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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-14

the address on "Self- Education in the
court house this evening to the public and
the literary societies of F. and NJ. college,
10 of the class of 1850. He was the prime
mover in the peace commission of the Re-
formed church and was president of the
body which brought concord out of dis
cord He is an eloquent talker, man Of
thought and of "snap." He knows
something about his subject and can tell
what he knows.
In Winnipeg, Man., the discovery Of the
real heir to tho TIcHBoRNE estate has been
made. He is an invalid in the hospital
from injuries received on section A of the
Pacific railway. His name is James Riches
Coles, Riches being his mothers maiden
name and Tichborne the title of the estate.
He says that he is So years of age, and ad-
mits, but it is perhaps useless to deny, that
hc is uneducated. His story is that he left
England when between 10 and 20 years of
age to follow the sea. He csmo from Au.
stralia via England to Canada.
In Williamsport yesterday TUNIsoN
CoRYELI., the Oldest resident, celebrated
his ninetieth anniversary among his i'm
mediate friends at the residence of john
Gibson. He is in the enjoyment Of good
health and his mind is clear and bright.
Few men of his age in the state have a
wider acquaintance with politicians and
men of letters than Mr.. Coryell. During
his life he has enjoyed tho personal
acquaintance of many distinguished men
and relates many interesting incidents in
their history.
ARCHER, the English jockey who rode
Iroquois for Mr.. LOrillard, is i person to
be envied. lie is the companion of lords
and earns moro than prime minister. His
regular fees are twenty-five dollars if lie
wins, fifteen If he loses aud ten for a trial.
This, however, docs not tell tho stories OF
his earnings, for he receives presents OF
enormous value, like gold watches. dia-
mond rings, riding horses, dog carts,
yachts, suits OF clothes, cases of cham.
pagnc, etc. Mr.. Lorillard gave him 50, OOO
for winning the Derby, and Mr.. Kcene
gave Fortlham s., 900 Tor coming in first at
the Grand Prix. Archcr's earnings in
1876 are reported to have reached $GO, 600.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-14
STATE ITEMS.

The Bedford Gazette wants an anti
cigarette law passed. Next?
Pettengill's advertising agency in Phila-
delphia has sold out to N. w. Aver &
Sons.
Philadelphia has bought 500, 900 copies
of tho revised New Testament SO far, and
may yet realize its Lame.
Tho second week of the juno term of
tho Montgomery county criminal court was
brought to a sudden termination yester-
day by the discovery of a defect in the
drawing of the traverse jurors. The
venrc blanks returning and certifying to
the court the names, residences and Oc-
cupations Of jurors to bo summoned were
not filed up, although they had been
signed by the sheriff and jury commits
sioners. The proper list were also uapost-
ed in tho sheriff7s and prothonOtary's
Office,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-14
PERSONAL.

Baron ZOTHEN, millionaire of Vienna,
has been shot by his servant. This is one
of the luxuries of being millionaire.
Solicitor RAYNOR, of the treasury depart
ment, will be removed ut an early date.
General GROsvENOR is mentioned i'm con-
nection with the place.
One of Camden's most noted and re.
spected lawyers, ALDEN G. SCovEL, died
suddenly, Of ossification Of the liver and
heart valves, yesterday.
JOHN P. HOWARD, Of Darlington, VT,
yesterday gave to tho University of Ver-
mont $50, 600, the largest individual gift
ever made to that in institution.
Senator DAVID DAVIS is said to own
more land in Illinois than any other resi-
dent of that state. A Bloomington cores
pondent estimates his wealth at $1,000,
600. lie pays $38, 900 in taxes yearly.
Hon. ISAAC b. CARA, of Eric, who is
native of Lancaster county, visits us again
after an absence of five years. He is look
ing exceedingly we'll and expresses a warm
feeling for newspaper men, having been
himself connected with the profession.
For long time he was deputy secretary
Of the commonwealth.
ARCHIE CAMPBELL, of Wheeling, de-
nies that he has ever had an intimatiOn
from Washington on tho subject Of the
Berlin mission, to which position several
newspaper correspondents had appointed
him. It was hardly necessary for him to
deny. Easier could a camel 60 through a
needles eye than to Berlin with credit to
the country.
Sir PERCY SHELLEY, the grandson of the
poet, has lately built private theatre at
tached to his house at Chelsea. Sir Percy
himself painted all tho scenery, one drop
scene being "The Poet Shclley's Last
Home. The theatre was opened the
other evening with the performance of two
pieces-one romantic drama by Wilklo
Collins.
Rev, JOSEPH H. RUNNER. the eloquent
divine, who for q number of years occupied
the pulpit of the Moravian church, has
called upon us, returning after an absence
of seven years. His many admirers will
be glad to know that he is in excellent
health apparently. He resides in Phila-
delphia and weekly hears from Lancaster
through the INTELL1GENcER, for which
he has very kind words.
Rev. DR.. c. z. WEIsER, who delivers
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-14
Another Railroad for This County.
Rca,lin9 Times

Realizing Times.
Last night at half-past ten o'clock there
arrived in this city from New York on the
Cincinnati express party Of New York
capitalists who are interested in the
building of the new railroad from this
city to title-watcr, which was chartered
several months ago under the name Of the
Reading & Chesapeake coal and railroad
company. The party met by appointment
at the Mansion house, Col. =. &. Slay-
mayker, of Lancaster, for the purpose of
proceeding in carriages with that gentle
man over tho entire route of the projected
railroad, from Readin. to Havrc dc Grace,
a distance of 20 miles. The party will
make an early start from this city this
morning.
The new railroad will follow along the
WyOmissing creek to AdamstOwn, along
tho route first surveyed for the Reading Il
Columbia railroad thence along the
Muddy creek to HinklctOwn, where the
railroad will cross the COnestoSa creek !;
thence to New Holland thence via Inter-
course to Lcaman Place on tho Penn
sylvania railroad. From the last men,
toned point a local road running to Stras-
burg, Lancaster county, will be used,
which has been purchased by the New
York company thence the new road will
continue to Quarryville in the centre of
the RICH iron ore region of Southern Lam
caster county thence tho road will bc ex-
tended to Pcrryville, ut the mouth Of the
Susquehanna river, where it is proposed to
build largo wharves and piers for loading
ships and smaller vessels with coal.
1t is expected that connection will be
made with the Lebanon Valley railroad on
tho opposite side of the Schuylkill, near the
Lebanon Valley railroad bridge, SO as to
avoid tho expense of building = bridge.
across the Schuylkill. The new road is
intended to do large business in carrying
coal to tho seaboard, for the purpose Of
establishing great coalirg station for
ships on the coast. As it will pass through
one Of the finest agricultural sections
of the state, and through q country
rich i'm limestone, iron ore, and other min
erals, it is believed that large local trade
will be developed. Tho effect upon the
business of this city cannot be otherwise
than very important. A branch railroad
from New Holland to Lancaster, sixteen
miles, is also projected, 1t is reported that
all tho stock has been taken, and that per
SONS residing along the line of the proposed
single share. Col. Slaymaker, who is
interested in the project, has had large ex-
pericncc in the construction Of railroads,
and has great faith in the success OF the
present enterprise.
I'VE understand that tho party prospect.
ing the route are passing through Eastern
Lancaster county today via New Holland
and Strasburg.]
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-14
Sensible Talk.
PHILADELPHIA Evening Bulletin.

A New York paper, speaking of the
widow Of Mr.. Lincoln, declares that she is
in Springfield "dying comparatively alone
and unbefriended, ,. and it blames the peo.
pic of the country for leaving her in "suf.
fering and isolation" To most persons
there will seem to bo little justification fol
this censure. The position and condition
of tho widow of Abraham Lincoln can
never be a matter of indifference to
til American people but Mrs. Lin
coin has near relatives who may also bc
supposed not to be indifferent. Mrs. Lin.
coins son is secretary of war, in high posi-
tiOn with ample means, and of course
bound to his mother with ties of tenderest
affection. While he lives it is absurd to
speak of her as a friendless person, to com.
plain that she is in isolation, or to reprove
the people Of the country for not offering
her assistance. 1t may he regarded as
certain that neither Mr.. Lincoln nor his
mother will regard with satisfaction sucl,
remarks respecting her, and it is likely
that they would resent as impertinent in-
termeddling with their affairs any popular
movement for her relief.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-14
Summer Excursion Routes.

Ticket agent Zieglcr of tho Reading
railroad company has laid ON our table q
~ page pamphlet with handsomly illumi-
mated cover, giving tho summer excursion
routes Of his company, upon which you
can 60 to nearly every place that is worth
going to. To look at the pictures of cool
places in the book makes one feel like put
ting on an OvercOat.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-14

carl Schurz's n. Y. Evening Post.
There. are things which, in public life
not devoid of all decency, should be i'm
possible. And this is one of them. An
unfortunate accident may put tho vice.
president at the head of the government.
And we may assure Mr.. Arthur that the
people are contemplating with shame and
dismay the possibility Of Mr.. Conkling's
errand boy becoming president Of the
United States.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-14
"A Realistic: Actor.

Mr.. William Davidson, late Of Jay
Riars '' Uncle Toms Cabin troupe, has
returned to his home at Harrisburg.
Some weeks ago, while playing at Mat
toon, ILL.,, Mr.. Davidson had a tussle with
pear in the play and was seriously bitten.
The dog got desperately in earnest and
seized Lawyer Marks (Mr. Davidson) by
the right hand, and when he was shaken
off he sprang upon the actors back and
inflicted gashes upon his body which dis
abled him for several weeks.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-14
When, Where, What 10 It."

The latest development in the move
ment for " REFORM" az represented by the
NeW Ern and Levi Sensenig, is the offer
by Sensenis, through \ gO-betweep. to q
certain defeated candidate, Of 81, 500 If
he will "help" to have Skiles counted in
and Fridy out. Being defeated, ho was
supposed to be willing to get his "mOney
back" according to the "refOrm"
methods familiar tO SeDsenig.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-14
.,,..o,. Matter In the Mails.

A letter from Anthony COmstOck in ex
planation of the recent Glcssner case is
published in Sundays Times, in which he
explains at length how Glessner sent guam
tities of obscene printed matter to school
boys and girls in this city, and that he
was fully Old enough to deserve punish
ment.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-14

THE fact that so large majority of
the Republicans at Albany are voting
against Conkling and that of his Oppo-
nents one ut least has clear majority of
a Republican caucus, were one called
now, leads the Times to inquire
whether all the men who are n0minally
voting against Conkling and Platt are
really opposed to the return of the ex-
senator's" Wehave suspected all along
that some COnkling men are playing
possum. 1t is cheap and may gain him
some popular favor to vote against them
when they have no chance to elect but
could they lead the administration forces
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-14

Earnest complaint is made that the use
full and salutary work of the newly organ
lied board of health, of this city, is re-
strained by the lack Of a small but neces-
sary appropriation for the registry books,
SC. Ii that is tho only hindrance councils
should see to it.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-14
Sorghum.

Hon. s. J. Randall has our thanks for a
package of sorghum or sugar cane seed, OF
approved quality, from tho agricultural
bureau. Any Of our farmer readers who
have a mind to test it can call at the INTEL
I.IsENcER Office and get sample.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-14
Lancaster County Entries Mt Oxford.

In the list of entries at the Oxford fair
appeared the following Lancaster county
horses w. G. Harinan, Gap, mare and
colt; w. Kennedy, Gains, pair of driv-
ing horses, stallion and stud colt G.
Blackburn, Colerain, gelding and stud
colt; +. p. Martin, Octoraro, pair of
driving horses; Mrs. James Turner, Of
Colerain, exhibited flowers. The weather
was very disasterous to the fair.
At the postponed races on Saturday
Lady Lear won one in ESQ. West Phal
won another in 2.52 the races for the 3
minute and 2.4O classes were declared off.
A special trot, best two in three, was won
by Lady Lear.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-14
Lovefeast

Over 900 people attended the lovefeast
at Oregon last Sunday evening, and the
best oil order prevailed. Elders JACOB
ReinhOll, Sengle and Kaufman were the
speakers.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-14
A Bible 336 Years Old as Ephrass.

bible 33G Years Old NJ Ephfat1.
Zeph. Undercufiler, proprietor Of . hotel
at Ephrata, has German Bible in his pos
session which was printed in 1545. It was
purchased at public sale short time
ago and is in excellent condition.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-14

Add to this list the oak, the chestnut
and the Usage orange, and VIC have about
all the varieties needed for practical pur-
poses.
What varieties to plant depends Oh the
time when VIC desire to realize and the
uses to which we intend to apply. If for
fencing VIC should plant chestnut, panlOnia
or catalpa. PanlOnia and catalpa promise
to bc of moro value than locust. They
grow much faster, and are 50 far not sub
iect to insect depredatiOns, while the
locust is 50 infested by borers rs to be un-
worthy of planting in many localities.
Panlonia and catalpa are both soft wooded,
but arc said to be fully rs durable rs
locust.
A piece Of panlonia wood placed in a
situation Give years agO) is nearly as
sound rs it. was, while oak and even chest
nut would be rotten. PanlOnia is prefer
able to catalpa, Oh account of it's stronger
aud more upright growth.
The naples, as can be seen by the list,
will become available for fire wood in less
than 40 years.
Ifw plant for future generations the
pines, larches, tulips, walnuts and oaks
are the most promising
AtnO great future time our mechanics
will be in great want of hickory. This
should be planted, or in its stead plant the
Usage orange. This is better grower and
for all purpose is fully equal to the hick-
ory. A tree Of this variety in Chester
county has attained three feet in diameter
in so years.
This planting of our bare hillsidcs will,
beside the advantages mentioned, beautify
our landscape and may have beneficial
influence on the rainfall, and it is also as
sumcd that it is worth all the cost of
planting, by the protection they give to
the farm buildings and to the crops of the
farm. This part Of the subject, viz. ''The
uses Of forests in Lancaster county, their
influence on the climate etc., is very
ebly treated in a pamphlet of thirty five
pages by Simon p. Eby, esq of Lancas:
ter, which should be in the hands of all
who feel an interest in the future of our
county.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-14

THE pretext of the gas company for
bidding to supply the city with light by
the thousand feet of gas consumed, in
stead of in conformity with the ordi-
nance, is not found to be ingenious
upon inquiry into the facts. Mr..
Baumgardner says. "SectiOn Sd of the
ordinance says the lamps shall he extin-
tinguislled by the police ut daylight each
morning. This is not done, as during
the past year we have had considerable
loss by some of the police or the boys
they employ in letting the lamps burn
long after daylight" This is to some
extent true, and to whatever extent
it is, we repeat that the gas COM
pany is entitled to consideration,
but to fairly weigh Mr.. Baumgardner' $
argument the facts should be borne in
mind, which he sappresses. that the
lamps have rarely ever been lighted as
early as the prescribed time, that often
many of them have been left unlit for
two hours after it, that the burners of
most of them are smaller sized than the
city rdinance-cont7act calls for, that
more than half of them are not turned
on full head, that many lamps paid for
said to average ten a night-are not
lighted at all-for example four on West
Lemon street, which burn on an average
once a week-and that scores of them
are not kept clean as the contract calls
for. These DEFICIENCIES outweigh ten
fold the consideration upon which alone
the gas company justifies what is mani
festly an attempted "pinch' of the city
bv the gas monopoly.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-14

by the wind and lightning.
"A Few Fatalities.
Thomas, 4 nine year-old son OF Robert
COttingham, city purveyOr, was kicked on
the head by horse i'm Wilmington. His
skull was SO badly fractured that he died
soon after.
A patent water back burst from the
boiler at the grape sugar works in Buffalo,
yesterday morning, severely scalding three
men.
Messrs. Flanagan and McDermOt, of
White Mills, were drowned by the upset
ting of row boat at Kemble, Pa, on Sat
urday afternoon. They were going to
Lackawaxen on a pleasure trip.
Michael J. HOustin, aged 66, and his
son, Michael j., aged 80, both of Waynes-
boro, Pa, were suffOcated at Frederick
City, Nd, yesterday morning. by foul air
from we'll whilo they were taking out a
pump stock.
Michael Connolly was killed and Patrick
Burke and John Hawkins were seriously
injured in a mine of the Delaware & Hud.
son company, at Plymouth, Pa, ycster-
day, in consequence Of the premature dis
charge of blast.
A terrible cyclone visited Wisconsin. a
few miles south of Hopkins, Sunday even
ing, causing great destruction of property
and killing James Young. Young's wife
was SO badly hurt that she will probably
die John Crabill and several members Of
his family were also badly hurtsseveral of
whom will likely die.
Timothy Maloney, a policeman, was
shot dead while trying to arrest two
drunken burglars in Chicago on Sunday
night !; the murderers escaped. Elizabeth
Shultz, 10 years of age, murdered her new
born babe. near Shultztown, Rockingham
county, Va, last Thursday afternoon.
Peter Magnus, respectable butcher of
Chicago, kicked his barn tender, William
Gordon, ON Sunday. for abusing his son.
Tho kick broke GOrdOn's neck and he fell
dead. Magnus surrendered himself.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-14
MINOR TOPICS.

THE deadly sparrow having paid no
heed to imperial DEGREES Of banishment
from Vienna is now hunted through the
royal parks by chasseurs with air guns,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-02-24

In reply to correspondent, who asks
for information on this subject, the New
York Journal of Commerce says: "One
branch of Congress passes bill and
sends it to the other. If the latter adopts
it precisely as it passed it then goes to
the President for his approval. But if
the bill is amended Or changed on its
passage in the other branch, it is sent back
with such changes to the House in which
it originated. If these amendments
are there adopted it then goes to the
President, but If not adopted, or adopt
ed only in part, it comes back again to
the second branch, where the vote is to
recede from the amendments or to in
sist upon them. If the body insists,
then Committee of Conference is ap-
pointed, and notice being given to the
other house, a like committee is ap-
pointed. and these, two committees
meet. If they agree ON a report, then
the bill as reported is voted on again in
each House. If they disagree, each re-
ports. and sometimes new committee
is appointed and sometimes the bill fails.
But If it passes both Houses, then the
President signs it, if he approves; if he
disapproves,7 he returns itiwithin ten
days to the House in which it originated,
with his objections. If that House
passes it again by two-thirds vote it
goes to the other branch of Congress,
and if it passes there by two-thirds
vote it becomes a law. There is no
arbiter between any of the parties.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-02-24
Only q Dog.

We were all crying, every one of us.
Father declared it was smoke that had
got into his eyes and made them smart;
but mother threw her apron over her
head and sat rocking and sobbine for
ten minutes, Phoebe and l just threw
ourselvesdo down on the floor by poor Leo
and took his dear old shaggy head in
my lap, and the hot tears dropped one
by one; and Phoebe .petted his poor old
stiff ears and smoothed out his thin,
gray hairs; and then we took off the old
brass collar that was marked all over
with hiereglyphics that we hadscratched
with pins in the proud days when he
first wore it; then. we cried again. and
just then in walked Squire Toots. and
he didn't seem to know what to do when
he saw us all distressed; he looked at
us and then at Leo; then he took out
his handkerchief and gave his nose a
real Sunday-school blowing. and said
kind of huskily: ss7sis'A g. -.
Why it's wicked to feel s. bad.
Anybody d. spose it was a pusson;
'taints only a dog!'' 3ET .g8kgsx5satfs z.
That just made us all feel worse!
There wasn't any Heaven for him to 90
to, and we knew we never could see
him again, and we couldn't remember
any life without Leo, we were such
little tots when he came to us, and
he had been one of the family all the
time. Father used to lecture him Just
as he did us children. "Where did
see you to-day, sir?" he would say
cover at Mr.. .Mason's, associating with
that dog that steals! Shame!n And then
Leo would whine, and pretty soon faith
er would say, $50 to bed, sirr' and
he'd sneak off to his box in the back
shed and lay awake. all night to protect
us while we slept, and he never once in
over fourteen years was forgetful of his
trust-and he was '.only dog ~ SC
Only a dog! Why, was there ever
time that we went racing home from
school that Leo hadn't met US halfway
to race with us and do all sorts Of
funny tricks at our bidding, and how
proud we had always been of him with
his handsome stately presence and su-
perior manners and how safe we felt to
hear his deep-chested bark as we went
to sleep.
Well, death had found him sure
enough, and we buried him out in the
grove In a little hollow, where he loved
to lie on hot summer days, and there
will be no resurrection for him, though
there will be for the vilest thief he kept
from our doors; but none the less, in
looking over his honest, blameless life,
in which he was never faithless to any,
even the smallest trust, dare apply to
him the Masters need Of praise, swell
done, good and faithful servant" though,
as Squire Toots said, g He was only e
dog. ."-Detroit Free Press.