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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-15
LABOR NOTES.
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Sezikses said 10 b Rssuralng 70 Work.-A
Condensed Resume Of asnersl
HsppenIngs.
Accounts received yesterday of the
status OF the telegraph Operators' strike
show that it Is weakening, number OF
the strikers returning to work at various
points. At Cincinnati two strikers were
gained yesterday by the company /; at
Meridian, Mississippi, two; at Long
Branch, the remaining one, and at Quebec
the remaining eight. At Augusta, Ga
oil the strikers applied for reinstatement,
but only two were given positions. the
places of the others having been filed. All
the wires Of the Gold and Stock telegraph
company in New York were cut yesterday.
George Baldwin, striking lineman. was
arrested for cutting Western Union
wire. The Western Union telegraph
company yesterday sent letter to Mayor
Edison ''setting forth the losses sustained
by them by the cutting of their wires and
notifying him that they will bring suit
against the city for the recovery of dam
ages"
The labor difficulty at the Bethlehem
iron works was ended yesterday, by the
collapse Of the Andrew Leo branch of the
Amalgamated association of iron and steel
workers, the president having failed to
receive assurance that substantial aid
would be afforded them. A committee
had conference with the superintendent
OF tho works, and was informed that the
company would give employment to the
worthy men who had gone out, but no
assurance was given that all former
employees would be taken back. The
delegates who attended the convention
in Philadelphia returned homo last night.
The general grand chapter of the
Royal Arch Masons of the United States
was in session yesterday at Denver, Colo
RADIO, and elected the following officers !:
Alferd F. Chapman of Massachusetts,. G..
G. d. P; Noble D. Larner, of the Dis.
trict of Columbia D. G. G. H. P. David
Day, of New York, g. G.. K. Joseph P.
Horner, of Louisiana, G. G.. g.; Reuben
G. Lemon, of Ohio, G. G. Treasurer !;
Christopher G. Fox, of New York, G. G.
Secretary; Thomas McPhallon, of Oregon
G. G. q. h. ; Benjamin Holler, of Tenn,
essee, G.. G. P. 8. Roger w. Woodbury.
of Colorado Il. G. r. A. G.. William Il {.
Mayor, of Missouri, G. G.. NJ. Sd ";
Lansing Burrow, of Kentuck, G.. G. M.
I'd "; John J. Sumpter, of Arkansas,
G. G. NJ, 1st w.;
Washington, D. c., was selected as the
place of meeting of the triennial conven-
tion in 1889.
Tho national convention of the "Anti-
Music Party" of the United Presbyterian
church, met Wednesday morning in Alle-
gheny city, Pa. About 200 ministers and
elders were in attendance. The following
permanent officers were elected Chair
man, Gen. James A. Ekin, of Jefferson.
vile, Ind; vioe president, DR.. w. Carson,
of Burgettsrown, Pa; secretary, Professor
Edward F. Reed, of Monmouth, ILL.,;
treasurer, William Floyd, of Pittsburg.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-15
Tho Parade and Picnic.

At 8 O'Clock this morning the societies
met at Mennerohor hall, where the parade
was formed under direction of Chief Mar
shall Henry Wolf and marched in tho
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-15

THE greatest reason which justifies the
prolonged efforts of the Democrats to
secure apportionment is that tho present
congressional division of this state is 80
egregiously unfair and outrageous that
none but the most bigoted partisans are
willing to excuse it. Public feeling is be.
coming fully awakened to the importance
of the contest at Harrisburg, and public
consideration is beginning to fairly and
intelligently balance the claims advanced
by the respective parties for the adoption
Of just apportionment; and already it is
apparent that the public mind is apprised
of the unreasonable claims of the Repub-
licans. Nothing 30 much as the perpetra
ton of wrong arouses the honest indig.
nation Of the people, and tho persistent
attempt Of the Stalwatiz 10 foroo upon
them an spportionmeut, ~G ph tho accept.
ancs of would be . misfortune and an
insult to them and . qualification to tho
Democrats, will have tho effect Of securing
from tho people as the next election q
most energetic and impressive denuncia-
tion of the wrong by an uttor repudiation
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The M@nnerchor and its guests, at the
close of the concert, assembled in tho
rooms on the first floor of the hall and in
the garden where they had an hour or
moro Of social intercourse. Toasts were
proposed and responded to; songs were
sung and there was general love feast
held. The ladies of the Philadelphia
Harmonic sang several fine selections.
Mr.. Edw. Kuehne, of the Baltimore
Harmonic, sang bass solo and Mr.. Fitch
niger, of the Reading Harmonic. Manner
ohor, tenor solo. A toast in honor of
Prof. Matz was drank and happily res
ponded to by that gentleman. The
press" was toasted and responded to by
Mr.. Henry Schmidt, of the Erie Press,
this city, and Mr.. Ahrendt, of the Balti-
more Correspondent. It was near mid
night before the pleasant party was broken
n
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-12-30
TIE COLOR LINEN WASHINGTON.

Washington CONTAINS $1,000 colOred
people, larger number than can be
found in any other city in the United
States. They enjoy every right that the
law has given them, many have ac-
eumulated wealth, and they own hand
some residences and have numerous
churches. But the color line is rigldly
drawn in social matters. Even among
the eOlored people there are three distinct
class, separated 10y insurmOuntable bar
riers. The so called upper crust consists
of men of wealth, learning and high
political position. These people aSSO-
ciate only with each other, aud are
waited upon 10y colored servants who
are made to keep their places. The
second class is composed Of govern
ment clerks and peOp,e in comfortable
circumstances, and the Thrill class con-
sists Of l. borcrs and poor people Sener-
ally. In the first of these circles the
leaders arG such families Is the BRCCES,
GREGoRYs, LANGSToNS. WORMLEYS
and others. Those people are wealthy
and well educated, and they live in
excellent style. Still they are an isO-
lated SGT, As they are nos good enough
tor white society and too good for that
OfthCir own race. The student of the
race problem will find much TO interest
him in Washington.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-12-30
JOLLY TESTERS JOKES.

Ii is a difficult matter to determine
which the young man fears the most,
Der big brother or her little brother.-
Philadelphia Call.
A Virginia girl recently dislOcated
her Jaw trying to catch on her lips big
kiss which her bashful lover had aimed
'cr Der check. Love is dangerous
play Burlington Free Press.
Whenever we see notice Of a prom
isiDg young man getting married it
aulerinduceS large percentage OF sur
mise as to who is going to credit him
or his board.-Merchant Traveller.
il is the fashion to use one perfume
only. Thus one girl always Uses violet,
another roses, etc. by this plan a
Young mans mother soon learns to dis
lip9Uish at q smell which young lady
Der hoy spent the evening with.-Phil-
adelphia Call.
IN item is going the rounds to The eff
fsct that church members embrace three
tines as many women ~ men. Yes,
that Is probably correct. There is not
more than twenty-five per cent as
much fun in embracing men rs women.
-- Oil City Derrick.
An English psychological society is
rackjng lis brains over the cOnundrum
Are angels ever sleepyW Not very
Dttt u, hut when you hear a bootjack
rolling down the front stairs, you can
make up your mind that the angel 5
ather is sleepy, which practically
aufOunts 10 the same thing Philadel-
phia Gail.
"A pair Of white and sbapcly hands"
.&Ns n Western writer, sis decided
tu%Yk OF beauty Ila, ha Now here
ia a hint to the woman with pair Of
.hsreIy hands. Let her cut them of
.LG wear one Of them, instead Of feath-
crs, on each side Oh her bonnet -Phila-
iriphia Chronicle.
IN exchange says; a young North
aioinian went crazy on his wedding
'aN. Why such circumstance is
considered out OF the ordinary run is
hat tie insanity in this case was caused
" an excessive indulgence in Risky.
\ Wedding ceremony is often followed
~ insanity, though. -Peck's Sun.
A "wish-bone" wedding recently
.ock place in New York, the ceremony
beng performed under floral piece in
The iOim of "A wish.bO A very ap-
propriate emblem, no doubt; signifying
| HAT few months hence, when the
aiGc begins to "bone" her husband for
mercy, he'll "wish" -"-Norristown
| ii'rald.
y late work on cti ,uette says 'it is
| -" lcnge, considered a rcyIc to kiss the
ride al 4 wedding" While this to a
,eItain extent freaks up an American
custom, yet there are bridesmaids
w,lve is the correct numbcr-who will
Aare to be passed around. 1t is good
Gtal like hiring some one to do your
iaucing, though Sun.
\ Nicksburg widow has received Sl2,-
80 from the different orders to which
her husband belonged. Dear ladies, in
the face Of all this can you persist in
talking at high rate of speed to your
husband when important work in the
>ky'ugle degree keeps them late at the
lodge? Give this matter little serious
th'ught.-Bismarck Tribune.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-12-30
An INDIAN PRIYILEG..

According to the United States SD
preme Court, the murder Of one Indian
by another is not au offence uAder the
laws of the United StStes, and the DA-
kOta court that tried CROW DOG. for the
murder of SPOTTED TAIL exceeded its
Jurisdiction. As Mr.. G.. DpG had been
sentenced 10 death and WAS in immi-
nent danger of feeling the halter COM
pressing the rascal throat Of him, he
will probably view this decision with
some satisfaction, provided the writ OF
habeas corpus when served shall find
him beyond the extempOraneous juris-
diction of the friends Of tine late lament
ed Mr.. =. TAIL. 1t would be very an
noyirg to Mr. Doc, after escaping the
hancmau, to be roasted over slow fire
with stalk through his stomach by
sorrowirg survivors OF the TAIL family.
But aside from the satisfaction which
this decision may be supposed 10 give
Crow 30, it may I've Of some use in
calliuc attention 10 the anomalous legal
status Of the aboriginal American. Ike
may be punished FOR whatever wrong he
il ilicts upon white man, but he may
not appeal to the courts tor protection
from the violence Of a fellow Indian. 1t
was once decided by the supreme Court
that Indians were distinct, indepeud-
Int, political communities, retaining
their original natural rights IS the uniis-
puted possessors of the soil from time
imm, mortal" This view of the matter
proving announcement to the white
man, the: learned and just Supreme
Court decided in 1873 that Indians h ave
no legal title or interest in the natural
productions Of the soil. The first steE
Necessary TO the solution of the Indian
question is the recognition o! the right:
ofthe Indian and the repeal Of law;
that make him an anomalous Outeas
with only the privilege of being sho
when caught Off q reservation.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-12-30
nExICAN WAR PENSIONS.

Nearly forty years have elapsed since
our soldiers and sailors returned from a
victorious war in Mexico, and about
fifty years since the Creek and Seminole
and Black Hawk wars were ended.
Senator WILLIAMS, OF kentucky, has
introduced y bill to give all surviving
offiors and men who served sixty days
in any of those wars, eight dollars 3
month during their natural lives. This
amount is to be continued to Borrowing
widows who have not remarked.
There cannot be very many of these
veterans still livi6g, and there will soon
be none; and it does seem that when
Congress has appropriated one hundred
millions year for pensions, and the
money has been paid out on evidence
that has never in q single ease been
questioned, if the rule Of the bureau
were complied with-it does seem that
the small amount which Senator
WILIIAMs's bill calls for should be
granted. Tens OF millions have been
paid out by the government to Is
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-12-30

healthy and hearty men as there are in
the country. All over the North the
swindles under the arrearages act are
winked at; and the men who supported
that bill and their constituents who
have been enriched by it, ought not to
vote against the modest bill of the
Kentucky Senator. These veterans
of the old wars OF the republic are men
beyond sixty years Of age, and very
many Of them are in needy circum-
stances. 1t would be gracious act to
grant them the pittance Of eight dollars
a month during the few years they will
remain in the country that their valor
added largely to in the case OF the Next
can war, and whose frontier they de-
feaded from the forays Of savages in the
earlier Indian wars.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-12-30

New York Tribune writes his paper as
follows on literary subjects:
~ asked Q bookseller lately, the most
intelligent and honest of his profession,
how the so-ealled editions dc luxe were
prospecting. Well said he, Il should
be glad to sell you the Fielding at cost
price; any of the others at half price
What this means may be seen from
cursory comparison of nominal and
real prices. TIE Dickens. for instance,
was published at $3.50. 1t was quoted at
S225. 1t cost the bookseller, think, a
little over 800. And he is now ready
hay, he would be glad-to sell it for
little over $50. And so comes to an end
several i'll. jud sed bookmaking specula-
tons.
"Apropos of prices, 1 see 81. Gonse's
LAT Japanais' advertised in New
Ycik 1T $50 for copies on ordinary paper,
$40 for copies on japanese paper; OF
which latter the French publisher gives
bis customers to understand that but
100 copies in all have been printed for
sale. The price of this book in Paris Is
200 francs. With the discountthe New
York importer pays certainly not more
than $50 francs, or $50. The duty is %
per cent, making the cost $3.50; leav-
ing 10 him profit ofS22. so, or, if he de-
duct freight and other expenses, of S2o,
CT some 90 per cent. On the japanese
paper copies it would be still more.
Truly the business of cook importing in
New York is one of those tina. leads to
fortune if not to fame. A still more
striking instance is perhaps supplied by
the An erican importer of Sir William
Stirling Maxwell's "Don John of Aus
tia" Messrs. Longmans publish this
book at two guineas. 1t costs the i'm
porter in London about 81. Duty and
expenses would hardly bring the cost
up to $40, but see ii advertised in New
York at $50. If the American buyer
likes to pay such prices l have not
word to say. But do assure you and him
that by sending to an agent in London
he can get books much cheaper. Only
he would have to choose his agent with
discreatiOn.
"The sale CT the Beckford Library
came TO close yesterday, the final por-
ton having taken but four days to dis
pose of, and realizing E6,Sl3. The sum
received for the whole is e73,55l. In
terest in the sale has been kept up
throughout, but there was nothing In
this last portion to rival the attractions
Of earlier divisions. Fine bindings
ard the fine condition OF most of the
books were remarkable, but few great
prices for single volumes We're obtained.
The highest have noticed was E3i5
for the "Nigilles des Morris, one OF Yer
ards looks printed on vellum, without
ia,c but before 1850, illuminated with
thirty brilliant full page miniatures aud
bound, or said to be bound, by Derome."
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-12-30
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS DRESS.

ANTHONY CONSrOcE ) recent raid on
storekeepers in New York who have
exposed for sale engfaviEgs which he
pronounced scandalOus has induced
some of the newspapers to call attention
so the growing immoiesty Of the ladies
dress. COMsTOCH'S spasmOdic attacks
of virtue have become familiar phase
sfmetropolitan life, but the uproar that
has been caused by the attacks on the
prevailing styles of cutting ladies' dress
waists Is something unusual, and indi-
Gates that there has been some prOvoca.
ton for the outbreak. The complaints
are lodged principally against the ladies
who have attended the operate per-
formances during the winter, and come
from men and women in every station
in life. Fashion has made but few re-
plies as yet to the arrangement, the
only pointed one being to the effect that
the charge of immodesty is made by
people unaecustomed to polite society,
and that in the higher walks of life
things that the vulgar might call JIM
modest and suggestive are unnotieed.
The weakness of this defense Is so ap-
parent that no words are necessary to
demonstrate it. Good breeding de-
mands, as matter of course, that q
woman whose modesty and SelfrespecE
are at so low an ebb that she takes
pride In an indecent costume should
not be "notieed," but it would be idle to
say that people who have eyes can fail
to make q mental note of her disregard
of the proprieties. This is all that the
common herd who now criIicise the
plutocraey pretend to have done. They
went 10 the opera, they saw more gross
indecency 10 the boxes thar they ever
saw on the stage, and they rushed into
print IS a means of expressing their iu-
digpation. TIE remark ofone gentleman,
whose opinion was asked, Is perhaps
the best indication that the present pro-
test is not without cause: ''Ifthe ladies,
dressed as they were, were trans
fsrred from the boxes to the stage
ofs BowcIy theatre" said he, 1.-The
place would be pulled by the police in
stanter.n The plea Of the society man
or woman that a psIpsble indecency is
apy the less Objectionable because per-
pelrsted in polite circles is false, anu
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could not have been made by anybody
having very correct ideas ofthe propri-
cites of life.
Exceptin ultra-fashionable quarters
where one folly succeeds another very
rapidly, there is never any occasion for
critieising the dress OF American wo.
men. 1t Is usually becoming, and
almost invariably modest. Common
sense should, and does, dictate what is
proper and what is improper. When,
carried away by the extravagances oil
fashion, foolish women abandon cor
rect styles, they cannot expect to escape
criticism, often merciless. 1t is the
protection of the decent against the in-
decent, and is not the snarl Of the rude
and vulgar against the rich and we'll
lrel
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orries. Last season one Of the commit
tees (expenditures In the navy depart
ment), though supplied With Q ciers,
reporter, messenger ana pay, "
drawing full salary, did not nave =
single meeting. For the benent OF tne
lsdies It may be mentioned that there
is q liberal spfinkling Of single men,
bachelors as well as widowen, ana
most of them seem eonjugally inclined.
OF these the most conspicuous are Bel
mont. of New York; lie Fevre, Of ONO;
Mcmillan and Young, Of Tennesse;
King, of Louisiana; Ochiltree, OF Texas;
Singleton, of Mississippi and Green, oil
North Carolina. Very few nembers
marry in Neutrality-suspicious. can
tell?
There Is no man foT whom single
hessedness is less desirable than pol
iticiap. He needs q wife 10 make
friends for him-to help him In his cor
respondence-to console him In his de-
feat-share his triumphs and back him
in the little receptions and hypoc-
racies so necessary in political life. Dam
ton said: Beware OF the statesman
who looks at things thro' his wife's
;" but he was = despot. Freemen
honor man whose wife in his guide
and cOntdant.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-12-30
OUEISsaNE POPULATION.

The figures of the census of 1850 sup
ply data by which the proportion of in
sane to each class Of population may be
ascertained, and the attentive study Of
this report, and OF the statistics furn
ished from time TO time by the State
superintendents of insane asylums will
largely explain the causes and sources
of the increase of insanity in this cOun-
try.
Itappears from past reports that from
1850 to 1860 the foreign born population
increased about 100 per cent, and the
foreign born insane Isl per cent. From
1860 to 1870 our foreign born population
increased only 80 percent. During this
period the insane OF this class increased
nearly 100 per cent. From 1870 to 1880
the foreign born increase was less than
20 per cent, but the increase OF the in
sane was $50 per cent. An eminent
specialist in reviewing these statistics
calls attention to the fact that although
The proportion Of native insane to ma
tive population remained about the
same in 80, go and 30, the proportion
of foreign insane in the foreign element
increased from in l,O95 in 1850 to in
497 in 1870; and in 1880 to | in 25O,
while the native insane amounted 10 |
in 6G2 of native pOpula ION. In other
words, one. eighth of the aggregate pop
uiation furnishes nearly one-third of the
aggregate insane.
The Northern States, including the
District ard the Territories, contain
about 60 per cent. of the entire popula-
ton, and furnish 20 per cent of the in
sane. The comparison of the proper
ton of insane in the northern foreign
population with that of the colored pop
uiation in the South is very striking.
These clements are nearly equal in
number, hut the former exceeds the lat
ter in The production Of insanity in the
proportion OF nearly live to one.
In m able essay by DR.. FOSTER
PRATT, read before the last meetin of
the American public Health AsSocia-
ton, this Increase Of our insane popula-
OH was attributed to three causes, the
intense life of our native population,
immigration, and intermarriage of ma
tive whites with defective classes of the
foreign element. Among the remedies
proposed, the following are entitled to
raOre or less consideration: The mod
Grafton of our activity and less intense
application; laws authorizing consuIs at
ports of departure to examine the pro-
posed immigrant, and refuse him cer-
tticate of permission to depart for the
United States, when the person is found
to belong u one Of the defective
c'asses." The remedies thus briefly
summarized wi!l'appear altogether too
mild when we consider the nature and
Htent Of the evil sought to be checked,
IN; the subject bristles with difficulties.
UudoubteJiy slower, more methodi-
cal and temperate mode Of existence
would be 4 preventive Of insanity, and
tie prohibition Of the immigration of
he insane of other lands would be a
long stride in the right direction, but
the first Of these suggestions cannot be
carried into effect by legislation. Moth
ing but the rapid spread of intelligence
and a great moral reform will vitilize
it. In the meantime there is nothing
to do but to "learn to labor and to wait"