Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-27
News and Notes.

News and Notes.
Incidents aud Comments Gathered from Va
riOuS Exchanges.
Philadelphia mills turned out "a OBJ, 600
yards Of carpet last year.
The Titusville Herald advcrtiscs for Il
set Of pigeon holes. Well, attend the Eext
''shOot" and collect a lot.
Senator Ea'on, Of Connecticut, was very
sick all last week in Philadelphia. The
disease is said to be Asiatic cholera.
Ohio morals are easily shocked but they
have been really rent by 4 pastor, Rev. Il.
Rock, who swOre at L book agent. Can
this DC the gentle Ryan Rock
G. L. Allen, of Titusvillc, amused him
self by experimenting on i giant powder
torpedo. 1t was tho livcliest kind of
amusement he ever experienced. He may
recover.
They had deaf mute picnic over in
WestmOreland the other day. 1t is said
the cOntOrtiOns of the young man who sat
down in the custard pic were horrible to
witness.
A Philadelphia publishing house has
engaged VennOr to compile an almanac
for the United States, giving weather pre-
dictiOns for each week of the year 1882 and
the fall of 1881.
Mr.. William Frecsc, Of Berks, HAS an
entcrprising turkey gobblcr. Business
being dull, he has taken to Matching out
chickens. Last Sunday lie came off with
fine brood of 4 dozen or thercabouts. lie
had found the eggs in a secluded spot.
The Chicago News Qtcp.) OH harmony
with small Ii &: "Mr. Paper-MiIl Miller
goes to the senate as the representative of
the milk-sop-lic spittlc-fcatbcrhead-w wood
pulp-half-breed party. United, he stands :;
divided, he falls"
Governor William ID. BlOxham, of Flor
ida, is visiting his old college professor,
George q. Butler, ut Pottstown. Tho
governor is journcying North for the dou-
bio purpose of business and pleasure. The
former has reference to the largo sales of
lands by the state Of Florida to Hamilton
Disston and others Of Philadelphia,
Ohio is always 4 trifle in advance of the
humdrum world, and the latest innoya-
tiOn in style is at Cincinnati. While a
wedding procession was filing down the
aisle yoanS lady stepped up to the bride
and presented her with IN engagement
ring and package of letters she had rc-
ceivcd from the groom.
A device has been invented in the West
for laying ties and iron direct from the
cars. The ties arc taken from all inclined
plane and placed in position by means of a
movable derrick. The iron is run out by
means of windlass, placed upon the Ties
and spiked down. 1t is claimed that this
invention will save much valuable time in
the construction of railroads.
Ecery Ereniny is authorized to say by
the shipbuildcrs Of Wilmington, Del. that
iron steamers Of any capacity will be built
by them at the same prices charged at the
ship yards on the Clyde. This statement
is a setback to Johnny Roach's extraya
CANT idea Of ship building, and rather
knocks the props from under his subsidy
schemes, about which Congress has been
bothered for some time past.
Tcrrc Hill, Fairville) this county, man.
utactures jSO, 900 cigars per week, divided
among the following manufacturers: A.
NJ: Cline, 10000; Abncr Cline. 10000;
w. NJ. Cline, 1000: Philip Rufcs, 3D.
600; J. 5: Calf, 100000; r. II. Davis,
5000; Ed. Haller, $4,000; Rudolph Kit
tlan, 49, Samuel Haller, 10000 Dan
lel Overheiscr, 10000. They employ from
- w Wv AAtsAA''S All ssil ~~Oo ttuu WOfk
IN cigar box factory in the same village.
Those who are in the habit of being
bitten by mad dogs will find consolation
in the suhjoined extract from an exchange
4" According TO the physicians, not more
than ii per cent. of persons bitten by mad
dogs are attacked by hydrophobia. On
the other hand, the bite OF dog which
was not rabid, and did not become SO after
words has Ianr,
cause fatal hydrophobia. The moral is
that people who keep pet dogs cannot he
too careful"
They have very decided way of
stamping out smallpox down in Sugar
Notch. A young man named William
Albert had contracted the disease and DR..
5. s: Pace was called in to treat the case
the board of health closed the door upon
the doctor, causing it to be securely locked,
compelling the physician to remain i'm the
room with the sick man until he died
after which the doctor was required to
bury in earth all the clothing hc had on
him during his enforced professional call,
before he would be permitted to come out
and mix with the people.
A lady with beautiful face, rather in
cllned to be tall, with a symmetrical form,
stii eAS hAoiC dGtIbCIlSc luz GIlO extremely
plain costume, black in color and almost
severe in its lack of trimming or other
adornment. Her blonde hair, dressed in
the prevailing seaside fashion-an Eng
lish frizze-cOvering the forehead to with
in an inch or SO of the dark blue ewes. and
two flushed checks, mouth full of nearly
teeth, lips like ripe cherry, and a Short
round chin, completed the picture. Who
is she % heard the question asked
twenty times inside of an hour, and each
time the answer was returned Kate
Chase Sprague."
The resident of South street, Harrisburg
have petitioned tho board of health for
sanitary relief. Tho petition saws
&" Within the last month thirty-five cases
of sickness have been counted in all
twenty.eight Of them were diphthcria,
thirteen proving fatal, and many still
lingering. Several families have moved
away from the neighborLood. We have
complied with the request of the commit
tee of physicians Qately appointed by
Mayor Herman to inquire into tho case)
to Thoroughly cleanse our houses, white
wash our cellars and throw lime around
our back yards and cess -pools-and still