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LAKESIDE MUSINGS.

And cattle he could cope. -
But, having reached that point, beheld
e. The limits Of his rope. ~
However, he came back when Night
Her sable pail had spread : ~
Der all the earth, and to the Wait-
= Ing editor he said:
rTve followed your INSTRUCTIONS, ana s'~
or items have a score. ,>.<
All funny, and tina first one will.
Most surely make you roar.
The editor sat Quickly down.
: Nor to his yassal spoke . .,,> :
The night was Wild, one almost heard
,~-.s The ravens mournfui- croak- -
The editor was realy for '>~ =.
4 very able joke. 80
"As Sitting Bull the joke began
:. .!Was onoe upon rald,-
He cnme upon some cattle1 and
To Scar Faced Charley said:
please hold my pony, while your Chief q
"A pcarly tear doth shed, a. =; =
ANor interrupt my grief, or g: -
Will on you put head ~ II
"For full an hour the warrior bold
Inauiged in saline wo: .: ::
The other scalpers stood around i.
In scrried rank and row.
Now silent be- said scar-Faccd Charles. !.
NIT f,noilv IN smoke tho Chief:
:: INV con,rai i1es hrave.' said he, :.
you know that several moons ago
My daughter, Laughing Flea, .
Was buried meath the branches OF
. Yon sturdy old oak tree;
;. sorrow ever for my child,
NoA
~, When I came up tnlahi!l today
-. And saw the oak thar rears .
= Jts hanvhty front that 5 braved the blast
For fun a hundred years,
Jnoticed that some cattle were
= Atsrass in yonder dell. -:
To tell the truth, my faithful men,
: Your leader felt like HI :.
mt II was not for grief:
"A ioke cnms DER nv senses, aud
49, e,.c,,,., +ho,,rhts 7va,n nr;er
oty ho.enn t.o"s"' 80
= JUST wait. NY 10y 4no n.a. -
Old Slttiug- bu11' 5ont 1nAoA' :;
o-.,a
~ N' p.S.y 49,. go r-.oa, = ,
Tne grass Ero"s 'cly steeh
Just notice thatsand then tne 1nree .";
or this joke will be secn-
I so,s the 1naiden's final home,
j.: Tha cattle rrnzinp near - - .-<
:; nh.; or.ssv .,r nr,eo the cattle-tlon't
,.. You tumhlo.-hencc tnese Steers! -,
; Tho saying is IN ancient one
!. Hinc a|tc ldchrtmtE;
~ That's Latin, but you InJuns t. ,
Haven't brains enough to SEQ
rho verv nhle iokc that r. ?
i! nave ou"oeu op 1os 1nes
a,+..
Dcppsl III peaee' tao e"teo4
Remarked unto INC mnn O"
That did the livestock markets;
AIN the coming DAYS YOU can
-. Get in the Lakeside. Musings. - -.
; Ifere's vo,,r SCISSORS and d pot s:.::...
J.: ,11,.. ,,;s., =, ~ n,,d M ito tt,e 3otrea =
WIN "n..a w es 49, ..at,.
FROM otner i"pess Ro."
It Is this the editors room 90 ;
rotber rood-1ook.ns Young lazy stood in the t,oo
way. -
~yes rnn'au,, repjied the trottine horse reporter
.rhis s tho editors rooni-oF rather Il is the room
several editors. The reilly and truly editor. hou
cyof, has u room to himself, further up the hull"
a. well, don't know, Of course, exactly which on
fourht to See becauso-" -:
"oh. thuts all right," interrupted the brawny your
man. .of course you don't know who you want
see Nohody does that comes around q nowspape
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.17x1oS PARK LODGE, NO. Gla 4. F. & \ N :. =:
ppcniar conlmunication Menday. crenins Dec ~
ISL Installation Ut officers nnn Gtner v;. H 4
business x, T. - pa = w.
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SOCIETY MEETINGS.

ASH, AR LODGE, NO. 3h. 4. +. s. 4. M,-heeu.
i, ,n.as1nr ssTntsjnr evening, 1Iec H. tor business
na Ht,fs The fraternity ts'siias lnT!ted tia!l ID
Munsoe-St- - II. etstA->A*' @e@' +'4'
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In the Petersburg district {Jorsensen's
there was considerable increase of the vote,
due to the payment Of the poll-taxes by both
sides, The returns were:
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/, TIE straightout Republican bolt in the
Norfolk Congressional district, Virginia, in
! the late election cost the party some 4,0oo
votes, which: were not, however, tranferred
to the other side. The votes in 1850 a4d 1881
co1nnare as follows:
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HONE 10nGE NO s 7: A. A@Ths ofta9Sss n, ;faS
rtij IT, insraiird at the regular %
Dec Il All Iuemhrrs requested 20 ntiena- aG M
eMo'es' nn 'A j: :llWESTEKvELT, H. II Secretary
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TUE PASSOVER,

Observance Of the Great Hebrew Festival
This evening at 6 o'clock begins til,
Passover, or feast of unleavened bread
one of the most important periods of tn,
1sraelitish year. The festival was insti
tuted by Moses in commemoratiOn of thu
1sraelites remaining intact on the night
Of the destruction of the first-born ir
Egypt, Immediately preceding the exodus
from that country (Ex. xiii.). Originally
it was observed. by sacrificing passover
lambs toward the evening Of the 18th Of
the first Hebrew spring month (now
Nisan), aud eating them on the following
night, as we'll as by excluding all leaven
from the meals of that evening and the
following seven days, the first and last of
which were observed as holy. Since the
final destruction of the temple of Jerusa-
lem, the passover has been celebrated by
eating unIeavened bread during eight
days, by abstinence from labor on the
first two and last two, and by the obser-
vance the first and second evenings of
various domestic rites commemorative of
the deliverance frcm Egyptian bondage, in
cluding the recital Of scriptural and legend
ary narratives and familiar conversation
On the same national event and the chant
ing of psalms.
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NEIGH BORHOOD NEWS.


Near and Across the County Lines.
A Bengal tiger took fit at Coup's cir
Gus in Harrisburg, and for q time it was
thought he would die. One of the keep
ers managed to get the ear Of the beast in
his grasp through the bars of his cage and
bled him quite prOfusely several times
which treatment acted like charm, assthe
animal was apparently all right an hour
afterwards. though latter in the day he
seemed to he in torpid condition.
There are no less than ninety cases of
measles at the Indian training school at
Carlisle-all mild type, however.
Peter Eisenhart. Of East Texas. Berks
county. has been asleep since the eth of
March. He eats, but he is believed to te
in the ssne condition rs the sleeping
Hungarian at the Lehigh almshouse.
Tuesday morning about ten O'Clock
Samuel Finley, 4 rigger in the new Besse.
mer mill at SteeltOn. was run over by the
cars and instantly killed. The deceased
was on shifting engine No. 5, and un-
coupled the engine from a car loaded with
castings, the engine gave . lurch and
threw him of the back end Of the track,
the car passin. over him. The coroner
summoned = jury, who held an inquest
and returned Il verdict in accordance with
the facts. The deceased was nineteen years
Of age.
The Bolton house, (Harrisburs) and con.
tents We're offered at public sale Tuesday
afternoon at the court house. The hotel
was bid up to $50. 900 separately, and the
furniture to $1,000. Subsequently hotel
and furniture were offered together, the
highest bid reaching $50, 900, when those
having its disposition held consultation,
and the property was withdrawn.
= The sixty eight puddlers of the Reading
sheet mill who struck for AN advance of
wages are being paid off and the leaders
discharged.
The Senate committee on judicial ap-
portionment has agreed to report q bill
favorab!y. which affects about fifteen dis
tricts in the state. Under the bill, Dauph-
| in and Lebanon counties are each made q
separate district, and Dauphin is to have
an additional law judge.
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Floods in Austria.

In consequence of the continuance ol
rains for several weeks, the floods in Aus
tria are steadily increasing, especially in
the district between the lower Thesis, the
Karas and the Moras rivers. The waters
have everywhere soaked and undermined
the dykes which are giving way. A thou
sand acres of land are already flooded, and
number of large aud prosperous places
clustered together in the above district
have for weeks been in danger of being
swept away. The latest news from
Szegedin is that the outer dyke is in dan
ger, and two thousand men arc at work
it. If the outer dyke fails.
the whole country to the dyke which i'm.
surrounds the town will be
flooded, and high wind would probably
drive the waves over the dykes and cause
4 great catastrophe.
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AROUND THE WORLD.
"rls Hard to Say Goou Bye "

Ills Hard to Say GOO0 Bye"
Last night VIM. ]. FOrdney, chief en-
gineer Of the Lancaster fire department.,
left this city ut 11:3O, on a trip around tho
world. He goes first to Chicago where he
will remain for several weeks. He then
visits San Francisco, the Sandwich: Islands,
Australia, and goes entirely around the
world. He expects to be gone for about
three years.
MIR. FOrdDey has been an active
memb,r Of the Empire hook and
ladder company for years, and when
the other members ascertained that he was
going away they determined to show their
esteem for him by giving him a supper.
Last evening the members Of the company
gathered at COpland's hotel and between
. and 10 o'clock they sat down to an ex-
cellent supper, which was prepared for
the occasion, the tables bein. spread i'm
the parlOr. While at the table a speech
was made by Mr.. A. S. Edwards on
behalf Of the company. He spoke Of
the many happy days that he and all
of the boys had spent with Mr.. FOrdney,
whom they greatly regretted to lose and
whose place could not be easily filled. He
las worked very hard for the volunteer
firemen and has made most excellent
chief. Mr.. Fordney replied to Mr.. Ed
wards thanking him and the company for
their kindness. Both gentlemen spoke
with i. great deal of feeling.
Shortly after II o'clock, when supper
had been finished, some of the boys
ran to the truck house and brought
out the truck. The other members
of the company, headed by Mir. FOrdney,
marched to the depot. The train arrived
shortly. a'd Mr.. Forlney, after shaking
hands with all his friends who wished him
safe journey, was soon snugly slowed
away in his berth. As the train left the
depot cheer after cheer was given for Mr..
FOrdney. The whole affair was conducted
in excellent style, and probably no man
ever left this city who received a better
g send off,
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A Chinese fSurial.

Any one who may have soft spot in hii
heart for the celestial race, perhaps super
induced by memories Or present enjoyment
oftLeir assiduous attentions as servants and
cooks, will do we'll, before he too strongly
advocates the acclimatization and adoption
Of the Chinaman as permanent ingredient
of our American national composition, to
ook little into the social habits and su-
perstitioDs which cannot be eradicated
from their lives even by the most extreme
changes Of circumstance Or by positive op-
position.
All Ling was certainly a superior China
man his experience in America dated
back some twenty years, and he was not
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Information for Englishlnon.

The London Graphic publishes the fol-
lowing astounding account Of winter SUI
ferings in this country for tho information
of its credulOus readers
British sufferings during the January
frost of the present year seem very small
indeed by the side of the miseries endured
in many parts of the United States during
the last cold snap, or blizzard. which is
now the favOrite term. The wind was so
violent as to completely lift the snowfall
from some states bodily into their more
southern neighbors. In South Minnesota
the Chanarbain valley, 20 miles long and 60
feet deep, was filled to the brim with
snow; tho water tanks were buried, and
fuel all along the line Of the storm was so
scarce, that the neighbOring families
formed temporary commune, living to-
gether in one house and using the others
for firing.
At Montevideo traffic was simply impos
sible for four days, the snow being in
many places drifted up to tho second
stories of the houses. Farmer Travelled in
snow-shoes, and many of their stables
were completely buried. Iowa experienced
the worst snow storm known for thirty
years. all the trains being blocked. When
the thaw came tremendous floods fol-
lowed, and the Missouri river in particular
did fearfnl damage. At Poplar creek
large Indian encampment had been formed
On the banks, and the river rose so swiftly
as to sweep away the tents, despite all
their efforts and the help of the military,
the cold being intense-22 degrees below
zero. On the morning of Feb. II the site
Of the encampment was waste of frozen
water, in which stood five hundred dead
ponies, some only knee deep, and so dead
from cold, Others completely frozen in,
the water having first drowned them and
then solidifed round. Worst Of all, high
lp in the trees where they had tried to
escape from the waters were the bodies of
light hundred Indian braves frozen stiff
Id stark.
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OCAL INTELLIGENCE.
MORE SMALL.POX.

AlmshOuse.
The smallpox continues to rage with
unabated virulence at the Berks county
almshouse, and a number of new cases
have been reported. The managers of the
institution are indisposed to give publicity
to any facts in the case. But enough has
been learned to attach much of the blame
for the rapid spread of the disease to the
steward, Benjamin Anderson. DR.. NJ. A.
Rhoads, tho present attending physician
at the almshOuse, has preferred serious
charges boforo tho hoard of health against
Steward Anderson, which will be the sub
ject Of investigation by the Overseers of
the poor. Out of 500 inmates between
fifty and sixty have been afflicted by the
di 'ease, IA number of whom are children.
DIR. Rhoads charged that the increased
number of cases is largely due to the
negligence of his predecessor, DR.. Shearer.
combined with Indifference on the part of
the. steward to the service in consequence
of careless management. He claims that
the steward is inefficient, and neglected
the command of the medical attendant,
which was the cause of the disease increas
ing from one case to the present large num-
Der. A temporary hospital building for
the reception of small pOx patients, which
the the steward was ordered to erect, has
not yet been completed, and meanwhile
there are a number of cases in the main
building Of the almshOuse, in which
several hundred person are lodged.
Nearly 500 vaccinations have been per-
formed by DR.. RhOads, the greater portion
of which, it is believed, will prove success
full. An effort will be made to quarantine
the almshouse to prevent the Introduction
of the disease into the city. Thus far not
single case Of sma ll-pOx has occurred III
Reading.
The mayor has been requested by the
board Of health to close the dodgers de-
partment in the city hall, where from
twenty to forty vagrants were accom-
mOdated with lodging nightly, some Of
whom are believed to have come from the
almshOuse. Several persons have escaped
from the almshouse by jumping the high
fences and are now at large.
There is perfect panic among the pau
pers, but with the few exceptions noted,
the efforts to prevent them from escaping
have been successful, and precautionary
measures will prevent the further disscm-
inatiOn of the disease until steps are taken
to isolate the cases now in existence.
A number Of the cases among the chill
dren are of cOnfluent small. pox. Adaughter
of the steward, a grown up young woman,
is among the new. cases reported. The stew
ards wife keeps herself closely confined to
her room and will not be seen by any per-
son. The clerk of the institution has re-
his Office to an Outbuilding. Tho
purchased a barrel of whisky to
be served. to the paupers as preventive
against the spread Of the disease. A
special meeting will be held by them next
when an inquiry will be made
into the charge Of official negligence and
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MISS DUELL DEAD.
Her Deliberate Suicide by starva,

Her Deliberate Suicide by Starvation.
In Iowa City, Iowa, yesterday, Mis-.
Hattie Duell died at 12:45 o'clock, having
oo'" Y'o'Uu foil f"rtv-seven days in attain
ing death by starvation. She began nel
long fast on the 23d Of February last.
Miss DUEL was at the time of her death
81 years old, and had long been member
of the family of her brother-in-law, DIR. b.
II. Aylworth. She has been an invalid for
many years, suffering ceaseiess pain from
neuralgia and nervous diseases, which
made life constant torture, and driving
her at length to the stern resolve to end
an existence which promised no allevia-
tion from her tOrments. Though her con-
duct has long been peculiar her acquaint-
ances never deemed her insane. Her will
was strong, as is proved by the fact that
from November, 1879, till within a few
days ago, she has never uttered word,
though no impairment of her vocal organs
existed. During her period of silence she
only communicated with her friends by
writing, and no reasoning or cntreaty
could induce her to speak word.
She.ate no breakfast on the 23d of Feb
ruary, and when member of her family
asked her why she had not eaten she re-
piled by writing on a slate, II have no
hope OF recovery or relief, and am deter
mined to de- All her family, friends
and her pastor, Rev. Mr.. Folsom, of the
Presbyterian church, used all their powers
of persuasion in vain to induce the lady to
change her resolve. She was infexible.
A proposition to use force in introducing
food into her stomach was, after full con-
sideratiOn, abandoned, from the belief
that is that course should be taken it
would only drive her into some other
method of fself-destruction.
After the first week she asked her
brother-in-law ifdrinking water would pro-
long her life. He replied that if she did not
drink probably fever and delirium would
set in and that taking water would not
sustain her life. After the time she drank,
from time to time each day, little water,
but except that nothing else passed her
lips since the Esd of February. Her
gradual wasting away has been from day
to day during the last ten days duly
cbrOnicled,
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of cigarmaker ip New York. became in
sane from brooding over the danger of her
three children coming in contact with the
small smallpox and jumped from the roof
Of . five story tenement house and killed
herself
William Ness. of Newark. n. j.. hanged
himself to avoid arrest. His wife made
complaint against him on Friday for as
sault and battery on her and a warrant
for his arrest was issued, but he kept out
of the way. He returned home and his
family fled. Next morning he was found
hanging in the house, dead.
John B. Evans, a farmer, living near
Cape Girardeau, Mo-, had his throat cut
while in bed Sunday night and died with
out being able to give any account Of the
affair. Four persons were sleeping in the
room where the tragedy occurred. one of
whom was boy in bed with the murdered
man, 'and noneof them seemed to have
known anything about the crime until the
wounded man gave the alarm after arous-
ing from q sort of stupcr.
The engineer in charge of the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad company's new line
has applied to the president of the Viii
mingtOn & Brandywine cemetery conf
pany in Wilmington, Delaware for per-
mission to run tunnel under the ceme-
terry. Should the line pass through the
western portion of Wilmington, tunnel
nearly mile in length will be necessary
While David Downey, plasterer at the
Westshore tunnel, at West Point. N. Y,
was attempting to draw a glycerine car
fridge from blast hole yesterday the car
fridge exploded. killing him instantly. \
driller named Michaal BrOderick was So
horribly mangled that he died soon after.
A laborer named John Murray was hit on
the back of the head by stone and was
severely injured. Downey and Broderick
were both single.
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but lays its route through a notorious
desert on the thirty-fifth parallel of lati-
tude, has already got enough brass on
hand to lay its tracks in bronze, and
really don't need to borrow the twenty
five thousand dollars a mile that would
grade, iron and equip its course through
the sandy wilds of its route, and leave
handsome balance of profit to the enter
prising projectors and builders, to say
nothing of the stock and land grants
they calmly propose to appropriate.
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Wild Western Schemes.

Jay Gould some time since obtained
control of the Texas & Pacific railroad
and his present purchase Of Mr.. SCOTS
three million interest, and his succession
TO the presidency, have no further sig
nificance, apparently, than as indicating
Mr.. ScOtt's preference to he out OF the
boat which he built and floated. This
may Ike because of his lack Of confidence
in Mr.. Gould, or in the road or it may
be because he does not want to play sec.
Ond fiddle to that man, and occupy the
seat of power without exercising it OF
again, it may he only mis- condition OF
health that causes him to wish to take in
allhis property from speculative chances
Whatever the cause of his retirement he
is to be congratulated upon it. He may
be deemed happy in anchoring down
three millions of dollars where they can t
slip away, as well as in escaping the musk
smelling company of Mr.. Gould. A man
with three millions and nothing to do
but to take care of it may he said to he
excusable for declining all other business
even if his health is first-class for it il
not SO easy thing to do, and do rightly,
as may be fancied by those who do not
have the chance to try it. Mr.. Scott
probably has more than three millions,
since he has this all on one pile though
of course there is no telling how much
he owes. But if he feels able to make
fifty thousand dollar gifts to colleges, it
may he assumed that his pile is very
large. A half dozen years ago ne was
insolvent. The recuperation of the
country has enabled him to float off the
fortune aboard his then sunken Texas
4 Pacific ship. We congratulate him.
Whether the fellows that now have
their fortunes in::that boat may equally
be subjects of congratulation a
half dozen years hence is open
to question. Possibly the thing
will he afloat then; possibly not. But
it is certain that all of these wild South
western Paciic-reaching railroads are
not going to be the beautiful things to
look upon, a short while hence, that they
are now to the credulous people who
read their flaming advertisements and
buy their bonds, always gold-bearing,
and the particular degree of fineness of
the gold sometimes stated with painful
exactitude, Here is one, for instance
the "Atlantic & Pacific railroad COM
pany,'' that starts in the wilderness and
promises to end anywhere in the Pacific.
and wants to borrow ten million dollars
in six per cent. first mortgage railroad d |
and land grants thirty-year sinking fund
gold bonds, "principal and interest
payable in the city of New York. in gold |
coin of the United States of America of
or equivalent to the present standard
weight and fneness," and the issno
strictly limited to twenty-five thousand
dollars mile.
A very beautiful advertisement of the
of the road follows, which is
,nly dimmed to the mind that appreci.
ties the fact that company which
tarts its road in the Southwestern woods
md don't know where it is going to end,