i THE LANCASTER INQUIRER, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1885. THE LANCASTER INQUIRER. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT NO. 26 SOUTH QUEEN (SECOND FLOOR). $1.50 per Year in advance; $2.00 if not paid in advance.
W. W. GRIEST, ELLWOOD GRIEST, Editors. SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1885. General Grant's Condition.
General Grant still lives and in the past few days his condition has apparently improved. He sleeps well and when he awakes is refreshed takes his food with a relish, and is quite cheerful. Nevertheless his physicians declare the disease is making sure progress: and that it will end fatally cannot be questioned. The end may come in a few hours of may be deferred for weeks. The deepest sympathy for him and his family is felt throughout the civilized world, and this fact becomes more and more apparent as the days pass by.
Slightly Illogical. The following paragraph appears in the Oxford Daily: THE LANCASTER INQUIRER, published in the nest agricultural district in the country, has fault to find with the Legislative bill prohibiting the manufacture and sale of imitation butter, It believes the principle of indi vidual rights should outweigh the question of interest of any particular class. This in the abstract is proper, but not when an individual sets about to undermine a legitimate business, by manufacturing adulterated compounds, which may be injurious to public health and business morals. Our contemporary admits that the principle that individual rights should outweigh the question of interest of any particular class" is correct. In admitting this it gives away its whole position.
No individual has a right to manufacture or sell "adulterated compounds injurious to public health or business morals;" but there is no claim that imitation butter is unhealthy. Its manufacture is a legitimate business, and this attempt to suppress it is because of its coming into competition with the products of the dairy. We cannot see how any respectable court could sustain such a law as the one contemplated. It is perfectly legitimate for 1 the law making power to provide that any imitation of butter or cheese must be sold under its true name; and to take all necessary precautions against its being imposed on the public for what it is not. To this no fair-minded person can object; but to forbid its manufacture and sale, absolutely, is an assumption of authority not within the province of government, and an invasion of individual rights dangerous to the true principles of civil liberty.
Woman Suffrage in New York. The Woman Suffrage bill has failed in the New York legislature. At one time it was thought that this measure would become a law, but when the test came a number of those whose votes were relied on to sustain it 1 failed to come to time. The well informed New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger says the strongest blows the bill received were dealt by the women themselves. The petitions and remonstrances against it, signed by a long array of ladies connected with our leading city families, and leading churches of all denominations, proved an argument too cogent to be resisted by the Assembly." While it is not strange that the average legislator should be influenced in this way, it certainly ought tohave no influence in determining the right or wrong of the question.
If these distinguished women, belonging to the first families and the "leading churches" do not think it right or proper for them to vote, they certainly should not be compelled to do so. Nobody proposes to compel them to do so. All that the advocates of this reform claim is that women should have an equal right with men to exercise the elective franchise. There are plenty of men who do not vote, some who oppose doing so on principle. Isthis any good reason why all men should be disfranchised The proposition is too absurd to be for a moment entertained.
The experiment of giving to one sex all the political rights is in many respects a dreary failure. The stupidest observer can easily understand that the admixture of a few sensible women in our political affairs would vastly improve them. The fact that such a movement meets with opposition from women whose wealth and position remove them from any practical contact with every day life and affairs is only another argument in its favor. How Our Men Voted, The Governor's signature has been affixed to the bill providing that instruction on the evils of alcoholic drink be given in all of Pennsylvania's public schools, and that measure is now the law of the land. It will be remembered that the bill passed the Senate without opposition.
The vote of the Lancaster County Representatives on its final 1 passage in the House is recorded as follows For the Bill: Book, Brosius. Heidelbaugh. Against the Bill: Kemper. Not voting: Davis, Courtney. The people of Pennsylvania may be congratulated on the fact that this bill has become a law.
Superintendent Higbee is friendly to it, and will doubtless do his part to secure its enforcement. Its passage in spite of the obstructions thrown in its way is an indication that sentiment on this question is moving in the direction of progress. The Case of Mr. Brock. The charges made against John Brock, late steward of the almshouse, will surprise most people who have known him, and it is well to go slow in crediting the rumors which are afloat.
Mr. Brock is well known in this community, and his hitherto unimpeachable character for honesty entitles him at least to a suspension of judgment until an opportunity is given to substantiate or refute the charges against him. In the estimation of a large number of our citizens he has been an exceptionally good officer, and hitherto his integrity has not been questioned. The gossip of the inmates of the institution to which he was attached may not prove very reliable when it is properly examined. If guilty he should receive the punishment the law awards; but he ought not to be declared so in advance of a fair trial.
The Bullitt Bill. The contest in Philadelphia over what is known as the Bullitt bill, intended to confer additional power on the Mayor in the appointment of municipal officers, has become the absorbing topic in political circles. The friends of the present Mayor favor the passage the bill in its of present form giving to Mayor Smith the power of appointment and removal; while his enemies either oppose it absolutely or favor an amendment providing that it shall not go into operation until after the election of a new mayor. It is not uncharitable to believe in view of all the circ*mstances, that the position of those engaged in the controversy is governed entirely by their friendship or hostility to the present city administration. In view of this fact it is just as well for outsiders to take as little stock in the controversy as possible.
The European War Cloud. The from Afghanistan, strongly foreshadows a war between Russia and England, and the probable embroilment of other leading European powers. The attack on the Afghan forces near Penjdeh, in the face of continued protestations of peaceable intentions on the part of the Russians, deliberate insult England, and an of aggression that 15,28 can only be met by an open appeal to arms. To say that war is inevitable may be putting the case a little strong; but to see how peace can be preserved under the circ*mstances is exceedingly difficult. hostile blow has been struck in the heart of the territory in debate, and the forces of England's ally have been severely punished.
Should she fail to resent this she would become the laughing stock of Europe, a and her authority in the east could not be maintained. On the other hand can Russia disavow the act of her military and make restitution for what has been done? Surely not; for it is undoubtedly the act of the government itself. How then can war be avoided It is not easy to see. A Park and Not a Rum Shop. The House of Representatives of this deserves credit for the emphatic wanner in which it placed its seal of disapproval on the movement to repeal law forbidding the sale of intoxicatliquor in Fairmount Park.
The stood about five to one against the and the attempt to convert this beautiful resort into a site for rum shops hardly be repeated. Had the atbeen successful, with the present infamous license laws of Philadelphia saloons would have sprung up all over splendid resort- a disgrace to the and a curse to the people who seek health and pleasure on the grounds. A leading daily paper of that city dethe defeat of the measure and as a reason for the repeal the fact the law is habitually violated. No doubt, and so are many other laws important to the well being of society. What then Shall these be repealed emphatically, no! Rather let us to strengthen popular sentiment in favor, that they may be the more readily and surely enforced.
CHAIRMAN HENSEL was in Washington week. neither Collector Kauffman Postmaster Marshall has yet been Nor has the Maytown squabble readjusted. GENERAL BARRIOS, the ambitious CenAmerican revolutionist, has been killed battle. Death puts a period to a passionate nature, a remarkable man and storiny career. His wife and family were driven from him by ill-treatment, and now in San Francisco.
His wealth is estimated at $10,000,000, all accumulated since has been President, although his salary but $25,000 per annum. Among possessions are a house in New York worth nearly a quarter of a million, a dwelling Paris, a palatial mansion the city Mexico, and considerable real estate Guatemala. CLEVELAND declares that George W. Curtis and Carl Schurz both postively declined to accept appointment office. This is a little rough on the tinguished and well informed editor of Tribune.
PENSION COMMISSIONER BLACK gave himself away badly in his letter to Miss Sweet, a copy of which we publish. was a little too polite, and as she declines the invitation to resign a position which acknowledges she has filled satisfactorily, is quite possible the gallant General be forced against his will to allow her continue until the close of her official term. THE Philadelphia Times made the common mistake in its attack on Mayor Smith of charging against him far than there was any ground for. The sequence is that it failed to prove assertions, and its whole case is discredited. But then, it has done good in making Smith more vigilant in enforcing the law.
SECRETARY LAMAR has provided elegant and commodious bath-room, government expense, in lieu of the horses and carriages which he ordered to be The Secretary is a man of good judgment, and knows full well what is the greatest need of his party friends. A WRITER in Bradstreet's asserts after thirty-five years experience in he has never known a mortgage foreclosed on a dairy or stock farm. This Is important, if true. THE sovereign state of Tennessee has down on Sunday base ball playing. after in that state any person guilty of offence co is to pay a fine of from $25 to $50, OUT of thirty-two foreign ministers ident Cleveland has so far changed teen; of 193 consulsseven have been recalled; among 120 marshals and district attorneys halt a dozen changes have been made; of the 2350 presidential postoffices he filled fifty-eight.
But Mr. Cleveland's policy is none the less sure because the Republicans generally must go; in the course of a year or so Republican officeholders will be as few as angel and may be quite as welcome. THE Board of Health is taking earnest action in getting the city ready tor a ble visit of cholera, and it should be estly supported therein by Councils.Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. The Lancaster Board of Health too soon nor too earnestly begin the mer campaign. THE very handsome editor of the Colum- bia Courant speaks of the lady clerks in the and what "sweet eyes" they accredit to Secretary Manning.
If there are are any women clerks down at Washington, let us hear from them, too. OUR esteemed contemporaries, who are busy recalling the fact that "April has been an historic month with the old commander" who is now fighting his last fight with such fortitude, seem to forget that General Grant was born in April, that in this month he received his first promotion in the Mexican war and that twenty-three years ago on Monday and Tuesday last the bloody and stubbornly contested battle of Shiloh was fought. THE sons of President Garfield, who are on a visit to Washington, dined with President Cleveland a few evenings since. Has the era of good feeling dawned? CARTER HARRISON was re-elected Mayor of Chicago on Tuesday; but by a greatly decreased majority. The world moves, and even Chicago feels the impulse.
MOODY, the revivalist, owes his great success to having an abundant supply of good, practical sense. Being asked while in Milwaukee recently whether he had grace enough to die at the stake, he he he he he he he he answered: "No, I don't need it; all I want is grace enough to hold this convention three days in Milwaukee." PRESIDENT CLEVELAND postponed a reception that was to be held on Tuesday evening on account of the critical condition of General Grant. This speaks well for his good taste and good feeling. IT has been made public that Gen. Grant has expressed a desire that when he dies his remains shall be interred at Washington.
It is thought that the grounds in the Soldiers' Home will be selected for the spot; and Congress will no doubt provide for the erection of a suitable monument to fitly commemorate the character of America's greatest military chieftan. WITH all his pedantry the world of letters sustains a serious loss in the death of Richard Grant White, which occurred in New York on Wednesday. He probably had gone farther into the intricacies of Shakespeare than any other living American, but his reputation as a Shakesperian scholar is surpassed by his fame as a philologist. His two works, Words and their Uses" and Everyday English," show a great extent of philological research although they are marked by that pedantry which seems inseparable from a man afflicted with a hobby. Mr.
White was a journalist with great resources and he made his impress on the current literature of the times. THE LATEST NEWS. General Grant is resting well. Dr. Higbee has been confirmed.
Ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen is dying. Fair weather is prognosticated for today. President Barrios is dead without: a doubt. The Illinois Legislature is still unable to elect a Senator. The Indians of the Northwest are not crossing the Canadian frontier.
is Fifteen homeless families, by a fire mostly at Poles, Shenandoah, are made Pa. A drunken Hungarian shot dead F. J. Hogan, the ticket at Penn Haven Junction, on the Lehigh Valley railroad. John McNeil, a nephew of ex-President Pierce, was killed by a train at Winchester, Mass.
He was sixty-three years old. Thomas Edwards, proprietor of a small sheet published in Kansas City, Kansas, shot James Costello, a workingman, in a political quarrel. Special police have been sworn in at Chester in prospect of trouble with Italians working on the Philadelphia and Baltimore railroad. There is growing dissatisfaction among Democratic place-hunters over the course of President Cleveland as regards the distribution of patronage. Fourteen men of Company of the 14th Regiment, have been dishonorably discharged for misconduct at President Cleveland's inauguration.
The Mahdi has been severely defeated at El Obeid. He has made the announcement that he will not attack Dongola until after the feast of the Ramadan, three months hence. President Roberts, of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, agreed before the Senate Judiciary Committee to show why, if enacted, the anti-discrimination measure would be injurious to the interests of the Commonwealth. The Labor Interests. The employes at McCormick's reaper works in Chicago, 1600 in number, struck on Tuesday, and the works are idle in consequence.
Some of the employes in one of the departments had been on strike and the owners of the works attempted to fill their places with new men at lower wages. All the coal miners at Coshocton, Ohio, about 300 in number, are on strike against a reduction of 10 per cent. Governor Oglesby, of Illinois, has received a dispatch asking him to call out the militia to quell a riot at Joliet, caused by striking quarrymen. He took no action in the matter. The strikers congregated 300 strong, armed with revolvers and prepared to resist attack.
They are watching the quarries and declare they will not resort to arms unless fired upon. Forty thousand coal miners are now on a strike in Yorkshire, England, against the 10 per cent reduction wages ordered on April 1. Buried in a Mine. It is not often that an accident in a mine so effectually ruins the property as the caving in of the colliery at Raven Run, seems to have done. The fall extends 800 feet along the gangway, and from the bottom lift to the surface, so that there is little hope that the mine can ever be worked again.
The company which control it are making all efforts possible to recover the bodies of the unfortunate miners who were buried under the fall but it will be weeks before they are reached. Ten men were killed, which is indeed sad enough; yet, in view of the fact that on almost any other day in the week 200. would have been at work there, it is a matter of thankfulness that the disaster was not more terrible. Un-Christian, Inhuman and Un-American. From the Philadelphia Ledger.
No American can take pride in that part of the anti-Chinese law which prevents a Chinaman who has acquired a residence in the United States from bringing his wife here to live with him. That is un-Christian, inhuman, un-American, and the court ruling which says that is the law gives the lie to one of the pretexts upon which the necessity for any such law was based. Wendell Phillip's Grave Kept Green. Boston Letter to the Minneapolis Tribune. The grave of Wendell Phillips in the Old Granary burying ground is literally kept green.
All winter long evergreen boughs have lain on top of it, and above the greenery lie wreaths of everlasting flowers into are woven the name Wendell Phillips." Guarding Garfield's Grave. Ever since Garfleld's burial, a lieutenant and 16 men of the regular army have guarded his 3 grave. Garfield's friends in Cleveland are to be asked by the war department how much longer they desire the guard to remain. They are expected to reply that they would like the guard continued until the proposed monument shall have been erected over the remains. Temperance Prayers in Vain.
Josiah W. Wright, the Democratic candidate, was elected mayor of Princeton, N. receiving twenty-six majority, in spite of the temperance people's endorsem*nt of his Republican opponent and the prayer meetings held during the day to intercede for the success of the latter. The Republicans elected the rest of their ticket. A Mormon Bishop and Elder Convicted.
At Arizona, on Wednesday, a Mormon bishop named Stewart and a Mormon elder named Robinson, indicted for polygamy, were allowed to plead guilty to the lesser the indictment unlawful cohabitation. They were then sentenced to ninety days each in the penitentiary. PERSONALMALARIA lingers with ex-President Arthur- Ex-SECRETARY FRELINGHUYSEN 1s sick nigh unto death. MISS MARGARET CLEVELAND, a niece of Horace Greeley, died in New York on Sunday. CAPTAIN DICKENS, a son of Charles Dickens, novelist, is in command of one of the Canadian posts threatened by Riel.
TWENTY-TWO daughters at the present moment live with their father, George Riddle, in Carroll county, Mo. THE twin brothers, Jonathan and David Chase, of Fall River, on March 24th, celebrated their ninetieth birthday, and are still smart and hale. ELI SLIFER, who nearly a quarter of a century ago was Secretary of the Commonwealth under Governor A. G. Curtin, is now residing at a hotel in Lewisburg and in very poor health.
DR. R. H. McDONALD, of San Francisco, candidate for the Presidential nomination before last year's Prohibition convention, is a creditor of the broken Exchange National Bank of Norfolk for nearly $200,000, which, however, he can well afford to lose. MRS.
M. J. MARTIN, Postmistress, at Burlington, for the past sixteen years, is credited with sending the second best reports, in point of penmanship and accuracy, of any received by the Department at Washington. The officials at first doubted that they were made by a lady. MISS CLEVELAND positively and for the third time refuses to interfere with the drinking arrangements handed down by a long line of Republican Presidents to her brother in the White House.
She is a Republican herself, but she has enough experience with Democrats to know how useless it is to attempt to shut off their Herald. Is this Mr. Keiley, Minister to Italy, A cousin to Reiley Who keeps the hotel! It this is the Keiley They speak of so highly, Why bless me sowl Kelley, You're doing quite well. LITERARY NOTES. The May Century will contain articles from Gen.
McClellan and Gen. Joseph E. Johnson on the Peninsular Campaign. Also one from General Imboden entitled Incidents of the Battle of Manassas." The Philadelphia Weekly Press has secured the services of Grace F. Coolride, late a con tributor to Wide Awake, St.
Nicholas and The Youth's Companion. She will edit a department devoted to amusem*nts, church entertainments. IT would astonish many a Londoner to be told that he can go "Through London by Canal." Nevertheless such is the fact; and that canal is the scene of the "little travels of a writer in the May Harper's, who describes in detail how he journeyed from beyond Paddington, the north-west of London, through the most populous parts of the great city, to the East End and the lower Thames, on one of the many freight-boats that ply on this "raging canal." LOCAL NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Chairman Hensel Looking After Some Fences -The Maytown Postomce. Special Correspondence of THE INQUIRER.
WASHINGTON, April U. Hensel. Chairman of the Democratic Committee of your State, was taking a look at things here last week. I saw him hurrying along in Friday's pleasant sunshine. If he is to be taken as a type, I should say that the Pennsylvania Democrats eat square meals quite often, even if they don't succeed in getting fat offices.
A Philadelphian says Hensel's visit here had nothing to do with the Marshallship of this district, for which he is in no sense a candidate, but that he came down to see about a few commissions in which friends of his are interested. I suppose he didn't make the journey in the interest of Postmaster Marshall's retention or the continuance of Collector Kauffman in the Revenue Office. But was it in regard to that Maytown matter? 1 read in THE INQUIRER last week how mad the Maytown Democrats are because a young Republican womana renegade at that--had been commissioned postmistress of that village in the face of the Democratic endorsem*nt of a popular merenant. That's rough on the faithful Maytown Democrats; but I don't see how they are going to better it, it it be true, as a clerk in the Postoffice Department assures me, that no change is to be made in the postotlice at Maytown without the approval of General Simon Cameron. An order to that effect has been on file in the Department.
Will it be countermanded? Those here with whom I have spoken think not. The Lancaster friends of Mr. B. H. Warner will be grieved to hear of the death of his estimable wife who was buried on Sunday.
Since Mr. Warner was a clerk in the Revenue office at Lancaster he has been very successful. He is now one of the most active and keenest of the permanent Washington residents. His house has been the resort of the best society here and his present affliction elicits the warmest sympathy from that large circle of Washingtonians who knew the virtues and the worth of the late Mrs. Warner.
I had scarcely got done mentally approving the expression, Blessed be the man who first suggested Arbor Day," found in last week's INQUIRER, when I saw a statement published by N. H. Eggleston, of the Forestry Bureau of the United States Department of Agriculture, giving the whole history of the first Arbor Day. Mr. Eggleston says: For the suggestion of an annual tree planting day we are indebted to ex-Governor J.
Sterling Morton, one of the most intelligent and enterprising citizens of Nebraska. Feeling, as the early settlers in the prairie states could not but feel, the lack of trees for tuel, lumber and shade, as well as to protect them from the blizzards of winter and the scarcely less uncomfortable hot winds of summer, trey were almost compelled as one of their first necessities to plant trees to some extent." In order that the planting should be done in a systematic manner Governor Morton suggested that a particular day be agreed upon. The state agricultural society designated the 2d day of April, 1872, to be observed as arbor day, and so generally was it observed that it is claimed that 12,000,000 trees were planted on that particular day. Since then it has been regarded with increasing interest. The governor of the state for the time being has, year by year, made public proclamation of a day for tree planting and called upon the people for its hearty observance, and it is estimated that there are now in Nebraska more than 250,000 acres of cultivated wood land." Kansas, Dakato, lowa, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and possibly other states, now have an arbor day.
This list ought to lengthen. M. M. C. WAR INEVITABLE.
The Russians Drive Back the Afghan Forces and England Intensely Indignant. General Komaroff has attacked and defeated the Afghan forces on the Kushk River and occupied Penjdeh. Intense feeling of dismay and indignation prevails in England at the news from Afghanistan, and war with Russia is considered inevitable. The prospects of war created great excitement in all the European money markets, and American wheat went up rapidly. The territory in dispute between the Russians and the Afghans lies between two rivers known as the Heri-rud and the Murghab, whose course at this point is nearly due north and south.
The two streams run nearly parallel and at a distance of about 50 miles from each other. Further south, the course of the Heri-rud is east and west, and it 19 on this portion of the stream that Herat is situated. The district to the north of Herat and between the two rivers named is known as Badgheis. This name has not, as has been conjectured, any traditional connection with Bacchus, but comes rather from the or wind-worshippers," a section of. the great tribe of Kushan, who colonized the region in the second or third century of Christ.
The district was once a well populated, prosperous country. There are remains of canals, aqueducts, forts, villages, and even cities. Yet now large herds of antelope, wild asses, and particularly tierce wild boars, which afford exciting spear hunts, monopolize its fair surface. Wolves and tigers are also found, and the chief spert of the Turkomans, when they are not man hunting, is the wild ass. Penj-deh, around which the reported fighting took place, is not a town in the strict sense of the term.
This name, and others which frequently occur in our columns, are merely those of valleys, or sections of valleys, over which clusters of kibitkas or mud-cabins are dotted, one of them generally containing the residence. perhaps a fort, of the chief man of the neighborhood. Such as it is, Penj-deh stands on a broad plateau through which runs the Murghad. It is a settlement of agricultural and peaceably disposed Turkomans, separated by seventy or eighty miles of uncultivated country from the nearest Russian outpost, but connected with Afghanistan by a chain of tertile valleys, through which flow the Murgand Kushk rivers. The Prince of Wales in Ireland.
The levee given on Thursday at Dublin Castle by the Prince and Princess of Wales was larger than any held in Ireland since the visit of Queen Victoria in 1849. The Prince with his son, Prince Albert Victor, and a small party of friends, spent the afternoon in visiting some of the slums of the city. Entering some of the worst dwellings, the Prince freely denounced their broken floors and roofs and sanitary wants, and said he hoped that such dwellings would soon be swept from the face of the earth, at the same time expressing his sympathy with the occupants. Mobs of uncouth and wildlooking men, women and children continually surrounded the Prince, who received them smilingly and was greeted in return with loud cheers. He shook hands heartily with many of those nearest to him and the old people invoked blessings upon the heads of the Prince and Princess of Wales and Queen Vic- An Outrage in San Francisco.
The City Coroner of San Francisco, on Sunday last, organized an anti-Chinese procession, which, headed by two bands of music, paraded the city. Before starting out the Coroner harangued the crowd on the Chinese evil. "The result was that every Chinaman who happened to cross the route of the processionists was chased by them and ill-treated if caught." Colonel Bee, the Chinese Consul, said that twenty Chinamen were badly injured, many being severely cut about the head, and one fatally injured. The original intention of the Coroner was to parade his band through Chinatown. Had he done so the consequences may be imagined.
Mr. Arthur to Resume Practice. Thousands of handsomely-printed cards were distributed on Thursday by General Arthur's old Jaw partners stating that the ex-President will resume the practice of law as a member of the firm. One of the firm said that Gen. Arthur would resume active relations with the firm chiefly as adviser in cases.
He will go into court frequently, but not so much as the other members. The Snow in Northern New York. Not a bare spot of ground can as yet be seen here, and in many places on the level at least three feet of snow remains. There are several drifts in this section fifteen feet high. All along the Utica and Black River Railroad the snow is about three feet deep.
The maple sugar harvest is four weeks later than usual. 45,000 Unsettled Claims. Judge Ferris, second auditor of the Treasury, recently reported to the Secretary of the Treasury that there were 45,000 unsettled claims in his office, and that claims were received faster than they could be disposed of by the 185 clerks. Work of the Pastmaster-General. Postmaster General Vilas on Tueeday completed his first month in office.
During that period he commissioned 450 postmasters and prepared more than 100 Presidential commissions for approval. His First Assistant, Malcolm Hay, has been ill ever since his appointment. Thirty Persons Drowned. The steamer Marinpol has foundered in the Sea of Azof. Thirty persons lost their lives in the disaster.
Maine's New Pronibitory Law In Force. The new Prohibitory law went into effect on Monday. Drummers can no longer solicit orders for liquor. On this point the law is very emphatic. The next important change is one intended to prevent a liquor dealer from concealing the fact of his guilt by destroying his stock.
No fine is imposed in cases of intoxication. Drunkards will be imprisoned from five to thirty days for a first offense and from ten to ninety days for a second offense. Gen. Dow believes that very little good will result from these and other changes made by the last Leg- islature in the prohibitory laws. It is reported that bottle carriers have again become quite numerous.
These men have only a bottle at a time, from which they peddle out drinks. Of course they are liable to arrest. HOT TIMES IN CHICAGO. Politiclans Called Liar," Poltroon," and Rotten Egged. The municipal canvass this year was unusually hot.
Charges of fraud have been made by both sides. Carter Harrison was openly denounced Saturday night by Gen. John A. Logan as a liar, a poltroon and a coward." On Sunday John F. Finerty, the ex-Congressman, who is the Republican candidate for treasurer, was rotten egged by a crowd of infuriated Irishmen.
Sunday's Times contained a circular charging that exCongressman George R. Davis, chairman of the Republican committee, was colonizing voters. On Monday afternoon Col. Davis commenced a suit for $50,000 damages against John M. Davis, William J.
McGargle, M. J. Corcoran and St. Clair Sutherland, of the Democratic campaign committee, the alleged authors of the circular referred to above. The evidence of enormous frauds in the registry committed by the McDonald combination is said to be complete, and the non-partisan citizens' committee has offered rewards aggregating $10,000 for the detection and conviction of offenders.
The organization of the gamblers is perfect, and the prospects are favorable to their success in electing Carter Harrison. It will require the official count to determine the result of the municipal election beyond doubt. From the unofficial figures gathered by the Police Department it appears that Carter Harrison, Democrat, has been re-elected Mayor by a majority of 383 over Judge Smith, Republican; Devine, Democrat, is elected Treasurer over ex-Congressman Finerty by Plautz, Republican, is elected Clerk over Neumeister by 220, and Washburne, Republican, is elected At torney by 1,233 over Ellert. These figures are regarded as substantially correct. The Republicans claim that the election of Harrison was accomplished by the most shameful proceedings at the polls, many fraudulent votes having been cast and many Republicans haying been prevented from voting by intimidation.
There is some talk of contest in behalf of Judge Smith, and it is quite likely that such a course will be pursued. A Family Burned to Death. On Saturday morning last the charred remains of J. Perrin Joyce, his daughter Margaret Joyce, his grandson Charles Joyce, and Mary Rice were found in the ruins of J. P.
Joyce's house at Turnpike, North Carolina. Mr. Joyce was an aged and esteemed citizen, engaged in farming. It was his practice to keep his money in his house, he being averse to depositing it in any bank. This fact led his friends to believe that he and his family had been foully dealt with.
When the Coroner arrived on the spot on which the burned dwelling had stood 300 excited men were there. An examination disclosed the tracks of three men leading from a mountain half a mile away to the house and from there back to the mountain. The Coroner's jury found that the family had been murdered and then burned with their house. A large number of mountaineers are scouring the country in the neighborhood of the crime searching for the murderers. Mr.
Cleveland's Sympathy with Gen. Grant. Extensive preparations had been made at the White House for a public reception by President Cleveland on Tuesday night. The East Room was beautifully decorated with plants and flowers and all arrangements were made for receiving a multitude. The news of Gen.
Grant's condition that came early in the evening was so unfavorable, however, that the President decided to postpone the reception. Hundreds of visitors, unaware of the change, flocked to the White House, however, and the attendents were kept busy all the evening turning them back. The Negro Cooper Captured Howard Cooper, the negro who assaulted Miss Katie Gray near Rockland, on the 2d was captured on Monday at Rider's, about eight miles north of Baltimore. There was an angry throng at the Towson jail and had they found him he would have been lynched. Cooper denies he attempted to outrage Miss Gray, but acknowledges that he beat her, says he did it for fun." He is boyish looking, being only 17 years old, weighs about 120 pounds, and has a very pleasing countenance.
A Priest Brutally Murdered. A terrible outrage is reported from the village of Tubencos, in Spain. A party of brigands entered the village late at night and easily gained entrance into the house of the parish priest. It is believed they were in search of the money kept by the priest for the poor of the parish, and that he steadfastly refused to reveal its hiding place. The next morning he was found dead and his body was partly burned.
The brigands had put out his eyes and seared his tongue with red hot iron. They did not get the money. The Bartholdi Statue of Liberty. The French frigate Isere will leave Rouen for New York about the end of April with Bartholdi's statue of Liberty Enlightening the World. Mr.
Morton, the United States Minister, and John T. Mackey have headed a subscription to a fund to be raised by Americans for the purchase of a cast of the model of the statue to be erected near the United States Embassy in Paris. The cost will be $20,000. The New York World has raised $15,000 for that purpose. The New York Press.
Within a quarter of a century 41 daily newspapers have died in the metropolis. There still remain in New York 39 daily publications. The other portions of the field seem fairly well filled with 258 weeklies, 278 monthlies, bimonthlies and quarterlies. The large majority of these are trade and class publications, that are seldom seen by the general reader, who does not know of their existence. There are 12 English daily newspapers, of which six are published in the morning, and six in the evening, and 10 trade and financial publications.
As to foreign newspapers, five are German, two Italian, two French, one Spanish, one Bohemian and one Chinese. The Mormons Protest. The Mormon president, Taylor, on Sunday issued an address to the General Conference of the Church on behalf of polygamy and protesting against the prosecutions instituted by the United States government. It recites the evils which have befallen the Church in these latter days and the persecutions the faithful have to bear. A committee was appointed to draft resolutions asking the President for protection from the "tyranny" of the federal officials.
Michigan Against the Republicans. A State election was held on Tuesday in Michigan, the officers voted for being a Justice of the Supreme Court and Regents of the University: The returns indicate the election of Morse, the Democratic and Fusion candidate for Supreme Judge, by at least 20,000 majority. The Democratic candidates for Regents were also elected by large majorities. The Republicans Carry Cincinnati. Full returns of the municipal election held in Cincinnati on Monday give Smith, Republican, 3893 majority for Mayor.
The only Democratic candidates elected were J. M. Fitzgerald for Police Judge by 1285 majority, and Vincent Schwab for Magistrate by a majority of 1428. Sun Shining on the Wheat. A telegram from Staunton, Virginia, says the bright sunshine of the past week has wrought a marvelous change in the wheat prospect.
Fields that were to have been turned over for corn are now green. Good judges estimate the yield at twenty-five per cent. more than was thought possible a fortnight ago. Her Third Husband Killed in the Mines. On Tuesday morning David L.
Davis was killed in Montana Mines, near Mt. Carmel, Pa. His wife had previously lost two husbands by accident in collieries, one having fallen down a shaft and the other burned to death. A Minister Deposed for Lying. The Rev.
C. W. Turrill, pastor of the Tarport, Methodist Episcopal church, who was on trial charged with lying and imprudent and unchristian conduct, has been found guilty and deposed from the ministry. Washington Monument Struck by Lightning During the heavy storm on Wednesday afternono. the Washington monumeet was struck by lightning three times without causing the least damage.
STILL LINGERING WITH THE LIVING. his family and physicians seemed to be so reassured as to the danger of an immediate relapse that when, at midnight on Monday, Dr. Douglas sent out a highly favorable bulletin there was among the anxious watchers outside the house a that the dawn would see the sufferer refreshed by a peaceful sleep and stronger. The family were all asleep and the house remained without a sign of excitement until 3.45 in the morning. At that hour two messengers darted out of the door and ran as fast as they could go toward Madison avenue.
One had been ordered to fetch Dr. Shrady and the other Dr. Sands. A few minutes later another messenger was sent flying after General Badeau and Senator Chaffee and U. S.
Grant, at the St. Cloud, and still another ran for the Rev. Dr. Newman. At 4.10 General Badeau, the first to arrive, came in a hurrying coupe, which drew up with a jerk at the Grant mansion.
He had the door of the cab open before it came to a stop and was up the steps of the house in an instant. At 4.25 Dr. Shrady's car- Gen. Grant Rallies from a Hemorrhage on Monday Night and 1s Now Resting Better. General Grant had been gaining strength so steadily in the forty-eight hours prior to Monday night, he had manifested so much buoyancy of spirit and thy and directs me to say Gen Grant is no better.
FRED D. GRANT. A gentleman who knows as much as riage came tearing around the corner from Madison avenue and the doctor hurried into the house. The carriage containing Dr. Sands and that in which were U.S.
Grant, and Senator Chaffee arrived almost simultaneously. The horses of both vehicles came to a dead stop and stood panting and smoking before the door. Dr. Sands had in his hands a case of surgical instruments. The faces of Senator Chaffee and young Mr.
Grant looked anxious and careworn. Dr. Newman had not yet arrived and another messenger was sent for him. He did not get to the house until 5.15. The immediate danger was over when Dr.
Sands and Shrady arrived. At 3.35 the General who had sleeping quietly, had waked up and taken nourishment. Almost instantly afterwards he was seized with a paroxysm of coughing, which ended with a sudden flow of blood from the mouth. The accident that all along the physicians had feared had arrived. The ravages of the disease had so weakrned the walls of an artery of the throat that the strain of coughing had burst it.
Dr. Douglas at once saw the gravity of the situation, aroused the family and sent for the friends and help. The General was perfectly calm. He composedly wiped the blood from his lips, manifesting not the slightest concern. The flow of blood stopped of itself after a time.
An anodyne was administered, under the influence of which the patient was soon asleep. Dr. Sands went away in a short time, there being no occasion for his services, and soon after Dr. Douglas said the immediate danger was over. Dr.
Newman, at the request of Gen. Grant, was sent for about 3 P. M. The clergyman remained with the General until nearly 7 o'clock. During the visit Colonel Grant and Dr.
Douglas were in the room. Dr. Newman had spoken of the friendly feeling of the people at large and of the great number of friends the General had. And I have a great many on the other side, too," said the General. Yes, that is true and they are waiting for you General- they are waiting for you." 4 Ah! Yes, and I wish they would come," replied General Grant and Dr.
Newman said that never, in his life, did he see such an expression of peaceful satisfaction as that on the General's face as he uttered these words. Dr. Newman dreaded the hours from midnight to dawn. The Doctors thought, he said, that they might tide him over midnight, but not to expect more. Since his hemorhage the General has comparatively comfortable week.
He is always under the influence of morphine. A cable message from Queen Victoria was received on Wednesday evening. It ran as follows AIX LES BAINS, April 8, 1885. Mrs. Grant, Gen.
Grant, New York: The Queen who teels deeply for you in your anxieties, commands me to inquire after Gen. Grant. DOWAGER MARCHIONESS Of ELY. Col. Fred Grant sent this answer: NEW YORK, April 9, 1885.
Marchioness of Ely Mrs. Grant thenks the Queen for her sympa- any one of the medical aspects of Gen. Grant's case says "It will surprise Gen. Grant's physicians very much if he dies within a week. The chances are that he will live two weeks longer and I would not give much odds that he will not lieve until May.
Of course some unforeseen accident, such as a sudden failure of the heart, may occur and upset my prophecy, but with that exception I think you will find it correct. Blood poisoning is most to be feared. The physicians are now directing their energies to averting this danger, and will probably succeed in doing so for a couple of weeks, at least. When you seen Gen. Grant's temperature going up and his pulse becoming irregular, then look out for danger.
That will mean that the poison has reached his blood." APRIL 9, 1865-1885. Two -One that was Radiant with a thee Where files of shadowy soldiery are drawn, Waiting their mighty Captain's last review." To Stop Objectionable Amusem*nts. Bright Future, the Other Full of Sorrow. From the Philadelphia Ledger. These two dates, twenty years apart, will be in the minds of nearly all of General Grant's countrymen to-day-the one so radiant with a bright future following his concluding victory, and the other so full of sorrow for.
his mortal affliction. The thoughts of millions are centred upon him now in grief as they were concentrated upon him then in gladness and in gratitude. Who that was old enough then to understand the events of the day can ever forget that memorable Sunday, April 9th, which brought the news of the surrender of Lee's army at Appomattox, and that the cruel war was over? What scenes were the crowded str ets, thronged with people relieved from their four years of anxiety and suffering, spontaneous outpourings of the populace, all buildings covered with flags, a wilderness of bunting and decorations, joy bells pealing from the towers and steeples, and the face of universal gladness. What a contrast to-day! The news of the next hour may cause the flags to be drooped at half-mast; the spreading of the drapery of mourning; the beating of muflied drums; the knell of funeral dirges from the bells, and an aspect of universal sadness. The scene that for weeks has been uppermost in the public mind, and that must be doubly impressive on this anniversary of the crowning event of Gen eral Grant's military service and glory, is most painfully touching in its nature.
There is the once powerful commander of one of the largest aggregations of armed men the world ever saw, victorious at every point, who has fought down difficulties of every kind in his career, and passed through scores of hot battles unharmed--now sitting powerless within sight of certain early death-death, now advancing with swift strides, now slowly retreating, but always returning, always in full view, always bringing closer the inevitable hour! That is a fate to break down the courage of the strongest, and to touch the sympathies of the most obdurate heart. Mr. Fawcett published in the New York Tribune of yesterday such a lofty expression of the feeling that pervades this nation watching and in alarm for General Grant, that we know it will be gratification to thousands to read the lines quoted below. For the tenderhearted people are wisest in their desire that scientific skill shall seek but to subdue suffering, not to prolong it. What they crave for their hero is not the flicker and renewal of agonizing days, but what Grant's own words stand for, now as a prophecy of prayer: Let us have peace," he said, while hate was hot Still in the land where he stood sentinel And guardian of its peace, whate'er betellHe that now sighs for peace yet wins it not! And what a magnificent vision is that of the other waiting hosts, whom the sufferer seemed to indicate when he said he wished they would come for me!" The personal friends who have passed over to the majority and who are sometimes clearly outlined upon dying eyes are not all of the throng that must be remembered.
"If immortality may ever dawn On mortals, of thyself it now were true That the great spirit of Lincoln looks for Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, seems determined now to enforce the law to the full. The following was sent by him to the proprietor of Clark's Club Theatre: Acting upon the ruling of Judge Fell relative to the sparring match proposed to be held at Industrial Hall on Thursday evening, April 2, 1885, I am convinced that the form of entertainment offered at your theatre is in violation of law and I hereby give you notice that if the sparring and other objectionable features offered you are not withdrawn, I shall be under the necessity of vacat- ing, annulling and rendering void and of no effect the license which you have obtained as is presented in the act of May 22, 1879. Your prompt action is Acting upon the precedent established, the Mayor will issue a general order to the Police concerning places of amusem*nt and the character of entertainment offered at such places. There are numerous places in Philadelphia which this order will affect. Gen.
Stewart, Chief of the Police, has instruoted his officers to ascertain the character of the frequenters of all the free-and-easies, concert saloons and skating rinks in the city, and if the evidence as to their disreputable character as charged by citizens be substantiated the Mayor will close them at once. THIRSTING FOR BLOOD. Boy Who Had a Mania for Killing Ani- mals Attempts to Kill Grandmother. John Faithful Farr, not quite 11 years old, who lives on Long Island, Portland harbor, Maine, has, since his early childhood, been possessed of a mania for killing animals and torturing children. At the age of 4 he killed all the chickens he could find by snapping off their heads.
During the succeeding two years he took to killing cats and other small creatures, strangling them with strings. When 6 years old he began to torture children, and the neighborhood became SO incensed at his actions that his grandmother was compelled to move with him to Great Chebeague Island. Here he renewed his malicious tricks, choking his poodle dog to death, lowering a girl into a well, from which she was rescued at the last moment, and pouring kerosene down another girl's throat, For this he was punished by a sound kicking. He then took to carrying a long pin, with which he assaulted every one he came near, and which he once thrust into his grandmother while she was asleep. Two years ago he attacked two children of an army officer's wife, who was visiting the island.
Soon afterward cries of Murder were heard from his grandmother's cottage, and the fishermen neighbors found the boy beating the old woman over the head as she lay in bed. He escaped by jumping down a thirty-foot cliff, and was so badly injured that once more he escaped punishment. After that he continued his assaults upon his grandmother, once using an axe and once a scythe. On Monday morning he attacked her fiercely with a hammer. Her cries roused the neighbors.
The young desperado fought his way through the crowd, gained a boat, and rowed off to a neighboring island, where he is now intrenched. He is five feet eight inches tall, and very powerful for a lad of his age, and is expected to make a desperate fight before being captured. If he returns to Great Chebeague he will be shot on sight. School Notes. The San Francisco Board of Education, at its last of Miss meeting, declared vacant the had posi- tion a March, a teacher who indulged in matrimony, who thus, according to a new rule- similar to the old one in -became ineligible to remain as a teacher.
She is the first to be dropped under the rule, and a local paper says she took the advice of counsel before marriage, and will contest her removal in the Court. Eminent lawyers unite in pronouncing the rule illegal, and there is strong probability that the courts will reinstate the young lady without delay. C. A. Bowman, the assistant teacher in Mount Joy High School, has resigned.
He takes charge of a hardware store at Steelton, Dauphin county. Mr. I. K. Witmer has been elected in his stead.
H. K. Denlinger, who taught the Bellemonte school in Paradise township, has entered York Collegiate Institute for the purpose of preparing for a course at Princeton. M. D.
Mull's summer school in Earl is designed to prepare persons for teaching. Last month 3350 pupils were enrolled in the Lancaster schools. The Elizabethtown High School's first graduating class gave a very creditable entertainment on Wednesday evening. Mary L. Balmer delivered the salutatory Ada Fletcher was valedictorian.
Other members of the class were S. D. Boggs, J. Harry Brubaker and W. F.
Parthemer. The School Journal for April contains a list of all the County Superintendents in this State since the passage of the law in 1854. Those who have filled the position in Lancaster counts are: J. P. Wickersham, from July 5, 1854, to October 1, 1856; J.
S. Crumbaugh, from October 1, 1856, to Feb. 7, 1859; David Evans, from 7, 1859, to June 6, 1872; B. F. Shaub, from June 6, 1872, to August 31, 1883; M.
J. Brecht since September 1, 1883. Houses and Barns Burned. On Thursday morning the large frame barn belonging to Christian Brubaker, in Elizabeth township, was destroyed by fire. Sixteen head of cattle perished in the flames, together with the other contents of the barn, such as hay, feed, straw, etc.
The wagon shed and hog sty were also burned. No one was at home at the time, but the servant girl. The origin of the fire is unknown. The loss is covered by insurance. The barn of A.
D. Sahlor, at the old General Green Hotel, five miles east of West Chester, was destroyed by a supposed incendiary fire on Sunday, together "with much hay grain, stock and tarming utensils. The building was insured for $3400 in the Farmers' Insurance Company, of York, and the contents for $1250 in the Penn Mutual, of Chester county. The grist mill of Rohrboch Brothers, near Bower Station, Berks county was burned on Wednesday morning, with 1500 bushels of grain and valuable machinery. On Monday afternoon the house on the farm of Christian F.
Hostetter, one mile west of Florin, in East Donegal township, caught fire from a defective flue. The frame attachment to the brick house was burned. The place is farmed by Monroe Shaffer, who loses $75 on his furniture. The loss to the building is five or six hundred dollars. Bordly S.
Patterson's wagon house, in Little Britain township, was struck by lightning on the night of April 3d. The flames were extinguished before much damage was done the building. A sleigh, a thoroughbred Jersey Red brood sow, some poultry and other valuable personal property were destroyed. An Address by the County Superintendent. Teachers, Directors and Patrons of our Common Schools: You are most respecttully requested to make every available effort to worthily observe "Arbor Dav," designated by proclamation to be Thursday, the 16th day of April.
On the day named you are recommended to plant trees and shrubbery in the grounds about our school houses, selecting such trees and vines as grow best in the immedlate vicinity. "Should the day appointed prove inclement and unfit for the work postpone it until the Saturday following." As the schools through the country are all closed during the planting season no one can be delegated to encourage the work at the different school houses, and the arrangement will therefore wholly rest with the directors, the spirit of the teachers in your midst, and the voluntary efforts of each community. In view of this unfavorable prospect let every officer and friend of our schools deem it his special duty to devise a plan to enlist the co-operation of the neighborhood and by wise arrangements awaken popular interest in the planting of trees and shrubbery in our school grounds. An early report from each district stating the number of trees planted and character of the exercises is kindly requested. Very respectfully, M.
J. BRECHT, County Superintendent. Barn Burned by an Insane Woman. From the Oxford Press. The barn on the farm of Mrs.
Ann Eliza Sid well, Upper Oxford township, was distroyed by her own hand last Saturday evening. The mind of the woman has unfortunately become unbalanced through domestic troubles. She arose from her bed about 10 o'clock, took a lantern and set fire to some straw on the first floor and the whole structure was almost immediately in a blaze. When the neighbors arrived at the place nothing could be done to save the contents or stock and four cows and one horse perished. The building was insured in the Chester Co.
Mutual for $700. After her act Mrs. Sidwell retired to her room and watched the fire from the window. Curious Coins at Auction. From Yesterday's Phila.
Press. One of the largest coin sales ever heid in the United States is taking place at Messrs. Thomas Son's auction rooms. The collection is that of the late Henry S. Barclay, of St.
Louis, and is sold by Chares Steigerwalt, of Lancaster, Pa. The first day's sale realized 81715.13. The best prices were obtained for the following: A $1000 Confederate note, issued in 1861, $15; a $2.50 gold piece of 1796, 850 California gold piece, $59; 1794 U. S. dollar, $22; 1839 U.
S. dollar, $25; 1858 U. S. dollar, $25; 1896 halfdollar, $28; 1797 half-dollar, 853; 1805 halfdime, $10.25. Autograph letter of George Washington, $17.50.
One of President Buchanan's original messages to Congress, in his own handwriting, $1.80. Oak Hall. No clothing house in the world has the extent and variety of clothing that is kept by Wanamaker Brown, at Oak Hall. Their immense stock enables them to satisfy all tastes, while they furnish goods at the lowest prices. Edward Linville Recovering.
Edward Linville, the Salisbury farmer who was shot by masked burglars, continues to improve, and his recovery is now deemed almost certain. He has been sitting up some during the past week. Change of Schedule on the P. R. R.
A new schedule has gone into effect on the Pennsylvania Railroad, in which some important changes have been made. Eastward: The Mail Express, leaving Lancaster at 1 a. has been discontinued; the Philadelphia Express will leave daily at 2:27 a. Fast Line 6:05 a. instead of 5:35, daily except Monday; Johnstown Express daily, except Sunday, at 2 p.
m. instead of Day Express, 4:45 instead of 5:18 p. daily; Sunday Mail at 3 p. m. instead of a train will leave Harall risburg at 8:10 p.
via Mt. Joy, stopping at points on that branch, and reaching Lancaster at being a new train. Westward Fast Line, daily, at 2:15 instead of 1:35 p. Frederick Accommodation, daily, except Sunday, at 2:20 p. instead of Lancaster Accommodation, via, Mount Joy, daily, except Sunday, at 2:50 p.
instead of Chicago and Cincinnati, a new train, at 10:41 p. daily; Western Express at 12:05 a. instead of 11:15 p. m. AN ELECTRIC TYPE WRITER.
A Remarkable Invention in Which a Lan- Reuben H. Linville, of this city, and a cousin of Edward Linville, whose Salisbury homestead was recently invaded by the Welsh mountain gang. He now lives in Media. The latest invention with which Mr. Linville is concerned is primarily the work of George M.
Hathaway, but Mr. Linville has done much to make the contrivance practical. It is now on exhibition at 327 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. It is simply an application of electricity to type writing, and the prretical operation of the invention is to instantaneously reproduce at one end of a telegraph line letters printed upon a type writer at the other end. The most marvelous thing about the contrivance is the fact that a single ordinary telegraphic wire conveys the electric current and operates the receiving machine.
In appearance the sending machine is very much like an ordinary type writer The instrument shown has forty two keys--the letters of the alphabet, the numerals and a few punctuation marks. The receiving instrument is located in the same room, and the visitor is enabled to see that upon the sheet of paper held by it every letter or sign struck by the sending apparatus is instantly shown. The diflicult thing to understand is how a single current gives the operator absolute command over keys which form more than forty characters, and which might just as well be a hundred miles away as in the same room. The mystery is explained by Mr. Linville, who manipulates the machine.
Dropping technicalities and without going into minute details his explanation amounts to this: Pressure upon any key causes a certain number of magnetic impulses to pass through the line. The number of these impulses difter for each letter, and they bring corresponding letters on the type-wheel of the receiving instrument into such a position as to mark the impression on a piece of paper. One of the gentlemen connected with the new enterprise says: The distinctive advantage claimed by this system over all other telegraphic, telephonic and typewriting instruments are in its simple and inexpensive construction and the ease of operating it. Any person who can read can transmit and receive messages through it as correctly as could the most experienced expert using the Morse instrument. It is as rapid as it is accurate, and all messages by it being automatically printed, both at the point of transmission and that of ception, they can be received with safety and reliability in the absence as well as in the presence of the recipient.
The recording of messages at both points precludes all questions of error in transmission. It cannot be read by sound, and is consequently the only method for preserving privacy in electrical communication. It is caster County Man Took a Hand. For many years J. Hayes Linville, who was born near the Gap, this county, was resident engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Altoona.
He is the inventor of the pivot bridge, and the iron truss such as used at Columbia, Coatesville and Wheeling, West Virginia. He is a brother of at once a stock indicator, telephone and type-printing telegraph." JOHN BROCK ARRESTED. The Late Steward of the Poor House Charged wito Appropriating County Property. On Tuesday last Isaac Ranck, a member of the board of Poor Directors, made complaint against John Brock, late Steward of the Almshouse, before Alderman Fordney, charging him with larceny as bailee of provisions, clothing, dry goods and raw material, valued at $800, alleged to have been carried away by Brock and his family when they left that institution. Complaint was also made against Brock and his daughters, Margie and Clara, for conspiracy to defraud the County of Lancaster.
The warrants were served and the accused waived a hearing and entered security for their appearance at court. A search warant was placed in the hands of an officer and the premises of Mr. Brock searched. The only articles found in his premises belonging to the county were some clothes-baskets, buckets, tubs and cans, which he used for the purpose of removing some of his goods in, and which he said he was going to return. The evidence against Mr.
Brock rests mainly on the testimony of inmates of the Almshouse, and its value can scarcely be estimated until it is produced and carefully sifted in Court. Farmers Swindled by Corn Sheller Men. Abraham B. Haverstick, of Manheim township; George Mowery, of Providence; Josiah Walker, of Colerain, and a number of other farmers have been swindled by agents of the Standard Machine Company of Cleveland, Ohio, manufacturer of a patent cornsheller and feed grinder. This is their plan of operation: The farmer is waited on by an agent who requests permission to put one of the machines on the farm for exhibition.
The farmer is given the desired permission and then requested to sign a blank, which the agent says is to show the home office that he had premission to put the machine on the promises. Ina few days agent No. 2 appears and presents what he claims to be an order for a machine. The untortunate farmer gave his signature and the unscrupulous agent now insists that he ordered a machine. Mr.
Mowery gave his note for $165; Mr. Walker for $168.50, and so on. Both these gentlemen now hope that their notes will not be cashed. Six More Assignments. John W.
Charles and wife, of Martic township, made an assignment of their property on Tuesday morning, for the benefit of creditors, to John M. Harman, of Pequea. John M. Petersheim and wife, of Salisbury township, have made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors, to Samuel M. Petersheim, of Ephrata township.
Jacob L. Reitzel and wife, of West Hempfield, assigned their property to John M. Froelich, of the same township. The assignment of Benjamin F. Cochran and wife, of Drumore to John M.
Harman, of Pequea has been township, filed in the Recorder's oflice. G. A. Schwan, of West Donegal, has assigned his property to Jno H. Eppler, of Londonderry township, Dauphin county.
David fa*ger and wife, of Drumore, have assigned their property to Jacob Swarr. Gone West. On Tuesday afternoon the following persons left this county for the West, on the Fast Line: Benj. F. Ritter, wife and three children, of Litiz, and Christian May, of Litiz, for Newton, Kansas; D.
B. Graul, of Litiz, for Kansas City; David H. Kreider, of Litiz, for Plymouth, Indiana; Frank F. Henry, of East Hempfield, for Oreville, Ohio, and Jonas B. Souder, of East Hemptield, for Oreville, Ohio.
Louisa Speh, of Mount Joy Amos Stoll, of Florin: J. P. Herchelroth and Willam C. Brandt, of Donegal Reuben Eby, of Rapho; Petter Keener, Cyrus Miller and wife, Henry B. Staufter, Jacob Minnich, Manheim; Jacob F.
Landis and J. S. Gingrich, of Laudisville; all of whom go to Kansas except Miss Speh, who is bound for St. Louis. City Officers Elected.
Both Branches of the Councils met on Monday for the purpose of organization and the election of city officers. Robert A. Evans was elected President of Select Council and H. W. Hurst President of Common Council.
The following city officers were chosen City Treasurer, Clayton F. Myers: Superintendent of Water Works, Jacob Halbach; Street Commissioner, Jacob Bertz: City Solicitor, J. W. Johnson: Principal Regulator, Allan A. Herr and Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, H.
B. Vondersmith. Seventeen ballots were taken for Chief Engineer, some Republicans supporting Shaub and some Howell, the Democrat. He Blew Out the Gas. Win.
Henry, of Heidelberg township, Berks county, a farm laborer, about 50 years of age, and brother of John W. Henry, of Schoeneck, this county, was assigned to room No. 44 of J. P. Knight's Grand Central hotel, Reading.
Although the working of the gas burner was explained to him he tailed to shut it off; and on Sunday morning Joe Knight, detecting the escape of gas, burst open his room door and found Henry, gasping and unconscious upon the bed, a victim of his own ignorance. Medical attendance was summoned and the man finally recovered. Lancaster's Sympathy for Grant. When in joint session on Monday the Councils unanimously adopted this resolution presented by Dr. Bolenius: Resolved, By the members of Select and Common Councils, now assembled in joint convention, that we regret to hear of the serious illness of our fellow countryman, General called Ulysses S.
Grant, who, as reported. may be away at any moment, and we therefore as the representatiyes of the citizens Lancaster, do hereby extend to him and his family our heartfelt sympathy in his hours of sickness and The Geo. H. Thomas Post, G. A.
this city, passed resolutions of sympathy for General Grant and his family. Suit for Breach of Promise. On Tuesday afternoon B. F. Davis, as counsel tor Miss Louisa M.
Grube, entered a suit against Charles Jacobs for alleged breach of promise of marriage. The parties live at Churchtown, in Carnarvon township, and are well connected. Bail in $2,000 was demanded in the capias, and Wednesday Jacobs entered common bail in that sum before Judge Patterson. S. H.
Rey nolds, has been retained as counsel for the defense. The Quarryville Railroad Extension. From the Oxtord Daily. When will the Quarryville railroad be extended further South? It would Inquirer. It would, and it would also be a good thing for this section.
Oxford would then have direct communication with the coalfield, with the State Capital and the great West. Why should it not be built? CHAWED UP FINE BY OUR OFFICE CAT. Mention Made of Many Local Matters Without Waste of Words. in June. Hon.
Edw. McPherson was in Lancaster on Monday. A cremation furnace is announced for Harrisburg was laid out 100 years ago next Tuesday. Henry M. Engle reports the fruit uninjured thus far.
The Dauntless B. B. of Mount Joy, has reorganized. Major J. Cam Muhlenberg is back from Texas on a visit.
Marietta'sdebt is $31,700. It was reduced 8900 in the past year. The Philadelphia baseball club plays in this city next Tuesday. 500 men are on a strike at the Delta, York county, quarries. The Lancaster gymnasium was never more flourishing than now.
Mrs. Alice Rosa Charlton, of Detroit, was cremated here last Saturday. A. J. Kauffman succeeds Wm.
B. Given as solicitor of Columbia borough. Warren S. Schepp, aged 16, this city, tell dead from heart disease on Monday. The Columbia Opera House rentals bring to the borough treasury $2,800 yearly.
Mrs. Jno. B. Shelly, of Mount Joy, tell on Sunday and fractured her left wrist. The new 20-ton engine for the Peach Bottom railroad will be on hand next week.
A large wooden top in his pocket caused a Pottstown boy who fell to break his hip. Parkesburg is the only town in the Union that has but one candidate for postal honors. Mahlon Buckwalter's hen roost was relieved ol a dozen towls on Saturday night. The Pennsylvania Steel Works, at Steelton, are being run to their fullest capacity. Scott Patton, of Columbia, has been commissioned a Notary Public by the Governor.
A large brick store and dwelling house is being built in Atglen by Frank D. Crawford. The Times reports a better building prospect in Marietta this spring than for several years. Does Bro. Andy Rambo, of the Columbia Courant, like chopped cork pie? That is the question.
John Ely, of Marietta, caught his dog instead of a tox in a snare the other night. Rover is dead. Certain persons at Marietta and Bainbridge have been killing wild ducks in violation of law. Henry H. Letevre, of Camargo, this week New moon next week.
Take plenty of exercise. Arbor Day next Thursday. Wheat is madly bouncing up. Christiana is to have a pottery. Measles are plenty in Steelton.
In this county are 332 telephones. Mastersonville has 94 inhabitants. Easter Sunday was a pleasant day. Susquehanna shad very soon now. 484 Indian children at Carlisle now.
Lebanon has ninety-five telephones. The canal will be opened this month. It you can't plant a tree, bury an acorn. Barnum's circus will be here on Kay 6. Quarter Sessiors Court week after next.
Abe Buzzard is on the. Welsh Mountain. C. S. Blessing has got back to the Florin hotel.
The Columbia rolling mill starts up early State the ing vote repeal, will tempt this city plores urges that Most labor their last nor been tral in live he was in of on a his in disthe He he will to very more conits Mr. an at sold. that Iowa sat Heresuch Presthir- and has slow; and visits possiearn- cannot Sum- toria. complained against no. Kaho for forgery.
The amount is $130. Joseph Shearer, of Fairview, Montgomery county, was choked to death while eating a piece of meat. The Friends' Intelligencer and the Friends' Journal are to be consolidated on the 1st of next month. Jacob R. Shank, constable of Martic township, will open, a "temperance eating house," in Mt.
Nebo. Some body has been tampering with the Moravian contribution boxes at Litiz. "Turn the rascals out." County Commissioner Gingrich has the measles in his family. Four of his boys are down with the disease. John Miles is building a blacksmith shop in Mount Nebo, and Charles Keller begins butchering in Rawlinsville.
Rev. J. M. Alexander, of India, will preach in the Little Britain Presyterian Church tomorrow morning. Philip Lemerink, of Philadelphia, aged 86, has just been visiting parts of Berks and Lancaster counties on foot.
The new bank in Elizabethtown will begin operations in a week. The first installments were paid on Monday. The Grand Army Post of this city have taken measures to give better care to soldiers at the Poorhouse. Good. Work on the South Pennsylvania Railroad will be resumed soon, with a view to completing the line by May 1, 1886.
Casper Keller, living at Kinderhook, West Hempfield, had his henroost robbed of sixteen fowls on Saturday night. Jacob Ditt, of Shirestown, Lebanon county, has a spinning wheel that dates back to 1448, making it 467 years old. Ezra Evans, chairman of the Democratic committee of Chester county, has been appointed postmaster at West Chester. The Westminster Presbytery meets in Columbia on Monday. Dr.
Keneagy, of Strasburg, preaches the opening sermon. It took nearly 100 dozen eggs to give the inmates of the Montgomery Conuty Almsheuse a regular Easter morning breakfast. The first quarterly conference of the Conestoga circuit will be held at Bridgeville on Saturday and Sunday, May 3 and 4. For more than two weeks the impassable condition of the roads prevented the passage of the mail stage between Parkesburg and Oxford. The body of John G.
Kattineyer, of Hoboken, N. was cremated here on Wednesday. This was the eleventh cremation. Allentown will celebrate Arbor Day by planting Norway maple trees in each ward, In pursuance of the order of the Board of Control. The Hale families in Huntington and York counties are said to be heirs to the tortune of $1,000,000 left by Sir Matthew Hale, of England.
The Lock Haven Express, on Monday, said Rafting in of square timber began last week, and rafts will probably begin to arrive here to morrow." A Marietta correspondent of the Philadelphia Press estimates that there are now about 1000 Lancaster County people living in and near Dickinson county, Kansas. The Pennsyivania Railroad Company will pay this season for white oak ties 55 cents, rock oak 45, second class 30 cents. This is a reduction of from 5 to 10 cents per tie. Mrs. Catharine Decker, of Loganville, York county, died on the first of April, at the advanced age of 97 years.
She was an aunt of 'Squire J. R. Decker of Elizabethtown. Six prisoners who escaped from the jail at Dover, Delaware, on Tuesday, are reported to have made tracks for the Welsh mountain, where it is said they are now hiding. On Saturday night a large lot of dirt and rock tell on the railroad track at the Elizabethtown tunnel.
All trains were compelled to run on the Columbia road until Sunday. Constable Kline, of West Hempfield, bas sued Mrs. Fanny M. Landis, of near Neffsville. for assaulting him with a broom while appraising goods on the Landis premises.
Two young Japanese--George Kinzo Kaneko and William Kenjiro -who came to Franklin and Marshall College last year--received Christian baptism on last Sunday. H. H. Heise, hardware merchant of Columbia, has sued the Philadelphia Record, the Press, and Reading Herald, for publishing a dispatch saying he had failed in business. William Rhinehart, boss carpenter at Sheridan Furnace, while stepping on the elevator while in motion was caught by an iron rod and mangled in a shocking manner.
He died. Jacob B. Long, broker, sold at private sale 40 shares County Bank at 4 shares Farmers Bank at $112; 4 shares Eastern Market at $60, and 4 shares Western 50 Market at $51.25. The old passenger coaches used on the News Express between Columbia and Frederick have been sent to the shop for repairs, and two tine Eastlake coaches have been substituted. Roland Keyser, a 13-year old son of Geo.
S. keyser, of New Holland, passed through a coal shute with 22 tons of coal on Wednesday. His escape from serious injury 19 very remarkable. Judge Boyer, of Montgomery county, has set aside a Sheriff's sale because the property, which contained store accommodations, was described in the advertisment as a dwelling house. The suit long pending between John K.
Barr and the estate of Win. M. Wiley was settled on Tuesday, Mr. Barr agreeing to accept $12,000 in full. The claim with interest amounted to about $20,000.
Early Sunday morning thieves entered the cellar of John Sheafter's hotel, in Inof tercourse, by the use of false keys. They got away with a keg of apple jack, a keg of beer, and about 830 worth of tobacco and cigars. B. H. Ritter, of New Haven, Warwick township, says that on Saturday night he was robbed on the highway of 8800.
Various parties have claims against Ritter and they say that he wants to avoia his creditors. Experiments made by Dr. Thos. R. Baker, of Millersville, satisfy him that the temperature of the retort at the Lancaster Crematorium reaches 25000 Fahren5000 higher than absolutely necessary for cremation purposes." The Middletown Press reports that Jno.
Coover and Catharine Horning walked from Lancaster Conewago township, Dauphin county, to to get married, and then walked back to Newville, in West Donegal. miles. The entire distance is probably fifty Sammy and Johnny Furlow, Philadelphia boys, "cribbed some money from their monther on Wednesday and started tor the West. When the Pacitic reached this city on Thursday morning at express two Officers o'clock had the been boys were arrested by who telegraphed by the runaways' parents..
