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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-27
PERSONAL,

GEORGE W. CABLE h as a family o! five
children, all girls.
EMILE ZoLA denounces current EagIish
fiction as sickly sentimoutahsm " catering
exclusively for young girls"
LEVI THANTER, OF Boston, the husband
OF Celia Thaxter, herself seriously i'll, is
also regarded as at the point Of death
MILE. CoLOMBIER has been sentenced
to three months imprisonment aud TO pay
| a tlne for her scandalOuS brochure about
Sarah Bernhardt, entitled Sarah Bar.
num-"
Mrs. CAROLINE SVAULDISG BURDETTF,
wife Of Robert Burdette tbe humorlsf,
| died Monday at Ardmore after pr0tractei
| sickness. She was In her 31th year. She
had been an invalid for many years.
"LUCKY" BALDWIN, tho California ten
millionaire, aged 60, who was shot at some
time ago by an Oregon girl for betrayal OF
her, has recently married his fourth wife,
Miss Lily Bennett, a girl Of good family,
aged 90
JOAQUIN MILLER says that the negro
will steal in order TO crafty his generous
impulses TO bestow food, clothes aud ohCap
jewels upon his fr lends, but that no case
OF deialcation has been known among the
colored people who hold positions Of trust
In the banks aud government departments.
TILDEN, having been reported alarm-
ingly Ill, reporter who went TO see (oupd
him in his usual good health. He said bc
usually went TO GreystOno the latter mart
OF May or lst of June and that the warm
weather of Saturday and Sunday had buT
ried him up little, He walked up and
down the piazza while he talked and when
he bade the reporter good bye shook hands
with both hands, not at al! fsebly.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR and cabinet ofIlcsrs
accompanied by Admiral Porter, Genera
Sheridan, tho president of tho Senate
speaker Of the House, members of the
Senate and House committees on uavaI
affairs and appropriations, ministers from
England, Russia, Germany and Franco
and the Maryland menbers OF Congress
on Monday visited the naval academy n
Annapolis aud witnessed tho exercises o
the cadets.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES recalls the
TACT that sixty years ago throe little Bos
ton boys might have been seou Ia patch
work costumes Of melodramatic heroe,
performing In garret theatre before az
auu'ohee OF young acquaintanoes. As hI
remembers them they had remarkabl,
aptitude Tor acting. But they did moi
sIlok 10 the stage, for they grew up 10 b,
Wendell Phillips, Thomas q, AppletoI
and John Lothrop Motley,
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CURIOUS nAPTENINGs.


ComoluiOg Incident. Accident saL IriH.o
George f. Lowell, aged 2! q Harvard
graduate son Of Judge Lowell, Of Massa-
chusetts, committed suicide in Buffalo on
Monday.
Miss Arabella Hazard, who disappeared
some weeks ago from Cincinnati vac
found drowned in the Hudson last Satur
day at Hastings, n. \
Three boys, Charles TWltChell, ClaUn
cey Casgell and Morris Caswe.l, were
drowned at CroGhau, New York, on
Sunday night BY the upsetting Of boat.
At Gait, Ontario, on Monday, Ah-cr
Davidson. aged 90; Minnie Partridge,
aged Il, and Mary Morton, aged -,
were drowned while boating on the Grand
river.
John Carpenter, at one time q New York
politician OF considerable note, murdered
his wife in that city, dangerously stabbed
his sister-in law, and inflicted fatal injur.
ies upon himself.
Charles HolcOmb shot and slightly
wounded young man named Herbert
Miller, Sunday night, at Conneautvillo,
Pa, because Miller had accompanied
Holcomb's sweetheart home from church.
During the progress OF holiday games at
Chatham, Ontario, Monday, The grand
| stand fell and 100 persons were injured,
several seriously. The injuries consisted
mainly of broken legs, arms and ribs.
William II. Vanderbilt has transferred
s., 900, 900 in L. s. four per cents. to his
son William X. The transfer was made
at the treasury department on Saturday
n Gravel Bank Causes Financial FIurry,
A newspaper OF Norwalk, Connecticut
last Friday published "as joke" a long
article headed "a Norwalk Bank 10 Trou
ble." 1t referred 10 a gravel bank but
"scores of excited depositors who read thu
article or heard about it rushed to the Nor
walk savings bank, the Oldest in the Vii
nifty, and drew their deposits. The rur
continued during the day, and between
s25, 900 and $50, 900 was taken ont befor,
the joke became generally known"
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run uE>EkAL AssamuLa.

a state OF Prosperity in tho Cngron.
In tie PTCs5y terrain general assembly on
Monday, Rev. Dr.. stiles, chairman Of the
committee on narrative, reported that on
the examination OF tho ono hundred and
foTty.two narratives and ono hundred and
tw2uty-siE tAbulated statements received,
it was found that there has been great
prosperity IN the church throughout the
country. Many church debts have been
paid, and the financial condition Of tho
church has never been better, while cOlleC.
tons for benevolent and missionary pur-
poses were never larger. Tho Sunday
school work was also reported to DO in
most prosperous condition, there having
been an increase OF G2, ,47O scholars during
the past year. Tho work OF the women,
in connection with many Of the operations
Of tho church WAS highly commended.
The Increase in tho membership Of tho
church during tho past year was about
30, 600 The Eauctity of the Sabbath, IN
running cars, selling and reading papers,
running factories, etc, had been desCcra
ted, and the church protested against
these practices. Tho narrative closed by
stating that eighty four ministers had died
during the year. a motion to refer the
report back 70 the committee 10 correct
quotations from the Bible was voted down
Cincinnati was selected for next year s
meeting.
The committee on the polity Of tho
| church reported and recommended the
assembly 10 decide that business is only
| legally done in q regular constituted meet
ing o! tho session, when opened and closed
with prayer. Agreed to.
Il was also decided that deacons must
DO members, and godly women may DO
called into service to take charge of the
poor, and that they are not to be ordained
and installed, The term of service for
elders under the limited system must not
be for less than three years, and the pro-
vision Of the article could not be carried
out unless some were elected for longer
| period. An overture with regard TO bap-
tism Of children was adopted to be sent
down to the presbyteries. 1t was also
reported by the committee that depOsed
ministers must be reordained to restore
them to the ministry, and the same Ia the
case Of demission under the new book.
| The action Of the assemblies of 1s45 and
1873, on the relation of the church session
to music in the church, was reaffirmed
The report was completed with this itom
and adopted rs whole.
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LITTLE LUUhLS,


Interesting Happenings Bfieny Told
There were eight electric lights reported
imperfect last night the gasoline lamIs
were all burning.
An order has been issued to the Rsy-
nolds rifles, requiring all members to re-
port at $50 a. m, Friday next, May 80,
to take part in the Decoration day parade.
Fred Hines, having Withdrawn his--the
lowest--bid to furnish crossing stones for
tho city, the contract has been given to j.
+. Stauffer, tho next lowest bidder at 73t
cents per foot.
The consumers gas company offer to
enter into an agreement under seal with
the Reading city councils, removing all
the objections that caused Mayor Rowe to
veto their bill.
Jonathan 5. Flack, aged GO, who has
been despondent for sorle time, was found
dead in an outhouso of his residence,
North Third street, Reading, Monday
morning. Near him was q druggist .
package marked Raticide."
Mayor RoseumiIor discharged two
drunks on payment of costa Alderman
Samson sent out Patrick Hagen for ton
days Alderman Spurrier held Edward
Gardner for hearing tonight on W m. +.
Murphy's complaint of assault and bat
| terry.
Peter Tatro, alias Jno. A. Moore, alias
Capt. Jenks," who was arrested in
Marietta, this county, and taken from ouI
Jail TO Philadelphia Tor trial. was sentenced
on Monday TO two years and fined 5000 foI
having peTsonated q pension agent and
altered q certificate for pensloner in Ly-
coming county. He claims TO have eleven
wives living, and the pension department
has found five OF them.
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the COURT GROWS rArnr,to.


sorry TO zee TIL. Pleasant Memories OF
sunny Childhood En.Ced "
In settling the estate OF John Soherer,
Judge Hanna, Of the orphans court, Phil.
adolphia, decided that q balance OF S143
was due Mrs. Annie +. Taylor, daughter
oi tho decodent. Tho womans mother
was an eSecutrix of tho estate. She did
not pay over tho money aud her daughter
asked Tor an attachment to have her sent
TO prison. The court refused tho appli
cation and said
Ihis is tho first instance in our OK
pericnco OF child proceeding to the
utmost limit against parent, even to tho
prison door, and that parent mother, in
hh euort to enforce payment of q sum less
than loo proved to DO due as guardian of
nor daughter. We had supposed that
some spark of tllial lovo still lowered Ia tho
heart OF every child towards mother,
surviving the coldness of ingratitude and
iorcotiulnesS of bitter cstrangemont but
II seoms are mistaken. The bright and
pleasant memories of sunny childhood and
tonder ministries and self sacrifices of a
mother are alike eifaced aud in their stead
appears revolving selishuess. Wo arc not
disposed to recognize such uufiial con.
quot, nor such a stigma upon human
nature. Rather let Il DO hidden from
public vicw."
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Tug METHODIST UuURUh
beginning Another Week OF too Genera
Conference,

Beginning Another week OF too General
Conference,
In the general conference on Monday
there was lively fight over tina report of
the committee on cooperation in church
work. The section which waved like o
red flag in tho cyes Of the angry opposi.
tlon proposed new form or blank to be
observed by preachers 10 reporting to the
conference their work during the year, and
recommended that pastors o. churches
report the amount Of money asked for the
support Of church societies and tho amount
received.
DR.. Buckley said such o proposition
was unjust, uudemOcratic and contempti-
bic.
DIR. Graw, OF New Jersey, said it was
an attempt to force contributions for
tho societies at the point Of the bayouot.
DR.. Kynott said that the item did not
instruct that these reports should bo made,
it simply requested them. He further
said tho great body OF the church was not
interested in the work, and the statistics
asked for would servo to call attention
to it.
DR.. HATFIELD said he recognized this as
an old acquaintance enlarged, If not i'm
proved. lie said no other body Of minis
ters would submit to such dragooning az
this.
Tho previous question being ordered,
Bishop Hurst declared that Bishop
Wiley as chairman of the committee,
had the right under the rules, to close the
debate,
DR.. Buckley appealed from the decision
of tho chair because he said, Bishop Wiley
was not member either of the conference
or OF the committee aud had no rights on
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Alta meeting of the water committee Of
councils this afternoon it was resolved to
give John Bost the contract for making a
wrought iron "Y" Of heavy boiler iron
to connect the 100000 gallon pump at
the city water works with the s4inch
main leading to the city reservoirs. Mr..
Best saws he can complete the work by
next Sunday week. 1t will be recoleoted
by our readers that the water committee
have been disappointed for several weeks
in not getting cast iron "Y" from Mel.
lert & Co., of Reading less than three
of them bursting during the test to which
they were subjected.
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Republican party to elect its candidate
for president next year. Protection won't
eloct him. Tho putting down OF the
rebellion twenty years ago won't elect
him. While the eminent leaders Of the
grand old party are pointing with pride
to the American workman and tho battle
SCARED veteran in the front rank q watch
full and pitiless enemy will call ruohc,
attention to tho gang of rascals in the tail
of tho procession. Turn the rascals out
is to be the war cry Of the Democrats next
summer. This docs not mean merely the
proved, though as yet unbranded, rascals.
It means you, President Arthur; you
Secretary Folgcr you, Secretary Chand-
ler you. Mr.. Hatton, "a Il means turn out
eperp6ody oh0 is note IN"
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MUSEUM COMPANY.
ria, SNOW M Low PIioas


Last evening the opera house was
crowded, the attraction being the Now
York Dime Museum and Concert com
plny. The largo audience was no doubt
drawn by tho extremely low prices, but
tho peopls were agreeably surprised. The
entertainment, which is Of the specially
order, was excellent throughout, and the
patrons of the show arc treated TO two
hours OF fun. Tho performance opened
with q farce entitled +" h WOman's Will"
John B. Wills aud May Adams, first class
artists, followed in musical melange,
introducing singing, dancing, &c, aud the
lady gave her wonderful vocal imitation OF
tho cornet, w. N. Corson is good Won
triloqlist and his local hits caught on;
James Dilks and Nellio Gray displayed
lots Of talent In their musical act, and tue
duet on tomato cans and bottles was won
derful. Harry Mason is q very clever
commedian, and his sayings, jokes, @o.,
were new. The show closed with funny
sketch entitled "The Blbbs Fanny
The party appear in the opera house every
night this week and will no douot draw
crowds.
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AS the time for the Republican con
vention draws nigh, the troubles of that
party increase. During the past few
weeks there has been an apparent i'm
provement in the chances Of Mr.. Arthur; /;
the prospect of his nomination is met by
the complacent announcement from bis
opponents that II he is the nominee the
avengers of Garfield will see to it
that in the October elections Ohio will
go Democratic by 20, 900. The New York
Times, the leading organ Of its party,
cheerfully reminds 1t that 1.-The Repub.
lican party might as we'll nominate Dor
sey himself at Chicago as to nominate
the president to whose complacent toler
alton of the studied and deliberate mis-
management of the Star Route trials the
men who plundered the treasury OF mil
lions owe their immunity from the pun.
ishment they 80 richly deserved"
Mr.. Blaine's friends are striving very
hard to nominate him. They are
making combinations in every direction
to effect that end, and yet despair of &C
complshing it unless they can capture a
considerable number of the floating
delegates from the South, who are
always open to purchase with cash or
promise Of office. Mr.. Blaine himself is
said TO regard even his own nomination
with anxiety, for he is by no means Ger.
tain that he can be elected. He has
every reason to know that In the decisive
city and state OF New York he is weak
and while he will suffer largely from Re-
publican defections, he can make no
Democratic gains.
But 1t Is not so much the personality
Of the candidate that the Republicans
are troubled about as 1t Is their inability
to elect anybody. In the first place
they dread the effect of the recent dis
closures OF business rottenness on Wall
street they fear more to come. They
appreciate the sensitiveness of public
opinion, and its readiness to Connect
commercial instability and recklessness
with government abuses and official
announcement. Secondly, they are
apprehensive OF the aroused popular
spirit which they see manifesting itseli
everywhere to redress the electoral FRAUD
OF ls76-77 by turning out the rascals VIII,
perpetrated 1t. And, finally, the Repub
lican party is in danger of early dissolu
tion over the issue raised by It's utte
inability thus far 10 punish the thieye
whose yillainy has been brought to ligh
in spite of itself The New York Times
recognizing this very clearly, reprint
today this succinct statement, whicl
hrst appeared in Its editorial column
June Is, 1888:
1T Is go'ug TO be very hard work for III,
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CHAINED TO 4 RuUR 10 DIE.
Tho Alleged Crnsl treatment OF a Divorced
MIte by = W Get NirsInIA Farmer.

WIG O1 NCet ' lrs luhA + hthtF
A story Of cruelty comes from Webster
county, VIVA. John Adams, a prominent
and wealthy farmer and sheriff of the
county, became infatuated with a dissoiute
character. To free himself from his wife
Adams brought suit for divorce on the
ground of unfaithluluesS, and secured wit.
neSses TO sustain the charge. After the
granting of the divorce Mrs. Adams dis
appeared from the uciGhborAoOd and II
was supposed that she had left the county.
Saturday evening one OF her children
aged 10, who was visiting few miles
from home, in climbing VI, Hero, a
mountain thickly wooded, came across a
rail pen. Looking in he saw q woman.
He ran to the nearest house for friends.
Returning they found the mother OF the
child nearly dead from exposure, chained
to a rock in the pen. On being revived
she said her husband had had her taken
to a cave and kept there till almost dead
from starvation. Two days before he
brought her TO the pen and fastened her
by the chain. The place where sh9 was
found is lonely and IS not visited once .
year. Ii is supposed that the husband
meant TO let her die, then remove the
chains and make it appear q case OF suicide.
The county is terribly reused, aud the
guilty man and his dissOlute friend 8 Ill
be lyuched ii caught. Mrs. Adams Will
| die.
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,,Tho Poles M ust 90"

When the Maxim electric light com
pany changed the position of their lamps
and placed them on brackets on the poles
instead Of swinging them on cables in the
middle of the street, they dispensed with
tho use of a goodly number Of poles.
These they took down, but instead of
hauling thom away have permitted them
to lie lengthwise in the cutters, obstruct
citizens complain of this nuisance as being
great annoyance, and insist on having
the poles removed. The PROSTATE poles
must go.
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tho hoor. The house sustained the appeal.
and on the vote being taken the Item
was rejected. The debates ON the appeal
was very exciting, members rose ali oyor
tho house and shouted points of order.
questions of privilege aud all tho other
oostrnctions to debate they could think
Of Tho house was evidently very Jealous
OF what IL regarded as an onoroachment
py the bishops on tho rights of mem
boTs.
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GRANT AUTHORIZED iT.
The Correspondence Betwee aGr. FIsh an,
Gen. Grant,

The Correspondence Betw cen alT. rI.h and
Gen. Grant,
The following are the copies of the lot.
ters referred TO by Mr.. James d. Fish as
passing between himself aud Gen. Grant.
according to the New York World:
New YORK, May !, 1882
My Dear General As We are both
very busy, being confined to my bank
and you constantly being called out of the
city in business matters, We seldom meet,
although We are members of the same
firm. Do you think it would DO well for
the older heads TO meet aud talk over the
business done by the younger heads |
do not understand the government CON
tracts perhaps you can throw somo light
upon them. Advise me when can have
an interview with you and wo can talk
over these matters
Yours very truly,
JAMES d, FIsU.
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AN IRoNsiDES yIyIoK,,
lho HcadIng actiyes Defeated by tho uc

The lronsidcs defeated tho ActIyos oi
keadine yesterday by tho score Of . to Z.
Tho Lancaster team failed 70 scoro until
the nth inning when heavy hits well
punched notted i've runs. Derby made a
three baggcr and Mcramany homo run
IN this inning. Donald did great work OF
ing no errors. Mclaughlin and Boyle. OF
the Aotiyes madc a fine double play. The
Reading Times complains that Umuir,
Hague displayed miserable judgment ID
his decisions for bo:h sides Appended /.
th, fun a,nrc
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AN EmPry TIN OAS.
Picked Up by Two Trampa Ia the on Rc-
gions with StsrtlInE Results.

Picked Up by Two Trampa Ia the on Rc'
gions with startling Results.
Two tramps begged some coilco at a
store in Warren. They had ~ old tin oan,
in which they said they intended to boil IT,
They took tho coffee aud went to an out
ot. the.way spot near the gas works, Ono
of the tramps began to build u fire, and
the other placed tho can on the ground.
Seating himself on the can, he watched his
companion busying himself with tho fire.
When the latter was ready the tramp who
had quit 1t picked ny stone and Jok
inRly exclaimed to the other one
'Get up there and produce the supper
At the same time he tossed the store
toward his companion. IL struck the can
with considerable force and instantly there
WAS u terrible explosion. Tho tramp who
was sitting on the can was thrown several
feet in the air, and tho other ono was
knocked down by tho conCuSsiou, The
latter jumped up and ran away. The
other one was picked up and carried to
the county poor house. His hips and
thighs and the lower part OF his back were
literally torn away. Nc Ut first gave his
name as Robert Elis, but on boiuG told
that he would die no said that Ellis was
not his name. lie then Gayo to the
authorities another name, which Is that of
member of one Of the most prominent
families in Pennsylvania. The authorities
will not reveal it, at the request Of the
dying tramp.
The can, which the trGmpS had picked
up, was an empty nitro glyccrino can.
Enough of the compound remained in 1t to
cause the explosion as stated, Ouiy a few
drops being required to prove extremely
destructive. Similar explosions through
the careless disposal OF empty olns are not
q y ~ I'm, IL, tkL. ~ -n-t Inn.
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Mr.. KER comes forward with state
ment very damaging to Bliss. Since
the disclosure of the relations existing
between the government counsel In
these star Route cases there is no occa.
sion for wonder that every guilty man
escaped,
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THE version Of the Fish & rant CORES
pondence which the New York N'ur'd
gives, while 1t does not prove that the
elder Grant had guilty knowledge Of his
frisky young partners methods, must
intensity the public conclusion that he is
q fool
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New YoRK. Mau 4 1890

=. :, :, 1VI.NI IKHY y I00@,
My Dear Nr. Fish: Your favor Of
Is at hand, and my absence from town
has prevented me acknowledging it DO
fore.
/ agree with you that the older ones
should look after tho younger heads aud
SEQ how they are doing
I'm am about to leave town for n few
days, but upon my return | will make an
appointment to meet you before 3 O'clock
on some day Of which will inform you.
Yours very truly,
L. y GDAST
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MAY 6. 1882.

My Dear Mr.. Fish: have looked into
the business done by Grant & Ward and
| think it is proper for Mr.. Ward to pass
over to the Grm the profits in the matter.
| have authorized tho uso Of my name and
influence. Yours, very truly,
u. =. GRANT.
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Successful strIkers.

CHICAGO, May 27-Tho Carpenters union
at meeting last night declared the strike
ended, the demand for an advance of
wages having been conceded by nearly all
the bosses,
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Earned runs -lronsides, ? Active, /. Two
base hit-MC Laughlin Three base htts-Grady
Out-By Williams, 3: Mecgan, /. D0ublo plays
Mclaughlin ana Boyle, Passed balls-- Der.
hy. | ; Cullen, ]. Wui FitgLcs-N iIliaTs, :
MCCgan,2 >.
rTTg III