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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-18

SPEAKER RANDALL is meeting with
praise in some quarters and censure
from others for opposing the outlay of
$780, 200 more on coast line defenses
against al improbable attack by SCI,
upon our country. The speakers course
is eminently consistent with his attitude
in Congress for many years past on pub
lie expenditures and with the professions
which his party has made under his lead
ership Oh the floor and his influence in
the speakers chair. 1t is doubtless wise
to prepare for war in times of peace, and
the declaration OF the speaker that the
grandchildren of the present generation
would not even hear the tread of a foreign
foe on our shores, has been made the text
for defamation that We must begin to
prepare for that remote emergency. But
military and naval preparations in times
OF peace and on the part of a nation so
favorahly situated rs this one, need
never be carried beyond modcr-
ate extent. 1t is Il serious question
whether the peace which Europe prays
for could not better be secured ana main
tanned by the speedy disestabls,mtnt of
her standing armies and military insti-
tut;ons than by their continuing menace
to each other. The time is coming when
that parliament of nations,'' of which
the poet sings, will he the demand Of i'll
ChristendOm. The United States will
he the most potent force in it.; councils,
and it can better impress the example Of
peace on warlike contemporaries 10y the
wondrous development of its resources
in condition of military disestablish-
ment than by increase of her armament
or an exhibition of national tlistr,lst
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-18
Ter iSeHNtY Had E';lalel;.

\ young girl lett Dubuque for New
Zealand over 4 year ago, on the summons
of her sweetheart, who WAS to marry hel
on her arrival there She has rcturnc.
alone and unmarried. Fin,lin. the ma,
evidently disappointed because she wa!
not Us handsome as when he had last
seen her, she promptly released him.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-18
burglary nj sinking SDrinvS.

Tho store OF II. ii. Hull at Sinking
Springs was entered ON Thursday night by
burglars and robbed of goods and money
to the amount of about 500. They un-
screwed both money drawers and carried
them away some distance and broke them
open and riilcd them of the contents,
amoun:in. to about SIS in small change.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-18

tie highway nor the Office is thereby ex-
tinguished. The people still have a
right to be served III both, and it
is the duty of the state to see that
they are. The removed Office: has no
right to keep the records and tue removed
company has no right to keep the road.
If this law be unconstitutional because it
takes the road from the company then
it follows that no charter Of a
railroad, canal or turnpike com-
pany can ever be repealed however
clear the right, nor forfeited however
gross the abuse, without leaving the
highway in the possession Of the corpora
tors as their private property, and giving
them, as private owners, control over 1T
infinitely greater and more dangerous than
they had before.
The suggestion that the repeating act
will have the effect of putting the road into
the possession of the persons whose lands
| were taken to build it on, is entitled to
still less regard. In the first place it is
founded in manifest error. The lands
| were taken and devoted to public nsc as a
highway forever, unless the state should
| see proper to vacate and abandon the road.
| It has not been vacated or abandoned. 1t
is to be used by the public as heretofore.
| The public will has been expressed that it
shall be hereafter used in different
way, and the public rights upon it DC
guarded by different agents.
1t is not maintained by anybody that
when railroad is sold by the sheriff the
franchise passes with the property. The
purchasers must be clothed with author
ity by the state to use the property
they have bought. The state may de
prive them OF it. 1t is the justice Of the
state that is relied upon in buying the
property. The interest of the state re
quire the highway to he maintained ant
used, and absolute confidence is fell
that those who purchase the property
will be given the power cf utilizing
it. Those who lend their none!
to railways must do it in abundant
faith in the state, that it will give
them 4 charter should they De forced Il
foreclosc their security and buy th'
road.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-18
Christmas Trees,

Dealers III evergreen hare not, thus far,
had very brisk market, and at noon to-
day were Offering Christmas trees at prices
ranging from ten to fifty cents. Mrsses,
wrcaths. rcd berries. tied greens and
other tri!les, found a better sale.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-18
Some state Census Returns,

The following is the population OF
twenty y-ninc Pennsylvania counties accord
ing to the returns received at the census
bureau:
Allegheny, so, 7759; Armstrong, A.
Gss; I;eaver. so,6o3; Bradford. s., So, (:
81, 9ee; Clarion, 40, s2G: Cumberland, 81,
4Os; Crawford, GS,GO4; Elk, $500
Erie, 74,GS1; Forest. 1886; Lackawanna,
SO, 2GS; Lawrence. 1881; Luzerne, 133,-
O6G; Lycoming, 81, ,4S2 Monroe, 2O.115 !;
Montour. 15, 4GG; Northampton, 1886 :;
Pike, 9,GG1; Potter, 1898; Sullivan, S..
073; Susquellanna, 40.351 ). Tioga, 45, ,sl4:
Warren, 27,931: Washington. 55,41i ::
Wayne, 80, Gl2; Wyoming, 1893.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-18
Leg l::Olkon.

On Thursday as Jacob Herr, residing
| near New Danville, this county, was fell
in. 4 tree, he was struck by it and had
one Of his legs badly broken. DR.. Winters
SC: the broken limb. -
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-18
Article I. Ego.
Article II. NeyO.

LEVI CALKINs desired to take !; second
wife ut Vernon, Wisconsin, before his first
wife had been dead u month. lie could
induce no clergyman or justice to perform
the ceremony, and 50 he did it himself,
reading the service in the presence of wit
ncSSeS.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-18
donegal Litcrary Society.

a pleasant entertainment was given at
Maytown last evening by the Donegal lit
erary society. The was III abundance Of
finc music by the local musicians Of tho
nciglborhood and by 4 quartet Of vocalists
from NlillersviIlc. There were recitations,
addresses, and an Grafton on Govern
merit by Discussion" by A. +. HOstetter,
esq, Of this city. Tho attendance was
E,rse, being from 80 to 300.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-18

This morning the mayor sent one drunk
to Jail for five days and discharged four
lodsers, who had spent the night in the
station house,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-18

THE recent riot by the medical students
i'll Philadelphia recalls the old-time terror
ism Of that class. The now venerable
rector Of st. Jamcs's once pitllily remarked
on being asked to preacl, TO them, ''Thc
world seemed to have divided itself into
saints, sinners and medical Students
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-18

The trial Of James Finkbohne Cor tho
murder of his father William Finkbohne,
ended in Sunbury with verdict of not
guilty. The court room was packed and
the greatest interest was manifested in the
verdict.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-18

Defective plumbing and six hundred
cases of diphtheria are The prevailing SCH
sations in Brooklyn.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-18
Case Of Larceny Dismissed.


Clara Smith, who stole a lot Of goods IN
Marietta, was arrested on Thursday in
Columbia, where she stole an apron and
was arrested for it. At the hearing before
Esquire Baker on Thursday afternoon, the
accused testified that prior to the THEFT on
that night she, with Mrs. Sam'l Day, was at
the house OF Charles Henry, in the wcstel n
part Of Marietta, where they all got
drunk. On her return toward Days house,
she did not remember anything until si,e
arrived at the high school, and when there
was handed two pieces Of carpet but did
not know by whom. The carpet was
taken to Days house; but on the way
there she sat down in an alley to rest and
fell asleep. The carriage covers she ac-
know'edccd having stolen. She implicated
Samuel Day and his wife in the thefts but
rs she had acknowledged to having stolen
part OF the goods, aad as there was suit
pending against her in Columbia, Esquire
Baker thought j: best to dismiss the case,
with county for casts. All the stolen
gnoiis; were recovered.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-18

RECENTLY the Ninclani sournaI appear
cd with a new heai and the Times, re-
marking upon the change, said "What
does a head amount to without brains ~
Whereupon the journal rctOrtel: "What
do brains amount to without head to
keep them from stopping over"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-18

the remainder, Or about S340, ,OO0, shall be
paid to the board Of domestic missions;
the same amount to the board of foreign
missions; the same amount t2 the Ameri-
can Bible society ten per cent, Or $780,
600 each, to the board Of education and
the church erecting fund and sS5, 600
each to the board Of publication, tie fund
for disabled ministers, the work among
the freedmen, and the American and for-
cign Christian union.
AN erudte young Bible student vas
asked, "How many boys are there in You:
class ~ He said: '.If you multiply the
number Of Jacobs sons by the number OF
times which the Israelites compassed jeri-
cho and add to the product the number Of
measures of barley which Boaz gave
Ruth. divide this by the number q; Ha-
mans sons, subtract the number of caci.
kind Of clean beasts that Went into The
ark, multiply by the number Of men that
went to seek Elijah aite; he was taken to
Heaven subtract from this Joseph's age
at the time lie stood before Pharaoh, add
the number of stones in Dayid's bag when
he killed Goliath, subtract the number of
furlongS that Bethany was distant from
Jerusalem, divide by the number Of an
chors cast out when Paul was shipwreckct',
subtract the number Of persons saved in
the ark, and the remainder vii! be the an
swer.'
THE Senate has passed the national! edu-
cation bill, by a vote of Al to ). 1t pro
vides that the net proceeds Of sales Of pub
lie lands and Of patents shall forever bc set
apart for the education Of the people, and
that the net annual proceeds of the fund
thus established shall be apportioncd 70.
the first ten years, according to the mum
ber Of persons under 10 years of aye in
any given state who cannot rcada write,
That the grant may not operate as 4 pre-
MUM on illiteracy, 10 state or territory
can participate in its benefits which docs
not maintain for at least few months il
each year = system Of free public schools
Half tho Senate favored the apportionmcn1'
OF the entire principal of the fund for tho
first ten years of the operation 0: the bill
on the ground that it would take too long
for the interest to reach all amount calcu
lated to effect any pcrccrtib!c good. Thi:
amendment was finally defeated by 4 :it
vote, giving its author-Mi. TcIler-occa
sion to say that the bill rs passed wa:
"the expression OF a sentiment 10: Of /:
practical idea
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-18
MINOR TOPICS.

THE creed Of prctcntious unbelief rhymes
and chimes
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-18

THE success of the British, missionaries
ut Ongoli, India, is quite marvellous. At
late meeting 22l converts were baptized
and &c new churches were set off. The
whole number baptized since the organiza-
ton of the church, January J. 1861, is
Is, 79G. The number baptized this year is
1875.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-18
"TOVyS AND GOWN"
Clippings from tho New +. Il M. Col


Clippings from the New r. u M. Collie: .
Paper.
The social tone Of the college, the towns
people say, is remarkably high. What is
needed is u more earuest cooperation of
the resident alumni in the promotion Of
the best interests of the institution.
Why should not the alumni Of our col
icge, wherever half II dozen or moro are
resident, organize? 1t was tried in Ian
caster some years ago and " peterctl out. "
It ought to be tried again, not only in Ian
easter, but in Philadelphia, Norristown,
Harrisburg, Lebanon, ChambersburSg,
Hagerstown, ct Gl. Try it.
The literary and scholastic tendencies Of
Lancaster are seen in the march Of improve
ment toward College hill. Property in
ereases rapidly in that direction, and since
the college gate bars the advance of the
assessor and tax satherer, We arc glad to
SEQ the vicina.e Of the college property
mount UP in value.
Besides the social and literary clubs men,
toned elsewhere, Lancaster city has :: Star
and Plant club, which pOpularize astrO-
ncmical and botanical study; Micro
Scopical society, well equipped with valu-
able Instruments = physiological class a
linn:can society Of experienced scientists,
besides various billiard clubs, whist clubs,
euchre parties, baseball and policemen
clubs.
Will nos some enc please found another
prOfessorsl.ip for o'lr institutions? 1t would
be q wise and profitable investment. Our
professors arc too faithful to discharge
their arluous duties carclessly, and arc
consequently Ovcrburdcned with work.
A little more leisure would encourage
them wonderfully, AND, besides, allow them
time to wOrl: on the benevolent feelings Of
many who possess means to ai,l the col.
Iege pecuniarily, and also to engage in lit
erary labor which would increase her rep
utatiOn and make her moro widely known.
Among the citizens Of Lancaster who
devote their time. their money and their
energies unselfishly to the cause Of clevat-
ing and educating popular taste, no one il
SO pre- eminent rs Prof J. p. McCaskcy,
principal OF the boys high school, whom
We believe the college iOnorcd itself some
years ago by honoring with the degree of
\. II. His interest in the cause OF pop
ular c;lucatiOn-in it's best scnsc-cxtenlls
far beyond the class room and the high
school boys. lie is q leading spirit in the
Plant and Star clubs and the MicrOscOpical
society, and nothing that earnest work
and sturdy scholarship can do to popular
iZc scientific study is left undOne by him.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-18

THE Presbyterian boards come in Tor a
very large share Of the estate of the late
Jas. E. Brown, of Kittanning, Penn. Mr..
Brown left property valued at $4,000, 900.
His will, after providing for various pur-
poses with fifteen per cent. OF the whole
property, directs that twenty per cent, of
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-18

THAT Adam was II toet and David al
editor may strike some persons as !. rather
queer assertion to make. This opinion was
held by some Of the Jewish writer's, as ap-
pears by the Prolegomina Of Franciscus
.Iunius to his Librum Psalmorum, or Book
OF Psalms. They attribute the ninety Sec
ond psalm, or Bonum est confteri," to
Adam, while the rest Of these sublime
poems arc ascribed to Abraham, Moses,
Solomon and six others, making David
merely the collector Of them into one vol
umc or book.
TIE statistics of the Lutheran church il,
the United States arc as follows: General
Synod-24 district synods, SS3 ministers,
1869 congregations and -, Ais comn,u-
nicants. General Synod South synods,
102 ministers, 1G2 congregations and 13,
800 communicates. General Counci;-10
synods, G23 ministers, 1,174 congregations
and 1857 communicates. Synodical
Confercnce-6 synods, 1906 ministers, O.
O72 congregations and 25l ,91G communi-
cants. Independent-1s synods, SSs minis
ters, GIG congregations and 80, 47s comma-
nicants.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-05-05
METHODS Is IN COUNCIL.

The Methodist Episcopal Church North
to day, in Cincinnati. In the year 1870 the
church had membership of 1,S45, 0S9 per.
sons. Its Sunday-schools had 1858 227 pu-
pills. and its church property was valued at
$50, 600, 900. The census of 1880 will show a
large increase upon these figures. The
Methodist Church in the United States,
North aud South, with other organizations
that are the followers Of Wesley, outnum-
bers all other denominations OF Christians
in this country, and is in many regards the
most powerful of all the church organiza-
tons. AS matter of course, such church
in council, must attract attention. The
Methodist Church has outgrown many OF its
ancient methods of conducting business.
and reforms are now demanded. and
will be urged during the present session of
the General Conference. The woman
preacher question will have to be settled.
Women want to be ordained. They claim
that they have "calls' to preach, and it is
held that they can preach as well as the
mssculines, and at vastly reduced cost. 1t
maze in the Presiding Elder feature of the
discipline. AS at present consti-
tuted, the Presiding Elders are
held to be more ornamental than
useful, and while the Office may be retained
the Presiding Elders will be required to per-
form useful work, and thus relieve the
churches OF an unnecessary financial bur
den. 1t is also said that the time will be
extended for preachers to remain
at stations. According to the pres
ent rule three years is the limit
Itmsy be extended to six or ten. No one
knows The question of lay delegates
to annual Conferences will also be urged,
as also Inflammation with the Methodist
Episcopal Church South. Several Bishops
are to be elected, and the matters named,
with others that might be referred to. will
give great Importance to the quadrennial
gathering. There will be $50 delegates pres
ent, and the Conference will be in session
several weeks.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-05-05

highly successful. he is an active and prom
inent member of the American Pathological
Society.
BRET HARTE has t5een accorded the privi-
leges OF tile Reform Club of London for
month under the rule which admits distin-
guished strangers to the privileges OF the Club
for that period, --,.- -
"I AN told, said Mr.. Gladstone to Mr.. Sam
Ward one evening at Dalneny after a day Of
great oratorical conflict, ''that you have in
your country a man who can play on a harp
OF thousand strings" Sles," was the reply,
"but have listened to a man to-day In this
country who can play upon a harp of ten
thousand strings" Mr. Gladstone Is under
stood to have been pleased with the compli.
ment.
THE report that Rev. Ezra ID. Winslow, the
fugitive Boston forger, is living at Buenos
Ayres Is confirmed His assumed name Is
Daniel Warren Lowe, and he lately married q
Miss Clark, aged sixteen, though he has wife
I'm Boston. He became an active member OF a
Protestant church aud Superintendent OF its
Sunday school soon after his arrival In Buenos
Ayres, but was expelled when his Identity was
established.
Mr.. GLADSTONE since his triumph, has got
into charming mental condition. His speeches.
breathe nothing save peace and good will TO
all men, Lord Beaconsfield included. He has
even, fer the first time In his career, essayed
the role of humorist. But his efforts have
been very clumsy, and in most coarse contrast
TO the light and graceful raillery and irony,
cold and polished a Damascus blade of
Beaconsfield. Serious business is the new
Premier's forte.
A LoKGwooD, Mass, man undertook to
drown four very young kittens. After they
had been in the water Eome time ire buried
them In heap of refuse. Two days later,
when he went TO the barn, he heard a faint
''mew" from barrel, and looking in he saw
the old cat with her four kittens, all alive. She
had dug them up from their early grave and
restored them to consciousness. For days after
ward he could not visit the barn without being
followed by the cat, who watched every move
ment he made and seemed determined TO
guard her kittens more carefully.
A COTTONWOOD tree believed to be over $50
years old was recently cut down in front of
one Of the hotels in Denver, Col. Under this
tree was held the trial of Moses Young, a Ger
man, who committed the first murder in Den
yer. The jury convicted him, and he was
taken to the cabin of the Sheriff. AT daybreak
a posse of men took Young from the cabin
and hanged him to q branch OF the cotton
wood tree. The lynching was witnessed by
large number of Indians, who had climbed to
the branches of neighboring trees. In the
same year Jim Gordon was tried for murder
under the huge cottonwood, and was hanged
to the same branch from which Young was
suspended. 1t is believed that there were
other trials and hangings in its shade. The
tree was in the early days of Denver the larg-
est of q cluster of cottonwoods, standing where
the city is now th,ckly built up. section of
the trunk is to be sent to New York to be man.
ufactured into toothpicks.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-05-05
Hon. ThnmasaH enario,.s

A writer in the Clarke Courier, Virginia
journal, concludes an article on the Presi-
Dental situation as follows:
" TO be serious, as matters now stand, Mr..
hendricks is the strongest man the country
oyer for the first place. There ara many pure
and great patriots in the land, but of them a 4
there Is none greater than he who amidst the
rude changes offickle fortune. retains the con-
hdence ana affection OF State first TO relieve
the country OF the foul incubus of Radical
ism. Let us cease the cry of second place for
Hendricks and come up like brave men and
true To follow TO the fore front of the battle
the man who in the 'thickeSt of the
Tight has ever proudly borne
the ensign of victory Long live
Thomas A. Hendricks, Long live that spirit
OF concord which has united in harmony the
rank of Democracy in Indiana, making host
more tnvincible than Grecian phalanx or
Roman legion, Their leader, calm and self
reliant, amidst the stormy waves of political
discord, has spoken, Peace, be still, and the
sea of passion has ceased its tempestuous toss
ing to bear upon It's tranquil bosom rich argo-
sizes of peace, prosperity, union and fraternity.
All eyes are turned to Indiana. II we hold up
the hands OF Thomas A. Hendricks he will
'smtte the enemy hip and thigh, and bury the
1oathsome carcass Oh Radicalism so deep that
the .hands OF resurrection can never fathom
the 'blackness of darkness Jnat is gathering 10
enshroud its eternal oblivion"