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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-10
PERSONAL.

Rev. JOHN PINKHAM, of Casco. Maine, a
died ON Sunday.
Justice GRAY was sworn i'll yesterday
and took his scat on tho supreme bench ST
the United States.
The president yesterday nominated
Jack" Wharton to be United States
marshal for Eastern Louisiana, for a sec
Ond term
S. S. SrENCEE, Capt. john Il. BRICkEl
and DR.. }. L. ZIEGLER, of this county,
will be in the Wolfe convention in Phila-
dclphia on Thursday.
Pittsburgh is to have II new theatre
next year which is to be erected at !: cost
OF $3.50, 600. F. y. PAHKE, lessee of Library
hatl, is the protector of tho new enter,
prise.
Rev. .DUBS COTTUS SMITH. rector of the
Protestant Episcopal church of the AS
ccnsion, in New York, died yesterday,
aged So years lie was prominent as a
broad churchman, and WAS the author of
various works on theological and sOcia
questions.
Senator EDMuNDS Of Vermont, in IL re.
cent debate in the Senate said that his
speeches arc always printed in the Con
g1cssional Record as he made them, being
never seen by him. 1t is very probable
that there arc not twenty men in Con
.ress who could make the same state
mcnt.
Ex-Superiutcnicnt WICHERsHAM La:
begun work on u long contemplated his
tory Of education i'll Pennsylvania. Prob
ably no one in the state is better qualified
than DR.. Wickcrsham TO undertake a
work of this kind, and it may be safely
promised that the history will be accurate c
and complete i'll every detail. .''-!'hi,adc'-
rh!" Times.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-10
lDssITJii:I.


The ijeiIcfonte Du.ly Nems of Friday
says : 'Mr,. EIeiIorc Miller, wife of Nix. w.
Miller, who died yesterday .noruins at her
home near Reynolds's mill, was about 60
years OF age. She WAS born at Wrights-
vile, York county, Pa, in the year 1922.
Her maiden name was Filby. When only
Il years of are she was adopta:! By gen
tl"rnau named En.le, with wnom she re-
sided until her marriage to Mr. Miller.
There arc several children surviving to
mGurn her loss. among whom are two
sOns-J0E,n and Charley-residin. in fIts
burgh; son and daughter residing al
AltOona--the son being crnp'oycd Oh the
Pennsylvania railroad a daughter living
at Tyrone and another at pennsylvania
Furnace. Mrs. George Murray, q sister
of the deceased. resides ut Maytown, Ian
caster county, Pa. A brother whose name
VIC have not learned, lives in the same
COUNTY.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-10
Smashed by the Cars.

Yesterday afternoon as the limited ex.
press west OH the Pennsylvania railroad
was laundering along at high speed
short distance cast OF Harrisburg, man
named Frederick Hahn with 4 horse and
cart attempted to crcss the track in front
of it. He miscalculated the distance and
the speed of the train, however, and the
engine struck his cart fair amidships'
and smashed it to smithereers. Hahn was
knocked higher than kite, and alightjng
on his head had a very severe cash cut in
his forehead, and was badly jammed to-
gether, but his wounds arc not considered
dangerous. The horse being released!
from the wrecked cart ran off at a rate OF
speed that put even the limited express to
shame. The train was detained a short
time.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-10
An ODD Kind of Meeting.

That is an odd sort of stockholders
meeting which is held in Philadelphia by
the Reading railroad company. None
of those present seemed to understand
precisely what sort of thing it was, and
the presiding officer, who undertook the
conduct of the beast, himself seemed to
consider it a nondescript animal about
which the only thing clearly defined WAS
the fact that he was its keeper under the
order of the court that undertook its
creation. 1t certainly was not a stock
holders meeting of the kind We are
familiar with, when the owners of the
property gather together to hear the ac.
count of the stewardship of their officers
and to elect others for the ensuing term.
Such meetings are manifestly under the
control of the assembled stock
holders who choose their cllairmen
and secretaries and to whom all
questions that arise are submitted
for decision. In this particular meet
ing the stockholders seem to have been
present only to do what the gentleman
in the chair, appointed to he their mas
ter by the court, should permit them to
do. They were permitted to name their
secretaries, to listen toa report of their
president, to vote their stock for officers,
and to object to anything. One man
wanted the report read and the rest
didn't; the one man had his way be-
| cause the court ordered the master, and
the master ordered the stockholders that
SO it should be.
Evidently that court took Il good deal
on itself or else that master. We do mot
recOllect that we ever heard before of d
stockholders, meeting being so complete
ly bOssed by a court. We do not think
much of the style. 1t has entirely too
a,itocratic flavor. The Reading own,
ers seem to have had the common right
of all property holders to meet together
and do what they pleased with and about
their property and their servants within
the bounds of the law. If they then
transgressed the law their action was
the proper object of a courts adjudica.
tion, but not until then. This Reading
meeting exhibited the interference of
| the court us rc,1mctiO nd dJsuri"m, with
gagged stockholders in "a straight waist
coat able to vote only when they voted
aye.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-10
Fail Of u Building.

At Syracuse, New York, about one
walls of "a building recently burned fell
upon Corpelias Tracy's restaurant, bury
ing III the ruins fifteen to twenty men aud
women. The iiremen were called, aud ut
last accounts ten persons had been taken
out alive, though some Of them were dan
gerously injured, and three dead bodies
had been found. The killed were Eugene
Fitzgerald, aged 10 years Martin Flu
clan, aged %, and Patrick Kane, aged 10,
all farmers.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-10

a man on the committee whose honesty
could get a respectable guarantee unless
it be Hiscock, the chairman, who is a
man Of good repute. but an easy-going
soul. around whom such buZzards as
Robson, second on the committee, will
swoop unchecked upon defenseless
treasury, Look out
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-10
small POx Ou the Increase.

Several new eases of smallpox We're re-
ported in New York yesterday, and some
OF 4 virulent character were found in
thickly- settled tcncment-house districts
which have been concealed from the au
thorities.
The smallpox is rapidly increasing in
Pittsburgh. FiGty-six new caseS-13 of
them in Allegheny City-wcre reported to
the board of health yesterday.
An alarming increase of small.p .pox is re-
ported in Jersey City within the last few
days.
Several cases ol the disease, Of Il malig-
nant type, arc reported at Matamoras, Pa.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-10
Look Out {!

Mr.. Holman, of Indiana, Oh the COM
mittee on war claims, is reported to have
moved in his committee that all the bills
before it be reported back to Congress
with Il negative recommendation. In
other words Mr.. Holman proposes at this
erect statute of limitations as bar
before claims for damages against the
government, and to practically abolish
the committee which serves us the gate
through which they reach the treasury.
Most persons will agree with Mr.. Hol-
man. Probably there are number of
meritorious claims still unsatisiied, but
the majority are not meritOriOus, and as
all the injured have been thus long un-
compensated, they can endure their de-
privation for the few remaining years
yet left them upon earth. 1t is time
that war claims were cut down by the
roots.
Yet there are SD many even less meri-
torious drafts threatened against the
treasury that it may be Il question
whether it is worth while to attempt to
shut off this comparatively small leak.
IL Mr.. Holman WAS on the appropriation
committee he would havehis hands full
in his cOngenial work Of watching the
treasury. For there is the gravess rc;,-
son to fear that this committee has been
organized To rob the government, and
that in the declining hours of this Con-
gresS its members will be busy in put
ting their leeciles where they will draw
the most blood. One strong reason for
this apprehension is the fact that Mr..
Holman, the Cerbrrus of the treasury,
has been taken off this committee where
he was entitled by every precedent to be
placed, having been its chairman rs Mr..
Randall's successor whep the latter
MAS made speaker. SO hIr. Randall was
entitled to be placed on this committee
us its ex-chairman and rs an ex-sreaker
whose wishes should have been respected
in giving him committee work. We do
not know that he desired TO be put on this
committee but we take it for granted
that he did, because it is the most inn
pOrtant committee of Congress-, and one
with whose work he is familiar and
which is agreeable to his habit of mind.
These two Democrats are known the
nation over for their devotion to econ
omy in the national expenditures. In
place of them arc found Ellis, of Louis
lana, who has {. directly contrary
fame, and LeFevre, of Ohio, who
is not much better stuff. And
there, too, is Pennsylvania's O'Neill,
whose love for carri"n is of The most
approved kind, There is hardly
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-10
A steamer Los.

Johns for Trinity, Newfoundland, was
Thursday night. 1t is supposed she struck
a rock and sank before boat could be
launched. Portions of the wreck have
been picked up; also the body of woman
passenger. The Lion had several passen
gers on board, besides her crew.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-10
STATEMENT OF THE DIFFERENT DENONISATI
STANrS, &C, SOLD.

A comparison with the year 1880 shows
al increase in receipts of the Office of
S2,616.3.
In the carriers department S2,4S5 more
pieces were delivered, and 81, 224 more
pieces collected that the previous year.
In the registry department the number
of packages registered has increased from
4, ,O55 in 1880, to COLO. Registered mat
ter for city delivery has increased 9G3
Registered packages passing through the
Office of which record is kept, have in
creased ,S4G.
In the money order departmcnt. 73 moro
orders have been issued, the amount of
cash received showing al increase over
1880 of 50, 431.3S. The amount of orders
paid shows and increase of a7,j24.,3.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-10

IT will he seen that in the order Of
court to have the work done, for which
McMellen was paid 81 800. he was di-
rected "to complete arranging and
fixing the papers in his Office yet unar-
ranged in the same manner and OH the
same terms rs PrOthonOtary Hartman
was ordered and directed to arrange
them" EX-ProthonOtary Hartman says
no such order and direction were ever
made to him nor any terms agreed
upon.
If any such terms )" were ever fixed
it is manifest that they were the proper
guide in the adjustment of McMellen's
pay and, instead of the Judges recon-
nending = very liberal compensation "
for him, they should have either rated il
according to the terms" or recon-
mend ed the commissioners to do 50.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-10
Railroad Accident.

William johnson, fireman on local
freight between Downingtown aud Phila-
delphia, who resides at Gordonville, while
attempting to get on his engine at Down.
ingtown yesterday missed his hold and
fell. He was struck by the engine and
had one leg badly injured. He was other.
wise bruised about the body, and was
taken to his home in Gordonville last even
ing,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-10
IsesIgned,

y. Z. s;laymaker, of Kiuzcrs. who has
been secretary and treasurer of the Lam
caster county mutual insurance company
since is organization, has rendered his
resignation. TIE company arc holding a
meeting to-day for the purpose of filling
the vacancy and electing a new board for
The c:,s,;iHg year.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-10
Axl0 Broker

Yesterday Albert Scitz had tine axle of
his coupe broken while driving along
West King street.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-10

New HAMrsHIKE, Vermont, Rhode Island
and Massachusetts, all show d larger per
centagc Of illiteracy than Pennsylvania.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-10

The county commissioners have resolv-
ed to not pay for any blanks used in the
county offices unless authorized by law.
A very correct resolve
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-10

IT seems that the leaks and steals under
fined to the treasury. There was Il great
deal of crooked work in the naval depart
ment as we'll as the postOffice bureau.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-10


centagc Of iliteracy than Pennsylvania.
The county commissioners have resolv
ed to not pay for any blanks used in the
county offices unless authorized by law
A very correct resolve
IT seems that the leaks and steals under
the Hayes administration were not con
fined to the treasury. There was II gre a,
deal of crooked work in the naval depart
ment as we'll as the postoffice bureau
PARTIES in Toronto and Montreal have
applied for a charter for the Information
al Colonization Company Of Canada," the
object being to colonize Jews from Russ;,
in the Northwest.
One of the best presiding officers the
New York Sun ever saw was a page in the
House of Representatives ut Washington,
who used to stand behind old Gov. Pr
nington, Of New Jersey, when he was
speaker and tell him what to do.
NOTHING better illustrates the prosper
ity and development of community, than
the steady increase Of its postal business
Postmaster Marshan's clear and cofnprc-
hensive statement of the years business
of the Lancaster Office not only reflects
his efficiency as an official, but the incrcas
ing trade and intelligence OF our city.
The very clever World fables, 80 taking
ty illustrated by F. S. Church, went over
TO England and were there published as
Bret Hartc's, and coming back here il
foreign dress are republished most iuno
Gently by such eminent literary authori
ties as the New York Tribune aud Phila
delphia Press without the observation by
either that they were original with theil
bright contemporary some four years ago
THOUGHTFUL and intelligent Germans
in New York, in almost every walk o
life are deeply moved by the news from
the Fatherland. They say the naughty
rcscript from the Emperor, substantially
declaring that lie is 1.-the State" and
that personal government is to be main.
tained, as against ministers and people
alike, is morally certain to prccip;tatc 4
conflict with Parliament, but if it comes
to that, the latter, they are confident, will
b. backed by the people, especially in the
great cities.
Ir is with peculiar satisfaction that the
North American recognizes and reports
the general change of opinion which has
taken place aud which is still going on in
the case of Fitz John Porter " for it was
in the columns of the NORTH America,,
that General Porter was defended and his
innocence proclaimed at time when lie
was made the scapegoat of failures not his
OWE, and when the prejudice against him
ran too strong for the voice of reason to be
heard"
The Baltimore Times, a rather fresh
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-10

PARTIES in Toronto and Montreal have
applied for charter for the Intcrnation-
al Colonization Company Of Canada" the
object being to colonize Jews from Russia
in the Northwest.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-10
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISC
Number of unclaimed letters and pos
tai cards sent to dead letter office. l,?.l
Number OF unavailable letters sent to
dead letter office. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. los
Number of letters returned TO writers. lon
Number of pounds of newspapers and
periodicals nailctl, outside OF
Lancaster county, hy publishers
and news Observation-Disclosures. 1858
Postage paid on Sinic..... 2,3lS 81
Number of pounds of newspapers anu
which no nn.t,vn IL maid .,a 17l
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-10

One of the best presiding officers the
New York Sun ever saw was page in the
House of Representatives ut Washington,
who used to stand behind old Gov. Pa0
nington, Of New Jersey, when he was
speaker and tell him what to do.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-10

The Baltimore Times, a "rather fresh
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-17

Mr.. JAMES P. NEwCoMB, of the San
Antonio LIGHT, is moved to express his
thanks to his cOnfreres of the demo-
cratic press for their friendly interest
in his behalf in connection with the
San Antonio postoffice. If the press
gentlemen will not stand by each other
how can they expect anyone else to
stand by them?-[ Galveston Journal.
Too true; and if we would stand by
each other little closer we might gath
er some of the fruits of our labors-
generally enjoyed by others.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-17
Friday Feb. II, 1882.
BI-METALLIC MONEY.

In his speech on his 3 per cent.
funding bill Thursday, Mr.. Sherman
referred to the still unsolved question
of disparity between gold and silver
which are equally recognized money OF
the country and equally legal-tender
for all debts, but between the COINS OF
which there is a difference of bullion
value of I3 per cent. Efforts are
being made between our government
and those of Europe to secure new
ratio between the two metals which
destroy this disparity; but if these ef-
forts shall fail, says Mr.. Sherman,
there will remain but one thing for our
government to do-either ito increase
the number of grains in the silver dol
lar so that its intrinsic value will be
equal to the gold dollar, or reduce the
value of the gold dollar to an equality
with the silver dollar St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
1t would be a national blessing if
the understanding of the average
statesman could be brought into use
on this still unsolved question of dis
parity between the gold and silver
dollar. The one thing which Mr.. Sher-
man says remains for our government
to do it has been doing ever since
the beginning of its history, and it is
pitiful to think that for no apparent
cause but the lack of intelligence in its
statesmen, it has been doing it in vain.
We are perfectly aware of the sweep
ing character of this assertion, and in
few brief words will make its truth ap-
parent. 1t is no new question, The
obvious ignorance of Senator Sherman
in respect to it is unaccountablei in view
of the fact that he does know that un-
der the auspice of the late secretary of
state, Evarts, the United States be-
came a party to foolish congress
of nations, convened at Vienna, for the
purpose of establishing a bi-metallic
standard of gold and silver as an inter-
national permanence.
One midnight in 1873 congress pro-
ceeded clandestinely to settle this
yexed question for the fourth time, Of
which there is no evidence, it was
aware. 1t closed its doors in order
that secrecy might insure success. By
that secret Legislation it was enacted
that the gold dollar should contain IS
$40 grains of gold, in place of % 2-Io
grains. But it is chiefly remarkable
that in 1873, congress was not mind
full that the work it was upon had been
done before, again and again, and yet
nothing learned from it for no other
cause than the want of common sense.
Indeed, in the very first year of the
government, Alexander Hamilton made
the following recommendation to con-
gress, which was adopted.
That the units in the coins of the
United States ought to correspond to
24I grains of pure gold and with
37IT grains of pure silver, each an
swering to dollar in the money &C
count.
1t was thus with Mr.. Hamilton the
design originated of having gold unit
as well as silver, SO as to constitute a
double standard, or two standards of
exactly equal value; and in support of
it he said:
"The chief lnducement to the es-
Enlistment of the small gold pieces IS
to have a sensible object in that metal,
as well as in silver, to express the
truth. F"
When it was found afterward that
the standards were not equivalent, that
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-17


THE main feature of the stock mems
convention at Austin, was the speech
of Mr.. Higgs, president of the Nation
al Meat Supply company, of st. LOUIS,
who set forth the intentions of his COM
pany, to establish slaughter houses and
send the beef ir refrigerator cars to the
markets of the north. He said they
would hardly be ready before 1883, to
begin shipments. Mr.. Higgs' speech
convinced all who heard him that in
the near future all our cattle and NUT
ton sheep, will be sold at home and not
driven out of the state, at a great loss
10 the state.
The Express is sort of good Lord
good devil in its politics. 1t wants a
protective tariff, which is purely re-
publican policy, and yet it hangs out a
democratic banner on its outward
walls. Protection and democracy are
inconsistent.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-17
AMERICAN HOUSE.
BOERNE, TEXAS.

Invalids and others wishing to visit the
country will find The above house the equal Of
any in point of real comfort; table bounti-
fully supplied with the best Of fresh milk
butter, eggs and poultry, and beef of very
superior quality.
TERMs-By the day. ST.; month. $a5.
I-s-tf A. w. BARR, Proprietor.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-17

BEN. HILL, of Georgia, will have to
have his tongue cut out in order to get
rid of cancer.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-17

as-Entered at post Office at San Antonio, Texas,
as second class matter.
The Russellville Democrat., 1882-09-28
NOTICE OF DELINQUENT LANDS.

In the Circuit Court of Pope County Arkansas the Cham
Gerry side thereof.
Bill to enforce payment of overdue taxes.
The State of Arkansas relation of Eugene NJ Cay, plain
tiff Il fri bf of NV or of see 10 town g. Is and other
lands upon which due and unpaid defendants.
Now this day said plaintiff and files here open
its eompaintin which is set forth that there
tain due ON the following lands:
The Russellville Democrat., 1882-09-28

Now therefore, all persons having any right interest in
SAID lands or Of Them required appear this
within forty days from this date then and there show
any they why lien shall be declared said lands
for unpaid taxes and why said lands shall sold
payment thereof
Witness my hand Clerk of said this 18th day Sep
lL.s TENDER, 1882. w. J. REYNOLDS, Clerk
In witness whereof that the above and foregoing
from the record said herewith
Sea aix my official seal this 10Th day September
W. J. REYNOLDS, Clerk