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Anniversary of the Baltimore and Delt,
Marrow Gauge Railroad.

Anniversary of tho Baltimore and Delta
Marrow Gauge Railroad.
The anniversary meeting of persons in
terested in the Baltimore s. Delta mar
nor gauge railway was held at Forest
Hill, Hartford county. Md, on Monday.
Messrs. VIM. H. Waters, president s.
G. Boyd, secretary. and Caleb
j. Moore. Eli Tucker and ]. Polk
Street,, directors, were present. Mr..
Waters was called to the chair. Joseph
Parry was appointed vice president aud
Nathan Grafton, secretary. S. G. Boyd
spoke at length, reviewing the origin and
progress of the road. and spoke hopefully
Of the prospect of its early completion.
He said that the directors had assurances
from a prominent banker that the bonds
of the road could be sold at IS. Tie Bal
timore & Delta is q continuation Of tho
Peach Bottom railway, now in operation
from York to Delta, in York county, Pa,
near the Maryland line. When completed
it will afford continuous narrow gauge
line from York to Baltimore, running
through highly improved portions of Har-
ford and Baltimore counties, besides af-
fording facilities for the transportation Of
slate, with which the hills Of upper Har-
ford are filled.
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Meeting ofLancastor County Medical Society
Health Reports, Get
A stated mceting,,of the Lancaster Coun-
ty Medical society was held in their rooms
in Centre square, this city. yesterday. The
following named members were present:
DR.. J. N. Deaver, Drumore, president 4;
DR.. VIM. B:ackwood, city, secretary DR..
John l.. Atlee and John L. Atlec, jr., AL
bright, Bolenius, Compton, Cox, S. T.
Davis, Ehler, A. J. Herr, NJ. L. Herr, RO-
land, Shirk, Stehman and Welchans, of
this city; Bruner and Craig, of Columbia
NJ. L. Davis and F. Herr, Millersville :;
Brubaker, of Akron j. II. Davis, of Sou
dersburg Deaver, OF Buck Kennedy, Of
Salunga Kohler. Of New Holland Liv-
ingston, Of Mountville: Leaman, of Lea
man Place Lightncr and McCaa, of Eph-
rata Musser, of Lampeter Miller, Of
Bird in Hand Mowrey, of Conestoga ;
Smith, of Paradise Brysor, Of Martic-
vilIe Treichler, Of Elizabethtown Ira
bert, of Reamstown Thompson. of
Wrightsviile J. L. Zieglcs, Of Mount
JOY.
The meeting was ono of great interest
to gentlemen of the profession, but not
especially to laymen.
DfS. Sncnk ana BfOOSt, Oi LlLlZ, ana LIZ.
Eberman, of Lancaster, were elected
members OF the society.
the publication committee reported
that the published transactions Of the So
ciety had All editorial comment from a
New Jersey medical Journal, and letters Of
inquiry for copies had been received from
London, England.
An invitation extended by tho York
County Medical society, requesting the
Lancaster society to be present at the for
NAL opening of the York hospital and in
firmary on the 9TH of May, was accepted.
DR.. J. L. Ziegler, of Mount Joy. read
an interesting paper on the subject Of dis
locations.
DIR. Welchans read paper Oh the i'm
portance OF early history in diagnosis.
Discussion on the subject Of hip-joint
dislocations, whooping cough and obstet-
RIGS, was participated in by several men,
bers and was generally very interesting.
Health reports from all sections of the
country were to the effect that measles
and whooping cough are quite prevalent,
and that scarlet fever prevails in Eprhata
and some other localities. There was no
smallpox reported except two cases of
varioloid at the county hospital, and one
of these patients has been discharged,
cured. and the other is cOnvalescent.
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NElGHIsORHOCD NEWS.

The stockholders of the Oxford agricu!-
tural society decided to hold the spring
fair OIL Wednesday. Thursday and Friday,
June Sth, 9th and 10th, 1881. The races
will be of the following classes: 2.35, 40
$50, 800 and $50.
The Temperance convention at Harris
burg adjourned after series of resolves
and re resolves, which we will print in full
tomorrow.
The next regular meeting of the Lancas-
ter county Peace society will be held at
Penn Hill! meeting house on Seventh day,
the 9Th Of Sd month, at 10 o'clock.
Geo. 5. Truman, at Union, Lancaster
county, shipped to the Philadelphia mar
ket over half 4 million eggs in the past
year.
Franklin, 4 three year old son Of Wash
ington Smeck, of RuscOmbmanOr towns
ship, Berks county. while playing in his
fathers house, fell into tub of boiling
water, which had been left standing on
the floor by servant. The child was ter
ribly scalded all over the body, suffered
greatly and died thirty-sx hours after the
accident happened.
Mr.. ]. w. Sheath, of Lebanon Valley
college, Annvillc, has been selected to de-
liver the valedictory at the approaching
commencement exercises His brother, f.
H. Sheath, has been given the saiutatOry,
thus two brothers carrying away ;he hOnors
of the class.
Thomas Lord, father of ". H. Lord,
general route agent of the Philadelphia
Il Reading express company, has died in
the 9th year of his age, in North Coven-
try township, Chester county.
The old Hatfield rolling mill in Valley
township, near the Wilmington & North
Elm railroad, above Coatesvillc, has not
been in operation for Dumber of years
and the material of which it is composed
is being removed to Coatesville.
Ellis +. Gibson has sold his farm of 60
acres in Little Britain township, Lancas-
ter county, to Joseph A. Jamison, of Full
ton.
Edwin NJ. Hunt. son of Marshall ].
Hunt, deceased, has taken the home place,
Rising Sun, Nd, containing about 153
acres, at s64 per acre. A. l.. Duyckinck
has purchased from Job Haines, executor
of Edwin Haines, deceased, the warehouse
in the Rising Sun, Md, for $1,000.
David NJ. Reynolds, Of Oxford, Chester
county, has rented J. P. Ambler's mill at
at Goshen, this county, of which he will
take possession about the 25th of March.
Amos E. Todd, of Kinseyville, goes to
Haines's mill, near Rising Sun, Md.
The farm belonging to the estate of
Robert Evans, deceased, containing 53S
acres, near Port Deposit, Nd, was sold at
public sale ON the 23d, by the trustee,
VIM. S. Evans, esq, to VIM. B. Steele,
residing near by, for $4,000, Mr.. Steele
afterwards sold his farm of
about 112 acres, to Andrew Lyon for s12,-
600.
Isaac N. Haines, of Salisbury township,
near Pomeroy, has sold his farm of 60 |
acres, to a Mr.. Smith, of Pittsburgh, for
1888. 80 per acre.
MyerstowD is moving in the matter of |
raising a stock company for the erection
,f agricultural works.
Mrs. Mary Smith, widow of the late |
Henry W. Smith, esq, died suddenly yes
erday, at her residence, 107 South Fifth |
street, Reading.
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ID 60 Taxes.

The day of reckoning has come around
at last. Our citizens find themselves
confronted by ali increase of taxation for
city purposes OF two mills, making their
total city tax 80 cents on the 500 valua-
tion. This condition of affairs is not
unexpected, and WAS not unforeseen. The
warning voices Of those who watched the
recklesSness of the street committee of
1S79-lS60. were raised in protest against
the work then undertaken. These pro-
tests were unneeded, and to-day as a
consequence, there are twenty thousand
dollars Of deficiencies, interests and costs
to he provided for by direct taxation,
il addition to the usual annual expenses.
There are no deficiencies of any conSe-
Guence for thisyear reported which could
not have been met out of the ordinary
revenue. Any that have taken place
were of absolute necessity. The work
on the eastern reservoir OF last SUMMER
Was the only extraordinary expenditure
unprovided for by appropriation, and
but for thai emergency the water de-
mpnt would not have exceed its apnrO-
priation.
1t may be useful TO recall a portion of
the history of lie street committee IF
1s79-SO. AS early as the September,
1879. meeting of councils the mayor pro-
tested against the amount of work coll.
tracted for and ordered to be done in a
special message to councils. He showed
that obligations had accrued and were
accruing amounting to s11 900, and eS-
timated that it would require $4,000 ad-
ditional to run the street department to
the end of the fiscal year. His estimates
We're entirely correct, for the deficiencies
of the street department on the 3lst day
OF May, 1850, the end oi the fiscal year,
were just about SIT 900, to which inter-
est and court costs must be added.
The following is a portion of the
mayors message to councils at that time |
On this subject:
If it lie the pleasure of councils to go !:
on regardless OF the close approximation
to the limit Of the debt allowed us under
the new constitution, regardless of the
known indisposition Of our people to
plunge the city further into debt and
thereby increase the taxation, they will
pro, I'd to order work to be done, without
taking into account the condition of the
but the further increase
Of our debt is a grave proposition, involv-
ing penalties when carried beyond the
limit and should not be de-
termined without serious deliberation.
For myself believe that councils have no
right to spend one cent in auy department
beyond the appropriation. If they have, 4
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MINOR TOPICS,

AMONG the mighty streams that are to
be opened for navigation and commerce
through the liberal appropriations OF the
river and harbor bill are Contentia creek.
Ellington river, the Withlacoc'lee. the
Waccamac, Peas creek, Pasquotanlz river,
Machodoc creek, Urbana creek. and the
majestic Nishnabotana.
THE following were the names OH the
cabinet slate last night : James G. Blaine,
OF Maine. secretary Of state William
Window, of Minnesota, secretary of the
treasury &; Wayne MacVeagl'. of Pennsyl
vania, attorney general S. J. Kirkwood,
Of Iowa, secretary of the interior Robert
Lincoln, Of Illinois, secretary Of war; Levi
P. Morton, of New York, secretary of the
navy w. II. Hunt, of Louisiana, post
master general
THE clear and complete report of the
superintendent of the water works to city
councils, which we print on our first page,
deserves popular attention. 1t has the
AACIAO Va AuIAA'SS oAA AhssAy
and the rapidly increasing number Of
water consumers will find many things of
interest and value in it. Taxpayers may
proftably weigh its suggestions in regard
to the present large consumption Of water
and the best means of providing for it.
SINCE the adoption of bags in the place
ofthe old collection-plates many English
clergymen have complained that the
amount OF bronze money received at
offertories has materially increased, espcc-
ALLY among the rich congregations. A
divine in Liverpool, the other
lay, took etfectual steps to counteract the
vii. Choosing for his text the passage,
Alexander, the coppersmith, hath done |
me much harm" he told his hearers Their
nty in plan terms. At the close of the
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Only (Dn0.

Last night but ono drunk spent his val
liable time in the lookup. This morning
he was discharged.
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ult., in his S0th year; Adam Martin.
ex-representative, died yesterday, aged 7s
years.
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puissant knight, though on foot, without
favorite steed and faithful squire, to do
battle for his stomach's sake and for the
glory of his Dulcinea De TOboso.
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Free SOup.

The number of soup rations issued to-
day was 25S.
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The annual report Of the superinten-
dent of water works was presented and
read by title. lit will be found in full on
our first page.l Mr.. Zecher said that a.
it contained number of important sug-
gestions and recommendatiO ions, he would
move to amend by having it lay on the
table so that it may be taken up for ac-
tion next month by the new councils. The
amendment was agreed to. Common
council concurred.
The Yearly Estimates.
Mr.. Zecher, from the finance committee
presented the following estimated receipts
and expenditures of the city for the fiscal
year ending May 81, 1882.
Estimated Receipts.
90c. ON the 500 valuation on Sll,OCO-
OW. G.UO NJ
Additional percentage tor default OF
prom pt pay ment. 30 u
Additional percentage for default OF
prompt payment OF Water Rents. 10 10
Water kentS.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5000 20
Market Rents...... $500 %
Rent OF City Property LOO %
Miscellaneous. including Costs and
Fees from Mayor. $500 %
sl4s. 200 o.
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Expenditures.


To pay Interest on Loans including
Sinking Fund ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. 81, 80 %
To pay principal on Loans, rs re-
quired by aw.......... ll,5OO %
To pay State Tax on Loans. s....... 1875 ~
To pay arrearages for Repairs of
Streets due June I, 1880. ............ 1000 %
To pay deficiencies in Water and
Street DepaI aItments due June /.
lSSl Observation-Disclosures. $500 %
To pay Repair of Streets. ........... 10000 o.
TO pay Water Works gencral........ 5000 %
To pay Tor Laying Water Pipes. 5000 %
To pay for Salaries. $3.50 10
To pay for Police and Turnkcy.. 966O %
To pay for Lighting City.......... $500 %
To pay for Lamps and Posts. ....... 80 %
To pay tor Fire Companies. steam
ers at siO,. without steamer $3.50 $3.50 ~
City Tax. ............. 5000 "
Water Rents. ..........:......... LOO o.
age OF City Tax..................... 500 o.
Contingencies. s......,.................. 1O,765 %
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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
DOCTORS IN SESSION.

Meeting ofLancastor County Medical Society
interestIn. Papers i;ead-DiscussIons-
Health Reports, Get
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compel the said Edward Welchans to sur
render up the same, which, after a hear
ing, was granted by the court. The money
admitted to be in his hands and the books
were then surrendered. In pursuance of a
resolution of your honorable body. have
brought suit for the balance found to be
due by him to the city by the special COM
mittee, who were instructed to investigate
his books. | have also, in conjunction
with the special counsel Of the city, en-
tered up the judgment bond given for the
year 1880, by Edward Welchans and his
sureties, and have issued a writ Of scire
fdcias on the same.
The municipal liens that have been filed
during the past year are as follows, viz {:
Thirty-nine municipal liens amounting to
s759.OS.
The amount collected to date is 81, $685.
36, Of which amount there has been paid
to the city treasurer, and his receipts
taken for the same, the sum Of 81, ,417.57,
leaving balance in hand s450.79.
l would respectfully call attention to the
opening of the streets laid out on the plan
OF the city of Lancaster, lately adopted by
the court. Numerous cases are now, or
shortly will be, upon our trial lists, inyOlv-
ing the question Of damages sustained by
the opening Of streets, and at no late day
the city will be called upon to pay out a
large sum Of money for this purpose. She
must at that time be prepared to meet these
demands. The first case fthis kind came
before the court in January last, but owing
t.. a change of the pleadings was continued:
1t will shortly come up for trial 4 second
time. The prospects arc that this will be
a fruitful source Of litigation for some years
to come.
Respectfully submitted.
CHARLES I. LANDS, City Solicitor.
LANCASTER, March 2, 1891.
The monthly report of the finance CON-
mittee was read.
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a resolution, passed by common coun-
ell February 2, authorizing the water COM
mittee to erect four new boilers, and ex-
tend the boiler lcusc for the accOmmOda-
tiOn OF the same, was non-cOncurrcd in by
select council.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-06-21
Commissioner of the Bureau of immigration.

-" Senex," is the strikingly appropriate nom
de ptune adopted by a Jefferson county cores
pendent of the Brooksville, fernando county,
Crescent. Senex means old, and it only re-
quires the aftix of Fogy " or "Moss-back," to
wildly represent the style and condition of the
writer, who, doubtless failing TO procure the in
serlon of his idiotic absurdites the Constitution,
sends II to Brother Robertson away down in the
lower part of the State, who was, we think, a
little 100 willing to give publicity to such ridcu-
lous stuff as "Senex writes. Here is spec-
men:
Some people think our condition would be
bettered by immigration, but it strikes me that
immigration would be of little benefit 10 the old
counties of Middle Florida In the first place
all the tillable lands are under cultivation, at
least it is so in Jefferson and the produce barely
feeds the population. Some may say if you
plant more corn and provision crops you could
feed denser population. l doubt this, for the
cotton goes chiefly to purchase supplies for the
susenanee and clothing of the people. Cotton
represents labor, and even at cents believe
that it ill buy more Western produce than the
same amount of labor would have produced ap-
piled in any other way. We have no room then
for an influx of agriculturists, because the land
won't feed more than are already here.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-06-21
Orange County Reporter, June 9th. j

orange County hepOrter, June YIN
AN exchange thinks it is high time the peo-
pie OF Florida and the newspapers should stop
theorizing upon the grave question of high taxes
and go 10 work in earnest to reduce the assess
ment. A practical solution Of the problem will
be hailed with delight by all good ciiizeps.--
Green Core Spring.
The most effective way to accomplish this
would be 10 make the assessment of property SO
thorough as 10 cover every piece OF taxable
property in the State. The system now In vogue
Is 30 defective, and the restrictions as to time
allotted 10 assessors 80 great that 1t effectually
prevents this work from being properly DONE
In this county We have an assessor who 10 fully
qualified for the position but the time given
him In which to make the assessment 10 % short
that he cannot comply with the requirements Of
the law. Were he four men instead of one, It
would still he impossible to personally visit and
properly assess all the properly in the county.
The result necessarily IL. q large amount ofprop-
erty escapea assessment altogether, and this
makes The burden Just that much heavier upon
The assessed properly. We are glad to know
that our new County Commissioners are fully
awake "a this matter, and are contemplating g
measure which will effect remedy. To prop
erly examine and correctly assess the taxable
property Of Orange county would require the
energetic work Of ten or twelve months lime,
and Is worth Two thousand dollars. Ifthorough-
y done, this sum would be saved three times
over 70 the county. To compel man 70 do Il
In sixty % eighty days and for six hundred dol
lars, is 70 insure bad Job, no matter how earn.
eat and honest the assessor may be- Let as have
4 reform, siFs - ss9
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-06-21
Sanford Journall
Orange County Immigration SO-
ciety.

APoPKA, FLA, June 3, 1881.
Pursuant to adjournment the Orange County
immigration Society met at Fudges Hall at 3 p.
NJ, and perfected its organization by receiving
and adopting the report of the committee en-
constitution and by laws.
The constitution providing for the Office of
Vice President and Treasurer the Rev. w. G. F.
Wallace was nominated and unanimously elected
Letters 10 the President and Secretary, from
Hon. A. A. Robinson, Commissioner of Immi-
grafton were read. These explained at length
the aid the Commissioner hopes to ubtain from
such county organizations, and contained many
valuable suggestions, particularly with reference
to the publication OF county circular pamphlet,
and gave list of subjects he thought it import
ant to consider in such publication.
These letters evoked a general discussion Of
the plans and objecls of the Association and
publication Of a circular.
After lively and interesting debate the fol:
lowing resOluiit was iOpted: That the COM
mittee appointed at the last meeting TO assist the
Secretary be authorized to proceed in the matter
of compiling circular descriptive OF Orange
county, rs outlined by the suggestions and ques-
tons OF the Commissioner aud be ready TO re-
port at the next regular meeting; and that all
sections of the county be and are hereby re-
quested 10 send delegates 10 hear the report OF
the committee and join in its consideration.
Ii is the intention and purpose Of the AssOcia.
ton to make this general circular a fair, honest
and impartial description of Orange county as a
whole, and il is supposed that the people of the
county generally viii eyince the interest. and
give the aid necessary, to make It an attractive
and valuable assistant in the development Of the
county. eF5
The matter of local advertisements was dis
cussed at some length, and several plans were
proposed. One was that blank pages be left 10
the general circular for the insertion of local
advertisements, each locality 10 pay for the space
occupied. Another was for each locality dis
posed to do so topublish separate and independ-
eni circular, 10 be placed in the hands Of the
Secretary for distribution With the general circu-
lar. The matter will be further discussed and
determined at the next meeting, where ii is
hoped that all paris of The county will be repre-
scented.
On notion the meeting adjourned TO meet at
the same place on Friday, July LIST, at IL Am.
as z. FL. MASON, M. d., President
r. G. RORINsoN Spcretarv
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Editor r loridian herewith hand you speci-
mems of the onion, sets and seed of the Japan
onion grown by me this season. t.e .4sssgss.
In November last planted one bushel Of The
onions on one eighth of an acre highly MANFRED.
I gathered on The 14ih Of June from this plat
forty bushels Of onions, Ave bushels Of sets and
one bushei of seed. AZ b 3if es sgs8.
1t is the only onion Ihsve ever found that
would mature and keep here. All other varie-
ties 90 to neck and stalk similar to the shalIotf
make interior bulbs and win not keep through
the season. ;ih5 fNss 5f fg5t <l4sft hxasettnE
Time for planting Is in the fall. Manure heay-
ily with lot manure and cotton seed broadcast
and plow in; harrow thoroughly, lay of rows
three feet with small scooter, drop the onion or
sett one to two feet In the drill and cover with .
board EF lss9Ma FtasN
The onion win come up at once, bat do not
work them through the winter let them alone
until spring, then sweep and hat-weed with .
hoe, drawing the dirt constantly frcm the onion.
During the past dry season my yield was 81 the
rate Of 400 bushels per acre. 10 4ssfee siaai
This onion win grow from the onion, The lett
or from the seed u planting the seed Il win be
necessary 70 transplant / regard this onion - :
success here, coming IN at q season when the old
crop OF northern onions is exhausteds and only
the Bermuda to compete With and though much
smalIars the Japan is far superior 70 the Hermuda
10 hayer and Is much preferred Tor table purposes
i@ 'zs'ffs''s ss93f W. L VAe0N. |
H s,TxrLkuAssRr, Fla, June a6, l6e1F'8 t.8sb