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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-04
Tho RsayOl rs COurI

The case of Charles G. Fisher, arrested
for drunken and disarderly conduct and
for assault and battery on Michael Flear,
was continued by the mayor uhti! Friday.
Flear appeared with his head tied up, and
charges that he was cut with knife he.
sides being beaten by Fisher.
Thomas iIoi!rook. Henry Carr and
Thomas Wilson, for being drunk ard dis.
orderly. were each mulcted in BOZ cents
costs. John sullivan for like misconduct
was sent &" Jail for five days. VIM. Dun
can. who was sick, was sent to the hospi
tai. and .ix dodgers, who were in search
OF work, were discharged.
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Fire In East Earl.

On Friday afternoon about two o'clock,
a frame summer house, in the SOrrel
Horse, East Earl township, owned by
George Duchman, caught fire and was
soon totally consumed by the flames. For
a time the main house was in danger, and
it was only through the exertions of the
neighbors that it was saved.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-04

rates were increased. The telephone COM
pany then offered the use of the instru-
meDts free during April, providing they
would accept the increased rate of fifty
dollars per year. The subscribers are
awaiting to hear from Reading, and will
hold another meeting this week.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-04
An ExDlusIon in n Horol.

At San Francisco an explosion of gas
occurred in the cellar of tho Pacific hotel
on Tuesday. The fire department and
underwriters patrol were quickly on hand
when a second explosion Of greater vio-
lence blew out the sidewalk light and
severely injured the following persons
Engineer Ross, of the fire department
Captain White, of the patrol; John Nc
Garry, driver of truck No. 1, and George
3. Larose, G.. w. Harrison, J. Mccormick,
Eugene Drew, John Lord and R. Chap
man, members of the patrol. It Is feared
that the injuries of Ross and Chabman will
prove fatal. The damage to property was
light.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-04

The following chiefs were raised up last
evening in Can as-sa-te 90 tribe No. 2O3,
l. o. r. NJ, by d. ID. G. s., Byron }.
Brown:
Prophet-A. Z. Ringwalt.
Sachem-C. A. Villee.
Sr. Jsg.-Wm. G. Brown:
Jr. Sag--Geo. Eich'ey.
G. Of 80. J. Brown.
K. of WYNN. F. Jamiso1.
Trustee s. Villee.
Rep. to G. G. Of PAWN F. Jamison,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-04
StauD Taxes.

On and after July 1, 1888, the stamp
tax now paid on bank cheques, drafts,
orders, vouchers. and the tax on medicines
perfumery and matches. will cease. On
tobacco and dealers connected Herewith
the tax will be much reduced. The pos
tage on half. ounce letters will be reduced
to two cents after October l ensuing and
the change and reduction in postal orders
will also, at that time, be greatly reduced.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-04
Forestalllng tho Market.

Stephen Markert was arrested by Officer
Leman yesterday for violating the ordi
nance relative to forestalling the market.
Markert is q dealer in poultry and provis
ions and, it is alleged. bought poultry,
pigeons and other marketing in violation
of the ordinance. Alderman Alex. DON
nelly held him for hearing.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-04
SANDER suit.

Samuel H. Reynolds and J. H. Brown,
esqs., attorneys for Jonas B. CARRIER, of
Mountville, have brought suit for Sian.
der against Isaac H. Kaufman. The barn
of the plaintiff was destroyed by fire three
years ago. and he alleges that defendant
has told different parties that he(plaintif)
set fire to it himself. He claims to have
been damaged to the extent of $50, 900.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-04
Thanks.

The sold reporter" of the INTELLIGENT
GER returns thanks to Alderman VIM. 3.
Wiley for a bound copy of the Lancasterian
for the years 1S54-5, at which time Squire
Wiley was its editor and publisher. 1t
contains fund of "reminiscences (poltical
and otherwise) of an important epoch in
the history of Lancaster county, including
the rise and fall of Know Nothingism and
the bitter feuds existing between the
Buchanan and anti Buchanan wings of
tho Democratic party,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-04

IT is seldom that any writer on the
temperance question approaches the
consideration of it with such intelligent
appreciation of all its phases as Rev. j.
Spangler Kieffer, from whose article on
prohibitory legislation in the Reformed
Qurterly Rerieo we make some ex-
tracts and all of which is entitled
to the careful reading and thought
full consideration of those who
are interested in this question, on
whichever side they range themselves.
Mr.. Kieffer presents in a singularly i'm
partial ,dispassionate and discriminating
manner the moral virtue of the temper
ance movement, as well as the rallacies
and fanaticism which have often charac-
terized those engaged in it. His eulogy
of the soul of goodness in it, which
accounts for its persistent vitality, is as
fair as his analysis of the undue stress
laid upon the prohibiting law with
out, to the disregard of " the prohibit
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-04
NEuGHHORhOOD NEWS.

Events Near and Across tho County Lines.
Scarlet fever is prevailing in some parts
of Chester county.
There is deadlock in Reading councils
on the vote for city clerk.
The work of preparing for the erection
Of the new Pennsylvania passenger station
at Harrisburg was begun yesterday.
Tho shipments of rails from the Baldw in
steel works for the month amount to over
1 1000 tons.
The upper portion of Brown s. Reels
factOy, in Harrisburg, was burned yes
terday, with a number of valuable pat
terms.
The Young Mems Republican club OF
Harrisburg, which has been in existence
many years, has sold out and dissolved,
and the rooms will become the head quar-
ters of the Central Democratic club.
Saturday evening tramp, who had
been working for Mr.. MahlOn Killinger,
Annvillc, was found dead in 4 pig sty
with his face somewhat disfigured by tho
hogs. 1t is believed that he died from III
apOpletic stroke.
While FOrtunatus Maurer Was at work
in rolling mill at Reading there was a
sudden discharge of gas from the fire
through the door Of a furnace and he was
hurled ten feet away. The hair was
singed from his face and head and he
was severely burned from the stomach
up.
While Isaac w. Van Leer, of West
Nantmeal, Chester county, was having
timber cut Oh his land one Of the wood
choppers found in the heart of a thick
hickory log an old fashioned corn cutter
that had probably been in the tr .e for q
century or more. Not a trace of tho
article was visible from the exterior OF the
trees bark
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-04
FOKGElSY.

Attempt to Pass q Forged Check.
Yesterday afternoon just before the
Lancaster county national bank closed, 4
young man of rather genteel appearance
stepped up to the counter and presented a
check for $50 purpOrting to be drawn by
John Hildebrand, of Providence, in favor
of John Myers. The officers of the bank,
being acquainted with Mr.. Hildebrand's
signature knew the check to be Il forgery,
and questioned the young man about it
He gave his name as John Myers, and said
he had sold a crop of tobacco to Mr..
Hildebrand and received the check in pay
ment. The young man was detained until
an officer could be sent for, when he was
arrested and taken before Alderman Diff
fenderffer to whom no gave his Eame as
Daniel Styer, which is said to be his real
name. He was committed to the county
Jail in default of $500 bail for hearing on
Saturday afternoon at o'clock.
Another Alleged Forser.
Yesterday afternoon John II. Hafsila, an
agent for the sale Of agricultural imple-
meDUs, was also arrested for forgery, on
oath or John IIildebrand and who states
that Harsha was in tho habit of selling
implements to farmers, taking their notes
in payment and getting Hildebrand to
discount the notes. Among the notes
thus discounted some time ago we're two
that proved to DO forgeries. Mr.. Hide
brand happened to see Harsha in this city
On Monday, made complaint against him
and he was arrested yesterday as stated.
1t may be mentioned as curious coin
cident that Styer, who tried to pass the
forged Hiliebrand check, and Harsha who
passed on Hildebrand the forged notes,
were respectively in the hands of Officers
Deichler and Coyle. The officers met on
East King street, and, deeming it unnec
essary that both of them should make the
trip to the prison, they handcuffed the
prisoners together and COyle escorted
them to the castle
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-04

ing will Within" is keen and critical.
His philosophical reasoning leads him
to the conclusion to which most have
come of those who have examined the
subject in the same clear light. that
d" there is in any prohibitory law just so
much prohibiting energy as the moral
sentiment of the community puts into
it, and no more ;" but in the processes
by which he comes to this point both
sides TO the controversy will find some
thing for reproof and instruction.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-04

JUDGE PATTERSON shows no disposition
to vindicate tho administration of law in
his court from the ''imposition practiced
upon it and the disgrace attaching to it
in the release from prison of Dick HeiIig
indicted for larceny, whose bail had been
forfeited, and against whom there is a
clear case and a prosecutor ready and
anxious to furnish the necessary evidence.
The case is rotten throughout. Though
charged with felony the prisoner was
admitted to 5000 bail of doubtful security :;
for some unexplained reason the recogni-
zance was forfeited and lespited five times
before it was forfeited absolutely, and
even then the absolute forfeiture was
made. the defendants counsel says, in vio-
lation of an ''understanding" with the
district attorney having been accidentally
rearrested, the prisonerwas discharged upon
utterly false representations that there
was no case against him! The ''imposi-
tion practiced upon the court" being
fully exposed, it intensifes the ''disgrace
attaching to it" by neglect to make rigor.
GUS inquiry into the responsibility there.
for, Why?
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-04

A New YORK young man has sued a
New York young lady for breach of prom
ise. The only apparently clear conclusion
30 far gathered from the complicated
evidence is that gold ring and "oceans
of kisses were exchanged.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-04

THE result of the municipal elections in
the West indicate that Ohio and Michigan
may be safely classed as doubtful states.
The causes of Republican disaffection there
have not abated. The split is permanent.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-04

VAR1oUsLY inclined people have no
reason to remember this spring with dis
favor {; it is rather variously inclined itself.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-04

ASTRONOMICAL. societies of New York
arc interested in the spots on the sum
They ought to be little more absorbed
in the contemplation of the spots on New
York-the Five Points, for instance.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-24
FACTS AND FIGURES.

According to an estimate made, at
east $500, 100000 of the national debt
Of the United States is held in Europe.
Reporters of the New Orleans
TiD,es-Democrat have learned that the
rice crop for the present year will be at
least double that of last year if the har
vest time proves propitious.
in Western North Carolina there
are fifty-nine peaks about 5000 feet,
ninety-three between 5000 and 5000,
and AS between 1000 and 5000, a total
Of 295 above 1000 feet.
--Wannamaker, the great Philadel-
phis merchant is said to have done &c.,
300, 900 worth of business last year. OF
his sum S1,00O,000 were net profits.
His advertising expenses amounted to
5000, 0O0.-N Y. Sun.
Nearly all the whalebone used in
the United States is received through
San Francisco, but nearly every pound
received there is shipped directly to the
East, where it is put into shape for use.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Last year Arizona produced over
1900, 900 pounds of copper. Thus far
during the present year the increase has
been thirty-eight per cent, and new
furnaces are going up. Arizona's out
put will probably be at least $4,000, 900
pounds for 1888.
The whistle of locomotives heard
$500 yards, the noise of train $500
yards, the report of a musket and the
bark of dog 1900 yards, the roll of q
drum 1,600 yards, the croak of frog
300 yards, and cricket's chirp 800
yards.-N. Y. Herald.
Last year n, 191, 100 pounds of tea
were imported into this country, and
the consumption was LAC pounds for
each person. China sent us $4,000. 600
pounds and Japan $4,000, 900 pounds of
the Arabian berry. The consumption
of coffee per capita. in 1882, was 81
pounds. We use more coffee in the
aggregate than any other people. = Chi,
cdgo News.
Reports received at the Post-offics
Department in Washington from
twenty-five of the larger post-office.
show an Increase in the sale of postage
stamps. postal-cards, etc. for the quarter
ending June 30. 1888, over the cor
responding period of the previous yea
of 1922, 457, or about six per cent
These offices in the second quarter o
1882 collected about thirty-four pc
cent. of the total revenue of the de
partment. = Washington Post.
The mineral products of tn,
United States are immense. According
to the official report recently issued b,
Albert Williams, Jr., the Chief of tn
Division of Mining Statistics and Tech
nology of the United States Geological
Survey, the value of the mined product
OF this country in 1882 amounted to
grand total of 1888, 913,4 of which
S2l9, 756,004 was in metallic products
iron alone reaching Sl06, 1856. 429. Tn,
value of the silver mined was SAG, 800,
600; gold, S32. 800. 900. coal, over STAG,
632, 000. -Cticago Journal
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-24
THE WORLD'SDOINGS.
A Summary or the Daily News


THE reported death Of Cetewayo, the
Zulu chief, turns out to be untrue.
The wife Of United Slater Senator w. r..
Allison committed suicide by drowning
herself I'm the Mississippi River at Du.
buque, Iowa, the other night. She left home
In the afternoon, informing her servant she
was going 70 one Of her near neighbors.
Instead, however, taking her gossamer un-
der her arm, she went in an opposite direc-
tion' toward the country, where she had
been accustomed 70 take almost daily
walks, and Il would appear, went about a
mile below the city, cut up her eossamer,
placed some stones I'm Il and tied them se-
curely about her neck; then walked DELHI
erately into the river, and about thirty
i've feet from the bank laid down and was
drowned where the water was onlytwo and
= half feet deep. She was the daughter Of
ex-senator Grimes and had been married
ten years.
JONI YoUSG, Of Cincinnati, aged
seventy-seven, hanged himself at Cleve-
land, Ohio.
THE text OF tho treaty OF commerce and
amity between Mexico and Germany is
published. Tho treaty is said TO contain
the most favorable terms 10 Germany. A
clause Is that Germans are not 10 pay taxes
not levied on Mexicans; 20 lie exempt from
military service and from contributions in
lieu thereof, also from forced loans.
Tue Michigan Prohibition state Conven-
ton met at Eaton Rapids recently and
voted Co raise 10000 a. a campaign fund,
Endorsed the platform OF the National
Convention at Chicago, and declared in
favor Of constitutional aud statutory pro-
hibition Of the manufacture Of liquor as q
beverage.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-24
Vineyard Haven. Mass. scourced.

BOSTON, MASS, August Il.
AT one O'Clock yesterday morning fire
broke out at Vineyard Haven, near Cottage
City, and at 2:45 a large number of cot
tages, mostly belonging to summer resi-
dents, had been burned. 1t originated in
the harness mandatory of Il. W. Croker,
and owing to the brisk northeast gale
quickly swept through the village to the
westward. There being no fire apparatus
in town, assistance was summoned from
Cottage City by telephone. Nearly all
the population of that place fastened
to the scene. The territory burned over
embraces about fifty acres of the heart
of the village. The loss can not be correct
ly estimated, though it probably will fall
little short of 500, 900, and strikes almost a
death-blow at the ancient village. 1t leaves
hundreds ofpeople homeless, many of whom
are thrown upon the charity of their neigh
bors. There is a considerable insurance on
the property destroyed.
There was no loss of life, though the Gre
spread quickly and covered territory
thickly settled. The town is at present full
of summer boarders from Washington and
elsewhere, and probably two hundred Of
them are burned out of doors.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-24
A Telegraphic Blunder.

Telegraphic anecdotes being in order
reminds us of a dispatch which some
years ago business man in this city
sent to his correspondent in New York,
requesting him to have room reserved
for him at the hotel, as he should come
on that afternoon.
Arrived late at night he stood serenely
behind the crowd at the old Astor House
who were registering their names, even
till the clerk began to turn applicants
away for lack of room-assured that his
dispatch in advance must have secured
accommodation, but was surprised and
indignant to find that no order for a
room had been received, and was OBJ
liged to hunt up lodgings for the night
elsewhere.
Early next morning, in response to
the demand If his dispatch had been re-
ceived, his correspondent replied in the
affirmative and that store-house had
been hired for him in Beaver street as
ordered.
A store-house. 1 never ordered a
store-house.
The dispatch was produced. 1t read:
Shall be on tonight; have room in .
store-house secured at once.
Application at the telegraph Office re
vealed the fact that the young womas
who received the message as it CAM
slowly from the wire, supposed the ope
rator had been abbreyiating and She
therefore corrected CD the spelling @.
the message, which originally read
Have room in Astor House secured al
once The division of A-stor and al.
dition Of an produced quite a Different
result than was desired. = Boston Com.
Bsercial.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-24
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Austria has more than seventy agri-
cultural schools.
If the cucumber bugs attack your
vines, sprinkle them with SCOT. Chicago
Journal.
Canada thistles are great enemy
to chickens. A farmer in Oregon says
he has lost quite number of chickens.
which wander among the thistles and
are pricked to death.
Instead of carrying china or other
plates in picnic baskets, use the little
plates of wood used in stores for butter
plates. They take up less room, and
keep other plates from being nicked or
broken.
The Boston american CatiirdtoY
recommends the use of salt on the ma
nure heaps ''both for summer and win
ter. In warm weather it attracts moist
ure and keeps the manure from fire.
Hanging or burning from excessive fer
mentation. In winter it keeps the heap
from freezing solid, and at any season
it makes the manure more soluble"
DIR. Maxwell T. Masters writes the
New York Tribune that he has often
seen the experiment tried of thinning
potato tops by pulling out all the small
er stems, leaving only two, or at most
three, of the stronger ones to the hill,
and never knew an instance where the
result was not larger tubers and fire.
quently heavier total crop.
ANY one who has had the misfor-
tune to injure the coating of n rubber
umbrella will be glad to know that it is
not without remedy. A preparation OF
damar varnish and asphaltum in about
equal quantities, with little turpen-
tine, will make an easily applied coat
| ing which makes an umbrella about as
good as new again. Spots on gossamer
coats and cloaks can be covered with
this also.-N. Y. Post.
The number of eggs varies greatly
in different animals, as it is in proportion
to the risks during development. Thus,
the eggs of aquatic tribes, being unpro-
tected by the parent, and being largely
consumed by many animals, are multi
piled to prevent extinction. The spawn
OF single cod contains millions Of
eggs; that of the oyster 6,000,000. A
queen bee, during the five years of her
existence, lays about 100000 eggs.
An enticing looking cake is made
by following any good receipt which
calls for the yelks and whites of the
eggs. Then take little of the cake
dough and mix some grated chocolate
with it and put it In in little ''dabs'
through the cake. Put it in in such
way that when slices are cut from the
loaf there will be at least two of these
brown spots in each slice. The top OF
the cake should have chocolate frosting.
~ y Post
Prof James E. Johnston says that
fifty-seven per cent. of the blood of
animals consists of common salt, which
is partially discharged every day
through the skin and kidneys. When
stock is stinted with salt the bile is not
able to assist digestion to its full ex-
tent, and the natural waste of the car
tillages can not be built up as rapidly
as it otherwise could. The professor be-
lieves that it is better to place salt where
stock can have free access to it at any
time; otherwise they are liable to be-
come ''salt hungry" by too long absti-
hence, and when the opportunity of
fers will eat too much of it.-Er-
chance
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-24

NUMEROUS complaints have been re-
rciycd recently at the Treasury Depart
mcnt. especially from Eastern manufac-
lurcrs. that Mt least three rates Of duty
are collected by customs officers Of the
United States ON steel wire intended for
fencing purposes. With view Ia
rcmedying the evil. the Commissioner
II Customs has instructed Collectors OF
Customs TO forward To him the rates OF
iuty charged on this article. and n
decision will be given for a uniform tar.
IN. Massachusetts seems to be most
Interested In this question. rs all IN,
manufacturers engaged in the wire in.
dustry In that State have filed protest.
against tho action Of the custom.
officers.