Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-14

RI8pu, ucWSpdp6I 6uu tClCpuOuO uoVC
brought the remotest parts of the coun.
ty close to it's capital and gradually
eliminated the differences between the
town and country folk. The holidays of
the old time and their accomplishments
are distributed more and more through.
out the year and no comparison more
vividly marks the progress of social de-
velopment in this community than that
Of the present Whit Monday celebration
with the features of the festival in the
Olden times.
The growth of total abstinence unions
In this archdiocese of tho Catholic church
is significant. They now number SO
adult societies with 4, 726 members 2s
cadet societies with 2,901 members, and
II ladies' societies with 837 members.
NOT particularly general will be the
extent of the knowledge of natural and
artificial pisciculture given by the Inter-
national Fisheries exhibition, which was
opened with great ceremony in London oz
Saturday by the Prince of Wales, but il
will offer opportunity to those who attend
to observe the exhibits made, while those
directly interested will gain much by ar
Intelligent comparison of species and
modes of propagation. More than casual
interest may be attached to the occasion
by the fact that the exhibits from America
exceed those of the whole continent o
Europe.
SINCE the suicide of Amasa Stone al
Cleveland, incidents. more or less interest
ing, are called up by his tragic death
The Ashtabula disaster appears to have
been peculiarly depressing to him from .ths
fact that he was practically the builder O
the bridge, and the melancholy thus en-
gendered was made more poignant by th.
deliberate suicide of Mr.. Collins, thu
engineer of the bridge, while still further
may it have been augmented when tn.
venerable philauthropist remembered tha
a brother of Collins and a brother of Mr.
Stone himself ended their lives by thei
own hands.
A NEW YORK genius claims to have
discovered how to make paper railroad ties
which will be as handsome as rosewood
as strong as iron and yet will admi,
spikes. Considering that wooden sleepers
last ON an average but five years, that
seventy millions of ties are required
annually for American railroads, that the
three hundred thousand acres of forest
lands ravaged every year ars not being
restored by new paintings it is obvious
that some substitute must be found fol
wooden ties, and sincs paper car wheels
have been SO successfully introduced why
not paper ties?
SOME of the Philadelphia colored people
have been a great deal exercised about
alleged outrages suffered by their
Bishop Campbell in being excluded from
a railroad Car in Florida last fall because
he was not white. Indignation meetings
have been held, resolutions passed and nc
little excitement worked up over it. The
railroad authorities always insisted that
the bishop claimed and was refused first
class passage on a second. class ticket; and
that this is all there Was of it appears
probable from the announcement Of At
torney General Brewster that after a full
investigation he finds nothing to justify
the bishops complaint.
WHILE the manufacturing interests OF
this country, whether from undue stimu-
lation, reckless overproduction or what
ever cause, are running on short profit, il
not at loss, the labor activity in England
is greater than for years past. Miners,
navvies, puddlers and laborers find thei,
services in equal demand with those OF
skilled artisans, shipbuilders and engi-
neers and the wages Of labor are good,
while food is cheap because of the
great amount imported. But the
very reverse is the condition of
the farmers. Their home market
has been ruined By foreign, largely
American, competition they have had
several bad seasons; they have had 70 pay
high rents, and they have been gro wing
poor for years. Their restlessness ia
wide spread and almost all the tenant
farmers in England, Scotland and Wales
now belong to societies, working to secure
legislation that will at last remove the
heavier burdens of landlordism.
THE characteristic festivities that attend
the recurrence Of Whit Monday in Dublin
have to-day in that Irish metropolis sig
nificant cessation. Joe Brady, convicted
and sentenced to be hanged for the murder
of Lord Cavendish and Mr.. Burke, pays
the penalty Of his crime on this church
day, and partly by order of the govern
ment and more by the INCLINATION of the
Irish people the usual onjoyments are
dispensed with. The deprivation of
IL - -