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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-11
THE STREET LAMPS.
Nearly One.HslT OF the Electric Lights Fai
to Bnrn.


Following is the report Of the police re-.
garding the lamps last night
Electric Lamps--Priuce and Andrew,
Chestnut ani Charlotte, Pine, aud Chest
nut, Orange aud Marietta avenue, Lime
and Lemon. Limo and Frederick, Lime
and New, Rockland and Ann, out from 0
O'Clock ; Shippen and Chestnut, poor from
8 o'clock Strawberry and Woodward,
Prince and Walnut, Mulberry and Walnut
Charlotte and Walnut, Lancaster
avenue, out from 10 o'clock Prince
and Lemon, Prince and James,
Mulberry and James, Chestnut and
Prince, out from II o'clock North and
Strawberry, out from l2 O'Clock Lime
and Walnut, poor from o'clock Water
and Orange, out from 2 o'clock Filbert
and High, out from 2 o'clock Filbert and
Manor, poor from o'clock South Queen
and COnestoga, out from 2. o'clock
North Queen and Orange, out from
o'clock North and Duke, SOhn
aud Locust, St. Joseph at church, Manor
and Love Lane, Prince and Conestoga,
Ann at Childrens home, poor all night
Freiberg and Low, Green and Duke,
Mulberry and Lemon, Mary and Lemon,
Charlotte and James out all night. Total
81.
Only three Of the gasoline lamps were
reported not burning.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-11
HUNTING THE DEAD.
The Mournful Task of Those Searching tho
PCcohoutas Mine,

After working faithfully al, Wednesday
night the gang OF seyenty.hye woTkmen
engaged in making the last preparations
for entering the POc0h0ntas, Va, mine
completed their task about 9 q, N. Thurs
day. Headed by Charles Arlington, fore
man of the day shift, the miners and thu
laborers Friday morning a. ten O'Clock
broke down the las. barrier around the
entrance aud q rush .f foul air CnSued
from the mine gallery. When the gallery
had been partially ventilated the men
moved slowly in the miCe and, for the
first time since the terrible explosion, CON
menced systematic exploration of the
interior.
As soon as tho drs. heading into tho
mine had been trayerscd Arlington, who
like all the others, was carrying an i'm.
mense safety lamp, called halt. While
he reconu1itrei the surroundings three
bodies were discovered, half buried in
debris aud mud. After a slight hesitation
the shattered remains Of humanity were
gathered up ami placed on tramway car,
preparatory 10 their being conveyed - the
surface. When the bDiies had been
properly cared Tor the exploring party
continued the search. The foul air be-
came SO sitting that several Of the ex.
plOrrrs were overcome and returned 10
the surface very i'll. Ca q lDwCr level,
about two hundred yards from the end Of
the main drift, there was a general halt
because OF au oVerp0weTinS stencil and all
were compelled to return TO the surface.
The superintendent gave orders for re-
pairing the immense fan, whiIh will be
used to yeutilIte the mine. All day the
available labOrers Of the village have been
busily engaged digging . series Of graves
for the dead. A long tench has been
dug about q half mile cast Of the town,
where all tho uIrccllimcd dead will BE-
| buried. Friday it Is thought the greater
part Of the bodies will be brought to the
surface
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-11

case attracts intense interest In that SEQ.
tion, whore all are known, and where the
missing Federal officer was great
favorito during his brief and IL now ap-
pears fatal visit, Mrs. Bird Is now about
"a, and 10 still quite pretty aud of good
family connections
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-11
TuE CULUKED BALL,
EthiopIans Treaoing tho Light Fantastic '
Caucasian roiuicisns Present.


The Silver Leaf club. composed of
colored men, gave plain dress ball in
Fulton hall last night David Wilson was
master OF ceremonies and Benjamin
Stewart and Samuel johnson floor mana,
gers. The Stevens baud made street
promenade in the interest Of tho ball! and
played some pieces in the ball room
during tho even ng. The dancing music was
furnished by a good orchestra. The attend.
auce was large, there being nearly hun.
DIRE colored men and women present, and
about sixty white men. Nearly all of the
latter were Republican politicians and
some of them Republican candidates, who
went there to grind their political axes and
make themselves solid with the colored
voters. They danced With the wenches
and buttonholed and beered " tho men.
There was some squabblng and disorderly
conduct, the most serious disturbance
being a quarrel between oolored man
and his wife. Financially the ball was a
success, and it was conducted as well as
such gatherings usually are, the colored
folks, as a rulo, behaving quite as well as
the whites.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-11
sTAh ROUTE ROBBERS.
Moro Tettimony Before tho In,ermioah,a
springer COmmittee

moro Iettimony Before tho IntermInabIe
springer COMMITTEES.
Inspector Woodward testified before the
Springer committee that when he told the
president how the Mineral park aud PIoche
route had been increased from S3, 900 10 s5a
100, Garfield was amazed and ordered
Postmaster General James to "cut the
nicer out, no matter who was hurtn Ue
also lntmated that trap had been laid
for him" The president objected TO the
employment of Cook because he was a
disreputable lawyer but witness plaoated
him by saying that Cook was intimate
with the criminal class and could be made
very useful, Mr.. Woodward thougbt
Rcrdell was a very valuable witness, but
that he was spirited away from the
prosecution and so tampered with as
to render his evidence worthless. He
said that Mr.. Cook had confessed that he
had been c0Truptly approached by suspect.
ed and accused government officials, and
be was the man who argued to the presl.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-11
CITY POLITICS.
The Committees Organized ana urgauillul

The Committees Organized ana OrgauiGIug.
The water committee of councils met for
organization last evening, all the members
being present, including his honor, the
mayor, who is ex-officio chairman.
Andrew Bletcher, OF the Eighth ward, was
elected clerk TO the committee. John A.
Hamilton, of the Seventh ward, was
elected engineer at the water works, and
Samuel Miller, of the Fourth ward,
assistant engineer.
The finance committee also organized
last night, by clecting Hervey n. Hurst,
chairman, and Ie electing Dubois Rohrer
clerk. No business of Importance was
transacted.
The street committee meet for organi-
cation tonight.
Injustice to MIR. Dsmutn.
There is q good deal of comment in the
political circles Of the city over the injustice
OF President Il. A. Evans, OF elect cour-
Gil, in keeping II. Q. Demuth of the Third
ward off all the important committees Ia
that body Mr.. Evans was moved by
personal spleen, 1t is charged, to exclude
Mr.. ID. from tho tinance, water. streets,
fire, lamp, markets. and city prOperty-a
discrimination that was made against no
other member Of councils.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-11
rat.I rNpIn,inn OF pYnnmite

An explosion of dynamite occurred
Thursday morning at the stono Quarrics
near Franklinton, n. c., killing Dock
Robinson, fatally wouubing Edwin Strong
and injuring William Brodic, William
Hawk kins, George Hampton aud Sandcrson
Mayfold, all colored.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-11
\ BOGUS MISSIONARY.
How willy African Mado q Living by
Fraud

Fraud.
Rev." W. A. T. Smith, colored, now
in jail in New London, COau., awaiting
tria! in the superior court for swiuLN2g
under the pretense OF being au African
missionary, has made a confession. He
says he was a slave 10 st. Louis, aud
bought his freedom ia 1852 from Mary
Smith. He raised $500 for tho purchase
money 10 New ECgIand churches, and was
licensed as preacher when q slave byRev.
Mr.. Clark OF st, Louis, also a colored min.
lister. Smith said he led = Christian life for
while, and then took T. swindliug church
people aud TO drink. lie was never author
lZed as missionary, but made o good
living by his false presentations. He
has been in the swludiIng business for ten
years, and used all the money raised for
himself. He says he never gave a cent for
missionary work and that he never had an
accomplice. He is the original smith who
secured letter of recommendation from
John Is. Cough, the same that Cough mas
tried TO get for ten years. He has been TO
Africa several times ue would work his
passage to America, and, after swindling
church people by getting money to found
a missionary homo for old people in Sepe
! gambia, would return to Africa, He saws
he expected 10 establish home for him.
self. When in Africa he was farmer, anJ
four of his children died there His method
was to travel about the country and get
ministers to recommend him to the people
as missionary. He would make remark
about the customs and needs of tho Afri
can people and then take up a collection
He was just starting Ou. on q swindliug
tour when arrested. lie intended to pro
duce his drama, 4 Planters Son." with
the money raised on his proposed tour. He
was never arrested before. He says he
released will labor for the conyersion n,
his race. Smith is SO years of age. Ht
will plead guilty and throw himself upor
the mercy of tho court.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-11
Preparatory ana Confirmation Services.

Preparatory and Confirmation serVic 8
will DO held this evening in the audience
room OF st. Johns Lutheran church at
8 o'clock. A class OF sixteen will be re.
ceived into church fellowship by the rito
of confirmation, and several others by GER
tiflcatos from other churches.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-11

THE statement made by Mr., GoWen
to the legislative committee on the Pat.
terson matter, tina. not barrel Of oil is
now carried to market from the wells
by the railroads Of the state but that
all goes in pipe lines, which are untax
ed; although the railroads have lost a
business of ten or fifteen million dollars
a year, upon which the state realized u
tax will excite marked attention, and
should obtain from the committee to
whom he made it a recommendation 10
the Legislature which will secure to the
state its proper revenue from this pecu-
liar product of its soil, which now flows
across lis territories into Ohio and New
Jersey, to be manufactured theIe and
yield to those states the revenue its ma
tive state should have.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-11
MayOrn Can't

His honor Mayor Roser miller had a
baker's dozen OF cases" this morning.
Eleven tramps in search of "work," 80
they said, were discharged. Two druuks,
Joshua Perry aud James Ryan were COM
mtted for 10 aud days respectively.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-11
og with Another Mans Wife.

Ephrata Review.
Mrs. Amanda Peters, wife OF Benjamin
Peters of the Ephrata Mountain, has
eloped with George Witmpr. Mr.. Wit.
myer Ia also married man residing near
Peters and it was noticed that an intima-
cy existed between tho parties for some
time. They are thought TO have taken up
their abode in S:Ouohsburg, Berks county.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-11
LOCAL POLITICS,
wnAr rHE bosses ARE p,,s
81 900 Onered on fattorson ana no Takers
Tho Ring Tickets In tho Upper End
Tho BoJs at tho BnIi

81. 900 onered ON patterson ana no Tas,r.
Tho Ring Tiokets In tho Upper End
Tho BoJs at tho Hall.
Rumors have beon current on the streets
for few days past that two or three we'll
known members of the Lancaster bar had
money to bet on tho election of Atlee "A
judge, IN sums 10 suit customers, from $25
to III 600. Last evening we'll known
business man, friend OF Judge Patterson,
sought and found ono of tho lawyers and
offered to close sl 900 bet on Patterson.
The attorney "took water" but In lieu of
the IL 900 bot, offered to post sl0O ON
Atlee aud 800 on Tomlinson for sheriff,
the bets to bo taken together. Tho bust
noSs man declined as ho wanted to put his
pio on Patterson for judge.
la tho upper district tho Sensonic.
McMellen short ticket has on 1t tho names
OF Boyd, Courtney aud Kemper for AS
sembly, and Coble, Lands and Seyfert
for representative delegates to tho state
convention.
Montzer, Shirk and tho New Era arc
counted for Myers aud Gingrch for county
commissioners. IL is possible that Cling
rich and Musscr will DO winners in this
contest.
Tho NtW Era faction will support
Blough, Hoover and johnson Miller for
Assembly in the upper district; Sollon.
| berger for register, Settloy for olcrk of
orphans court and Bear and Cast for poor
directors.
The Atleo circular on tho judgcship
| appears in some OF the rural week lies
translated into Pennsylvania Dutch.
j. a Solenberger, who has all along
been regarded as ono of the leading caud.
dates for register, has withdrawn his name
| rs n candidate. Being unable to get on
either OF the combinations ho considered
his chance hopeless. This withdrawal
will make the fight between Stouer and
| Geyer u close one
| Coon and pCssum
A Republican correspondent from the
northwestern section OF tho county, who
has heard that llarve Raymond has turned
in for Myers aud n third term ia the
county cOmmissioners' Office, thus ex.
! presses his iucTedulity " There il an old
saying that the lion and lamb shall lie
down together, and 10 politics sometimes
saint and sinner get under the same bed
clothes but this last reported deal is too
startling to be true. 1t cannot be that the
| coon and pOssum will travel in company.
| The ballot box stufier and class leader
cannot be harmonious. Look out for an
honest count
Politics In SsiisDury.
A Gap correspondent writes " Politics
in the Republican camp in this Gibraltar Of
radicalism is at fever heat. The voters
seem to have broke loose from the poll
ticians and all are at sea in regard 10 the
outcome. Atlec will probably carry the
township. Hiestand is gaining ground
and will poll fair vote. Unless all signs
fail Baldwin, for Assembly, will be set
down upon at homo for his Interference
in tho districting OF tho township, and
Heidelbaugh viii feel proud of tho vote
that Salisbury will give him to morrow"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-11
GOOD FRIDAY.
D duty, lowlier than death
nnL Y Z In rnN. mn I'm -

. duty, lowlier than death
Only the gods can know
he sweetness OF thy hallOwea breath.
Thy SUBMITS crowned with snow.
To day thy martyrs tread the earth
Despisel and alone,
Mourning the hour OF their birth,
without a rest or home.
To morrow all the crested waves
OF lies tempe5tuOus sea
Break at their feet in love that saves
Our royal destiny.
- Thorn,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-11

POPULAR interest IN Tho White Elephant
war has been aggravated 10y the produc-
tion of au affidavit from an Eugnsh
animal trainer, just arrived in this couu
try, that ForepaUghs whito elephant is q
common brute metamorphosed iDto an
object of oriental ido!atry by fifty coats OF
whtewashing and sizing. Blrnum sup
pements the discovery with al offer d" to
give 10000 to the Society for the Pre-
vsntton of Cruelty 70 Animals II com.
mittee of scientists appointed by its pres
dent does not decide Adam Foropaugh's
pretended white elephant is artiticially
colored." This is capital advertising foi
the Forepaugh beast, as an elephant with
fifty coats Of whitewash on his hide is faI
more OF curiosity than q natural whit,
elephant,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-11

THERE Is growing popular suspicion
that the immense quantities of canned
goods put upon the market arc prepared
with criminal carelessncss, aud that the
public health is thereby endangered. This
has very naturally attracted the attention
OF the canning trade, and before a recent
session of the Medico legal society, of
New York, its representatives appeared
and explained that the fruits and yegeta
bles are not first cooked in copper b-ilers
and then canned, but are first put in cans
hermetically sealed and then cooked in re
torts OF copper or iron. ZINC ia dissolved
in muriatic acid until the acid w.ll hold no
more zinc This mixture is then diluted
with water, is rubbed in the joints with a
brush, and a soldering iron applied
promptly and the work is done. The only
safe way for housekeeper to test canned
goods is by applying tho thumbs to both
eads of the can. Ii the can Tosists pres
surc the contents are good. All Of this is
important, II true.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-11

THE harmony of the Allentown con-
vention was not that which is secured
by dicker among the leaders for a divi-
sion of the spoils, nor was it accomplish
ed by the treachery of anybody, neither
by any surrender of principle nor COW,
ardly compromise. 1t was the work of
the whole party represented by flt repre- .
sentatiyes who could command peace
with honor and give to their proceedings
a dignity and gravity which would chal-
lenge the respect and confidence Of the
entire Democracy of the state. since
the memorable and bitter struggle
of 1850 there have been held four
Democratic state conventions, with
out any revival Of the old factionaI
dssensions of the party. II Is safe to
say they will never be restored, certainly
not in their old form. The attempt to
classify the members of the Pennsylva-
mia delegation to Chicago as Wallace or
Randall men is supremely silly. They
are Pennsylvania Democrats, pledged
by all that controls honorable men, TO
carry out the wishes and 10 be guided by
the spirit of the convention which sends
them.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-11

IT has been officially asccrtaiucd that
Bost II is without ozone no wonder
prize fighters and basebajl.s,s thrive in
the hub.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-11
A Surveyor shot In South Carolina

Some years ago man named Prentice
purchased large tract OF land in Logan
county, $. O. Litigation began, and the
suit found its way into the United States
district court. Recently Judge Jackson
ordered survey of the land A. p. Sin.
net was appointed surveyor by the court,
aud he, together with two If his sons,
started to Logan county TO do the work,
Wednesday, whom within fifteen miles of
Grifflthville, on the Mud river, the sons
were met by number of squarters on the
land, who fred into the party. William
Sinnett was shot in the right side. The
wounded man was brought TO his home in
Charleston. lie is in dangerous oondi.
tion.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-11

John NJ. Jackson has been appointed
postmaster at Wakefield, this county.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-11
Boston Atmosphere Without Ozone

AT the annual meeting of the Massachu-
sets Homeopathic association, a report
from the United States signal officer in
Boston was made, stating that in the
atmosphere above the oity OF Boston there
are not and have not been for six montbs
past any traces of ozone, while In the city
of Taunton he has found nearly 40 psr
cent. of ozone, and it is thought 6y many
prominent members of tho society that the
heat and noxious exhalatons that arise
from large cties have the effect of DESTROY.
ing the ozone naturally to bo found in the
atmosphere.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-11

ABoRICULTURE has its little boom. \
forestry league has been formed in New
York and tho governor OF New Jersey has
proclaimed next Friday as proper day
for general tree planting.
SINCE New York has PANIED ont SO
badly for Arthur the rumor has gone
forth that the latter will retro from the
presidential track in favor of Blaine. This
is nonsense pure and undecided. Look
out for "Chet" when the horses are com
ing under the wire in the sensuous days OF
early June.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-11

can felicitate itself upon the fact that
any possible nominee for president will
be strengthened by the names of the men
who are appointed by the Democracy to
cast the vote Of Pennsylvania for him,
In choosing its delegates at large, the
convention selected its men with regard
for every section of the state and every
element of the party. They are big
enough to take in the situation and to
lead the delegation, aud they will be
| ably supported by very superior order
| of district delegates.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-08-03
TALES OF ALL SORTS.
Several Queer Stories Of Some
Curious Incidents of Life.
A Few of the Strange and Interesting
Tales That are Told of Peculiar
Occurrences in Various Parts
of the World.
Leadriile Democrat.


ut would hardly be supposed that a
single letter t. or, for that matter, any
other letter in the alphabet, could have the
effect of changing the whole course of a
mans life, and possibly causing an effect
that would last through eternity said a
resident of this city yesterday. "Well, 1t
did in my case" said the gentleman. "Tll
tell you the circumstances. Some twenty
years ago, when l was younger than am
now, and had more money, too, than | have
now, | was in Baltimore, Md, and was in
correspondence with a gentleman in Mich
gan in reference to the purchase of saw
mill and an extensive tract Of heavily tim.
bercd land We had about agreed as to the
terms | made arrangements TO meet him
in Saginaw and perfect the trade, and sent
him telegram saying, I will meet you
there | Immediately started on my jour.
ney to Saginaw, and when | arrived there |
found that the gentleman whom | had gone
to see had started the same day did, for
ia,imore On reaching that city he found
bar ! had gone West but no one knew
Sh;iher, so he returned home. In the
mcartime had started on my return trip
rom Saginaw to Baltimore to meet him
there When he got home he found another
purchaser for the property, to whom he sold
it, and received the money for it. The
purchaser has since, out Of that very prop
erty, become one the wealthiest men in the
Northwest, while am poor. The whole
trouble resulted from the massage being
transmitted, i will meet you here, instead
of L will meet YOU there He had acted
in accordance with it as he received it, and
as | had sent it, and thus you see the
omission of the letter t kept me from
making fortune, and changed the whole
course of my existence. am now strug-
Cling for living in Leadville, when, if it
had not been for that unfortunate t, |
would in all probability to-day be a mil.
lionaire and living in a marble residence,
probably next to that of William Fl. Van
derbilt Yes" said be- as he heaved a
sigh "the small things of this life are what
we want to watch, and the chances are the
large ones will take care of themselves"