Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-21

at $133, COG, S42. against sl24, 12l, ,439 dur
ing the corresponding period of the pre-
ceding year.
a WELCOME TO SPRING.
Far in tha sunny South she fingers,
Yet slowly comes along.
With fairy Sarands in her fingers,
With snatcheS OF sweet song.
Her eyes with promises are bea'ning,
Her smiles will rapture bring.
The sunlight from her hair isstrcaIning- Is
Thrice welcome, lovely spring.
She brings us gifts the royal maiden,
Fair flowers To deck the Mills;
With primrOscs her arms are laden,
Bluehclls amt dnftndils.
Pale crOcuses, have come before her.
Wild birds her welcome sing:
Ten thousand longing hearts adore her
The gray worlds darling. spring.
The terrible calamity that occurred in
the Catholic parochial school yesterday in
New York, by which, through the alarm
caused by a small fire, almost a score Cf
the 700 scholars who attended II w2r.
| crushed to death in their frantic efforts to
escape, comes with additio2al force follow
ing SO closely upon tho many great diaas-
| tcrs that have ma"lcd the advance OF the
new year. Ii seems to have been one cf
those accidents which, while they might
| be at iirSt avaTtcd, cannot be checked
and loss C i..,sri could bo the natural
| results of fire, threatening the lives of
| hundreds OF alarmed children.
BOSTON is exercised over the lavish ex-
pendituco of the city's money by the
members of it's common council for per-
sonal uses, one item in the financial ac-
count of last year reading $50, coo for ire
freshment and carriage hire" The city
fathers in extenuatlon Of their inprovi-
dence assert that the measures coming
before them in their sessions nccesstate
speechmaking and argument until far
toward morning, so midnight suppers are
needful and the members must ride home
in carriages. 1t may be supposed that
among the other municipal affairs broug 1T
up for discussion and action before these
councilmanic inteiiects, is tho question of
the comparative merits Of baked beans
and the divine ethereality of the inhabit-
ants Of the Hub.
THE publisher of Saturday Night and
Golden Days in Philadelphia pays CUT
$1,000 per day to his workingmen and
would have largely Increased his business
soon by establishing new illustrated
weekly, but one Of the denizens of the
neighborhood of Ninth and Spruce streets,
where his numerous presses run night
and day, having asked for an injunction
to stop them disturbing his and his wife Is
slumbers, and the master i'll chancery be
ing about to report in favor Of the com.
plainant, the publisher threatens that il
the court sustains this view of the ease,
he will remove his plant to New York.
And the Philadelphia political economists
seem to be able to furnish no ''protec:ion'
for manufacturer aud workman in such q
case.
AFTER thirty years of repose beneath
the marble slab in the pleasant cemetery
of St. George, in Tunis, the remains OF
j. Howard Payne have been exhumed and
are now on their way to his native land
1t is fitting tribute to his memory which
has induced the government to order
this movement. The destiny which
prompted him to sing his matchless song
of home, when enduring tho severes,
pangs of poverty and loneliness in the attic
of the Palais Royal, and urged his feet tC
wander into strange lands and amidst
strange people, followed him to the East
ern world and beheld him laid to rest ir
that far off land beneath tine tears of only
foreign friends. It cannot be said that the
removal of Payne to America will increase
the respect in which he is now held, OF
longer perpetuate his name, for while his
fame as a poet and dramatist may grow
dim with time, the tender sympathy and
sentiments, which came to him with al
the moro force and pathos because theil
reality was denied him, breathed in the
beautiful of ballad ''Home, Sweet Home, ,
will ever find as responsive an echo in the
family circle as in the heart of the most
unfortunate exile.
The Western Floods.
The Ohio river and its tributaries con-
tirued to fall yesterday and the Mississippi
continued to rise. The chief signal officer
gives Dotice that the Mississippi flood will
continue to Increase until about the 4th OF
March when IL will reach its maximum
"and in MAJ places will prove as de
structive as th2 aood of last year." The