition of things that
would compel a candidate to even con
test for q seat to which he was elected
and for which the certificate was given
to another, because some of those who
voter for the winner parted his name ir
the middle and others at the side.
The official returns given out by
the state department are fruitful
in suggestions as to the ease will
which men eqnitably entitled tt
Office could be counted out il
this state. 1t is customary to cal
these tricks and technicalities the meth
eds of Southern scalawags and bull.
dozers, but the law Of Pennsylvania is a
loose on this subject as that of Mississ
ippi, and perhaps our returning boards
have only wanted an opportunity to ex
ercise their power as ruthlessly.