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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-06
DRIyING ACCIDENTS.


On Saturday eveninga man named Hort
ing, in the employ Of Daniel Mellinger,
was driving along the road between Lin
coin and Ephrata, when he broke tho
spindle of his buggy. This frightened his
horse and he started to run. After tho an
ina. had gone some distance he fell heavily
to tho ground and was instantly killed,
having broken his neck. Neither HOrting
nor the lady who was with him was hurt
in the least, but the buggy was broken.
The horse Of Moses Miller ran away in
Ephrata, throwing him out and injuring
hiIa very severely. He was terribly cut
about the head and face, and was In a
Ia hcr dangerous condition yesterday.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-06
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
An AIRED PAUPEK's STORY.

Emma Jacobs, u Woman Of National Noto-
riety, Reaches tho foOrhOuse.
The following narrative is taken from
the Philadelphia Record of today. Its
notorious subject is well-remembered in
Lancaster. She left here before tho war.
The story of her wealth is exaggerated,
but the account given by the Record is a
good deal nearer the truth than her story
as published in 4 Philadelphia Sunday
paper some weeks ago, which contained a
shameless and groundless libe! On de-
ceased citizen of Lancaster
1t was shortly before Christmas that az
aged woman stepped into tho office of Mr.
James s. Chambers, president of the board
of guardians of the poor, and requested
that she be sent to the aln,shouse as soon
rs she could form the resolution to become
u pauper. Her story was : wondrous one.
She was now 6S years old, and poverty
stricken. Years ago she was beautiful,
was the petted one OF many men of renown,
and her wealth was reckoned at 4 quarter
of a million. Her name was Mrs. Emma
Thompson, but she was better known as
Emma Jacobs. She came to this city
when only 16 years old, from Lancaster.
running away from home to marry a
young member of the Legislature. In
this she was disappointed, for the
heartless man deserted her in a house
of low character, whittier they had
gone on reaching this city. However,
she managed to thrive in her questionable
mode of living, and through a legacy of a
quarter million dollars left to her by one
of her admirers she made exceeding dis
play and acquired national notoriety.
Twenty-Five years ago she married Rev.
Thomas Thompson, a well-known Baptist
minister. The acquaintance was chance
one, but the divine was so struck with her
charms that he induced her to change her
life and become minister's wife. They
lived happily together for sixteen years.
A lifo Of open.handedness had drained the
purse, and after the death of her husband
Mrs. Thompson began to feel the pinching
Of poverty. In short time she was with
out money, and at last she sought the
almsnOuSe,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-06
DOrsev, Brady, ct al. Indicted.

The Washington grand jury came into
tho criminal court on Saturday and pre-
sented indictments for conspiracy in con-
nection with the star route mail service
against the following named persons :
Thomas J. Brady. s. w. Dorsey, Henry
NJ. Vail, John W. Dorsey, John r. Miner,
John NJ. Peck, NJ. C. Rerdell, j. L: San
dcrsor, William H. Turner also against
Alvin o. Beck, William s. Barringer and
Albert Z. Boone, and against Kate NJ.
Armstrong for perjury. Tho indictment
against Brady, Dorsey and others is very
voluminous
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-06
Losses to Shipping.

The steamer Vile d. Alger, from Bor-
deaux, which arrived at New York yester
day, reports that on the 2Sth ult she fell
in with the steamer City OF Berlin, from
Liverpool for New York, with machinery
broken. She towcd the City OF Berlin for
eight hours, when the line parted. She
then lay by for twenty hours. when the
steamer Samaria, from Boston for Liver
pool, came up and took the disabled
steamer in tow for Halifax. A dispatch
received last night announces the arrival
Of the City of Berlin at Boston in tow of
the Samaria
While the schooner L. and A. Babcock,
from Philadelphia, was entering Province
town harbor, yesterday, George L. Looif
AID Albert Manuel, sailors, were washed
overheard and lost.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-06
Obituary Notes.

Albert X. Hatch, prominent lawyer
and ex-member Of the Legislature of New
Hampshire-ho was speaker of the House
in 1S74-died yesterday in Portsmouth,
aged 65 years.
Ex-senator Milton s. Latham, presi--
dent of the New York mining aud stock
exchange, died in New York on Saturday.
aged 55 years.
Charles H. Dalrymple, prominent citi-
served as 4 member of the city council.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-06

The masquerade ball to be given in Ex-
cclsior hall this evening by The Hebrew
Social Union Of this city will doubtless
p:ove very brilliant affair, as over $50
persons are expected to be present in
answer to the invitations issued, fully
seventy-five of whom will be en- naasQue.
The occasion of the festival is the Purim
season now being observed by our Hebrew
fellow citizens, and which all the world
over is celebrated as time OF gift-giving
and merry-making by the people OF that
faith
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-06
FLOOD AND FIRE.
THE MISSISSIPPI INUNDArION.
Great Losses to Property In Southwestern
| Sections and Elsewhere.

Sections and Elsewhere.
The war department, in Wash
iugton, continues to receive dis
patches from flooded points in the South
west, and Secretary Lincoln states that
L" the losses and consequent suffering ex-
ceed any estimate yet made" There are
urgent calls for greater relief than can be
given within limits of the appropriation
already made by Congress. Senator Gar
land says that the municipalities and
state corporations are responding
literally to the demands upon them
from the flooded districts. but they
are overburdened by refugees. And
the distress is only beginning.
The "levees are broken in SO many
places that the impoverished communities
will be entirely unable to repair them in
time to prevent overflow when the June
rise shall come. 1t is also feared that
under the best circumstances, the ground
will be in such a condition as to delay
planting until too late for a good CROP"
At an informal meeting of congressman
from the inundated states held yesterday
in Washington, it was resolved to ask an
additional appropriation of $4,000 for
relief, and resolution for the purpose
will probably be introduced into the House
to-day. An appropriation of 500, 600 will
probably also be asked to repair levees.
The Mississippi river was stationary at
Memphis yesterday, but was expected to
begin rising again at night, as heavy rains
had fallen in that section during the day.
L. II. Mangum, commissioner from Ar
kansas, stated last night that in the coun-
ties of Mississippi, Crittenden, Lee, Poiu-
sett, Cross, Craighead. St. Fran cis.
Phillips, Desha, Chicot and Monroe, in
that state, there were, as far as known,
about $50, 600 destitute people, who would
have to be fed by the government for at
least 40 days. In addition great suffering
is reported in tho counties bordering ON
the Red river.
Commissioner Hemingway, of Missis-
sippi, reports that in Tomico, Cohoma, De
Sofa, Quitman, Bolivar, Washington, Issa-
quena, Olissaquena, Yazoo, Tallahatchie
and Sunflowcr counties, north of Vicks-
burg, in his state. II, 900 people are suffer
ing. There arc other counties below
Mississippi which have also been visited by
the floods.
A telegram from New Orleans reports
two crevasscs to the Bayou LafOurche
levees, one near Lafourchc Crossing, the
other near ThibodeauX. The latter is
very serious, and threatens great damage.
Three drunken men tried to cross the
river at Madison, Iowa, in skiff, on
Friday evening, and two of them were
drowned.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-06
COKONER'S INQUEST


Deputy Coroner Henry Stauner on Fri
DAY held an inquest on the body of Mar
garet Ann Badders, of Drumore township,
who was found dead Oh Thursday, March
2. The following jurors were empaneled :
James A. MCPHERSON, Henry Weidley,
II. Dremen. J. Calvin Helm, Robert L.
Moore. J. T. Brubaker. Dr.. B. F. Sides
acted as coroner's physician, and. after
the testimony Of witnesses had been
taken, the jury rendered verdict that
death had resulted from fatty degeneration
of the heart
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-06
Lyceum Entertainment.

On Saturday evening the Pequea Valley
lyceum gave their second entertainment
this season, consisting of recitations, ad-
dresses, dialogues and vocal and instr dmen-
tai music. The programme was well
arranged and the several participants &C
was very lrage, the room being crowded
to its utmost capacity.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-06
Quick Work.

Chas. A. FRANKIE, living near Landis-
vile, on a wager on last Friday cleaned a
hog entire in 8 minutes and 40 seconds.
The hog had been killed and scalded and
thrown on bench, and he in the time
n,entione,. cleaned off the bristles, hung
it up and cleaned it ready to be cut up.
man acted as Judges. He wants to know
wno can beat it.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-06
Strs ng's Exile.

Philadelphia Times.
Tioga county presents an impressive
lesson to the people of the state. Butler
B. Strapg, who would fill any position
with conspicuous credit, is sent to one of
the territorial political Siberias, where
Only damaged political importunates and
dangerous leaders are consigned, and John
l. Mitchell, of tho same county, who could
hardly fill territorial marshalshiD with
credit, represents four millions of the most
intelligent people of the country in the
United States Senate. Such accidents
might happen under any political domina,
tion, but while they are exceptional else
where they are the rule in Pennsylvania.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-06
Postal Appointment.

A postofice has been established at
Ranck's, this county, and Robert Miller
appointed postmaster. Other postal ap-
pointments in this county are r. s. Reid.
enbach, Hinkletown, H. F. Haversteck,
Lime Valley.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-06
Unclaimed Letters.

Following is the list of unclaimed letters
remaining in the postoffice at Lancaster
for the week ending Monday, March 6:
Ladies' List.-Mary S. Adams, Mrs. NJ.
Bates, Barbara Baker, Mrs. Emma
Black, Mrs. Emma Breneman, Martha
Chamberlain, Ella Casssl, Sarah Eisen.
houser, Mrs. J. P. Enders, Fannie Hess,
Sallie A. Hess, Maggie E. Jones, Mary
Jones. Mrs. Hannah Lawrehee (for), Mrs
Maggie Long, Flora McCutcheu, NJ. NJ.
Reidenbock, Dolly Shenk, Mrs. f. A.
Thornton (2).
Gents Last.-Gco. Beck, 4. P. Binkey,
john N. Brickner, Geo. w. Bratton, F..
Boyer, Jacob Carter, Henry Fcnster-
macher, Ellsworth Gregg, James L. Glib
son, Elias Harting, Martin Harter, s. A.
Hudmeet, A. A. Hoch, John Iceley. John
Jackson, Isaac B. Kuhns. Chrn. Ketter-
man, Thos. G.. Kirkwood, Joseph Eoop,
Robt. Z. Lefferts, Geo. Fred. Ma::ccn
Cor), Joseph Martin, p. B. Miller,
Michelo Pierretto, Beneletto Pierno, John
Picket, +. Roth (for) Geo. Seeigley, Jos.
G. Shenk, G. L. Vost, David Wilson,
Johan Weber (for).
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-06

policy that all who desirea regenerated
city and state authority can act with the
Democrats" When the party is planted
on that platform and gives promise Of
such practices, the day of the common
wealth's redemption will have dawned.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-06
NEW HOLLAND HOME TALENT.
A Very Successful Entertainment on Satur
day Evening.

day Evening.
The concert given in Wilmer hall. New
Holland, on Saturday night by the g Home
Taent,' was one Of the most successful
that has ever been given by the musical
talent Of that place. The hall was IN
comfortably crowded, but that unpleasant
feature was somewhat mitigated by the
varied and pleasing programme. The
poiiceme1's choruscs from "Piratcs
Of Penzance " were well rendered
and received. The "Third Degree
Full Moon Union" with the par
ticipants IN full regalia aud carrying
swords, singing while they marched de-
lightful composition of Dave Braham's,
was another novel as we'll as pleasing rem
dtion. A number of other special pieces
We're exceedingly pleasing i'll effect. Tho
two pieces that elected the most eIthusi-
astic applause we've The Cooper's Cho-
rus" from "Boccaccio: and a comic
quartet entitled 80. p. r. A." The
Home Talent organization of New Holland
possess q more than ordinary degree of
musical ability and to their keen judgment
in successfully catering 20 the wants of
their patrons the crowded houses abund-
antly testify
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-06
Broke its Arm.

A two or three-year-oldc child of a stone
cutter named BALI, residing on Middle
street, fell off chair on Saturday after
noon and broke an arm,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-06

John Rebman, au ctioneer, sold for
Henry Hilton, twenty head of colts at the
Swan hotel, Strasburg, ut an average Of
one hundred and seventy dollars per head.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-06
Mans inhHmanity to Mau the Causa .
Many Crimes,


Kaul Erbach, soldier at the United
| States arsenal, Atlanta, Ga, committed
| suicide on Saturday by shooting.
Charles F. JUDO, an eccentric young
man, 81 years of age, sou of Bowery
millionaire, committed suicide by shooting
himself in New York early on Saturday
| morning.
j. c. Merriam. formerly 4 prominent
banker of Boston, Mass, died at the
pest house at Dallas, Tex, on Saturday of
smallpox, at the advanced age of seventy
three.
A difficulty occurred at Shoe Fly,
| twelve miles from Waco, Texas, in which
Patrick Gallagher shot and fatally wounded
W. w. Smith, farmer.
John Abernethy, who shot aud killed
VIM. Leslie in Diamond alley saloon,
Pittsburgh. in December last, was sen.
fenced on Saturday to be hanged.
Joseph Il. Warner, aged IA years., pur-
posely shot himself at New York in front
St. Luke's hospital. Nothing is known
of the cause which prompted the act.
Henry Carlson and Peter johnson were
killed, and Thomas Williams and Collins
Magnus severely injured by the fall of a
mass of earth in the Lowthian mine at
1shpeming, Mich.
At Fairburn, Georgia, George Woodall
was tampering with an old pistol" when
it went off, and the charge entered the
abdomen Of J. Hervey, the town marshal,
inficting What is believed to be mortal
wound.
Alice Wright, 10 years old, soubrette
of Harrison's "Photos" theatrical troupe,
jumped from the fourth-story Of the STRIFE
beninger house in Cincinnati and was in
stantly killed. No cause was assigned for
the act, but it is believed that She was
demented, as since she recovered from an
attack Of typhoid fever last fall she has
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-06

4 fire broke out about six o'clock on
Saturday evening in the Congregational
church at Great Darlington, Mass, and
the church and chapel were destroyed.
The church was a large stone building,
upon which $1,000 had just been expend-
ed in repairs. chiefly in decorating the
interior. Most of the money was given
by Mrs. Mark Hopkins, the wealthy Cali
fornian. The church was completed and
reopened last Christmas. The chapel was
built two years ago at q cost of $4,000.
Tho whole property was valued at $50, :
600. The fire caught from the furnaces
A fire on Saturday destroyed Charles A.
Snyder's tobacco factory, As and AZ Front
street, New Orleans, and damaged :n ad-
jacent building. The total loss is $15, ,OOO
Steve Coilina and Herman Lcvi, fremen,
were badly hurt by falling walls. Officer
Steele was also slight hurt.
The malt house of Heinrich Stlnic!zcr,
at French Village, seven miles from East
st. Louis, Illinois, was burned ON Satur-
day, together with a large quantity of
malt and barley. Lots, $4,000 insur.
ance unknown.
On Thursday night one half of tie depot
of the Erie railway at Utica, N. Y, and
the livery stable of John Williams were
burned by an incendiary fire. Loss, $10,-
900.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-06-08
Ten Cents a Shot.

Thirty miles out of Charleston we
side-tracked to let the express go by,
and the train had scarcely come to q
standstill when someone raised the cry
of "Alligator!" There he was, sure
enough. Just over the fence was q
pond of stagnant water at the edge OF a
corn field, and reptile about six feet
long was resting on a log and taxing
things. powerful easy. A score OF pas
sengers jumped down and dozen re-
volvers came into view, but before q
hammer was raised fat and puffy man
who hailed from Wisconsin and who
was making trip for his asthma, called
out: ,
"Hold on! Hold on, everybody !!
Give me the first shot at that gator
and I'll buy the drinks for half the
state of South Carolina"
We :ell back to give him show. He
had a revolver about as long as your
thumb, and he crept to the fence, rested
it on q rail, and after great deal of
wriggling and twisting and coughing
and wheeling he blazed away. The
alligator Topped off the log and disap.
peared, and the fat man threw down
his pistol and jumped up and down and
yelled OUT
"Plumb center, or I'm goat Hoo
rayl Hooray!"
We were patting him on the back
and telling him that Wisconsin was
the greatest state in the Union, when a
colored man came down through the
corn to the edge of the pond and
yelled out:
(which of you all am doin' dat
shootin'?"
"Me! Me! I killed him!" answered
Fatty.
"Who was you shootin' at-me or de
'gator?"
cat the gator"
ooh, you was, Ell? Well, dat's only
ten cents a shot, but can't have you
boderin' me fur less dan fifteen! If
you want to put in de odder five bullets
I'll call it fifty cents!"
And as he started to come around
the pond the old reptile crawled out to
the first row of corn and pillowed his
head on a sod as if weary of life's tribu-
lations.
The fat man looked from the darkey
to the alligator and then back at the
crowd, and all he said was:
"Boys, fall in by tours and we'll
march up and swallow barrel and all !"
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-06-08
First Page Of an Almanac.

Very few people know the signif-
cation of the various signs peculiar to
the title page of an almanac, and some
of them are not exactly clear to us.
In the first instance, the man who
stands in the center with his vest I'M
buttoned in such manner as to ex'
pose his aliemntary canal, has always
been mystery to us. Why. in every
almanac for the past century, this man,
with all his works exposed to the colo
night air, should be given the most
prominent place in literary work like
the almanac, we are unable to clearly
understand. He certainly can claim no
great degree of consideration for this
act, It does not entitle him to any
amount of prominence, for the puphc
do not thirst for a view of man VINO
has made an autopsey of himself ana Is
apparently proud of it. What the plan.
cts have to with the cardiac orifice, we
do not at this moment know positively,
or why astronomy and the gastric Juices
should have anything in common.
Again, we must come out and confess
orr Ignorance as to the bearing thai
the battering ram, or the ugly taran-
tula. or the twins, or the crab, or other
astronomical delirium tremens, may
have upon the weather. Of course, IL
is stupidity, and we ought to be hear o.
ly ashamed of it, bat we are IN that la
and we cannot help it. When our SOL
gets cid enough to look into these
things, we will see that he isn't lelt "
grope along through life and MAKE .
moral show of himself as his father has
done.-BOomerGng.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-06-08
Fifteen Million Dollars an Acre.

A New York correspondent states
that in the more common streets of
New York land is worth from $250,000
to $35O,OOO per acre. In the best part
of Broadway its value is increased to
100000 per acre; but in the vicinity
of Wall street it's value is immensely in
creased. This lolality isthe money heart
of America. The land on which the
Drexel building stands cost its present
owners at the rate of $14,000,000 per
acre. 1t occupies the corner OF Wall
and Broad streets, which may be con-
sidered the most valuable corner on
this continent-and yet, when [ was
a Broad street clerk in 1910, this very
place was occupied by hat store. The
corresponding value of property in
this neighborhood has been illustrated
by the recent sale of the cornor OF
Broad street and Exchange place, which
was at the rate of $15,000,OOO per acre.
Hence the Drexel lot was none too
dear. In fact, these dazzling figures
are justified by the immensely OF the
transactions which occur here daily.
Almost all the railroads on the contin-
ent Except New Epgland) are man
aged within 300 feet of this spot, and
the general pressure of our immense
financial system gives it a value which
a few years ago could not have been
dreamed of.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-06-08
SHOOTING by THE WHOLESALE.
Forty Rlnemcn Employed by California Planter
10 Herd Wild Geese.

Various methods have been devised OF
discriminating wild geese without avail
Geese, herding has become profession
as herding or trapping. In the early
winter the geese appear in the gram
countries in myriads, travelling about
in vast flocks. Their hunger IL insati'
able, and the new wheat is rapidly de
stroyed. DIR. II. j. Glenn, whose ranch
in Colusa county covers most OF the
arabic land in the county, numbering
IL, 900 acres, or nearly twenty square
miles, expends about $4,000 in herdlng
his geese. He recently purchased IN
this city for the present season between
80 600 and $4,000 worth OF cartridges
about 100000 in number, of IA calibre.
He has constantly in his employ, while
his wheat is growing, about forty men,
all of them mounted and nearly all
armed with Henry rifles and field glass
es, who patrol his property during the
day and on all moonlight nights.
These men are regularly organized
into patrol guard. They discover with
their glasses the focks of geese, which,
at distance of from 800 to 400 yards,
look like white blanket spread over
the green wheat, and they thereupon
plant bullet right in the middle OF
the flock. This unexpected visitation
sets the flock on the wing, and the geese
herders follow them up, keep planting
bullets among them until they rise to a
great hight, and, Disguised leave the
vicinity. Few geese are killed, the OBJ
ject being to keep them on the wing
and consequently off the wheat fields.
Those that are killed are carried OIL
and shorn of their feathers, but the
revenue from them amounts to little.
On DR.. Glenn's ranch about eight .lou-
sand cartridges are used in day, which
represent about 10000 geese daily put
to flight.
Oftentimes a thick fog blows in and
this appears to be the favorite time for
the geese, and they devour the wheat
with great energy. The herders then,
fearful of shooting each other, are al
most baffied, but when the fog rises the
focks are put to flight, and for hours
thereafter the air is filed with feathers
and geese, and Glenn's ranch resounds
with the chatter of rifles and the fright
ened cries OF the prosecuted fowls. To
pay his men, buy ammunition and
maintain horses, costs DIR. Glenn some
$1O,OOOper annum, but it saves his wheat,
which yields 100000, as without the
geese herders half would be destroyed
The herders become very expert in
their business, and are generally good
shots and capital horsemen.-Sa1o
Francisco Call.