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opposite window, Miss Power was no.
where TO be seen. No one would miss
her for five minutes, no one noticed
when she rose suddenly and glded from
the room. 30 Fhefa rrs kMF
Another moment and she was facing
Harmon Quest in the study.
Have you come to betray me?'
He, started, he had not heard her
enter, and looked up to see her standing
before him, white, desperate, with SOM
Der, haunting eyes looking him through.
! -i' Mrs. Oliphantr'
ask, have you come to betrav me?
There is no need of masking your pur-
pose If you have. / have known for
two months that you held the secret
which ruins me. What inducement can
l offer you to keep it from my husband?
1t would kill him to know it, kill him. /
believe, outright. l don't expect that
consideration to weigh with you. Tell
me what will"
~ fail to understand" he was begin
ming, but She cut him short.
"You do not. Shall / acknowledge
myself to be-
''Hush!' he interrupted her peremp-
torily. "You are anxious 20 betray
yourself, L should say, by these open
windows. Acknowledge nothing while
there is an opportunity for eavesdrop-
pers at hand" He shut it out AS he
spoke. 1.-THE value of secret is al
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-30
FEArUREs OF THE STATE PRESS,

FEATURES OF THE STATE PRESS,
Lock Haven is to have a new morning
daily about October 1.
Progress is quite certain that the reno.
val of the state capital to Philadelphia is
only question of time.
Truth crushed to earth will rise again,
and so will Blaine and his friends, says
the West Chester Republican.
The Greencastle Press says the pasture
on some of the streets in that town is ex-
cellent.
On account of the frequency Of divorces
and their trivial causes, tho Reformed
Messenger trembles for the future of So
ciety.
Prof. E. G. Klose, tie principal editor
of the Morauian, has succeeded to the
business management of all the publica-
tiors of that denomination in Bethlehem.
The Altoona Times has entered upon its
second year ADLER and spicier than ever.
As an expounder of sound Democratic
doctrine, it has done much for the Demoe-
racy of Blair county.
The Pittsburg Chronicle. Republican,
thinks it is not at all creditable to the
Judgment of the newspapers which avail
themselves of the present position Of af-
fairs to ridicule the governor, and seek to
mislead the public by crying about the
cost of tho extraordinary session.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-30
PERSONAL.

EMPRESS EUGENE, who has suffered
from dyspepsia, walks much aud continues
to improve in health and spirits.
COUNT DE CHAMBoRD's coffin bears q
plate inscribed "Henri w., by the
grace of God, King of France and Ma
varre."
Rev. DIR. g. STRIcKER, of Atlanta, Ga .,
has been elected a professor in the Union
theological seminary of the state of Vir-
ginia.
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CoLERIDGE has
written to the secretary of the committee
Of arrangements for the proposed bar din
ner to the chief justice in Toronto, that
his numerous engagements in the United
States will prevent him from visiting
Canada.
NJ. ALEXANDRA Dumas has written q
letter complaining of the brilliancy Of
stage decorations, and, above all, of stage
dresses. The actresses think, he says,
mcTo of their costumes than of the piece,
and ''the genius of the author is lost in the
art of the milliner."
BANcRoFT, the historian, is over eighty
three years of age, he has fame of iron
and brain as bright as that of youth.
He is of middle height, lean and wiry.
His thin, thoughtful face is lengthed by
his long, silky beard of sable silver, and
his thick gray hair is combed back from q
broad, high, brawny forehead. He has
light blue eyes, and q complexion darkened
by the winds of his daily horseback rides.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR was at "Camp
Campbell" foot of Yellowstone Lake, Oh
the 9th inst. He went fishing in the
afternoon, and " caught IS fish weighing
45 pounds" 1t is stated that the head
o: an extinct species of rhiuoceros and the
vertebIe of a large fossil saurian in an
excellent state of preservation were found
on the shore of the Lake near the camT
by the surgeon and naturalist of the party,
w. H. FOrwOOd.
GOVERNOR CRITTENDEN, of Missouri, il
becoming angry at tho infractiOns of the
Sunday law in St. Louis. In a recent in
terview he is reported to have said Is
am an anti PrOhibitiOnist from the sOles o
my feet to the crown of my head, but
feel with the people that if law is to be
defied in St. Louis, and l have to choose
between lawlessness aud prohibition, am
a PSohibitiOnisS. Under such provoca
tion prohibition will carry the state by
| fifty thousand majority"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-30

Somebody over in Berks county has
made blunder in regard to the election
of delegates to the next state convention.
Under the rules of the party the repre-.
sentation in the state convention is now
by representative districts, not by sena
torial and representative districts it
never was by counties. Under these
rules ard the existing apportionment
the city of Reading, separate represen
tative district, is entitled to five mem.
bers and that part of Berks county
which is outside of Reading and is
another district is entitled to eleven.
The right of each OF these districts to
elect its own delegates independently OF
the other is as clear as the right Of the
Lancaster or Lehigh Democrats to
choose their delegates free from inter-
ference on the part Of their Berks
brethren. In the excitement OF the late
county convention in Berks, however, it
seems that the delegates from the
country insisted upon their right to par
ticipate In and control the election
of the delegates from the oity district Of
Reading. This is all wrong and If per-
sisted in will precipitate needless and
utterly uDjustinabls contest upon the
state convention, of the kind which the
new rules Of the party sought to rid
future conventions from. Under tho
old system Of electing senatorial dele
gates by several counties, disputes and
contests frequently arose, which it was
hoped the party would b exempt from
when the system Of representation was
simpli6ed 80 As to give each repre-
sentative district tho separate and sxclu.
sive right to elect its own delegates.
This right cannot b infringed. If the
delegates to the last county convention
in Berks, were, under the local regula-
tions Of the party there, the proper psr.
sons to choose the delegates to the next
state convention, then obviously tho
delegates from the first representative
district, the city Of Beading, should have
chosen the five state delegates, from that
district; and the delegates from tho
second district, "all of the county of
Berks not embraced " in Reading,
should have chosen tho eleven state dele.
gates from the second district; neither
district has any right to intsrfere In the
choice Of the other. II the city delegates
can be brought to ratify the selections
made for them that will be q very easy
solution Of the whole maeter but If not
shGe vim Do contest, the entire re-
~ pon1lbl1ity for which will rest with the
convention which overran the rights Of
the ~ 6SaeGeos, sDd tho only result d
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-30
Games Played xosrcrday.

At Chicago-Chicago 2, Cleveland 0
Detroit-Buffalo 2, Detroit 8 New Yorl
Metropolitan 2, st. Louis /; Brooklyn
Active 5, Brooklyn Q; Pittsburg-Alle-
gheny 6, Columbus 10; Stapletop, N. Y.
Providence 13, Staten Island g; Will
mington Championship game)-Harris.
burg 6, Quicksteps s Philadelphia
Athletic II, Eclipse 8 same city-Rosa
8, Hartville 3.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-30

stood the sea now flows. The aspect Of
the Sunda straits Is much changed and
navigation is dangerous.
The tidal wave completely destroyed
ADjier. Tho loss of life among both
Europeans and natives at North Bantam
was enormous. Since noon Wednesday
everything has been quiet. The sky is
clear and communication with Serang has
been restored.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-30

IT jsa discovery" indeed, that is
reported from Schuylkill county in the
Investigations of q contested election
case. The farmers of the lower end
are reported to have been voting illegal.
ly because, as one of the dispatches
says, they have all paid their taxes on
property, but none on their occupation.
They thus lose their citizenship, and are
not. under the constitution, qualified
vOters." This is all nonsense. The
payment Of any state or county tax
within two years qualities the voter. 1t
does not matter what kind of tax it il
20 that 1t comes within the constitu
tional classification. The discovery
! in Schuylkill county Is a mares nest.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-30

near Hudson, New York, yesterday, six
men were severely injured, one Of whom,
Patrick Cougher, Of Troy, is not expected
TO recover.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-30

which can be Q determination in favor
Of the right Of each representative dis
trict to its own separate representation,
ss tho rules Of the party expressly pro-
vide. W
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-30

WHY are not the electric wires at
tached to the trees The owners of the
trees would probably consent to this use
Of them, II they were not injured, as
they need not be. The electric wires
being insulated can be carried through
the branches without difficulty. The
wooden poles must go.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-30

A Temperate D1scuss,on Of the Qasseisa.
New Era.
The time seems to have come whom
some decision should be reached defining
. citizens right to his own premises a.
against the encroachments of municipal
arrogance and the still more unwarrantable
assumption of authority on the part Of
private corporations. Heretofore II has
been the custom of councils in this city
to grant all the privileges asked of them
by telegraph and telephone companies
without the slightest regard to tho rights
or wishes of the citizens. The huge poles
that have been put up ON . number Of our
streets in defiance Of the wishes OF the pro-
perty owners whose premises were invaded
and disfigured BY those unsightly obstruc.
tions are abundant evidences of this fact.
This paper has protested on moro than ono
occasion against this course, and although
the sentiment Of the whole population il
nearly unanimous in the same direction,
the vicious system has gone steadily for
ward. .,.s.....
The contrast Of tho city with the Maxim
electric light and power company hes once
moro called mp this question, and in .
more o6snaivs shape than ever before.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-30

S"OAey AAAOo O<1OO "a O01At10S "E6 COu-
pletely inundated and the floating dock
Claps and Tronwers islands, off the por-
ton of Java which disappeared, are out of
sight and not q vestige of them is left.
Baby and Cherybo islands, off Che north
coast, but small in extent, lost the few
houses and inhabitants upon them.
In Batavia tho loss has been largely in
creased since the former reports. The
roof of the governors house was crushed
in by mass of heavy mud and three of
the retsiners were killed. The town
bridge was destroyed, the Diamond and
Pearl bastions were badly damaged and
the Burran redoubt WAS destroyed. On
Dayans, Malabar and Lions streets, the
principal avenues of tho city, the damage
is very great, Fort Aatyoi is entirely de-
stroyed. The town Of Fsggal was severely
shaken and few buildings were left stand.
ing.
The aggregate loss of life from the
ancss must be fully 75, 600, but the num-
accurately approximated. A violent shock
occurred in the island of Sumatra on Mon.
day forenoon and it was feared other
violent disturbances might follow. Middle
Island, ton miles off tho Javanese coast
and ns:.f ~ay between Java and Sumatra,
was almost wholly engulfed in the sea.
The small island of Singkel, probably
originally only cone blown up by an
eruptive paroxysm, entirely disappeared.
It was uninhabited.
A dispatch from Batavia, Java, to the
Lloyds, London, says that tho towns of
Anjier, Tjiringine and Telokbelong have
been destroyed BY the volcanic eruptions.
It also says that oil tho light houses in tho
Sunds straits have disappeared, and that
Nhere tho mountain Of Kramatau formerly
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-30

As NO other jurors except those in the
Kissinger case were needed the others
were discharged before noon to day.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-30


Sound. A party of children playing upon
the beach, near Falmouth village, saw the
body of man floating in the surf, but
they ran away and told no one until it was
too late. The body is supposed to be that
of one of the missing men from tho yacht
Mystery.
The navy department was informed
yesterday Of the accidental killing of Lieu
tenant Boutelle Noyes, on board Rear
Admiral Crosby's flagship at Yokohama.
The casualty was caused by the fall of a
top.gallant mast. Lieut.. Noyes leaves a
widow and two children.
the Fire Record.
F. B. Hemingway's fruit cannery at
Clinton, Iowa, was destroyed by fire on
Wednesday. Loss, 100000. Insurance
small.-The dry house of the Duluth
lumber company, with quantity of lum
Der, in Duluth, Mimi, was burned yester.
day morning. Loss, $25, OOO.-The boat
store and general Offices OF the Diamond
Joe line of steamers in Dubuque, Iowa,
were burned yesterday morning. Loss,
$28, OO0.-The fifth story of mill No. 8. of
the Pepperhill company, at Biddeford, Me-,
was burned out last night, and the other
stores were damaged by water. The loss
is heavy.-Large fires are reported in the
forests of the dismal swamp, in Virginia
and North Carolina.
Accident ana Suicide.
An attempt was made on Tuesday night
to wreck the Albany express on the Boston
& Albany railroad BY placing two sleepsrs
on the track just above Ashland. The
engine struck the sleepers, but was run
ming slowly and no damage was done.
A train on the Wabash railroad, yester-
day, run over q COW when near Clifton.
Missouri. The engine, baggage car and
one coach were derailed and the engine
was upset. Engineer Hall was killed.
Amelia Henderson committed suicide in
Syracuse, Now York, on Tuesday night,
by taking morphine. She was in bad
health and had been deserted BY her hus
band.
By the fall Of staging At Burden Dock,
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-01-05

line of Ladies' Misses and Chdrens FURs forthe Holiday
rake. Also, line Of FUR TRIMMINGS 1sti keep in stock
full line Of Edwin G. Burt Co.'S Reynolds Bros Reed
Weaver g. D. Slves FINE SHOES for Ladies, Misses and
Children; Burt h Mears Packard Fine Shoes for
CUSTOM MADE work specially Remember the place
nuss1i6 sE2 e II hhAD} /. PILES, Yankton
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-01-05

The Deadwood Times is very strongly
in favor of the abolition of the death
penalty for murder in Dakota, claiming
that capital punishment law defeats
justice, because juries will avoid verdicts
which take human life. "With imprison.
ment for life in murder cases." says the
Times, "the law will be enforced and so
far as such convicted criminals are con-
cerned society will be protected. Where
death is the penalty, criminals who rich.
ly deserve punishment escape through
the tender scruples of juries.'
1t is fact that humanity in general is
not satisfied with the death penalty mol
without it. People shrink from its
enforcement and they know full
we'll that there are instances when it is
the fullest justice TO inAict it. It seems
to us that the most satisfactory law upon
this point is the one which permits q
jury to fix the punishment. Such an
enactment covers all cases and admits oi
the consideration Of all the circumstance
surrounding deed of blood.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-01-05

kilograms of coincidence received BY the
family of Gambetts include one from
the American consul at Lyons. The
family have consented to Q state funeral
on condition that the body be eventually
removed to Nice.
The coffin is made Of firwood, and
lined with satin. II will be cased in q
leaden casket, festooned with tri-col.
ored flag, and the casket will be placed
in an oaken coffin with silver mountines
The hall of the ground floor of the Pa
lais Bourbon will be transferred into q
chapelle ardent.
Gambetta was placed in . coffin Of
bronze metal bearing his effigy, the en-.
craving representing the famous 1853
Several gold and silver coins, and copy
of letter of invitation to the funeral
signed by Joseph Gambetta, Madame
Lewis and Michael Gambetta-his faith.
er, sister, brother.in-lsw and uncle-were
placed in the coffin. A national monu.
ment to Gambetta ID proposed.
The funeral of Gambetta has beer
postponed until Saturday. Brisson ans
Jules Ferry will be among the speakers
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-01-05

Gnu IOm WDat IL was. he (COnRer)
would warn any northern man who voted
for the bill that no matter how
many pensions he obtained for soldiers,
or how many pension arrears acts he
had voted for, he could not deceive the
people. But he had no fear that
the bill would become law. 1t might
pass the senate now, but it would not
pass the house, either in this congress or
the next, because although political
friends OF the measure would have q
large majority in the next house, the
members would have heard from the peo-
gress were sometimes afraid to meet
their constituents when they had done
some unpopular thing.
MIR, Cameron of Pennsylvania-And
demagogues always are.
Messrs McPherson and Sewell appeal
ed to Mr.. Hoar to withdraw his motion
to postpone the bill for q week, but he
declined.
MR. Logan said he had supposed the
senate would not think of voting to re-
verse the action of the court.martial
without taking time to examine the evl-
dence. He did not ask anybody to read
what he had said, but he thought the
senators ought to read the evidence. He
did not believe there were five senators
who had ever read the record in the case
Ihe contemptuous manner in which the
facts in the case were treated
by those who were determined to
force this man back into the army and
give HIM certificate of good character
during the war was very remarkable. It
would excite much inquiry and comment
throughout the country. The unanimi.
ty with which the democratic party in
the senate was voting to restore this man
was suggestive of what was to come in
the future. What did it mean? How
would the country understand it? ae
had believed that the men who had en-
erged from the smoke Of battle waged
against the government of their country
and come into the senate had so far for.
gotten the passions of the past that they
would be ready to examine the facts and
weigh the evidence before voting on q
question of this kind; but that appears
to be mistake. The vote on this bill
showed that they were prepared to re.
store to the army man who had been
false to the government in it's struggle
against rebellion.
Mr.. Cockerell said that if any mar
who had left the army and gone
into the rebellion ever applied for rein
statement he would give him notice in
advance that he could not have his vote
MIR. Logan said he had been speaking
not ct men who had gone into the rebel
lion but of men who had been dismissed
from the union armv. There were LIE
officers who had been dismissed under {
sentence like that pronounced on Fit,
John Porter, and il he were restored
there was no reason why they should no
be.
i Mr.. Allison moved to proceed to con
| sideration of executive business. Lost
yeas "a, nays 20.
j, MIR. Conger asked for the reading G
the report of the committee on the POI
] ter case,
The secretary began to read it.
II Mr.. Sewell said it was evident that NJ
Conger was determined to prevent a vot
t on the bill this evening, and therefore
9 moved to adjourn. Agreed to.
Adjourned.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-01-05
TEsTIFYINc BY TELEPHONE.

How Patterson 0mcials Administered
Oaths without Going to the SMALLPOX
Hospital.
New York Sun.
1t became necessary yesterday for DR..
Townsend, the physician in charge of
the Patterson smallpox hospital, and his
five assistants, to take oath to their &C.
counts in order that the bill might be
presented to the meeting of the alder
men last night. It was thought i'm
prudent to allow them to 70 down
through the city to the recorders Office,
and on the other hand Recorder Greaves
did not care to 60 to the hospital to ad-
minister the oath. After pondering the
matter he decided to send Assistant
City Physician Hurd to the hospital
with the bills Us his proxy. The doctor
got the hospital physician and
his assistants to sign the af6davits
on the end of their bills, and then hunted
up bible.
| When all had put their hands on the
book, DR.. Hurd went to the telephone in
the hospital Office and called up "32s, "
the number of the instrument in the re.
corder's Office, twenty miles away.
"Have they all got their hands on the
book?" said the recorder.
"Yes, all ready" said DR.. Hurd.
every well, them" said the recorder;
"you as my deputy repeat to the depon-
ents what say. "You and each of you
do solemnly swear"
"You and each of you do solemnly
swear" repeated DR.. Hurd.
"That the annexed accounts are lust,
true and unpaid" said the recorder
through the telephone.
"That the annexed accounts are lust
true and unpaid" repeated the doctor
$50 help your God" said the recorder
through the telephone.
so help you God" repeated DR.. Hurd
SHOW kiss the book" said the tele.
phone.
kiss the book" repeated the doctor
The SIX hospital attaches kissed the
bible in turn.
They've all kissed it," said the doctor
through the telephone.
'They have?" answered the recorder
in surprise. "Why, didn't hear it. Let
them kiss it again loud enough for me to
hear it,"
The kisses were repeated with an ener.
gy that sent the reports vibrating over
the wire vigorously enough to be re-
sponded on the metallic disk at the re-
ceiving end.
Il heard those. That's all right; good
BY" said the recorder, hanging up his
ear-piece.
A short time afterward DR.. Hurd drove
up to the station house, and laid the af
fdavits before the recorder, all properly
signed, and the recorder affixed his owl
signature, certifying that they had beer
"sworn and subscribed before him"
Last night these bills went in with The
other claims against the city; and were
duly referred to the finance committee t.
be audited.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-01-05
1t has been decided by the people of
Washington who construct theories upon


the remarks of great men that Senator
Logan referred to the engagement Of
the 22i Of July. 1864, before Atlanta,
when he remarked That II certain battle
was fought without an order from the
commanding general. That was the
struggle in which General Mcpherson
fell and Dakota's congressman elect
played conspicuous part. 1t was the
fiercest of the series Of bloody conflicts
before Atlanta and it appears as though
the soldiers were fighting mostly on
their own hook. Indeed, Sherman's army
was SO well disciplined and go flushed
with success that it required less in the
way of official direction than almost any
other organization. The objective point
was usually fixed and the army was told
to get there. There is hardly an instance
on record wherein it failed to comply
with the order.