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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-10
1anraster fntelllgenrer.
TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1890
Tanners Experiment.

Some people argue that DIR. Tanners
successful effort to go forty days without
food is of little value to medical science,
because it only proves that DIR. Tanner
can do this thing, not that the average
man can he SO long deprived of food and
live. 1t is true that it only proves that
forty days of starvation cannot kill
Tanner but it raises fair presumption
that anybody else in good health and
bodily condition can go through the
same ordeal and live. The burthen of
proving the contrary is thrown upon
those who dispute this. DIR. Tanner has
done all that one man can to prove the
truth of the theory he maintained. ANY,
one who disagrees with him must submit
himself to the same test and die under
it. before we can be asked to believe that
Dr. Tanner is an exceptional man in his
ability to live without eating. Probably
there will not be many volunteers to dis
pute, under these conditions, the value
of DIR. Tanners experiment. The doubt
ers must i'm all dccency express their
doubt in very modest language, if they
are not willing TO resolve them by Il per.
sOnal test. The public generally will
feel itself obliged to decide that DIR.
Tanner has done that which is of
great value, us well as of great interest,
in demonstrating the unsuspected vital
ity of the human body and in proving all
the doctors wrong. 1t is exceedingly
unfair TO assail this result 10y saying that
only one man could accomplish it. 1t was
just as strongly declared that no man
could do it until one nlan did it. That
catAeccssarily demolished the hitherto
accepted medical theory and dcprivcs
tie men who promulgated it of any title
TO confidence in their further opinions Oh
the subject. Until further advised it
will be an accepted fact that mcn can
live anyway forty days without eating.
If Dr. Tanner has done no other good ,
he has created Il use for criminals con-
demncd To death vino may appropriate
ly bc turned oyCr to the medical faculty
with Il view 10 experiment Us to the
StitIhitloH IolIlt. IL VIII IlitlulN uc
more barharous to starvc Il man to death
than to hang him; and probably many
prisoners would prefer such method. AS
we are supposed to hang men by way of
punishment We need not he solicitious as
to their pains; and if they can in their
deaths be made useful to science, the
doctors might as we'll have the bcne-
fit 'f it; certainly they need all the
knowledge they can get.
Meanwhile, if people generally will try
Il little of DIR. Tanners practice and re-
fr,in from food us long us they can do
SO without serious Inconvenience, they
will he able to judge for themselves of
the benctcencc of such treatment of
tlleirbodies. 1t is a simple experiment for
each one to make for himself and if it
does no good it will at any rate cost moth
ing.
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Mr.. Wilson Did Not Say 1t.
LANCASTER, Pa, August 9, 1856

LANCASTER, Pa., August y, 1851.
EDS. INTELLIGEcER II see in this even
ins's issue of your daily the following para.
graph "W.A. Wilson, esq, said in speech
at Bairvillc on Saturday that Hancock is a
good man, but it would have been a fine
thing if he had been shot at Gettysburg. u
am afraid it does not matter much to
the general public what l say or do moi
say at political meeting. But l do moi
want anything quite SO horrible rs that
fastened upon me unjustly. l did not use
those words, or any words that could be
tortured into al expression of such scnti.
mcnt. So far as l referred to General
Hancock's military record spoke Of it in
the highest terms of commentator.
Yours, truly,
w. A. WILSON.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-10
EI,iCXEKVILLf. AND VICINITY.

News From Northeastern Lancaster County
On Saturday evening Samuel ID. Smith,
hcrdsman ut Elizabeth farms, met with a
rather singular, and certainly very ,lisa-
grccablc accident. lie was bailing out
swill barrel, when lie lost his balance and
tumblcd into about 4 foot of swill, head
foremost. But for the timely assistance
of two female servants, the man might
have drowned. They seized him by the
feet, and with great deal Of spluttcring
and splasling landed him high, but not
dry, on terra frma.
The district schools will open on or about
September 20. Witt, one exception all the
old teachers have been rcappointcd.
Among them arc Mr.. VIM. Nauman, who
holds the best provisional certificate in the
township, and Mr.. Louis Stern, of Mil!ers-
vile, who Of course numbers among the
''profcsh." Tho directors have shown
their ability to judge and their disposition
to appreciate good teacher in appointing
Mr.. s. Besides fair salary, bonus Of
s775 was subscribed by school patrons for
him. Old Elizabeth takes no backward
step in educational matters.
Politics are not exciting the minds of
the residents of Elizabeth township to any
extent, notwithstanding the giant efforts
made by both parties in order to be able to
carry the day at the next presidential cleo
tion. OF course, there are exceptions, but
generally there is more excitement and
more interest shown when road super
visor or some other township officer is to
be elected, than when a president is to be
voted for. The united efforts of Lancas-
ter's grandest orators to arouse these easy
going careless farmers to enthusiasm
would result in miserable failure.
William Williams, of Elizabeth farm,
climbed a tree to dislodgc skunk or some
other 6 varmint," when he lost his hold
and fell distance Of fifteen feet to the
ground, cutting his head and otherwise
bruising himself terribly.
Mr.. Frank Bucl, of the Lititz Record,
visited Elizabeth farms, and it is feared
he will write us up
Last Thursday, James w. Malone, of
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PERSONAL.

Miss GERTRUDE Girls wOLD took the first
prize at the Paris conscrvatoirc Of vocal
music this year. She is Bret IIartc' S
niece.
GLADSTONE las arrived ut Windsor
He will return to London on Friday, and
go to Hclmbury, Sussex on Saturday,
where he will stay some time at the man.
sion of the Hon. Edward Frederick Levc-
son Cover, member OfParliamcnt for Bod
min. who is brother of Lord Granville.
Gen. HANCOCK has detcrmincdtl,at he
will hereafter receive callers from II a. III.
to 2 p. III. OH Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays. He is compelled to fix hours for
the reception of visitors, because the num-
bcr of persons who call upon him is SO
great that hc cannot receive them daily
without giving time which should be de-
voted to his official duties.
Mrs. LANGTRY is no longer called the
Jersey Lily society has given her another
pct name: "The Amber Witch. She
is said to bc lovelicr than ever, and is
gazcd at in public as if. she were queen OF
a prima DONNA At the Atlanta fetc,
where she wore 4 gown of old-gold satin
trimmed with shaded poppies, one old
lady seated herself opposite tho Amber
Witci,'s stall and deliberately taking out
her opera glasses stared at the famous
beauty for an hour.
The Empress EUGENIE's return to Eng
land was welcomed in y kindly fashion.
Princes Beatrice boarded the steamer off
Yarmouth from the yacht Alberta, and re-
manned with the empress until they reached
Southampton. A British knight presented
a bouquet to Eugcnie accompanied by
some extremely poor verses written by his
daughter and the cx-cmprcss in very
pretty and graceful fashion thanked for
their courtesy all the steamship officials
who had attended her upon her journey.
The troublesome career of Lewis L.
Clcrmont, alias Ralph L. ROLAND, alias
Colonel RALPH ROLLINS, confidence opera
tor, forgcr, swindler and attempted bank
rObbcr, terminated Oh Saturday last with
his death in a narrow cell of the Eastern
pcnitentiary, behind the walls which he
had vainly attempted to get outside of by
every artifice known to desperate convicts
within the three years during which he
was confined. The malady which took
him off is set down by the doctors as
Bright's disease of the kidneys, but disap
Eointment and desperation at the failure of
all his schemes to obtain liberty had much
and probably more to do with his decease
than the nero bodily ills.
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WALLACE IN READING.
An Enthusiastic County McctinE-peMnsyi- i
y1nia AS Il Baltic Ground.

vania AS Il Baltic Ground.
The annual county meeting of the
Democracy of "Old Bcrks" was held in
the court house in Reading yesterday, and
was the largest that has convened for
many years. Every district in the county
was represented. The announcement
that Senator Wallace would deliver an
address contributed to tho large attend
ancc. The meeting was called to order at
ono o'clock by Chairman Harris, who
spoke on tho issues of the campaign
and the necessity of organization SD that
the county of Bcrks would roll up the
largest majority ever recorded. During
tho preliminary organization of the
meeting quite a breeze was created,
the cause being that when the
several districts were called to name 4
man for the committee Oh resolutions
several Of the candidates were bound to
have their man for the position, and the
result depended almost entirely Oh the
strength of the lungs in yelling the name
first. In the Seventh ward, in which re-
side Hon. Daniel ErmcntrOut and Frank
r. Schell (son of Auditor General SchelD,
both candidates for Congress, there was 4
lively war of words, which ended in
ErmcntrOut's choice going OH the commit
tee. During ono of these wars Of words
Senator Wallace was introduced to the as
semblcd Democracy and was royalty re-
ceivcd. Senator Wallace in beginning refer
rcd to the noise which he had heard. This
was sign that the Democracy were at
work. Pennsylvania was to be one of the
great battle grounds. 1--WE propose to 90
to work among the young men, he said,
"and continue it industriOusly until the
end of August finds us thoroughly organ
lied and every voter ready by the first day
of September. Every citizen of this state
must feel proud of the nomination of Gen
eral Hancock. We arc proud Of the Off
spring of our own soil. and l appeal to
your state and local pride to aid in his
election. The campaign is most auspi-
ciously begun. 1t doesn't need any dig
giag out. Tho old and young arc ready.
Don't trust brass bands and shows count
noses, bring out every vote. Commence
at the bottom and work up, SO that when
election comes our great vote can be 81
lently dropped into the ballot-box and
that great oldier-statesman elected" The
senator spoke for about one hour ON the
issues to be met in the coming campaign.
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Washington l;OrOugh Items.

The writer has lately been visiting some
of the river islands under cultivation.
David II. Saylor has three acres Of fine
tobacco on his island. leaves measuring
90 by AZ, of "Dutch broad leaf" variety.
Andrew and Il. F. SaylOr's island is Il
truck garden, with about four acres in
MELONS, cantclopes and vegetables. Bcr-
nard Shcrtzcr has begun cutting his good
crop of tobacco. $. Il. Urban and his
family reside in Paradise island during the
summer months. On its 81 acres hc has
goood tobacco, corn, MELONS and fruit.
At the meeting OF the borough fathers
on Saturday nOquOrum WAS present. The
borough fathers have their own troubles.
Is. X. Shultz, B. Frank Shultz, Henry Siple,
Joseph X. Shultz, William Artman, Jacob
Il. Shultz, Cyrus Il. Shultz and Christian
Hardeman have filed Il bill i'm equity, pray
ins the court to grant an injunction re-
straining the authorities Of the borough
from interfering with and rcmOvin. their
fences, according to plan adopted by the
borough council. SO lines and fences take
4 rest.
The bass fishing is improving, but the
fish can have rest until the tobacco is
housed.
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Tho Bloody sscndcrs.

The man and woman arrested us John
Bender and wife reached Kansas City in
custody of Sheriff Bender, of Labotte
county, Kansas, who is no relative OF
theirs. A large crowd thronged the
depot. The prisoners were taken to a
police station to prevent the possibility
of lynching. In the afternoon they were
exhibited in the theatre, several thou
sand people passing in at twenty
five cents each to SEQ them. The
money was divided between the enterpris-
ing showmen and the sheriff. Nobody
was able to positively identify the ignorant
people who sat on the stage eating peanuts
and smoking until five o'clock, when they
were escorted to the depot en- route to Os-
wego, Kansas. Large crowds followed
them to tho depot, but there was apparent
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n MAN NJ llSSlN(;.
a CHAPTER of nlisislventurss.


On Friday last Mrs Sarah Il. Miller, ac-
companied by her son Varian went to
Philadelphia with the Y. NJ. &. n. cxcur-
sion. There they separated, Mrs. Miller
going up the river to Burlington AMI
Varian going down to Sea Breeze, it being
agreed between them that they should
meet at the West Philadelphia depot, and
return to Lancaster on the same train.
Mrs. Miller reached the depot Il good deal
too soon, and mistOOk another train for
the one they were to travclon. Becoming
alarmed ut the absence of llcr son she went
in search of him, fearing that he might BIC
drowned. Meantime, the son went to the
depot and not finding her there feared
that she had taken sick in Burlington, and
like dutiful son went there to look after
her. Mrs. Miller being unable to find
Varian came home on Saturday, and
Varian not finding hi; mother in BurlinS
ton hurried back to Philadelphia and spent
all day Sunday Of unsucccssfully hunting
for her. He came home yesterday MORN
ing ut 2:1O and found his mother well but
greatly distressed at his unlccOuntablc ab-
sence, as indeed were y great many of his
friends in this city. But, "Alrs well
that ends we'll"
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He was followed by Hester Clymer, Sena-
tor Ermentrout and others. The Demo-
Gratis claim that the vote in this county
will be brought out, and with the feeling
that now exists they claim that they can
increase the majority given for Tilden
fully five hundred.
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seen together in public. But Mr.. Gar
field has been convicted by a congress
sional committee Of his own party of
doing just what Colfax is charged with.
He has not sutherland perhaps been
purified-like COlfax. Wherefore the
Tribune should at least have noticed Col
fax if it could not suppress Garfield.
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An Indian Shuttle.

Peter Hitler, Of Concstoga, has in his pos
session shuttle such as the Indians used
in weaving, before the white man invaded
America. 1t is apiece of black stone, OF tri-
angular shape, about four inches long, and
one and half inches wide ut its greatest
diameter, and half an inch thick. A hole
al inch and half in length and an inch
deep has been cut ON its longest surface,
and at each end Of this hole have been
drilled holes for the yarn to pass through.
The work is very neatly done and the stone
is Ornamented with vines, &C., engraved
on its surface. DIR. Dubbs, Of Franklin &
Marshall college, prOnounces it an Indian
shuttle. Mr.. Hitler, we may add, has a
very fine collection Of Indian relics, his
cabinet containing more than 200 spec
mems, many Of them very rare and
able.
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Brickerville, left for Atcbison, Kansas,
where he will locate.
On Saturday night, rs Mr.. j. F. Malone
was carelcssly handling \ big six-shOoter,
the weapon went oil, and now JOc has
suspiciously banslascd toe, and one Of his
slippers leaks.
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MINOR TOPICS.

The Tribune says: "Gcncral Logan is
waking the echoes OF tho Green noun
tains with the stalwart Western oratory.'
This is the same Tribune that erstwhile
characterized Logan's speeches As deadly
assaults upon the mother tongue.
WE see that Benjamin l.. Temple is 4
candidate for the Democratic nomination
of district attorney in Philadelphia Oh the
platform that il IIagcrt is rc-nominatcd
he will help to defeat him. That ought
to 9 settle Temple.
THE Patriot makes the good point that
Union army for the suppression of the re-
bclliOn than the whole Of New England,
Minnesota, California, Oregon and Nevada
combined. While Massachusetts, was re-
cruitins negroes in the rear of Sherman $
army to fill her quota, Missouri was send
ing her patriotic volunteers to the Union
Army. Yet Missouri is one Of the "rcbcl
states of the solid South"
THERE arc enough data to confirm pretty
surely General Walkers prediction that the
total population of the United States in
1880 would not fall far short of As, 600, ,OOO
The Northwest, which has been flooded
with foreign immigrants, and the South
west, which has drawn largely from the
North, will carry off the honors in increase
of population, and it is probable that Kan
sas and Texas will be the banner states in
the percentage of increase. At least nine
teen and probably twenty states now
boast population Of over one million
souls.
For years people have been eating and
enjoying raw oysters without any excuse
for it. Now rises up DIR. William Roberts
and tells a hungry world that {" there is Il
sound physiological reason at the bottom
of this preference. The fawn colOrcd mass
which constitutes the dainty Of the oyster
is its liver, and this is little less than y
heap of glycogcn. Associated with the
glycogcn, but withheld from actual con-
tact with it during life is its appropriate
digestive ferment- hcpatic diastasc.
The mere crushing of the dainty between
the teeth brings these two bodies together,
and the glycogcn is ut once digcstcd with
out other help by its own diastasc. The
oyster in the uncookcd state, or merely
warmed, is in fact, self digestive. But the
advantage of this provision is wholly lost
by cooking; for the heat employed immc-
diatcly destroys the associated fcrmcnt, and
a cooked oyster has to he digcsted like
any other food, by the caters own discs-
tive powers"
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NElGHBORHOOD NEWS.

Events Across tho County Lines.
The Harrisburg Patriot has discontinued
its Sunday issue.
While fishin. with an outline ut McCOr-
mick's island, (south cnd) u few days ago,
MIR. James Canavan caught rock fish
seven inches in lcngth-the first one noticed
above the Columbia dam for some time.
The Patriot says: Mr.. John NJ. Kautz.
or s. Blind Johnnie" has returned from an
extended tour through Lancaster county.
He speaks in good terms of the many Ham
cock poles raised throughout the county.
Atglen has l45 white males and 2O5
white females. 1t has cclOrc,l males and
6 females. Has 81 widows ranging from
IS to 30 years of age. The oldest person
is 30 and the youngest one hour.
The Delaware county agricultural fair
will open on Thursday, September 80, and
close OH October ,, and all interested arc
looking forward to u fine exhibit and u
large asscmblagc of persons. Tho main
building. now in course Of erection, will
be completed in few days, and is quite u
commOdiOus one.
Sparks from Il Recalling railroad passen-
ger locomotive set fire to the dress, light
gosSamcr, Of Miss Sallic Rambo, ut Exeter,
Berks county, and it was only by the most
strenuous cxcrtioni of her escort that the
fire was cxtiIsuishcd before she WAS scri
Ously burned. Her par:.sol was partly
consumed by the flames.
Mr.. Samuel MathcwsOIl, Of Calm, Chcs-
ter county, from AZ acres Of ground thrcsh-
ell 12S bushels Of wheat. Last year ss ? !,
acres of the same patch yielded 10 bushels
while the other two acres yielded $50 BUSH
els OF sheIlcd corn. This was the third
corn crop on the ground for three success
sive years.
The Patriotic order Of the Sons of Amer
ica is meeting in Lock Haven. The hotels
arc crowded, and nearly every prominent
town in the state is represented by one or
mole delegates. The session promises to
be the most enthusiastic held for some
years, rs the order is in u very active con-
dition in this state. State President j. >.
Smith and staff have their headquarters ut
the Irwin house.
Mrs. Catliarine Wade. aged about 5ti
years, was found dead Oh the floor Of her
house in Reading on Sunday by her 'iaugh-
ter OH coming down stairs. 1t is stated
that on Saturday evening she complained
of pain in her arm, and about II O'Clock
she was heard by the ncishbors to call her
children. They entered the building and
found her apparently asleep and snoring
Oh the floor, and left her in, that position,
not knowing there was anything wrong.
Harrison Ross, of West Salisbury, Chcs-
ter county, and rcccEtly register Of Lam
caster county, has u white LcshOrn hen
which proves to bc more than IN ordinary
layer. In March 1879, sho produced he r
first css ansl has steadily continued laying
almost daily ever since. She has never
attempted to set during all that time, and
as yet shows no sign Of soon doing so. Up
to April 1st, last, she had laid :'36 eggs, !!
of whicl, wcrc doubled yelked. She had
laid several of tho latter species since then
and kept up her reputation rs before.
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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
DkUMORE ITEMS.

From Our Chestnut Level Correspondent.
Nowadays when VIC rural scribes have
nothing else to write about VIC have 4
making our farmers dollars upon dollars
every day. We ali talk about it every
place and to everybody. Indeed, as 4 topic
of conversation, it long ago displaced the
weather and has the advantage Of IN ever
growing interest. We Scotch Irish never
60 into thing half way. We dive to the
bottom the first thing. In our enthusiasm
We take up thing and then calculate
aftcrward whether VIC can hold it or not,
and VIC don't go wrong SD often either.
That is the way We are doing with tobacco.
!hc interest VIC take in it is second only to
that We have in Hancock. Our votes will
help to make him president, and now our
intelligence and vim will make ours tn G
first tobacco growing district in the state.
In q run through York county last week.
your correspondent had a pretty good op-
portunity compare their tobacco, and
crops generally, with ours. Their corn
does not look as well, though some Of it
was later planted than ours; grass is
shorter, but they had less rain than we ;
tobacco is more even in its growth than
ours, but they top too high to get boss -
leaves. DrumOre saw no tobacco rs large
rs ours, but he saw Mr.. Asa Jones, who
lives ncars Fawn Grove, who said that lie
has tobacco that measures 30 inches broad
and Al long and another man had it to
measure 26 by AZ. But VIC have Fair
field man who says he has a leaf II inches
long.
1.-The thing VIC long for, that we have
For one transccndnnt moment
Before the present, poor and bare,
Can make it's snecring COMMENT
Last week Mr.. A. Scott Clark la'l some
sheep killed by Il dog.
On last Friday Mrs. Elizabeth Wicks,
wife of Samuel Wicks, died in the Goth year
Of her age.
n short time since, Mr.. Wilmer Bolton,
living near Liberty Square, was quite Sc
riously hurt by tho breaking of :. win,llass
with which he was working. He was
struck OH the head and remained uncOn-
scious for some time. Mr.. Bolton is i'm
proving and it is hoped will soon be well.