Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-02
A Ridiculous Prosecution.

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A Ridiculous Prosecution.
Chief Justice BENJAMIN Franklin
Rowe: ex-sheriff, auctioneer and alder
man, continues to dispense with justice
for the benefit of j. Kahler Snyder, and
his partners in the blackmailing bust
ness whoever they may develop to be.
This morning they had before them
a candy man from Millersville who
sometimes gives his neighbors salve
for cancer, and they pay him or not for
it as they see fit. He makes no parade
of his business nor pretensions to prac-
tice medicine or surgery, and at his hear
ing this morning we are assured there was
not scintilla of evidence produced to sus-
tain the charge that i'm the terms of the
law he has received or accepted for his
services " any fee or reward directly or
indirectly since the passage of the law
All the same he was turned over to the
quarter sessions in the hope of making $50
for Kahler Snyder and costs for the dis
trict attorney out of his case.
Under Chief Justice ROwe's cOnstruc-
tion of the law q man who advises his
neighbor on the street to go home and
take sargle for his throat, or put court
plaster on his cut finger, is liable to prose-
cution for unlawfully practicing medi-
cine and surgery!
One of the finest gems of George
Eliot's wit and wisdom is this The
raw bacon which clumsy Molly spares
from her own scanty store, that she may
carry it to her neighbor's child to stop
the fits, may be 4 piteously ineflicacious
remedy but the generous stirring of
neighhorly kindness that prompted tie
deed has u lREeficent radiation that is
not lost
Ben Rowe aud Kahl Snyder would
knock that sentiment "higher than a
kite 10y promptly prosecuting clumsy
Molly "for practicing medicine and sur
Pery against the law, which they have
elected themselves to administer.
THE Ne~ Eru errs in its statement
that " all of President Buchanan's Off.
cial and personal correspondence, in the
original manuscripts, which was placed
for safe keeping in Morrell's warehouse,
in New York city, recently destroyed by
fire, has just been recovered from the
ruins intact and without any marks in
dicatins the fiery ordeal to which it has
been subjected" The correspondence
of the ex-president, in the hands of his
biographer, George Ticknor Curtis, had
been placed in the MOrrell warehouse but
it was removed therefrom intact -
four days before the fire, by which Mr..
Curtis lost all his own personal effects.
By this lucky escape in part Mr.. Curtis
has been enabled to push forward his
labors On Buchanan biography with sat-
isfactory speed and its early publication
is anticipated. The friends of our late
distinguished fellow.citizen have every
reason to believe that the work will he
satisfactory to them and the public, and
that it will vindicate the truth of history
GUITEAU took long stride yesterday
in the way of dispelling popular suspi-
cion of his insanity, when looking, at
Judge Porter very intently and in view
Of his demeanor toward him on the wit
ness stand, he said: " Oh you need not
look so fierce at me; you can't scare me.
Just make your statement in a slow,
genial way, and We will get along bet
ter Guiteau is not model of polite
manners and he would not likely be a
better man in POrter's place, but he told
the truth squarely in his advice to law
yers generally rs to how to examine wit
nesses. The "fierce" look seldom ac-
complishes much for the attorney who
puts it on; the "slow genial way" gen
orally gets out all the truth he wants.
THE multiplication of commercial ex-
changes in New York is for the purpose
" of providing facilities for speculative
ventures in a class of commodities that,
as rule, have heretofore been bought
and sold on the solid and safe basis of
supply and demand" Gambling in
stocks which have no value except as
footballs for brokers, has been disas-
trous to the business and morals of the
country. Grain, oil, whisky and cotton
have for years been the objects of the
same illegitimate class of speculation
and it is with real alarm for real danger
that the public contemplates the institu-
tion of /" puts' and "calls'' on all the
of life, investing even death
with new terrors by prospective cor