Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-17

business HAL arc oLIlChCu Oy tuO ouu.
stroke which walketh the streets at
noontide, the small boy who takes to
the water adorns the obituary columns
and illustrates the Sunday school book
with like unfailing certainty.
PERSONAL.
GEORGE z ELIor's mother is still living,
at tho age of ninety. She is in Hobart,
Tasmania.
WILLIAM BouCIcAULT, brother of Dion
Boucicault, the dramatist, has died sud-
denly in railway carriage near London.
MARIE LEAvEAU, well known in the
past as the Queen of the Voudous, died in
New Orleans yesterday, at the age of
80 yeaus. -.
Miss RosINA EMMEr, who has lately &C
quired fame as tho successful candidate in
numerous decorative art and Christmas
card competitions, is near relative OF the
Irish patriot, Robert Emmet.
Mr.. EDWARD A. FREEMAN, the popular
English historian, will soon make an ex-
tensive tour of the United States, with a
view, We presume, Of writing a book on
this country and its characteristics.
Breakfast is served in the White House
at $50, dinner at 2 and supper at z.
When the dinner was first changed from
$50 it was set at o'clock, but this bring
ing it to near the supper hour it was
changed to 2 o'clock.
RUsKIN is now quite we'll again, aud is
concerning himself, it is said, with the
orderly and decent interment of the dead
cats and dogs in his own immediate neigh
borhood of COnistOn. The villagers throw
their defunct animals into the beautiful
lake, and the excellent critic doesn't like
it.
Paymaster REAH FRAzER's ship, the
Alliance, got under way from the Norfolk
navy yard yesterday at noon and proceeded
to Hampton Roads at once on her long
journey to the Arctic regions. Everybody
turned out to see her leave, and the sail
ors on the receiving ship Franklin and
oth.r war vessels manned the rigging and
cheered her Justify rs she gracefully moved
down the stream. She will touch at St.
Johns
When Hon. All. STEPHENS went South
in 1859, after Congress adjourned, his eyes
remained fixed upon the dome Of the capi-
tol until it disappeared from view. "You
are looking at that, suppose" said some
ono, thinking of the time when you will
return here as a senator?'' "Not at all"
answered Mr.. Stephens. 81 am taking
farewell Of it, knowing shall not see it
again until I am brought here state pris-
oner." This was fulfilled in the latter
part OF October, 1865, when he passed
through the city paroled prisoner, on his
way home, after spending five months in
Fort Warren.
Speaking Of locomotives and railways,
which he personally disliked, CARLYLE
compared the age to the vision of Ezekiel's
wheels, and gave a ludicrous description
of short railway journey he had once
taken with his brother, the doctor, re-
marking of the train "What is it but
metallic devil? While the screaming and
howling of steam-whistles were like as if
a million fiends were running to and fro
over the earth !" He then declared, laugh
ing. heartily the while at his own grotesque
exasgeration, that, if lie had had only one
leg, he would rather hop on it, to all eter-
nifty, than again venture on journey by
Metropolitan railway, with its nerve-cdge-
setting, multiform hubbob and tumble of
noises, piercing screams, shaking, and
Stygian stenches. Carlyle had great be-
lief in the profits Of rearing fowls and of
egg culture.
Conklins aud Grant expected their po-
litical friend and wealthy and willing pro-
wider Of campaign funds, JOHN H. STARIN,
to be made collector in New York in the
event Of any change. At the Chicago
convention Starin occupied a splendid
suite of rooms at the Grand Pacific hotel,
and gave his time and money in the inter-
est of the nomination of Gen. Grant.
After Garfield's nomination he, with tho
other stalwarts, turned in and helped to
make his election sure. At the time of
the Inauguration Mr.. Starin, at his own
expense, brought to Washington battal.
ON of his employees, with flags and ban
ners, to participate in the procession and
ceremonies incident to the occasion. Mr..
Starin is man of immense wealth, having
the ownership and control of almost the
entire tugboat business Of New York har-
bor, and man of remarkable business at
tainments. The emoluments of the col
lectorship, of course, had no attraction for
him, but the Office would have been fine
cheese for stalwart rats to dwell in.
Those who have seen the magnetic man
ner of State Superintendent HIaBEE can
we'll appreciate an incident which occurred
at the commencement of the York collegiate
instituteo on Wednesday evening. DR.. Hig-
bee went there from our college com.
mencement and delivered an address on
the state educational systems, on behalf of
which he argued for better unity or con-
secutiveness between the different grades,
entire harmony between tho public
schools andhigher education, and the su-
premacy of the moral over the intellectual
faculties. At the conclusion of his speech
DR.. McDougall sprang to his feet.
He gave a hearty and apprec,ative
endorsement of the lecturer, and
said that now for the first time he