Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-31

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THE next general assembly of the Pres |
byterian church in the United States of
America will meet at Saratoga Springs,
New York on Thursday, the 18th of May,
1883. The assembly will consist of about
five hundred commissioners, clerical and
lay, and will probably continue in session
from twelve days to two weeks.
THE thirty ffth anniversary of the
establishment of modern spiritualism &C
ours to-day. The first association of
Philadelphia will celebrate the occasion
by meeting tomorrow at their hall at
Eighth and Spring Garden streets. The
hall will be decorated with plants, flow
ers, flags, banners, portraits, sc.
AS the city Of Memphis has had consid-
erable trouble of late in paying its debts
there will be no serious regrets felt that
the Few Tennessee law making the keep
ing of gambling house a felony has
caused an emigration of gamesters from
the city and turned the attention of their
victims to more profitable pursuits.
New JERSEY has not escaped the con-
tagion of the times. An attempt was
made yesterday to blow up some extensive
powder works. The fact, however, does
not need to suggest dynamite lawlessness.
1t is probable that some philanthrophic in
dlvidual desired to save his fellow citizens
from the inroads of the coming mosquitoes.
AT last there is some reason to believe
that everything didn't originate in China.
A philologically Inclined Frenchman has
made the startling discovery that the bard
OF Avon was not an Englishman, but that
his father, Jacques Pierre, emigrated from
Burgundy during the persecution of the
Huguenots, and settled at Stra ford, where
his name was anglicized into Shakespeare.
1t only remains now to prove that Confu-
cius was an Irishman to deter the Celes
tials from claiming the origin Of the
unique Dorsey and Brady.
| A FRENCHMAN, bearing the somewhat
elongated aud antediluvial name of M
Villiers de PIsle.Adam, has written a
drama covering an interesting period OF
the American Revolution with tho plot
based upon thrilling episodes of the time
and with scenes of the play all in this
country. 1t is spoken of with appreciation.
PROFESSIONALLY the Revolution and the
formation of the American republic would
be noble themes for the power of grea,
dramatist. but these times are too near those
periods, and the aspiring intellect of NJ.
Vlliers-etc. is rather too light to pleseu,
us a Shakespearean idealization of the
! nations early history.
IT is perhaps not generally known tha,
in South Carolina, as in Pennsylvania
there are Lancaster, Chester and York
counties, all named after the Pennsylvania
counties by emigrants from this section
who went thithor. Among the Scotch
Irish who immigrated to Carolina from
Lancaster county were a number who had
been members of the Union Presbyterian
church. So when they erected theil
Bethel down there they called the church
'Union" after the old home church.
When the county came to be divided and
new ore was set off the Union church
being the most prominent feature of the
new county give it its name; and thus il
happens that the county of Union in the
state most famous for disunion owes its
name to no local patriotic sentiment but
to the associations of it's carly settlers
with the Presbyteriaa church in Colerain,
which, under the ministry of Rev. Dr..
Stewart, is one of the most Aourishing of
its denomination in this section.
THERE is nothing new in the attempt,
; but something decidedly novel in the sue
cess, of the efforts to utilize the rays OF
the sun as motor for industrial purposes
From time immemorial the idea has been
entertained, but it got no farther than
into tanglement of theories to which the
strongest inventive genius could not give
} practical solution. Now, however, the
difficulty has been pretty thoroughly
mastered, the experiments made having
warranted the adoption of machinery tha,
gains the desired effect. When it is con
sidered how many are the uses to which the
solar rays may be put, oEe Of the chiefe 81
, being to irrigse arid land, the incalcula-
: bic value of this strange motive power
, may be appreciated. It is proposed te
utilize this motor in irrigating the fine
lands of some of tho valleys of Californis
and Arizona, the method being to drive a
number of tube wells, about fifteen feet
apart. and coupling them together at the
tops and to apply sun engine. Through
these means it is claimed that an mex
haustible quantity Of water can be secured
and successfully used to make tillable
millions of valuable acres that could be
moistened In no other way.
!. EnthrOned.
The enthronement on Thursday OF. Right
Rev. Edward w. Benson a. archbishop OF
Canterbury, took place with appropriate
ceremonies. The bishop of Long Island,
United States, and the bishop of Saskat.
cLewan, British North America, were
present. The traditional embarrassment
ceremonies were observed. There was a
dense crown of people in the cathedral.
The Duke of Edinburg, representatives of
Oxford and Cambridge universities, and