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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-03
PERSONAL.

GEN. GRANT had brilliant reception at
the Kaaterskill house in the Catskill YES
terday.
VOORHEES, wants it known that he and
Macdonald can stand on the tariff plank
of the Pennsylvania Democratic platform.
JOHN A. ScHAUM, of Edgerly s. Co., and
wife, left last night on trip to the West.
They will go to Fort Wayne and Chicago,
and thence through Michigan.
SENATORS EMERY and Lee are pilot
ing a party of seventeen senators
through the oil regions, and they expect
them all to come back convinced that the
free pipe line bill was wise measure.
DR.. J. P. W1cKERsHAM will read a
paper on National Aid to Popular Edu-
cation in Europe" at the second national
education assembly to be held on the 9th,
10th, 18th, and 10Th instants at Ocean
Grove, N. J.
Ex-senator BLANCHE X. BRUCE.
colored register of tho treasury, will 20
to Ohio early in September, and,
beginning on the 10Th, he will make 25
speeches in the state for the Republican
cause before the election.
Mr.. VIM. ELAN remarked toa crowd of
his admirers at Richmond, last Monday
night, that he "did not see Why man
should not lay down his life for political
conviction as readily as for a religious
belief" He had just returned to the city
from his country home, and his friends had
gathered to congratulate him on his re.
covery from the wound he received in his
duel with Mr.. Bierne.
REV. JAMES I. MoMBERT, ID. D., form.
erly rector of st. James Episcopal church
in this city and the author of q history of
Lancaster county, is about to undertake
the work Of rcprinting Tyndale's Penta.
touch, which he claims to be tho first
English translation from the original
Hebrew. The undertaking will involve q
prolonged residence in Europe, and he
calls for aid from those who desire to 500
this " best original and independent con-
tribution to the English Bible " rescued
from oblivion.
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Aancaster fntelligfncer.
A Live Issue.

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The release of whisky and tobacco
from United States taxation, as recon.
mended by the Democratic convention,
is quite certain to be popular idea in
Pennsylvania which contributes SO large
q portion of that tax. Certainly ii the
United States does not need the revenue
1t gets from these articles, as it seems to
be agreed it does not, Pennsylvania can
very well demand that they be LETT for
her to tax. At present the United
States gets all out of them that they
can he made to pay. They are first
class objects of taxation and can
Justly be made to bear a heavy impost.
They are articles Of luxury whose con
sumption is not beneficial to the people,
and those who insist upon using them
may fairly be made to pay roundly 1or
the privilege. If the United States tax
is taken off the state and its counties ana
cities should Ike given these rich revenue
COWS to milk. Tobacco and whisky
would Ike good things to substitute Tor
the real estate, which now bears the
chief burden of taxation.
When the farmers get it into their
heads that the release of the revenue
from whisky and tobacco by the United
States will enable their farms to be
freed from taxation, it is likely that they
will be warmly in favor of the
proposition. The whisky and tobacco
manufacturers will like it because they
will hope to fare better with the state
than with the United States. And to
the temperance people it is matter of
indifference who gets the tax when they
cannot stop the manufacture. Alto
gether it looks as if the Democratic
convention had taken the wind out of
the Republican sails on this question.
The idea of surplus - distribution
looked well enough as a popular issue un-
til it became clear that as Pennsylvania
contributed more to the" surplus than
she would get back on redistribution,
it would pay her better not to have the
surplus. The Republican newspapers
seem to have concluded that the cOnven-
tion put its foot into it in endorsing the
surplus idea, and would like to get away
from defense of it. But as the Demo
cratic convention squarely antagOni2ed
the idea it cannot be got away from as
one of the issues of the campaign. The
Democracy will claim the votes of every
one who would like to put the land tax
on whisky and tobacco.
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claimed the floor to speak in opposition
to pending motion, offered and sup
ported BY the Dsmocrats, for a free
conference committee that Mr.. Hines
refused to recognize them, deliberately
put a motion while members Of tho
House were addressing the chair and
that when tumult very naturally en-
sued over his arbitrary ruling he took
refuge from the consequences of it by
adjourning the House, with equal disre.
gard of the rights of members and the
rules of parliamentary order and de-
cency. It is said in excuse for the man
ner in which he exercised the Office
temporarily entrusted to him, that he
thought the Philadelphia was one OF q
number engaged in an organized scheme
to have some fun at his Hines expense,
and that the proper thing to do was to
nip the business in the bud, and in that
frame of mind he declined to hear
Gavitt's voice." OF course this is no
excuse for what seems to have been an
indefensible course of procedure and
neither Speaker Faunce, who was re-
sponsible for Hines presence in the
chair, nor his party in the Legislature
can afford to take the res possibility for
his misconduct. There must be an un-
qualified and unmistakable disclaimer
of it all around and Mr.. Hines should
make himself cOnspicuously quiet for
the rest of the session.
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POLITICAL POINTS.
Iho Dead Lock In New Hampshire for the
Election of Il u. =. Sanaf0r Brokan.

Tho Dead Lock In New Hampshire for tn.
Election OF u U. .. Senator Broken.
Austin F. Pike was yesterday electct
U. S. senator by the New Hampshire
Legislature on tha forty second ballot
The vote stood Pike, 1Sl ;1Bingham, 112
Marston, 10 Rollins, Ladd and Stevens
l. Necessary to choice, 15S. Mr.. Pike
is Ga years of age, and lawyer by pro
fession. He served in the Legislature o
New Hampshire in 1S5O52, and again in
1865-G6, being speaker in the latter years.
In 1857 5S he was a member of the state
Senate, and in 1853 it's presiding officer.
In 1878 he was elected :. member of Con
gress, but was defeated for 70 election.
While in Congress he served on the
committee on public expenditures. He
has served as chairman of the Republican
state committee and as delegate to
national conventions
The Democratic state convention O!
Minnesota met yesterday in St. Paul. G.
II. Lienan was chosen permanent chair.
man. A full ticket was nominated,
headed by w. w. McNair for governor
and K. L. Frazer for lieutenant governor.
Resolutions were adopted favoring a
tariff for revenue only opposing prohibi-
tiOn approving the river and harbor bill,
and calling for a revision of the patent
laws.
w. s. Groesbeck, by invitation of lead.
ing Democrats, delivered an. address in
College hall, Cincinnati, last evening. on
civil service reform. Judge Stallo presided
and the hall was we'll filled.
Rain and Flood.
The heavy rains Of yesterday did much
damage to property in Trenton, N. J.
Pette's Run, which crosses the city, over
flowed and flooded the cellars of q num-
ber of houses, rising in many cases to the
first floor. Culyerts were washed out and
the railroad tunnels were filled with water
to depth OF nearly two feet, delaying
trains for more than an hour.-A steady
rain of several fJurs duration in New York
was followed early in the afternoon by a
sudden wind storm of unusual violence,
after which the temperature became un-
seasonably coOl.-Therc has been no rain
at British Columbia, for two months, and
forest fires are raging in that vicinity.
On Wednesday afternoon a powder mill
near Yale was blown up by the heat from
these fires. All the window glass in Yale
was smashed by the shock.
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Easily Understood.
Gap. LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. }
ILL., 1000 4

Gap. LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa.
July 81, 1888.
EDITORS lNTELLIGENCER SIRs-Ihave
read an article entitled the apportionment
bill, where it states that it takes only
"a, 900 Republicans to elect o congressman
and it requires 52,34s Democrats to elect
the same kind of man to no
higher seat. Is not Democrats
vote as good as Republicans vote,
that it requires SO many more votes to
put him in Office would be very much
obliged to you to explain TO us country
Jacks why it is SD that there is not more
fairness about this matter. II "a, 4,OOO
Republicans do elect a congressman, why
will not "a 900 Democrats elect one ? IL
seems to me it is all one sided concern.
Better 60 to Harrisburg and chase them
all out and make new set of apportion-
ment bills, and make them equal on both
sides. A SUBSCRIBER.
[The only reason why it is so, is that
the Republican Senate thinks it can keep
it so by refusing to make fair apportion-
ment az that will lose their party the ad-
vantage it now pOssasses.-EDs. INT.l
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Plenty of Plcnios at Liti,z.

This has been one of the gayest seasons
Lititz has ever seen and o large number
of picnics have been held there. On
Thursday the Lutheran church of Read
ing held their picnic at the springs and
brought 1900 persons with them, includ-
ing the Ringgold band. The announce
ment of the coming of this musical or
ganization had the effect of drawing a
large crowd of country folks to the town.
Concerts were given all day. During the
afternoon game of ball was played bo-
tween the Lititz club and the keystone of
Reading, in which the latter won by a
score of II to 4.
To morrow an excursion will be run to
the springs from Pottstown and picnic
will be held. The Strobel family of
musicians accompany this party.
The Presbyterians, of Marietta, viii!
picnic there on Thursday next and Grace
Lutheran church, of this city, on Wednes.
day.
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Malicious mischief.

Last night between and 10 O'Clock, as
John McClaip, drover, Of this city, and a
man named Eshleman, from the lower
end of the county, were driving ON Duke
street near the railroad bridge, their horse
took fright from tho tearing OF the har
ness, ran a short distance and broke one
of the wheels of the buggy. When the
accident was over, an examination was
made and it was found that some scoun
drel had cut Mr.. McClain's harness in sew
eral places for the purpose, no doubt, of
causing the accident.
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IT seems chat Speaker Faunce left the
chair temporarily at Harrisburg yester.
day, and in his absence entrusted the
gavei to Mr.. Hines; that after a speech
defending the Democratic position by
Mr.. Thompson, a hamber Of Republi
eaa members addressed the speaker and
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Patent Ob1ained.

The U. 3. patent office has issued to
VIM. Shallus, Samuel B. Bitter and VIM.
B. Wilson, Of this city, letters patent for
an improvement on seal locks. The in
ventiOn consists esse ntiaily in tho employ
mont, with suitable casiDg, of a revolving
lock tumbler, . pivo:ed indent, a spring
actuated guide and a sliding bolt,
together with certain other minor Co
operating devices, which provide lock
that will hold seal wire within its casing
securely and firmly, in such a manner
as to make it impossible to un-
lock the same, except by the use
of the proper key. without break.
ing or severing the seal wire. The lock
is peculiarly we'll adapted for the sealing
of cars, bonded warehouses, mail bags,
valuable express packages, Sc, &C., that
arc liable to be tampered with. We learn
that the use Of the patcnt, which was
granted on the 3lst Of July, has been ten
dered to the United States government.
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The Closing Exercises Yesterday Afternoon
anu Evening

The Closing Exercises Yesterday Afternoon
ana Evening.
Tho campmeeting at Landisville closed
last night after being open for ten days.
Tho services both during the afternoon
and evening wero very interesting and the
attendance was quite large.
At 8 O'Clock in the afternoon the CON-
muniOn services were held. being con-
Quoted by Revs. w. G. Robinson and
Richard Humphriss. After that thero was
a memorial service.
Resolutions OF respect to the late Rev.
c. l. Thompson, deceased, president of
the campmeeting association, which had
been passed by the board of control, were
ratified by tho meeting, and addresses
were made by q number of ministers.
In the evening at 7:3O tho last sermon
was preached by Rev. G. T. Gaul, of
lowed by an exhOItation meeting, led by
Rev. Rakestraw, after which the usual
walk around and hand shaking took place.
number of persons on the ground were
serenaded by the choir. which has render.
ed such excellent music during the camp.
Many persons left tho grounds, after tho
services last night. To day all is hustle
and confusion on the grounds as the re-
mainder are leaving. By 6 o'clock this
evening the grounds will again be deserted.
Tho Now Board of Control
Yesterday afternoon the members of the
Landisville campmeeting association held
a meeting and the following board of con-
troll was elected:
President, w. C. Robinson, PhiIadel-
phia ; vice president, VIM. Patton, Coium-
bia !; treasurer, f. Hershey, Columbia
secretary. J. B. Coed, Lancaster J. W.
Glover, H. Hansbaw and John Ensmin-
ger, Harrisburg II. D. High and M. NJ.
Harbster, Reading Joseph Samson, James
Black, w. Fl. Bateman and Henry Shu
bert, Lancaster F.; Samuel Grove and John
Shenberger, Columbia J. Hildetrand and
W. X. Bender, Strasburg George Parke,
Millersburg J. B. Lands, Halifax $.
Raymond, Middletown Charles w. Frew,
Lebanon. Of these gentlemen Messrs.
Black and Sheuberger ara new members
the others being re elected.
1t was resolved to hold the next camp
meeting in July, 1884. beginning on the
fourth Tuesday OF that month.
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COLUMBIA NEWS.
lneerese In and Around the Borough
Picked mp ~ the lntelIi-

Events Along the experimentation
lnsereet In and Around the Borough
Picked mp ~ the lntelli-
Esnosr Reporter.
A runaway accident occurred on Walnut
street last night, by which John Farley
had his left arm dislocated at the shoulder
BY being thrown from tie buggy in which
he was sitting with another man. Tho
lat9er escaped unharmed, although the
dasher Of the buggy was broken by tho
kicking of the horse.
Borough Items.
At last evenings election for a second
lieutenant of company c., First Sergeant
+. @. Eckman, was chosen to fill that
position.
A meeting Of the Columbia fire COM
pany will be held to night. Nominations
for officers to be elected month hence
will be made.
Nothing further has been seen or heard
of the supposed mad dog which bit Harry
Jackson on Wednesday afternoon. 1t is
probable that the animal only had fit.
A basket picnic is being held at woods
near Wrightsville to day by a number of
young people from this place. Another
small picnic party is spending the day at
one OF the numerous islands that lie south
of the dam.
The Bethel Church of God picnic was
held in Heise's woods to-day. Many went
out this morning, but largo numbers
waited until the afternoon before going to
the woods. Buses were run from tho
church to the picnic grounds.
A shanty on Tow Hill was slightly
burned by fire which was caused hy hot
ashes dropping on the floor from the stove
last evening. The efforts of the persons
occupying the house cxtinguished the
flames.
Two drunken men engaged in . fight on
South Front street, last night, in which
one of the cOmbatants was struck on the
head by stone which the other threw.
Several by ISLANDERS iDterfered to prevent
further trouble.
Police Fickingp
Elizabeth Haus alias Sunbury Liz, was
arraigned before Squire Young last even.
ing for being drunk and disorderly and
creating disturbance on Locust street.
For the next eight days she can rumiuate
over her wicked life in the county Jail.
She is one of the worst characters that
infest Columbia, and has been the cause
of numerous disturbances. Squire Young
also had several other cases before him,
all of the participants in which were
women who had been accused Of disturb.
ing the peace. Squire Frank is also
considering the disposition to be made of
number of female disturbers of the peace.
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Expressions OF kegret and Sympathy.
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
The Lancaster watch company, is said
to have been energetically and honestly
managed and to have turned out the finest
watches made, yet it failed. The only
trouble indicated is that, while it made
watches, it. could not sell them. The
company did very little advertising, and
that seems to have been the principal
cause of misfortune. Other watches.
perhaps 10 better intrinsi cally, were kept
before the public persistently, and the
public bought them. In these days Of
excessive competition, people who do not
advertise their business cannot expect to
compete with their rivals who do.
Hopes 1t Will be Temporary.
Philadelphia Evening News.
1t is to be hoped that the suspension of
the Lancaster watch company will be only
temporary. In this hurrying age watch
is as necessary to workman as q dinner
can, and competition has brought the
prices of reliable timekeepers within the
reach of the poorest. Every new factory
can therefore continue to rely on the good
will OF the public, and the Lancaster enter
prise is no exception.
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Harrisburg Telegraph

HarrlsDurH T6iegrapn.
Last evening Mr.. G. B. Kaufman. of
Lancaster, left tho corner of Third and
where he boarded the train for home.
Before the train started, while he was
stepping from ono car to another, Mr..
Kaufman noticed that his gold watch was
gone. Suspecting that his pocket had
been picked he left word at the mayors
office of his loss.
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This nosning about halt. past Q o'clock.
- extra freight engine 758 east, was cross
ing the switches just west of Mouutville,
On the Pennsylvania railroad, aspiring bolt
Of the switch broke and derailed eight
freight carr, one of which was thrown upon
. side in field, and the others blockadcd
tho south track. The north track was not
obstructed and not much delay was caused
a. the trains were thus enabled to pass
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Shutting Danger.

DR.. P. J. Roebuck, the new chairman
Of the Republican county committee, is
already at work and has issued a private
circular to the chiefs of the party calling
upon them to send him the names Of three
active, influential Republicans Of each
election district in whom the committee
can repose confidence, and who are willing
to volunteer to get out the full Republican
vote in November next, q matter that is
deemed of the greatest importance. The
acts wisely for his party in following the
example set him by the Democratic party
in last years campaign.
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LIE NepuOic0u newspapers W0ut W
know who Taggart is. They also want to
know how Niles voted last fall.
HANLAN has scored another victory and
the Philadelphia baseball club another
defeat. Both events occur with such IN
varying regularity that it is hardly worth
while to chronicle them.
TIE Westmoreland Democrat expects
q fresh hatch of frauds and conspiracies
from Washington while the president and
heads of departments are enjoying their
| summer vacation.
The party press in the state universally
reco gnizes the wisdom OF the convention
proceedings; the Independent newspapers
admit the excellence of the ticket, and
generally confess that on the issues which
the platform makes with the Republican
declaration tho Democrats have the better
of it; the Republicans praise the ticket
with very faint exception to it and gener.
ally admit that they can find no point
upon which to make attack.
A CURIOUS case came up for decision re
Gently in tho court Of queens bench IN
London, the action being in debt to le
cover damages from the proprietor of a
music hall, who, it was alleged, had per-
mitted dancing in his place of entertain.
ment, not having license therefor. The
decision of the case turned on the question
what constituted dancing, and the learned
justice after wrestling for some time with
the arguments of the opposing counsel
thus defined it to the jury IA movement
of the legs and feet, graceful and rhyth
mical, for grotesque antics do not properly
merit the term" This judicial utterancs
with its ponderous accuracy may serve to
deter future Gevotees at the shrine of
Terpsichore, who would fain WOO the good
ness for knowledge how to "chase the
glowing hours with flying feet"
MONsIGNOR CAPEL, next to Cardinal
Wiseman, perhaps the ablest living Eug.
lish Catholic divine, is now on visit to
this country, which has for its object
study as we'll as recreation. He desires to
investigate the school system of the
United States, and also to look upon the
varying phases of American society, as
seen at fashionable watering places and in
the more primitive civilization Of the
West. During his stay the distinguished
clergyman will lecture on tho social influ-
ences of Catholicism, the growth and evils
of agnosticism, the future of the church
in England and other matters likely to be
of interest to thinking people. The dream
of his life is to found Catholic uni
versity in London, whose degrees would
receive the same social recognition as those
of the old universities, Oxford and Cam
bridge. With becoming modesty he dis
claims any credit for the conversion of
several members of English nobility, who
became Catholics through his instrumen-
tality. He leaves tho impression on all
who come in contact with him of q
thoughtful, scholarly man, whose views
Of American institutions will bs we'll
worthy of careful consideration. After
the surfeit the public has had of Wilde
and Langtry, it will be refreshing to listen
to what is certain to be an intelligent
criticism from this famous English
scholar.
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Tho record of successful arbitration is
now So full, SO complete and so long con
tinued that failure to resort to it is alike
a blunder and crime on tho part of CAPT.
tai and labor alike. 1t is a matter for
deep satisfaction that the Journal of
United Labor says of this system, eve
stand ready to defend it against all com
ers." In Great Britain it has too FREQUENT
ly happened that the opposition to
acquiescence in arbitration has come from
labor rather than capital. We trust that
this will not be the case in this country;
but, whichever side refuses to abide by
the decision, the law will some day compel
both sides to accept tho decision of lust
arbitrators. Any other course will disor-
ganize society and destroy its prosperity
by industrial war where there should be
industrial peacc.-Philad'a Press, Rep.
One of the most gratifying of the new
phases presented in tho political conven-
tion celebrating in this city for the past
three years, is the improved character of
the men serving as delegates. Heretofore
a detestably rough element accompanied
delegates to these conventions, and
to this element was due the drunk.
enness and rowdyism which so
repeatedly disgracsd them and disguised
people who were lockers on during their
deliberations. Political reform has put
an end to this rough display by chang
ing the manner Of electing delegates,
thereby elevating the standard Of
character of those who serve in that
capacity. The Republican convention,
held in this city several weeks ago, was
composed Of decent and decorous men,
unaocompanied in their mission to do their
work by roughs or rowdies, while the
Oemocrattc convention Of yesterday were
equally distinguished for the absence of
the same evil adjunct. The facts are
worth referring to and the conditions are
creditab!e to both parties
Independent, Ind.