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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-30
STATE ITEMS.

Francis Murphy, the temperance man,
will shortly tackle Oil City.
George P. Rogers. an Erie clerk, CON-
mitted suicide by shooting himself twice
in the head.
John .. Deshong, aged "a, an intluen-
tial. wealthy and widely known citizen has
died ut his residence in Chester after q
lingering illness.
Williamsport is now to issue, in place Of
its outstanding obligations. refunding
bonds. They arc to be 1920 per cents,
exchangeable for the old bonds and I'M
paid ut par.
A stranger believed to be Alexander
Mc(iee. WAS knocked down. killed and
terribly mangled by il Pennsylvania rail-
road freight train on Powelton avenue.
Philadelphia.
Lieut.. Col. Henry :. Smith, clerk Of the
courts Of Montgomery county. died on Sat-
urday morning ut ) o'clock, ut his resi-
dence in NOrristown. lIc had been seri-
Ously i'll but i short time.
William Daubcrt and Thomas McLangh-
lin were blasting cintler in a stack Mt Ma
cungie furnace. when a premature explO.
sion occurred, tearing away portion Of
Dauber'ts face and destroying the eyo-
sight of Mclaughlin.
Miss Mary Mathers, beautiful and
accomplished young lady of Woodbury.,
Nd, aged 20 visiting friends in Philadel-
phia, went yachting on Saturday, was
struck by the boom of cOlliding craft,
knocked overheard and her body has not
yet been found.
It was DR.. Cattell, of Lafayette college,
Easton, who declined for his institution
bequest of some thousands left to it by
graduate, who had most unjustly, in NAL
Ice over quarrel with them, disinherited
his son and wife. The college accordingly
gave up the property to them.
The German singing societies of Phil
adelphia will celebrate the bi-centennial
anniversary Of that city by great musi-
cal festival, to be held June, 1882, and last
one week. Thirty y-one societies have CON-
bined for this purpose, and in order to
raise the funds necessary to mako the az
fair q success social musical festival will
be held in Rising Sun park on tho s1st
and ed of August next. At the grand
festival societies from New York, Boston,
Baltimore and other cities are expected to
participate.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-30
A Cool statement.

A correspondent of a West Chester
paper writes US from Port Deposit: Il
may make an interesting tom for your
readers to know that there yet remains
bank of ice on the Lancaster county side Of
Susquehanna river, near McCalrs Ferry,
which is at least 100 feet long, 20 feet
wide and feet thick, being the remains
of the ice gorge Of last winter. 1t will
last, l think, at least Is days yet.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-30

Ransom Cook, inventor, has died at Sar-
atoga, aged 81 years. He was a native OF
WallingfOrd, Conn.,, and came TO Saratoga
when seven years old. He leaves widow
and two sons. His estate is valued at
S15O,OOO His library of 5000 volumes,
principally scientific, cost upwards of &c.
600. He patented seventeen inventions.
The most notable one was the celebrated
"Cook auger." The Armstrong cannon
was his invention in 1922, but this govern
ment did not adopt it. Gen. Armstrong,
an Englishman, obtained the Cook plans,
and made fortune abroad.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-30

At 1914 Prince street, Brooklyn, Edward
M. Dezendorf in fit of passion resulting
from jealousy shot his wife, inflicting =
wound which will probably prove fatal,
and then sent q bullet through his own
heart, killing himself instantly. Husband
and wife were each thirty-One years of age
and had been married about eleven years.
The family lived in comfortable circum-
but for some time quarrels had
been of frequent occurrence between
DezendOrf and his wife.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-30
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
DECORATION DAY, 1851.

DEcORATlON DAY. 1881.
Unto oar laad these hours belong;
We grace their shrines with bud ana leaf,
And with the ecstasy Of griof
The voice OF triumph swells In song.
Through lustrous years these heroes sleep
Mid homes their spirits stnl possess;
But who will crown, Whas chant vim hDoss,
Tho bSeeze-blown graves OF outer deep.
No wrsaths for thsn, No rhythmbossrsin.
While dimmed eyes wait on lonely shore
For ghOstly ships that come no more
To lives made dumb with unsOlvsd pain
No more tar seas lift white the SAILS;
No foam-flags thrill before the prows,
Nor Wistful wind tAo cOur1s snd0ws,
" brothers lost to miil-ieop halls.
What time they sailed our youth knew best :;
The hot world pulsed with sailors cheers,
Though In tho rain of.vomea's team
noomeGi dim the futures sod bequest.
We bade them 90, though palo lips thrilled
Through all the vari0us IAngo Of song,
Nor dreamed our pecGns would prolOnx
Their echoes till requiem sttlled.
Some steers.l for ports OF far Catny:
And some to CULTS whore NO man hailed,
For half their year was chaSgsless dsy.
Round tropio cape and weed-lapped shoal.
Through seas Of amber and Of blue,
Their shining kcels our lost ones drew
With vain inquest for promised goal.
Oh, mono return, Or over viii!
Though bettor loved for being late,
A.p. AA~A
Have we'd their lives and ours to Ill.
We cannot grasp Divine desixns
Which give = purpose to our loss;
But We can feel with dust and dross
~ selnsh pain some gold combines.
And from the failure and the pain
With earth-freed aims our souls outreach,
And claim the chastonoil right to teach
The lessons learned through loss and gain.
We bear this burSioa of our youths
With greater patience that we know
The hidden paths We tread below
Grow luminous meath subllmosl truths.
Not vain our dead who fearless sailed;
Unshrined, We hold them in our heart;
Unsung. they wake the n0bler part
Of what their lives essayed ami failed.
In peace We guard these graves, and We
win gl0rify their hAllowed Held;
But till tho waves our martyrs Yield,
Our noblest dead bless every sea.
-. d. j. Kelley, In United Ssrvice MdgaziH
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-30

PALPABLE DISTINCTIONS. why
does the NeD Era make such "palpa-
bic distinction as to take /" Christ -
Coble and leave " Ike - Bushong? Has
Mercantile Appraiser Croft not put a
valuation on the latter Why did the
Neo Era in its account of the primary
elections and the return judges meeting
make such a palpable distinction " be-
tween the disgraceful conduct of Sense
nig's hired heelers at the polls and in the
hall, and McMellen's mercenary train
bandP Why does the Ne,o Era make sucha
/" palpable distinction " between its de-
scrfption of Sensenig' 8 saloon in 1878 and
in 1881 Why does the Ne,o Era make
such palpable distinction - between
Harvey Raymond's return tinkering in
Lower Mount Joy and the Sensenig
gangs ballOt-box stuffing in the Sixth
and Seventh wards
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-30

Tho ladies Of the Moravian church, "a
nous for their hospitality and good cheer.
are first to invite tho public 70 . straw
berry festival which win b held under their
auspices on Wednesday and Thursday
evenings Of this week, in Roberts hall
North Prince street; opposite Fulton opera
house. Generous entsrtainment a1d eor-
teOus treatment are sare 70 grest ths visi-
tor here, and the ladies promise tho ripest,
the reddest and most luscious stz.whs1zies
that the most exacting adDirsr Of this
kind Of the small fruits oould desire.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-30

The Philadelphia Press has walked up
to the fact that Senator Malone still
lives, but evidently concludes that it is
a very feeble life and so lets the late great
regenerator slide back home with some
very cold words of dismissal. The course
the Republicans of Virginia will take
in regard to an alliance with Malone is
still in doubt, says the Press, and 50 it is
in doubt. Garfield doubts, the Press
doubts. We fear, as Garfield is famous
as a doubter, that our esteemed
contemporary will have a heavy time
keeping up with his doubtings. 1t went
sadly astray on the Malone shoot which
was very promising to follow at first to a
journal which g welcomes the overthrow
of Bourbonism no matter which party
or what man is the lever"
In other words, the Press proclaims
itself for the Republican admins
tration, which dipenses the Offices, no
matter by what man or on what ground
that administration Is assailed. If that
isnot a hot declaration of devotion to
Garfield then one could not be framed.
/" No matter which party or what man
is the lever" 1t is for him against
every and any lever. Whatever he does
it is for the Republican president.
Whatever his principles, it is for him.
When he is uncertain, it is in doubt.
When he strikes, it is ready to tumble to
the work. Its speedy desertion OF Conk-
ling, after 20 valiantIy bearing his lance
even so lately as in the tilt against Sen
ator Bayard, looked As though the ad-
ministration Label was very necessary to
make any political man or thing look
lovely to the Press, but we hardly ex-
pected it to avow SO broadly and plainly
as it now does its thick and thin par
tisanship of the president. No wonder
that poor Billy Malone, its idol of a
month ago, is let 30 coltlly slide by a
journal having such Q test for determin-
ing the virtue of standing by its friends.
This is its Benedicite:
Senator Malone, having vanquished tho
Bourbons in the Senate, goes homo to-
day to prepare for . life-and-death strug-
gle with those Of Virginia. Tho Readjus-
ter convention will meet at Richmond
next Thursday, and tho campaign will
then open, but the issues upon which it |
will he fought are still undetermined.
The Bourbous show disposition to steal /
the senator's thunder in his previous con-
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-30

Yesterday was observed as Union Deco
ration day in New Orleans, the graves at
Chalmette being decorated under the au-
spices of the Grand Army OF the Republic.
j. r. Beckwith delivered the Grafton. The
ex- Confederate associations took part in
the ceremonies.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-30

tests BY assuming tho position he has so
vigorously maintained on the debt ques-
ton, while the course the Republicans
will take Il still in doubt. One thing,
however, il certain. The country will
Welcome the overthrow of Bourbonism in
Virginia, as we'll as in the rest of the
South, no matter which party or what
man is the lever.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-30

VIM. Whitman, Of Wrightsdals, writes
us as follows: 81 noticed In Tie e0au0us
of your paper Of . couple Of largo fleeeea Of
wool. think can match il considering
the age. / sheared 123 pounds o6 one
young buck, not more than . year old, of
common stock" -.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-30

The house of Samuel Matthews, of Cam
bria county, was entered in day light by
thieves who stole 81, 900.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-30
That Settles 1t.


Eds. Examiner In your paper of Sat
urday yeu leave it for the Republicans of
the Seventh ward to decide whether or not
voted at their late primary election. The
report that did is utterly false it is lie
cut from the whole cloth. You undertake
to excuse the report by the statement that
my father voted and cit is claimed that he
had a right to vote, =" and, then you some
what ambiguously conclude with the state
ment: "Mr. Kitch's vote was counted, So
My father lives in the Fourth ward. He
is Republican. but he did not vote at the
Seventh ward primary. There is no KiteA
except myseJ in the Seventh ward, and all
the election officers of that ward positively
deny that any Of that name voted or is on
the tally list.
DAVIS KITCH,
Supt. OF Water Works.
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posterity win acknowledge that each
fought for what he deemed right in the
cause Of England's empire and of England's
commonwealth. Moderation where mod
alton was possible and necessary, the
genius that knew when to give way and
when to resist, the unconquerable strength
of will, and the passionate love of the honor
and greatness of England-these were vir-
tues which belonged to no party, and were
in themselves wholly Independent of what
ever lines divided one party from another.
The name of Lord Beaconsfeld would be
remembered by posterity as that Of one
who had an extraordinary career, which
led the alien in race, the despised in debate,
the eccentric in demeanor, the romantic
adventurer, the fierce assailant, by unflag-
ging perseverance. unfailing sagacity, un-
shaken fidelity, by constantly increasing
dignity, by larger and larger breadth Of
view, to reach the highest SUBMITS Of
fame and spleLdOr.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-30

reflection that he missed the golden op-
portunity to make the Greatest Effort -
of his life when he failed to follow his in
stincts aud his conscience and declare
against the electoral fraud The voice of
the siren lured him from his better inten-
tions, and such tide when not taken at
its flood never returns. Had Conkling
declared for the Right then he might have
saved himself if not his party, and had he
not become the foremost public man of
his day his rank in his own party would
have been undisputed.
JOHN CESSNA, of Bedford, Pa, gives
notice through the public prints up that
way-''1t."- he has brought out no
candidates and set up no newspaper
against Judge Halls reelection; but, to
relieve all possible misunderstanding and
correct misrepresentation, John modestly
adds 81" have lived here nearly sixty
years; have earned and expended my
means among the people of the county,
and if my fellow citizens have sufficient
confidence in my capacity and integrity to
bestow upon me the honorable position
Of president judge will esteem it great
favor, trusting that it may be the last one
l shall ever ask at their hands, and will
endeavor to discharge the important and
responsible duties of the position to the
very best of my skill and ability
Dean Stanley, preaching recently in
Westminster Abby, described GLADSTONE
and the late BEAcoNsLrELD as the great
twin brethren Of the day, each supplying
what the other needed for the public veal.
Though they differed 80 widely in opinions,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-30

One applicant for the position Of United
States consul had the personal indorse-
ments of Longfellow and Holmes, Aldrich
and Whittier. He must have been a SUPER
literary feller.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-06-03
How the Golden Legend was
Written.

In the summer of 1851 Longfellow wrote
his poem 1.-The Golden Legend and II was
the good fortune of the editor of the Repub
lican-then n compositor and proof reader
to set the type and correct the proofs on that
work. 1t was stereotyped in the old Univer
sty Printing office, at Cambridge, Mass.
The copy was written with a blunt lead pen
Gil on rough Cor unsized) white paper of or
dinary letter page size. The lines were wide
" separated. hut in rather cramped back
hand and sometimes ilegible. The poet used
classic ard ecclesiastic phrases which puz-
zled the compositor, and in more than one
instance. when he came to our lease" to
bring his proofs. we asked him to read pas
sages in his copy and to explain prases he
had used lie was then hale, portly, fine
looking man, nearly six feet in height. we'll
proportioned. with a tendency to fatness,
brown hair and blue eyes, and bearing the
appearance of a comfortable hotel-keeper.
His dress was fashionable without being fop-
pish: his manner gracious. but not familiar.
'.The Golden Legend is a sort of drama.
with brief poems interspersed, and at the
close of each scene a place and date were
given-probably to show when and where il
had been written. The compositor was di
rected to omit the same; but we recollect
Newport. Nahant and Cambridge among
these places, and the dates were from one o
two days to as many weeks apart. The poet
was seized with inspiration at sundry times
and places, and wrote whenever he felt like
it. He would occasionally cancel verse or
a passage, and once he cancelled about seven
pages, but the identical poem appeared years
afterwards in the Atlantic Monthly. He was
Professor of Modern Languages and Litera-
ture in Harvard University, and wrote mos,
of this poem during vacation. We saw him
once in the University library, inquiring for
book on natural history, from which he
could learn the color of a certain birds eyes.
The severest criticism ever uttered upon
Longfellow was that he looked at things
through the windows of literature rather than
with his own unaided eyes.-Lansing Mich. }
Republican.
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MAINE ErR1AYMo JNE3 1m
NO. 13O.
Books For The Young.

We closed some remarks in our last num-
ber with the words. '''rhe true way to keep
out of evil is to occupy its place beforehand
with what is good" This is to be our text
now:
"Natursm expellas farca, tamen usque recurret'
says Horace. But suppose, instead Of driving
Nature out with pitchfork, you get another
Nature to come into the place The man
who is interested in the free-trade or spirit
ualist or evolution controversy or modern
art ideas will not have the time to spend in
gorging himself with poor fiction. Do you
ask how you are to get the new Nature ine
In various ways.
For one thing, don't-while you are max
ing it easy to read fiction by supplying un-
limited quantities of it, and publishing
special catalogues of it-make it hard to read
anything else. by restricting all the nicer
books, and adding stars and double stars to
those which the student particularly de-
sires to take out. Make good reading
easy in every way you can think Of, ami
suggest it wherever you have an oppor-
tunity. Don't get ten copies OF Miss Brad.
don's or Miss Forrester's last novel, and one
only of Carlyle's "reminiscences, or Birds
Japan, But get one copy of Miss Braddon,
and none at all of Miss Forester, AMI as soon
as you find the slightest demand for Carlyle
or Bird, get additional copies. Publish fire.
quent bulletins calling attention such works.
Make use of the daily papers. If you can
interest their editors and publishers in the
work.
"When a boy asks you for something in
teresting. give him, not a sensational novel,
but bright book of travels. or n glowing
history; if he objects talk with him little
and urge him to spend at least part of his
time on books that will leave something
behind them. Make him believe--you can
do so if you believe it yourself-that such
books are interesting. If you succeed in
inducing him to take the book, ask him about
it when he comes again. Have another ready
to give to him in its place. II you follow
this up, you will have expelled nature with
a much better instrument than the furca you
have gained one good reader and also-this
is important in some towns-one intelligent
supporter of the library. But the librarian
cannot do as much as the schoolmaster in
this direction.-LibraryJ Journal
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A Tragedy in Our Camp.

member of railroad surveying party.
writing from Acambara. Mexico. to the Phil
adelphia Times. thus describes an awful trag-
edy in their camp: sour party was composed
of Mr.. Filley, in charge of our branch: Fos-
ter, who had the transit; Martin. the level;
Jones and myself 'topographers': and DIR.
Sackrider, taking the lines on the slopes.
The doctor had been compelled to leave home
and his practice. being the victim OF certain
prosecutions. His troubles so worked on his
mind that he became crazy. He imagined
that we were in league with his enemies and
were trying to ruin him. For some time past
we all noticed little things which made Us
agree that he was slightly unbalanced. Our
suspicious were confirmed in a horrible way.
On Friday morning awoke at half past and
and the first thing saw was the doctor, with
one Of the largest pistols pointed mt and with
in foot Of Martins head. I heard him say,
where is that diarv Of mine which you got
from the hacienda last EVENING"? Martin
seemed to grasp the situation and said, "All
right. will get it for you,' intending to get
hold Of the pistol. But he was not quick
enough. The doctor fired, and Martin, who
was on his knees. fell forward with his head
all shattered. The doctor then turned to our
side of the tent. going At the same time
toward the door. Before he reached it he
cooked his pistol, fired and fatally wounded
Jones, my bed-mate, lying alongside Of me.
He then ran out and ten feet from the tent
turned and fired at me. Fortunately the bull
let missed me. making hole in the tent just
above nv head. The bullet that mortslly
wounded Jones also made hole through my
blue shirt. The doctor then fred fourth
shot through the tent for anyone it would hit.
One Of our men by this time had managed to
get his gun and called out. Shoot him
shoot him! He knelt down At the door Of
the tent, and shot the mad-man through the
heart"
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LIVER DISEASE

Mr.. J. H. Northrop, of Lansngburg. n. Y.
for several years Captain of the Troy police,
says: Il have been for long time a great
sufferer from arrangement of the liver, and
after using many ofthe medicines recommend
ed for that complaint, DIR kennedy's "Fa-
vorite Remedy is the only one which gave
me any relief. firmly believe that the "Fa-
vorite Remedy" is a good honest preparation !;
ono 4I,atx ho aonan.ioa .,.,a.,
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Lamartine has been losing steadily his hold

Lamartine has been losing steadily his hold
on his countrvmen. NJ. Jules Claretie re-
erets this, and says: There is. say it to
the shame of the rising generation, a want
into which Lamartine has fallen. The poet
in Lamartine was great poet. The man in
him was a good citizen. 'Lamartine,' said
Victor Hugo himself in my presence one
evening, lis the last Of the great classic
poets'"
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Many ladies of rank in Paris are devoted
to art. One of the most remarkable pictures
Baskirseff, one of the bellies of the season.
The dealers have offered one thousand dol
lars for the picture but the young lady re-
fuses, intending it as gift to a friend
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ITS RELIEF AND CURE A. CERTAIN AS DAY
FOLLOWS DAY, WITHOUT ANY OPERA
TlON, OR HINDRANCE FROM LABOR.
Since the reduction Of Dr. Sherman- terms, thou
sands crowding upon him for treatment, gladly
throwing away iheir gripping, rksOme, dspiring and
lii. Furnishing trusses Hi. treatment for the aiic
ton makes the patient comfortable and safe in the
performance Of kind of exercise labor Ii
Q grand thing, and those who rupured and do not
prov de Them ih II must endure the dangers Of
that precarous afiicti0n and the of russes all
through life Thousands of those cured give the most
hafiering testimonials of gratitude to Dr. sherman.
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HONEST MEDICINE.

fAVOntbe H6"eOV.
Recon- mms nded by Clergymen, ssatrsnaen
and Others.
SALT RHEuM.
Hon J. II. SNYDER. of Saugerties. n. Y,
gratefully testifies to the ability of '-Favorite
Remedy as exhibited in the case of his little
dau = hter no was covered with Salt Rheum
from head TO foot ''Favorite Remedy" saws
this thankful father. relieved my girl alto
gether from this fearful affliction, Salt Rheum.
This occurred two years ago, and not sign of
the disease has since appeared. What it did
for this child it will do for all who use it,
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The remains of William Penn are to be
brought over from England and ceremonious-
ly buried in Pennsylvania, probably in the
yard of old Independence Hall at Philadel-
phia. The present representatives OF the
Penn family make no objection to the remov-