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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-22
TOBACOO SALES.
A Decision OF Interest to the T,

Decision Of Interest to the Trade.
In Pittsburgh Judge AchesoD, of the
United States district court, has delivered
an opinion, of great interest to tobacco
dealers, in the case of the United States
against William Jenkinson, we'll known
tobacco dealer. Jenknson was arrested
for the alleged violation of Section 8, 1863, of
the revised statutes, which provides that
" No manufactured tobacco shall bs sold
or offered for sale unless put up in pack
ages and stamped, except at retail by re-
tail dealers, from wooden packages stamp.
ed as provided" It was alleged that
Jenkinson sold q small quantity of tobacco
contrary to the terms of this provision of
law.
After reviewing the circumstances of
the case, Judge Acheson said The
question for solution is, has the defendant
Uenkinson) violated the law? Assuredly
a sale of four or five pounds of tobacco
from bulk package is retailing tobacco
to the common understanding. Is it any
the less sale by retail on the part of the
vendor because the purchaser happens
himself to be q dealer in tobacco? 1t
seems to me not. The retail deal
or in manufactured tobacco is under
no obligation to inform himself as
to the purposes of purchaser. It
would seem to be an impertipence on his
part to inquire into the intentions of his
customers. If they should undertake to
make an unlawful disposition of the goods
they purchase they must answer for their
own acts upon the admitted facts. I am
of opinion that the government has no
case against tho defendant, and he is
therefore disoharped.n
Judge Acheson, in this opinion, has
taken a position diametrically opposite to
that promulgated recently by Green B.
Raum, internal revenue commissioner, who
took the ground that Mr.. Jenkinson and
other dealers who sold tobacco in small
quantities to smaller dealers were violating
the law.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-22

THE NethodiGt conference, ct the
suggestion Of outside parties who have
hobby on the subject and haunt the
lobbies Of political conventions as well as
church conferences, hastily adopted rec
concentrations of an elaborate In
dian policy for the government and
urged the adoption Of similar resolutions
by other conferences. The policy sug-
gests new cabinet Office, plenary powers
to the president, well paid" inspectors
and many other matters of detail which
it is not the business of church confer
ences to disturb themselves about. It is
| not likely that one.rwentieth of the
members of this body ever inquired
into the details of this policy mol
would be able to form an intelligent
opinion about the practical operations OF
it if they had it is entirely beyond
the functions of preachers to 30 minutely
prepare the machineryof administrative
civil government. A few general recon-
mendations of humane and Christian
Indian policy would have been 10 order
but the conference might as well hav'
indicated just how the internal revenue
department is to adjudicate claim'
for a relate of the tobacco tax
as to have declared with sucl
particularly how the government il
to deal with the Indian problem
The report of the committee was, o
course, adopted hurriedly and thought
lessly, but it should serve to remin'
those who voted 1t through of the safet
of the old maxim in favor of the shoe
maker sticking to his last.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-22


and girls college at Newport.
PROFESSOR ELLIOTT CONES, the natur-
alist, who has long been an rncompromis.
ing opponent of tho English sparro W,
abandons all hope of their determination.
THERE is good deal of poetry in the
soul of that old Arkansaw farmer who
lighted the fire on his hearth fifty years
ago, when he went to housekeeping and
has never let it 60 out.
ALL the designs submitted for the new
two cent postage stamp bear the head OF
Washington. This is right; and let us
hear no more of that blather about putting
Grants head On it.
The New York Times is helping to
boom the Sprague movement in Rhode
Island, and Ben Butler. promises to con-
tribute to the interest of the occasion by
rolling bar'l across the state line.
In the new arrangement of the supreme
court districts, by the bill which is likely
to pass the House, Lancaster county cases
will be heard at Philadelphia, as they now
are and as the members of the bar h,re
prefer.
A SUIT for So, 900 damages has been be-
gun against the collector of customs at
Montreal, because he refused to give up
Paine's cage of Reason and Voltaire's
Philosophy" imported from the United
States.
THERE are said to be not ten able bodied
Republicans in Ohio, outside the lunatic
asylums, who favor the idea of running
Hayes for governor nor does John Sher-
man seriously entertain the notion of
taking any such risks. He does not often
show himself before the people.
The water has not yet all been pumped
out of the Diamond mine at Braidwood,
ILL.,, nor any of tho bodies of the seventy
drowned miners been recovered, but the
coroners of two adjoining counties are in
a death grapple over the $11 fees for each
corpse, and the relief committees are
quarreling about the division of the funds
Illinois is progressive state.
THE Tennessee Legislature and COVER
nor have made law to pay the debt of
that state at so cents on the dollar, with
3per cent. interest. And at the same time
the Legislature, passed a bill giving
pension of $40 per month to all soldiers of
that state, Union and Confederate, who
lost an eye or eyes during the war. This is
robbing Peter to pay Paul with a venge-
ance.
OVER in the New Jersey Legislature the
pages are educating themselves for future
membership of the body. Some of the
assemblymen, who felt that their preroga.
tives have been inserfered with, called atten.
tion to tho fact that the desks of the mem.
bers ''had been stripped of inkstands,
paper, knives and other things" that
nearly all the waste paper baskets had
been carried Of, and that large quantity
of stationery had also been taken. This
was 'the work of the pages, who were a
set of little thieves" Speaker O'Connor
Instructed the sergeant-at arms to see
that the pages returned everything that
had been taken.
TIE Philadelphia Eosning Bulletin says
''amen " to the proposition that Dukes be
expelled from the House of Representa-
tives without . hearing; and the North
american declares that "any procastina.
tion will Inevitably lad 70 . suspicion
that norality bAot - peeniasa = Har.
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Sh00.

The first load Of Susqushanna shad
brought to Lancaster this season were
brought in this morning by Frank Nett
fett. They were caught at the mouth Of
the Susquehapua. Columbia nshermea
expect them to reach that point in aboat
two weeks.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-22
A Fine Flower.

Miss Fanny Butler, of Florin, has . lily,
the leaves OF which stand 39& inches In
height and the stock contains bud and .
pure white flower Of uuusually large siSe.
1t ak*saGts great atteution from passoro.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-22
The pakes Case.

5neDAY EvHNnaa. NAB. AZ. 1893
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-22

THE Hebrews are about to open. a boys
and girls college at Newport.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-22

TIE Philadelphia Eoening Bulletin says
'tamen" to the proposition that Dukes be
expelled from the House of Representa-
tives without hearing; and the North
Anssiean declares that "auy procastina j
tion win inevitably lad 70 : saspicion
that norality bHot IS : pgenian a Har.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-22

other power over the members is ex
pressly given. For such offences it is
given power to expel member by two.
thirds vote, but with none o. these, of
course, is Dukes charged.
Where, then, will it get power to expel
him for the immoral conduct of which
he has been guilty out of its presence !?
Can it be construed to be contempt or
/ llisorderly behavior in its presence 2"
Our understanding of the law and the
rractice is that legislators do not as
nat ma : ne the power of Furnishing their mem
isInsrs iI for acts of immortality done out
ied5f their presence. It is conceded that no
can be found to authorize the
expulsion of Dukes for such conduct.
{ VIM the General Assembly of Pennsyl.
yania make one Will it allow its just
detestation of the conduct of one of its
members to lead it out of the we'll
B defined path of its powers, as it is found
Illuminated in the code of parliamentary
practice 7 II it can safely and lawfully
rdlieve itself of Dukes we shall be glad to
- It done ; but we shall be sorry in
! Aoed to know that the General
8 1hxsembly has been swayed by its feelings
to.usurp power it does not have. That
wfIl be greater injury to the state than
! nv harm that can come to it from one
i stholly unworthy member of its I.egisla-
tare And would that there was but
90!
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-27
Personal.

Col. p. r. Pe-cud. Jr and bride
(nse Miss Mlgyie Mctiinl is arrived y
Raleigh last week. aud received the feiir-
i~rztions Of numerous FRIENDS, to which
we heartily add our OVID. The New Or
leans papers have many compliments f'r
the lovely Louisianian whom ur capital
Carolinian has cal tured-
Mrs. F. r Patrick and Miss Liiy
GARNER will pass the ummer u tic "a
kill mountains, North ., New Ork
: ity.
Julian .. Carr, Esq. Is President
and Rev. y. NJ. Jurney, Secretary. OF TIE
Association whose aim Is TO erect a monu-
m-nt 10 DR.. Braxton Craven at irInity
College. We note also IN our exchange
thai Mai Carr, having been notified BY
Mrs. Harris and others, that a nunnbe
OF North Caroliua confederate dead DC
cupy unmarked graves on Arlington
Heights, is corresponding with 4 view 70
their removal to North Carolina sol
where they may rest In company with
many of their old comrades.
Mr.. G. +. Willis has disposed OF =
half interest In HI. paper. the larboro
Gutde. to Mr.. Chas. f. Cooke, the ETH
cient foreman Of the office. porsey Bat
tie, the editor. keeps it bright and uter'
estinp week after week.
Gen. d. II. Hill, president of the
Arkansas State University at Fayetteville
ha. gone to California to spend the sum
mer.
Senator Dan Voorhees, will deliv,I
the address at the next Weldon Far, On
Sth November, lays Weldon heaos.
DR.. Kemp F.. Battle, Jr, has acceI-
ted a pro'essoIship in the medical college
of Shaw University, says Tsrboro Guide
Randolph Macon College on Wed
nesday conferred the degree Of ID. ID.
upon Rev. W. S. Black of the North
Carolina Conference.
DR.. III. V. Dunstan, Of Pugh K Dun
stan. w lnuSOT. VIII EtSIuc lOl TIC uih
mer at Nagg's Head Hotel.
w. Ford Taylor, Esq. is now book.
keeper at Messrs. Rand Il Barbec's. and
will be pleased to see his friends there,
MIR. Willie Merrimon is collector
for the Raleigh National Bauk.-Nr
Bart More is registered al Is llau>s-
man Az Paris. 80 il Miss (ldr
Peale. of Boston. Mr.. and Mrs. Ed.
ward S. Lattimer of Wilmington saileo
for Europe last week. Maj. and Mrs,
c. NJ. Steadman will start on AN Euro
pean tour in a short time, it is said.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-27
For the Farmer and Mechanic
Sparkling Catawba Springs.

| was advised to come here in search
OF health. | am dad | came. The
water is ike balm in Gilead.' Its
chiei mineral properties are sulphur,
bromide and .r>enic. 1t makes you eat,
sleep and grow strong. was a dyspep
tic OF the first water when | reached
here no appetite, no energy, and, as the
saying goes, ID nothing | have eaten
as much a a whole turkey Note
This may have been written Chicken"
Ed. f. < VI at breakfast without the
slightest Inconvenience, and my appetite
has never tagged from the day after l
arrived. Ny dyspepsia seems like a
myth. Buc aside from the wonderful
water, this place is the most attractive
Summer resort have vet visited. No
place could be mere richly endowed by
Nature. The grounds are extensive,
covering more than twenty-five acres Of
beautiful landscape lawns. Amusement~
of all kinds are furnished the guests anC
if any one in search of health and pleas
ure fails to find both in the fullest degree
at Sparkling Catawba, IL will be his
fault and not the Springs. The fare is
as good as any other Summer resort in
the State. The temperature is eduablc
ana never reaches hlghe than SO and
averages about IS. 1t is the very place
to recuperate lost vitality, and enjoy
oneself during the heated term now up
on us. Let the health and pleasure tour
list pause awhile at Sparkling Catawba
Springs and it will not be in vain. It is
only seven miles from Hickory, and east
ly reached in a first class conveyance,
over a splendid road. The time required
should not be more than one hour.
The season Is now orened with very
pleasant company. G.. G.. j.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-27
The First Bloom.

Mr.. Fabius A. Whitaker seems to
have a secret contract with the Wealth
er Bureau, or Old King Sol, to ripen his
cotton a leetle ahead of time. Any way
he came to town yesterday with the first
bloom" just as he has done for three
successive wears. And his cotton is fire,
as well as early; taking first premium
at last two State Fairs.
SECOND BLooN.-Near Wakefield,
on Sunday last, Mr.. David {. Dudley,
aged 20, the oldest Professor OF Ty pO-
graphy In North Carolina, if not in the
whole country, was united in marriage
with Mrs. Eseline Strickland, a lady
some ten years his Junior.
Wake county is bent on beating the
BEST Record in matrimony. as she
already leads all other counties in North
Carolina in number of children. Re-
Gently in Eastern Wake a young man
took a bride who is Is years older thar
himself; and his sister married "A day or
two afterwards a man 80 years older
than herself. Cupid plays some curious
prauks nowadays but its all right. The
cement of Love can build the home of
Happiness out of all sorts of materials.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-27

would add three or four schools, and
halt adozen churches. Each town would
cause a demand for saw mil-, nOul-mlils,
etc. As the land Was cleared up, ne"
farmers and new minerals would come
to light. But better still, the towns would
soon bring railroads, for growing young
towns are bound TO have an outlet; and
when the roads were built then We should
see ten thousand mills and factories where
now there are old fields aud swatnps.
Now take an example, the counties OF
Polk and Castor, Is years & were the
worst kind Of "Backwoods, -%unculti-
ya'ed, Inaccessible. unprosperous; noted
for Radicals, Rattie-snakes. aud Rot-gut
WhiAey- %stiliers. Polk had only W
houses and a Jail a: her county seat and
Castor was not much better. But the
Railroad came. and lol-presto change f..
Both counties began to grow, and bright
en-, and awaken. Both now have two or
three towns, and numerous factories,
mills, schools, otc.-a change 80 great
that if an equal advance could be shown
in every county, North Carolina would
T. day stand at the head Of the Southern
States.
NisIroR,-You are enthusiastic over
Railroads.
PES.-Yes, because | believe them the
main sails to our Ship of State. We
could advance without them, and hold
our own with other States, If there were
no such things IN existence. But III the
present age, the State which has the
most railroad advantages will out>s'rlp
all the rest provided there be no specu
lative monopolies and ''wrecking.' to
blight the industry which the Roads
evoke. Therein, by the by, you will
note the difference | make between actual,
prdct.cdt Ra~liroading, and Political or
Lobby Railroading such as forms
com b%inatIons, luns State governments,
and seeks to pollute all the veins OF pub
lie life. A few Railroad wire pullers and
Ringsters hate the Farmer and MechGn'c;
but the actual managers, agents, conduc
tors, engineers, machIDIstS. etc. are its
friends, and venture to say more of them
subscribe for, and pay for, the Farmer and
Mechanic than perhaps any other paper
in the State. They know that its editor
is their friend. though he does not often
travel, hasn't a pass about his prem
l>es, and never fails to speak squarely
sometimes for, sometimes against, but
a ways aiming to Re "a .
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-27
- S.nthern imam. and lam

As q S.uthern man. and an cx-
Confederate. we cannot suppress Il ie'f
ing of disgust Mt the reports which come
over the wires day after day from all
part. of the North. Yankeedom is viz
tually over-run with ~so-called survivors
of the Lost Cause" Virginia led on
with her Richmond company, and tie
..Stonewall Brigade" Then the Nh
con (Ga.) Blues Then the Nashvill
Then the Charleston con :
pany. Then the New Orleans COM
pauy. And at least four OF these o.
CARNATIONS are at the present thn =
parading over Yankecdom, yelling ami
hurrahing, hobnobbing and nose-rul :
bing,-like Big %Injuns" just out OF the
wilderness! You may say they were
invited. But so have been many ot us.
1t was characteristic of ihe Yankee dun
ing the war to like to parade arouno
with two or three .rey-clad colonies al
his heels. The first day the editor OF
Iulh paper SCI lOOl III lshIti-h IL @ IA
vited to dine with Gen. Schofields mess
in the old Governors Palace, by Gen.
John A. Campbell who happened to be
a friend of the family. d. You think
we accepted: But some one will saS
this spreeing in Yankeedom j. not ous
affair. Perhaps not in one sense, but II
IS in another; for the Yankees regarG
their Hydrocarbons visitors as typical ex-
C~onfederates. The whole thing il "a bld
for cheap notoriety. Soldiers who were
as completely whipped, crushed, de-
moralized, and sent home in a spanked
condition US were the Southern armies,
ought to be content to stay at come, or
at any rate not 20 ~aallIvantlng o'er
Yankeedom to do honor 10 the fellows
who ruined our land. and filled { with
mourning and Impoverished
orphans!
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-27
ISITOR.

"A POSTAL FROM POINT CASWELL.-
We hope you an come to Point Cas-
well on the cars on July +. 81. as the
work on the Clinton and Point Caswell
Railroad Is now being pushed rapidly
on ooth ends.--Proiessor Blacks
school closes on the Goth. This session
has been very successful. DIR. :. S.
Satchwell will deliver an address at the
closin. eXercises.-The new hotel is
completed and ready for occupancy
The crops in this section which were
retarded by the cold wet weather. are
coming out very nicely. The cotton
crop as a general thing look well. The
low prices OF produce has a tendency to
make business very dull, and the mer-
chants are complaining of the dullest
season 10 years. j. r.. p.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-27
ACCIDENTS Weldon Mar

ACCIDENTS. W Weldon N,us SAY,
The plantation Of Mr.. w. II. Gray. in
the Neck, was thrown into a state of
confusion and ~lamcntation rarely wit
messed, by an announcement that a youpy
glrl was burning to death" The
shrlcks being plainly auiibl., the ward
was soon filled by sympathizing friends.
but too late, Tor the flame had done its
work. 1t seems hat the mother had
sent her daughter tagged lGj 10 the hou.e
TO prepare dinner, and she re.orted to
the oil can--Newton EnterD..se avs
Mrs. John jarrett, a few DAYS ago ,ell
against a bay window lie head hrok.
thr ugh a pan. of glass and 10 her struy
gies her throat was very severely cnt Nv
tie sharp points Of glass Her wounds
were considered quite serious, but we
are glad to learn that she is improyine.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-27

On Thursday morning last. after a
painful illness of only 8 or 10 DAYS.
Miss Camilla A. Johnson passed into
the Brighter Land of peace and rest.
She was the daughter of DIR. James F.
Johnson, so long II of the most skill
ed and noted physicians, of the eastern
section of this State and Virginia.
Miss Camilla had been. for the last
four or five years teaching in the family
of Maj. N. A. Gregory, in which occu-
patton she delighted, and for which she
seemed peculiarly and most happily
fitted. She had inherited all the vivaci-
ty and conversational gifts 0 fher father.
Indeed she was one of the brightest.
sprightliest women with whom it has
ever been the good fortune of the writer
to meet.-Oxford TOrchHyht.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-27

SUICIDES.-In Lincoln county, A. &.
Lucky. being unlucky. passed in hi.
checks, with "a centre shot from his lit
tie pistol.--In Rockingham county,
Col. John A. Mebane. of Reidsyille, be-
ing in financial trouble. repeated the
story of Mr.. Holding last week, iy go
inc to WIde's mill pond, leaving a note,
etc. on the bunk, and then plunsing
over the borders of Life into Oblivion
A large force of neighbors and friends
searched for hi. bOly until found and
buried it with many regrets. Greens
boro Workmdn says:-
More than two years ago Col. Me-
pane was sOrely bereaved III the death
of his only child, 4 promising girl OF
fourteen. and after her death he dwelt
much in thought on his great loss.
This bereaven.e nt no doubt. had much
to do with the subsequent failure of his
reason. The case is particularly dis
tressing. IT we mistake no. Col. Me-
bane was married three times. his last
wife being Miss Walker, OF Rocking
ham,"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-27

Court NOTRs.-Wake Superior Court
met on Monday, Judge Philips en- bench:
Capt. Mack w. Pace, Foreman. The
Ellison, ct al, Raleigh City council case
WAS taken up, aud as the lawyers could
not agree upon an issue was set for trial
July 5. at 4 p. IN
Messrs. +. III Andrews, G. ID. Rand
ID. b. Avera, JAS. Doyle, JAS. II
Young, A. Hunter. James Hamlin and
G. W. Hoover we're by the court made
parties defendant and came into court,
accepted service and filed their answer.
At Vance County Court, the AIRING
ton divorce case resulted in a mis- trial j;
which will necessitate a new tIial.
The cock fighting cases lat the fair
Ground last spring. were settled by a fine
of $25 upon all the defendants, with costs
added.
ID. II. White was given 5 years in
tie Pen for forging check GU Ellington
Register & Co. Three negioes we're sent
to same quarters. All four had been
there before.
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ANOTHER CoUP D'TAT.-The daily
papers safe that Mr.. e.. N~osenthal.
(widelv known a. one Of Mr.. Geo. W.
Swepson's business managers. and more
recently renowned IA the mover OF The
coup-d -etat resolutions. in the Raleigh
mud lie } l. Ne person TO whom the
49, 900 won from the Louisiana Lottery
was paid. The Iisitor learns that he
simply acted as agent for another per-
son who prefers not TO figure as the
MAN who laughs" Glad the money
came t o somebody in town.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-27

FINANCIAL TROUBLES DRIVE You've
LADY TO SELF-MURDER. -Winona,
Miss. Juue 2O.-lh his town vas shocked
thus morning at the announcement that
Miss Laura Reynold, a most estimable
young lady OF this place, had committed
suicide in her room at the City Hotel at
II IN. last night. Miss Reynold came
TO this place from st. Louis about Is
months ago, and by her industry, energy
and ladyllke department mad made many
friends, in at, all with when she was
thrown loved and honored her. She
has an aunt living in Aberdeen. to whom
she left a letter, stating IN substance that
financial troubles had Induced her to
take the fatal step.
Quite a number of young gentlemen.
together with some ladies', ehatted vi, h
her pleasantly until about II O'Clock
Sunday night, and within less than an
hour after Miss Cook, a young lauy
boarding at the hotel, han her attention
attracted to the room OF the unfortunate
by groans. She at once proceeded to the
room, but the door being locked she was
unable TO gain admission. She. how
ever, aroused one of the portors, whom
she made enter the room through the
transom and open the door. Life by
this time was extinct,