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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-14
STSASisUKG NEWS.


The Events of Interesz In That borough.
On saturday evening, Feb II, 1882, a
meeting OF the citizens Of Stra9burg
borough will be held in Massasoi5 hail for
tho purpose Of settling citizens tickG: -
be 70. ed ;og On Tuesday, Feb. 20, 1882.
All citizens w:thou. distinction of party,
w!n are il favor OF an honest, progressive
5uro,i2!i government, have been invited TO
attend. The meeting will BE- called TO
order at Z o'clock.
Mr.. Chas. G:ciner, is the posesso- IF
two Old Spanisi; cows. With tie eolIow!u.;
nr"n their res2rc:iv" sides: Hispan,
e. Ind. Rex. n. q Z. i. H." aud crown
OF one side. Tie date. "1S05, CaroIu $,
III, Di. Graiia,' ard the empo,o:'s b ad
on t'c ti,er si'ie. The second coin is
similar {, the firsr, viii, the exception OF
the date which is 1924.
A lively debate Is expected next Mon
day evening in Mas>.soit hail, Feb. 10Th,
on the question, that the Statesmen OF
to day are retrogradiDg."
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-14
The County Tax Rate.

A year ago the INTELLIGENCER took
issue with The county commissioners
upon the propriety of their levy ,f a
three mill county tax and demonstrated
to the satisfaction of everybody that it
was Al. unnecessarily high rate, that
with the proceeds from it all the likely
expenses of the county could be met, ali
the maturing tebt paid and IN idle sur
plus OF $4,000 OF $4,000 be left on hand
at the end of tie year. We felt certain
OF this because it was easily calcuabic
that with an income, from the taxes, Of
$500, ,G00-wliici, q % mill rate would
have raised-all the expenses OF the
county could lie met and the $3.50 of
loan matured could be paid. The result
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-14
Il Strike Preferred to Labor

Last November, the axe factory of Hub.
bard, Bakewell & Co., at Pittsburgh, was
shut down, the firm giving the employees
no other reason for their action than a
duliness in trade, but finally, after weeks OF
idleness, came a proposition for rcduc
ton Of wages. Numerous meetings were
held and last night when another meet
ing was held, the firm submitted proro =
sitiOn fora reduction of 20 per cent. and
bonus of 5 per cent. at the end of the
year. The men offered to accept 12k Per
cent. and their Offer was refused, and a
strike was at ouce inaugurated.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-14
Gambling House for "Gi!ded Youth ,
Kaiti0O.

Several days ago DR.. Howard Crosby
received an anonymous note informing
him that fashionable gambling hou e
Was in full operation on Fifth avenue,
opposite the Hotel Brunswick, New York.
This was turned over to Captain Williams,
who, single handed, raided the place yes
terday. He found an elegantly furnished
suite Of rooms fully stocked with first
class gambling paraphernalia. The only
person i'll the rooms was Frank 4. Joues,
the dealer. lie was locked up. Later
tho proprietor OF tho establishment, Rob't
IL. D!edrich, was also arrested. 1t is said
that the place was o popular resort for the
" gildc,l youth OF tn avenue.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-14

has proved the entire correctness OF this
estimate. The commissioners orders for
last year amounted to considerably less
than the lower rate of taxation would
have brought in, and they started in the
new year with ninety thousand dollars
in bank and over sixty thousand of
county taxes outstanding. With all
their " ifs - and "buts " and specula-
tions of what expenses they may yet
have to meet, the naked fact remains
that they collected at the least $4,000
more from the people than the county
had any occasion for, and the whole of
which must remain idle during all of
the coming year to await the payment
of loans not maturing until 1884.
In the face OF this experience and these
facts the commissioners have laid
another three mill tax for the coming
year, for which they offer no justitifica-
tion except the accumulation of $4,000
more surplus, so that by April /, 1881, -,
they can pay off 100000 OF the county
debt. There is no special demand for
the payment of third of the county debt
in one year, nor for the accumulation of
a surplus SO long ahead. The tax payers
furnish the means for It's liquidation
sooner Or later, and there is no reason
why their money should be taken from
them-and given to the county deposi.
| tories-twO years before it is needed to
pay the county debt.
The last board of county commits
sioners paid off $4,000 OF the bonded
debt aid SO, 900 of floating deb. with a
tax rate of three mills one year and two
and a-lalt mills in each of the other two
special expenses for rebuilding the aims
house barn, reindexing the records anJ
unusual repairs and improvements at
the prison and courthouse. The dis
charge of $4,000 or $4,000 per year oi
the county debt is quite as rapidly as il
noeds to be paid. There is no occasion
for the county expenses TO run Ovel
$20O.0GG year, and while the valuation
is at its present figure of eighty eight
millions, a two and a-half mill rate vii
produce enough revenue to meet Ill cX
penses and adequately reduce the bonded
debt Of the county every year. Any
rate over that raises an unnecessary sur
plus, which tempts to extravaganza ant
which, il not expended, is in the treasury
simply for the benefit of the count.
treasurer OF bis favored repositories, a
the expense of the taxpayers.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-14
4 War of rIatcs Threa:ene1

The Ohio and Mississippi and the Indian
apolis ard st. Louis railroad companies
are accused of cutting rates on grain to
seaboard ports. and Commissioner Fink
has telegiaphed tn st. Louis, stating that
unless something is speedily done to per
vent it there viii be sharp var of rates,
and lie asks for meeting CT the general
managers with 4 joint executive committee
on the 21st instant to sec IF the trouble
cannot he avprtcd.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-14
TIE SUNKEN ClMEHiA.
Tne Wa Tight Compartments subject ts

Ins VA, or Tight Compartments Subject to
40 >peci.i regulations.
At the sitting Tuesday CT the court of in
quiry. 1t Hamburg, concerning the Cim
bria disaster, the wreckage of the Cimbria,
which hal b. en- left Al board the Sultan
after the vessels drew apart, was submit
ted for inspection. Experts deposed that
the collision occurred while the Cimbria
was turning to tie right and the Sultan
to the left. The manager of the
HamburgAmerican steamship company
gave formal evidence relative to the COM
pany's rules concerning their vesse S. The
company's machinery inspector deposed
that the company enjoined no special reg
ula.ions in regard to shutting the water
tight doors upon starting upon voyage.
or when in fog the matter was left to
the discretion of the captains. The wit
ness was unable'to say whether or not the
doors of the Cimbria's water-tight com
partmeIt had been tested before she
started on her fatal voyage. Experts tes-
titled that the damage the Sultan had
sustained was really considerable and that
it wculd have been dangerous TO turn her
head to the sea.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-14

Two weeks ago John Sheffield, n disso
10 character living near Madison, Wis,
quarreled with his family ard left them.
On Tuesday their house was set On fire
and TWO "f his daughters, one aged IA
years and the other au infapt, were burned
IT, death. Mrs. Sheffield barely escaped
III be-" night clothcs. Great excitement
prevails, as it IS the univcTSa. belief that
Shefiia.u Sc: fire to the hcuse.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-14
The Yer.arl,e small HOY.

4 Young woman living near Williams
port recently swallowed u pin, which
lodged crosswiSe in her throat. After the
physicians had given up the case as hope
less, the Young woman's little brother per
suaded iicr to swallow 4 button, to which,
vas attached string. WLen the button
was swallowed the boy .jerked the string
and dislodgcd the pin. The young wo-
man'5 throat was somewhat torn, but not
seriously injured.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-14
iI;SOs Y's:SGE.i1i rs.

= iccidcn,s and Grimes I;eporied by the
Morning Mails.
A freight train going east on tue Lehigl
Valley railroad, s:ruc., and instantly killed
Cornelius McIilianey, the watchman, al
Glendale station.
James Andrews, Of Cornish, Nc, has
died from EiSrirnphob;a. llo was bitten
last sp:::@ an;l tbs dog WAS killed.
The h>u5n OF Johl Kennedy. near
Edgerton, Wis, was destroyed by fire and
his daughter (about II years old) and a
young son were burned to death.
The Globe rubbcr jeweIry factory, 219
and 221 Canal street, New York, occupied
by several firms was half burned out yes
teiday afternoon. The loss is estimated
at 100000.
Tic Austrian ship I,nperatrice Elisa
BETA, from Cadiz for New Orleans il,
ballast, was destroyed by fire on Monday
night off tho passes OF ths Mississippi.
Her crew were saved by q pilot.
John luke, aged 10, was burned to
death at Shamburg, i few miles from
Ttusvi!le. He was engaged IS engineer
at soma eleven or twelve wells Owned by
Mr.. J. J. Goo Twin, al! OF which We're
worked from one boiler. II is supposed
an explosion OF gas took place, which
knocked hir, down and set fire to the
boiler house. His tody was found, terri
bly, charra,l, = few feet from the building
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-14
SaIa OF EOnGa,

Jacob &. Long, broker, sold yesterday
1t private sale one $1,000 Quarryville r.
X. per cent bond at S117.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-14
ISeyOIyeraud Axe-

At Ennis, Texas, Alfred Bastine, for
merly of Kankakee. ILL.,, was shot
and killed by VIM. Davis. Bastine was
advancing on Davis with an axe.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-14

OAKEs AMES' friends will move to ex.
punge ficm the congressional! record the
vote of censure passed upon him.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-14
LIGHT WANTED,
ON THE sUBJECT UF COUNTY FINAN,,
The Three Mill Tax Inquired Into-What
it Costs to Nun the Couury-Layins

The Three mill Tax Inquired Into-Whar
1t Costs to Nun the Coun,y-Layins
Up for IL t,ainy Day.
EDITORS lNTELLIGENCER In LOOKING
over the financial 81 .nent of the county
commissioners, Is pub!jshed, wo find a
balance in the hands OF the treasurer (we
give round numberS) Of 500, 400. 90, with
outstanding taxes amounting to SCI, COO. 90.
We learn that the commissioners have
levied thre, ut,l tax toc ths presen:
year, which, ON u valuation of SSS, ,UOG, 900.
will raise an additional sum of saGi 900 CO.
making total of staa, 100000. According
to the reiort, the total expenditures of tho
county for the past year, including So.
10000 FOR loans AMI interest paid. were
s2l4 O0000. We understand that there is
no part OF the c,l ny loan which will M
ture during the present year Nor are
theCe any extraordinary expenses to bs
provided for which viii be likely to swell
the expenses to larger sum than those of
the past year.
We, therefore, as q tax payer, and in
behalf Of the tax payers OF the county. ask,
why is it that this very large excess OF
$l9S, 900 90 over tho actual neo,is o: the
treasury is required , or in other words.
whether = tax Of t"o mills would ucs have
been ample to meet tie wants OF the treas.
ury and leave a sufficient rlaTgin tor nj.
contingencies
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-14

OUE petroleum expectations now
amount to about forty-fve millions, but
show decline from 1881.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-14

CoNSTITuTiONAL prohibition makes
steady progress ia the Maine LegiSla
ture Massachusetts rejects the project Oh
bielliai elections and legislative session.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-14
DISCOVERING NATURAL GAS.
1t Bursts From the Ground, Causing FIRE,
ana saves $780, 900 Year.

Early yesterday, while several me-
were drilling the ground in ravine, neal
the New York city plate glass works,
Creighton station. they encountered flow
of natural gas. T drill had penetrated
the we'll to the depth of over 1000 feet,
when there was an enormous flow of gas,
which caught fire at the engine and in a
short time enveloped the derrick, com
pletely destroying it. The discovery is
considered very fortunate Tic gas will
be used by the company for heating pur
poses, and will be equal to saving of
$4,000 year.
Ten Years us Crime.
At Chicago in the trial of John KuI!e, a
Monmouth, ILL.,, merchant, for conspiracy
with the employees of Phelps, Dodge &
Palmer, to steal the firms goods, the
testimony to-day developed the fact that
Henry Spaulding, storekeeper OF the firm
had been stealing from them for ten years.
Spaulding could not say how many thou
sand dollars the thefts amounted to in the
aggregate. He has been promised i'm
munity.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-14
TEE CINCiHEA All DISASTER.

Tho Loss o: Life Not So Grea. as Reported.
The situation in Cincinnati last night
was one of great terror. 1t is thus de-
scIibed in a dispatch from that city
" There is q tremendous amount of water
above, and the indications are that the
rain storm is about to enter the Ohio Val
ley. There is therefore no hope of the
water receding for two or three days and
the prediction is frequently heard that it
will go from eight to twelve inches higher.
The river is now eleven inches higher than
has ever before been known. TO night
there is a light rain falling, and except
where electric lights have been put D the
city is enveloped in inky darkness. The
militia are doing police duty. There is
but orc railroad track entering the city
that can be used ard that one is two fer
under water at one point. The trains
which have arrived aid gone out are fur
nlshea with another engine after running
through the water, as the fire in the first
engine is put out and barely steam enough
remains to pull the train to dry grounh.'
Thousands of people trudged along the
waters edge yesterday 10 gaze upon the
mighty Ohio. ~kicll bids fair to reacf, q
point higher than any attained for fifty
one years. Men, women and children.
most of whom navcr before saw such Z
river and will probably never witness such
waste Of waters again, flocked to the
sceno Of the great flood ard, will. tie
activity Of the business men engaged in
the removal Of goods to places of safety,
presented picture which Cincinnati has
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-14

IufS .i.SSacnuSctIS fe)ectS tue PROJECT o.
| bieaiiai elections and legislative session
| TIE ceutiai cuuncil Of the Irish national
Land League at Bnffalo, has issued ii circu-
| llr calling upon al! Irisi, men and women
and tic descendants Of such in America,
to contribute a special fund OF Oh, dollar
each for the relief of the famine sufferers
| i'll Ireland. The contributions are to be s. Ii;
| before 81. Patrick S day to the trcasurels
OF tho different Land League branches
This is not perhaps tho most certain nor
Te;i.bie way - raise necessary funds. \
more popular system of subscriptions
W u ID raise more money.
II strikes the North american and 4
s,ocd many Others-as eminent,y absurd
that Il military detachment of United
S:atrI troops should still be assigned to
duty at President Gartleld's grave.
Even if there were any ni:creants who
entertained ielcnious designs upon the
remains which are thus projected
which there is DO reason to believc--tile
manner Of the burial would in ITSELF he
| sufficient to frustrato such intentions. 1t
would be difficult to assign any good raa-
| sons for the further continuance Of the
guard, which is in danger OF becoming
p'eposterouS.'
Ir is reported that tho season o. 1888
Will sec more baseball clubs in existence
III "nn time liian cver before, AID the de-
nlaiIds fer the various articles necessary
I'D the pa a,ti.ne will create y b)o,n liz
| these goods that manufacturers will not be
slow to take advantage of. Even during
last season, not particularly remarkable
for the extent to which the game was
played, over that of preceding seasons,
more than ), 600, 000 baseballs We're iu usa,
and nearly :.H equal number Of bats we're
solo. The exclusive nationality Of this
entertaining game is :: subject for consid :
Grafton. While very few of the forms,
aua perhaps some Of the principles, of it
where embodied in game said to have
existed centuries ago in ancient countries,
this country can claim the baseball game
as distinctly its own As We're tho Olympic
games those of the Greeks, the secular
g&aies those of the early Romans or the
cricket that o: England. The perfection
it has reached here, the perceptible incor.
poration Of it, in late years, into American
means Of amusement, and the recent
advantages it offers fora certain degree of
notori :iy and an agreeable income to pro-
iessioaa! players, indicate it as an iastitu-
ton of pleasure that, with perhaps some
future Improvements, will long remain to
iucite the emulation Of the player and the
enthusiasm of the sp p,ctator. AS game
lis excellence is fast becoming recognized
and it's excitement enjoyed in foreign
lands, since Australia and even Japan re-
ceivo from this country the supplies and
rules necessary TO it's indulgence
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-14

Boston is to TO lighted by electric
light.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-14

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rosnso. 'Do FucIc VIII
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;n, uoa, nv, NM ''.1n'y 'a@ iol cue COM
60, s '"i .'l-' "'''"R 't''''''at
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.a .n". 'u:eo mn ie'S o.i IL9 'aHaoia
hoo Pnnoy .. ''@ e"""'J "!i raise s-ot,
beforo Anil I 1s,l '''-''' '''' ''''
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wear ,hc cnr,.,;s '.,'o~. .,,, n ~. zoo
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oc recsntS ,har onnS,,,ar,hI,, S ,,i ~ 80 %.
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and the nc,,,e gener,,iv sot;s
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of :. l.,, T., MI, 81 49,. n that
a,nnuot st,,no,; .n, i@ ,ha .;n.,, WV. rn'I
th. t,x - Fan ,h.,, h.. ,ed,,ned -, o Ill
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~
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tiioh. IL was Soo't t,''cy 10 lax inc ptopie
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a. ' S"o 20, p"S ~ i,"y ""oo' ho' que uiit,f
npin - 90 on. Nil. SUNNY, oi 'he ooaro,
Gus ..H' "oisG ~, ,;S 'iili''NoS. ne tnH!;hS INA.
""o sG'u n''stS.Sp'''' hr. ii'i''eofaha
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-14

UEO. W IEN5Ei.
QUARnVvILLE, Feb. IL, 1888.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-14
A Startling Statement.

Senators and representatives were
startled as much by Governs manner of
making the accusation as by the charge
itself. They whispered to one another
that there would soon be music in the air.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-08-22
Barnum on Clowns.

Barnum is a good temperance re-
former, but one of his greatest re-
forms he has said very little about.
Perhaps it speaks, or rather keeps
silent, for itself. He said to Phil
adelphia reporter:
People go to the circus to see, not
to hear; none ofour clowns attempt
to talk. We allowed them to talk for
a day or two, but the tent is SO large
that not one-half of those present
heard what they said, and | guess
they didn't lose much. / haven't
a great opinion of talking clowns,
and to prove that their acts are not
so effective as pantomines we dress
ed up man as dude in New York
the other night and sent him in to
idle about the ring. He did not
have word to say, but his appear
ance and pantomine took the audi
ence by storm, and he made the hit
of the week"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-08-22
Horse Choked by a Snake.

Superintendent Lyon, of the Bar
clay Coal Mines, was in the city on
Wednesday, and told an Adrertisey
reporter the following snake story,
the authenticity of which, he said,
could be vouched for by several re-
liable citizens "On Tuesday last a
boy was engaged in plowing on the
farm of man named Wilkison, be-
tween Greenwood and Monroeton
in Bradford county, when he saw an
enormous black snake lying stretch
ed along on the ground near the
fence. Frightened by the reptile the
boy dropped the line and started on
a run for the house. Reinforced
here by several members of the fam
lily he went back, when one of the
horses was found lying on the ground
with the python tightly coiled about
his neck. The snake was dispatched
when it was found that, the horse
was dead, his life having been chok-
ed out by the snake.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-08-22

ed bodies of the fallen men. Here
! is the flag, tattered and uniurled,
lust as it dropped from the hands OF
sergeant; here an epauiet, gllt-
tering in crimson and gold T; here is
the cilde1 belt of a general; here,
marred. bent and dented, lies the
buple whose silver voice called into
nlay this wreck and carnage. And
here. away off on the edge of the
field. away where just the spray OF
this angry sea of strife could have
reached, nv foot almost falls on
child living PROSTATE, half turned on
her face. The dainty feet peep out
of cloud of silk and lace; the tan
gled hair ofgold, skein Of sunshine,
halfhides the brow and cheek. There
is no sign of life in the beautiful
face. Killed by the terror and fear
born of the battle? / bend to lift the
little form, and the arm upon which
| thought the child was lying is gone;
a horrible cash reached from .he
temple to the base of the brain, and
the left eye is crushed in its socket.
The child-the dear, sweet little
girl somebody's darling. fair sacri-
fee to the hideous Moloch of war
how cold
Robbie !" hear the voice of her
little serene highness. Robbie !
come, now, and pick up your toys,
dear. You've left your dolly and
all your soldiers scattered about over
the floor, so that papa can scarcely
walk across the room. And some
body has stepped on poor little Bes-
sizes head. I'm afraid she'll have to
go to the surgical institute.
A patter Of flying feet, and the
blue-eyed commander of the troops,
aged six, comes charging into the
room, and, resolving himself into an
ambulance corps, collects the dead
and wounded with both hands,
scoops them into a big box, exam
ines the fracture in dolly's head
filed with saw-dust, and ap-
pears surprised to find the skull lin
ed with a hole.
"Papar he cries did you hear'e
battle zis appernoon ?"
"Yes, Major, l heard it."
"We fighted awful" the Major
says, "an' l fell down on my drum
and broken my cannon, but grampa
will get me anuzzer one."