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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-22
LOCAL TOBACCO NOTES.

The Dealers Talking About ''yhite Vein. -
There is little or nothing doing among
the Lancaster tobacco people-no sales of
either new or old tobacco being reported
since the heavy sales of cased 1880 leaf
1T MOuntvi!le, reported few days ago.
Dealers declare that the 1881 crop is
developing an unusual amount of "white
vein" on being taken from the poles and
they anticipate great deal of trouble aud
some litigation among the farmers and
dealers when the goods are delivered.
Many dealers who bought early, stipulated
in their contracts that tho wrappers should
be free from white win, and all of
them that the leaf should he in good mar.
kctable condition. Many of the contracts
provided that the wrappers purchased at a
certain price should be of certain length,
and here too some trouble is expected as
much of the tobacco, it is said, will not
measure up to the standard agreed upon.
One dealer is reported to have contracted
with farmer to pay him 30 cents through
for all leaf "a inches and over, all under
p inches to go for nothing! and now the
farmer is in despair because he can't find
any 24 inch leaves in his crop!
We asked a dealer who was wransling
against white vein whether he found this
defect to be very extensive. He said he
did that he had examined great num-
Der of crops and found them almost with
out exception badly affected with white
vein. He said that wrappers otherwise
sound, when affected with white vein
would not be worth more than one half rs
much as perfectly sound leaf, as a great
proportion of them could be used only for
filters and binders. He prophesied that
those who had bought early in the season
and had paid high prices would lose
heavily, and that not few of them might
be obliged to 60 to the wall.
In view of these things it bchooves far
mers to handle their crops with great
care, to separate all white-veined and
otherwise imperfect leaves from the per
feet ones. If it be true that white vein
exists extensively, and that it will cause
a deterioration of one half in the value
of the tobacco thus affected. farmers who
have crops that are unaffected will have
a perfect bonanza, and may command al
most any price they choose to put upon
good goods.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-22

the two ears Immediately behind the
locomotive were thrown upon their side,
on the trestie and 4 passenger ear behind
them fell partly through tie trcstie and
stuck fast. Fortunately. none OF the
passengers Or train hands were injured,
but the track was blocked until near noon
to day. The trestle or bridge is said to-
have been 4 rickety rotten structure.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-22
Winter Nights anu,emen,.

The Liedcrkranz entertainment in SchiI-
lcr hall last night was a very pleasant oc-
casiOn. Choruses by the society, solo
singing by Harry Drachbar and Harry
Meilingcr. an overture by the orchestra
and kilhcffer on the cornct were features
of the first part of the programme, fol.
lowed by dancing until after midnight, all
characterized by entire decorum.
Annie Pixley, in her familiar play of
I" .HH'liss," had a regular ovation from a
crowded house in Fulton hall last evening.
She was as charming, piquant and dash
ing rs ever, and her excellencies were
made more conspicuous by an inferior snp
port.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-22
1ancastr1 flltelliQellrer.
TUESDAY EVENING. NOV. "a. 1891.
Ten Tons of Plunder.

v
The public printing and advertising
have always been source of awful waste
and corruption in the state and national
governments. This branch of public
expenditures is one of the most. lavish
and profigate. Legal regulations in
tended only to secure due public notice of
matters proper for advertising are abused
to give patronage to favorite newspapers
and printers, who in turn, compensate
the officials to whom they are indebted
with political support or division OF
the spOils. Large cities and capitals are
infested with these striker and mendl-
cant publishers whose papers live on the
spoliation of the treasury, and arc pros
tituted to the defense OF the thieves who
are their patrons. The useless publication
of expensive reports reaches its greatest
food-tide of extravaganza in Washing
ton, where a host of officials, whose re-
ports are notable only for the amount of
paper they destroy, rush into print with
them. numbering up the basement of the
capitol lar exceeding the ability of con-
gressmeD to send them out to people
who never read them, and, finally, after
being entombed for years, carted off to
the junk shop, sold for waste paper, and
the proceeds generally stolen by the hire
lings in the capitol cellar. n Sua cor
respondent recently detected ten tons of
expensively printed public documents
and reports in transit from tie store
rooms of the House of Representatives
to a junk shop to be sold at q cents per
pound for waste paper, and this recalls
the fact that just before going out of
Office, LIE Due confessed that he alone
was responsible for s5s,3sl ,G75 pages OF
agricultural documents and reports
"pages enough to reach five times around
the globe, if pasted together so as 10
make continuous strip; reading matter
enough to reach ten times further than
the moon if printed in a single lire, like
a telegraph message on the tape" There
is no doubt that a great deal OF this
matter thus disposed at junk shops, IS
really valuable, made up from the results
OF costly Investigations and printed in
handsome style. Plenty Of people would
be glad to get and public libraries might
be enriched 10y it In 10 event should it I've
left to the ignOramuses who now market
it to discriminate between the valuable
and the worthless. Manifestly whatever
Is adjudged worthy Ofpublcation should
be subject to popular distribution, in
stead of being hawked to the paper mills
at the price of refuse. Congress should
exercise greater care in ordering publ
cations, but once printed they should be
circulated forthwith, and by some system
of donation to public libraries instead of
as favOrS to individuals who mostly
never read them. The idea tlat every
school house should have a library en-
riched with public documents is at least
an improvement on sending them to The
rag-picker' pile. 1t might be that our
school children would he led to Il better
knowledge OF our public affairs than
they now get.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-22

TIE appropriation of $1,000 made by
city councils for street repairs from
June, 1851, to June, 1882: is exhausted
although there are yet left six months OF
the year in which there will necessarily
be urgent demands for such repairs. Of
course the greater part of this class Of
work can be most advantaSeously done
in the summer ana fall months, and
very properly the street department did
not neglect it then in order to spend the
money unseasonably to influence the city
elections. But Il reasonable part of the
appropriation should have been reserved
for the latter part of the year for which
it was made. 1t is no excuse
to say that the appropriation was insufli-
cient for the demands upon it. Doubt
less it was, but, whatever it was, the
amount was fixed aud known to those
whose business it was to appOrtion it and
apply it intelligently. The responsibility
for its untimcly exhaustion rests in part
with councils who ordered more work
than they had money to pay for with
the street committee for directing work
in excess of the appropriations, and with
the street commissioner for not exercis-
ing greater discretion and restraint in
cutting his coat to suit the cloth. We
believe the money has been spent judi
ciously and economically, but we have
always maintained that it was poor mun-
cipal housekeeping tospend money faste,
than it is appropriated, and our opinion
has not changed because Democratic
officials now spend it with good return to
the city instead of Republican officials
wasting and stealing it. Ii councils
should transfer any of the contingent
fund to street repairs, let it be done
with the distinct understanding that not
more than one-sixth of the amount trans
ferred shall be spent in any single month
OF the remaining portion of the year.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-22
Railroad Accileuf.

Yesterday evening about half-past :,
o'clock as train No. north, on tie Pom
eroy branch of the Pennsylvania railroad
was crossing trestle known as Bakers
bridgc.at Doc Run, the track spread, and
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-22

y CONTEMPORARY observes with en-
ilient prorriety that it is Il noteworthy
fact that at every polling place, and in
every county, during the late election in
Mississippi, peace, quiet, perfect order
and good feeling prevailed. save only ut
Marion, in Lauder,lale county, where
white men were ruth!essly and cause
lcSsiy murdered by negroes, who, acting
under the advice of their candidate for
governor, determined to disregard the
law of the state. ana to go to the polls
armed with . little -barreled codes, "
whercWith to murder Democrats. We
have noted this before and recur to it
now only to say that we have thus far
failed to notice any Republican
paper Gr statesmen use the Mar
ion incident to point moral or
adorn II tale. Had white men shot
down negroes there, the press of the
North would have rung with indignant
denunciations Of rebels " and copper
heads = and murderous Democrats. -
What tales of the $ shotgun, Of White
Lcagucrs and kU-KluX would not nave
been told : Now, that the boot is on
the otiier ieg, ;.il is silent as the grave.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-22

Mary Fordney, for drunken and dis
orderly conduct was sent to Jail for 30
days by the mayor.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-22

The Tribune asks the question &C. why do
not men more generally go to church."
and answers it to its own satisfaction by
the explanation that preachers no longer
know more OF are more trusted intellect
ually than the average of their male men,
bers, but are really ignorant on many vital
questions of life. Besides the churches do
not originate and control all humanitarian
and Christian work as formerly. "There
are charitable aud educational enterprises
OF vast proportions, prison reforms, work
for the cause Of temperance, of immigra-
grafton, of the elevation of the poor all of
which are conducted wholly outside of any
denomlnational limit, and which seem to
many intelligent people as necessary to
the well-bcing Of humanity rs the CONVEX
sion Of the heather or the jews" and
these divert the minds, the money, the activ-
ity and the presence of men from churches.
Another thing "There can he no doubt
that the bigotry, the intolerance, the Sec
tartan disputes Of differing denominations
keep many away from church." DR.. Otis
Of Chambers Presbyterian church, PhiIa
delphis, discussing the small attendance
of people at church, lays it to the too great
number of churches and not enoug:, reo-
pie to 60 round.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-22

II Bob INGERsoLL would repent and
believe his recantation would he hailed
as Il proof of the effective truth OF Chris
tianity. More important testimony in
its behalf, not apparently appreciated by
its opponents, is furnished by the public
declarations of Rev. O. L. rockingham,
one of the foremost preachers of the ere
lyicn Of nature who now retires from
the pulpit: in which he has been shin
ing light OF the free religiOnists for
twenty years. In SO doing he makes
frank avowal that evangelical Christi
anity is stronger than ever, the oppo-
nents of revealed religion have made no
headway, unbridled free thought leads
only to a dreary negaticn called material
ism: and that while he does not recant
he may have grounded his work ON false
premises, he has doubts anyhow, and he
will stop denying and wait for more
light
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-22

Ii is the American baptist Flag which
prints the following editorially: "The
Mcthodists are tho pioneers for the Bap-
lists. 1t is safe to conclude that, with
proper treatment, more than half the
Mcthodists could be Won over to the Bap-
fists
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-22

ALDERMAN SPrRHIER can, 10 doubt
figure out his technical legal Fright .
to make IS commitments for Il batcl, OF
80 tramps, cripples and women. He
= chooses TO do it," he cannot be in
dictcd for it, and it puts money into his
purse. SO long as this is so, he proposes
to conduct his business in his own way.
This it not the first time aldermen have
given such notice TO the public that they
run their offices to make money out of
them, 10 matter what it costs the public,
or how little the ends of justice and the
interests of The people are served by such
administration. We are forced to admit
that the opportunities for such abuses
exist, and there is nothing in the law to
prevent them, which is all the more
reason why the public should elect a diff
fercnt class Of aldermen. SO long as
they don't, they know what to expect.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-22

proper treatment, more than half the
McthodiStS could be Won over to the Bap.
fists
IL the newly ascertained population of
the country shall be apportioned into con.
gressional districts upon the present basis
Of e93 members thc following changes in
representation would cnsue: Arkansas,
California, Michigan, Mississippi, South
Carolina and West Virginia would gain
one each, and Alabama, Illinois, Maine,
Maryland. New Hampshire, Ohio, Tennes.
see and Vermont would lose one each,
Pennsylvania two and New York three
the other states would show no change.
Of set comic purpose to write series of
American Worthless" One is to rattle
the peripatetic bones Of Columbus, an
other to waltz about with the remains of
William Penn, third to make faces at
Franklin, fourth to juggle with George
Washington, and a we'll known .farceur is
to upset the gravity of Jefferson. Charles
Dudley Warner tackled Capt. John Smith,
ofPocahontas fame, and found him to be
such liar and braggadocio that he told
the simple truth as the most comical
thing he could write about him.
THE last queer story is that it was Van
dcrbilt's money that beat Astor for Con-
gress because the Astors turn up their
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-22

THE Philadelphia Bulletin is indignant
that "Mr. Adams, who was the clerk of
the last House of Representatives, and
who represents body that has ceased to
exist, announces that he intends to put
upon the rolls of the next House the name
of Geo. Q. Cannon, lately the delegate
from Utah, whom the supreme court of
Utah has just decided is ar unnaturalized
foreigner, and therefore not entitled to a
seat in the House." And for this conduct
on Adams's part the Bulletin CAP find no
other explanation than that Adams is a
Democrat. Cannon is Democrat and
Democrats are all fur Mormonism aud
polysamy. Mr.. Adams, clerk of the last
House, We believe makes the roll of the
next in accordance with powers conferred
upon him by law if Cannon has the certifi
cate of election he is bound to put him
on the roll, and can take no cognizance of
his alleged disqualification which is the
business of the House to look after, not of
the clerk of one that "bas ceased to
exist" But tho Bulletin is Republican
organ, whose mission is to misreprcsert
Democrats.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-22

THE last queer story is that it was Van
dclbilt's money that beat Astor for Con-
gress because the Astors turn up their
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-22

uVlnS. Mono Oh Gncm Clalmcd Lancaster
city or county rs their place Of residence.
On trial.
Tuesday INorning.--John Seachrist, of
this city, plead guilty to the charge OF
stealing an overcoat, the property of Eu-
gene Richards, and was sentenced tn an
Imprisonment of six months.
In the case of com'th VS.. D. +. Davis,
ct al., charged with being tramps, the de-
PENDANTS who were not called last evening
testified this morning, their evidence
being to the same effect as that given last
evening. Jury out.
In the case of Martin S. Croft, charged
with selling liquor ON Sunday, a mol. pros.
was entered on payment of costs. There
was not sufficient evidence to make Out the
case.
Com'th VS.. Joseph Snyder. malicious
mischief. The prosecutor, John Schoen-
berger Of Marietta, testified that on the
Sth of July defendant came into his store
and became angry at something that was
said he caught hold of witness ard threw
him back against a bread case, breaking
it. After considerable scufllins witness
got him out, and as soon as he was out
defendant broke in two doors with a club.
Two little girls who were in the store at
the time testified to almost the same facts
The defense was that the accused went
into the store on this day and had An az
gument with Schoenberger about some
bread the latter become excited and hit
him several times with club in self de-
fense the dcfendent struck at Schoenberger
and missing him struck the door, which,
was between them tho show case was
broken in tho scuffle. The jury rendered
a verdict of guilty.
Com'th VS.. Elmer, alias Buz" Hulsing-
ger, colored, of this city, felonious assault
and battery. The prosecutor was Lewis
Kirk, colored, ofConestoga township. He
testified on the 9Th of April last lie had
been to Lancaster and on his way home he
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-20
WHOLE NO. 1885.



II the mistress Of the household
Is inclined to be extravagant IN her
expenditures, her servants, who are
quick imitators, will soon follow
her example, and make sad waste
OF fthe materials put into their hands.
The improvident class, from which
our help mostly come, soon learn
the lessons taught by such an exhn-
PIE, ana become careless ofthe prop
eTty Of the employer, even when
lney have no thought of appropria-
ting anything to their own use.
But such lessons, il should be re-
membered, make our employees.
OF both sexes, totally unfit 20 mag-
age home of their own, or save
enough when family cares come
upon them, to keep them from the
poorhouse. How many Of US have
seen what wretched. Incompetent
creatures those girls become after
marriage who have lived In wealthy
families with great abundance to
work with and no cautions from
their employer TO use things dis
ereetly and with true economv.
They are incapable OF making tho
most of their small possessions. III
they had been taught economy, ana
how best to manage their own carr
ings, they could help their harh
husbands, To buildup little
homes for themselv(B
and rear and educate their children
with such care that they might be-
come among our most influential
citizens.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-20
.tRehei MarY.o

Recently there died at 126 Robin
son street, New Orleans, woman
known to thousand of people in the
evil days of the war as "Confeder.
ate Mary" or "Rebel Mary" Her
name was Mrs. Mary Scott She
was an English woman by birth,
and a, person of excellent education,
being q diligent reader of the best
books. There was in the South nc
more ardent or enthusiastic Confed-
crate than Mrs. Scott. She did all
IN her power to further the cause, and
after the fall of New Orleans visited
the prisons daily, Carrying food OF
clothes to the prisoners. She assis-
ted persons in escaping from the
city, and was especially useful to la
dies in helping them to get away
with their valuables across the lake,
The Federals called her "Rebel Ma
ry, and many were the anathemas
she hurled upon them, for she never
hesitated to speak her mind freely.
She was recognized by friend and
foe as quite character in her way,
a woman thoroughly in earnest, and
was generally respected for her
many excellent qualities. A pic
ture of Mrs. Scott was printed in
Harper's Weekly during the war.
She had many friends among the
ladies of New Orleans, who as
sisted her during the latter years of
her life by purchasing the knick-
knaeks which she had for sale.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-20
The Efrcct oFFr,rbt.

A Colorado sheep-herder sends a
local paper the following:
"As most of your readers know
black wool brings from five to ten
cents pound less than the eorres-
ponding grade ofwool. In order TO
secure the separation of the inferior
product, as our shearing operations
progressed, we placed the black
sheep in pen by themselves.
There We're thus on last Tuesday
night, sixty-three black sheep and
some lambs alone in one of the cor
rails. During the night a coyote en-
tered and killed eve and two
lambs and we were greatly surprised
to find inthe morning that the wool
on the remaining sixty-twO sheep
had turned perfectly white from
terror. Happily this increase in
the value of the wool more than
balances the loss Of the sheep that
were killed. The bleaching effects
of fear on the human hair Is we'll
known, l never heard any previous
action on animals. merely state
the facts as they occurred and leave
to others a practical application OF
them which will, / doubt not, add
thousands of dollars to the value OF
the annual wool product of this
country" The facts given so sue
cinctly by our correspondence de-
of special notice, and will,
no doubt, attract much attention
upon the part of scientists.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-20
where Rain Has FaIIen,
Memphis Ledger,


Refreshing rains. fell during the
past week along the Gulf coast from
Western Texas to Florida ;als0 In.
Central aud Eastern Mississippi 10
the northern limits of the latter
State. Middle Alabama also EN-
joyed favorable showers. The rain
fall between Vicksburg and the Gulf
ranged from two TO four inches In
measurement. In this vicinity we
have not been visited by rain
enough to lay the dust since the 23d
of last month, more than two we,slIs,
and vegetation continues parclIed.
Grass has dried up, the gardens arc
wholly ruined and The leaves of
shrubDery and forest trees. are de-
caying and falling to the earth. The
prospects for cotton has been much
improved In distries where showers
fell, but il came too late TO benefit
the corn crop. Inthe valleys, espe-
cially, the cotton promises well aud
afavorable a yield Is anticipated.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-20
A Grandmephew of Burns.
Broeklyn Eagle.
CourIer- Journal, AUG. u.

Alexander Burns, a grandnephew
of Robert Burns, the poet, and one
of the able and most capable engi-
neers of the Western waters, died at
the residence of his brother-in-law,
James A. Beatty, corner of Fifth
and Chestnut, early yesterday NOR
ming. Mr.. Burns was seventy years
old, and his death resulted from in-
iuries received several weeks ago
by being thrown out of a buggy by
runaway horse. His thigh was
broken and he received injuries in
ternal which his old age could not
rally from. Mr.. Burns was a we'll
known citizen. For many years he
was river engineer, and his repu.
tation was SO. excellent that his ser
vices We're always claimed. He had
served on all the Western waters,
and had many friends all along the
river and here in Louisville, where
his genial, kindly nature attracted
men to him. He leaves no children,
but his wife survives him. A year
ago he lost his hearing and retired
from active service. He was a we'll
known and prominent Odd Fellow
and will be buried by the order.
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