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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-23
ULUB MEN AT POKER,

forgy.three Thousand Dollars Changing
owners ON . single Hand.
Philadelphia Press.
When last young club men tire of the
monotony Of club parlors and smoking.
rooms, they occasionally seek the seclu-
sion of q popular hotel not q mile from the
Union League, and indulge in . quiet
game Of draw-poker-jack-pots and all the
trimmings. A few nights ago such game
was in progress, in which the Phila-
delphia, Social Art and Union League
clubs were represented. After an hour
or 80 of play, with scarcely enough
difference in fortune to warm up the
players, . jack. pot was made, which was
not broken until four or i've deals had
swelled it to handsome proportions.
Young Thomas A. Scott, finding three
queens. threw in $50 gold piece with
great confidence. John Tucker examined
his hand and found pair of jacks, and
the ten, nine and seven of diamonds, one
of his jacks being also of that suit. With
the alternative of drawing to his four flush
Mr.. Tucker remarked that it would
cost $50 to play, and posted the cash.
All the players threw up their hands ex.
cepting Mr.. Scott, who merely saw the
raise. Mr.. Scott drew one card and got
his fourth queen. Mr.. Tucker split his
jacks, and drawing to his four flush took
in the eight of diamonds, making his hand
q straight flush, Mr.. Scott casually re-
marked that his hand was worth 81, 900,
and put that amount in the pot.
My hand is worth So, 00O," said Mr..
Tucker, in q tone whose nervousness
caused Mr.. Scott to think that perhaps an
attempt to bluff was in progress.
Give thousand MORE" Mr.. Scott
said.'
'Fifteen thousand more," Mr.. Tucker
retorted.
Mr.. Scott's confidence in his queens was
undiminished, and he chuckled to himself
to think what snap Tucker had got
himself into.
"Thirty thousand more" was the net
result of Mr.. Scott's brief self. consultation.
Mr.. Tucker paused, ran his eyes over
his hand to see whether it was all right,
and apparently went into a mental com.
putation of his bank account.
81 CALL" he said, throwing up an I. O.
U. to balance the pot.
Four queens" said Mr.. Scott, spread
ing out the hand on the table, and max.
ing move as If to rake in the stakes.
Not SO fast, if you please-a straight
tlush," said Mr.. Tucker. Mr.. Scott's face
fell, and Mr.. Tucker pocketed his win
nings, something over $43, 600 on that
hand.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-23

boteoa. snd = foar ~ tn6Sk - md
il. In China theze b Rood doGEuo - .
good system Of culture foe -. 1fo0
time immemoeial tharo has boon q aY1eoW
Of examination, enforced now . HlGjdly
as ever, among the male populafion,
which takes place first in tAo
towns in which they may live, next
in the capitals Of the respective
provinces and then at the national capital
This examination ia in all their classics
and there are an immense number Of
them, making 70 or so we'll sized volumes.
These classics were collected and arranged
by CONTIGUOUS, but they arc still being very
sl0yly increased by additional classics by
learned modern teachers. The bishop had
seen these classics engraved on marble
slabs in large building called the Hall of
Learning. A certain knowledge of the
classics must be acquired, and then the
first examination takes place. The student
is placed in q small closed stall with
nothing in but . table and writing
material. and gets little food. Out
of about $1,000 of these persons
examined at one time rarely moro than
Is or 20 pass. These are given . badge
and are are accorded . good measure Of
respect. Al the capital Of the province
they 60 through the second examination,
about the same manner as at the first, and
here out of 10000 or 5000, not moro
than IS are successful. This examination
is highe: one, and those who pass it are
beginning to be entitled to Office. At
Pekin the third examination is gone
through. Here 10 or Is out Of thousands
pass, and these are entitled to the highest
position in the government, except that Of
=. k~1 H. -
chosen. Then these 10 or Is pass fourth
examination in the imperial palace. and
the successful ones are Immediately
very little cultivated, although several
schools for girls are being opened
through the influence of American and
European people. As to their religion,
they have Confucianism, which is nothing
but system of morals Tauism and
Buddhism, all blended and making q cor
rupt system that has as many contradic-
tions and Inconsistencies as can we'll be
imagined. The bishop then gave some
account Of their worship, the influence
they attribute to their gods, and the power
of the Fungschui, against which nothing
can be effected and which is most potent
influence retarding improvement and
elevation among tie Chinese. As an in
stance, the bishop told that coal mine
had been opened near town, an un-
usually severe storm arose and it was
attributed to the wrath of tho Fungschui,
who was enraged at what was going on.
The inhabitants compelled all work to
cease.
The bishop closed his remarks with
some very highly eulogistic words upon
the Chinese and their country, and said
that he was amazed when he learned Of the
passage of the law prohibiting them from
our shores. He believed they are destined
to be mighty people.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-23
COLUMBIA NEWS.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

From Our Regular Correspondent.
Half dozen tramps sent down to-day
Osceola tribe initiated a member last even
iDg.-Sea gulls sweeping over the river :;
are said to foretell. ..storm.-Columbia reel
works busy filling orders.-Vige boys in
dignantly deny that any of them raised
Wednesday evenings false alarm.-By a
runaway on Lancaster avenue tho vehicle
was wrecked and the horse had his side
badly lacerated by broken shaft.
First National bank reports $428, ,845. SO
individual deposits sale of reserved
seats for Young Mrs. Winthrop" on
March 28th, opens to- morrow at Richards
bookstore. closed to day also,
some of the manufactures and work
Stacked off at the P. r. R. shops.-Colum-
bia boys visiting Wrightsville girls are
charged with hooking boats to make the
return trip rather than pay bridge tolls
Among the social projects for the sum.
mer's entertainment are an archery club
of twenty couples a boat club with three
four. cared shells, and the purchase Of a
pleasure steamer to cost 1926.
Railroad Accidents.
While Reading & Columbia railroad
freight train was shifting cars at Rossviile,
yesterday, Conductor Reuben Beard was
thrown from car. His face and body
were badly cut and he sustained slight in
ternal injuries. He made . very narrow
escape from being runover by the passing
cars.
Engine No. $40, of the Pennsylvania
railroad, was thrown from the track at
Donegal furnace siding, in Marietta, yes.
terday, by a broken switch. The wreck
ing crew from this place repaired to the
scene of the accident and replaced the en-
gine on tho rails.
Personal.
James Zerger home from Gettysburg
theological seminary for Easter vacation
Misses Nau and Lucy Parry spending
Easter holidays with their grandfather,
Mr.. E. K. Smith. Edwin Redhaeffer
and Mrs. P. M. Gabe, of Philadelphia,
visiting Mrs. w. w. Upp.-Mr. Charles
Roast, of Marietta, and Miss Ella, daughter
of the late James Daily, married at the
residence of the bride last evening by Rev.
R. G. Soaring the guests were handsome
ly entertained.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-23
THE NEW YORK TRAGEDY.

Uonkllng Held TO Answer-Hav crstick
Buried in Carlisle.
At the inquest upon the body of W. H.
Haverstick Thursday, Mrs. Uhler, the
murdered mans paramour, appeared. She
was nervous and weak and her testimony
was interrupted by tears and sobs. Her
physician sat by her and was obliged to
partially support her. She said that she
had lived with Haverstick since last May,
having been compelled to leave her hus
band after many quarrels. When he would
not let her come into his house she had
consented to 60 with her brother to Reno,
Nevada, and on the afternoon of the trag.
edy talked with him in the presence of
Haverstick of the matter. Suddenly
Haverstitk threw off his coat, and, seizing g
something, flung it at her brother. She
rushed between and the shot was fired.
Haverstick, she reluctantly admitted, had
quarreled with her that evening and slap
ped her face, ''but," she added, he "didn't
mean to hurt me-"
.Conkling was then called and told the
story of his coming home to effect recon-
ciliation between his sister and her hus.
band, or to take her home with him. They
were to 60 to Lebanon, Pa, to see her
children, and thence to Reno. On Mon
day evening, when he called on his sister
he found her crying after the quarrel with
Haverstick. She begged him to take her
away, and then the fatal quarrel occurred.
His story of the occurrence did not differ
from that already published.
The inquest was then closed, and Mrs.
Uh!er was, by her consent, taken to the
Office Of her brothers counsel, and thence
to an uptown hotel. The jury found that
Conkling had killed Haverstlck by firing q
pistol, the shot "being fired under great
provocation." Bail was refused, and the
prisoner re committed to the Tombs.
Haverstick's body, in charge of his
brother, passed through Lancaster yester-
day on its way to Carlisle where it was
buried to-day. The Haversticks have no
disposition to prosecute Conkling, and
seem to be satisfied that the distressing
affair should end in it's present shape. w.
H. Haverstick was born in Carlisle in
1852, and resided there until the death ol
his father in 1854, when he and his mother
removed to California. where she now re-
sides with her son, ]. Wilson Haverstick.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-23
CONGRESSIONAL Arr0RrIoNAxN1

The Districts Proposed BY the House.
Following are the congressional districts
under the proposed Democratic apportion-
ment which passed tho House yesterday !:
First Districs-Third, Fourth, Fifth,
Sixth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Sixteenth,
Seventeenth and Nineteenth wards.
Second District - Second, Seventh,
Twenty-sixth apd Thirteenth wards.
Third District-Eighth, Ninth, Tenth,
thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and
Twentieth wards.
Fourth District-Eighteenth, Twenty.
second, Twenty.third, Twenty-ffth and
Thirty-first wards.
Fifth District-Twenty first, Twenty
fourth, Twenty. seventh, Twenty eighth
and Twenty ninth wards.
Sixth District-Chester and Delaware
counties.
Seventh District-Montgomery and Le-
high counties.
Eighth District-Berks county.
Ninth District-Lancaster county.
Tenth Observation-Disclosures and Bucki
counties.
Eleventh District-Lackawanna, Wayne,
Pike, Monroe and Wyoming counties.
Twelfth District-Luzerne and Corbon
counties.
Thirteenth District-Schuylkill and
Columbia counties.
Fourteenth District-Dauphin,L Lebanon
and Perry counties.
Fifteenth District-Bradford, Susque-
hanna, Tioga and Potter counties.
Sixteenth District-Lycoming, Sullivan,
Northumberland, Montour and snyder
counties.
Seventeenth District-Franklin, Fulton,
Bedford, Huntingdon, Mifflin and Juniata
Eighteenth District Cambria, Somerset
and Fayette.
Nineteenth District-York, Adams and
Cumberland.
Twentieth District Centre
Union and Blair.
Twenty-6rst District-Wes Westmoreland
Green and Washington.
Twenty. second District Pittsburgh.
Twenty. third District-City of Alle-
gheny and parts of Allegheny county.
Twenty fourth District-Beaver, Law
renee and parts of Allegheny county.
Twenty-fifth District-Clarion, Jeffer
son, Elk, Mexican, Cameron and Clinton
Twenty sixth District-Butler; Arm
strong and Indiana.
Twenty-seventh District-Erie ant
Crawford.
Twenty-eighth District-Mercer, Ven
ango, Warren and Forest.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-23

SENATOR COOPER has secured the in.
corporation of his amendment to the free
spa1 bill allowing passes to be issued for
benevolent and charitable purposes. It
uould have been much better to have
oUitted the word benevolent" as Sen
ntor Lee moved, as the word "charit-
1&1e - would give all the privilege needed
- onable the railroad companies to ev;-
16nce their possession of respectable
hnnan attributes; but the addition Of
~ word benevolent will hardly suffice
- throw the door open for corrupt dis.
txibution Of free passes, and NO great
akn = likely to come to the public from
AsRe have said before, we do not
Z Snk fRflroads should be forbidden to
IN }kpe transportati0p In charity.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-23
GOOD FRIDAY.
n thy Lords sharp pains

GOOD FRIDAY.
Muse on thy Lords sharp pains
Borne, soul. tor thee :.
Think how He broke deaths chains
To set thee tree.
Muse on the Joy He brought
Fourth from the tomb;
Think how thy life He bought,
Bearing deaths doom.
Lilies of Easter-tide
blossom tor thee;
Pardoned and purified,
Rise, soul, set free!
Mary L. McLanathan.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-23
PERSONAL.


MATT. CARPENTER's estate, now that it
is settled, leaves his family in possession
Of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
He had his life insared for seventy thous
and dollars.
DUKES says he has no notion of going
to Harrisburg that he may as we'll remain
in Uniontown as go anywhere else that
the verdict of the jury was right, but that
if he had been tried for being ga id
fool'' he ought to have been convicted.
JAMES HANNA, who died lately in
Franklin, Venango county, Pa. aged 81,
was born in this city, his parents being
Irish immigrants, who resided in Lancas-
ter only two years, and then pushed west.
ward, where their son grew up with the
country, aud his superiority as cabinet
maker and his moral worth made him a
prosperous and influential citizen.
REV. DIR. E. N. POTTER, of Union
college. Schenectady, New York, has long
had controversy with his faculty who
have tried to oust him from the presidency.
The board Of trustees is very closely divid-
ed and now his opponents are sanguine
of getting him out by the passage of bill
relieving some of the state officials from
er oficio membership in the board. With
out them the anti Potter forces have a
majority.
GEN. JOHN B. GORDON, risen from pow
erty to affluence, lately a senator from
Georgia, and now the most potent rail-
road magnate in the South, grows weary
of railroad building and longs to re enter
political life. A Jacksonville dispatch saws
that he has abandoned Georgia to her Col
quits. her Browns, her Blounts and hor
Boyntons, and has determined to settle
down in Florida, grow up with the coun.
try and 60 to the Senate.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-23
NEAR SUNSET.

Sometimes, from fields grown sadly strange
Since robins fed, by woodland path,
Straight up the valley head range
To reap the days poor aftermath.
The spiders spin across my face;
The startled partridge, fleeing, makes,
A sudden silence in the place
The rasping cricket scarcely breaks.
climb tie hill the top draws nigh;
The path g. Ows light again. ana 10
The pale new moon, the crimson sky,
Ths village on tho plain below!
And weary huskers. binding long
On dusky slopes, still bind by night,
While, like the murmur OF song,
Their talk Is blown across the height.
L. Frank Tooker, in The Century.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-23
THE WAY TO SETTLE 1T.
Judge Blacks Views ON Dukes Admission {
tho House..

Judge Blacks Views ON Dukes Admission 70
tho House.
Pittsburgh Post Interview.
"They don't need any advice at Har-
risburg on this subject" said the judge,
"and probably would not take any,"
Then, after referring to the tempestlous
passion that has been aroused by the trial
Of Dukes, he continued
"There is danger of going too far, as in
all cases where the passions Of men be.
come thoroughly aroused. There is, how
ever, a precedent for declaring Dukes seat
vacant"
"When was that?'
"In 1888 Thad. Stevens, after he tried
to get up the war known in the history of
this state as the Buckshot war, and the
enterprise collapsed, jumped out of back
window of the Senate and ran off to Get
tysburg, where he remained without
claiming his seat for about a month.
When he came in and offered to take the
oath the House resolved with great sol
emnity that his seat was vacant. lido not
believe that this judgment of the House
was founded upon the mere failure of
Stevens to claim his seat, for others who
had been out nearly as long were admitted
without hesitation. The door was shut
upon Stevens by sentiment of indignation
like that felt against Dukes. He had tried
to perpetrate gross fraud by tho intrcs
duction of eleven members from Philadel-
phia who were known not to be elected
and brought troops to Harrisburg with in
tent to force the bogus members upon the
House that knew they had no right there.
If the troops could have been used as he
intended, it would have produced a
civil war, and the whole state might
have been covered with blood and ashes.
If that was the reason for declaring Ste
vens' seat vacant, the case is authority
for a similar judgment against Dukes, but
doubt if it was right. Congress iu sew.
eral cases had turned men out of their
places on the ground that they were i'm.
proper persons-morally unfit to associate
with the members who voted against
them. l think Congress was wrong
every time it did this, as the British
Parliament was wrong in refusing for q
similar reason to seat Wilkes. But what
is to be done in case like this (? It is lit.
orally impossible to let man like Dukes
take part in the legislation of the state.
The House will exclude him, even as the
risk of taking some revolutionary meas.
ure 20 keep him out. II the thing 10 to be
done lawlessly, / would rather 80 it done
outaide The House than ~ H. actiea o.
80 - - ~ g e * q ~ z z a =.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-23

And vhat neGhod woald yoa sueeest,
1r. Blaok, . most suitable - the cass." !"
" Il woad b bettsr, I think, that
somebody should meet him at The depot
and run him on: Of tho town before he has
time to get mp the hill. Probably, how
ever, he viii have too much regard for his
health to mako his appearance there at
a!l's
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-23
GOOD FRIDAY.
1t. Commemorat,on BY tho ohurc

Its Commemoration BY tho Churches.
Good Friday, the commemoration OF
Christ's cruciuxiou Tor the sins of the
world, is universally recognized through
out the Christian world as q day when
tho thoughts Of men should more espec-
tally revert to the great sacrifice made by
tho Creator in their behalf. Besides
being a legal holiday, when banks
and schools arc closed, it is also
made the occasion Of special observances
in nearly all the churches. The services
in the Catholic churches partake of the
extreme solemnity of the day. No sacri-
flee of the mass is offered, but bare
representation of the passion is enacted.
Tracts and lessons from the prophets are
read containing the predictions of the Re.
deemel's coming and his reception, and
these are followed by the history of tho
with which the facts corresponded with
the predictions.
In st. Mary's.
At st. Mary's church at the 8 q. m. SER
vices after the uDveiling of the cross dur
Signum Crucis," and responses by the
altar railing to venerate the sacred en-
blem. The host to be used in the services
was then carried from the altar of repose
to tho tabernacle in the main altar in q
procession led by number of little girls
wearing white veils and scattering flowers
III the pathway of the celebrant. The ser
vices concluded with brief vespers in which
the Psalms chosen hal special relation to
the memorable event. The stations Of the
cross were recited at 5 p. M, the hour at
which historians agreo that the Saviour
expired. In the other Catholic churches
of the city there were fitting services.
In tho ProIestant Churches.
At S.. James Episcopal church special
services were held at 1890 a. M, when
psalms significant of the day commem0r-
ated were lecited, aud other rites OF like
character were celebrated. In the other
Protestant churches there we're special
services commemorative of the significance
of the occasion.
The banks and schools are closed to day
The pupils having vacation until Tues
day-bus regular hours are observed at
the postofice.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-23

AN esteemed religious contemporary
thinks that convict puts it strong, but
perhaps not too strong, when he says he
was sent to prison for being dishonest, and
yet is compelled every day to cut out
pieces of pasteboard, which are put be-
tween tho soles of the cheap shoes made
there and palmed off on the innocent
public as leather.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-23

THE man Silas Gray. who is under
sentence of death in Westmoreland
county for the murder of a woman six
years ago, was convicted upon the testi-
mony of a horse thief, who said that
Gray had told him he killed her with a
hatchet and threw her body into the
creek, and upon the additional evidence
that Gray had once said he would make
way with her, and upon the supposed
Identification, as hers, of the lower jaw
bone of skull which arose to the sur
face of the creek. The board OF pardons
has refused to commute his sentence and
the governor has issued his death war
rant. Now comes postal card to Har.
risburg, the writer of which says that
one /" Jack Petty" told him he took the
supposed murdered woman "over the
mountain and made away with her, and
said he was afraid he would be hung for
It." It will be easy to ascertain if this
card is q genuine communication or only
Q clumsy attempt to save the prisoners
life. But surely the case, irrespec-
tive of this, is one calculated to
arouse public interest. The evidence
would hardly have convicted anybody
but such vagabond as the prisoner is
Represented to have been, and the insult
nciency of the Identification of the
corpus delicti, as well as the bad charac
ter Of the only witness for the common,
wealth, makes it case which, should it
end in the hanging of the prisoner, will,
we believe, be without a parallel in the
history of the state.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-23
An Apparent Vacancy

The post Office department yesterday
received from the governor of Montana
territory the following remarkable dis
patch /: "The vigilantes at Greenhorp,
Montana, have removed the Democratic
post master by hanging. The government
fuel must be scarce - he was caught barn
burning. The ofice is now vacant. The
sureties hAve been notified to take charge
Of the once