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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-13
on a neat label on the side. A sister of
Miss Martin, seeing her SUCCESS. cast abOut

On a neat label on the side. A sister of
Miss Martin, seeing her success. cast about
her for something to do. She did Lot
want to 60 into the same line of business.
and finally she struck upon cake-making
as livelihood, and her cakes are noE
almost as celebrated as her sisters pickles
and preserves.
THE Wilkesbarre Record, speaking for
Luzerne county which will be affected by
the bill proposing salaries instead of fees for
county officers, heartily approves the prin-
ciple of the measure. 1t says with much
force The fee system is relic of prima-
tive days entirely unsuted to this age, and
working great injustice to honest people
and honest officers, and should be aban-
doned as soon as possible. Ia small coun-
ties several of the county offices can be
consolidated and a moderate salary fixed
proportiorate to the work. In larger
counties the fee system returns incomes in
great disproportion to the labor or talent
required to discharge the duties, and these
stand as constant temptation to rogues,
inviting them to secure the Office through
fraud and then play the rascal after they
get in. Talent equal to that necessary to
discharge the duties of most Of the county Y
offices is secured in other avocations for
from 81 200 to 81, 600 per year, while the
fees frequently amount to from $1,000 to
$4,000 and in large counties they aggre-
gate as high as $50, 600 for single Office
per year. The entire system of the em.
ployment and pay of county officials is
wrong and leads to dishonesty. Ordinarily
good meD get into these positions and
imagine they are entirely justfiable in
resOrting to all sorts of divices to get
money out of the public treasury. If fixed
salaries were appointed by law for each
position, commensurate with the necessary
duties, it would 60 far towards correcting
the evil, and it would also relieve nomina-
ting conventions from the rush of un.
worthy men as candidates whose asp;ra-
tions now load down both parties. Public
officers should he paid fair salaries, but
they should be shorn of Tie temptation to
do dishonest work or loaf at the public ex
pense.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-13

Iotal. ..................4, ,lA254 4,G2 1928
The stock of pig iron held unsold in the
hands of makers at the close of 1882 was
1888, ,655 tons. At the close of 1881 the
stock on hand was 1875, 300 tons.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-13
A Vacancy To Be FnIed.

Geo. B. Wilson, of the Sixth ward, pos
itively declines the nomination for COM
mon council.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-13
THE MlNSTkEiS.
The Arci, Street Company's Appearance
Here.

The Arch Street COmpany's Appearance
Here.
Last evening one of the best minstrel
trOupes we have had for some time ap-
peared in the OpcT:. house before a small
audience. Although the party is not as
us large as many it is quite strong, and is
composed of members of tho Arch street
OperO house company with a few additions.
4 party of men with with wealth started
Il minstrel troupe at this house early in
the spring. Alter being open for several
months business became bad and the back
ers clOSef the house without payin. sal
aries. Billy COurtright, d. III. Hawins,
Johnson Il Powers and some yOcalsts COM
promised with the backers and after Sc
curing what they could of their salaries,
started ior San Francisco to join Emerson.
The other members of the show refused to
compromise and brought suit. They then
organized this party, adding Lew Sim
mons and Charley reynolds, and took the
road.
Fiitrei inca were seen i'll the first part
last evening with Simmons and Harry
Armstrong on the ends. Their songs were
good, but the jokes ancient. The features
of this part were the singing of a strong
quartette and the excellent music
OF Henry Wannamacher' orchestra
Charlie Reynolds opened the first
part with an exhibition of his very
funny tricks. and Carroll and kear-
ney followed in very clever acrocatic songs
and dances. Tw, sketches were very
good and SO was Lew Simmons in his
specialties. Haley, BarOne aud Rinehart
played upon Instruments of all kinds, Civ
ing wonderful! limitations. Their act was
the best of the evening"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-13
sunday school Union Meeting.


a union meeting of the Sunday school
workers, called by the ministerial associ-
tion, met last evening in the rooms of Y.
NJ. G. A., and the following schools were
represented :
st. Johns Lutheran, st Pauls Reform.
ed, Second Evange licaI, MoraviaD, Union
Bethel, Presbyterian. Olivet Baptist.
After careful consideration the meeting
organized by the choice of Mr.. Charles
Denues for president, and Mr.. NJ Frayne,
secretary. Rev. 5. Stall, from ministe-
rial association, stated the object for
which the meeting had been called, after
which it was resolved to establish a
weekly union meeting for tho study of
the lesson. The time and place could not
be determined satisfactorily, and it being
desirable to secure a full attendance of
teachers, it was referred to Il committee
who will report at next meeting. A pre-
limiEary meeting for the study of tie
lesson viii Ee held on Friday next, 10th,
in the Y. NJ. &. L., rooms at 1:JO p. m J.,
the time for study not to exceed one hour,
which rule is to be strictly observed MIR.
Frayne, pastor of tho Oliyet Baptist
church, will lead the meeting. Teachers
arc expected to bring their Bibles.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-13

Tue liquor question will not down in
Jersey, and the Legislature, after stubborn
resistance, has buckled down to consiGera-
tior of higher licenses and more restric
tiOrs around the traffic,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-13

NoRTHwEsTERN grain sha!ps think the
price of wheat will not fall, but that a
further advance is probable, the variety of
winter weather having had serious effect
and European countries being short.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-13
Progress OF Legislation.

The Monday evening sessions of the
Legislature are generally devoted t,
buncOmhe ard are profitless, but in last
evenings session there WAS real wOlk
done. Senator Greer introduced q
bill for the republication by the state
of the reports of the supreme court
from first Dallas to first Outerbridge {; tC
be sold at the cost Of publication, which
would likely be about S1.25 per volume
whereas they now sell at 81 80, or more
and the pnrchase of a fnll set by a young
lawyer is a very heavy tax on him at the
outset Of his professional career. Fol
years, under the Old system of state re-
porting, these prices were maintained
until the Legislature recognized that the
public had right to the authorized de-
ciSionS of the supreme court, like the
pamphlet laws at the actual cost of their
publication. Since the printing of them
was let out by contract they are furnish
ed at Sl.l7 per volume, which is a fair
price, and the republication OF back vol
umes at this rate is Il welcome PROPOSE
tion. But under the old law the reporter
owned the copyright in these books. In
the case of those reports for which this has
not expired how can the state undertake
their republication In such cases as it
has expired the supply of whatever de.
mand exists for them might, we believe,
be left to the enterprise of private pub
fishers and need not be undertaken by
the state.
When Mr.. Hasson moved to call ont
of the committees hands the anti-free
pass bill, which it had negatived, the
members who were responsible for that
disposition of it and those who would
have been glad to smother it had to hunt
their holes, and by the emphatic vote of
13G to 81 it was put upon the calendar.
Mr.. Landis' bill against political assess
ments followed in its wake, and the mo
tiOn to bring the anti freight discrimina-
tion bill out of the committee was only
lost because it WAS satisfactorily shown
that the committee was giving its friends
and opponents f:.ir nearing.
On the whole, innings are working
well at Harrisburg. There is an aggres-
sive spirit of reform animating legisla-
tiOn. Some of the members may be
voting with it against their inclinations,
but it is better even thus than that they
should vote wrong. 1t is a good thing
that Reform is fashionable and popular.
1t was not always thus at Harrisburg.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-13

TIE Massachusetts Senate will investi
gate Buffers removal of the state prison
warden. Then, perhaps, the country will
see the promised but long delayed fur.
flying in Massachusetts,.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-13

HE pension expenses are very large
and important part Of the annual ordinary
expenses of the government. la the year
which ended June 80, 1882, the sum paid
for pensions-nearly SCI, 800, 900 was one
third of the total ordinary expenditures of
the government, outside of the interest on
the public debt. The commissioner S
estimate of pension expenses for the cur
rent year-slOO,O 900, OOO-was a. per cent.
of the total estimated ordinary expenses
outside of interest on the public debt.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-13

Two Kings were sitting in Orkadal,
BY torchlight glare in the pillared hall.
The minstrel sang, the wine fOamcd high:
The Kings looked on with gloomy eye.
Up spake the one : "Give me the fair
Blue are her eyes and golden her hair"
The other he answered with angry mien:
" My VOW is recorded she is my queen ~
The Kings thereafter spoke not q word,
But up they rose and each grasped his sword
And out they stalked from the lighted hail.
Where the snow lay deep with silent fail.
Bright flashed the blades by the caste wall
Two Kings lay dead in Orkadal.
=LikiHl InnI0l fl.anl fhe Gcalln,,
St. Landry democrat., 1883-02-17
Poisonous Tea.

At arecent meeting Of the Phil
ahelphia Board Of Trade some in
teresting statements were made
touching the extraordinary increase
of the sale Of adnlterated tea in
I'D the United States. Mr.. j.. lei. Gather
wood, q member Of the board, asserted
that in consequence OF England having
prevented by law the introduction Of
adulterated tea into the United King
dom, the whole OF it now comes to this
country. The most Of it is in English
hands. and it ia believed that American
importers have nothing to do with. it..
Unless preventive measures be adopt
ed. Mr.. Catherwo0d believes that the
whole OF the trash of China and Japan
will be emptied into the United States
and sold at auction to poison the poor
who are unable to pay for the genuine
article. OF the so 0O0, 900 pounds Of tea
imported last year, careful estimate,
it is said, has shown that at least 30 per
cent of it, was poisonous. During that
time 81, O00, 900 pounds we're consumed.
A bill is now before Congress which
calls for tea inspection, which, if it
should become q law and is rigidly en-
forced, as it can and ought to be, the
admission of adulterated tea into the
United Stateslwill be prevented. In. O.
Times-Democrat.
St. Landry democrat., 1883-02-17
NOTICE.
LAND oFFIcE AZ NEW ORLEANS, La,

- LAND OFFICE AT NEW ORLEANS, La,
January 80, 1885,
Complaint having been entered at this office
by Rives J. G. Bull against NJ. j. Hodgins, for
abandoning his homestead entry No. $3.50, da-
ted May Is, 1882, upon the Lot No. 8,
section 90, township south, range / east
in st. Landry Parish, Louisiana, with a
view to cancellation Of said entry, the said
parties are hereby summoned to appear at
this office on the Goth day of March 1888, al
10 o'clock A. NJ, to respond and furnish testi-
Iriony concerning said alleged abandonment. Sd
GEO. BALDEY; Register,
feb 10 WM. u. BURWELL, Receiver.
St. Landry democrat., 1883-02-17

In witness we have hereunto signed this, the
I'd day OF January, 1888.
@. MAYO,
d. DURIO, | g.,
VIM. G.. BELL, oon
P.J. LEFEBVRE.
JAMES o. CHACHERE, Clerk.
STATE OF LoUIsIANA,l
PARISH OF ST.. LANDRY.
I do hereby certify that the within and fore
going has been duly recorded in my office in
Book No. ! of Jury Record, pages 80, 81, 80, SO,
"a and IS.
witness my hand and seal of office at Opelou-
sas, this Sd day of January, a. d. 1883.
>sEAL. B. F. MCKINLEY,
s 49, Deputy Clerk.
A true copy : 3. r MCKINLEY,
Deputy Clerk.
St. Landry democrat., 1883-02-17

An alarming condition Of affairs is re-
ported in the North Of Ireland. The
grain and potato crops are failure and
he people are barely living on Indian
meal.
St. Landry democrat., 1883-02-17
JURY LIST.
STATE OF LOUISIANA, /,

PARISH OF ST. LANDRY.
Be it known that we the undersigned mem,
bers of the Jury Commission did on this "a
day of January, a. D. 1883, meet at the Clerks
Office in the town Of Opeionsas,. Parish OF ST.
Landry, for the purpose of drawing jury Tor
the regular term of the District Court, OF the
Thirteenth Judicial District, under section 8,
act Al OF the regular session of 1877, and all the
members beiug present, D. Durio,. one OF SAID
members, drew from the general yenire box
one at q time, the names of the following hIty
persons to compose the Grand and Petit Jcrles
FOR the LIST week Of said court, commencing,
Monday, March 18th, 1888, a list OF whom was
then ana there kept by the Clerk OF said Court,
James 0. Chachere, and in our Judgment
jury being required for the second, third and
fourth weeks Of the term, we then and there
proceeded as in drawing tho first fifty jurors
to draw thirty additional names to serve as
petit jurors for the I'd Week and thirty addi
tional names to serve as petit jurors for the 30
week and thirty additional names to serve as
petit jurors for the 4th week of the term OF SAID
Court and we the clerk and commissioners did
then and there place the names drawn as afore-
said for each separate week in separate enVe-
opes and sealed and endorsed the same with
the week for which they were respectively
drawn which said envelopes containing said
names were then and there placed in a jury
box provided for the purpose, which after de-
posting SAID names therein as aforesaid was
locked and sealed by us and placed in the Gus
tody of the clerk of the court for use at the
St. Landry democrat., 1883-02-17
wOOD .ayMD LUMBER.

Ikeep constantly on hand large supply os OF
ftrewonn for sale at reasonable figures ana can s
fill ali orders on the shortest notice. Can MI
oi0elo AVA 4a1AA"eN j. E. HOUSTON.
St. Landry democrat., 1883-02-17
OpELOUSAS TIN SHOP.

VXTM. LIGHTLEY ANNOUNCES TO
w our citizens that he has returned to OPP
elousas He has opened a tin shop
next door to NJ. P. Young's drug store, oppo-
site Julien Claude's old stand, on Main street.
He is prepared to do all job work, guttering
and repairing at the shortest notice. and in a
workmanlike manner. Feb 25-sm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-06-28
Tllden's Interpreter.
Mr.. wATTERs0N TELLS HOW STRONGLY MR.. TIL
FAYORS HnADIY

Mr.. WATTERS0N TELLS HOW STRONGLY Mr.. TILDEN
FAyoRS HoADLY.
Mr. Henry Watterson, who is still In New York,
and spends considerable time with Mr. Tilden, was
asked by reporter yesterday what part Mr. TIL
den would be likely to take in Judge Hoadly's
canvass He replied: .
81 can't answer that, but you may be sure that
the democratic party throughout the country re-
gard the Ohio Campaign as of vital importance and
Will DO their utmost for Hoadly."
"Does MI. TIlden share this championship of
Hoadlys cause?"
tMost assuredly. I have already said In the
Courier Journal how satisfactory the nomination
was to Gov. Tilden."
"Does Mr.. Tilden's championship OF Hoadly ex-
dency?"
'That is going entirely too far into the future.
It Is a contingent within contingent, based upon
q third contingent Conjecture stands aghast at
Mr.. Watterson pronounced ''Thing" with capt..
tai I, and gazed abstractedly into Madison
square, where a line OF democratic cabmen were
sadly standing in the driZzle Then he continued:
1t would be quite valuable as mine"
"But the query is whether Mr. Tilden's friends
In case Mr. Tllden should still refuse to be a cam
d1date, would support Judge HoadIy In 1S64?n
"There you 60 again with your contingencies.
Nobody can tell what would happen in that case
We might discuss that to-day with one conclu-
SION ana discuss 1t tomorrow with another Mr..
T1lden'S following is not a commodity that can be
transferred to any one. 1t consists OF his many
elements held together by one rivet That gone
all goes For instance, Mr. Tilden has no stronger
friends than Mr.. Randall and myself, yet believe
that the election OF Mr.. Randall to the Speaker
ship will mean the destruction OF the democratic
party. Nevertheless, love Mr.. Randall as a
brother and expect to spend tomorrow with him
at Greystone; so you see that speculation on what
Mr.. Tilden's following would do without Mr. TIL
den is futile -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-06-28
The New Wessr supply.
BED ROCK sfRucK.

On inquiry this morning. tho following infofma.
ton was obtained respecting the east SHAFT OF the
tunnel for the new water supplys
Bed rock was reached at the shaft east OF Howard
University on the S1st instant, at p m. The rock
Is steatte, similar to that In the old sIndian
Quarry" just west OF Rock Greek, where 1t occurs
as vein or lode in the country rock, which Is
gneiss- It was found underlying about ten inches
OF green sand, which In turn was beneath a half
cemented black sand containing large rounded
pebbles The rock was intersected by a vein four
inches In thickness. OF hornblende quartz having
dip OF 80 degrees to the southwest and a strike
from northwest to southeast This Is generally
the dip and strike OF the gneiSs rock In this sec
ZION. ThfS vein was extremely hard, and had to
De Sledged on, while the rock at the surface could
De removed In small piceS with steel-pointed bars
AS the rock was penetrated 1t increased In hard
ness, and the vein ramtfled into several branches,
ton; Blasting is now required to make any
further progress.
The rock was found at q reference OF plus %
above tide 116 feet below the surface OF the ground
ana s6 feet below the bottom OF the new reservoir
within which the shaft is located. The excava.
ton OF the improved tunnel westward from this
smart TO the point where 1t meets the heading from
the Rock creek shaft would furnish all of the rock
needed for the construction of the new reservoir
and would be delivered through the east shaft dI.
rectly upon the work where 1t Is to be used.
Ii Is hoped that all difficulties in the way Of the
land condemnation may be safely overcome and
the active prosecution Of the work be commenced.
gold might be found. being quartz vein In the
falcon rocks-the common location of gold-but
there seems to be no reason to apprehend serious
diversion upon that account
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-06-28
Heavy Rains. and Destructive Flood.

Heavy Rains. and Destructive Floods.
GREAT DAMAGE TO THE CROPS AND RAILROADS IN
PENNSYLVANIA
The rain storm OF the past two days, which was
more notable In this city for its continuance than
for its severity, did great damage in portions OF
Maryland and Pennsylvania.
The creeks In the vicinity OF Fort Deposit, Nd,
were very much swollen, and the railroad was
badly washed out There is also bad wash out
near Colora- The rain did great damage to the
wheat crop in Maryland, which was nearly ready
for harvesting
In the vicinity OF Harrisburg, Pa. the rain was
flowed its banks, filled the cellars OF adjacent
houses, washed away fences and chilled furnace
in one OF the rolling mills, causing much delay.
A heavy rain storm, which at times was terrific,
prevailed at EaSton, Pa. landslide on the Easton
and Amboy railroad, near Bloomsbury, n. j., de-
layed trains about an hour The road-bed under the
tracks OF the Lehigh and Susquehanna railroad
was washed away above the Easton depot. Some
OF the streets In EaSton were flooded.
At Scranton rain prevailed fncessantly for two
days, causing several dams to burst
At StroudSburg the glass works are flooded and
many cellars filled with water, causing great loss
Near East Stroudsburg there Is serious wash-out
on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western road
The Lackawanna river is steadily rising, and peo-
pie on the flats" are becoming alarmed.
The water In the Lehfgh river at Allentown Is
twelve feet higher than usual Two hundred feet
OF the track OF the East Pennsylvania railroad at
Shamrock has been washed out.
The waters are pouring into the Conyngham
mine (Wikesbarre) workings 1t will be two
months before work can be resumed. Over six
hundred miners and laborers are thrown out OF
employment.
The damage to crops, mines and railroads by
the storm about Pottsville. Pa, has been wide
Philadelphia and Reading railroad have been de-
layed by wash-outs and land-slideS The rainfall
mas been the greatest In twenty years
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-06-28
Serious Charges.

COMPLAINTS OF OUTRAGEOUS TREATMENT OF THE
INMATES OF SOLDIERS HOME.
The Buffalo Evening Netcs publishes number
OF af1ldavitS charging shameful cruelties In the
management OF the Soldiers and Sailors home at
Bath, Steuben county, N. Y, from inmates of the
Home. James Turner testified that Philip Turner
while unwell was forced to pick stone and died
the following morning. John Corvan testihes
that Phtlander McCumber was dtshonOrably dis
charged for not picking stone while sick and en-
tirely unable to work. Isaiah Took farm boss,
testi1es that terrible cruetfes were practiced on
aged and sick men, who were forced to pick peas
and weed onions in rainy weather, when even the
teams were called to the barns John Covan,
formerly chaplain OF the 9Th New York heavy ar
tillery and now pastor OF the Baptist church at
North Cameron, ten miles from the Soldiers
Home, testif1es to hearing Philip Tuttle, who died
from exposure, protest against being sent to pick
stone, and saw his comrades assisting him back
from the field to die. Felix Duffy, now an inmate.
corrOborateS this testimony as to the effect that
cr1ppleS were forced TO work ana were drsS,ed
from bed and forced to walk while in sick and
dying condition.