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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-06
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
"OLD LANCASTER"
VISITED By AN OLD LANCASTRIAN

Extracts From Alt. Sanderson's Letter in his
Shippensburg chronicle.
Old Lancaster No longer an oldfashion-
ed town of one storied houses with gable
peaked roofs, but city of wealth, pros
perity and beauty. Like the fabled
Briareus, it has stretched it's hundred arms
out in every direction. Verify, the magi-
clan hath waved his wand. and presto,
change, a new order of things sprung up.
Rows of palatial mansions, with pretty
front yards and other surroundings, on
every street and in all quarters of the city.
Street railways, huge stores, business
places and manufactures. Fine churches,
colleges, seminaries, schools, hospitals,
and other public buildings. North Queen
and East King streets, with their
Belgian block pavements and tow
ering stores, will rival any similar
Square, with its unique soldiers monument
i've spot to all visitors and strangers. 1t
is doubtful whether there can be a pTcttier
sight at night than Lancaster's hilly
streets lighted up by miles of gas lights,
and the bright inviting stores helping to
throw their flood of light upon the scene.
This has all been accomplished within tho
past twenty-five years. There is nothing
old fOgyish about the town, except the
inhabitants who still retain and dispense
the hospitality for which Lancaster long
| since became noted. An historic town,
full of Continental and Revolutionary
| "reminiscences. Once, in the days
Of Thomas Mexican and Simon Sny-
der, tho capital OF Pennsylvania. The
| OLD land marks are nearly all gone, but in
their stead handsome, substantial, en-
during monuments to the thrift, sagacity,
enterprise and prosperity Of the present
generation of Lancasterians Generous,
hospitablc, progressive old Lancaster, none
| Of her sons, whether native and to the
manner born or adopted, who do not
| dwell with pride upon her past history,
and rejoice in her present prosperous,
happy and enviable condition. = : :;
At the lSTEILIGENCER, our ALMA mater
We met Messrs. A. j. Steinman and W.
| /. Hensel, the proprietors and editors.
| MIR. Steinman was full Of business, but
| there was cordial greeting notwithstand
ing. With Mr.. IIensel a pleasant talk On
political and personal matters. The IN
TELLIGENCEE has always been power
in the state, and under the present
able and vigorous management its
reputation is kept up to the high
est standard. We also exchanged greet
ings with Messrs. J. NJ. Johnston, Herbert
Johnston and Harry Henscl, Of the repor-
tOrial force cur old friend and partner,
Morton, the business manager, and his
assistant, Clark ; William &. and James
3. Striue, the first named for more than
quarter OF 4 century the efficient foreman
Geiter, fellow-compositor in old state
printing days Of Bratton and knab5, and
the racy, interesting war correspondent,
"Ajax," of the ISTELLIGENCEE; Carson,
the head of the job department and one
Of the best job printers in the country,
and Garvin, the pressman. We are always
cat homo'' among the INTELIIGEEcET
! " boys
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-06
TERRIBLE TALE.
Loss OF the Schooner ElmGR lSlr.: -CaNni-
DalisIn of the SurVisOis.

Loss OF the Schooner Ilmcn B,r., -Canni-
DalisIn Of the Survivors
The fishing schooner Cora Lee has az
rived at Pigeon Cove bringing small ope,,
boat and five of the crew of the schooner
Almon Bird, Of Rockland, Me-, from Wind
sor, N. S., for Alexandria, Va, with Il
cargo of plaster, who were picked on the
eastern part of Jeffrey's Bank, forty miles
east northeast of Cape Ann. The vessel
shipped sea during storm on Sunday
night which smashed in the hatches aud,
filling tho hold, sunk her. The crew,
consisting of eight men, took to the boat.
two of them were dead when picked ur.
and one has died since.
The five survivors are badly frozen and
exhausted. They were improperly clad.
They had no water and have been on scant
allowance Of food since Sunday. The
names of the dead men were Charles
Chapless, Horace Small and a man called
Patrick. The survivors arc Captain Pack
ard, VIM. Hartman, Allen Small. A.B.
Henderson and Frank Hamilton. They
tell a terrible story of suffering from cold
and lack of water. The second mate died
last in the boat and the crew, maddened
with thirst, opened his veins and drank
the blood, then threw the body overheard.
The captain and one man are so badly
frozen that they may not recover. The
are receiving every attention.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-06
PERSONAL.

Minister MORTON gave complimentary
dinner in Paris yesterday to NJ. Gampetta
and his colleagues. Most Of the French
cabinet officers ane many government
employees were present.
HENRY S. McCOMB's will left his pro-
perty to bis wife and four children in
equal parts. Victor DUPONT, of Whining
ton, and General Wilthal, of New Orleans,
are advisory trustees for the children.
Ms. McComb is the sole executrix.
A. II. BIssEI, lately law clerk of the
postottice department., died yesterday at
NOrwalk, Connecticut.
SAMUEL =. GARDINER, the tenth here
Iitary proprietor" OF Gardeners Island
died at Easthampton, Long Island. yester
day morning, in the 9th year Of his age.
Baron NoE SCHLoEzER, the German
minister at Washington, who is to be
transferred to the Vatican, sailed from
New York yesterday for Europe
JOHN PHELPS Pi'TSAM, judge of the
supreme court OF Massachusetts, died in
Boston on Wednesday night. He had
been on the supreme bench twenty-three
years.
JAMES GuKDoN BENEFITS new iron
steam yatch POlynia, built at Newburgh,
New York, was launched yesterday. She
is 24G feet long, 26 wide and 1s deep, and
is intended for ocean tralel,
The Somerset county bar gave compli.
mcntary supper to Judge WILLIAM II.
HALL. and the refining associate judges
on Monday night. Among the distin
guished guests in attendance were Judge
Bear, Judge }. S. Black and Colonel john
r. Linton of JohnstOwn. Although Cess
mas friends burned Hall in effigy the cx-
.iudge has somewhat the better Of it,
The Times schedule has it that the St;,l-
~art Pennsylvania train will be ready to
start at an early day, under the immediate
care of Conductor Cameron, with HART
EANFT on board ticketed for the Mexican
mission, ARTHUR G. OLMsTED, of Potter
county, for collector of the Philadelphia
port, and WM. HENRY RAwLE, Of PhiIa
delrhia, for supreme judge.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-06
Changed Its Mind,

Our esteemed contemporary, the Ea'-
amincr, which on Wednesday sympa-
thizeh with the " INTELLlGENCER, in
its structures Oh the midnight raid of
the county commissioners on tie county
treasury" ON Thursday realized that
"party needs oft drive adesperatc editor
to doubtful, o. at least exaggerated state
mentS,' :lnL therefore woke up its re-
porter AMI sent him out to hunt a state
ment in the cases referred to from d" the
parties concerned" in making a defense
for those who got the money. Unllappily
for the Etan,iner, even their state
mentS cOrrOhorate in the main the In
TELLHENCER'H account Of the affair.
and show plainly that after McMellcn
" was Informed 10y the commissioners
that they had closed their business he
got 81 500 from them for re-arraneing the
papers in his Office, for which he only
employed one extra clerk part of
the year, and during the latter
half of that year he discharged
one OF the clerks whom he had
previously had in service the only ma
terial thing denied in our information
is cur statement, 10 McMellen' $
credit, that he had finally paid
over to the county the jury fees
which he had collected and had there
tOfore failed to pay over. Capt. Mcneil
lens statement that 81 800 was not too
much to charge for the work he should
have had 500 more, and could have got
ten it from the COMMISSIONER is just
such 4 statement as it might have been
expected an E'rdni,cr reporter could
get from Capt. McMel!en. 1t is intend
ed no doubt to make tlle people of the
county feel thankful that he did not
take and that the commissioners did not
give 1900 when they We're at il!
When the Eram',,cr says that this
journal has ever assumed that one be-
ing county official, Republican in poll
tics, must necessarily be Il fraud and
cheat" it says what it knows is not
true. But if the Eran.iser can point to
any instance when it united with honest
journals in exposing the frauds and
cheats whom its party has put into office
in this county it may earn for itself a
credit to public confidence which no
one has ever suspected it enjoyed.
As to the defense which the Examiner
makes for the Urban Barnes bill that it
was for "court records - which "the
court says the county should pay for" it
is invited elsewhere to inspect the items
of the bill and designate i'm what judicial
opinion the court has held the county
liable ior these a; for of course the E;r-
am;"e. does not intend to" place judicial
dignity in a false light mOr to reflect
upon any judges integrity nor bring
down upon him an editorial sneer for
the purpose of bringing him into con-
tempt by intimating that these
Judicial decisions" or sayings were
peddled through the courthouse
corridors, as it "sneeringly" and
"contemptuously' intimates when it
speaks of the court usurping the func-
tiOns of the county solicitor and instruct
ing the county commissioners in their
legal duties.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-06
NcMelien's Extra Clerk Hire.

In defense of the prOpriety Of McMel.
lens bill for 81, 800 "extra services" per-
formed by ''order Of the court" and not
by direction of the commissioners, for
which no proposals were ever asked nor
contracts made, and which two of the COM
missiOners did not pay until after they
had informed McMellen that tho business
Of their Office was closed, the Eraminer-iE
its local column-on Thursday-says
The INTELLIGENCER further says, in
trying to show that the charge for this SER
vice was extortiOnate, that the service was
all performed by one moro clerk than the
present incumbent retains, and there it
must know it is wrong, for everybody who
gees into the prothonotary's Office knows
that when the work Of arranging the
papers was begun in January, 1881. there
were five clerks in the office, all of whom
remained until the end of June. The
clerks We're Messrs. Kreider, Slaymaker,
Edwards, Miller and Snyder. At the end
Of June, Mr. Miller entered the revenue
Office, and for the rest of the year. says
Captain McMellen, only two clerks would
have been retained had this work not been
i'll progress.
The facts are that for long time before
January I, 1881, and for some months
after that, the regular force of clerks in the
prothonotary's Office, engaged in it's regu-
lar work and without any reference to this
extra work "by order of court con-
sisted of Messrs. kreider, Slaymakcr, Ed
wards and Miller. ]. Kahler Snyder left
the Grape hotel bar Oh March ID, and
from then On until the end of the year
was irregularly employed in the prothono-
tary's office, having ample leisure
i'll that period to devote considerable time
to the scheme of biackmailing the medical
practitioners and bringing suits against
dead men in which he has been engaged
70 be exact then, ii Snyder left his former
place of employment Oh March 10, and
Mr.. Miller left the prothonotary's Office in
the latter part of June, the exact time
that one extra clerk was employedkin the
prothonotary's Office was less than three
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-06
Nancastcr fntelltgencer>
FRIDAY EVENING, JAN. 8, 1882.
POrter's VindicatfOn.

At last General FitZ John Porter has
Justice done him even by his accus,
For nearly score of years he has BE-.
resting under a stigma which he ha.
been vainly and ceaselessly seeking to
remove, until now the full vindication is
accorded him which the simple facts
have always demanded. This result is
not produced by new evidence so much
as by an unprejuliced consideration of
the old. Grant was vainly appealed to
during the eight years of his presidency
to revise his judgment of General Por-
ter's guilt, but stubbornly refused. lie
saws now that he was deceived by All in
accurate map of the field. But he knew
then that Porter claimed it to he mac
curate and he had then the power to
secure the accurate map which has since
been made by the United States engineers.
General Grant frankly admits that he has
judice, and in view of tine facts it is easy
to see that prejudice alone is responsible
for his failure long since to appreciate
Porter's case according to the truth.
The same influence moved the succeed
ing presidents, and even SO late as last
winter controlled Congress. A bill for t,ln
relief of General Porter Was Introduce,
by 4 member who was SO stupid rs to be
ready to compromise with the prejudice
against Porter, and to accept for him
less than the fullest measure of repara -
tiOn which could be made by the nation
to an officer unjustiy condemned. No
one will deny that under the light which
now shines and convinces POrter's most
prejuiiced Judges, he is entitled to he re-
stored to his full rank in the army and
to receive full pay for the years of his
dismissal. The congressman who had
charge of the relief bill last winter was
weak enough, if we recOllect Alright, to
abate something of this demand, and
drop both salary and rank to secure
some less substantial acknowledgment
of the belief of Congress in Porter's in
nocencc. He vainly appealed to ignor-
ant and prejudiced minds. The most OF
the congressman were willing to take
their impression of the case 1T second
hand, and To hold Porter condemned
under the judgment of Grant and his
other prejudiced judges. Since then
General Porter seems to have appealed
directly to these judges to reconsider his
case under the light of the testimony
which secured for him so complete a
vind;cation 1T the hands of the Schofeld
board of inquiry, and he has appealed
successfully. Generals Grant and Terry
do themselves great credit by their pre-.
sent frank confession of error, although
their confession strongly illustrates the
bad influence which prejudice has in
framing human action.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-06
PANIC STRUCK.
:errible Scene in Church During /. Fimera
Many Persons lni.reII.

':erliDle Scene in q Church DUrin. /. Funeral
Many Persons injured.
In Quincy, Ill.,, during tue funeral ser.
vices of the Rev. Simon Kuhlehenkoeltcr,
at the Salem Evangelical church, 4 fright
full panic occurred. In the rush for the
street some forty persons were injured, six
ladies seriously. The church is one of the
largest in the city, and was filled by the
friends of the deceased. All the seats
were filled, and ill the standing room in
the aislcs and abont tho doors was Occu-
pied.
II is said that :. scat in the gallery broke
down, and the people in tie vicinity
thought the gallery was giving way and
children poured out Of the doors leading
hall leading to the street, all efforts to
stop them being iruitless. The people
were frantic and would listen to nothing.
The scene that followed was indescrihablc
The shrieks of the women, combined with
the shouts of the men, who seemed to be
frightened out Of their senses, were fear
full.
In few minutes the doorway was
blocked up, and, during the greater por-
ton Of this time, half-a-dozen women
were lying Oh the steps under the feet Of
the tcrror-stricken crowd. \ few men
who had recovered from their fright
worked heroically to rescue the nnfortu-
nate women, and succeeded in extricatiDg
them from their perilous position. AS
fast as taken out; they were removed to
houses in the vicinity and cared for. 1t
was found that several were seriously and
probably fatally Injured.
Mrs. Spilker, a married lady, aged about
forty five years, received internal injuries,
from which it is believed she will die :;
Maggie Meyer, young lady, was bruised
in the face by boot heels, and injured in
ternally Mary Meyes, Mary Ann Retter.
Minnie Bundy and Miss Dicl.hut, all
young women, were seriously injured.
Mrs. Daleman, an elderly lady, Mr.. and
Miss Lohman and Miss Wiseman We're also
seriously injured. Rev. DR.. Hollenback
was caught in the crowd and had Il rib
broken.
Many who had been knocked down and
received only slight injuries were taken
home as soon as rescued, aud their names
could not be ascertained. TheSc was no
cause whatever for the panic. After the
excitement which lasted for half an hour,
had subsidized the funeral ceremonies we're
resumed.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-06
FATAL CARELESSNESS.
Using Powder Magazine for u Ia

Using u Powder Magazine for Is Target.
In Oskaloosa, Iowa., terrific expio.
sion of 500 kegs Of powder, the property
of the American powder company. occur
red: 1t was caused by three boys, John
Phillips, Son of the mayor, Gerald Joyce
and John Stedman, who used the side of
a powder magazine, 4 wooden structure,
as target for rifle practice.
They we're instantly killed, and their
bodies frightfully mansled and burned.
were hurled from fifty to two hundred
yards away. Nearly all the plate glass in
the business quarter We're broken by the
concussion, and many houses in the south
ern part of the city were badly damaged.
The losses will aggregate not less than
$50, 600. Many persons were injured by
falling glass and debris. The shock 0.
the explosion was felt at Monroe, on the
Keokuk & Des Moines railroad, dis
tance of thirty miles.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-06
lTEMIZED.
The Jrban-Harnes Ejll.

In an attempted defense of the payment
Of s211 so by County Commissioners Coble
and Bushong to John II. Barnes, for the
late Clerk of Quarter Sessions Urban for
blanks ordered for his office, the Examiner
says the bill "was for such blanks as arc
used in the Office and left there as court rec
ords, and which the court says the county
shoald pay for, and the Nep Era has al
ready said 1.-THE bill for printing was for
blanks for the quarter sessions office, and
Oh which the clerk had already advanced
money, and for which, under the decisions
Of the court, the county was LIABLE
Now in order that the public may know
just what these blanks were and so that
our esteemed contemporaries may cite
1.-THE decisions of the court in which the
"court says tho county should pay FOR
them, we append a copy OF the bill. We
invite our contemporaries to compare
its items with the court ''decisions" and
10 point out when and where and how the
court has said the county should pay for
petition, bond and other blanks:
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-06
Another IS Rlg Rill.o

If anything were neededst show the
impropriety of paying the McMellen bill,
for work never ordered by the county
commissioners and which was never
given out by proposals and bidders, the
additional argument is furnished by the
fact that another county official, the late
register, Edward Edgerley, follows the
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-06
PENNSYLVANIA FRUIT GROWERS
Tweuty-Third Annual Meer,pg

Twenty Third Annual Meeting
This meeting will be held in the state
capitol building on Wednesday and Thurs
day, Jan IS and -. II. NJ. Engle, Of Mari
eta Is one OF the vice presidents Of the as
sociation, E. &. Engle recording secretary,
W. 2. Brinton, of Christiana. correspond
ing secretary c. Hitler, of this county is
chairman of the general fruit committee
and L, :. ReiSt member Of it. 5. S. Rath
Won heads the committee on entomology.
J. G. Engle is on the committee on
orcharding, Z. B. Engle ON the committee
on arrangements and reception, and p. G..
Hitler and W. =. Brinton ON the commit.
tee on Horticulture and arboriculture.
Following arc the essays and addresses
to be delivered
" Annual Address," by the president.
1.-THE Management Of an Orchard
by J. II. Funk, Boyertown, Pa.
"The Pleasures Of Horticulture" by
Calvin Cooper, Bird-in- Hand, Pa.
s. Raising Seeding Fruits" by II. NJ.
Engle, Marietta, Pa.
"Some Practical Points in Peach Cul-
ture," by f. Satterthwait, Jenkintown,
Pa.
"Ouc Winged Frierds, The Birds" by
$. p. Eby, Lancaster, Pa.
Raspberry Culture, DR.. James Calder,
Harrisburg, Pa.
"Lilies and other Bulbs--IIow to Grow
Them" by Thos. Meehan, Germantown.
Pa.
"Should Fruit Growers Encourage Bee
Keeping" by Raphael Sherry, Gettys-
burg, Pa.
Horticultural Fertilizers-Wha arc
Best and Cheapest, and How Applied"
John l. Carter, West Grove, Pa.
Fruits and Vegetables-Their Cul-
ture," BY G. lepier, Reading, Pa.
Several ether addresses are expected.
The following additional subjects have
been proposed for discussion. and men,
bers are requested to prepare or suggest
other topics and hand them in during the
meeting
Are low brancbcL trees preferable to
those trained high
Is pear culture rs profitable As apple
culture?
Should barbed wire supcrseic live
hedge for fencing.
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SIXTY DAYS.
Death Ends tile Long Fast of an Insane
Woman.

Death En,s the Long Fast of an Insane
Woman.
Miss Chloe Ann Violet, who began q
fast sixty days ago in Alexandria, Va,
under the insane delusion that God had
commanded her to commit suicide by fast
ing, has died. Alshough she claimed to
have begun fasting about sixty days ago,
she was not all that time without nourish
ment. Several times small portion of
milk was introduced without discovery
into the water she drank, and lately meat
extracts have been given as medicine.
There seems to be no doubt, however, that
she was without food for forty-three con-
secutive days.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-06
MORE L" BIG BILLS"
ANOTHER IMPUDENT GRAB"
REGISTER EDGExLEYs LITTLE BILL,

The Judges Recommend That He Too he
Very Literally compensated.
Before the new board of county com.
missioners ex-Register Edward Edgerley,
who has just gone out Of Office, presents a
bill for 5000 for rearranging the papers OF
his Office. A statement accompanies the
bill in which Mr.. Edgerley sets forth that
the bill is presented for asserting, rear
ranging, filing and labelling all tho papers
in his office in accordance with the order
of the court. And to give an idea of the
work done he says the bonds, wills and in
ventories filed from 1929 to 1882 have been
thus rearranged, "estimated to aggregate
100, ,OOO." Many of them had been filed
improperly, and every paper was over
hauled, properly folded and arranged-the
accounts from 1870, the wills from 173O.
the bonds from 1929 to 1921, when the
bond book were adopted; 1900 files being
necessary in the work.
No account is given of what these files
cost the register, but the following is ap-
pended to the bill
"This work has been done by TIE
couGty commissioners. recommended
that the new file should be adopted and
put in the registers office. The work
stated in the above bill has been done in 4
most satisfactory and acceptable manner,
and the arrangement is complete. Cap
tain Edgerly should be very literally com
pensated
81. Il. LIVINGSTON,
cd. w. PATTERSON,
Judges
The bill was laid over by the commits
sioners for the present, Mr. Hildebrant
remarking to Mr.. Edgerley S counsel, who
presented it and urged it's payment, that
the recommendation Of the judges that
bill should be paid would not be sufficient
fol him to induce him to approve it with
out III examination into it's merits.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-06
The Week Or PRAYER.

Tomorrow programme in connection
with the week Of prayer Observance is as
follows 3 p. m.-Sccond church of the
Evangelical association-Leader, Rev. J.
3. Shumaker, ID. d. Subject prayer
for Christian missions. the outpouring of
the Holy Spirit and the conversion Of the
world. ."-Daniel vii. 13, Ia, 1S Acts, j..
ES ;. jeremiah XXI, 32-34..