Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-26
AMONG THE OLD FILES.
Advertising ia the Last CentuTy-Scmo Re
miniscenccs of Lancaster IN eye
OideO Time"

Plain Sewing, Marking and the different
kinds of needlework "in Queen street,
opposite Esquire Graeff's. this city"
Jacob Strickler advertised Whitelock's 8 tan
yard on Water street for sale or let. On
the oath. 25th and Goth of October races
were to be run over the course at the Two
Taverns on the Horseshoe road, in Earl
township.
Meantime the campaign vaxed warmer
and half.lozen different tickets were
proposed by correspondents of the journal,
all agreeing on Thomas Miffiin for govern
or and John w. Kittera for Congress the
preferences for senator being divided be-
tween Matthias Barton and Alex Scott.
Miffiin. Kittera and Barton were elected
and the following assembleymen : Rich
ard Keys, Jere. Brown, Abr. Carpenter,
Thomas Bonde, John Hopkins, Samuel
Boyd. And thus Friend Joshua got back
at Doodledrum.
TO FRIEND DOODLEDRLM
WELL, friend what thinketh thee of the
w old proverb, "LET THEM LAUGH
were applicable TO the proceedings at the
late Election, or rather to thy addrcfs to the
SPUNKMAKERs of LANCASTER wherein thy Ian
Gulge WIS 1Cul1llDuS, my ihShaSSo NSiPiSA'iS
Thy Herd did not obey thee, for they forfook
thee and thy head hanging Tribe in the hour Of
diftrefs; thee Iooketh like one that had been
cropt and was afhamed to thew his face. Friend
Timothy and Friend Dickey now laugh at thee,
and the whole affembly of Grogrum Hall "
treat thy threats with that disdain they merit.
Thee art no, verfed with the opinion of the
People, They are no more to be led aftray by
4 few defigning men, but have opinions of their
own, which they will fuppor in defiance
of thee and thy intriguing Friends. Lilten then,
to the advice of thy friend Jofhua, and if thee
livcsl TO fee another election, study thy part
better before thee lcttcth the world know
thy fcntments and then have the laugh turned
upon thee Thee tal<eth of men "who dared
to vote according 10 their own fcntiments." :"
WE THE PEOPLE talk of men who dare oppOfe
a majority of IL to but then we not only
talk, but act likewise and by our actions let
thee know wherein the force OF our arguments
exits Thee talkcth and hath not the power of
action, for thy friends are too few and thofc that
thee hath have not influence enough to iuppor
thee. Now, Friend Doodlcdrum the election
is over, and As my principles will not allow me
to bear malice againft any man, il thee will at
tend at Grogrln Hall, the common rendezvous
of thy opponents, thee can with lis partakc OF
Rock Fifth and Old Wine-Old Wine and Rock
Fifth For as thee styled it Grogrum Hall thee
ought TO have fupported thy afiertion and not
mentioned Old Wine, it being nconfIftent with
the namc-howevcr rs thee art at times tlighty
| forgive thee the error, and remain
Thy Friend,
J0SHUA.
Signs of the Times.
1t is noted that signs of a hard winter
arc made by the squirrels crossing the
SusQuehanna in numbers of several hun
drcd per day from Cumberland county to
Harrisburg, insOmuch that several of
the inhabitants of the bank have been en-
abled to salt up barrels of them for their
winters use." Geo. Fisher opens his
dancing school for the season Slough's
stage line now announces weekly trips to
and from Pittsburgh, starting from Ian
caster every Sunday morning. MIR. Hack
ley, being about to remove his wax figures,
gives notice that hc will yet make eng age
ments to entertain select companies on an
afternoon.
Friday, Nov. 4, was presidential elec-
ton day that year, and the members OF
the state and federal Legislature on either
side had fixed up ticket of fifteen cleo
tors for jefferson and as many for Adams.
John Whitehill, Of this city, was Oh tho
Jefferson ticket and Robert Coleman on
the Adams ticket, but both were elected !;
tho contest was very close in the state, and
though the jefferson ticket generally pre-
vailed Coleman ran ahead Of one
of the electors on it. Flushed
with his success or annoyed at
attacks on his candidate which had
been made by correspondents of the Jour-
nal-there being no editorial department
it seems that Coleman and ono Charles
Smith, esq, an attorney ut law, began
what the journal calls " an attack on the
liberty Of the press - by taking advantage
Of court week to circulate a paper binding
the signers to stop their subscriptions to
the Journal Hamilton, the publisher,
submits the outrageous facts to the Amer
lean public and triumphantly announces
that the bold attempt to ruin young
man just entering upon the theatre Of the
world and to trample under feet the sacred
liberties of tho press, had cost him only
- subscribers, though over 200 wore
applied to, aud meantime he gained 35
new patrons.
On Dec. 23--six weeks after the election
tho Journal published tho returns, ex-
cept from Georgia, Kentucky and Tcnnes-
see, not yet received Ga Dec. 30, it is
announced in type of gigantic sizo that
Kentucky and Tennessee have been heard
from, Georgia only is due, and it is safe to
predict that Mr.. Adams will DO president
and Jefferson vice president. Mr. IIamil-
ton continues to preserve his ''impartiali-
ty'' as "printcr" by publishing communi.
cations on both sides Of political issues.
Fob. II, 1897, there was an alarm of
mad dogs in Lancaster. a child Of Doctor
Moore, and boy of Major Lights, ''sev-
cral dogs and some cattlo having been
bitten The 22I of February was cele-
brated with local festivities at many
places in the town Tho burning Of
Abraham Brubakcr's barn, with all his
stock, three miles from town, on March
6, is one of the few local paragraphs in
these days; and likewise the finding of an
unknown man drowned in tho Conestogoe
opposite Slough's. Abram Musselman's
son was struck and killed by lightning
seven miles from the city. Matthes
Tshudy Was making chip hats in Lititz in
1897. When tho two Beck brothers of
Manor married the two Brenner sisters it
was considered notable that the elder
brother married the younger sister. Ham
ilton about this time printed his prospectus
for new literary weekly to be called
The Hioe and tho plan for establishing a
company to develop the Gap copper
mines. Phillip Larus, then practicing
dentistry in the city, advertises his i'm
pending departure.
From an advertisement in the Journal
of June, 179S, it appears that at that time
fl,oro Np,c Iorol;1oI 1ottoru cohou1o fn