Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-09
THE BLIND RECElvEs SIGHT.
A Remarkable Case Of Eye-Opsnisg.

EVCIy luOlCSblIOu ~ s1h AhSASsSOAASS SSS-
thetic taste among our people should be
that millennium which We yearn for, and
from being fully realized but when these
pected quarters when eyes that have
been blind to the beauties of nature and
art for many, many years are suddenly, as
if by miracle, opened, and they behold in
all their glory objects Of beauty. which
they never saw before, though daily pre-
sented before them, there is great occasion
to rejoice aud take new heart in the be-
lief that the ''the good time coming" is
not so far of, after ALL
We are led to these gratifying reflections
by the sudden awakening of our esteemed
contemporary the editor Of the New Era.
For more than twenty-five years this un-
fortunate individual has passed and re-
passed our county court house, daily and
yet never until yesterday beheld the
beauties that have been spread before him
upon the bill boards in front Of that noble
editice. For twenty five years those bill
boards have been there, and upon them
have been placed the most gorgeous works
of art, and yet he has seen them not
VOluptuOusly developed nymphs in flesh
cOlored tights grouped in the most allurinS
poses, have for a quarter of = century been
looking down from the bill boards, and
wooing him with their bewitchins smiles,
and yet they have been unregarded Not
only the Venus de Milo, the Apollo Belve-
dere, the ancient and modern athletes,
the gymnasts, the ground and lofty tumb-
lers, the ballet dancers, the model artists,
and other pictures of the form divine have
been vainly appealing for recognition for a
quarter of 4 century, but life-like faces of
the greatest tragedians, the sweetest singers
the most eloquent orators, the most re-
nOwned statesmen, have failed to attract
from our esteemed contemporary single
glance! And this is the more re markablc
us these bill boards were erected and the
beautiful works Of art were for
years displayed upon them by the
only authorized agent Of the dear
old Express, the newspaper of which
the New Era editor was so long the hon
ored chief! Our sympathetic bosom
heaves with an irreprcssible sigh, as We
take a retrospective glance at the
wOndrOus works of the old masters and
their modern imitatOrs which he has
failed to bchOld-when We remember that
the spectacled eye, now growing dim, was
flashing with youthful fire, and the noble
brow, now growing bald, was crowned
with Conklinsian or Hyperion locks when
the bill boards, which he now SO much ad-
mircs, were first put up! But that is all
over now. The scales have fallen from
his eyes as suddenly as they did from
the eyes Of Saul Of Tarsus ; he once was
blind but now he sees he has gazed upon
the thrilling representations Of Barnum's
greatest show on earth he has seen the
monkey and the elephant, and may. there
fore, be pardoncd for supposing the old
boards to be 4 new thing, and that the
commissioners have taken can initial step
"a new departure" and have "started out
on new mission Of gratifying the public
sense of beauty :" he may even be pardoned
for suggesting that Judge Livingston
will at this late day "speak of it in
appropriate terms to the next grand jury" I"
This is a mistake ; for, though our esteem
able Rip Van Winklc sleep, Judge Livings-
ton has been wide awake. The beauties
of the bill-boards are not new to him. nor
to the county commissioners either. They
have been in existence and admired BY all
commissioners from the reign of John
DOner to that of Ike BushOns
Little Locals.
Some martin birds which got to West
Chester before g the season" opened have
been found dead.
Daniel Gorrcll, the Blue Mountain her
nit and trapper, of Albany township,
Berks county, has been found dying in h is
hillside cabin.
The Marietta mails were weighed last
p,op,fh Tho fptn1
9, 119 pounds, and the amount sent away
9, O45 pounds.
The Lancaster Iaquirer announces the
astonishing discovery that "moro and
moro does it become manifest that the Re-
publicans of Lancaster county arc deeply
dissatisfied with the retention of Collector
Wiley in the Office he hOlds.''
Water has been turned into the Pennsyl-
vania canal as far as MiddletOwn, and on
Monday it will be open for business.
Speaking of 4 sermon delivered ut the
dedication of the Shiloh Reformed church,
Danville, by Rev. T. G. Apple, u. ID, the
Mtellgcnccr says: ''It was appropriate
and delivered in plain manner with moth
ing of the sensational style characteristic
of some of the modern pulpit orators. At
the same time it showed much thought,
deep research and a thorough grasp of the
subject:
Mr.. J. L. Shiffer, of New Holland,
changed the combination Of his safe, wrote
the new numbers on 4 slip of paper and
threw it into one of the drawers
of the safe. Being pretty busy,
in the evening when he closed the store he
Eurricdly locked the safe and then it Oc-
Cured to him that the new numbers were
inside, and he had not remembered all of
them. He Immediately went to work,
however, to unlock it, but his efforts were
futile. He worked at it all day on Thurs
day, but of no avail and there seems to be
no alternative but to send for an expert,
which Mr.. ShifTer has done. 4.
Sale Market CurDs.
Jacob Gundakcr, auctiOnecr, this MORN