Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-17
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
A STORM.

Wind, Rain, Hail, Thunder, Lightning.
The warm rain of yesterday morning was
followed last evening by quite severe
storm, which appears to have extended
over large extent of country. The wind
was high, the lightning vivid, the thunder
loud, and the rain descended in torrents,
and in some places hail fell in considerable
quantity. We hear rumors of fences and
trees being blown down, and even small
buildings being damaged north of the city,
but have not been able to get particulars.
Within the city limits comparatively little
damage has been done. A large maple tree
in front of Mr. Steinman's property
No. 81 West Chestnut street was blown
up by the roots, and the cOrnice Of Mr..
G. NJ. Zahm's residence, West Chestnut
street, was damaged. But little hail fell
in the city and the stones were not large.
Along the river district the hail is said to
have been heavy, and the sudden
fall in temperature being experienced to-
day is evidence that there was heavy fall
of hail not far off. There is no question,
however, that the rain has done much more
good than the mud or hail has done harm.
1t was thought that the lightning had
struck somewhere within the city limits,
but we can learn of no such casualty.
A bright light was seen southeast of the
city during the storm and it is supposed
some building was struck by lightning and
burned in the direction Of Oxford.
= An Old Testament Scholar.
The Reformed Quarterly Reriep, for the
current quarter, has an article from the
pen of Rev. F. A. Cast, D. D., of the
Reformed seminary, of which the New
York Ladependent-whose editor is a noted
Syriac schoiar-is pleased to say:
DR.. F. A. Casts article on the Peshito
Old Testament is we'll worked up, and his
conclusions are, we think, generally
sound. The obscure question of the origin
of the name "PeshitO" can be cleared
up only by investigation of the literary
usage of the period in which it orig
mated. We would suggest to DR.. Cast
special research in this direction, whereby,
we have no doubt, he would be able to
throw light on this at present little under
stood period of Eastern Christianity. The
OluSl VI DOoho III tilC L CSIlltO oCCHho W OC
this: it arranges them as Pentateucll,
Hagiographa, Prophets, with few modi-
cations Job is put next to the Pentateuch
because, as DR.. Cast suggests,
of it's supposed early, perhaps
Mosaic, origin; Chronicles is placed
after Kings from similarity of con-
tents; jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel
are put at the end because of their exilian
and apocalyptic character while the three
post-exilian minor prophets are not sep
arated from the others. The prophets are
put last, probably because the HagiO-
grapha was mainly represented by the
Book of Psalms, which was referred in its
beginning to the time of David, and, there
fore, preceded the prophetic writings.
We agree with the reviewer in the opinion
that the authors of the translation were
Jewish Christians but We do not find his
argument for Edessa as the place of origi-
nation satisfactory. The relation of the
Peshito to the Septuagint and the Targum
are touched on slightly in the article. This
also is point that has not received due at
tention from scholars. The critical use of
the PeshitO in the construction of pure
pre- -Masoretic text of the Old Testament is
environed with many difficulties. We are
glad to see that DR.. Cast is working on the
subject, and we hope that he will devote
himself to some particular part of it and
work it up thoroughly. TO have scien-
titic treatment of the text of Deuteronomy
or Isaiah, or Proverbs, would be great
help to scholars