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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-02
u. A. X. Inspection.

Last evening the members of George H.
Thomas Post "a, G. A. R., assembled in
their hall to the number OF about sixty
and we're inspected by the state inspecting
officer, Fl. Mullen, OF Columbia, assisted
by J. NJ. Wright Tho books, papers,
finances, &c., of tie post were found to be
correct and in good condition, but the in
specting officers were somewhat disaD-
rointed at the comparatively small number
of members belonging to the post and the
smaller number found to be uniformed
The post numbers only about $50 mem,
bers, and large proportion are without
uniforms. Columbia with less than one.
third of our population has a post number
ing 210 members. most of whom arc uni
formed
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-02
GATELE THIEF IN CUSTODY.
The sequel OF Young Mans Travel
Through n Mountainous Region.

The sequel OF Young Mans Travels
Through n Mountainous Region.
At Ashland. Oscar Wagner, young
man aged about "a years, was arrested
yesterday morning On a charge of cattle
stealing. DC has travelled under numer-
GUS aliases and is charged with cattle
thefts in various parts of the country. He
claims Shenandoah as his home, and, as a
large number of cows have been missing
from there, he will have 10 answer for the
charge to day. lie captured the cows
while they were browsing on the noun
tains and drove them to towns at dis
tance, where he disposed of them at such
astonishingly low figures that suspicion
was 1T once drawn to him. His stealings
amount to near $1,000.
Disasters OF the Day.
The disaster on the Grand Trunk rail.
road, at Stratford Vermont. on Thursday,
the breaking of bridge. A freight
siding so that it was struck by passing
train and thrown from the track upon the
bridge. The bodies of the engineer and
fireman have been recovered from the
river. The injured brakeman will recover,
near East Saginaw, Michigan was demol-
ished yesterday morning by tho explosion
Of boiler. Three men were killed and
five injured, two fatalIy.-By the bursting
Of boiler near Bayou CHEST, Louisiana,
yesterday. two men were killed and eight
men and boys severely injured.-A small
boat going out to steamer at She'll Point
near Tallahassee, Florida, yesterday, cap
sized in heavy sea and Judge Baldwin
and two other men were drowned. John
Fitzgerald, John Walton and John Naus-
land, log drivers were drowned in the
Muskegon river, a: Hersey, Michigan, on
Thursday.
Tho Misfortunes OF Western Traveller.
Lewis Jaeger, aged 25 years, a grandson
of the noted Lutheran minister, Rev. G.
F. j. Jaeger, deceased, returned to Ham
burg from Montana territory, several
days ago, presenting pitiable sight
During last winter, while travelling in a
stage, they were caught in a ''blizzard"
and snowbound, and several of the passen
gers were frozen to death. Mr.. Iaeger's
injuries were so severe as to require the
amputation of both logs just below the
knee. The fingers of both hands were
also amputated.
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THIS MORNINGS COURT.

Tho Business Disposed Of To-day.
Court met this morning at 9 O'Clock.
when considerable current business vss
transacted.
The preliminary Injunction which Was
granted against John I. Hartman, presi-
deut, and J. Fred Sencr, secretary, OF the
Washington fire company, to prevent them
from distributing the moneys of said
company, was for the present dissolved.
Counsel for Valentine Hoffman and w.
Oster, plaintiffs in this case, then asked
leave to amend tho bills filed, SO that the
fifth paragraph shall read as follows:
That the said John l. Hartman and
j. Frederick Sener are about to distribute
the said money aud securities for the pay
ment OF money among certain members
OF the said Washington fire engine and
hose company in pursuance of what your
petitioners are informed and have reason
to believe will be resolution passed BY a
majority of the members OF said com
pany." The amendment was allowed,
and the plaintiffs asked for another pre-
liminary injunction. The court then, after
hearing some argument, withdrew the
decree, dissolving the preliminary iDjunc-
tion, and continued the matter to next
Saturday.
The matter of the rule to show Gauss
why the sentence Of George Brimmer,
convicted of arson, should not be recon.
sidered, was continued until the third
Monday Of June.
A soldiers license was granted to II. &.
Sturk, Of Ephrata.
Several guardians of minor children
were appointed.
In the matter of the preliminary injunc.
ton, granted against Frederick Englc, at
the instance of John Le;bly, to restrain
the defendant from tearing down q fence
between the properties of tho parties, the
injunction was continued to argument
court.
Court adjourned to next Saturday morn
ing at 10 o'clock.
supreme Court Opinions Filed.
Before rising at Harrisburg yesterda,
the supreme court is reported to have re.
versed the Lancaster county court in th.
case of Wilson VS.. Van Leer, and the re
ported reversal in "Madden's appeal" il
generally believed to he reversal O
Judge Patterson in Madiem's appeal, thu
famous Ephrata church case.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-02
LABOR NO TES.
General Rejoicing In PittsDnrgh.

General Rejoicing In PittsDnrgh.
The signing of the scale of wages by the
iron manufacturers of Pittsburgh has
caused great rejoicing among all classes in
that city. A number of the mills are now
running and all will resume on Monday.
Most of them are shut down until that day
to allow tho men to attend the annual
picnic Of the Amalgamated association at
Beaver to day.-The nail mill in Bellville,
Illinois, Was running yesterday as usual,
and it is said the Western mill will resume
as soon as the damage by the late fire is
repaired. Both mills work on the same
scale as last year, and use old rails instead
of tue pudding system. The nut and bolt
mill in East St. Louis was also running
yesterday The North Chicago rolling
mill company's works at Bay View, near
Milwaukee,, were shut down yesterday
morning. except the blast furnace, throw
ing I, 100 men out of employment.-The
works of the Calumet iron and steel com
pany i'll South Chicago, except tho blast
furnace, closed ON Thursday night. Their
closing throws 800 men out of work.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-02

ELECTRIC light for municipal ilfumin-
alton is certainly in accord with the
demands of the times and the require
ments of the city. Lancaster had good
occasion to complain of the gas company
when it had the contract for lighting the
city and the oil lamps have certainly not
been satisfactory. The proposition for
electric light, which seems to meet the
unanimous favor of the lamp committee,
seems to be entirely practicable and not
burdensome or extravagant in its cost.
The offer is no doubt made in the ex-
pectancy that the light will prove so sat
isfactory that the city will buy the plant,
which. il is claimed, can he paid for III,
the saving of five years use of the cleo
trio over the gas system. Be this rs it
may, the immediate proposition to try
electric light, at slightly increased co t
over gas and oil. is one that will COM
mend itself to the public aud no doubt
councils will see it that way.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-02

The newspapers which chuckled over
the defeat of the free pipe line bill were
rather previous in their exultatiOn. It
has become law despite their unrea-
sonable opposition, and the people whom
they have tried to befool and befuddle on
this question will discover that their
motives were not consideration for the
public good nor the rights of private
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property, Us was very manifest in the
fact that they never raised the slightest
alarm against the dangers to fam lands
from oil pipes until an odious monopoly
had obtained its exclusive right of way.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-02

If, as seems probable, the reported re-
versal by the supreme court of the lower
court in Madden's appeal' turns out
to be Madlem's appeal in the Ephrata
church case, there is likelihood of the
approach of termination to this famous
litigation, with which our readers have
become reasonably familiar in its tedious
course through the local courts 1t will
be remembered that the case went up on
an appeal from the action of Judge Pat.
terson-Judge Livingston dissenting
in sustaining the Nolde trustees, and
enjoining the Konigmacher board from
acting. The reversal of his decision is
in effect to sustain Judge LivingstOn's
position that the action of one judge, the
other dissenting, is not the action of the
court. And in view of the tendency of
our judges to disagree the settlement of
this question is of great impo rtance to
this community, and the enjoyment by
its citizens of their liberty and property.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-02
Base ball Yesterday.

At Reading: Active, 8; Merritt, 13; :;
New York New York, 49,; Detroit, !;
Brooklyn: Columbus, 5; Brooklyn, 4;
Boston Buffalos, q; Boston, s; Harvard,
13; Princeton, 4 Providence Providence,
z; Cleveland, 8; Washington: National,
10 Eclipse, of Louisville, 8.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-02

If the Legislature had worked all tho
session as steadily and earnestly as now
the people of the state would have more
cause to be proud of it.
The Universal Peace society is still
alive. 1t had an anniversary in New York
yesterday and will be heard from some of
these days. The New Jerusalem (Sweden-
borgian) church assembly now in session
in Boston shows gratifying ecclesiastical
progress. The religious anniversaries are
in full bloom.
THE Ledger suggests that "while no
bad act of commission is likely to be
charged against this Legislature, it really
begins to look as if it will be chargeable
with several serious sins of commission
True enough; and yet in a legislative
body the sins of omission are the least
dangerous. Besides, one reform Lcgisla-
ture cannot bs expected to undo all the
bad work of twenty deformed assemblies.
THE Vicksburg Herald, noticing the
tendency of many Of his misguided con-
temporaries, to foretell the resalts of the
next Democratic national convention pre-
fers to test its powers Of vaticination by
predicting who will not be the nominee. 1t
bowls out Tilden. Cleveland, Bayard, Nc,
Clellan, Hancock, Randall, Thurman,
Pendlcton,. Mcdonald, VOORHEES,, Field,
Rosecrana, Hendricks and Hosdley. In at
least thirteen out of these fourteen nantes
the Herald is sure to be right.
BISHOP POTTER, has determined to de.
fer any action upon the charges preferred
against the Rev. R. Heber Newton until
autumn. The postponement is due to two
reasons. First, the infirm health of thu
venerable prelate, which has wholly un
| fitted him for the task of examining thes'
charges with the care and consideration
that are required in such case ant
second, desire to divide the responsibilit!
with the diocesan convention, whicl
meets in October, as we'll as to allow Of a,
investigation of certain counter charge
that have been lately brought forward, a
to tho orthodoxy of one of the three clergy
man that have signed the prcsentmen
against the rector of Ali Souls.
The New York Times is unduly excite,
because desperate murderer VIII
wrecked the railroad train at Ephrata an.
who has been protected by "the outlaw
that infest this portion of the country,
was admitted to bail. 1t cannot under
stand why the people here did not rise sj
masse, storm the Jail and hang the mur
derer; or. they failing to do this, why TIM
court did not speedily try and "railroat
the atrocious murderer to the peniten
tlary." If the Times had kept up with tn
news it would know that this desperate
outlaw " was half.witted boy 12 year
old, and it would not have mads itsel
ridiculous by trying to mako Lancaste
county Infamous.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-02

If the councils accept the proposition
to light the city by electricity they should
accept the experience of other cities and
require the wires to be laid under ground.
In addition to the objection to planting
poles on the streets, there is apositive
danger to be feared from the suspended
electric wires. The report of the chief
of the "-e department of Philadelphia,
made lately to the city authorities, por-
trays the character of this danger. Ger
tainly our firemen have enough OF diff
Guilty and danger in their employment
without adding to it other risks. 1t may
be that the Philadelphia chief over
rated the embarrassment to his depart
ment from electric wires but he ought
to be good Judge of it, and even if the
dangers he sees are partly imaginary, if
they are believed by the firemen to exist,
they should not be hazarded when they
can be so readily avoided as they may be
by burying the wires. In Chicago this
is done; and it's practicability having
been demonstrated and its desirability
being clear, the authorities of other
cities should impose this reasonable le'
quirement upon electric light companies;
at the proposed cost, the electric light
for the streets seems to be desirable
for Lancaster but let it be introduced
in the most approved manner.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-02
Relieved of objections.

As published yesterday the till to allow
the court here to sentence prisoners to the
Eastern penitentiary was recalled from
the governor to be cured of some objec-
tions which he had to signing it. To day
q pecial to the INTELLIaENcER Informs
us, Senator Mylin had the bill 60 amended
as to relieve it from this objection.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-02

The public schools Of Lititz closed to-
day with public exercises, the following
being the programme for the occasion !:
Prayer, by Rev. c. Nagle; music, "Al-
pine Horn - salutatory essay, "Well
Begun is Half Done," Lottie Hacker !;
recitation, cat tho Old Well" Martha
Diehm ; composition, "DanieI," Wilbur
Albright music "Chorus-Music is a
blessing; recitation, "King Midas"
Lizzie Barr; recitation, Sandaiphon,"
Mary Miller; recitation, "Tbe
Clowns Baby" Lizzie Kaufman !;
music, g The Old Oaken Bucket - COM
position, ''Vacation," Annie Barr reci
tatiop, "What to Expect" VIM. Binge-
man music, piano solo, ''PleyePs Hymn, :"
Lizzie Kaufman recitation, THO Saw
ing Mission of Infancy" Matte Offender
fer recitation, The Owl Critic" Bessie
Miller music, chorus, "Speak Gently -
presentation of certificates music, piano
duet, II. Tshudy and NJ. Evans valedic-
tory essay, "The Hills arc Green Afar
OFF, Ella Hacker music, chorus, "Farm-
er Boy - address by Prof. Shaub; music,
chorus, ''Twickenham Ferry"
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offered u Good Position.

Prof. W. B. Hall has been offered the
position Of teacher of music at the Ship
pensburg normal school. He has not de-
cided whether or not he will accept.
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LITTLt: LUCSLs.
nero and Tnere and Everywnsre.

hero and There and Everywnsre.
Geo. Kline has killed copperhead
snake, IS inches long, on the reservoir
grounds.
The York lawyers who were in the
Coyle case, and some who were nh are
trying it over in the newspapers.
Daniel Lefevre shipped from Brimmer's
stable this morning nineteen head Of fine
heavy draught horses for Solomon Mehr-
bach.
The examinations OF the pupils of the
secondary schools III history of the United
States and music took place to day in the
high school building The boys were
examined this forenoon. There wers
sizty.fye Of them present. Tho examin-
atoms of tho girls' secondary school began
this afternoon.
Daniel Bertzel, little son Of George
W. Bertzal. 423 North Prince street, had
two OF his fingers cut of yesterday after
noon. The boy had entered the cigar
manufactory of John H. Abraham, close
by, and commenced playing with the ma
chine used for cutting scrap tobacco
Getting his fingers under the sharp knives
they were instantly disseveled
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-02
A SERIOUS Fall,

Mrs. Joe! Bair, Of Earl. who weighs $50
pounds, broke her collar bone and severa!
ribs and received severe shock to her
system by falling through NOW into the
stable below.
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Grade Of Pupils,

The following is the percentage of the
pupils of James street higher grade sec
Ondary school for May, 1888:
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Tho Pittsburgh knights Pleased.

Ihe PlttsOurgh despatch of yesterday
has the following concerning tho return of
the Sir Knights of that city from Lancas-
ter: Yesterday evening tho Knights
Temp]ar who visited Lancasc or aud parti-
cipated in the annual grand conclave in
that city returned home and were received
royalty by their brethren who remained at
home. Shortly after 6 o'clock the Sir
Knights of Pittsburgh, Allegheny,
Tancred and Ascalon Communicates. es
eorted by the Eighteenth regiment drum
corps and Washington infantry, paraded
the principal streets and met tho rsturr-
ing Communicates, and r. 4. Grand
Commander, r. E. Sir Charles W. Batche
lor at the Union depot. After tbs recep.
tion at the depot, the procession moved
through the principal thoroughfares to the
asylum in the Library hall building.
Here banquet had been prepared for the
travlers, and several hours were spent
around the festive board. The visitors to
Lancaster speak of their reception and
treatment by the Sir Knights of that city
in the highest terms, the trip being full of
pleasant events"
THE visiting knights from all parts of
the state, according to the newspapers
which note their return home, were de-
lighted with the hospitality they met in
this city, and are profuse in their praises
of its Templars and citizens generally, and
especially of the chivalry aud courtesy of
Grand Commander Breneman, our popular
townsman. The Baltimore telegram notes
especially the delight of the Monumental
commandery, in the beauty OF this city,
the elegance of its decorations on Wed.
nesday, the beauty of its ladies, their
entertainment by the citizens and "unpre-
cedented hospitality" of Eminent Sir
Breneman and his resident brethren.1
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An Unsound Position.

T. Mcdowell Sharpe is an excellent
lawyer and a conscientious legislator,
but we do not appreciate the force of the
position he took that it would be an
er post facto and therefore an unconsti-
tutional law to prescribe a punishment
now for acts heretofore committed, but
subsequently to the adoption of the con-
stitutiop, in violation of that instrument.
The constitution forbade the consolida
tion Of competing telegraph lines. When
the constitution was adopted, it was
undoubtedly unlawful to combine such
lines. But the Legislature had not
fixed the penalty for such violation. Now
it does SO and the question is whether
that penalty can be inflicted for the
violations of the constitution prior to It's
being declared. 1t may seem a NICE
point to lawyer but to the common
sense of layman there can be no DIM
Guilty in deciding that those who violate
the constitution, before the penalty 1or
such violation is prescribed, run
the risk of any penalty which
NAV afterwards be imposed. They
do an unlawful act, undoubtedly
Can they not be punished for it Mus
not a areasonable time at least be allowed
to the Legislature during which to pro-
vide the penalties called for by the con-
stitution q? And may that instrument be
violated in the interim with impu'
nifty? If the law is the perfection OF
reason, no such absurdity will be de-
clared by it. No wrong is done the of
fender he has violated the constitution
knowingly a; and though he has done sc
10 ignorance of the penalty to be i'm
posed, he has not done it in Ignorance
that penalty was commanded to be i'm
posed, and when he has "gone blind"o
his own free will, he cannot be permitted
to plead his ignorance as his excuse.
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NElGHBoRHOOD NEWS.

Events Near and Across the County Ltbes,
Fifteen sandstone cutters, employed by
Christian Eben in Reading, have struck
because he would not discharge two pnn
union men.
The supreme court adjourned for the
summer yesterday, after re-transferring e
to the Middle district the counties Of
Cumberland and Fulton:
The old Merchants hotel, on Fourth
street, Philadelphia, was closed yesterday
for lack of patronage. For many years it
has been the residence OF Hon. 5. J. Ran
dali.
Hundreds of people tishel along the
banks of the Schuylkill as far as Reading
for black bass yesterday. 1t was the
opening day of the legal season for this
sport.
Matthew Hale Jones, ono Of the oldest
members of the Northampton county bar,
and a very prominent and wealthy citizen
of Easton, died as that place yesterday,
aged 70 years.
A child of William Oppenheimer, seven
teen months old, fell from a third-stOry
window yesterday, alighting on the basket
of woman who was passing, and sustain.
ed no further injuries than severe shak-
ing up.
Thomas Kelly, a boy about 13 years of
age, has been missing from Flourtown.
Montgomery county, since Tuesday. He
has light hair and complexion, and wore
when last seen derby hat, dark clothes
and flannel shirt.
There was a special Session of tho board
of pardons in Harrisburg, yesterday, to
consider the case Of Charles Golding, re-
ported to be dying in the West Chester
Jail, where he is serving three years
term for burglary. His pardon was re-
commended.
Tho bill making an appropriation for the
pedestal of the equestrian statue of Gen.
John F. Reynolds passed the Senate finally
yesterday. And the Times recommends
that it be placed in Fairmount park in
front of Memorial hall and in full view of
the Pennsylvania railroad.
The bill to fix the compensation of
judges of the courts of common pleas in
the state which has passed both Houses
and has gone to the governor for his APP
proval, fixes the salaries of Philadelphia
judges at $7,O 900, Allegheny county so, 1000,
and in other counties "a 600 each, but
allows an increase Of s., 900 to the prcsi
dent judge of the Twelfth district, for
trying commonwealth civil cases; provided
in all districts with population not cx
ceeding 10000 with but one Judge, tho
salary shall be $1,000.
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If the Legislature had worked all tho
session as steadily and earnestly as now
the people of tho state would have more
cause to be proud of it.