Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-09


The ''peach crop" is already reported
ruined in Illinois and Missouri. The
Western Yankees can give the Delaware
Yankees points.
CINCINNATI has lost her grip On the
pork packing business, but her people have
been sublimated to an appreciation OF the
higher arts. The recent great musical
there netted $4,000 profits.
THERE are Oil pipe lines running to Bal
timore and New York, carrying the pro-
| duct of our state out of it to be refined.
Ten years ago three.fourths of this busi-
ness went to Philadelphia; now nine
tenths of it goes to New York. Why
should Philadelphia kick against Il free
pipe line bill?
THE munificent offer Of Mr.. Andrew
| Carnegie to found free library in Pitts.
burgh if the city would contribute $4,000
year for its maintenance, has never been
accepted and, besides the serious financial
responsibility it would impose upon that
| city, it is coming to bs questioned
whether public libraries have not seen
their best days when the "Letters of
Junius,' .Esop's Fables'' and Cole
| ridges "Ancient Mariner - are pub
lisaed for two cents each and 104 stand
ard volumes, containing nearly so pages
| each, can be had for 50.
THE Hagerstown G1obs tries to make
out that the ground hng weather prophet
| theory is Il superstition because some
| curious citizen over that way watched .
pent-up ground hog last Friday aud his
| ma jesJy never stirred to come cut and see
his shallow. Tea to one the beast with
which thus alleged experiment was t.ied
was Republican 'possum, so disgrtsted
| with the results OF last falls election that
it tries by skuiking Information to pass
| itself oft as All honest ground hog. The
very fact thaS the animal was nos out las:
Friday proves that it was not . genuine
g. h.
| SOME OF tho select senatorial committee
| On education and abo. have Lad to blush
| rosy red, clean to the roots Ct what lair is
left them, at the awful revelations made
to them by Mrs. Charlotte Smith, who, III
| behalf of some novel legislation proposed
by her, has related to the shocked sena-
| tors that it is a common practice among
| senators and members of Congress to
! compel vicious concessions from female
| clerks for whom they obtain places in the
departments. The senators to whom sue
plainly communicated these things ex-
press the greatest astonishment, but Mrs.
Smith does not propose that it shall end
there.
THIS time 1t is the foreman Of a soap and
candle factory out at Milwaukee and his
name is John Clements Ralstou, who is
wanted to go right over to County Mona
CHAN, Ireland, whence he came fifteen years
ago, and Join bis aunt IN entering upon an
estate of three millions left them Jointly
by Uncle Silas Rails. Oh, ten years deceased
| in Glasgow. The estate is all settled I'D
| ready to be handed over to the heirs now
that they are found John Clement, had
never ceased to expect this windfall and
kept reading the newspapers for the IL
telligence of his rich uncle's death and
advertisement for his heirs. The moral of
this story is obvious.
POLITICAL philosopher who knows it
all and isn't ashamed to tell it to his .el
low mortals, reviews our political history
in the Pittsburgh Dispatch and figures out
that before long, following the present
current of political tendencies, our re-
naming national domain will be sold and
the proceeds devoted to the purposes of
public education, that the army aud navy
will be disbanded and their training
schools converted into Normal schools.
that foreign ambassadors and other rep.
reseEtatives will be abolished and our
diplomatic intercourse conducted by tsie-
graph and special agents. a great dc al
more than this might be accomplished and
the millennium still be delayed.
The advocates Of vaccination have had
their theory strengthened by the death, in
Baltimore, from small pox, of Mr.. John
f. Kapp. He had a s'rong prejudice
against vaccination, and real all the
pamphlets and other printed matter writ
ten by medical man in Europe and
America in opposition to the use OF virus
as preventive of smallpox. An order.
now On record in the Office of General
Railroad Agent Wilkins, shows that he
was instructed to have himself and the !
men under him vacciuated 1t is stated
the order was obeyed so far as the men
were concerned, but personally he evaded
it. He used measures to counteract the
effects OF the virus used in vaccinating his
children in the public schools, in the
honest belle: that the vaccination would
be injurious to them. When tue epidemic
struck him it carried him off in four elavs.
A CHICAGO sculptor is working out
group in marble representing the transit
If Venus, which promises to have greater
popular attractions than the mysterious
maze of technical terms in which tho as
describe the great event This
ealization in stone Of the celestial beauty's
scapade is to diin!y outline I" the figure
# a mighty man, whose flowing locks,