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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-26
A BOY RUN OVER.


Severely Hut Not DanSerOusIy Injured.
This morning as 4 little six year old SON
of Screnus Z. Herr was playing in the
street in front of his fathers residence
1O6 West Orange street, he was accident
ally struck, knocked down and run over
by the carriage of Nathaniel Ellmakcr,
esq.,, in-which were seated Mr.. Ellmaker,
his wife and their cOachman. One Of the
wheels of the carriage passed over the
right cheek of the child, lacerating it badly
but breaking no bones. The child was car.
ried into his fathers house, near by, and
DR.. McCleery summoned to atten! it.
Tho wound is severe one, long cash
being cut in the cheek, and the skin scraped
off a part of the face. A few strips Of
sticking plaster, carefully applied, was the
only surgery deemed necessary, and the
little boy is getting along very well. MIR:
and Mrs. Ellmaker aliSbted from tne'r
and expressed the liveliest sympathy. for
the little sufferer.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-26

An adroit thief robbed Mr.. Hubbard
Parker, of Branchport, of $4O0 in less than
80 minutes from the time Parker received
it in part payment Of a mortgage. After
signing tho receipt Parker put the money.
all new bills, into his trunk and went to the
barn to care for cattle. Half an hour later
he discovered his trunk had been forced
open and nothing taken but the $4OO.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-26
THE CABINET HOPELESS.
A Very Sad Prospect.

"A SCES Sssu EOoPOSSs
At ten o'clock last night the doctors in
formed the cabinet that there was no
longer good ground for hope. The COM
plications in the presidents case have
gone so far that there is nothing to expect
but the fatal ending, and that soon. Pre-
pared as the cabinet were for this news,
when DR.. Bliss made it to them it fell
upon ithem with a terrible shock. The
end, then, had come, :and all the hopes and
anxiety had reached their limit. Secre-
tary Blaine asked if there could not be
some more encouraging construction
placed upon the statement, and, as a re-
suit, the dispatch to Minister Lowell was
framed half an hour after the White
House was closed. In the meantime the
members of the cabinet came down the
stairs, Attorney General McVeagh in the
lead. Before that, however, the secretary
of states dispatch had been heard on the
streets.
A correspondent asked the attorney
general if the despatch of the secretary of
state was indOrsed by the cabinet?
"There is nothing else to do. The ply
sicians themselves no longer have any
hope: ~,
1ucy HAVE tOlu uS GuC WOIoOs AuClC
is not one chance in a thousand for the
president.
"Mr. Secretary" the correspondent
said turning to Mr.. Blaine, "have you
given up all hope ?"
"There is no longer room for hope"
Secretary of the Interior KirkwoOd was
by Secretary Blaine's side, and the qces-
tiOn was next put to him.
n~Dok stood in, ,ic l,o
swered in broken tones, eve have to ac-
cept it. 1t is impossible to hope for any
thing except a miracle. The end is near
at hand"
Secretary Window ut this moment
emerged from the White House door, his
wife leaning on his arm. ''Do you see
any room for any hope, he was asked.
II agree with what Mr.. Blaine has writ
ten. There is but little room for hope. :"
Postmaster General James was waiting
for his carriage on the steps. His wife
was leaning Oh his arm. She was crying {:
SO, 100, were the wives of the other cabinet
ministers.
"You've always been hopeful NJ.
Jane have you any hope now?'
cat last have none, - was the sad
reply.
Most Of the party went off in carriages,
but the postmaster general being joined
by Secretary of War Lincoln, walked down
and through the grounds to- gether. The
latter was the only one to whom the cor
respondent had not spoken.
Have you any hope, Mr.. Secretary"
None, was the answer.
"What will be the immediate cause of
dcath?"
"Thc doctors informed us tonight that
he could not live long, and that the CON-
plications in the case would all be opera.
tive. The swelling Of his neck would,
if it attacked well man, prove fatal in
itself"
You mean the parotid gland 90
eyes"
How long do you think he will live p
GA few days"
"And they say there is no chance -
Only the barest chance in the world"
"And if he gets that %
1t will be known within twenty -four
hours.'
"And VIC were not given any encourage
ment for that twenty-four hours" said
the postmaster general.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-26
Some Former Lancasterians.

Rev. D. H. Geissinger, of New York city
and Mr.. Fl. B. Gessinger, of the custom
house, Philadelphia, brothers of Sheriff
Gessinger, have been in the town and
county visiting friends.
Friend Buckingham, editor Of the Bedford
Inquirer, was here on Tuesday. Bedford
must agree with him, as he is not only
looking handsomer than ever, but exceed
ingly well.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-26

THE Crown diamonds of France are to
be sold in order to provide for the better
maintenance of the public museums.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-26

The elixir of life has been found.
There is man begging on the streets of
Prague who was born in 1767.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-26

One of the leading prospective indus
tries of Florida is the cultivation of jute,
and the Philadelphia capitalists who have
made large purchases of land there have
this in view.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-26

CHARLES SUMNER wrote in February,
1861 "Not that love the Union less,
but Freedom more, SO I now in pleading
this great cause insist that freedom, at all
hazards, shall be preserved.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-26

THE failure of tho movement for the I'M
portation of William Penn's bones to this
country will probably not have the effect
to discourage New Workers from demand
ing of the Khedive Of Egypt the remains
of Cleopatra for interment beneath the
obelisk in Central park. At least this is
the sage prediction of the Philadelphia
Bulletin.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-26

The reports Of large and choice vlntages
in all the most important wine-making
countries of Europe lend interest to the
announcement of an international exhibi
ton of machinery, apparatus and imple-
ments appertaining to vine culture, eno!ogy
and distillation, to be held from the 1st to
the Goth of November in Conegliano, near
Venice. That place is the seat of the
royal school of vine culture and enolOgy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-09-15
Grants Arabian Steeds.

A curious little story about General
Grants Arabian steeds is told by Mrs.
Hooper. When the horses were deliv-
cred to the American official who was
deputed to represent Gen. Grant he
found that through some hocuspOcus of
the employees of the Sultan's stables
one of the horses selected had been ex-
changed for dismal beast, being lame
and generally unsound. Our country
man did not wish to forward so wretch
ed an animal to the United States, yet
what was to be done. To refuse the
Sultan's gift would have been a deadly
insult, and, besides, he had no right to
do anything of the kind; while to find
fault would have been a deadlier one.
Finally, a bright idea struck him. The
unsound horse happened to be black, SO
he sent for the high and mighty Turk
ish official who had the matter in
charge, and regretfully informed him
that, though Gen. Grant was enchanted
with the two noble steeds that were &C
corded him by the magniicence of the
sultan, he would, unfortunately, be I'M
able to use the black one, as horses of
that color were only employed for fun
erals in America, and to offer or accept
one as a gift was held to be an exceed
ingly bad omen in that country. The
courteous Turk was profuse in civil
ties and apologies, the black horse was
taken away, and sound and hand
some animal of another color was sent
in its stead.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-09-15
The Presidents Physicians.

DR.. John G. johnson, an eminent
physician of Brooklyn and a recognized
authority upon gun-shot wounds, in an
interview with the Brooklyn Eagle is
reported as speaking as follows of the
Presidents medical attendants: It's
easy enough to find fault with the doc
tors; but when there are such men as
Drs. Hamilton and Agnew in attend
ance we are bound to believe that every
thing possible is being done. It is we'll
known to every member Of the profess
sion that Dr. Hamilton's abilities are of
the highest order. In his younger
years, while he was in charge of the
Sisters Hospital at Buffalo, he was the
leading surgeon Of western New York
and the section of Canada bordering on
the lakes. Subsequently he was pro-
fessOr Ofsurgery in our Long Island Col
lege Hospital While he was there I
served under him and know that he was
a thorough martinez. Every case had
to be carefully reported in its entire de-
tail. At the outbreak Of the rebellion
Judge Calvin E. Platt, who was then
practiCing law, organized a regiment Of
which he became the colonel DIR.
Hamilton went to the front as surgeon
of the command. When the govern
ment authorities found that he was
willing to serve as q surgeon they APP
pointed him medical director of one of
the divisions, and his work on military
surgery, the result of his vast labor in
the war, is classic. Subsequent to the
conflict he visited all the prominent
hospitals in England, France, Spain,
Portugal-in fact, of the civilized world,
and three volumes of the transactions
of the American Medical Society are
filed with his statistics of injuries of
bones. His work on Fractures and
Dislocations" is one of the best ever
written. Then we have Surgeon Gen
eral Barnes, who had charge of that
enormous work, the Surgical History
of the Rebellion" a work that speaks
for itself and for his ability and expert
ence. DR.. Woodward is the greatest
microscopic in the country. He ex-
hibited at the centennial exposition the
finest microscopic photographs ever
seen in America. In them glObules Of
blood barely visible with an ordinary
microscope were enlarged to the size of
buckshot His microscopic Anatomy
of Diseased Conditions" is the best work
of the kind we have. His skill is Of
great importance when we come to the
examination and consideration of pus
in relation to pyamia and septic@mia.
DR.. Agnew is certainly man of splen-
did talents, and his work on surgery
now in course of publication is a fine
production and trusted authority.
The surgeons have at their disposal
the enormous Army Medical Muse
UNI, with all the specimens of the war
to study from, so that if anything is
needed they have facilities for procur-
inc il.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-09-15
privilege of making me, his wife, the

privilege of making me, his wife, the
| love. Is it not so?
Your devoted SANCHICA.
Kendall read the letter in a state of
stupefaction; then quietly tore it to
pieces and went away with his head
dropping and deep frown upon his
face. The smallest examination into
his affairs. showed how egregiously he
had been duped. OF all his patrimony
not enough had escaped the clutches
of the adventurness and the husband
to afford him decent subsistence. In
spite of his overwhelming shame and
anger there was d feeling Of intense re-
lief in his heart. He had imagined
that be loved the Spanish woman, but
now he felt that it would have been
fearful sacrifice could he nave married
her. He was really quite satisfied to
pay even SO high a price as financial
ruin to have escaped it..
His resolution was speedily taken.
He wrote long letter to Alma explain
ing everything, but offering no excuse
and asking for no hope. He then left
town silently. For two years he was
not heard Of At the end of that time
he returned a grave and thoughtful
man, with lines Of sorrow and hard
ship in his face. Misfortune had come
late, but it made a man Of him at
last,
He had not yet called upon Alma
when he met her in the street one day.
He made no attempt to avoid her but
took her hand quietly.
'Alma, " said he, II have come back
solely for the purpose of seeing your
face and taking new courage from it
before | go ont into the world again"
Are you going away?' she asked,
with faint upon her face.
eyes," said he. my repentance is
not yet worked out. l have repaired
the ruin caused by my folly, but have
not suffered enough for my treachery
to you. There is worthy and admir-
able life before me. [ must attain it."
Can you do it alone?" she queried
with sweet gravity. 800 you not need
help"
"None could help me but you" he
replied TREMENDOUSLY, "and | have sin
ned too grievously against you for for
giveness. | need it-oh how sorely!
MOI once IN all these months have you
been abesnt from my mind. [ have la
bored with your image at my heart, to
be worthy of your pardon and appro-
baton, but ] fear it was hopeless
task"
II am the best Judge of that, Geof-
fry" she replied
There must have been something in
her downcast face of deeper import
than her words, for his face suddenly
frightened, and he took her about the
waist.
'Is it true, then, Alma? Am / for
given?"
Of course he was. And someone
said that, woman-like, she loved him
all the dearer because he had so nearly
broken her heart. That may be, but |
advise him never again to mention in
the hearing of his wife the name of
Donna Sanchica.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-09-15

The son of piouS parents, he early
showed an inclination to enter the
church, and was accordingly placed,
first at st. Gall and afterwards at Luz
cerne, under such eminent instructors
as Bishops Mires, Vickar and Stubach,
that lie might acquire the learning nee
essary to fit him for the qualification of
his desire. On the fourth Sunday after
Easter, IN 1913, provincial council of
bishops, held in Cincinnati, nominated
him for the episcopate of the newly
formed diocese of Milwaukee; in De
cember following, the nomination was
confirmed by papal bull, and on the
9th of March, 1914, in the old St.
Aavier's Cathedral, Cincinnati, Bishop
Purcell, assisted by Bishops Miles and
OConnor, conducted the ceremony of
his conservation. He reached his new
field Of labor on the Sd of May. and
entered at once upon the performance
of his duties. On the IS of February
1879 he was named archbishop of Mil
waukee, his investiture in the pallium
taking place on the Sd of the following
June. His taking away is sad blow to
the church ofwhich he has been such
an efficient worker. His life was a
holy one, full of good works, and his
death which was welcome to his weary
frame, will touch the hearts of all who
knew him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-09-15

The farmers alliance of Wisconsin
met IN state convention at Portage on
the 9TH inst, and the following resolu-
lions were adopted:
This convention representing the various indus
trial and shipping interests of the state of Wis
consin affirm as incontrovertble facts that the
railway system of the country has become vir-
tual monopoly, corrupting our politics. hindrance
to free and impartial legislation and menace to
the safety of our republican institutions, ofttmes
debating nominations elections and legislation in
the transaction of their business, basing their
charges not upon cost and risk of service, but
upon what the traffic will bear.
That these and other corporations have be-
come 50 arrogant that they refuse to listen to
arguments and entreaties believing their interests
above and paramount to the interests of the peo-
pie. In view of these facts, and believing their
true interests identical with ours and in accord
ance with the decisions of the supreme court of
the United States, affirming the right of the peO-
pie to regulate the charges upon railroads this
convention resolves:
First. That we demand a system of manage
ment which will compel them to do the duties
they to the public faithfully at rates reason
able, fixed uniform and equal, without extortion.
without wantOn charges, and without discrimina-
ton.
Second. We demand of congress a remedy
that 1t shall place the railroads of the country
government control, 6ndcIInp ldWS IndC
will certainly protect the producer from the terri
bic eXtortiOn under which he has so long suffered
and that we hold our representatives in the ma
tlOnal legislature to a strict accountability for
their action in the premises pledging ourselves
and our constituency to exert ourselves to the
utmost to defeat the reelection of any man to
the legislature or the executive Office who does
not entirely favor in his official capacity the sub
jugaion Of railroad corporations to the will ofthe
people.
cal parties that they shall hereafter nominate for
congress and the state legislature only such men
as are IN sympathy with industrial and CONNER
ciai interests and who if elected viii work and
vote to place the producer upon an equal footing
with monopolstS of every character, and to this
end oppose all class legislation; and if our re-
spectlve parties neglect to do this, we pledge
selves to use every honorable means to defeat
the candidates whom they present for our suf
frages.
Fourth. Equal taxation, salaries commensurate
with services performed and an economical adj
mlnlstratlOn, both state and national.
Fifth. We believe the practice of Issuing free
passes by railroads to be detrimental to the inter
ests of impartial legislation.
Sixth. We pledge our support to those jour
mails which support US and urge upon farmers,
producers and consumers, the recognition of this
principle.
The following state officers were
chosen:
Presidential A. Arnold, of Galesvile.
Vice presidential. j. Emerson, of Ft. Winnie
bago.
Secretary-T. H. Earle of Whitehall.
Ireasurer-R. D. Frost of Madison.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-09-15
A Pair of Historical Drum-Stfcks

Col. Morrow, says the Niles Mich,
MiIT0r, has a great curiosity in the
shape of a couple of drum-sticks which
have a unique and wonderful history.
These we're found by the side of dead
togo, 1777. They were handed over to
a drummer in the Continental army.
by whom they we're used during the
remainder OF the Revolutionary war.
A son of the American owner was a
drummer IN the war of 1872. and was
with Gen. Jackson on the memorable
9Th day Of January, 1916, when the
British under Packenham sustained
their terrible defeat at New Orleans.
These drun-sticks beat "The Ameri-
cans to Arms" and were used to ex-
press the JOY of the victors after the
battle was over. A grandson was a
drummer in SCOTS army in the bat
ties before the City of Mexico, and
these sticks were used at the head of
the column which made its triumphal
entry into the city. A great-grandson
was drummer in the Twenty fourth
Michigan infantry, of which Col. Nor
row was the colonel, and these drum
sticks were used in the great war ofthe
rebellion until 1864, VIXEN they came
into the possession of their present
owner. They were in the hands of
Michigan drummer at the head of the
famous Iron Brigade. composed of
Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin
troops, in the grand review in Washing
ton at the close of the war. They had
played a wonderful part in the history
of the United States. They have
sounded the reveille and retreat for
four generations of American soldiers.
They are older than the present gov
eminent. What was their history in
| the British army we have no means of
knowing They may have been with
Marlborough at Blenheim, or is it pos
sible they sounded the death-knell of
the pretensions of Prince Charles Ed
ward to the throne of England on the
fatal field of CulIoden. One of these
sticks is made of camwood, the other is
of mahogany. These old drum-sticks
will be placed in the hands of brave
William Billiard, one of the heroes of
the rebellion, and be used at the re-
union of soldiers and sailors Of South
western Michigan, at Buchanan on the
Goth inst. 1t ought not to be difficult
for the old soldiers to keep step when
the music OF the union is beaten by a
pair Of drum-sticks which have come
down to us from Burgoyne's defeat,
more than 100 years ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-09-15

The highest hopes and interests of
the race rest on the purity health, and
strength of womanhood. We take
pleasure in referring our readers to the
remarkable efficacy of LYDIA E. PINK
HAMS VEGETABLE COMPOUND in all that
class of diseases from which women
suffer so much.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-09-15
Archbishop Henni Dead.

At the good old age of 76 years 2
months and 25 days, John Martin
Henri, Archbishop of Milwaukee,
passed from this earth at that place on
the 9TH inst. Archbishop Henri was
born at Grisons Switzerland in 1905.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-09-15

A RECENT case of poisoning by oleo-
margarine in Cincinnati will again in
vite attention to the ACCESSIBILITY of pur-
chasers knowing what they buy for ia
BILE use. In this case six persons suf-
fered from the effects of the article,
though all recovered. Oleomargarine
when carefully made is harmless, but
those who sell it under pretense of its
being butter are not to be trusted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-09-15
The Best Life Preseryer
Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.

PARTIES going to Milwaukee Ex-
position, will find it to their interest to
see the splendid stock of new Silks,
Dress Goods, Laces, Dolmans, &C., at
JAMES MoRGAN's immense Dry Goods
House $50 and 389 East Water street.
Pressure of business prevented his
making display in the Exposition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-09-15
Smartest Old Man in Maine.

Kennebec Journal: Undoubtedly the
smartest old man in Maine is Elihu
stevens, of Belgrade, whose hair is sill
vered by the frosts of ninety-two win
tiers. He was born in the then District
of Maine, in 1889, the year that Wash
ington was inaugurated the first presi-
dent of the United States. The vet
cram has been married three times, but
his wives are now dead. He is the
father Of twenty children, fifteen of
whom are now living. He is a large
framed, portly, smooth shaven man.
and is as vigorous as a youth of sixty.
This summer he was in Augusta on a
visit to relatives, and one day walked
out to his sons saw-mill, in Mount
Vernon, a distance of eleven miles, in
three hours, and he was not exhausted
by the undertaking either. Perhaps
the secret of the veterans longevity is
that he has always been strictly tenn
perate in all things, votes the republi-
can ticket, and is an earnest and de-
voted Free VIII Baptist.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-09-15

From the Wilmington Dell RepuJ
6can: Mr.. J. NJ. Scott, corner Third
and Madison streets had a remarkably
fine horse cured of the scratches by St.
Jacobs Oil.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-09-15

He rested his hot brow upon his hand
and laughed: "Three months ago she
vowed she would never, never marry
me, and now she is suing me for breach
of promise"