Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-07-13

known BY his sobriquet of " Dickens's
Dutchman," from tho fact that he form.
ed conspicuous figure in the great nov
elist's +" Notes. does not seem to swerve
the Philadelphia authorities from the
administration of justice in his case
which is unique at least. The old repro.
bate, who is now seventy-nine years old,
has been sent hack to Cherry Hill for a
year for robbing a till, within a few
weeks of his latest release from prison,
and after a benevolent gentleman had
taken him into bis care with the purpose
of reforming the immortal jailbird.
Langheimer has spent forty-two years or
more than half of his worthless life be-
hind the prison bars, the offenses for
which he was convicted never being of
a greaterdegree than petty pilfering.
A MENDICANT at Montreal has been fined
twenty-five dollars for begging without a
license.
GOVERNOR ST. JOHN, OF Kansas, told .
St. Louis reporter the other day that the
success Of the temperance cause in that
state is assured.
RETURNS to county assessors in Iowa
show the number of live stock in that
state to be: Hogs, 2,O42, ,OOo-a decrease
in twelve months of 10000; cattle,
2,O44, OOO-an increase of $1,000; horses,
GIG, ,OO0-an increase of $4,000; sheep,
343, ,O00-about the same as last year. The
condition Of all stock is less favorable than
in previous years.
. THE Philadelphia Times says what all
well-informed observers know to be true,
when it declares that the Democratic
party never bad a moro industrious or
methodical chairman than Chairman Bo-
gart has been, but the thorough and ad-
mirable work he has done could not be
known to everybody. He believed that
the Democratic organization needed at
tention as we'll when there is NO campaign
in progress as we'll as when there is. The
result is the party organization js now in
good shape.
GIVE the boys chance. Beaver, Stew
art and Pattison are all on the sunny side
of fOrty-five. Pattison has only fairly turn
ed the shady side of thirty, and Hensel,
just chosen as the Democratic generals
simo, is still waltzing around tho sunny
Skr kc xvhio1, ,,ohnr in In
is young, ardent, brave and enthusiastic,
and Cooper is older in years but cred.
headed and hopeful" as hc was score of
years ago. Stewart is young, sober, able
and we'll poised, and Mckee exhibits no
silver threads in his locks and his silence
is golden. The boys arc doing it them
selves this year. Give the boys Il chance,
--Iimts
FIRE and the hand Of pillage seized
upon an historic city last night, for the
wreck Of Alexandria that remains this
this morning is the wreck of the building
of twenty-five centuries. When tho man
who wept that there were no more worlds
to conquer saw the fine harbor in the
Nile delta he declared that it should he
the site Of a commercial centre and in the
year 332 i. G. he founded there Il city
bearing his own name. The fame of the
place in the days of Cesar and Cleopatra
got to be second to that OF Rome, aud
since then many historial events have
clustered about it. Because Of it's cnyir
Onment Of fiat and sterile lands tho ap-
pearance of modern Alexandria, with it's
population of 100000, has not Dsen re-
garded rs striking, but the value of its
beautiful harbor far ovcrbalanced the
lack of the picturesque.
HOWEVER unpalatable it may be to rad
ical temperance advocates, tho fact is in
disputable that beer has become a popular
beverage in this country. 1t is, then,
satisfaction to learn that in tie opinion of
some eminent chemists good beer is a
wholesome dlink aud a nutritious ono.
Tho Business Mems Moderation society
has been inspecting tho character of the
breweries in New York and subiecting
each brewers beer to a chemical analysis
The secretary of the society, appointed to
attend to the work, reports that more than
three-iOurth of the brewers are manufact-
uring pure beer. Two noted chemists,
Professor Ogden DOremus and Professor
Engleharit, Of Syracuse, have been direct
ing the analysis. Professor Doremus, who
has analyzed twelve samples of beer, says
that lie found them all to be ~ honest
beer as any man conld ask for. All were
highly nutritive. He also said that dur
ing the last few years there had been
marked Improvement in the brewing of
beer. There was less adulteration, less
alcohol and greater nutrition. The Sec
retary adds that in all his experience he
has found that it was not on account of
adulteratiOn that harm came from beer,
but from its newness, wild fermentation,
andith poor condition in which small
saloons kept it.
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PERSONAL.
~MIss MAVD D3RaasaIR,Nh has- been i'll
at Hartford, Conn., liG recovering.
MRs. Cook, wife Of the Rev. Joseph
Cook, has returned to this country after a
tour around the world. -. ,. p.
MAYOR GRACE, of New York, is can
didate for reelection.
Ex-Governor TILDEN's morning exer-
else on horseback always lasts just one
hour. . -.
MINISTER LEW WALLACE, rum,or says,
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