Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-06

having a law suit with a former music
teacher. Patti is entitled as much to free
advertising as Barnum is.
ALTHOUGH this is the greatest agricui-
tural country in the world, cabbages con-
tinue to arrive from Germany and turnips
from Russia.
THE name of H. P, Snyder, editor OF
the Connellsville Courier, has been men
toned in connection with Fayette coun'y's
vacant seat in the House Of Representa-
tives. He would fit admirably.
The Nashville american takes no stock
in Henry Watterson's sky-rocketty TRADES
against Pennsylvania Democrats, and de-
c!ares that the Tennessee Democracy will
stand with Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylva-
mia on the speakership and tariff question
In Johnstown yesterday the conserva-
tive faction of the Dunkards formally ex
communicated six prominent members of
the progressive faction, among them NJ.
w. Keim, Johnstown banker, and Benz.
Benshoffor, one of their deacons.
NEXT season Mrs. Langtry is to make a
tour through the coal regions of Pennsyl
vania and the sandy plains of New Jersey.
This is we'll. She may yet be able to
make her features notable through the
agency of the coal dust of the one state and
the mosquitoes of the other.
MURDEnERs of various nationalities
utter final protestations somewhat as fol-
lows The colored citizen, ''dis yer chile's
gwine ter glory ;" the Irishman, faith,
an didn't intird to murther him - the
Italian, ''mc innocen', me innOcen' ~ the
Frenchman, "ze jhentleman endeavare to
keel me first - the Englishman, "h'I
'opes to die h'if hi h'aint h'innocent -
and the Western representative remarks
just before the final moment, "Jes wait.
gentlemen, till blow my nose.''
PETER COOPER.
Give honor and love tor evermore
To this great man gone TO rest;
Peace on the dim Plutonian shore,
Rest in the land of the blest.
! reckon him greater than any man
That ever drew sword In war;
/ reckon him nObler than king or khan
Braver and better by far.
And wiscst he in this whole wide larH
OF boarding till bent and gray:
For all you can hold in your cold dealt h:tud
Is what you have given away.
| So whether to wander the stars or TO resi-
varh IN al ~ nj IN
| He gave with a Zest and gave his best,
| And deserves the best to come.
| joaquin Miller.
THE Pittsburgh Dispatch says There
are some hundreds of miles of pipe line
now running through the agricultural
regions of the state outside of the oil couu
try. No injury to the farms has been
heard Of from them, and in running oppo
sition pipe lines through the state no oh
stacle has ever beon encountered wher
purely agricultural interests were to be
dealt with. 1t was when it became neces
sary to cross property owned or controlled
by the Standard oil company, that the
independent lines were brought to ;
halt.
PARIS is excited over the reproduction
of prophetic saw attributed to the famous
Mostradamus who lived in the 10th cen.
tury, cured plaques, eradictated disease!
and was popularity credited with the gif
of prophecy and knowledge far above othe
lnortals. The prediction gives notice, il
not the best Of French rhythm, that in thu
year 1888, when the buds abound, from
annoyance and mischance lame man is
to rescue France. 1t is much on the style
OF the late Mother Shipton's prophecy OF
the day Of doom, and although it does moi
deal with SO weighty a subject, it is likcl,
to be fulfilled inlthe same way.
| THE governments of the old wOrl(
seem to be swaying amidst deuge O
unprecedented horrors. England is as
founded at the unearthing of the mos
important dynamite factory ever discover
ed, the arrest of four conspirators in Lon
don and one in Birmingham, an attempt ol
a government magazine in Ireland, and tn,
reception of an incendiary letter in Lon
don. In Russia terrible and audaciou
scheme of Nihilists to blow up tho roya
abode at Moscow has been discovered
The Danish government is having trouble
with its Socialists. Frances troubles arr
in no way lessened and in Servia insurrec
tory demonstrations are making things
| decidedly uncOmfOrtahle The resurne is
portentous and the prospects for quie
are gloomy indeed.
| THE extensive authorizations in thi,
country of various articles of subsistence
seem to have more than a parallel in the
practices of the Austrians and Germans
United States Consol Tanner, stationed al
Liege, in his last report gives some in
sight of the mulifarious objects that arr
lessened in value and cheapened in price
by the Employment of foreign ingredients
In Germany coal oil is sold in three grades
the first quality being slightly dashed the
second considerably so. and tho third 81
heavily as hardly to be detected by it.
Oldest and most intimate acquaintance. u
The science of dilution is carried to ar
alarming degree into everything liquid
and adulteration into everything solid
The former are poisoned with all sorts o
concoctions, and the latter mixed will
ingredients as nauseating as they are
dangerous. Even woolen goods are adul-
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