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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-29
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
Good Fishing.

Yesterday DIR. James Baker, Of Madison,
Wisconsin,, together with Eugene fl.
Finn, b. Lintner Hess and Harry II. Hen
sci, Of this city, :lrove::on fishing excur-
sion to Safe HarbOr. They tished from
morning until noon and from four o'clock
until evening, and succeeded in catching
thirty bass, ten catfish and two eels. The
bass were all large and fine. The party
stopped with Amos SOurbeer, who
keeps the restaurant in the town.
He and Eli Bremen, both of
of whom are we'll known rivermen and
tirst.rate fellows, took the party out on
tho river and not only showed them how
to catch bass, but showed them where to
catch them. The result was that they had
good luck, catching more bass than any
party that has been to Safe HarbOr this
year. This is one of the best points ON the
river for fishing, but yesterday very few
people were out.
Persons going on there can have good
fishing between trains on the rail-
road. They can also have plenty of
fun, especially if they falLin with as
pleasant companions as those who showed
the Lancaster party around yesterday.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-29
Aa,lrdster fnteiligenrer.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 2e, 1881.
A DeliGhtfal King.

4 Delightful King.
What delightful man is Mayor King,
of Philadelphia, and how the suffering
citizens of an other cities in the country
will pray on July 4th that their mayor
may be King. It is day that needs an
autocrat, Notwithstanding it is the natal
day of democracy, for on it more mis-
chief is done and more pain caused than,
on any other day of the year; and by
bows, or men inconsiderate IS boys. We
say it is delightful to find one man in
chief authority who believes that boys
are to he repressed and forbidden to tor
ment their fellows. The natural boys
highest idea of existence is to make him.
self nuisance +; and the astonishing
thing about it is that SO many of his
elders are ready to accord him such
a privilege, and deem him espec-
tally entitled to exercise it on the
Fourth Of July. And why? Certainly
that day is not a boys day and just as
certainly the boys who make it hideous
are not inspired in their work by the
recollection that it is independence day.
They love it because they have unlimited
license to make noise, which is only the
more delightful to them because other
people don't like it. If it was nice
thing to do; something that their pa
rents wanted them to do and which
would give pleasure to anybody but
themselves, not one in hundred would
want to do it. Boys are born selfish and
the possession of the Fourth of July cul-
tivates in them this unamiability. If
all mayors were Mayor Kings, and all
parents would@O How him in enlighteh
ing their boys as to their subordinate
condition in society on the Fourth of
July and on all other days, a great
alleviatiOn would be afforded to life in
this land of liberty and license, where
the boys should be taught the funda-
mental law of society that the individual
must exercise his natural rights SO as
not to disturb his neighbors and that
while the boy, as savage, has right
to make all the noise he ple,ses, as citi-
zen lie has no right to make any that he
cannot show to be necessary because
unnecessary noise is a nuisance and for
hidden by the common law. Boys would
make better men il they did not get
wrong notions of their right to do as
they please from the unlimited license of
the Fourth of July granted them by
weak-lIeaded parents and weak-nerved
executors of the law. Mayor King is
treasure to Philadelphia and the best
frienl of its boys as well as its people.
All the boys he locks up on the Fourth
of July he will teach valuable lesson rs
to the meaning of the day and the duty
of the citizenship it secured to them.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-29
A Good Work.
Columbia Herald,


The state board of agriculture is doing a
highly creditable piece of work, through
its chemists, in analyzing the various kinds
Of fertilizers offered for sale in Pcnnsylva-
mia, in accordance with the law on this
subject. One hundred and twenty -one
tests Of this kind have been made. OF the
last batch analysed, only seventeen out of
fifty-eight were found to be worth the
money asked for them. One kind which is
sold at S15 was found to be worth only
sos another sample sold ut s14 was
worth $j.11. Most of the kinds fell far
below what their manufacturers claimed
them to be worth. These facts explain
why the results from the use Of fertilizers
have been SO disappointing and unsatis-
factory to our farmers. Many are good,
worth all that is asked for them, but far
the largest number are deceptive and the
farmer who buys them is cheated.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-29

Which has been entered on the air line of
the road, if the stock of the air line goes
of, this way, like hot cakes. For mort
cages on air lines are rather airy, and
maybe the company would have to wait
to borrow money until it had something
like track on the ground to show for
security.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-29
STATE ITEMS.

Rev. DR.. c. A. Stork, of Baltimore,
has been elected professor of theology
in the Lutheran seminary at Gettysburg.
Alex. G. Wcntzell. assistant foreman of
car inspectors Pennsylvania roailroad, was
run over and instantly killed in the Al
t0ona yard yesterday. He and work
man had gone under a car to examine a
brake-chain and while thus engaged .
shifting engine moved the car and Went
zell was caught lengthwise by the wheels.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-29
A Terrible Accident.

Alex. Timothy, aged about 80, watch
man at the Harrisburg railroad yard, was
taking vacation this week, and with his
little grandson went down to Carlisle yes
terday afternoon. Thence they walked
eastward, with their dog, adouble-barreled
gun and fish rods, with all the necessary
equipment for summer jaunt. BY some
means or other they got upon the track at
Middlesex station, about $50 p. m., and
were struck by the up train. Their quiv.
ering bodies were taken to Carlisle, where
the man died at 1890 and the boy ut mid
night, neither having been conscious after
the accident. 1t is supposed they were
jOurneying to relatives in the. vicinity
and their sad fate is story of rare pa
thetic interest. A note found in the boys
pocket read rs follows "Uncle Jake,
please look after pap when he goes out.
Since he had that stroke sometimes he gets
kind of quear in his head, and we are
worried for fear he might 60 ont and wan
der away" This was likely written by
the boys mother and concerning her
father, the man who was killed. to be car
ried by the lad to their relative.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-29
A STEAMBOAT RACE.

The Boiler OF Ono Of Them Expl0lles and
Kills Several Passengers.
Near Cincinnati. the steamer Phaeton
while racing with the steamer Handy, ex-
ploded her boiler and the boat was torn
to pieces. Both boats were filled with
passengers. The following are the names
of thosa killed Cash NaylOr, engineer.
Samuel Reynolds, porter, John Carr, deck
hand, colored, and Joseph Miller, deck
sweeper. A passenger whose name is
unknown is also supposed to have been
lost. Among the injured are D. B. Smith.
Boscomb Cooper, Mr.. Arthur, Timothy
Sewers, fireman (fatally), and John Cam.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-29
The Fire Department.

The insurance companies who are in
terested in Lancaster property held a
conclave here yesterday, prompted by
the serious fires that have occurred here
lately. The mayor gave them the facts
about the fire department, said that nine
tenths of the fires were of incendiary
origin, and that it was his opinion,
backed by that of the substantial citi-
zens, that the fire department should be
q paid one. The compapies will have,
we understand, a proposition to make to
the city in the matter and the question
will demand the immediate attention of
councils. The essence of the matter is
in nutshell. The necessity for a paid
department does not spring from the in
efficiency of the fire department, though
it certainly might be more efficient even
under the volunteer system. Yet it is a
good department and does good work in
extinguishing fires. But the mischief is
that it also makes them.
This may as well be clearly said. 1t
is the plain English of the mayors de-
claratiOn that nine -tenths of our fires are
of incendiary origin. The incendiaries
are provided by the fire department; by
which we do not mean to be understood
as necessarily saying that they are fire.
men. They may be, and are, but coun-
terfeit fremen, hangers-0n Of the hose
houses /; but they are the creatures of
these houses they burn, to set the ma
chimes turn out 4; they are devilish and
the hose houses afford place for kin
dred evil spirits to plot the devils work
for their idle hands to do.
We question the mayors apprehension
that the majority Of votes would be
against a paid department.. Under the cir
cumstanceS are not our reputable vOlun-
teer firemen forced themselves to favor a
paid department for rs matters stand
the stigma of these incendiary fires
touches them !; and any fireman who
wants the present system continued ad-
vertises himself to stand before the COM
munity as the associate of incendiaries.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-29
That Air Line.

Friend Fowler says the Reading l.
Chesapeake railroad is sure thing, and
that it is quite sure to pay, because of
the local traffic it will receive and the
local resources it will develop. He re-
pudiates the idea that the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad has anything to do with
it a reputation which was quite un-
necessary, as that was obvious enough.
In fact the r.. l. G. is declared by
brother Fowler to be rather the ally of
the Pennsylvania railroad, whose Clear
field Goals it is going to take to the Ches-
apeake from Leaman Place we suppose.
Carpenters point is the particular place
on the Chesapeake on which they are to
be dumped, by the side of its twenty feet
of water. We understand by this that
the water there is twenty feet deep,
which surprises US, unless it happens to
be in hole; but brother Fowler
wouldn't triile with us that way, and no
doubt means us to know that good
twenty feet deep channel leads from Car
penter's Point to the sea. If that is so
brother Fowler's enterprise has very
seaport at one end of it, any
way and il he will fetch his road from
Lancaster it will have a very decent
town at the other end. And betwixt
and between We are told of great deposits
Of mysterious minerals which are to
be developed and make shareholders
Of this railroad financially as fat as po=-
poises and alas, there is no stock for |
ale! A big demand for it and nothing
o supply it with! Maybe it would he
'ood idea not to borrow any money on
hat twO-and-i,-IIalf million mortgage
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-29
COfOnOr'a Inquest. !.

Yesterday Coroner MishIer impaneled a
jury to hold an inquest on the remains Of
John Stark, for the purpose Of inquiring
into the cause Of his death. The members
Of the jury are Conrad Cast, s. q. Gense-
mer, Andrew Balmer, John A. Schulz,
John Fox and D. Long. After viewing
the body the jury adjourned to meet at
the call of the president.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-29

Most of those injured were but slightly
hurt. The Phaeton was small side wheel
steamer valued at 5000 engaged in the
local trade between Vanceburg and Man
chester,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-29

This morning Hiram Snyder's horse
frightened at fire cracker while standing
in front of tho Black Horse hotel. on
North Queen street. He ran up North
Queen, and near the Caldwell house, the
wagon to which he was hitched struck
against a. buggy belonging to Michael
Ulman, turning it completely around and
breaking one wheel. The animal was
hers caught by J. L. Steinmetz, esq. Sny-
der's wagon had one shaft broken.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-29
PERSONAL.

Mrs. j. B. KAUFMAN and family left
for the Delaware Water Gap this morning.
They will spend five Or six weeks there.
Rev. JOHN JASPER, the famous colored
preacher of Richmond, is seriously i'll, and
his people are afraid that if he dies the
sun will not move.
Mr.. PARNELL has not yet fixed the date
for his visit to the United States. the OBJ
ject of which is understood to bc to use
his influence to discourage the excrtiOns
of skirmishers.
Ex-Congressman J. ALLEN BARGEn has
died at his residence in Lancaster, Wis,
after weeks illness. He served in Con-
gress from 1872 to 1876. Ills estate is
valued at -, 100000.
In consequence of sudden attack of Ill
ness the empress of Germany, who is
staying at Coblentz, sent for DR.. Busch,
of Bonn. She was subsequently subjected
to serious operation, and is now rs we'll
as could DO expected, but requires rest.
PRICE MCGRATH, who is reported to be
Wy AnS III A/OusS A1AGSuCls 10 AuO"H " GuAl
men from the old Metarie course ut New
Orleans to the race course at Long Branch,
For nearly half century his face has been
familiar at trOts and races.
The Westmoreland county medical So
ciety held special meeting at Idlewild,
Thursday, June %. DR.. J. L. ZIEGLER,
of Mount Joy, president of the state medi-
cal society, and DR.. ALEX. CRAIG, of Col
umbia, were present as guests of the So
cicty.
Prince BISMARCK is still suffering SO
much that he will not be able to leave
Berlin for a week at least. Replying to
congratulatory telegram from some Bres-
lau students, he wrote as follows "Your
salutations strengthen the hope that the
national sense of the German youth will,
in the future, confer ON the Fatherland
that internal peace which the generation
which expires with me has fOund.''
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-29

Entertainment To MISS 1sriMmer's : Pupils.
Last evening Miss Brimmer, late an
assistant teacher in Miss Buckius's school,
ROckland street, but who declined y re-
election, gave tho pupils Of her division
Of the school an entertainment at her resi-
dcnce, No. 73 Locust street. The affair
was delightful one and greatly enjoyed
by the pupils, whose only regret appeared
to be that Miss Brimmer would no longer
be their teacher.
High school Commencement.
The high school commencement will
take place in the opera house tomorrow
morning and will be beyond question the
crowning event Of the school year. The
graduating classes are larger than ever
before, the pupils thoroughly "up" in
their respective parts, the arrangements
very complete, and the opera house attrac-
lively decorated. The exercises will COM
mence ut 8 o'clock d. m. sharp.
The teachers and pupils will meet ut
the high school building at y O'Clock
a. m. and march in u body to the opera
house. The strictest punctuality is en-
joined. as the programme is long one.
A room under the stage has been ar
ranged for the safe keeping Of the floral
gifts to be presented to the graduates,
and a special officer will be detailed to take
charge Of them 1t is desirable that each
gift should be plainly markell with the
name of the graduate for whom it is in
tended.
President Warfel, Of the school board,
requests us to state that the accident which
happened him will not in any way inter-
fere with the annual entertainment to be
given in the old high school building,
corner Of Prince and Chestnut streets, to-
morrow evening. All the arrangements
have been perfected, and the graduates,
teachers and board Of directors are cordial
ly invited to attend. Although Mr.. War
fel did not rest we'll last night, it is thought
he may be able to attend both the COM
mcncemcnt exercises and the evening en-
tertainmcnt, which will commence at 8
o'clock.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-29
MINOR TOPICS.


THE reports from the astronomers who
are comct-gazing sound very much like
old Polonius telling the shape of the clouds
or Jack Bunsby's prophecies.
IT is reported that the Baptist publica-
tiOn society in contemplating a new and
revised edition of the revised Bible. The
Greek particle zen" has, it seems, been
translated "with," which represents the
deciples as "baptizing with the Jordan.'
The agricultural department estimates
the annual yield of wine in the United
States at %, 453, 1927 gallons, valued at
$13, 426, ,174.S7. The acreage devoted to
grape culture is 1s1, ,5s3. The Pennsylva.
mia acreage is 1914, with a production of
1O4, ,635 gallons of wine valued at 81 q, ,O97.
California produces two thirds of the
wine of the country.
"BULL Run" RUSSELL, who has been
through the country with the
Duke of Sutherland's party, was asked
the other day what impressions he had
formed of America and replied very frank
": "Where you can't raise wheat you
aise gold. where you can It raise gold you
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-29

ADAM BADEAU not only belittles other
men to initiate Grant in his book, but he
"cribs," from history the story of
Napoleon's secretary, Junot, who,
when writing dispatch under
dictation (and fire) was cover
ed with sand by the explosion of shell
and coolly remarked that it saved him the
trouble Of sanding his dispatch. Badeau
attributes this circumstance tv Grant at
the Wilderness, though what need of sand
there was for pencil dispatch he doesn't
state.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-29
raise lead, and where You can't raise lead
you raise silver.''

The stalwarts and the half breeds had
a lengthy conference yesterday afternoon,
but reached no conclusions. Il is said
that the friends of Mr.. Conkling sent \
proposition to the half. breeds that the
stalwarts would accept Mr.. Depew for the
long term If the half breeds would accept
Mr.. Conkling for the shor. term. But the
half-breeds would not listen to such an
arrangement, and that Senators Robertson
and Woodin were especially opposed to it.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-29
Fourth Of July Fireworks.

The festive boys and fireworks dealers
will do we'll to give heed to the mayors
proclamation forbidding indulgence in
certain prohibited explosives and the sale
thereof. They will do well, too, to note
the recent act making it penal Oifense,
punishable with $500 fine, to sell to any
person under 1G years old any cannon, re-
volver, pistol or other such deadly weapon,
or any imitation or toy cannon, revolver or
pistol so made, constructed OF arranged as
to be capable of being loaded with gun
powder or other explosive substance,
cartridges, shot, slugs or balls,
and being exploded, fired of and
discharged, and thereby become dan
gerOus or deadly weapon, or any car
fridge, gunpOwdcr or other dangerous and
explosive substance. In Philadelphia, al :
though the c0uhcilmen declined to pass
the anti-fire cracker ordinance, Mayor
King discovers that in 1864 tho councils
had passed law, which is still in force,
fOrbidding the use Of fireworks of any
kind in celebration of the Fourth of July.
In this is of course included fire-crackers,
and tho friends of the boys on the floor of
councils overlooked this little matter and
SO left the mayor clear road to prevent
the sale or use of fireworks of any de-
scriptiOn whatever. And he will do it.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-30
Eartb.Eating Tribes.

M. Grevaux, a French naval surgeon,
has lately been exploring the northern
parts of South America, more especially
in the valley of the Orinoco and its affiu-
ents. Among other facts of observation,
he states that the Guaraunos, at the
delta of that river, take refuge in the
trees when the delta is inundated. There
they make sort of dwelling with
branches and clay. The women light,
on small piece of floor, the fire needed
for cooking, and the traveller on the
river by night often sees with surprise
long rows of flames at a considerable
height in the air. The Guaraunos dis
pose of their dead by hanging them in
bammocks in the tops of trees. DIR.
Crevaux, in the course of his travels,
met with geophagous or earth-eating
tribes. The clay, which often serves
for their food whole months, seems to
be mixture of oxide of iron and some
organic substances. They have recourse
to it more especially in fines of scarcity
but, strange to say, there are eager
gourmands for the substance, individ.
uals in whom the depraved tasta becomes
so pronounced that they may be seen
tearing pieces of ferruginous clay from
huts made of it and putting them in
their mouths.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-30
Who Are SlOyenly2

1t is a curious fact, which has not
escaped masculine attention, that while
ladies are often seized with passionate
desire to put their husbands things in
order, the arrangement of their own
belongings Is less sedulously cared for.
One author has noted the inconsist
ency, and points out that Mr.. Pepys
had observed it two hundred years ago.
She cites an extract from his diary under
the date of October ID, 1860: "Home.
where l was angry with my wife for her
things lying about, and in my passion L
kicked the little fine basket bought her
in Holland, and broke it, which troubled
me after L had done it." Some close
Observers have opined that the failing
noticed in Mrs. Pepys, when strongly
marked, is incurable, but the author of
this volume takes more sanguine view.
She would unquestinably admit where a
young woman is not naturally orderly.
where she has an instinct, when she
comes into the house, to put iier hat OF
q table, her shawl on a sofa, her gloves
somewhere else, and to try each day
new place for her rubbers, that to over
come this tendency involves efforts
equal to those made when striving for
heroic virtues. She deems it no more
difficult for such person to acquire
habits of order than TO perfectly learn a
foreign language, which, however, is one
OF those feats we can not now remember
to have ever seen accomplished. 1t is
with melancholy satisfaction that we
find the writer dwelling on the sad truth
that the little disturbances occasioned by
disorderly habits are not so uuimportant
as they appear, and that it is great deal
easier to express impotence and discon-
tent q second time than il was the first
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-30

"JoHN, / am going to church, and il
it should rain wish you to come with
the umbrella for me; however, you
need not come unless it should rain
downright. The gentleman went. II
did rain, bat John had gone to the other
end of the town to see Mary. His mas
ter came back with drenched garments
and a look of implacable anger. "John,
John, said he, "why di1n't you bring
the umbrella ?" Because, sir, replied
John, ait rained slanting I"