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Halter Breaking Horses.

There is a remedy to prevent a horse
of the bad habit of pulling back when
tied up SO as to smash his halter or bri-
die. A half-inch rope passed around
the shoulders and along the back and
under the tail; the halterstrap is run
through a ring on the rope at the front
of the shoulders, and then it is attached
to the post or munger; a short piece of
strap is used to fasten together and hold
up the two parts of the rope that pass
along the back. When the horse pulls
upon the halter, severe pressure is
brought to bear on the crupper, making
the animal Jump forward, and after he
has made two or three trials he gives in
and abandons his habit.
Practical Hints About Eye Glasses.
Persons finding their eyes becoming
dry and itching on reading, as well us
those who find it necessary to place an
object nearer than fourteen inches from
their eyes to read, need spectac]es.
Persons under forty years of age
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-28
A TElSRIBLE TALE,

lnhuman Treatment Of Two Boys.
One of the most peculiar cases over
tried in the courts Of Lackawanna county
had a hearing in Scranton yesterday. The
defendants were d. E. Westcott and his
wife, who were prosecuted for the lnhu-
man practice of burning the hands of their
two sons, Willie and Charlie, by placing
them upon hot cooking stove to cure
them of the habit of stealing. The couple
did not attempt to deny that they had
placed the hands of the boys on the stove,
but they pleaded in extenuation of the act
that the stove was not red hot, as had been
alleged. Mrs. Westcott, who is a strong
minded stepmother of fiercely religious
tendencies, told the court that she knelt
by the stove with little Willie and tried to
impress him with the fact that that was
the throne of grace, and that the heat
which made him howl when it touched
his palm was intended to remind him of
the torments of eternal fire which
awaited him unless he reformed forthwith.
Then she prayed, and asked the boy to
unite with her while she continued to hold
his hands upon the purgatorial metal, but
instead of being reconciled to his MARTYR
dom the lad yelled with pain and terror
and thrilled the neighborhood with his
agOnizing cries. Charlie, the other brother.
was treated similarly by his father and
The red hot stove was said
to be the climax in long catalogue of
inflicted upon the offending
boys without effect. They had been
whipped severely and on one occasion
Charlie had been compelled to stand for
three hours on the edge of barrel. Be-
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-28

THE Pittsburgh Dispatch thinks that
Governor Pattison is inconsistent in
vetoing Pittsburgh's charter because it
is special law for Pittsburgh alone, for
hidden by the constitution, while saying
that he would be glad to approve some
"well digested and comprehensive
scheme for the government of thai
CITY," But the governor adds, if it
conforms to The requirements of the fun
damental law.' Pittsburgh can conf
ply with the requirements of the funda
mental law prohibiting special legislation
for cities by combining with Phila.
delphia to get up first class
charter adapted to large cities. Pitts.
burgh claims to have the 800, 900 pop.
ulatiOn which enables it to come in as a
city of the first class, and why then does
it want to stand out in cold solitude as
city of the second class? The supreme
Court has decided that a single city ia a
class may be legislated for, notwit'!, md,
ing the constitution. But the ,..i.,. ne
court has too often demonstrated i,s in
capacity to read the constitution accord
ing to its spirit to entitle it's Judgment
to any more consideration than it has
received at the governors hands.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-28
NE,si.ss.3ssh.yOD NEWS.

Events Near and Across tho County Lines
Mr.. Hawley, editor of tho Reading
| Eagle, sails for Europe to-day.
| Roger llOwells, aged 70 years, commit
ted suicide at Pl5tstOn Oh Wednesday by
hanging.
| AUGUSTUS Behr, Pole, fell from the to-,
of a flight OF stairs 1T Reading and ro
ceived injuries from which he died in d
a few hours.
An unknown man, who was afterwards
captured with his booty, entered the
house of Dr.. NJ. G. Preston at Norristown
On Wednesday, and took an ics pitcher
valued at $780,
Hugh w. Mccall, of York. has brought
suit for libel against Hiram Yonng, editor
of the York Dispntch. Mr.. Young was
arrested, waived a hearing and eutcra.i
into recognizance If $500 bail.
Several hundred brick!ayers in Reading
have made a demand for 1915 per day
al increase of % cents iu the present
wages. With ono or two exceptions ali
the contractors have complied with the
demands.
The Riuggod baud of Reading have
just received their new uniforms, which
were made expressly to their order i'll
France, aud are patterned after tho uni
forms of the French infantry, consisting
of dark blue coat and red pants with black
stripe.
| The county roads and wheat fields
around Reading have been badly washed
| by the heavy rains of Yesterday. At
| ditch 200 yards long and several feet deep
was formed by the water and all trains
were stopped. A large number of men
were put to work but they cannpt accom-
plish much because Of the rush of water
Tho PhHaixville s. West Chester rail
road will be ready for travel by July /.
The last rails were laid yesterday. Con
siderable lining up and ballastinS remain
to be done up yet, but the whole work will
be completed in few days. A party of
prominent PhH lixville gentlemen intend
visiting West Chester on Monday next by
this new line.
The West Chester Village Record says ::
FrankfOrd's breaking out of Jail has
started several other prisoners to digging,
but as yet none of them has succeeded in
getting away.-Dunn, who got out of
Jail when Frankford and Robson did, is
said to be very desperate fellow.-Thc
prisoners are lonesome without Robson,
he used to sing to them in the evenings
Frank ford is very quiet man and is
at present suffering with large boil un-
der his left arm. He spends most of his
time walking the floor of his COLI
Mundy still carries two balls, one in his
arm and another in the abdomen.
The Philadelphia baseball club mana.
gers have evidently got hold of great
prize. A representative Of the club went
to Webster, Mass, and got away from
the Webster their pitcher, Arthur Hagen,
who, although not more than twenty
years old, has wonderful record chus far
this year, uot more than two or three hits
per game having been averaged off his
delivery. In one game of six innings he
struck out twelve of the eighteen men at
bat. He has been troubled to find u
catcher who could go up under the bat
and hold the third strike. He pitches 4
ball hot and swift over the plate, but has
all the curves.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-28
Separate Orphans Courts.

A Reading correspondent writes to US
in the matter of the orphans court
judgeship for Berks county, that the
law establishing the court was not de
sired by the people that it was passed
without the thirty days advertisement
being given that the constitution re.
quires for proposed special legislation
that remOnstrance against it was pre-
sented to the Senate, but that it was not
read in the House Us it Should have
been that the orphans court is held
in the county on but eleven days in tho
year; and that Judge Hagenman, who is
active in pressing Mr.. Schwartz into
this judgeship is not aiming to adorn
the bench with dignity, intelligence and
honor, and that it is too much his habit
to drag the judicial ermine in politi-
cal mire.
We quite agree that Judge Hagenman
has not a proper conception of the dig
nifty and duty of his position and that it
is unbecoming in him to exhibit him
self as an active politician. Still that is
the nature of the beast,' and the
judge probably can't help it, but he Ger
tainly miStOOk his calling when he
sought the ermine, as a great many of
our judges have done. Men who reach
the bench by political intrigue cannot
change their natures and drop their
habits when they get there aud they
cannot afford it, either, for the time of
their reelection comes around every ten
years, and as they cannot earn renOmi
nation by merit they need to look out
for it by management.
We do not know whether or no the
Berks county people wanted this orphans
court judgeship but our correspondent
does not state the case properly when he
alleges that there is only eleven days
business for the orphans court Judge.
Atpresent the common pleas judges del
egate their orphans court labors to au-
ditors whom they appoint from the bar.
There should be ample business in Berks
county to keep an orphans court Judge
busy during every day in the year but
there will he little business left for audi
tors in the distribution of decedents'
estates. The simple question is whether
it is better to have estates distributed by
score or two of lawyers as auditors or
by one lawyer as a judge. The strength
of the argument is all in favor of the
distribution by a Judge, as it should be
the cheapest, promptest and most eff
cient way and would be if the Judge is
q for his place. It all turns on this,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-28
CRIME AND ACClDENT
The Plain Trail OF BlOOdshod and Dis

The Plain Trail Of BlOOdsllod and Disaster.
A stage coach going from Helena to
Deer Lodge in Montana, was stopped by
two highwaymen about 3 O'Clock on Sat
urday morning. John Mccormick, a post
trader, who sat on the box beside the
driver, drew a revolver and fired on the
robbers woundin9, one 50 badly that he fled
back into the brush. The other returned
tho fire, wounding ono of tho horses,
whereupon the team took fright, AID was
soon beyond range Of the robbers.
A 6 year. old daughter of Lawrence John
stOn, of Huntersville township, North
Carolina, was found dead in her father S
barn yesterday hanging by IL halter. She
was alone playing in the barn with Il hal
ter, one end of which was fastened to a
door hinge, and it is supposed her foot
slipped and she foil, the moose closing
under her chin and breaking her neck.
A fire occurred yesterday afternoon in Il
heading ina breast ut the Monitor col.
liery, situated about two miles from Mt
Carmel, Pa. Several men were overcome
by gas aud were carried out of the mine.
The origin and extent of the fire are at
present unknown. The colliery employs
over 500 men and boys.
A special dispatch from Greenville,
Texas, to the New Orleans Times Demo :
crdt says that two colOred men who com.
mitted an assault upon lady, near JEFF.
fersoD, were Wednesday taken from Jail,
and one hanged and tho other burned to
death.
William Ray, proprietor of a boarding
house at Pullman, Illinois, Wednesday,
shot and instantly killed Thomas Dowdie
aud George Fox, two young men who had
made threats against his life. Ray asserts
that tho act was in self defence.
The Buffalo ECening Neacs publishes a
number of affidavits alleging shameful
crueltieS in the management of the Sol
Giers and Sailors home at Bath, New
York. The affidavi;s arc from inmates of
the home.
The schooner Clara Bell. with p cargo of
paving stones fox New York, struck on
Avery's Rock, at Rockport. Massachu-
setts, on Tuesday evening, and will be a
total loss.
The steamer RLinwidda, ashore near
Torbay, Nova Scotia, is reported in so bad
position that there is no hope of saving
her.
The yacht Hayward, reported by tele
geam from Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
as probably lost, has been heard from.
She was fog bound.
A fire in Nashville, Tennessee, Wednes-
day destroyed the building at Clark and
Front streets with its contents, and greatly
damaged the Woodward building ad-
joining. The loss is estimated at $49,-
600.
In an affray at Collingsville, Alabama,
yesterday, William Mullins and Thomas
Hall and his son were killed and John
Mullins was fatally wounded.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-28
PERSONAL.

BISHOP OHARA is prominently named
for tho successor to Archbishop Wood.
Dir. II. S. BAUGHER, late of Howard
university, has been elected to the profcs-
sOrship in Pennsylvania college, Gettys
burg, vacated by Prof. jacobs resigna-
tiOn.
SENATOR VOORHEES, has recently &c
quired the habit of taking snuff. He CAL
ries a neat ebony box in his trousers
pocket, from which he takes a pinch of
old rappeo every ten or fifteen minutes.
SENATOR BAYARD, Of Delaware, Justice
Wood, of tho U. s. supreme court, Gov
ernor Waller, of Connecticut, and George
w. Cable, of New Orleans, received tho
degree of LII. d., from Yale college yes
| terday.
H. S. MCNAIR heads the York county
delegation to the Republican state con
vention. He was an Independent last
year and is tho implacable enemy of Hiram
Young, of the York Dispatch, who chad
been" Il candidate for state treasurer.
JOHN O. JAMES, the we'll known Phila-
dclphia merchant who died on Tuesday.
was native of Bucks county, founder of
the house of James, Kent, Santee & Co.,
and a liberal minded and active Democrat.
He was highly esteemed and worthy
citizen, known and respected throughout
the state.
Col. DAVID =. PARKER, recently ap.
pointed postmaster at Washington, D. c.,
is suffering severely from the laceration of
both hands, received at his home, in
Randolph N. Y, in an attempt to separate
fighting dogs on Sunday. He received
prompt medical attention, and hopes are
entertained that nothing serious will result.
The dogs we're both killed, by order of
Mrs. Parker.
ALGERNON SARTORIs, the Eualishman
who married Gen. Grants daughter Nellie,
for some years has spent several months
each season on his farm near Green Bay, a
hundred miles or SO north of Milwaukee,.
He is now the subject of some scandal in
the Western papers, in connection with an
English widow who lived in grand style
in Milwaukee, and suddenly disappeared.
leaving long list of unpaid bills.
RUFUS HATCH is philosopher as we'll
as finaucier, and the other day he put a
pertinent truth into a pithy phrase as
follows 81 owned last June a year ago
three times as much corn as there was in
the city Of Chicago. bought other peo
ple's imaginations. If had held it thirty
days longer would have made $500, 900
more than did. 1t was as illegitimate as
could be. bought what 1 didn't want,
and the other man sold what he didn't
have"
Miss Blossom DRUM, daughter of Ad.
jutant General Drum, was married in
Washington last evening to Lieuter ant
Henry j. Hunt, of the navy. The cere.
mony was performed at the residence of
the brides parents. President Arthur
and Chandler were among those present.
The bride wore dress of white silk,
pleated in front, with basque and train of
brocaded satin. The veil was of tulle,
fastened to the head with a daisy. The
all wore white. The house
was covered with flowers,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-28
MAIL NEWS.
DDlSGss ALL OVER THE CCUNTKY
The Republican State Nominations IN West
ern StaIes-Recent Happeninyv
of Crime and Accident.

Tho Republican State Nominations IN West
ern Stases-Recent Hsppeninys
of Crime and Accident.
The Republican state convention of Iowa
met yesterday in Des Moines, and elected
Col. d. u. Henderson permanent chair
man. Buren Il. Sherman vas renOminated
for governor and o. b. Manning for lieu
tenant governor by reclamation. After
the ticket was completed resolutions were
adopted declaring in favor of the prohibit
ton amendment to the state constitution,
adopted in 1882 by 29,974 majority, and
for the enactment by the next legislature
of laws for its enforcement and insisting
"upOn such revenue laws as will encour-
age American industries and protect
American labor, in order that American
working men shalt have fair day s wages
for fair days work, aud which will ten
to assure permanent employment
The Republican convention of Mime
sofa met yesterday in st. Paul. Governor
Hubbard was renominated by acclamatior,
Resolutions were adopted approving the
river and harbor bill and the arrears OF
pensions act.
The annual session of the PrOhibitionists
of Missouri began in Warrensburg on
Tuesday. The president of the association
urged the necessity for funds "to pu,
active men in tho field" but advised
against organization as political party.
Yesterdays ballot for L. s. Senator in
the New Hampshire Legislature resultel al
follows: Bing ham, 116; Rollins, 105
Patterson, "a Briggs, 80; Stevens, 1S
Marston, IA scattered, 5. Necessary to
a choice, 1G3.
When the decision of the supreme court
of Illinois in favor of the cOnsttutionality
of the Scott liquor tax law became known
in Cincinnati on Tuesday, saloon keepers
began at once to make payment under the
law. The total revenue therefrOm in that
city is estimated at $500, 600. ''Hitherto all
sales of liquor Except ale, wiae and beor)
to be drank where sold was illegal, and
though the law was generally dead letter
its repeal and tho substitution of the tax
gives saloon men legal standing in Their
business, which most OF thom appreci
ate."
Ex-Judge Badgley, in au oplnion, states
that the grand lodge of Frecmasors OF
Montreal is subject to tho penalties i'm
posed in the act against secret societies
those only being exempt who are under
the grand lodge of England, Ireland
Scotland or Canada, they having got spe-
cial acts passed granting them immunity.
The grand lodge contemplates taking the
matter into court.
A national convention of master plumb
ers met yesterday in New York. The OBJ
ject, besides ef1ecting permanent organ
ization, is "to devise some meaus where
by practical plumbers can obtain plumbers
supplies from dealers as cheap as thesame
supplies arc sold to spectators and con
tractors who, il is said, buy not more
that one-fourth tho quantity the plumb
e1s purchase" In the evening, w. E.
Foster, of Virginia, was elected president,
and Eulck Remick, of Pennsylvania a
recording secretary.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-28
burglar Arrested.

himself by driving through the rain and
mud and swollen streams to the
Welsh mountain, back of New Holland,
and capturing George NJ. Ayres, who has
been wanted for some time past for
breaking into and ro6bing the store of j.
shoes, clothing, drygoOds and other wares
were stolen. Ayres " as brought to town and
lodged in tie city lookup, but as he made
a desperate attempt to break out of that
tumble down placs of detention last night,
he was this morning sent to Jail to await
a hearing before Alderman Spurrier, at a
time not yet fixed.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-28
A Faithful governor.

Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. Rep.
AS fiscal officer Governor Pattison was
noted for his painstaking attention to de-
tails nothing was too trifing for his
official notice, nothing escaped his vigilant
scrutiny. So in the matter of the state
finances he is looking with characteristic
fidelity after the little leaks, and by so
doing, killing number of private petty
raids upon the treasury, he will save a
good round sum that, otherwise, would
have been promiscuously scattered by
legislative prohigacy. 1t is quite certain
that at the next session of the Legislature
this sort of claimants for. public bounty
will be conspicuous by their absence.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-28

Ii the Philadelphia Press is really
anxious to make comparison of the
expense of Democratic and Republican
administration at Harrisburg, we invite
it to an examination of the cost to the
state Of "supplies y and contingencies
under Republican Clerk of the House
HUM and Democratic Clerk of the
House Meek. That is Il good file for the
Press to cut its teeth Oh.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-28

Gov. HUBBARD was renomiDated by the
Minnesota Republicans yesterday. A
resolution was introduced condemning the
action of those Republican legislators who
refused to vote for Window as senator
after he had received the caucus nomina-
ton last winter. This was laid on the
table by vote of 14S to 95.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-28

DISEEPUTABLE and distrusted as
Dorsey is, there never was any reason to
doubt that he was the trusted agent oil
the Republican candidates and leaders
in the presidential contest of 1850. The
letters which he produces abundantly
sustain this. The "plenty of money -
raised for and spent in that campaign
was furnished upon a good understand
ing between the candidates and the po
litical bankers of their party,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-28

Polly Pritze, aged 81 years, of Bain-
bridge, was found dead in bed on Tuesday
morning. She was at work as usual on
Monday and retired apparently in good
health. In the morning some of the fam
lily went up to call her. Receiving no
response, the room was opened and she
was found to be dead. The deceased was
afflicted with nervous diseases and was
subject to paralytic strokes. She leaves
family of four daughters, all of whom are
married. The funeral took place this
afternoon, the interment being made in
the old Lutheran graveyard.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-28

ffOEf eSS.
Even Lancaster cin have Sunday lee.
lures. Ex- Gov. ST. John, of Kansas, a
week ago last Sunday addressed the peO-
house and under the auspices Of tho
Women's Temperauep union of that city.
Lancaster may be !. slow place. but it is
peg above Philadelphia, hero at any rate.
question much If tx. Gov. st. John
would be allowed 10 speak il Philadelphia
as he did in Lancaster on Il Sunday after
noon. What ma,kcS this incident moro
interesting is that Rev. J. A. Peters,
of the First Reformed church, presided,
and the exercises opened With an anthem
by the choir Of the FIRST Nj. E church.
Dr.J. B.Shumaker, Of st. Paul Reformed
church led III prayer. Observation-Disclosures.
A brief consideration Of this occurrence,
please, yOu who say w0 shall not have free
Sunday lectures in Philadelphia. It hap
pened in Lancaster, one of the least ad
yanced cities that know OF. The lecture,
as appears from the first extract from the
NeW Fra, was evidently enc of Il course.
1t was under the auspices Of u religious
body OF Ladies, and several clergymen of
different denominations gave it encOur-
ageplent by their presence. Our Society for
the Diffusion oi Useful knowledge asks no
more than Lancaster has. That is the first
city in the state, the second city in the
union asks to be allowed to do what this
almost village is doing. Only here We
propose 10 collection. Our lectures shall
be free in dill that tho term implies. But
the influential mon of ths great city say
no. The park commissioners say We shall
not have :. building there in the peoples
own park for this purpose. propose
that we send Il delegation of our prOmi.
nent gentlemen, not neyIacting to include
representatives, from thu park commission,
up to little Lancaster, to inquire how they
endure the awful wickcdneiT of Sun
day lectures. Mind you, this wss not Il
sermon. There aro MT usually " Sailies
of wit" to Do commended in sermOns.
Lancaster has churches, aud it's sermons
arc not preached in the cDurt house. II
was an out aud out lecture, and certainly
by authority of the city itself, sinca il was
pronounced in a public buildins.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-28

BY a good orphans court judge. osphans'
court business would be well administer
ed ; by bad one it would be badly done,
and it would be much better to take
your chance with an auditor picked up
out of the bar.
The advertising Of this law was prob,
ably not required by the constitution. as
it does not fairly come under the desig:
nation of a special law, the Legislature
being especially authorized to appoint
orphans court judges in its discretion.
Berks county will have no reason to
complain Of its judgeship if it gets a
good one. Now is the time for its peO-
pie to let their voice be heard. \ good
man on the orphans court bench will be
worth good deal to them a poor
Judge will be very expensive nuisance.