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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-17

THE Democracy of the city and county
should bear in mind that next Saturday
afternoon and evening they are to assem-
ble in their respective districts and elect
delegates to the county convention
meeting on Wednesday, July 25,-to
nominate county ticket, chose dele
gates to the state convention and mem
bers Of the state committee. In many
counties this work is done by the county
committee and often at slimly ut
tended meetings. In this county
the Democracy have not deemed
it too much trouble to have a
county convention and a fair expires
sion of the popular will in the selection
of those to whom is assigned the duty
of formulating the policy and choosing
the candidates for the important cam
paign about to open. Democratic voters
should exercise their duty and privilege
by going to the primaries On Saturday
and selecting delegates who will fairly
represent their views in the county con-
ventiOn.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-17
Night Blooming Coreus.

Last evening Maj. Charles NJ. Howell,
No. 1873 North Queen street, furnished
rare spectacle to his friends and the public
in general. In the store room attached to
the residence he placed two beautiful
stocks Of the night blooming cereus con-
tanning no less than twelve magnificent
blossoms. The blossoms commenced to
open about six o'clock in tho evening, as
is their habit, and remained open until
midnight, when they gradually closed.
They were viewed by hundreds of deeply
interested spectators.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-17
Tho Testimony OF Experience.


President Seelye, and the country has
few abler educators, gives the remarkable
testimony that in eleven years trial of a
scientific course in Amherst college run
ming parallel to the regular curriculum,
tho men who take Latin and Greek
make better scientific students and
reach higher attainments than those
who take q short cut into science
direct. The records of tho univer-
sity Of Michigan give like results in regard
to the success of its graduates in after
life, the classical men having done best.
while tho professors of the University of
Berlin have recently united, the incum
bents of tho scientific chairs leading, in
asking for the revival of Greek as q re-
quirenent for matriculation, because the
men who have studied it make most pro
gress in afte1study. The personal exper-
ience of many will bear this out, and Ger
tsiuiy no n.au who has studied the first
and most profound of tongues can ques
ton its deep Influence on his own thought
and thinking.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-17
FEATURES OF TIE STATE PRESS.
The Harrisburg Indepsndent loudly calll

tEATURk6 OF TIE STATE P8&68.
The Harrisburg lndepsndent loudly calls
for cheaper matches.
The Philadelphia Nesos has homing pig
cons in reserve for the strike Of the tele-
graph operatives.
Notwithstanding the opposition of the
free trade cranks to Mr.. Randall, his pros.
poets for speaker grow brighter" as the
Pittsburgh Post sees it.
The York Age, looking to the Demo.
cratic state convention, asks fer another
Pattison-a man. not for the politicians,
but a man for the people.
The Scranton Republican would rather
enjoy strike of the telegraphers, just to
zee what arrangement of business and
journalism would ensue.
The Easton Express, apropos of Butler,
solemnly pronounces the judgment that
no man in public life was ever yet injured
in the estimation of the people by indis-
criminate newspaper abuse.
The Philadelphia Eoening Telegraph dis
Germs that Mr.. Randall is really the most
formidable Democratic candidate for the
presidency before the public. That is to
say, the most likely to get the nomination
and the most likely to be elected if nomi-
mated.
The virtuous Altoona Tribune avows
that some of the decent people of the
fashionable resorts will be obliged to tar
and feather Mr.. Frederick Gebhard and
his paramour if they mean to keep up the
conduct with which they have been dis.
gracing themselves at Long Branch and
Atlantic City.
To the Pittsburgh Leader the spectacle
of Chris. Magee at the helm in the late
state convention, rs usual, directing what
should be done with no one to say him
nay, and carrying everything 70 suit him
self is not calculated to inspire confidence
in the ability of the Independent wing to
grapple successfully with the ring, backed
as it is, by all the machinery and most of
the money.
The Pittsburgh Dispatch declares that
"if the Democrats would once rise super
ior to their petty inside squabbles, remand
the horde of petty place seekers to the
rear, and nominate two such men as w.
H. Snowden or r. E. Wright, or R. L.
James, or somebody from the old Dutch
Tenth legion or such men as B. J. Nc
Cram, of Lancaster, or Capt. Walker, of
Erie, they might at least stand in the way
of tho lightning"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-17
Public improvements

Tho work on the eastern market house
is progressing very rapidly. The founda-
tions were finished on last Thursday and
the bricklayers at onca began work. Tho
walls on Middle street arc window-frame
high and it will aot Os long until they arc
up.
The Kep'er building, On North Queen
street, in which the new postoffice is to bs
located, is fast approaching completion.
The roof is finished and the fourth fOcr is
laid. Workmen are now engaged on the
third and second floors, and after they are
laid work will progress with great ra-
DiCity
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-17

1T seems that there are locked up aud
idle in the federal treasury about one
hundred and twelve million Bland silver
dollars and the number is constantly in.
creasing. In this condition of affairs
they are simply pieces Of silver, contain
ing 4l2t grains Of silver, and while they
do not circulate they are no more no
less than this. There can be no reason
able objection to exchanging them for
pieces of silver worth 42O grains.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-17

THE members of the Legislature are
evidently getting ready to adjourn. They
might as well. 1t is evident that the
Republicans propose to make no appOr
tionmeDt. They have an unfair one now
that is to their advantage, and they pro
pose to hold to it, in spite of the consti
tuition and in defiance of decency. Their
Obstinacy and partisanship prevented al
apportionment at the regular session
when the Democratic House and the
Democratic senators at all times
stood ready and frequently offered
to make or take an honest, just
and true one. This failing, because
of the Republican disposition to serve
Cameron rather than the commonwealth,
ths extra session became necessary and
the governor very properly called it. lie
did his whole duty i'm that. Again the
Democrats of both Houses have shown !,
disposition to he fair and last night the
Democratic majority of the House went
so far as could be expected of them
when they agreed to take the bill drafted
and offered by John Stewart, which their
senators had agreed to take. If this
be rejected there is nothing left but to
appeal to the popular judgment at the
ballot box. We entertain no such idea
as that any of the Democratic represen
tatives will feel it their duty to remain
at Harrisburg until they get an appor-
tionment, and finally accede to any
scheme of Republican bulldoZing rather
than have the purpose of the extra ses-
sion defeated. There is no logic in this
position. Thus far the responsibility of
the extra session and its failure rests en-.
tirely with the Republicans. There let
it remain. IL the Democrats should
stoop to accept their gerrymander ard
be satisfied to take what the Republicans
offered them ut the regular session, il
can be forcibly said they could have had
that before. The Democrats must stand
up for and 60 down with an honest, just
and true apportionment, because this is
not only right, but it will put the oppo,
sition in chancery.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-17
Landisville UampmeetIng.

1I3TTI5UuIB THtrIOt.
The MethOdists OF this section are got
ting ready for their annual ten days ser
vices in the woods at Landisville. The
meetings commence on Tuesday evening
the Oath instant. Many prominent divines
are expected to be present, among them
the eloquent Bishop Bowman. The man
ayers are making every effort to render
this years campmeeting even more Of a
success than those of the past have boen.
There is every indication Of a large
atte ndance.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-17
Heavy Payment of Taxes.

Yesterday the county treasurer received
from the tax collectors of the several
townships $94 226. 43, for county tax for
the current year. The amount will be
greatly increased by the receipt to day
from the city and several country districts
that have not yet made their returns. The
heavy payments have been made to secure
the abatement of three per cent which
terminates with to day.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-17
Aar,caster f,ltellige1Her.
TUESDAY EVENING. JULY II. 1885,
the PENNSYLVANIA Outlook.

Things are by no means as HARMONIOUS
and hopeful in the Republican party as
the newspapers and more clamorous
politicians of that organization would
have the public believe in their COM
ments upon the late state convention
and its work. 1t is coming to be seen
very plainly that no convention of the
party was ever more completely in hand
and more successfully controlled than
this one. Mr.. Quay was chiefly in
terested in having Niles put on the
ticket, and he succeeded {; Mr.. Magee
was interested in having his man named
for state treasurer, and he won bis trick.
Both are happy and the result appears
to be about the same whether they hunt
singly or in pairs. The concession to
Wharton Barker in the adoption OF his
resolution on the division of the surplus
has served to involve the party in rldl
cule at home and abroad, and the plat
form threatens to be a milestone about
the necks of the candidates.
The signs that the harmony pro-
pramme has not harmOnized multiply
The voice of Levi Bird Duff crying in
the wilderness is not so lonesome as it
was. Mr.. Wolfe, having been heard from,
SAYS that the nomination of Livesy is
one that does not merit and will not re-
ceive his support Tom Marshall is of
like mind. Candidate McHose thinks
the platform places the party on the de.
fensive in a year when it can least afford
it.
1t is remembered that when Mr..
Wolfe raised his flag of revolt and made
opposition to the candidate of his party,
his position found little favor with the
Independent leaders and papers. John
Stewart and the rest of them gave him
the cold shoulder, but he pOlled ten
thousand more votes than they did last
year with all their fuss and beating of
the TOM toms. In politics, as elsewhere
the shadows murmur while the deepS
run dumb. The experience Of 1872 shows
that leaders do not always lead. The
causes of political dissatisfaction lie
deep, and when once IA party has got into
the ways of rebellion it is easier to keep
in them than to get out.
On the other hand they make as vide
an error who count upon Democratic
dissatisfaction or disorganization in this
state. They do not exist. The party is
organized and harmonious. Frank dis
cussion of its policies and honest criti
cism of its officials have only tended to
strengthen it. 1t no leading candidates
for its nominations are announced OF
none are announcing themselves all the
better for that. The coming convention
will be able to find lit men and the
party will he capable of electing them.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-17

Charles A. Dressed, of Harrisburg, WIS.,
tied Elizabethtown. few days ago.
While there no took in Sunday school
fair. at which an organ was being CHANGED
off. He bought ticket. No. 81, and was
agreeably surprised at finding he held the
lucky number. The instrument is valued
at $50 and has been brought to his resi-
dence.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-17
PERSONAL.

COOPER has been selected as chairman
of the Republican state committee.
DIR. MARY WALKER has been removed
from her clerkship at Washington. but
she declares she will have revenge by liv-
ing to yet be elected to Congress-.
GEORGE BANCROFT, Jared Sparks, J. G.
Palfrey and Richard Hildreth, historical
writer's of this country, were all educated
at the same school Exeter academy, ard
three of them boarded in the same house
MIR. JNo. r. READ, of Philadelphia,
alter visit to Greystone, is satisfied that
Samuel j. Tilden does not seek the nomi-
nation from the Democratic convention,
but if it is given to him will make the
same brave and deterpined fight which
was successful in the Centennial year.
COLONEL WAsHINGToN DUNN, a rail-
road contractor, was found dead in Pull.
man sleeper, en- route to Portland. He
leaves wife and two children at Lock
Haven, Pa. He was very wealthy, and
had a contract to grade the Northern
Pacific railroad a distance of two hundred
miles.
REV. CHARLES H. LE1NBAcH, d. D.,
one of largo family of ministers and we'll
in Stouchsburg, Berks county, aged sixty
OASho yOsAS, W - Pul"Ob1Ay 1uOOUAOAs AAO
was prominent in the management of the
Bethany orphans home at Womelsdorf,
and in the Reformed church.
REV. DIR. w. H. HORNBLowER, profess
sor of theology and homiletics in tho
Western theological seminary of the
Presbyterian church, died last evening in
Allegheny City, Pa. He was stricken
with paralysis while preaching about two
months ago, and on Sunday last was taken
with a chill which resulted fatally. His
widow is daughter of Justice Bradley,
of the supreme court of the United States.
RUsKIN has been obliged to change his
opinion in regard to American art. He
recently paid three thousand dollars for
volume Of Italian stories, hand illustrated
in pen and ink by Miss Alexander, daugh-
ter of a former Boston artist, now residing
in Florence. In one of his lectures at
Oxford, he said II would fain have said
an English girl but all my prejudices
have had the axe laid to their roots, one
by one she is an American
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-17

Connected With the Exchange.
ArnOld's cork works and 8. r. Miller.
coffee roaster, are now connected with the
telephone exchange.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-17
FANNIE E1ILi.s'S FEET.

A Farmers Daughter In Ohio who wears
the Largest Shoes on Earth.
Fannie Mills has the biggest feet in the
world, SO far as known, and they arc still
growing. Fannie Mills is % years old.
and resides on the dairy farm of Eer father,
George Mills, two miles from Sandusky.
A Cincinnati Enquirer carrespondeut
called at the Mills home at evening. and
the head of the household was standing
in the yard. His greeting was kindly
and no entered into conversation ON
the subject of his daughters big feet.
He laughingly remarked that people
generally didn't believe the SEEMINGLY
incredible stories concerning Fannie's
immense pedal extremities. but to
prove that they were really so large he
invited the reporter into the house to SEQ
for himself. The young woman was called
by her father and wabbled, rather than
walked, into the front room, She wore a
long gown, which was scarcely sufficient
to hide the deformity. She sat down in a
chair and exposed her feet to view. 1: is
almost impossible to exaggerate the mar.
vellous sight. She removed her shoes and
then great white pillow cases, which were
worn as stockings.
The feet look. like two immense hams.
The toes are irregular, and the little toes
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-17

THE New Y York Suns political slogan,
Turn the rascals ont, " has created .
panic among the Republican Office.
holders. "Lo! is it I, they all do cry. !"
The cohesive power of public plundeE
was never better illustrated than by the
fear which has seized upon them at the
sound of this war cry. They are closing
ranks to make solid front. The open.
ing of the civil service examinations
finds every yawning vacancy filed before
the new rules could be applied to the
incomers. Those who are in Office pro
pose to hold the fort against any attempt
to inquire into their moral or mental fit
ness. They want the rake and the rack
applied only to people who are after
their places. The public sense OF the
fitness of things calls for a fresh deal
Turn the raScals out.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-17

To the Wilkesbarre Record, it seems the
right thing for the colored people to
render themselves capable of under
taking diversified labor, and in that way
destroy the barriers which now are opposed
to their progress.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-17

THE New York Sun, in an elaborate and
detailed statement of the incidents and
events Of the movement in 1880 that led to
the nomination and election of tho late
President Garfield, made out that Gar
field went to that convention ostensibly
for Sherman, but really candidate him.
self. Wharton Barker, who claims to
have been the discoverer of Garfield as a
presidential candidate, affects to deny this,
and declares that the oft repeated
charges that the late President Garfield
vas not trne to the Hon. John Sherman
are " absolutely false" Nevertheless Mr..
Barker confirms these charges most strik-
ingly in chain of memoranda, furnished
to the Philadelphia newspapers, of the
events leading to Garfeld's nomination.
These show conclusively that Barker
nursed and spread the Garfield bcom all
that he could, communicating all his
movements most effusively to Garfield,
who never discouraged them in the
slightest and who went to the Chicago
as Sherman's friend but
having advised Barker that the
fight between Blaine, Grant and Sherman
was so bitter that the nomination of either
would handicap the party. !
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-10-05
He Blew the Bug1e.
Texas Siftlngs.

LEANS Olltlukos
A small party of Austin young men
were standing on the corner of Austin
avenue and Rebecca street the other
evening. They we're curiously examin
ing bugle belonging to one of them, and
as stranger came along an animated
discussion arose.
II wish I could play on it," said
one.
"Play on it." exclaimed another.
IT wish that l could make a noise on
"It's a pretty hard thing to do" OBJ
served the third. "lf you haven't got the
hang of the thing just right"
Hard thing to do" chimed in the
stranger. hating and regarding the
party with evident contempt. "Why,
could blo1 bugle before was foot
high gI3;,, - ,, ,.a.
from others said one of the young
men.
"Gimme that bugle." said the stran.
ger excitedIy 1t was Immediately handed
him, and putting it to his lips he made
one trial trip. There was eubdued
Splinter, and then the stranger COM
menced kind of war dance, at the
same time holding bis mouth in both
hands.
"Great Cleopatra's needlew he yelled,
with tears streaming from his eyes.
"Who in thunder filled at mouth
piece with cayenne pepper? I'm small,
gentlemen, light and fragile; but I
cum lick the man who peppered the
horn"
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-10-05
The Alligator Story.

"Did ever tell you my adventure
with the alligator" said Sam to his
friend Tom, as they stood on deck of
the steamboat Henry Clay, as she went
putting and blowing throwing up the
muddy waters of the Mississippi.
II guess not" said Tom.
"Well, its sometime ago, before your
steamboats, scared the creters way back
into the dry settlements. the alligators
used to cum out on the river, and bark
at the dogs on board our broai horns,
and if ever brave fellow of dog (as
they did sometimes) jumped over after
them, they'd gather up their tails, which
you know, does them for hand, and
raising their upp-r jaw, they'd chew
him up handsomely; indeed, the var.
minis seem to love dog meat better than
any. other, and they were SIGH
devils that they used to try to climb up
into the boat to git at our dogs: we used
to stand guard to keep them off every
night. Well. as I was saying. we were
going up the Mississippi one night in a
fine new boat, the current was running
pretty much as it is now, and we had
guards to keep off alligators, as we had
some fine pups on board that we didn't
want them to git at: well, as nigh as l
could recl on, twas about midnight, and
mighty dark, with a great thick fog all
about us, so thick that you could hardly
walk through it, we'll felt terrible
bump against the head Of the boat, and
then the guards sung out, a snag, a
snag" went to look, and sure enough
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-10-05

plating some small bright object ina
velvet case. He started to his feet at
the sight OF me.
"Bell!'' he cried.
Exactlyp' retorted with a hard
laugh. GU were not expecting to sae
me-? May I ask where Miss Elwell is?'
"Lulu?" he looked at me in genuine
establishment. SIN the mountains I
suppose. She went off the day after
you." 80
"Oh, John!n I threw myself on his
breast in a burst of hysterical tears
He pressed me to his heart.
My darling is over.tired," said he:
"over-tired and nervous. Let me see if
we cannot chase away those tears"
AS he spoke he hung something bright
around my neck-a diamond cross!
John, is it mineT cried.
/, Eyes, dearest, it is yours. is what
l have toiled for ever since you ex-
pressed wish for it month ago. Now
you know, dear love, why did not 20
"Oh, John! But how pale YOU arew
| cried, as looked up in his face.
Pale? Yes, perhaps 20. Ihave worked
night and day, you know" And even
as he spoke he reeled and fell,
During the brain fever that followed
had sufficient leisure and opportunity
for regretting my folly and levity; for Il
John hal died never could have looked
again upon the diamond cross. But all
that is past and gone. John is alive and
we'll, thank God, and we are the hap-
pest coupe in the world. never have
been jealous of him since,
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-10-05

i b, E. &. N, i i
there It was, as big as the body Of a COM
mon-sizsd tree, through aud til rough
our bran now boat; so, saws !, there's
no use in grieving: so l trusted to Prov
idence and went to sleep. About light
] went to see how things were ing,
and bless your soul, what do you think
it WASP"
"Guess .twant an alligator" said Tom.
eyes, but it was; the varmint had
played the snsg, aud run his head
clean through our boat up to the dogs
bed on deck he had eaten them all clean
up but one large pup. who had got cross
ways in the creter's throat, 80 he couldn't
pull his head out from the boat again
beca9s he couldn't shut his jaws, and
was fast, wigeling his tail about in the
water for all the world like a wbirlwind."
"But how bid you set him out2" said
Tom.
"Whv, I'll tell you; we cut his head
off smooth with the deck, and tied up
his tail-he fitted so tight we did't leak
a drop, but went on"