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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-04
BASEBALL.
The Mantuas, OF Philadelphis, ana tho Iron =
sides To-day.

The Mantuas. OF Philadelphis, ana tho Iron =
sides To-day.
This afternoon a game is being played
on the Ironsides' grounds between that
club and the Mantuas, of Philadelphia. A
large audience is present.
It will now be in order, in view of tho
terrible pounding the Hunter club, of
Pittsburg. received at the hands of the
Richmond team, at Richmond, Va, yes
terday-the score being 10 to in tho
VirQinians' favor-tO telegraph to tho
Pittsburg papers the reason of their de-
feat. They have doubtless found, as is very
we'll known, that their defeats in this city
and at Richmond are both attributable to
the superior playing of the teams which
overcame them. Visiting baseball clubs,
whether successful or not, always receive
courteous treatment liz Lancaster.
A game of baseball was played at
Millersville on Thursday evening between
tho "Blue Stockings" and 'None Such"
clubs, both of that place, which resulted
in a victory for the "Blue Stockings" by
score of to 0. This game was the best
played there this season. The defeated
club tried hard to score, they having men
on bases several times with one hand out
when the rest struck out.
To day the Blue Stockings" are play
ing the "AleIts, !" Of Lancaster, on the
grounds Of the former.
Games Yesterday.
Other games yesterday we're a: Phila-
delphia Athletic. 8; Baltimore, 6; at
same city Foley 3; Picked Nine, 2, IA
innings being played Vest Philadelphia
Pawnee, 9; West Philadelphia, Z at New
York Allegheny, 4; Metropolitan. B; at
Columbus Eclipse, 2; Columbus, 3; at
Cincinnati St. Louis, B.; Cincinnati, A
at Harrisburg Brooklyn, 1, Harrisburg,
s; At Reading: Active, 3; Trenton, g:
at Pottsville Anthracite, 8; Quickstep,
4; at Easton Easton, IA Delaware, of
New York, o; at Richmond, Va. Vir-
ginia, 10; National Of Washington, 8;
same city: Richmond, 10; Hunter of
Pittsburg, 1.
The Harrisburgs are again playing the
Brooklyn a championship game Of baseball
this afternoon at Harrisburg.
Foster, Of the old DuncannOn club, ar
rived in town last night and will play with
tho Irops:des hereafter.
Probably the Hunters were cheated in
Richmond yesterday. Something certainly
was wrong.
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Clever Swiudiers In Reading

At Reading two clever swindlers have
been operating successfully upon several
business men during the last few days.
Last evening genteel looking fellow,
giving his name as George Roberts.
bought barrel of flour of Adam Olinger,
an extensive grain merchant, rendering a
check in payment. After receiving
the change he left directions to
have the flour delivered next morn
ing. Mr.. Olinger's suspicious were
soon aroused and an examination revealed
the fact that the check was bold forgery.
Early this morning another sharper,
giving his name as William H. Norton.
managed to swindle tobacconist named
Rhode out of one hundred and fifty dollars.
BE represented q new line of goods to Mr..
Rhode and succeeded in getting the money
in advance. The money was placed in an
envelope and handed back to Rhode to be
mailed to the firm Norton represented.
After going some distance for the goods,
which were to be in possession of another
party, Rhode concluded to examine the
and, to his surprise, found it
contained no mocsy. Both parties have
eluded arrest thus far.
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One of the significant features of the
late Democratic state convention was
the excellent order observed, the smooth
ness with which the proceedings ran
along, and the high average of personal
character presented by the delegates a.;
and all this. too, Notwithstanding the
decided increase in their number which
has been occasicned by the new rules
In these respects they were fully vindi
Gated. This occasion also furnished
opportunity to test the new plan of
representation based upon the party vote,
the operation of which, it had been fear
ed, would tend to give the heavy Demo-
cratic counties undue influence and at
least furnish a temptation to the larger
delegations to combine for control of the
convention. The result proved the
groundlessness of these fears. The can :
didates, it will be noted, were both taken
from minority counties and had small
local delegations to present and support
them. The Democracy OF districts which
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FEATURES OF THE STATE PRESS.

FEATURES OF THE STATE PRESS.
The Pjttsburg Times wants a public
morgue in that city.
Tie Lancaster Inquirer is for govern,
ment control of the telegraph.
Meadville is to have new monthly
agricultural paper, to be known as the
Pennsylvania Farmer.
The Philadelphia Eoening Bulletin
thinks the Pennsylvania Legislature could
gain immoral fame by going through the
Niagara whirlpool in body.
That no seats were contested in either
of the state conventions this year induces
the Pittsburg Dispatch to conclude that
there was nothing at stake worth fighting
over.
The Philadelphia Chronicle Herald be
lieves that what the Democratic conven
tion particularly needed was a man who
could write ten or twenty line plat
form.
Tho Philadelphia Eosning News com
plains Of what it calls "the injurious mac.
tivity" Of American women, and advocates
that more attention be paid to out door
exercises. such as equestrianism, the use Of
the tricycle., tennis and croquet.
The Labor World predicts that if the
great Republican party or the great
Democratic party takes the side of the cor
porations, in the present struggle between
capital and labor, either ore will GO down
into destruction and oblivion.
The Pittsburg Post thinks when Tom
Cooper says the extra session twas not
justified by any public emergency" he
merely states in another way mis- opposi-
tion to any apportionment, and his entire
cquiescence in the recent infamous gerry
mander.
A Franklin county farmer, writing to
the Germantown Telegraph, commends
Philadelphia as the proper place for the
state fair, because it is SO close to the
great agricultural counties of Montgomery,
Bucks, Lshigh, Northampton, Berks,
Lebanon, Dauphiu, York. Cumberland,
Franklin, Lancaster. Chester and Della
ware,
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LANCASTER 1NTFLILGENCER AUGUST 1888

of Is cents per day, have resumed work at
the decrease.
The day and night shift at the Bsthle-
hem steel mill continues in operation, and
the pudding mill is working with a single
shift. 1t is said that soma of the men
begin to show disposition to go back to
work.
Heavy Storms.
After Thursday's storms had ceased at
Long Branch the sea ran 80 high that the
boats were unable to make their trips to
the Ocean Pier, and the landing platforms
were taken up for fear they would be torn
out by the waves.-A wind and rain storm
at Midlothian, Texas. last evening, demol-
ished livery stable and hotel, and
scattered the contents of lumber yard in
every direction. Several persons were
buried in the ruins OF tbs hotel and badly
injured.
Fatal Powder Explosion.
In Angouleme, France, an explosion
occurred at a powder mill by which six
persons were killed and several wounded.
The damage to property amounts to LOCO.
900 francs.
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Presidential Fishing Tackle

Tho Louisville anglers gave President
Arthur jeweled fishing real. which is
thus described 1t was 'No 4. short" of
solid German silver. The slides and key
head are of red gold and the pivots are
jeweled. The handle is of agate. At tho
left hand end is engraved, president
Arthur, from the anglers Of Louisville,
Ky. August 1, 1885," At the right hand
are the words, THE Kentucky reel" The
reel is encased in a very handsome box of
brown alligator skin, lined with satin and
velvet. On the top is a beautiful silver
plate in the form Of card with the corner
turned under. The plate bears tho fol
lowing inscription "Chester A. Arthur
For love all anglers, they be such
honest, civil, quiet men, - Izaak
Walton"
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Going to CaliforLia.

John Best and wife left Lancaster this
morning for Washington. They will return
rs far as Baltimore, on Monday, and join
tho Knights Templar excursion to San
Francisco.
John Reese, Dana Graham and wife, G..
L,llcr. and Gustavus Groe.zinger, of this
city. DR.. p. w. Hiestand, Of Millersville,
and E s. Wolf, of Slackwater, will leave
Lancaster on Monday for Baltimore, where
they will join the California excursion
lists.
Mrs. Louis Huber, of Lancaster, left for
Philadelphia this morning, whence she and
other friends will accompany Mary COM
mandcry to San Francisco.
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A STRANGE ACCIDENT TO A BOY.
Suspended by one Hand Thirty Feet Abo,
The Deck OF tho Bridge.

SuSpe006l Dy ono mana Thirty Rect ABOVE
The Deck OF tho Bridge.
About half past II o'clock Friday morn.
ing Joseph Wildwood, aged years, of 36
Carroll street, went in swimming with
other boys in the Trenton basin, above
Merchant street, where the steamers in
the canal come in to load and unload.
After getting out of the water the boys
got to playing on the deck of the barge
Merchant, when Wildwood got hold of the
hosting chain suspended from a boom,
which is manipulated by a pulley and
is used to raise heavy packages
of merchandise ON or off the boat. Several
of his companions got hold of the pulley
and began to turn it. Before they realized
what they were doing the end of the chain
with the lad hanging suspended to it, had
passed the centre of gravity and the chain
being heavier on the other side beyond
the pulley than the boy the latter was
jerked violently up distance of thirty
feet from the deck, where his right hand
was caught between the chain and pulley
on top of the boom.
The little fellow hung there in awful
agony for nearly half an hour before help
came. He relieved himself now and then
by taking hold of tho iron chain with his
teeth and his left hand, alternating. The
lads scream were believed at first by
men on shore to be uttered merely in
play. His youthful companions finally
succeeded in getting several men to 60 to
the boys rescue. A ladder was procured
and he was brought down. His hand was
terribly swollen and larcerated.
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WHAT do the Republican newspapers
mean by talking about Taggart and
Powell as obscure and unknown men ?
Surely they are as conspicuous and have
as honorable records as their opponents.
To have won his way, by meritorious
service in the Union army, from the
rank and file to the place of major, as
Taggart did, is surely as honorable as to
have done his fighting in the British
army, as Livesy did and to hold a
prominent and independent place and
be held in eminent esteem among the
oil producers of Pennsylvania is as cred
liable to Capt. Taggart as it is to Livesy
to have been regarded simply as 6 Chris
Magee's man" in every place he
ever held. Mr.. Powell is a neigh
bor of Mr.. Niles. He has lived
in strong Republican district
and yet has been elected to Congress
from it on the Democratic ticket. Mr..
Niles has been member of the Legisla-
ture, and his recent service has been dis
tinguished chiefly by his advocacy of the
prohibition amendment and the taxation
of building associations. He lives in a
very heavily Republican county, and yet
last fall he was afraid to openly support
Beaver or Stewart, and to this day it is
problem which he voted for.
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PUBLIC AFFAIRS.
A COMMISSION DIVIDED IN OPINION.
New York's New observation-disclosures
sugar Fraud InvestIsa1ion-Catholic
AbstinaEcs Union-News of tho

New Xork's New Conrroller-Bslmont's
sugar Fraud NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
AbstinaEco Union-News of the
Dsy.
The commission appointed to consider
tho matter Of duties on coverings of i'm
ported merchandise finished their labors
in New York Friday, and decided to re-
port in favor of exempting outside packa-
ges from duty. Two reports will be made
in regard to duties on inside coverings
one in favor of placing an ad valorem duty
on them, and the other in favor of placing
duty upon the merchandise only.
The special committee appointed to in
| vestigate RepresentativeBelmo charges
| of fraud in connection with the importa-
tion of sugar at San Francisco and Port.
land have finished the investigation on the
Pacific coast and returned to Washington.
They will confer with sugar importers in
New York next week before making their
report.
Mayor Edison, of New York, Friday
afternoon appointed Seth II. Grant, his
private secretary, to be controller, to fill
the vacancy caused by Campbelrs resig.
nation. Mr.. Grant was for many years
superintendent of the New York produce
exchange.
The U. S. ship Pensacola sailed from
Callao July 18th for the United States, by
way OF Japan and the Cape of Good Hope.
On the same day Rear Admiral Hughes
transferred his flag to the Hartford.
The Catholic total abstinence union OF
America, in session at Brooklyn, has
elected the following officers President,
Rev. J. NJ. Cleary, of Wisconsin treasur.
er, Rev. J. D. Bowles, of Ohio; secretary,
James G. Nolan, of St. Paul. Minn.-The
annual state encampment Of the Grand
Army of the Republic, of New Jersey, will
be held at Princeton junction from the Sd
to the 9Th of September.
After AZ years. service as professor OF
chemistry in the Dartmouth medical col
lege, DR.. Oliver Payson Hubbard has re-
signed the chair and been made professor
emeritus
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HQrnoa ShlnuAd.

Henry WE'LL shipped fifteen head OF
horses to New York this morning.
Z. Bodeheimer shipped a car load OF
drivers to the same city.
Fiss & Deer shipped to day 40 head OF
draft and driving horses from their new
stables, 223 North Queen street, to New
York.
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BlrthdaY Surpriaa

Yesterday Andrew Mehafey, esq.,, of
West Willow, reached the age Of Is years.
His children, grand children, friends and
neighbors organized surprise party for
bis benefit, which came of last evening.
The crowd was largo one, the congratu-
lations of tho visitors were earnest and
heartfelt, and were appreciated at their
full value by the patriarch they were
intended to honor. A fiue set out and q
good time generally was had from dusk to
midnight.
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Lutheran Memorial Service.
- " I AOA -
Reading EaQle,

Reading Eagle.
Rev. DR.. Fry, of Trinity Lutheran
church, Reading, has accepted an invita-
ton to participate in Lutheran memorial
service September 12 by the Lutheran
congregations of Bethlehem and South
Bethlehem. The exercises during the day
" i'll be held on Caly pso island, in the Le-
high river, and in .he evening in Grace
Lutheran church, Bethlehem. In tho
afternoon DR.. Fry will speak on Luther
as man ;" in the evening on "The
Lutheran Church of the Future"
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Tho Mennorohor ParHds.

Following is tho route of the MWuuer-
chor parade and picnic on Wednesday,
18th inst. From hall up Prince to
Walnut, to North Queen, to South Queen,
to German, to Prince, to West King, to
Mulberry, countermarch to East King, to
Ann, to picnic at Rocky Springs.
Omnibusses will DO in readiness Mt the
corner of East King and Ann streets to
convey parties to tho picnic.
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Shooting Ground Hoge.

Chas. and Jacob Franciscus, accompan-
led by ono or two others yesterday shot 33
grounds hogs, pretty good days work.
They will be served for lunch to their
friends tonight.
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where the Tax Should 60.


President Arthur says that Penn
svlyania should favor the abolition of the
internal revenue. He thinks that Con-
eressmen Kelly and Randall had great
deal to do with securing such recon-
mendatiOn from the Democratic con-
yention. 1t is quite novel suggestion
that Congressman Kelly would have
influence in that quarter. But the presi-
dent seems to think that on the tariff
issue Democrats and Republicans lie
down together in Pennsylvania. He
thinks Democrats here are in favor OF
the abolition of the internal revenue be-
cause that measure would necessitate a
high protective tariff. But here Mr..
Arthur is wrong, as we conceive. No
doubt great macy people think that II
the revenue from customs is made 10
bear all the burthen of supporting the
government that the duties will need to
be raised. But they SO think without
giving much consideration to the mat
ter. Those who do consider it easily
see that as little revenue may be ob
tained from very high tariff as from
very low one. A great many articles
may be imported at low duty and
yield in the aggregate a small revenue
or a small number may be imported at
very high duty with like result. Many
storekeepers conduct their business on
the principle of large sales and small
profits, and make fortunes others 60 on
the idea of small sales and large profits
and make fortunes; while still others,
and the majority, try to combine the
two systems, and, falling between the
two stools, make neither large sales,
large profits nor large fortunes. The
collection of a revenue is like any other
business; and it is quite possible to col
Iect large or a small revenue from
large or small duties. The intelligent
Democrats OF Pennsylvania, who de
mand the remission of the tax on whisky
and tobacco, do not do SO because OF
their desire to keep the duties on foreign
articles which Pennsylvania manufac.
lures. They defend their duties upon
the ground that the public prosperity
demands a certain measure of protection
to certain manufactures. They demand
the release of tobacco and whisky from
the federal governments impcst, because
they understand that the federal govern
ment does not need this revenue, and
because they know that Pennsylvania
and her municipalities do. They do not
want to release the tax On whisky ant
tobacco, but they want the state to ap
nrni,riafp il
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Held for Court.

Andrew Rhode, who is charged with
manslaughter, in causing the death ol
his wife by abortion, was heard be-
fore Squire Gibblo, OF Manheim, yestsr.
day, and was held on bail for court. B. f.
Davis, esq, appeared for the defendant.
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Fox HQundl.

John K. Bair, of Salisbury, has q pack
Of 35 fine fox hounds with which he will
contend for the championship Of Lancaster
county when the fox hunting season opens.
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$4,000 SAVED.
Tho Economies Effected by Secretary Of Il
Commonwealth Stenger

Tho Economies Effected by Secretary OF the
Commonwealth Stengor
Pittsburg Post
The salary of the secretary of the com
monwealth is IS, 900 year, and in ons
little transaction Secretary Stenger has
saved the taxpayers the amount of his
salary for four years, or what is likely to
be his term of offi.e. Instead of sending
out to partizan newspapers long adver-
tisements specifying every article requisite
for the supply of the executive depart.
ments, as Secretary Quay did, Mr.. Stenger
printed brief advertisements, and then
furnished contractors lists of the articles
required. By this process he saved in
advertisement expenses, 90, 233.16. Quay
paid out on this account in 1882, SO, 795. IS,
while 6tenger has paid out for the current
year but 81, $50. And to show that the
now method yielded better results to the
state, there was saving of s10. 40 in tho
cost of supplies. Quay paid out sS3, $50
and Stepger t2s, 100. SO that in adver-
tising and supplies, Secretary Stenger has
made saving Of els, ,782 IL. Here is
the exhibit in tabular form:
Quay. Gen0er.
Supplies, ,.........................SG $50 s22.l6)
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THE claim of the Democratic platform
for Economics enforced by the Demo-
cratic House of Representatives, and in
the departments of state government
which have passed under Democratic
CONTROL" is not mere empty boast. II
can be subs,antiated by undeniable fig
ures. The INTELLIGENCER has already
shown how the Democratic House sur
rendered and failed to fill some twenty
needless offices, into each of which it
could have pumped some party worker
at a useless expense to the state had it
followed Republican precedents. 1t
saved the money. Now comes another
equally forcible illustration of Demo
cratic economy and reform. For many
years this journal has cOnspicuously
pointed out the abuses which prevailed
in the matter of advertising and con
tracing for supplies by the state depart
ment. Under Quay the business was
run to furnish pap and plunder for the
party organs. Again and again We
pointed out how large savings could be
effected and what an inOrdinate cost
was the expense of advertising compared
even with the prices actually paid for
the supplies themselves. We felt quite
confident that Secretary Stenger would
make reform in this matter the ex-
hibit which his department makes
exceeds all expectation. His saving is
nearly so per cent. on the cost of the
corresponding service under Quay. The
Republican party must 60.
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are showed under by adverse majorihes
can, we feel certain, depend upon the
generosity of their more fortunate breth-
rem in majority counties to do the
fair thing in state conventions.
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THOSE who insist that in the geo.
graphical distribution of the Democratic
state nominees, there is not wide
enough separation of them, should look
at the map. Tidioute and Towanda,
their respective places Of residence are
further apart than Harrisburg and Pitts
burg; the localities and interests they
represent are as distinct as those OF
almost any two counties in the state, and
though they are both on the northern
border of the state, it is to be noted that
nearly every leading state Office in the
occupancy of the Democrats already is
held by persons from the southern border
of the state. The north and northwest
get no more than their dues in the two
nominations lately conferred.