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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-08

We are of the opinion that the average
efficiency Of the police force of this city
is not what it should be. The work of
the force often fails to be what it should
be. Probably every city suffers from in
efficient, lazy, stupid and cowardly
policemen and probably Lancaster's
experience is general. At the same time
We would like to have it special. We
know we have a mayor who attends to
his duties zealOusly and intelligently,
and that the fault is with his instru-
ments if the police work is not we'll done.
1t is not at this date especially that we
have had cause to complain of our
policemen. 1t has always been SO. We
know that our town would never have
suffered to any extent from incendiarism
if its policemen had always been intelli-
gent, jealous and brave. Our comment
to-day is especially excited by the really
ridiculous conduct of the police search
for McMullen. For a week this search
has been supposed to exist and for
a week the boy has been around
the town and has several times
been within the reach and under the
very noses of policemen. They have
been told where he was, and have ap
preached his hiding place SO stupidity or
timidly that he has slipped away from
them. The last time was yesterday. On
Sunday the young man disported himself
in the waters Of the Conestoga with other
boys of the town. On Monday the
mayor was told where he was. Three
policemen were detailed for his arrest.
They march out to the place in High
street and stumble around i'm the neigh
b0rhood until the lad is warned, and
arrive at the house in time to see him
fleeing from its back entrance over the
adjacent fields. Perhaps these star bear
ers were only stupid /; but perhaps they
were cowardly as we'll. Either way they
did not show themselves it for their
duty.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-08
Tho Hook and Ladder Company.

At meeting of the committee ON fire
engines and hose, held last evening resO-
luton was proposed favoring the selling Of
the horses used by the hook and ladder
company; the discharge of tho driver and
tillerman the rebuilding of the truck
broken at the late fire, and, whenever it
shall be needed at a fire, it shall be hauled
there BY the horses of tho first engine that
reaches the scene. The proposed plan has
caused much unfayorablo comment.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-08
Democratic Victory In Alabams.

The election for governor, secretary of
state, attorney general, superintendent of
education, treasurer and auditor and mem-
bers of the General Assembly was held in
Alabama on Monday. So far no disturb
ances in tho state are reported. The cleo
tiOn was very quiet. Democratic success
is conceded, There has not been much
excitement. Very few Republicans arc
running for the Legislature. The returns
are yet toe meagre to base dispatches on.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-08

Dwight Reed, at present secretary of
legation at Madrid, will be made chief of
the consular bureau of the state DEPART
ment, in place Of Mr.. Adee, recently ap-
pointed third assistant secretary of state.
Mr.. Reed il not expected in Washington
before December 1st; meantime Gustsyus
Coward, appointed secretary Of legatioii
at Madrid, win act - chief Of the bureau.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-08
ltoona Tribune, Rep.

AItOOna Trtbune, Rep.
It is about time for somebody to give
Chairman Hensel, of the Democratic state
committees currying. Cooper and Mckee
have both been severely handled by able
editors, though neither Of them seems to
be candidate for anything this year.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-08

Allan A. Herr &c.,, real estate and in
surancs agents, have sold at private sale
for Peter Winour, two-st0ry brick dwell
ing, No. 415 West King street, to j. n.
Herzog, for $2,500.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-08

election of HOyt the Republican commit
tee of this county paid over $4,000 for the
poll tax of Republican voters, and the
Democratic committee considerable sum
The Virginia Readjusters arc endeavoring
to secure the repeal of similar require
ment in that state, because, doubtless, the
pauper negro vote costs them in this way
too large q sum. In Pennsylvania well-to.
do farmers or merchants expect, as q
matter of course, that tho party will pay
this tax for them. 1t is part Of the con-
stituGiOn and cannot be easily repealed.
but it is likely that tho matter will soon
be brought before the supreme court.
Some of the judges of tho lower courts
have held that tho payment of the tax by
proxy does not qualify the voter unless
express authority on his part was sworn.
Other judges have held that tho posses.
sion of a tax receipt is prima facie evi.
jence that the tax has been paid by the
holder, and that the election officers have
not the power to 60 behind it. Until tho
matter is finally decided by the court of
last resort the election officers will proba-
bly, incline to tho latter view."
Tho Labor Question.
"Besides the regular Republican, the
Independent, the Democratic and the Pro-
hilton tickets, the Gresnback. Labor party
has also a full set of candidates in the
field. In the campaign of 1878 this party
polled some 20. 600 votes, three-fourths of
Which were undoubtedly drawn from tho
Democratic lines. The suspicion is abroad
that the Cameron people are putting out
good deal of money in the organization of
this party and in securing the influence of
local leaders to swell the number of those
oining the organization. With such an
in advance it would be easy
% manage that Republican members of
he party should vote the regular ticket on
lection day, and that the deluded Demo.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-08

house OF Peter Finncfrock, but did no
damage. Samuel Miller had considerable
loss at his mill at Refton. He says the
water was II inches higher than it has
ever been "a years ago it was just that
much lower.
Additional News ol tho Storm.
There were several humorous incidents
in connection with the storm and some arc
Just as sad. BENJAMIN Shaub, residing
near Quarryville tells u good story Of his
chickens They were rOOstiDg on tho
lower rail of fence near q creek when tho
water began rising. 1t gradually became
higher aud the chickens would change
their positions until they were on tho top
one. They did not remain there long
until the water took the fcucc away and
they perished.
A horse and colt belonging to Jacob
Brady, who resides on Hopkins farm, at
the old Conowingo furnace, were pasturiDg
in q meadow along tho CQnOwingO, whom
the storm carried both away. The horse
was:.sweps about mile down the stream,
when it succeeded in getting out Of tho
water. The colt was drowned.
At Hopkins mill the race and trunkiDg
is gone and the dam breast injured. Three
acres of tOb lHcO on Mr.. Hopkins farm be-
longing to Abram Shenk and Benjamin
Bleacher was swept away. The loss to the
tobacco of DR.. J. NJ. Deaver, near the
Buck, will reach $1,000.
E. NJ. Stauffer, residing at Longs mill,
will lose at least $GO0 worth Of tobacco.
The breast of tho dam at tho mill is also
torn away.
Adam Hoke resides at tho bridge Of the
creek near Green tree. Tho water became
so high that Mrs. Hoks had to leave tho
house with her children and 20 out ON The
railroad to escape drowning.
Four COWS belonging to David Harnisl,,
near West Willow, Were killed by light
ming during the storm.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-09

bridge and began spending money on various
articles of necessity and luxury at q surpris-
ing rate. Up to within a week ago he had
invested something like $3.50, 900 in property
in Uxbridge. He has been made defendant in
two suits for breach of promise and third
for seduction under promise of marriage
Damages of 800 900 are claimed in each case.
But his guilt or innocence in these cases is
apparently not half as interesting matter to
his neighbors as the we'll kept secret of the
source of his money supply. Among the
theories that have been put forth are that he
was connected with the Northampton bank
robbery; that he acquired his wealth by
speculation; that western hermit beuueathed
it to him that he had royalty from Wash
burn & Moen, of Worcester, for patents on a
barbea wire fence but Mr. Washburn de-
MES this. Wilson has deposited checks from
Mr.. Moen to the amount of nearly 5000 900
at one time another. AS Mr.. Moen is a
very respectable gentleman, it is not fair to
suspect that there is anything wrong in his
dealings with Wilson, but both he and Will
son should have told the public all about
their business. They may have to yet before
the public will be satisfied
Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-09


An elderly man with thin pieces of wood,
shaped like an artists palette, strapped on
his hands and feet, has attracted much at
tention in the water at Manhattan Beach
some days by swift and graceful swimming.
His equipment was called swimming plates"
and he took apparent pleasure in teaching,
free of charge, those who took interest in
his invention. The swimmer was r. H.
Wallace Dunlop, G. B., an Englishman, who
has devoted himself to the science of nata-
ton, and has written work upon plate
swimming After studying for years the
swimming habits of seals, fishes, beavers and
turtles, MIR. Dunlop began to experiment to
see whether he could not make man an am-
phibious animal by supplying him with prac
tical fins of fippers. Owing to the impossi-
biity of introducing nerves and muscles for
economic expansion and contraction, he found
that all jointed, hinged and umbrella fms
were practically worthless, as the opening or
closing of the fin was made dependent upon
the action of the water during the stroke of
the arm and leg, and that as the greater part
of the stroke was employed in the expansion
of the fin, it was rendered ineffective, and the
aid obtained after expansion of the fin did
not compensate for the extra friction and
drag of the apparatus during its closing and
recovery. But by devising the plates, which
are attached to the hands and feet, the inven-
tor assimilates the equipment of man to that
| of the sea lion and the turtle, and, without
describing the effect of the DEVICE it is easily
said that the plates increase the pressure area
| of the hands and feet. The result of this, 1t
| is claimed, is to give greater propulsion and
| surplus float power. The inventor says that
| the plates increase an average swimmers
speed fifty per cent and that they enable weak
| swimmers to go long distances by reducing
the slip" of the body in ordinary swim.
| ming.
If the reader will imagine an artists pa.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-09

81 N STRUCK.

Langtry is taller than Bernhard. Will
she come any higher? (For diagram OF
this one apply at the box Office. )-Cou7ler-
Journal.
1t is said the war in Egypt will raise the
price of mummies. People who have not
yet bought their winter stock of mummies
will regret to learn this-N0y71st0aon Herald.
Arab Bey has been confiscating all the
horses he can lay his hands on. This is the
first intimation we have had that Arab was
trying to establish stable government
Teas Siiftings.
1t is rumored that two deacons at Ocean
Grove are to be disciplined for dissipation.
We are told that their friends are much sur
pr1sed at their behavior. Wonder what thew
thought the deacons went there for !-B0st0n
Post
'Sambo," said an inquiring friend to a
colored iaborer, "what do you do in the
BOSS, 'spects L does about all de circular
work" Indeed, you must be capable fell
low. What is your circular work ?' Turn
ing grindstone.'
The handkerchief Irritation code has been
somewhat extended to meet one of the ext
gencles of modern civilization. Holding it
constantly to the nose, in the presence of an
adored one, means ''I want to make love
to you, but [ can't-got the hav fever. y
Philadelphia Neaos.
ANY children 2" asked landlord of a
gentleman seeking a tenement on Cherry
street. Yes, three ''No use talking,
then; L want tenants without children -
But mine are not fat enough to kill, - mild
~ remarked the gentleman as he turned on
his heel Waterbury american.
During the shower yesterday a citizen car
rying very wet umbrella entered a hotel to
pay call to some one up stairs. After
placing his umbrella where it might drain he
wrote upon piece of paper and pinned to it
the sentence
IN. B.-This umbrella belongs to man
who strikes 250-pound blow-back in fif-
teen minutes"
He went his way up stairs, and after an
absence of fifteen minutes returned to find
his umbrella gone and in its place n note
reading
''P. S.-Umbrella taken by a man who
walks ten miles hour-won't be back at
all."-Detroit Free Press
Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-09
Price Four Cents.

lette of thin wood, vanished, strapped to
each hand, and larger palette serving as
sole to q canvas shoe laced over the end of
the foot strapped across the instep and again
strapped across the ankle, the heel project
ing at the rear so as to rest on the ground, an
idea of the plates may be obtained. 1.-THE
heel gives me trouble" says M Wallace
Dunlop, because no swimming animal has
heel. By letting the heel through the gap
of the plate play of both the ankle and in
step joints eau be obtained to bring the plate
in line with the leg or square to it at will
The pressure upon the plate comes chiefly
from the ball of the foot, and the freedom of
the joints gives about ninety degrees of play
The main point in plate swimming lis to car
ry the plates through the water edgewise
during recovery and square during the
stroke"
"What added buoyancy is obtained Pr
"About seven ounces from the wooden
plates. They allow the swimmer to rest mo-
tlonless upon the surface, without any
constrained breathing, in ordinary float
ing"
1T is easy to go to Sleep then, in the
water ~
Eyes because breathing without sinking is
practicable friend, late in the Indian ma.
Wy, told me that he slept for some time float
ing in the harbor of Jeddo. Moreover, with
the swimming plates, a man can carry a
weight of fifty pounds around his neck.
Much is said about fast swimming, but the
result of my experience is that, roughly
speaking, one and a half yards second is the
ne bus ultra of swimmers. Great swimmers
have to use an immense amount of energy to
secure the few inches a second that they
make over ordinary swimmers"
Did you take the plan of the SWIM
plates from the turtle ?" a--s.
Eyes; the shake of the turtle 40 that of
swimming plate 1t moves easily edgewise
in the water, and has much vertical stability
which enables it to make the up and down
blow of his fiippers very effective. When a
turtle moves slowly, its action is like that of
frog on the diagonal; that is, it works the
left front and the right rear fippers together;
but when doing its best, the turtle works it's
fippers in pairs, which is found advanta-
geous by human swimmers with plates.'
Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-09
Wednesday Morning, August 8, 1882.


THE FREIGHT HANDLERS FAILURE.
It has been plain for some time that the
great strike of freight handlers in New York
would fail. It has failed, and for the last
two three days the strikers have been ask
ing to be taken back at the old rate of wages,
namely, seventeen cents an hour.
The history of this strike is instructive. It
began June Is. The men had been receiv-
ing seventeen cents an hour, but they de-
manded twenty cents. This was a reasonable
demand, and because it was reasonable, and
also because the refusal of the railroad COM
panies to grant the advance asked made the
public trouble, the strikers received much
encouragement. Subscriptions were started
| and contributions poured in rapidly from the
citizens at large and from the labor unions
During the struggle there have been dis
tributed to the strikers in New York city
about $15, 900. In this distribution preference
was given to the most needy. In case of a
death, birth, severe illness, Or pressing de,
| mand for rent, much 800 was supplied
| to one member of the union. The others re-
ceived from So to $40, according to their
needs, with large families being given
ceeded in finding employment elsewhere, but
the others were obliged to subsist chiefly on
what they earned before the strike Or else
upon credit. No member received more than
one installment from the relief fund. In
Jersey City about Sc, 500 have been distrib-
uted to the strikers.
The strikers have been out seven weeks.
They would have earned in that time had
they kept at work about $4,000 or ST. 40
each. At the rate demanded the wages for
the whole time would have been $S4 for each
man. Their effort to get an increase has
been an Improbable one. Of course they
hoped to enforce compliance with their de-
mands, and if at the end of the seven weeks
the rate of twenty cents an hour had been
conceded, they would have made up the loss
in little more than a month. But the
strike has failed, and to the seven weeks
sacrifice must be added that of further and
indefinite idleness for many of the strikers.
There has not been strike lately which
had more promising start than this one.
The demand of the strikers was apparently
just, they had multitude of sympathizing
fir ends, and the railroad companies had for a
time all the trouble that the strikers could
want them to have. But the companies were
determined not to yield, and worked on with
their half trained unframed Men until
they conquered. The only excuse they have
given for not granting the advance
asked for is that the demand
was not properly made. They say the men
should have given them time to consider the
situation. This is better than no excuse, but
does not help the strikers, who now see that
they have made mistake and have added to
the great quantity of evidence that strike
is very poor way of adjusting differences
between workingmen and employers. Where
one strike is successful ten fail, even if, like
this one, they seem to be founded on justice
Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-09

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Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-09

Much is said of the sudden rise of towns
and cities in the United States, but there are
similar cases in the Old World. Parkerton
in England, is Cor soon will be- an instance
in point. 1t appears that the growing impor-
lance of the Antwerp trade, of which some
very striking figures have recently been pub
lished, has made this port of Harwich wholly
inadequate to the needs of tho railroad line
that terminates there. Accordingly the COM
pany have erected on an estuary of the
Stour, three quarters of a mile from Hsr-
wich, splendid new quay where passengers
and freight for the Continent will in future
be landed. This quay is l. 800 fest long, and
has warehouses l, 400 feet long by 60 broad.
Near the quay will be erected station and
hotel, bonded stores, and offices for mer-
chants and workmen. Thus there will soon
be built up near Harwich an entirely new
town. Extension railroad lines have been
recently constructed which bring the port
into direct communication with Birmingham,
Manchester, Sheffield Leeds, and other great
manufacturing centres of England.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-09

William Fl. English's speech before the In
diana Democratic State convention was SO
satisfactory to the Republicans that the State
convention has offered to distribute 10, 900
copies of it if Mr.. En- lish will furnish them.
The latter says that the Republicans can have
all the copies of the speech they are willing
to pay for. The Republicans believe that
the speech will be an effective campaign doc
ument to circulate among the temperance
Democrats.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-09

1t is said that one of the chief causes of
the failure of the famous Sullivan farm in
Illinois, the last small section of which has
just been closed out, was the ex- Governor s
too rigid discipline, not founded on common
sense. The farm, ten miles long and seven
miles wide, was divided into three sections
If, for instance, the first of a gang of forty
ploughs broke down, none of the others was
allowed to pass it, but all had to wait until
| the damage was repaired. No overseer could
dismount for moment to perform any man.
ual labor, however urgent, and no employee
/ of whatever grade, was permitted to do even
| the most trivial thing not properly belonging
to his department. The great machine had
| no elasticity and so it broke down.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-09
J. N. Adam & Go.
New Haven, Ct, and Buffalo, N. Y,

being now larger Dry Goods than
section position TO buy to better
OIL resolved to that ad
their business by giving
the public increased facilities I'm
the coming they able show large
class foreign goods, their importation
ders being placed ago, and they will be
prepared to al best of American manu-
only made by buyers able
go to hands. During August the remainder of
their summer stock be closed any prices
found necessary to effect the
end. As is well known to contain inferior
nor goods obtained during this
closing out genuine that give last
ing In taking inventory as
week a very important reductions made
i'm the silk department, particulars of which
lear at
Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-09
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Congress adjourned yesterday. Better late
than never.

Austin MacNamara, 76 years old, is trying
TO get released from New York insane asy-
lum on the ground that he Is not insane.
When questioned by Judge Barnard MacNa-
mara said that the only question the two doc
tors who examined him before he was sent to
the asylum asked him was whether he was n
good Democrat. 1t would be interesting to
know his answer to this test question.