Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-09-19

the need of helping himself and the
teaching Of examples, such as General
Wolseley sets, is the most efficient that
can be suggested.
TO-DAY is the anniversary of the death
of Garfield.
PHIPPs in a dungeon cell. Pattison
guarding the treasure house Of the
people.
IT is intimated that Phipps' coolness in
the face of his arrest springs from his oh.
servation of the late encounter his friends
Dorsey and Brady mad with a petit jury.
He has evidently calculated the chances
and will risk it.
THE Democratic campaign will be given
a boost by the reception to be given by
tho Commonwealth club of Philadelphia
to the Democratic candidates. The ar
rangements indicate a very brilliant dem
OnstratiOn.
N. TIssANDIEE, of Paris, has projected
an electric balloon, which is to have a car
rying power of one ton, exclusive of the
weight of the balloon itself. When the
air is calm he expects attain speed of
fifteen miles per hour, but the public is
not informed what the motive power is to
be. The world has grown to be SO incred-
ulous in regard to aerial navigation that
NJ. Tissandier's sch elne excites but little
interest
Or tho total population of the United
States in 1890, l55, 7S3-thc foreign
born, according to the census, numbered
G,G79, ,943. OF these, 2,77s, 160 were ma
tives Of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, 1,9G6, 742 of the Ger
man Empire, III, 7,OS4 Of British America,
194, 337 Of Norway, 1S1, 720 of Sweden,
LOG, 97l of France, 1O4, 54l of China, "and
the remainder represent all tho countries
OF tho carth."
A. NJ. SULLIVAN, NJ. F., Iccturcd in tho
Cooper Institute, New York, last evening,
before a crowded audience, on tho present
condition of affairs in Ireland. lIe said in
the course of his remarks, that "he be-
lieved severe struggle was approaching,
and that all the good that had been done
was mainly achieved by the Irish of this
country. If the Irish of this country de-
serted Ireland her cause would be hope
less
CARDINAL MANNING, in an article in the
Contemporary Reciew, while praisins the
spirit underlying the salvation army
movement in England, deprccatcs a sys-
tenn which makes it's converts put an IS -
upon their collars t" show that they are
. among tho saved He is of the opinion
that such ostentatious conversion has the
effect of confoundiny excitement and self
consciousness with that Irrational sorrow
for sin which is the judgment of the
reason and conscience con6amning our
! selves
PRoF. E. L. BARNARD, of Nashville,
! Tenn, on the 1l.h inst. discovered a new
comet located near the star Lambda, in
the constellation of the Twins. His dis
c"vcry was announced 10y telegraph Ia
Mr.. ii. II. Warner, at the Warner obsor.
vatory, Rochester, N. V, and almost at
the same moment Prof. Lewis Swift, dl
rector of the Warner observatory, received
intelligence that large naked eye comet
had been discovered in Rio Janeiro, South
! America. Prof. Barnard is the first pcr
, son the present year toreceive tho Warner
prize Of 5000. The fact that these two
comets carue into view at the same time is
exceedingly Significant
REV. i. l.. EUTHON, an English clergy
man, has for years been trying to arouse
the interest of the public i'm his collapsable
boats, and has 1T last partially succeeded.
His largest boat, about 2S feet long, fec,
wide over all, and capable Of carrying 7(
passengers with stores for two weeks, oc-
cupies, when folded up, less than two teet
IN width. When slowed against the ships
side such a boat occupies 22 inches by less
than nine feet, aud she can be made
ready to take tho sea in one minute will
all necessary gear on board and her water
breakers filled. This invention, if it be a
success, will bc of incalculable value on
| emigrant vessels and military transports,
rs well rs tue ordinary passenger steam
| ships.
A THEATRE in Philadelphia was occupied
by s. Dashing Charlie" represented by
the bills Us having turned aside
from his regular occupation as au Indian
fighter to become an actor. He had re
ceived fifty medals from tho government
for the same number of recklcssly brave
deeds, and tho assurance was given that
the drama, in which he acted the principal
part, was a faithful representation of some
of his exploits. To add to this realism OF
the production, six genuine Sioux war
riors" would appear in dances, battles,
and other scenes. All these promises were
kept, as far as tho we'll satisfied audience
knew, and the house was crowded every
night. But the manager absconded with
the receipts, and now it comes out that
the Dashing Charlie has never been on
the plains, and that tho Indians are from
the civilized Seneca Nation in New York.
women Ms KallrOatiers.
WllliamspOrt Sun and Banner.
There is propably no railroad in course