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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-31
"lSRING FLOWERS.
Decoration Day ut Marietta.

DecOf8tlOn Ooy ~ M3rletto.
The day was one Of unusually impressive
observance and general interest in Ma.
rietta, and all classes Of people participated
in the ceremony and noted the significance
of the day by abstaining from ordinary
pursuits. The Sunday schools under the
management Of DR.. WOrral; the societies
and employees of the cigar and other
manufactures and citizens formed in pro-
cession at clock, the Sunday schools in
the right of the line. The parade moved
down Elbow lane to Market street, to
Gay, to Fairview and thence to the ceme.
terry where the Sunday school children
opened ranks and allowed the remainder
of the procession to pass through while
they sang, God Bless Our Native Land'
to the accompaniment of the band. The
procession moved around the centre plot
Of tho beautiful cemetery and formed a
circle, followed by the Sunday schools
the committee Of reception, orator,
position in the centre. Rev. J. G. Wood
then offered prayer and Capt. Drucke-
miller made the G. A. K. address.
''Blest are the martyred dead who lie''
was sung and prayer was made by Rev.
Newton Shannon. The Soldiers Monu-
mental Song was sung and to its strains
the children strewed flowers over the
graves of the dead soldiers, which had
previously been marked with small flags.
After this was concluded W. ID. Weaver, esq.
Of this city, delivered an Grafton. It was
about q half hour in length
and he spoke with eloquence, earnestness
and appropriateness. The band then play,
ed a suitable selection and after a benedic
ton by Rev. Wood the audience dispersed,
many remaining in the cemetery to inspect
and admire the tasteful and profuse deco
rations.
At Mannheim.
Tho exercises at this town were Of q
very interesting nature. The procession
formed in Market square at half past one
o'clock in the following order
Marshals.
Band.
Returned Soldiers.
Clergy and Orators.
Choir.
Town Council and School Board.
Hope Fire Company.
Secret Societies.
Citizens.
The procession marched over the route
to George Longs orchard, where a tine
stand was erected, which was beautifully
trimmed with flags, etc. The meeting was
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-31
STATE ITEMS.


Lille Ackcrman, aged Z years, was
drowned by falling into the creek at ,.Ches-
ter.
The j-year-Old son of Mr.. Dunklc, super.
intendent of the Cottage planning mill, Hun
tingdon, was drowned in the race near the
mill.
Daniel Smith, mOulder, who worked
in the Bessemer steel works, Bethlehem,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the heart.
Frederick Walter, 4 coal miner, en-
ployed at Armstrong; works near Pitts
burgh was killed by fall of slate on Sat-
urday. The deceased leaves a wife but no
children.
The everlasting ecclesiastical case of
Stark VS.. O'Hara is at the supreme court
again from LycOming county; and it
wouldn't be a Williamsport list if the
Herdics and Lycoming fire insurance COM
pany were not on it as litigants.
The case of the " sleeping Hungarian
at Allentown seems to have lost interest
since his trancc-like condition has come
to be attributed to tho abscess on his head
which is now three inches long, two wide,
and running sore.
In April 1880, in Beaver Falls, Barney
Miller, 4 grocery clerk, was offered ten
shares of stock in the Pittsburgh and Lake
Erie railroad for $3.50 spot cash. He bor-
rOwed the money, bought it on faith and
sold at 500 per share the other day payin.
his interest and pocketing 500 profit.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-31
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

George w. Townsend, a wealthy citizen
of Ncwburg, New York. died suddenly at
Babylon, Long Island, on Sunday.
jeremiah Hall, d. D., ex-president OF
Dennison university, at Granville, Ohio,
died yesterday, at Port Haven, Michigan,
aged 76 years.
Base Observation-Disclosures 16; Brook
lyn, 6. New Havcn-Yale, 5; Brown, 2.
WOrcester-Worccstcr, 8 :; Detroit, 4. New
York-Metropolitan, 6 Atlantic, 4. Phil
adelphia-Athletic, 6; National, 2.
A duel was fought in Scott county, No.,
between two young men namen Trent and
Strickland, who in Il quarrel on the high
way resorted to knives. The result was
the mortal wOundins of Strickland.
1t begins to look as if COnkling would bc
elected-tO stay at home. Only IS men,
bers attended his caucus last night. The
administration conference had 81. The
Democrats have nominated Francis Ker-
nan and John G. Jacobs as their candi-
dates.
In Indianapolis John Zurich, formerly a
policeman and saloon keeper, whose wife
had applied for a divorce, shot her and her
father and then shot himself. Zurich has
since died. Mrs. Euricll's condition is
critical, but she will probably recover.
Her father was only slightly wounded.
The first annual meeting of the League
of American Wheelmcn took place in Bos-
ton yesterday and was an event of a most
novel character. Many clubs from differ
ent cities had arrived within the past two
or tbree days, and at tho parade there
were about 800 bicycles in line.
Tho Discount and Deposit bank of Chat
tanoOga has made an assignment. The
assests of the bank are amply sufficient to
pay all liabilities if from any cause they
should not, the liability of the stockholders
under the terms of the charter, makes it
absolutely certain that every creditor will
get every dollar due him.
Emma Agne, 26 years old, a patient in
the Bloomingdale asylum under treatment
for suicidal mania, was found hanging to
a sheet to the closet door of her room. She
had been dead several hours. She had put
a dummy in her bed so that her absence
from it would not be missed by the attend
ants.
John P. Munley challenged George Num-
ley, his nephew, nineteen years old, to
fight a duel. They met on CampbelPs
Greek, West Virginia, and George Munley
was shot in the mouth before he fired a
shot. He cannot recover. Both are miners
in good circumstances, and the quarrel be.
tween them arose out of family matters.
At Bridgeport, Ala, 20 miles from
Chattanooga, an Irish tramp named Nc
han, while bathing with some young men,
became enraged because they spattered
him with mud, rushed for his knife and
cut VIM. Copeland in the neck. causing
instant death. Tho tramp was seized and
bound hand and foot, and while in prison,
Sam Reese, cousin of Copeland, slipped
up and shot Mehau through tho head,
causing death Immediately. Reese es-
capped. The two cousins are connected
with the wealthiest and most substantial
families in that neighborhood.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-31

THERE is a frequsnt unseemliness
about the American manner of celebrat-
ing holidays. Our idea Of festivity too
often runs to disorder. But when
Decoration day is made the occasion for
drunken rowdies to decorate each others
faces with evidences of their prowess the
limit of the inappropriate has been
reached.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-31
I" Playing Soldier.

A number of children were "playing
soldiers, " in the basement Of William
Reeds residence, Baltimore. Among
others was bright little fellow of nine
years, James H. Frebarger, son Of city
official. Charles Herring, aged twelve,
found rusty old army musket that had
not been touched for eight years, and was
supposed to be unloaded. He placed a tiny
toypistol cap on the nipple and at the sug-
gestion of companion pointed the barrel
through a grating toward the little soldiers
and pulled the trigger. ALOUD explosion
followed and when the smoke cleared away
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-31
Railrond Changes.

Superintendent w. F. Lockard, of the
Philadelphia division, Pennsylvania rail-
road, has been assigned to duty in Phila-
delphia, where he will have charge of that
company's interests, including tho new
elevated road, tho grain shipments, etc.
Superintendent s. NJ. Provost, of the mid
die division has been appointed to succeed
MIR. Lockard on the Philadelphia division,
the change to take place on June LIST.
Mr.. Provost will be succeeded in the mid
die division by Superintendent H. H. Car
ter, of the Frederick division Pennsylva-
mir railroad.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-31

The bribery Of the Legislature by Mr..
Scott is defended on the ground that he
could get no legislation for the Pennsyl-
vania railroad without paying for it. 1t is
claimed that he did not debauch the Leg
islature because he did not find it pure.
He would have been glad to get his legis-
latiOn for nothing, but he couldn't and
SO he paid for it. 1t is difficult, indeed.
to see how any Just defense of the Offense
Of bribery can be based upon this ground.
The very statement of the plain fact that
no man weuld bribe another if he could
get what he wanted without it, shows
that the offense of bribery is in no way
dependent upon the readiness of the
party to Ike bribed. If there was no
party TO be bribed there would he no
bribery just rs there would be none if
there was no one ready to bribe. The
public safety demands that both the
briber and the bribed shall he punished
rs protection against corruption. and
neither briber nor bribed can find any
excuse in the obvious fact that there
would not he one without the other.
No doubt Mr.. Scott would have had
difficulty in achieving his objects Of leg
islation if he had not bribed the Legisla-
ture. But, nevertheless, it was his duty
not to bribe. If it had been known to
be the steadfast purpose of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad not to pay for its legisla-
tion, it would in the end have obtained
by the demand of public sentiment, if
not by the will of an uncorrupted and un-
tempted Legislature, all that the public
veal demanded that it should have.
And all else the corporation could well
have done without. But the fact un
questionably was that the legislation the
Pennsylvania railroad demanded was
often, if not generally, of tue kind that
it was absolutely injurious to the state
to grant. For such it could not ap-
peal to public sentiment; nor could it.,
while demanding unjust and injurious
legislation, resist the demand of the cor
rupt legislator that he should be paid a
share of the spoil that was to be gather
ed from the state. ...
All that seems too plain to dwell upon.
And it is surprising that anyone in view
of such schemes of the Pennsylvania rail-
road as the nine million steal and the
tonnage tax repeal, should venture to
lin defense of Mr.. Scott s policy, that
without it he could secure no legislation.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-31
Ninth Penna. Cavalry .

ciety of the Ninth Pennsylvania Veteran
Volunteer Cavalry, will be held at Mechan-
icsburg, Cumberland county, on Thurs
day, june, 2, at O'Clock p. m. 1t prom.
ises to be a grand affair. The comrades
and citizens, through their former COM
manding officer. Col. D. II. Kimmel, are
making extensive preparations to give the
old soldiers of tho Ninth a hearty well
come. All soldiers are invited. Those
who intend going will leave here on Thurs.
day morning in tho 1920 train.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-31
Our Surplus Revenue.

Our Surplus kevenue.
The New York Sun calculates that at
the present ratio Of increase of the an
nual surplus in the United States treas
ury, in twenty years enough will have
accrued to discharge the whole national
debt. 1t is troubled as to what shall then
he done with tie surplus, and concludes
that 1.-THE measure which will most nat.
urally commend itself to the sense of the
nation is the reduction of taxation and
the prolongation at reduced interest of
the funded debt"
But we are not SO sure that this is the
salse, of the nation. There is an old
saying forbidding Us to be solicitous
about crossing fence until we get to
it, and another which declares that
sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
There may be no surplus to worry us
twenty years hence, and il there is, it
will hardly be = difficult matter to de-
termine bow it shall be atrophied. A
removal Of taxes will do it promptly.
And at that time there will be a great
many taxes that can be advantageously
removed, as there will certainly he many
industries that will then have outgrOwn
their need of protection.
Meanwhile we believe in the policy
of reducing the national debt, since it
can lie done by taxation that is not
only not oppressive, but that has its ad-
vantage in affOrding incidental protec-
tiOn to the national industries. We are
not converts to the idea that a national
debt is a national blessing No doubt
it is very handy and desirable for capital
lists and widows and old folks, as place
where to invest their money safely and
to assure themselves of their income.
But it is not the duty of the
government to maintain a debt for the
convenience of these classes. fit needs
money it is very convenient for it to
have such ready lenders in it's midst !;
but if it does not need it, it in no way
advances the general good by keeping it
and paying interest upon it. The nation
i'm no way differs in this respect from
the individual, in the intelligent man.
agement of its finances. The money it
does not need it should not take, but
should let it find some other means of
finding increase. 1t will not rust, but
will always find user. There are in
Vulnerable opportunities for the employ
ment of capital i'm this country Of great
material wealth, in producing and dis
pensing it. And while it is not the duty
of the government to take money that
it does not want, from those who desire it
to take it that it may be safe, it is the
governments duty to protect the citi-
zen from the fraudulent plans of scheln-
ing rascals to borrow his money without
a respectable guarantee of its safety.
Here the national legislature can pro-
perly exercise a protecting care over the
interests Of the widow and the father
less.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-31
Al BIg Firo Across the Lime.

The Waring fertilizer company's works,
at Liberty Grove, Cecil county, Maryland,
were burned on Saturday night with a
large quantity of stock and material.
Loss, $50, coo. Six freight cars of the
Baltimore Central railroad were also de-
stroyed. Incendiarism is suspected.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-31

Highgate cemetery beautiful memorial
stone. It is in the form Of an obelisk IL
feet in height, and is q beautiful specimen
of the blue or Aberdeen granite. The
pedestal bears the following inscription in
gold letters:
"'Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better bv their presence
Here lies the body of
George Eliot
Mary Ann Cross.
Born 2sd November, lSl9
Died I'D December, 1882"
When the gold cross given Miss Anthony
by her Philadelphia admirers was passed
down to the reporters table for examin.
alton at the Woman Suffrage convention
in Boston, E. P. Robinson, of Saugus,
who sat among them, remarked: ''Mrs.
President and ladies': When one of our
Massachusetts, regiments was starting fol
the war, John A. Andrew, taking tho mus
ket carried by Theodore Parker's grand
father at Lexington, which had been pre-.
sented to tho state, kissed it as an earnest
of his devotion to their cause. So l kiss
this cross as an earnest Of my admiration
of SUSAN 3. ANTHONY" The kiss was
given, the audience laughed, and Miss
Anthony blushed appreciation.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-31

Now 1OrK WOrIU.
1t is just u little curious that in this su-
preme agony of the great and grand old
Republican party we do not hear one word
about the peril to the Union of solid
South. not one word about the sacredness
of the baIlot-box, not one word about
finance and the tariff, not one word about
civil.service reform-not one word in fact
about any subject except the New York
custom house and the machine!
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-31
Let Low Go.

Reading News.
As Senator Cameron is going to Albany,
the Lancaster county boss ought to accom-
pany him. Levi Sensenigger in the wood
pile as quick as the next man, and there is
big sized African in the New York sena-
torial log heap.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-31
LANCASTER DAILY iNrEILIGENCER TUESDAY, MAY 81 1881

the dead body Of young Frebarger was
found a the floor. Half his head was
blown away by the load Of heavy shot
with which the old muskct had been
charged.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-31
The Horse Market.

Samuel Hess and Son, auctioueers. sold
at public sale at the Merrimac house, Lam
caster, for Geo. Grossman 20 head of
Canada horses at an average of $201. 10
per head, the highest one sold brought
$3.50.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-02-25
a rrNNr nrMNrs. al AnorNp.

The oleomargarine men have recently
bad an admirable opportunity Of turn
ing the laugh against the batter-pro-
ducers Of Vermont. The Dairymen's
Association Of that State held con-
vention and unanimously passed resolu-
tions ccndcmning all spurious articles
of food It now turns out that the
very able address delivered 70 the Asso-
citation was spurious, in that it was sto-
len almost bodily from DR. Hollands
essays on ''Public Education" and ''The
Food We Eat" But then, although he
palmed Off second band goods as if they
were Of his own manufacture, yet no
ono alleges that lac did not supply q
good article. That makes ali the diff
ference between him and the oleomar
garine men.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-02-25
NO MORE OF THAT.

Thank goodness, they have finally
got after the dairymen that put hog
fat in butter Read this dispatch
CHICAGO, Feb. 9.-Three grocers,
whose butter had been analyzed and
found to contain from 80 to so per
cent. Of hog product, were taken before
Justice Wallace yesterday afternoon
and fined 80 each for violation of
the statutes. The only defense they
set up was that they were ignorant of
the law. 1t is quite probable that the
butterine and oleomargarine business
will be ruined by the vigorous and
praisewortby efforts of the agent APP
pointed by the butter and cheese asso-
citation TO ferret out these cases.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-02-25
(San francisco Examiner, Feb ii)
RIGHTS OF DEMOCRATIC VOTERS.

AZ the late Presidential election a
large number of the employees at Mare
Island Navy Yard, and others connect
ed with the Government scryicc Mt that
point, in defiance of tho wishes of Re-
publican party managers, had the to-
merity to exercise the rights Of Amer
lean citizenship in accordance with the
dictates of their conscicnces, and bold
IL voted for General Hancock, the
Democratic nominee for President. This
unlooked-for independence on tho part
of men ~ho belonged in the ranks of
the working classes, notwithstanding
the fact that they had given full service
for all of Uncle Sans money they had
received, was looked upon as n sort Of
rebellion against the authority of the
Republican politicians, who have for
many years managed governmental af-
fairs in all its details. Something must
be done Ia strike terror into the minds
of Z" the common herd :" or voters. who
foolishly imagined that they had the
right to vote as they pleased. A con
sultation was held Mt Republican head
quarters, aud determination arrived
ut TO trump up charges of illegal vot.
ing against number of seamen, on the
ground that they had not acquired d
legal residence during their stay at the
Navy Yard. The most skilled lawyer,
of the party volunteered for the ser
vice, and Republican court officials lent
willing assistance. Indictments were
procured in the United States Court o
this city, and the men were brought NJ
To answer for their contempt of the OF
dcrs Of the Republican manipulators
, Ga behalf of the indicted Democrats
, +. J. Sullivan, young lawyer of thi
. city, volunteered his services, and no,
= withstanding the efforts of the exper
/ enced lawyers Of the Republican ring
and the Government attorneys, th
). men have ali been acquitted. and it ha
$ been iudicially determined that Den
ocrat in tho employ Of 'hc Governmer
g has an undrub;el right to vote for
Il Democrat Cor public ollic", "ithout fes
of loss Of life or liberty at the deman
/ Of R~public.,n S'a', Committee.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-02-25
OREGON MATTERS Az WASHINGTON.

On the 18th inst. in the Senate Sen
ator Grover stated that when the river
aud Larbor bill came to the Senate he
should move an increase Of the appro-
i,riation for the locks Of the Columbia
river from 100000 to 100000. lie
will also endeavor to secure an appro-
priation for the construction Of harbor
of refuge at Port Oxford.
Senator Slater introduced in the Sen
ate on the same day tie following
amendments to the pest route bill j:
From Washington, via Silyerton, Acia
and Amesville, to Brownsville from
Grand Station, via Spanish Hollow,
Grass valley and Finegans, to Lake
View from Union via Big creek and
Spark to Pine valley from Applegate
postofiice, via the mouth Of Thompson's s
creek, to the mouth of Williams creek,
in Josephine county, to Applegate post
Office, the place of beginning.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-02-25
-----H---------------s
JOURNALISTIC COUETEsEEs.

We feel deep sympathy for our
friend and neighbor, Van Glove, of the
Register. Having been a cotemporary
of his for the past fourteen years, and
having in that time passed through
many heated political campaigns, the
DEMOCRAT and Register have studiously
avoided the so-called Oregon STYLE"
and the amenities and courtesics that
obtain among gentlemen have always
been observed. The destruction of the
Registe, office is loss to the Republi-
cans of Linn, and one which they can
i'll afford.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-02-25
STANLEY MATTHEWS A. 4 sEPREHI
JIDGF.


II is now understood that Stanley
Matthews will not have Cabinet ap-
pointment. This is right The man
who assisted in stealing n President has
become sufficiently conspicuous without
being awarded Cabinet appointment.
The Chicago Tsibis,r, a staunoh Repub-
lican paper, puts it in language which
cannot be misunderstood. 1t objects
10 his confirmation on the ground that
he has neither the record nor the judi
cial mind his relations with the Pres
ident would tarnish the honor Of the
Supreme Court that lac comes from =
State that now has two members of the
Court and from circuit that has three
members.
The foregoing rrasona are all good
enough They should debar STANLEY
Matthews from a confirmation. But
the paramount objection to his confirm
alton is that he was one of the visiting
statesmen" (so-called) who assisted in
stealing the Presidency from Samuel J.
Tilden. No such man shoald ever
wear tho judicial erminc. Stanley
Matthews knew that Tilden was elected
President, and 10y reporting adyersel,
he knew that he was making himself a
party to n palpable fraud.
IL will be much to the credit Of the
U. S. Senate if they refuse to ratify
the appointment of Matthews.