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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-01
TROOPS IN IRELAND.

Infantry and Cavalry to Scour the Country.
A special cable dispatch from Dublin
says:
The military commandment here is
making arrangements for the organization
of flying columns to scour the country, as
was done during the Fenian rising. An
order to move is expected soon. It
is intended to start nine columns
two from Dublin, two from the Cur
rash, one from Athlone, one from Cork,
one from Fermoy, one from Limerick,
and one from Belfast. Each column will
consist of troop of cavalry, a division of
artillery with two guns, four companies in
fantry, ten sappers, detachment of the
army service corps, a detachment of the
hospital corps and one ambulance wagon.
Three thousand soldiers are now stationed
in Dublin. The barrack accommodation
in the country is insufficient for the in
creased number of soldiers, and temporary
barracks will, therefore, be fitted at Rath-
keale, county Limerick, and Ennistymon,
county Clare, for detachhients of infantry,
each comprising two officers and fifty men.
Another detachment win be sent to Lough-
sea, county Galway, as soon as quarters
for them have been provided.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-01

The Lititz Record, of our own coun-
ty, joins the press of Northampton in de-
Tending the lynching of Snyder on the
ground of the uncertainty of the laws
punishment of murderers, and cites to
us the cases of Laros and of Pannell.
We have to say to our cotempo-
rary that it might cite to us a great
many more such cases and even obtain
our admission that these men should all
have been hanged, without at all affect
ing the argument against lynching. 1t
ought to be plain to a man Of any degree
of comprehension, who is calm enough
to exercise his reason dispassionately,
that there can be no defense of lynching
in q civilized state whose civilization is
based upon the rule of the law. The
people have enacted the law for their
protection and have agreed to its arbi-
trament. Such people then as undertake
to punish violation of the law them
selves become in turn violators of the
law and their offense is more heinous
than that of the man they punish, be-
cause it strikes at the very foundation of
society and if permitted to go unpunish-
ed would destroy it. As we have said,
anyone of ordinary reason will compre-
bend this and those who do not, are SO
absolutely unable to understand the ele-
mentary principles of political science as
tomake it useless to talk to them and
hopeless to convert them into good citi-
zens. They had better all be hanged.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-01
Eorca of IMAGINATION.

A few years ago celebrated physician,
author OF an excellent work on the force OF
imagination, being desirous to add expert
mental to his theoretical knowledge, made
application to the minister of justice to 5e
allowed All opportunity Of proving what he
asserted by an experiment on q criminal
condemned to death. The minister complied
with his request, and delivered over to him
an assassin-a man who had been born of
distinguished parents. The physician told
him that several persons who had taken
an interest in his family had obtained
leave Of the minister that he should suffer
death in some other way than on the scat
fold, to avoid the disgrace of public exc
cution and that the easiest death he
could die would be by blood letting. The
criminal agreed to the proposal and
counted himself happy in being freed from
the painful exhibition which he would
otherwise have been made of, and
rejoiced at thus being enabled to spare the
feelings of his friends and family.
At the time appointed the physician re-
paired to the prison, and the patient hav-
ing been extended OH table, his eyes
bound, and everything being ready, he
was slightly pricked near the principal
veins Of the legs and arms with the point
of pen. A the four corners of the table
were four little fountains, filled with wa
ter, from which issued small streams fall
ing into basins placed there to receive
them. The patient, thinking that it was
his blood that trickled into the
basins, became weaker and weaker by
degrees, and the remarks of the
medical men in attendance in reference to
the quality and appearance Of the blood
(made with that intention) increased tb"
delusion, and he spoke more and more
family, until his voice was at length
scarcely audible. The profound silence
which reigned in the apartment, and the
constant dropping of the fountain, had so
extraordinary an effect on the brain of the
poor patient, that all his vital energies
were soon gone, although before very
strong man, and he died without having
lost single drop of blood.-Le Chamelon.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-01
Fashion Ninety Years Ago.

The change which Mrs. Adams had made
from the splendOrs of tho ".Republican
Court at Philadelphia to the "wilderness'
at Washington was a great one, says a
waiter in the Washington Star. This
change was most striking in. the dress.
manners, social life, fashion and the alb
sence of the beauty, the brilliancy, the
genius and the courtly style, which char
acterized the life at Philadelphia. One
favorite Philadelphia dress was celestial
blue satin gown with white
satin petticoat. On the neck was
worn a very large Italian gauze handkcr-
chief, with broad stripes of satin. The
head-dress was pouf Of gauze, i'll the
form of globe, the creneaur or head piece
of which was composed of white satin,
having a double wing in large plaits and
trimmed with wreath of artificial roses,
falling from the left at the top to the right
at the bottom i'll front, and the reverse be-
hind. The hair was dressed all over in de-
tached curls, four of which, in two ranks,
fell on each side of the neck and were re-
tanned behind by a floating chignon.
Another beautiful dress was a perriOt,
made of gray italian taffeta, with dark
stripes of the same color, having two COL
lars, the one yellow and the other white,
both trimmed in the same manner. I'm.
der the perriot they wore a yellow corset
or bodice, with large cross stripes of
blue. Some OF the ladies with this
dress wore hats J. Espdgnolc, of
white satin, with band of the same
material placed on the crown, like
the wreath of flowers on the head dress
mentioned before. The hat, which with
the plume was very popular article Of
dress, was relieved ON the left side, hav-
ing two handsome cockades-one of which
was at the top and the other at the bot
tom. On the neck was worn a very
plain large cause handkerchief, tho
ends of which were hid under the
bodice. Round the bosom Of
the perriot a frill of gauzs a la Henry
w., was attached, cut in points around
the edge. Another dress consisted of
perriot and petticoat, both composed of
the same description of gray-striped silk
and trimmed round with gauze, cut in
points at the edges in the manner of her
risous. The herrisous were, indeed, near
~ the sole trimmings used for the peril
OTIS, caracos and petticoats of fashionable
ladies, made either Of ribbons or Italian
gauze. With this dress they wore large
gauze handkerchiefs upon their necks,
with four satin stripes around the border,
two of which were narrow and the other
broad. The head-dress was plain gau ze
cap. The shoes were celestial blue, with
rose-colored rosettes. Individual tastes
and fancies would vary the details, but the
tout ensemble was the same.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-01
OBITUARY.,
Recent Notable Nscroloey,

Epes Sargent, journalist and author,
died in Boston on Thursday night, aged
81 years. In early life he was connected
with the Boston Atlas, aud wrote a life OF
Henry Clay. He was also the author ol
several we'll known plays, and was asso-
ciated with Park Benjamin in editing the
New World in New York. He was editor
of the Boston Transcript from 1874 to 1858.
He had written much poetry and fiction,
and within the last two years edited the
"Cyclopedia of British and American
Poetry" In his last year he devoted
much of his time to works on spiritualism.
Benjamin K. Phelps, district attorney
for New York, died in that city on Thurs
day night, in the forty ninth year of his
age.
j. G. G. Whaley, editor of the Clinton
Democrat. and representative-elect from
Clinton county, Pennsylvania, died at his
residence, in Lock Haven, last evening.
Louisa Morris, colored, died at her resi-
dence in Philadelphia, at the age of 1O8
years, 6 months and 4 days.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-01
The Death.Dealine Razor.


The new law of South Carolina relating
to the carrying of concealed weapons adds
one to the usual list of such instruments.
Section is as follows:
Be it enacted, etc: That any person car.
rying a pistol, dirk, dagger, slung- shot,
metal knuckles, razors, or other sinila,
deadly soeapon usually used for the inyfiet,on
ofpersonal injury, concealed about his per.
son, shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof before court ol
competent jurisdiction, shall forfeit to the
county the weapon SO carried concealed,
and be fined in a sum not more than $500,
or imprisoned for not more than twelve
months, or both, in the discretion of the
court.
The Charleston Nsws says: "The razor
is a favorite weapon with the negroes, and
a more unpleasant instrument to encounter
in hostile hands than a shotgun or revol-
ver.''
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-01
STATE ITEMS.

Samuel Sherwell, an Easton tailor, drop
ped dead while walking along the street
The McKibbens finally retire from the
Girard house. Brothly, OF the HOwlant
house, Long Branch, takes it.
There was some complimentary talk tl
District Attorney Hagert and his staff by
the Philadelphia court yesterday upon the
Termination of their tenure of Office.
J. c. G. Whaley, editor Of the Clinton
Democrat, and representative elect from
Clinton county, has died at his residence
Lock Haven.
Mr.. John Kelly will deliver q lecture in
Erie, January 16 for the benefit of the st.
Vincent hospital. The subject will be,
"The Sisters of Charity, their Origin and
Work."
The fight for the United States senator.
ship waxes warmer as each train brings to
MIR. Oliver, for the struggle seems have
narrowed down to those two.
James A. Wilson, rascal and fraud,
has been swindling the Harrisburg Odd
Fellows by false pretenses of deserving
distress. Some places he calls himself
VIM. A. Bond.
Sarcastic Erie O6seroer: "The steal
works blow in at Harrisburg next Monday.
Little business will be transacted until the
Legislature is informed VINO Cameron has
chosen for his colleague in the United States
Senate"
About month or six weeks ago the
extensive saw mill of Messrs. Campbell,
Gantz & Co., at Millersburg, was de-
stroyed by fire, causing a loss of $40, ZOO
to the owners. Philip Zimmerman has
been arrested in Reading for the incen-
diarism.
A fire broke out in the picker room OF
Haigh. Grindrod & Bottomley's large cot
ton and wooden mill at Bridgewater, four
miles from Chester, and tho entire struc-
ture, with it's valuable machinery, was
destroyed. A number of operatives
narrowly escaped with their lives. The
loss will exceed S25, 900; insured for $50,
600.
The Pittsburgh papers publish a card
the action of the Allegheny county dele
Allegheny's choice, for United States sena-
leading manufacturing firm in the city, by
al Iic codi men, ny mcIcu3n1S III oil
branches of trade and citizens generally.
The Philadelphia Ecening Telegraph
hopes defeat will settle upon both the seek
ing candidates for the Senate, and it comes
out clear and strong for BENJAMIN Fl.
Brewster, as "the one candidate free
from all factional alliance and
complications AN able, Independent
man, Republican of strongest and
purest principles, gentleman of highest
character, of unquestionable ingtegrity, a
profound scholar, a learned lawyer, an ora
tor of national prominence, an alert, form
idable debater-a man fitted by native in
telligence and dignity, by culture and ex-
perience, TO discharge with universal sat-
isfactiOn the onerous and responsible du
ties of senator of the United States"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-01

The Law Library association properly
decided that an organization whose func-
tions are limited to the collection, care
and ownership of law books has nothing
to do with the ethics of the legal pro
fession !; albeit, this association has at
times Travelled beyond the functions
prescribed by its charter. 1t declares its
unwillingness to % again. Wherefore
there seems to be demand for law as
sociation, with further reaching objects,
touching the rights, the duties and the
interests of the profession. When this
has been organized, if it shall so happen,
to preserve the integrity of members of
the bar and public confidence in the pro
fession would naturally be the first Oh
ject of its solicitude. Then there will
be . forum into which every matter
touching professional irregularities may
properly be brought.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-01

We trust that our readers having had
q merry Christmas week are ready now
to meet the work of the New Year,
which we hope will be happy albeit a
sober one, to them all. There is at
present in business circles, We think,
somewhat too much of exaltation. An
addition of sobriety to the business
mans judgment would be wholesome
one. Make haste slowly is good motto
to remember in these days when the up
ward rush of things suggests their
downward course when the rarefied all
ceases to sustain the fight.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-01

THE superintendent Of census approx
imates the total population Of the coun-
try at 5O,l52, $50, though the Official fig
ures will not be published for q week,
until when we defer printing the table.
It is gratifying to see that the increase
of population, in ten years, some II ,594, :
1ss, or nearly 81 per cent, is quite as
large as had been anticipated. The
largest increase was of course in the far
Western states, Colorado leading with
$3.50 per cent. and the least, Vermont
which shows only one-half per cent. in.
crease. Pennsylvania, which in 1870
had 8.52l 1851 people, in 1880 return.
1926, 2,7ss, an increase Of 2l.s per cent, 9
greater growth than is shown by Illinois
Indiana. New York or Ohio.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-01
Pittsburgh Rivals Paris.
Leader.

When Mana appeared profcssedly a
picture of the terrible immortality of Paris,
there was great outcry. They might do
these things in the French capital, it was
said, but not anywhere else, and it was a
shame even SO much as to mention them
in our truly moral American cities. Yet
here in Pittsburgh we have tragedy in a
fashionable house Of prostitution, in which
an infatuated lover shoots his mistress out
of jealousy of a married merchant, who
watches and nurses the girl in her agony.
Is not this whole incident as PArisian as il
it had happened in the Faubourg st. Ger
maine.
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A NEwPoRr VILLA BUKxKD.

james R. Keene's Sammsr Resadenoe De-
str0yed, With Much Of lIs Contsnts.
: The residence of j. r. Keene. at New
port, Il. l., was destroyed by fire yesterday
morning. defective furnace being the
cause. Mrs. Keene and her family were
occupying the dwelling. The house and
its contents were valued at 800, 600, IN
which there was An insurance of upwards
of $50, 600. Inability to get water, owing to
the extreme cold, prevented the firemen
from working effectively until the fire had.
been long time under headway. Mrs.
Keene and her family sought refuge in the
stable. Thanks to the efficiency Of the
police the silver, which almost filed .
hack, was::conveyed to a place of safety.
Several thousand dollars worth of valu-
able paintings, including one which cost
| S2O, 900, were saved. Choice pieces Of
bric-a-brac, majOlica, statues, etc., were
also saved in good condition as well as
some of the most valuable furniture on the
first floor. Mrs. Keene and her family
lost all their wearing ap--
parel, but the servants saved
their effects. Nothing was saved above
the first floor. A valuable piano was taken
oui. but as it was not removed far from the
house it was badly damaged, the cloths
l Will NHiCH ~ W do COSClCu having OouSAS
fire from the sparks. Greenhouses con-
tanning $4,000 worth of tropical plants
were repeatedly iu danger, and it is feared
that some Of the plants are ruined. The
glass was broken in many places, thus adj
mitting the water. The pictures, as they
werc removed from the house, were taken
to the greenhouses. Owing to the cold
and to the fact thet but few persons reside
in the vicinity Of Mr.. Keene's villa, there
were but few people at the fire beside
firemen. The villa. architecturally, was
considered the finest in the place and il
was admired by everybody. It was built
Queen Anne style, the first story being Of
brick and the second and third OF wood. II
was built about ten years ago for Nathan
Matthews, of Boston, at an expense Oi
$125, 900. Matthews, by reaso0 of fnan
cial embarrassment, did not occupy it but
three seasons. when it was occupied In
turn by Mr.. John Jacob AstOr and Mr.
Pierre Lorillard. A mortgage on thu
estate was foreclosed by q local savings
bank and it was sold at auction to Mr.
Keene, who purchased it at the remark
ably low figure of S67, 500. Mr.. Keene ha!
occupied it ever since and his family wer'
so well pleased with it that they have re
sided there all the year round. Mr.. Keen'
came OIL by special boat OF steamer ever!
week. The house is a total loss, nothing
remaining of it but the brick walls of tn
first floor. 1t is understood that the hOus
and furniture were insured for upward o
$50, 600 in New York companies.
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per at the stove when il clothing ea.ehs

papsr at tho stove VIXEN ID elothing caught
fire.
Mrs. Elizabeth Rainey, . poor woman.
Was found frozen 20 death in her room. In
Jersey City. yesterday morning. Eliza II.
Jones was found frozen to death at her
home, in Prince George County, Virginia
on Thursday night.
McDouald's accommodation train on
the Panhandle railroad c0llided with .
freight train near North Nansaeld. Both
engines were badly wrecked and Engineer
Williams of the passenger train sustained
injuries that may result in his death.
Three passengers Were slightly hurt.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-01

At a british banquet to F. Z. GowEN
the belief was expressed that he would be
the man to put down the Irish Land
League.
DENGREMoNT, the young Brazilian vio-
linist, who has achieved quite reputa-
tion abroad, is among the recent arrivals
in the United States. He is accompanied
by his father, and will shortly begin a
professional tour.
Nine. MARIE GEIsTINGER, the German
actress and operatic singer, has just ar
rived in New York, after a rough and un-
pleasant voyage. Nine. Geistinger is un-
der engagement to play sixty times at the
Thalia theatre, New York, during the
course of several months.
Bishop WHIppLE, in his late address,,
said that all his success in life was due to
his mother, who required him when a
child to learn and repeat verses of scripture
SO that in that way he learned a good part
Of the Bible by heart, and stored it's pre-
cious truths.
Rev. E. P. HAMMOND, tho evangelist,
has been holding revival meetings in Man.
itoba for seven weeks. He has preached
at Winnipeg, Emerson, and three other
places, often in the open air, with the
thermometer $50 below zero, and it is es.
timated that there have been not less
than 1000 conversions.
H. L. REINhOLD, well known in this
city, and for seventeen years one of the
most successful statesmen with tho great
notion house of Joel j. Baily & Co., OF
Philadelphia, has joined copartnershir
with other experienced business men in
Philadelphia, under the firm name OF
David, Kcyser, Reinhold & Co., to carry
on tho wholesale notion business.
Prof. WM. 3. HALL left Lancaster last
night for Clarion, Pa, where the teachers
institute of Clarion caunty commences on
Monday. Prof. Hall will conduct the
musical part of the programme. During
the present season Prof. Hall has conduct.
ed the music at no less than nine county
Institutes. After leaving Clarion, Prof.
Hall vii! so to Indiana, Pa. > and resume his
position as professor of vocal music in the
state normal school of Indiana
Rev. Moses Tuttle married daughtc,
of Rev. TIMOTHY EDWARDS, of East Wind
sor, Conn.,, and sister of President Ed
wards. When he asked her fathers con
sent to the marriage he replied, 81 shal
consent SO far as not to forbid it but
can do no less than to inform you that you
can not live with my daughter" "Why"
said Mr.. Tuttle, els she not Christian p
81 hope So" said Mr.. Edwards; "but
grace may live where you can not.''
LOUIS AUGUsrE BLANQUI, the noted
communist and socialist agitator, at the
age of seventy-five, has died in Paris. He
in his latter years divided with Victor
Hugo the distinguished honor of being
one of the two Frenchmen who could bt
said to have provoked continuous public
attention during the last half century un
der Charles X, Louis Philippe, the Sec
ond Republic, The Second Empire, the
Commune and the Third Republic.
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LATEST NEWS BY NAIL.

The defense of Abe Rothchild, Of Gin
cinnati, for the murder Of his mistress in
Texas cost his relatives $40, 900, but he got
off.
Near New Orleans q fire destroyed
Schoonendorfs dairy, consuming forty
eight milk cows, horses and mules and a
large quantity of poultry. The loss is cs-
timated at 81, 600; insurance, $4,000.
The two year old child Of Isaac Shane,
Of the Shane house, East Springfield. Ohio,
was burned to death. It, with an older
child, was engaged lightning pieces Of
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LANCASTER DAILY 1NTEIlGENCEK SATURDAY, JANUARY 1881
enough politicians ambitious to be United
States senators il will be accomplished.

States senators it will be accomplished.
IT will be remembered what zeal was
displayed to get Hayes's message, and also
to keep it from getting out. And yet to
prove how little the public really care for
the message itself, the Syracuse IN. W
Standard, one week after the last message
was published in full in its columns, sent
out a number of reporters to make inquiry
among the prominent business men
lawyers, doctors, clergymen, physicians,
teachers-of that city, as to how many Of
them had read the views of the nations
chief magistrate. Five hundred and thir.
teen gentlemen were asked of the NUN.
Der forty-one had read the message, thirty
had just glanced at it, twenty-three had
read portions of it, one hundred and eight
hoped to find time some day to read it.
and the remainder had no clear idea of it,
having been printed at ell. These stats
tics would hold good of all the cities ant
towns Of the Union; and yet, before ever,
meeting of Congress, t.,s American people
burn with anxiety to sec advance copies O
the message.
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Mayors Court.

This morning the mayor hadfour drunks
before him. One was sent to jail for 20
days, one for 10 and two for 10. A lodger
was discharged. =. j
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THE SOUP HOUSE.


TIE soup house opened this morning for
the winter. Three hundred and twenty
eight rations of soup and bread were given
out and many hearts were made glad.
The soup was made Of vegetables and it
was first-class. It was partaken Of BY .
number of persons, including reporters,
policemen and county officials. Billy Shay
and his wife have charge Of the cooking
and they know exactly how to do their
work. The soup house will be open all
winter now.