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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30
The PerilOus Zig.

Out in Butler, DR.. T. NJ. Zimmerman,
in attempting to kill pig. exploded a
pistol in his pocket. The ball penetrated
the right groin and lodged in the left knee.
The wound is painful but not necessary
fatal.
An Erie county man who undertook to
slay pig conceived the idea of lassoing
the porker and then holding the rope in
his teeth while he operated on the animal
with an axe. With firm-set jaw the Erie
county man delivered well-aimed blow,
but the wary shoat shot off on q sou'west
line and took with him not only the rope,
but large and varied assortment of upper
and lower front teeth,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30
MAD ABOUT II.
8. Cape COD Folks" Opposed to Being Pu
inrn IDripf

:. Cape Cod Fnlks'' Opposed to Being Put
into Print.
A remarkable litigation is developing in
Boston. Some months ago a novel in
manuscript was submitted to a pub
fishing firm. They found it interesting,
and friend Of the author Informally
guaranteed that it should pay expenses
hence the house accepted and published it.
The author proved to be a young lady of
Connecticut. who had spent \ winter in
teaching school on Cape Cod, and the
book purported to be narrative in auto
geographic style of real life in that some-
what remote region. "Capc Cod Folks "
was the name bestowed on the work :;
"Ccdar Swamp" was the scene of the
story; and the characters, except the
teacher herself, were the various resi-
dents of tho place-the family with
which she boarded, her pupils, the
young men and maidens, the old people,
the school officers and the like. Critics
bestowed high praise OH the authors skill
in depicting the peculiarities of Cape Cod
life. She showed, SO they declared, won-
derful originality and skill in delineating
character and in painting peculiarities
and habits as she witnessed them. No
wonder for it soon became noised abroad
that the writer's exceptional skill in this
respect consisted in unhesitatingly de-
scribing real persons, narrating actual Incl
dents, and even giving true names. Her
volume was simply telling tales out of
school," the persons around her being
called by their names without reserve and
the descriptions and incidents, many of
them, being founded, thought somewhat
frightened and embellished perhaps,
upon occurrences of the winter. The
rumors to this effect naturally stimulated
the sale, which encouraged the publishers.
Quite lately, however, another aspect of
the matter has been brought to their no.
tice by the commencement of libel suits
on behalf of the indignant Cedar Swamp
ers. At last accounts, they had given
bonds to release their store from attach
ments in suits amounting to $50, 900 with
perhaps ten or dozen Of the characters in
the book yet to be heard from and they
were laboriously altering their stereotype
plates, preparatory to future editions, by
substituting fictitious name for every
one which could be detected. There is
nothing or very little in the book in the
nature of censure or aspersion. The COM
plant is that people are ridiculcd.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30
Little Girls Tableaux.

The little girls Of the Moravian congrc-
CATION who comprise an organization
known as the Workers. association -
were to have given an exhibition of tab
lcaux, ETC., in the large parlor Of the
Rohrer house (Kendig's), at the corner of
North Queen and Chestnut streets, last
evening, but the attendance was so unex-
pectealy large that it was deemed imprac.
ticable to hold it there, and in consequence
postponement was had until tomorrow
evening, when the affair will take place
in the upstairs room of ROberts's hall, and
when an admission fee of ten cents will
be charged, the proceeds to 60 to the
church
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30
INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITIONS.
The Interests OF Eaat and West, North a
South

The Interests OF Eaat and West, North and
South.
The Atlanta cotton show will close posi-
lively Dec. 81.
The wool growers have resolved to ask
the tariff convention to recognize them in
the make up of its committees.
The American Agricultural association
has appointed large delegation to visit
the Atlanta cotton exposition, leaving
New York next Monday evening. The
delegation includes the following Pennsyl.
vanians Hon. Thomas J. Edge, Captain
Burnett Landreth, Edward W. Wells,
Willis P. Hazard, Hon. w. S. Bissel and
James G. Turner.
Tho formal opening of the ninth conven-
tion of the National Butter, Cheese and
Egg association took place at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, yesterday. The attendance
was large and the proceedings interesting.
Governor Gear welcomed the association
to the state. Twenty-Five states were
represented. kilograms were read from
the boards of trade of Philadelphia, New
York and Chicago. The display of butter
is larger than has ever been exhibited at
any fair in tho United States, and the COL
lections of dairy implements, machinery
and appliances can only be computed by
the acre.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30
Russian Trials.

In St. Petersburg twenty two soldiers of
the regiment of Hussars of the Guard arc
to be tried by court martial for strangling
one of their officers. A Caucasian, Prince
Chervachidse, lieutenant of the same regi-
ment, will be tried for sabring last July a
shopkeeper who had accidentally entered
a room which he had reserved at res
taurant. Another prince, also in tho
Hussars of the Guard, who in drunken
fit last week playfully put bullet into
his servant and nearly killed him, will
probably be brought before the courts be-
fore long. An inquiry was begun half an
hour after the accouchment of Hessy
Helfmann. Another of the three women
Nihilists imprisoned in the fortress has
been delivered of Il child. Thanks to a
woman Nihilist, who had been allowed to
escape from Siberia purpOssly, one of the
most influential Nihilist leaders has just
been arrested. Knowing from revelations
made by some Of the St. Petersburg pris
oners that the woman was in relations
with the Nihilist in question, the police let
her get as far as Moscow, where she was
found in company with her accOmplice. 1t
is now decided that tho approaching trial
Of sixty-two or more Nihilists will be
conducted by the Senate, not by court
martial.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30

MORE evidences of crOOkedneSs in
Philadelphia are coming to light, and it
seems likely that the administration of
the city government there will be found
to have been honeycombed with fraud
some years ago. 1t seems that in the
city solicitors Office several thousand
dollars worth of municipal claims were
collected and receipts given for them,
though they were never released on the
docket, nor can any trace of the money
be found. In another instance there
can be found 40 trace leading into the
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30
The TcIegranh Poles.

As there are two sides to every ques
tion, so there seem to he two to this one
about the great telegraph masts. The
superintendent of the work says they are
made SO large to get the wires high up
out of the way of everything and every
body; and no doubt It is a public advan-
tage TO have them thus elevated. He
says iron poles are not used because they
are too low and break, and because they
cannot be climbed, and not because of
their greater cost. lie denies that they
are used in the cities, except for the elec-
trio light, and declares that much larger
poles than those put in here are used in
going through Philadelphia. He says,
furthermore, that underground electric
cables are not successful here, though
they are used III Europe; which he at
tributes to difference in soil or climate.
There is good deal of statement here
which is at variance with the general
impression. We are not disposed to ad,
nit that iron posts of small diameter
cannot be advantageously substituted for
great wooden ones :; all the difficulties
suggested in their employment would
seem to he capable of ready adjustment,
and before our councils give permission
for the further incumbrance of the
streets the matter should receive care
full examination. 1t appears that the
resolution they adopted, authorizing the
street committee to grant the privilege
of erecting poles to this new corporation,
is entirely invalid, since the law of 1876
requires that the consent of cities shall he
obtained 10y ordinance and not otherwise
No ordinance was passed in this case and
consequently the company has no au-
thority whatever to put up its poles
within the city limits. Its agents seem
TO recognize this fact, since they have
purchased the permission of property
holders to put their poles inside the
street line when strenuous objection was
made to the use of the street. This is
the proper way for the business to be
done: The company can well afford to
pay for its privileges and there is no
reason why it should obtain these gra-
tuitously from either city or citizens. 1t
is commercial venture ana in all such
values received are paid for.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30
Fell into the River.

On his way home from Lancaster, recent
", Mr.. Anderson Channell, of Bridgeton,
York county, stopped at Uffleman's hotel,
McCalps Ferry, to warm. A passing train
on the c. & P. D. r. r. frightened his
horses SO that they broke from their hitch
ing post and ran over the rocks into the
river. After swimming around in the deep
water they struck for the shore and were
assisted out of the water by Messrs.
Warren Chandler and Milton Fry. The
horses were very clean when they arrived
at B:idgeton.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30
Tobacco Sales.

Mr.. Frank, Of Bainbridge, sold on Tues
day between 200 and 800 cases of 80
tobacco-thc price paid and name of pur
chaser not given.
A few small lots of the 80 crop have
been sold in this city within day or two,
but no names are given.
L. B. Kirk, of Fulton township. has sold
the product Of seven acres of tobacco at
80, u, 8 and 3 cents per pound. Davis A.
Brown, of the same township, sold his crop
at 30, IA, and 3 cents.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30

John George, aged 50, GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
committed suicide by cutting his throat
with q razor He was to have been mar
ried to a soldiers widow named Vernon,
and had ordered his wedding clothes which
were to have been delivered on the day of
his suicide, and will now be his shroud.
The widow drew a pension, and hearing
that if she wed she would lose it she Tilted
him, Hence his despair.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30
A Garfield Memorial.

A Philadelphia marble firm, from a de-
sign furnished by Mr.. Edmund Smith,
second vice president of the Pennsylvania
railroad company, has just made and sent
to Washington, as a gift of the P. r. r.,
a marble tablet, to be put up in the depot
where Garfield was shot. The exact spot
where he fell has been marked by a large
gilt star set in the floor, and directly Op.
posite this point the tablet will be erected.
On either side of the tablet appear the
emblems Of tho strength of the Union,
surmounted in tho centre by the eagle
with outstrctched wings, its talons grasp
Ing the national flag, which falls in grace
full folds. The inscription reads: "James
Abram Garfield, President of the United
States, July 2, 1884," The tablet is about
four feet in width, by two feet in height,
carved in fine white marble.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30

city treasury of $50 per year rent paid
for 80 years to the city by the lessee of a
lot of ground belonging to it. Tweed
ism in Philadelphia has been as rampant
as the Republicanism of the city has
been steadfast.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30

81, 28l, 900 bushels. and in 1880 Lancaster
county alone-heading the list-raised s.
293, ,292 bushels of corn. The crop of
1881 was rather light, to be sure, but it
will be about twenty-five times as large as
the Examiner puts it.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30
Real Estate Sale.

Henry Shubert sold at public sale last
evening, at the Leopard hotel, twO-story
brick dwelling house belonging to VIM.
w. Hensel, situated on the west side of
North Franklin street. between Orange
and Chestnut streets, No. 142, to James
KYLE for 81 ,OlO.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30
Patent Granted.

Letters patent No. 249, TAI, dated Nov.
%, 1881, for an improved device for shift
ing buggy tops frsm the inside of the
buggy, have been issued to Levi X. Bru-
baker, Of Lititz. this county obtained
through the agency of Allan A. Herr &
Co. Of this city
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30
An Old Pistol.

Mr.. J. G. Merriam, 1G2 East King, has
added to his fine collection of curiOsities
and relics an old French pistol, at least
ono hundred years old, and probably
great deal older. 1t isa flint lock Of i'm
mcnso size, the bore being as large rs that
of musket. It has heavy walnut
stock, to which the barrel is bound by
heavy brass bands, on one Of which is cut
the letter "W.' but that is no positive
proof that it ever belonged to the famous
boy who owned s" the little hatchet.''
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30
Pooling With Gas.

John GOerner, an employee in the brew
cry of Fred. Lauer, Reading, went into a
mammoth beer vat for the purpose of var
nishing it, taking a lamp with him. Tic
vat was filled with alcoholic gas, and
when Goerner put his head through the
man-hole to get breath of air, the gas
took fire. from the lamp and exploded,
throwing him through the air like rocket.
His hair was nearly sinsed of, and his
hands and body were badly burned. His
injuries are not considered dangerous.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30
Railroad Acc.d0n' =.

The Lancaster accommodation due Eere
at $50 did not arrive until 1880. having
been detained a short distance cast Of Har-
risburg by the breaking of the axle Of the
main driving wheel Of locomotive 5O4 by
which the train was being brought on.
No one was hurt by the accident.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30
The New York NlIrstrels.

The show at Fulton hall last night had
a $40 house the music was good, the
performers few, and the fun little gray
with age.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30
THE EBB AND FLOW.


The tide slips up tho silver sand.
Dark night ana rosy day:
Ii brings sea-trcasurcS to the land,
Then bears them all away.
On mighty shores from cast to west
1t walls, and grOpcs, and cannot rest.
tide, that still doth ebb and flow
Through night TO golden day:
Wit, learning, beauty, come and go,
Thou Siv'St, thou tak'st away.
But sometime, on some gracious shore,
Thou shalt lie still and ebb no more
ELLEN ". Hutchinson
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30
A Reading Virago on tho Rampage.

Mrs. Amanda Cornish, living in the
upper section of Reading, has been drink
ing heavily for some days, but did no
harm until yesterday. when she demol-
ished a lot of furniture in her own home,
after which, with hatchet in hand, she
started out to butcher some of her neigh
bors. The first object of attack was the
residence Of William Baker. Unlocking
the front door with a key she came to a
second door and, being unable to unlock
that, battered it down with the hatchet.
Mrs. Baker and her infant child escaped
the Infatuated woman and ran to a neigh
boris house. The woman then went to the
residence of Charles NJ. Null and demand
ed admission from Mrs. Null, who was at
the second story window. She was re-
fused admission and then she began split
ting the door to pieces. While engaged
at this she was taken in charge by the po-
lice and conveyed to the county insane
hospital.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30

THE Philadelphia Times has informa-
tion " that twenty-three Republicans of
Marietta, Lancaster county, who voted
for Wolfe at the late election, have been
notified that they arc no longer wanted in
the party" AS tho aforesaid have prob
ably not heard tho news it might spare
them and those who read them out time
AID trouble if the IImss would print the
marked list.
THE grand jury was at a loss for lar
guage to express what must have been it's
unhesitating condemnation " of prison
inspectors who fasten together chilled iron
plates with soft iron bolts. Upon no other
ground can the silence of the grand jury
regarding Frankford's S escape be accounted
for. Aud what kind Of watching do prison
watchmen do that a prisoner can be out
his cell five hours and not be missed?
THE Wiikesbarre Record, stalwart, is
willing to let the Wolfe Republicans come
back, since "they form so small a portion
Of the Republican vote in each district
that no harm can result from letting them
come back to the ranks and participate in
the privileges of privates. They didn't
hurt anybody particularly, and it is cn-
tircly probable that they have learned a
lesson that will do them good" BY the
way did anybody hear the Wolfe Rcpub-
licans asking to be allowed to como back
to the "privileses Of privates %
AS the prison inspectors do not take
kindly to our suggestion that John Frank
ford, the Jail breaker, be selected as
jailcr or Jail architect, would it not be
well for them in the interest of economy
to petition for his immediate pardon, with
the condition precedent that all horses
hereafter stolen by him shall be paid for
by the county? The cost OF the horses
would be mere basatellc compared with
the cost of iron-clad cells, watchmen.
keepers, shotguns, powder and bird. shot
No. s, required under the present manage
ment.
TIE Lebanon "law and order commit
tcc'' is SO shocked that grand jurymcn
there have violated their solemn oaths and
ignored liquor bills fully made out, that
it issues a powerful address appealing
to the preachers to "agree upora partic.
ular hour Of some particular Sabbath Cor
as nearly SO as may be practicable) in the
near future, when from your pulpits
throughout the country, suitable sermons
will be preached, setting forth the sanctity
and binding obligation of an oath, in its
legal effects for time and for eternity,
upon such as violate or obey its sacred
obligations"
"The Agricultural department csti.
mates the Pennsylvania corn crop this
year at 1, ,347, 900 bushels, and hence the
state will rank seventeen among the diff
erent states of the Union. .''-Erum;ner
Editorial.
Either the Examiner or tho Agricultural
department is corned, as by the census of
1880 secen counties in the state each gave
! yield greater than the total amount
,amed. For the ten years previous to
md including 1880, the smallest corn
rop was in 1874, when the total yield was
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30
The Grand Jury.

TIE last grand jury deserves the COM
mcndation which Judge Livingston be-
slowed upon it. Its report will he found
upon our first page, and the circum-
stance pointed out by the court that none
of its members ever served upon a grand
jury before, leads to the inquiry
whether too much experience at this
business may not be prejudicial to a
grand jurors efficiency. The green. horns
do the best; the experienced know too
much. This grand inquest dispatched
its business with remarkable rapidity,
and gave more than the usual time to
the visitation of tie public institutions.
1t would no doubt have been more
satisfactory to the public to be shown
by what process Of calculation
the jury reached the conclusion
that the cigar making department
in the prison pay. We doubt
whether all elements of profit or loss
have been counted, and suspect that if
the calculation was made public some
thing would be found missing that is
necessary to its accuracy. Of course
supplies should be purchased by con-
tract. Any other way of buying them
invites corruption and has led to it in
the past. The failure of public officials
to ask for proposals is, of itself, sugges-
tive Of corrupt purposes. The "exces-
sive expenditures " at the prison enc
cessitated by the entertainment of the
officials and sometimes their friends, ="
is subject that the county solicitor
should inquire into, and also into the
" multiplicity Of cases - worked up by
officials to beat the county, which these
grand jurymen "unhesitatingly con-
demn."
But what is going to be done about
it? Grand juries have made wise re-
ports and sage recommendations before
and they are still-born. Will the court
haul the offenders before its bar Of judg.
ment Will the county solicitor stif1ly
stand up to his work and project the
treasury from raids ? Will the proper
officers have tie necessary and salutary
laws that are recommended promptly
passed :? We wait to see.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30

AS Pennsylvania goes so goes the
speakership, say the puzzled correspon-
dents who cannot find out how the Repub.
l;can delegation from this s'ate will vote
as between Kasson and IIisccck. Probably
Pennsylvania waits to hear from the adj
ministratiOn.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30

A CATHOLIC priest in New York warns
his congregation against the danger of
young women of that faith going outside
their own church for husbands.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-09-10

NEw YoRH, September 0.-The body Of
John Wise, a well known resident of IIo.
boken, and who met his death on Friday
last while employed in the New York, On.
tario & Western Tunnel, at West Point,
was borne to Hoboken yesterday, 1t Is
said that there wasa number Of men in the
tunnel at the time Of the accident who
might also have been killed hut for Wise's
presence Of mind and noble self.sACrillce.
He was somedistance from the Others, when
rock fell upon him crushing his legs.
His comrades run to his assistance, and
were digging him out, but Wise warned
them back, telling them that there was IN.
other rock loosened and about to fall.
"You can't save me, boys he shouted"
run to save yourselves" They fled, while
he hid his face in his hands, and an in.
slant later he was buried beneath the ruins.