Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-23
STATE ITEMS.

1t takes 1s, OOO, 600 gallons of water daily
for Pittsburgh and about 800 bushels OF
coal day to do the pumping.
Johnston, held at NorristOwn on sus
picion Of completely in the Valley Forge
murder, has been discharged on Aabeal
corpus.
NOtwith standing the inducemcnt offered
of the furnace free of all charge whenever
she may need it, Miss Cary persistently
refused to sing in aid of the funds of the
Pittsburgh cremation society.
David p. Blue, of Limestone, Montoul
county, has died from an accidental Gu,
on the thigh given him by his son while
they were cutting wood and as :he father
rain from under falling tree.
The murder trial of " Billy Burke" in
Scranton, has had to go "off'' until June,
because one of the jurymen was suffering
from a severe attack of delirium tremens,
induced by the rigid abstemiousness of the
jury room after he had been on protract.
ed spree.
The heirs of Peter Badly. ST., are going
to erect a new and forever free Episcopal
church in Danville with $50, 600 left by
;; his will to his children, to be expended by
them as they might think proper in the
erection of suitable monument to the
memory Of their deceased parents.
In the Senate yesterday Cameron found
occasion to say that the Pittsburgh Dis
patch never supported anything good, Re-
publican or Democratic, while Mr.. Mitch
ell stated again that the Philadelphia
Erening Telegraph might be Republican,
but if it were it had strong Democratic
tendencies.
On Monday evening next, at Association
hall, Captain r. II. Pratt, the superinten-
dent Of the Carlisle Indian training school,
with a number of his pupils, will attempt
to illustrate to the citizens of Philadel-
phia the nature Of tho work that is being
done for the education of Indian children.
and tho progress that is being made.
In the House at Harrisburg yesterday,
a humorous communication was read,
signed by P. T. Barnum, stating that on
the ground of the survival of the fittest
two circuses ought not to exhibit in the
same place on the same day and that
therefore tho house should promtly ad-
journ and attend ''Barnum's greatest show
on earth.'
F. S. Bond gives notice that "having
been judicially declared to have been duly
elected president of the Philadelphia &
Reading railroad, 1 have assumed the
duties Of that office. Mr.. Franklin B.
Gowen has ceased to be president OF this
company. and is not authorized to enter
into contracts or to execute any instru-
ments on its behalf'
Guyauphere, the Hungarian. who has
been sleeping for seveuty-tw0 days in sue
cessiOn at the Lehigh county almshouse,
arose from his cot at II o'clock yesterday, |
walked to one end of the room and then
to his couch. He also opened |
his eyes at the same time. The power of
speech has not yet returned, but the At
tending physicians say that che crisis is
past and anticipate q speedy restoration to
his normal condition.
Over three hundred RATS crowd the river
1t Lock Haven and they are still coming
in. Some Of the lumbermen at Williams'
port are apprehensive that the pocket at
The boom may give way and thus cause q
great loss of logs. 1t is said to be in a very
,recarious condition. 1t is also feared that
he damage done to the dam at Lock Ha-
'eD may prove to be q serious break and
hus leave the canal without water. Both
hese booms are crowded with logs, and il
break should occur It is expected that
uite flood of logs will sweep down the /,
iver. ];