Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-12-12

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This is not as it should be.
PITTSBURGH watches her cemeteries
with shot guns and imports "stiffs " from
the city of Brotherly Body. Snatchers.
THE North American sees some some
light for its party in the admission Of Da-
kota and Washington, and the gain of six
Republican electoral votes. No more
pocket boroughs
WARM winters are to have no terrOrs
for ice men. A machine has been invent.
ed with which IA tons of ice, nine inches
thick, can be made daily at cost of SIG
or less. 1t is the dream Of kitchen science
to attach diminutive copy of it to the re-
friserator and let the cook turn on the
free zing process as required.
AN unprecedented amount of smuggling
is now being carried on at Buffalo. Where
dollars worth of dutiable property is
brought from Canada by rail thousand
dollars worth of cloths, silk, jewelry,
whisky, tobacco, butter, &C., are shipped
across Niagara river in skiffs between mid
night and daybreak, and when the river
freezes the trade is carried ON in sledgcs.
The mayor of Opelika, Ala, reinforced
| by some of his councilmen and police,
spent the Sabbath in a lively encounter
with some other councimen. who appear
to have taken issue on subject associated
with the municipal administration. Guns,
pistols and rifles were used with free
dom that ultimated in ten of the combat
ants biting the dust, and eight will die.
As Sunday diversion this affair can at
least claim credit for striking originality.
TIE Pennsylvania board of agriculture
has received reports from it's 450 official
reporters, and makes tho following esti-
mate of the crops of 1882: Wheat, e2,
4a5. 900 bushels corn. 80, s75, 900 bushels;
oats, 81, $780, 900 bushels; rye, 5,SC5, 900
potatoes, 1S,760,00O bushels tobacco,
%, 75O 900 pounds. The trouble is that
these reports are very loosely gathered.
But their errors may balance themselves,
and leave reasonably accurate results.
Mrs. COLLINS, the Bradford woman who
was clapped into an insane asylum at Buf:
falo because she manifested too muchl dis
position to pry into her husband s relations
with strange women, is out again, and
says she was never crazy at all, but that
her faithless lord only had her locked uI
to get rid of her inquisitiveness and the
damaging disclosures she might make. If,
as she alleges, there was crookedness ir
her commitment, and the asylum officials
were inculpated in the wrong done to her
it will be by no means singular case, but
it will none the less call for just punish
ment of the guilty parties.
Mrs BRIDGET KENNEDY, lady Of Hi
bernian extraction who piled the vocation
of dispensing spirituous and fermentct
liquors in the town of Rutland, VT, ha!
permanently retired from the business
Mrs. Kennedy overlooked some triilinG
details of the liquor law, with the result o.
having two hundred and ninety-five suit'
brought against her, in all of which sht
was convicted. The fines and costs
mounted up SO high that the lady wal
forced to succumb as gracefully as posi-
ble and, unless executive clemency comes
to her aid, she will spend the next fifty
odd years in tho Vermont house of cOrrec C.
ton.
ACCORDING to Harrisburg correspond
ent of the Press, who seems to have lnsid,
sources of information, Gov. Pattison viii
outline his policy in general way in hi
inaugural He will follow this with :
> special message, calling attention to ur
gently-needed municipal reforms and t.
the required correction of abuses in coz
tracing for states supplies. He will "pro
coed on the general idea that removal.
ought not to be made except for causc
His probable action in reference to th
adjutant generalship will be governed
entirely by tho wishes Of the Nationa
Guard. General Latta will be retaine,
in Office unless there is a strong deInan,
from the sources most interested for hi
REMOVAL "Mr. Cassidy, as attornc
general, will be figure at Harrisburg O
more or less Importance, but there will b
nc doubt after Mr.. Pattison speaks tha
he intends to be the governor" The Pres
, correspondent grows interesting. Was hi
letter inspired'' by dinner will
. Smith
SARAH STOKES is an Arkansas beauty
, who has been on trial for her life for al
lowing her penchant for pen-knife per
formances to carry her to the point Q
plunging the blade into a girl companion
neck while the two were riding along tn
road together, from the effects of whicl
the unfortunate female friend died. T.
, be sure, the fair Sarah doth protest tha
Melinda, by which name the companio
was called, began the row, and adds tina
, if she hadn't been so handy with her littl
pen-knife her own head would have bee
smashed to smithereens by q large rocl
with which her travelling companion wa
all ready to caress her. The jury evi
IDENTIFY believed Sarah, and added to th
rewards of her previous agility by settin!
her free, whereupon the beauty invites
her deliverers to visit her at her room ant
| when the twelve called up0n her in a bod