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An unsOldierIy General.

There is story going the rounds of
the press to the effect that Gen. Sheridan
became very much incensed lately be-
cause railroad conductor on the Lin.
tied express, L. II. r., would not accept
MS pass on that train upon which no
passes are taken, not even that OF the
president OF the company that Sheri
dan only paid his fare under compu sion
OF threat to put him off, and that he
Indignantly reported the conductor to
the company that he received letter
from President Roberts, who returned
the money, and apologized for the con
ductor's rGdeness and that the con-
ductor was promoted by the company fol
his fidelity.
The latter part of the story, if true,
and the conductors action are the only
portion Of 1t that reflect any credit on
those concerned. If General Sheridan
could not understand and appreciate an
employees strict obedience to orders and
the necessity for discipline in railroad IS
operation,as well asin an army, he should
have been taught lesson that he needs
to learn and his complaint to the rail
road company afforded an opportunity
which It's president ought to have 80 i'm
proved.
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BASTING BLAINE.
BEATING THE TATTOO ON HIM
rho New York /" Independents Opens Fire
"A General Cnsrso Along the Line
schurE snd Othcr Reformers


The New York Independent tho most
widely circulated and influential Repubn.
can literary, religious and political weekly
in tho country, says it will not support
the ticket nominated ut Chicago. "It
commands neither our enthusiasm nor our
convictions. Our convictions were not
transferred by Powell Clayton, with his
drove of Arkansas delegates. Our
enthusiasm is not kindled by gush and
dash and magnetism The level head
and downright conscience Of the Republi-
can party demand devotion to principle.
Devotion to party is not enough.
Blaine aud Logan are fit comrades.
They were the two most Questionable
candidates before the convention, and it
was natural that they should combine and
conquer. They represent the self seeking,
demagogical element, which uses party
| for personal preferment. No one suspects
| them of an earnest desire for single
reform. They are not known as advocates
| of pure civil service, of frugal expendi-
lures of the public funds or of the
publication Of political methods. On the
other hand, they have the reputation of
being shrewd aud unscrupulous party die
tators. Their chosen, eager friend, who
have engineered their success, have
been the star reuters Of the West and the
| bumraers of the East, whom Mr.. Arthur
| flung away when he became president.
| We have no heart to go into Mr.. Blaiue's
personal record but we regard il as not
| that Of man who is tt to be the caudi
date OF the Republic party. We can
advise no vote for men who represent not
the conscience of our patty, but the profits
or the preiudices Of its camp followers. Ii
some power could give the Democrats
grace to nominate au unexceptionable can
didate, like Bayard or Cleveland, they
would make the election of Blaine impos-
sible. We understand that Mr.. Blaine's
campaign will be conducted with all the
vigor which shrewdness and money can
command that it will be unsurpassed for
its noise, fire, enthusiasm, professions and
torchlights that it will exhaust every
device OF the most accomplished traders
aud manipulators Of votes and yet we
believe it will fail. The ticket may carry
some western states by tremendous
majorities but good Democratic caudi-
date will sweep New York by n majority
almost like that of Cleveland two years
ago, Massachusetts, and Connecticut and
New Hampshire would follow. We said
before the convention that Mr. Blaine
could not be elected. We were not making
threats then now We add that he ought
not be elected. The conscience OF the true
Republicans, who love its iai: h more than
its fishes, will surely defeat its unworthy
ticket, either by refusing to give their
votes TO the candidate or by transferring
their votes to tho Democratic ticket, or,
possibly, to third ticket not yet provided
for"
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WHY He Is OppOsed.

The so called, more or less, Independ.
ents Of Pennsylvania cannot understand
why the independent Republicans Of
New York and New England do not
support Mr.. Baine's nomination. This
Is only another proof that the Independ.
ents Of this state are bogus. If they
were genuine they would not only
appreciate the position of the better
class Of Republicans in other states, but
they would endorse it and CO operate
with them. For Mr.. Blaine stands fol
nothing that the Independents have
professedly urged and advocated. He /.
an eager, viniictive, unscrupulous and
rapaciCus spokesman, who has no regard
Tor and has never been the friend OF
what is called civil service reform by lis
inventors. He is demagogue, without
any real political principles or convic
tions, and always ready TO aban
don his professions when he can
make for himself, or his friends,
or his party by doing so. His
PRONUNCIATION and abandonment of the
ou'bAuo "A'iSiOh oSbCuiC anu Llo CusIoc
on international affairs, the Chinese and
silver questions prove this. His malig
nant attacks on the South, and his at
tempts in turn to wheedle and concilate
it; his jobbery in the speakers chair and
the hosannas with which nearly all the
individual and combined public thieves
in the country hail his nomination
his friendship with the Star Route gang
and their faithful reciprocity his blat
ant appeals to the soldier element, an d
his own personal subterfuges during the
war ; his coarse, bullying and sensa-
tional methods, all, have deserved rs they
have won for him the contempt and op
position OF right minded men. If the
Independents OF this state are not
counted among these, it is their mis-
fortune as well as their fault.
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Cooling on Him.

II Mr.. Blaine cannot get the Irish peo
pie to support him he will have lone
lot OF Star Route thieves to boom his
cause. Henry Ward Beecher even re
pudiates him, and Mr.. Beecher is sup.
posed to have a strong stomach. The
Independent opposes him and the hide
pendent has In the past swallowed any
thing that was labeled Republicanism
The New York World reporters have
been interviewing the temperance peo
pie, and they will have none of Blaine.
They have also talked with the
members of the beer brewers association
OF New York and New Jersey, who had
their annual dinner yesterday, In New
York. and they repudiate Blaine, be-
cause they had the general poor opinion
OF bis honesty. In fact Blaine's charac
teristics can only recommend him warm
ly TO the thieves of the country, who
doubtless are for him. He showed him
self In the Mulligan business to be an
expert robber and has so fervently es
labislel his reputation for dishonesty y
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TO-DAY'S NEWS.
ruG MORNING NEWS IN nRiEF
An Epiteme OF Current Evsnts-iucidsnt
ana Accident at Home and Abroad
rne way OF the world


rno way OF the world.
Isaac Jennings a farmer, of pondloton
county, W. Va, shot his son dead Sunday
in mistake for panther.
Chief Engineer w. J. Lambdin United
states navy, WAS stricken with paralysis
at his home, near Pcrryvilc, Md. Mrs.
John Moulder, sister, was summoned,
and sho dropped dead on entering tho
house.
Reports have reached cairo, to tho effect
that the rebels nine days ago, massaorCd
Husscin Ehaiia Pasha, commander at
Berber, and all his family the garrison,
which was faithful to the khedivc,
and tho European traders who remained
there.
A suit has been instituted in tho name
of Colonel Henry Il. RathbOne, now in tho
Hanover insane asylum, against the re-
Gently suspended banking firm of Middlc-
ton n Co, of Washington, u. c., for
damages assessed at $50. 900 for tho alleged
wrongful conversion to their own use of
bonds deposited in their hands for safe
| keeping.
The House committee on elections ia
the contested election case Of Campbell VS..
| Morey, of the Seventh Ohio district, to.
day, by vote Of 5 to 4, agroed to report in
favor of unscatng Mr.. Morcy, Republi'
can, and seating tho contestant, a Demo
| crat.
n suit has been brought in tho superior
court of san Francisco, against n. c.
| Goodwin, tho o.wel.known actor, by l. NJ.
Bayliss, manager OF the GIity theatre, in
Sydney, Australia, for a breach Oh contract
made in New York to play for forty weeks
in the Australian colonies. The damages
are laid at $50, 900.
The ,00Oth performance in the Tabor
grand opera house at Denver was cele
brated on Monday night. The large
audience was successfully photographed
with the aid OF fifty electric lights, and
each lady who was present was given a
copy of the photograph as a souvenir. The
performance was tho school for Scandal, "
with Madame Rhca
The steamship Plover, sent to rescue
the crew of the sailing brig Confederate
has returned to St. Johns Newfoundland
Capt. Manuel, Of the Plovor, reports
Notro Dame bay heavily packed with foe
ice and the Confederate lying helpless in
the ice sixteen miles north of Fogc. HC
succeeded in getting within twelve miles
of the unfortunate vessel al saving AJ o
her crew, after they had suffered terrible
hardships. Tho Piovor was then com
pelled TO retreat, leaving 20 men behind
in the ueighborhoOd of the wreck
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GermAn NI,haIa IL hantInn

The Philadelphia German classls of the
Reformed church OF tho Eastern synod,
composed of the classis OF New York,
West New York, Maryland, West Virginia
aud Philadelphia, opened it's meeting in
Reading, on Tuesday evening in Zion q
Reformed church, Rev Dr. J. Kuelling,
of Philadelphia, president of the organi-
zation, delivered the opening address.
Following this the organization for the
ensuing year was effected. Among the
delegates in attendance ara Rev. Messrs.
J. G.. Whcahe, ID. d. n Gehr, d. d.
j. Kueling, ID. ID. A w. Berleman, j.
G.. Neuber, A, f. Dahlman, G. A. Scheer,
w. w. Wallenta, of Philadelphia G.. l..
Neff, of Lancaster r, G. Ohlmann, OF
HazIeton; A. BoIey, OF Willamsport
G.. +. Ssibel, of Gassboro, N. Y. The
conference will last about three days.
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FEATURES OF THE STATE PRESS.

Geo. II. Welshons has finally taken the
helm of the PittsburR Times, and the paper
shows signs of new life.
The Erie Observer predicts that the
white plume will not compare with a
hickory broom in this campaign.
The York Age says it won't be necessary
for the Democracy 10 sling mud at Blaine;
the Republicans have anticipated them.
The Columbia Herald says that Lew
Hartman serves notice that he will clean
out tho collectors office u Blaine Is
elected.
The Pittsburg Post, whose editor Col.
Bar, is an ardent sympathizer with what
ever makes for lreland's welfare, says that
II the "Fenians cause it to be generally
understood they are in favor of Mr.. Blaine,
lot the incendiary reasons furnished, it
WIN do more TO insure his overwhelming
defeat than the Mullgan letters or any
recorded blotch upon his political history.
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n. Y. sun.

~ y oNH'
The moon appears to DO q fayorits
subject with hoax makers Just now. A
few months ago somebody announced
that there had just occurred great vol
oanic eruption in the we'll known lunar
crater of Tyoho then it was asserted that
a piece had been knocked off tho lower
edge OF the moon next the Canadian
storm prophet Virgins revived the old
myth OF dark moon, AMI now q story
has been started in German newspapers
that an astronomer at tho observatory OF
Berlin has been able TO detect lunar towns,
houses and verdant folds by an enormous.
ly magnifying telescope photograph OF
the moon. This appears to have been
suggested by the celebrated "moon hoax "
which was printed In the San many years
ago.
All these stories show singular lack of
Inventive power and ingenuity. They can
not for moment deceive anybody who has
any scientific knowledge, whereas Locke q
moon hoax was for time taken seriously
by men who were not unknown as students
of astronomy. To bs successful hoax OF
this sort must not disregard the ordinary
facts Of science.
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DIOCESE OF CENTRAL PENNsYLvArIA.
Thirteenth Annual Convention Hisnop
Howe's Address.

hpWeh ANuiet-s
The Episcopal convention in Reading
opened last evening with religious ser.
vices. There were d of the clergy present,
with 3j of the laity, representing %
parishes, and the convention proceeded to
business. Dr.. Lambcrton was reelected
as secretary, and Rev. W. b. Morrow made
assistant secretary. :. Il. Reynolds, esq
OF Lancaster, moved that that portion of
the bishops address of last year which
referred to the election OF al assistant
bishop, be made tho order Of the day
Wednesday, Immediately after morning
service. The convention so a greed and
Immediately after elected the remaining
officers as follows: Treasurer OF the con.
veutiOn aud Episcopal funds Z. K. Stet
son, Reading treasurer OF the Christmas
fund, W. l.. Dunglinson, Of Dauvlle;
registrar, VIM. II. Chandler, Pm. II.
South Bethlehem; chancellor, John J.
Freeze, Bloomsburg.
bishop Howe's ANNUAL Address
Then followed the annual address of the
bishop, in the course OF which he represen.
ted the religious life OF the diocese as
healthful, though some aspects Of il are
less cheerful than others. There has been
falling off in cOudrmations. Generous eX-
penditures have been made in homo outlays
in the way of improvements and proIresss :
Church benevolepce is fully equal to other
years. lt has been a serious matter of disap
pointment that the number of the working
clergy has not increased. One drawback
is that the support has been inadequate to
the maintenance Of pastors. The bishop
instanced the case Of a priest in rich
agricultural district, with tino stone
churches, who gets but $500 from the two
and s2O0 IS added from tho board of mis-
sions. The bishop spoke TO the laity
pertiuently upon the question of support
to those .whse lines have fallen in desolate
places, and asked the questlon-Iiow
many congregations in the land provide
q salary that enables the rector TO lay
by something for tho day when
want comes. In this diocese there is one
clergyman who receives $1,000, and 4G
who receive less than 81, 900 The bishop
referred to classes Of labor which received
far more than Gods servants, and
reasoned from IL that those who have no
lack in this worlds goods should no. hes
tate TO provide literally for those who
have not. To men thoroughly furnished
unto every good word AID work, this
whole subject of clerical support deserves
the undivided attention OF this diocese
The report mentioned the deaths of Rev.
Benz. w. Stone, Rev. |. II. Marsden,
Bishops ClarksOn and Smith and Harry L
Packer.
The convention membership was form.
ally invited to the bishopric reception,
Thursday evening, at tho residence on
C1ntre avenue.
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svrnNrapAY EVENING. JUNE ii, lse4.
saving What We See.

Pennsylvania presents Samuel j. Ran.
dali AZ her candidate for president and
presents him sincerely, and her delegation
viii support him faithfully, but neither
they nor Mr.. Randall desire the conven
tion to accept him II IL does not consider
him to be the best and strongest candi'
date. At least they should not have
this desire, and we credit them with
wishing what they ought to wish. But
because Mr.. Randall is Pennsylvania
candidate, Pennsylvania Democrats are
not thereby forbidden to cast their
glance upon other candidates or to con.
slider the probable strength they VIII
have before the convention or the people.
The Philadelphia Press seems to
think that because the INTELLIaENCER
--once more, by the way, unwarrantably
attributing It's utterances to 1.-THE
chairman of the Democratic state com.
mittee "-recognizes the probable over
shadowing strength Of Governor Cleve-
land before the convention, 1t there
by shows disloyalty to Mr.. Ran
dali. The INTELLIGENCER proposes
always to obtain the respect OF its readers
for its good judgment and sense, If it
can, and does not intend to sacrifice
their esteem and its self respect by an
exhibition OF such profound stupidity,
as 1t would manifest in ignoring the fact
that the voice of the state OF New Yorl
will be potential in the Democratic
national convention II it presents can
didate OF such excellent repute befor,
the country as the Democratic governor
of its state. We see no evidence any
where outside this state of any feeling o
dissatisfaction with Cleveland's name
and II he has his state unitedly he clearly
can have the nomination.
There would be discomfort with Tilder
felt by an influential but doubtless {
minority section OF the party; an(
Flower, another prominent New Yorl
candidate, would hardly be accepted b!
the convention with his state at his back
but against Cleveland we see no prospect
Of protest +; and 80 seeing, we 80 say.
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UaMrAiGN NuTUs.
Unbiu.hiug Bribery In uia,pes intCrCsr

Unbiushing bribery In Uiaiue's Interest
Some Of the Southern dclcgate0, notably
those from Texas, do not hesitate 10 say
that lavge sums of money were used to
purchase votes from the South Tor Blaine.
A Texas delegate says that he know that
$4,000 had been paid to the chairman of
one delegation from southern state as
the price OF the transfer Of bis support
from Arthur to Blaine, and that other
delegates have received all the way from
$500 to u, 900 apiece for their votes.
The Blaine managers have plenty of
money, and expect to have all that is neccs'
sary to carry on the canvass. The Star
Reuter-, Elkins, who has managed Blaine's
canvass, is reported to have told delegates
that it would not be necessary to go to
Wall street this time to raise money for the
canvass. He promised, 1t is said, $1,000, =
600 for the Blaine campaign fund. lie
will probably be chosen chairman OF the
Republican committee.
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"SOr mr.
Tne Voice OF Mss,achusstts.

Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.
Daniel Webster, on a celebrated occa.
sion, declared of the nomination for the
presidency Of tho party with which he
was connected that it was one mot fit to
be made" The Gdzette need not assure
its readers that IL holds the same opinion
of the nomination Of James q. Blaine
made at Chicago on Friday. In this view
it has no doubt that it represents the
opinions of the large majority of the
Republican Of Massachusetts,, and of a
much greater proportion of the intelli- =
gent and disinterested Republicans OF
Boston. The resons for this need
be no more than briefly sumrar.
ized. Mr.. Blaine is man whose
integrity In public life has been sue
cessfully assaiied. His success is the tri g.
umph of those elements in the party which
the reform movement among it's members
was inaugurated to resist. II is an indorse
ment OF everything which the party has
itself admitted to be Objectionable and has
avowed It's determination TO remove. Ii is
pronounced step backward, and made
with oil the emphasis that it was possible
To exhibit. To talk about the Republican
party as being in position TO reform
ITSELF with such "a candidate is to
give utterance to palpable absur-
dity. The Democrats have it in their
power to place ticket Ia the field
which will command the confidence of the
conservative portion of the country, and
especially awaken that feeling of safety in
its business interests which the Ropubli
can nomination has failed to inspire. In
such an event the prospects for it's election
would be excellent, ana under the dis
oipline OF defeat that publication 10
Republican politics might be achieved
which success has so sadly failed to
accomplish. We wait the result of their
action before declaring more definately as
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A WIND BAG PUsUIUkED.
how " Euthusiasm" for Blaine Ia ManuIat
tuTeu IN Newrpaper Offices


tured in Newspaper Offices.
IL all the Blaine ratification meetings
are unsupported by his upeTserviceable
friends, as the Marietta meeting was by
tho NeW Era, the boasted enthusiasm for
tho Knight of tho White Feather must DO
literally discounted.
The NeD Fra said "Mr. Reinhold vel
coined his friends in q few appropriate
remarks, and was followed by several other
speakers, among them being Hon. Geo. ii
Ettla, Paris Haldeman, L. ID. Roath and
Victor Haldeman. The latter's remarks
were brief, the speakers then calling
upon Horace Haldemap, esq, q
prominent Democrat, present. Mr..
Haldeman smilingly complied with
the demand of his Republican friends for
a speech, prefacing it with the remark
that all present knew him to be Demo-
crat in politics, and that ne favored neither
Blaine nor Arthur for tho nomination !;
therefore he had not been on tho fenco !
with regard to a choice. He eulogized the
choice Of the Republican party, and re
tired amid the plaudits Of his Republican
friends and neighbors."
The faces are that Pans Haldeman was
not there he Is on the high seas, home.
ward bound from Europe. Mr.. Rainhold
is next door neighbor of Mr.. Horace
Haldeman when the former was seren
AIDED Mr.. IL. and his friends stopper to tho
door to see the fun and when tho crowd
tried to "rub ii in on him" By calling for q
speech on such an occasion from well.
known Democrat, Mr.. Haldeman re-
sponded substantially as follows:
- don't think that this ia the place for
me TO make a speech as it is not our
funeral. This is an Arthur funeral. There
is fence between my neighbor, Mr.. Rein
hold and myself; socially there is none
there politically 1t runs clear up to the
stars j am Democrat and am going to
do all in my power to defeat your man
Blaine" Ho concluded with some com
plimentary remarks about Mr.. Reinhold,
personally.
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John Siglo's tobacco warehouse, con-
tanning largo quantity of leaf tobacco,
was destroyed by fire last March. The
tobacco was fully insured in tho following
fire insurance companies Umon, Mer
camille Fire and Marine, London and
Provincial, Buffalo German, Star, London
Assurance, Guardian Assurance, Phmnix,
National aud Connecticut. Yesterday the
loss was finally adjusted, and the arbitra-
tors, consisting of Gerson Mayer, of New
York. X. Ii. Brubaker and John ID. Skiles,
filed their award, estimating Mr.. Sigle's
damage at s25, 800 The insurance oom pa.
nies we're duly represented Mr.. Sigie's
attorney was j. l.. Steinmetz, esq.
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regards the future, aud always with the
warning to tho sincere aud disintorcsted
Republicans to act warily before giving up
their hold upon party under which so
much good has been achieved, ut least in
Massachusetts, aud through the agency of
which much may bo yet done for the
nation,
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The street LAMPS.

There was another thunder storm last
night, and no less than thirty.thTee Of the
electric lamps were extinguished. Artili-
cial lightning appears to have no more
chance with the natural article than the
ordinary sluggers have with John l..
sullivan.
Seventeen of tho gasoline lamps were
also reported out,
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that one cannot DO charged with slander
In charging him with dishonesty. His
Republican associates cannot entertain
a very profound conviction of his integ-
rity, and the record Of his chief advocates
does not give them the opportunity to
give him valuable certificate of char.
acter. 1t looks as though Mr.. Blaine
would have to start up an Irish Anglo
phobia dynamite campaign to raise any
sort of an excitement in the campaign
and get for himself anything like u
warm support.