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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-03
The Governments Dispute With the Union
Pacific Railroad

The Governments Dispute With the Union
Pacific Railroad.
At Washington tho department of
justice has determined on the course that
will be pursued by the government in its
dispute with the Union Pacific railway.
The amount claimed by the interior
department as due from the company is
offset by claim Of the road for unallowed
compensation for carrying the mails. The
construction of the law ccntended for by
the counsel for the road brings the
government into debt to the company.
The main question involved is whether
the government is obliged under
the law to pay for tho transror-
tatiOn of mails at rates charged privat,
corporations for the carriage Of ex-
press matter. Already this question is
pending before the court claims in cases
that have once been tried and then sent
back by the supreme court for re trial.
The court above did not sustain tho gov.
ernment's position. but held that tho al.
lowance made by the court of claims was
not large enough. The government will low
put in a counter claim for the amount which
Secretary Teller insists upon as due. iNo
objection will be made to this by the
company's counsel, but the lateness of tho
pleading will be waived. The company,
by consenting to this course, prevents an
irdependent suit by tho government, in.
volving the epjoining of its dividends.
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Tho Splendid View of tho Ocean.

The wife of a naval officer staying at
the Hotel Kaaterskill few days ago re-.
marked
"Of course the view is better than from
the pyramids. 1t is better than the view
from Mt. Blanc but should like to see
the ocean,
A tourist humolist in the house in.
formed the lady that she could sec ships
off Cape Cod and Boston harbor plainly if
she only had a stronger glass. Then the
scoundrel went and got telescope, and
pasted several little ships which he cut out
of the Journal Of Commerce over the end
of the glass. f
The old lady looked once, and, seeing
the ships, exclaimed
my gracious me! ~
This is by. word which a lady always
uses when she is perfectly satisfied. A
full assortment of paper ships and coast
vessels are now kept in the Office of the
Kaaterskill for guests of the house who
desire Atlantic or Pacific ocean views.
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Courtesy Excessively stretched.

The New York Herald is deludcd by in
terviews with well-known Virginia
lawyer" into the belief that "the South,
if properly approached, if asked in .
courteous way to pay the confederate
debt" will undertake to do it. This is
stretching the characteristic courtesy of
Southern people rather far. Twenty
years ago it might perhaps have been
equal tc the strain, but not to-day
The Southerner nowadays draws .
severe distinction between well-tem-
pered appeals to his finer sentiments
and those which request him to efface
himself. The Virginia cavalier of the
olden time when approached upon any
matter of money had the habit, if We may
trust traditions, of at once handing Ter
his well.fi!led purse to be used as his
friends need or convenience sugges.
ted. Ho was not the man to stand
on trihes. His courtesy carried
him to the point of ignoring business
principles and stubborn facts for the sake
of the pleasure of being uniformly affable,
polite, generous and self-sacrificing to the
point of extravaganza. But he kept it up
too long, as he now thinks. The giving
away of Virginia's vast empire in the
northwest territory was extremely cOurte-
Gus, and so were maEy of the votes Of
her congressman who surrendered solid
advantages in return for compliments
and distractions from the representa-
tives of states a trifle more shrewd.
But that sort of thing is done with. The
Virginian of to-day reserves his courtesy
for more reasonable occasions. He will
not even consent that the holders of con-
federate bonds shall get payment for them
from the confederacy's successor in pos
session, to whom her obligations went
with her territory and assets. The idea
that he will be soft soaped into paying the
confederacy's debts. 8" if properly ap
preached he cannot but welcome with {.
broad smile.
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TELEGRAPH sTKlKF,
hut Little Damage Done To tho Wires
Storm.

Sut Little Damage Done tho Wires by
Storm.
NEW York, Aug 3-The damage to the
wi.ts Of the Western Union company by
yesterdays storm was found to be much
less than was at first anticipated, except
in one or two of the minor circuits. 1t was
reported that the wires were in as good
condition last night as ct any time since
the strike, and all business was cleared
from tho books except the usual amount
of lay over business. Mr.. Somerville
reiterated the denial of tho truth of tho
rumor that Gen. Eckert had resigned. He
said that there had been no meeting of the
directors yesterday. The company, lie
said, intended to make change in its
policy, aud so far as it was concerned, the
strike was over. Reports received ilom
the East, West and South, stated that
the company was receiving constant acces
sions from the ranks of the strikers in all
quarters. The leaders in the strike said
that the situation, SO far as they were con-
cerned, was unchanged.
Rumored Strike Denied.
New York, July 3.-The secretary of
the Mexican telegraph company publishes
q card in which he declares that the re-
port that the operators Of that company
have struck for an advance in wages is
without any foundation whatever.
celebrating the Birth OF the Founder oi tho
knights Of Labor.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug, "a memorial
celebration of the 62d anniversary of tho
birth Of Uriah s. Stephens, the
founder of the order of Knights o.
Labor, is being held at Rense park
to day. The attendance Of knights is
large. The meeting will be addressed this
afternoon by T. V. Powderly, mayor of
Scranton, and other prominent members
of tho order. 1t is expected that the strike
of the telegraph operators will be dis
cussed, and that their course will receive
tho endorsement of the meeting.
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a xEWsRAPEx PaILosoRnx..

Ons Joar.al 1Aas o. Gee Along win
AaeA Lsas Telegraph.
Previdenee STAR. ps F
A good many newspapers arc about
reaching the conclusion that tho
use Of the telegraph BY business
men and tho press is. after all q
good deal of luxury, even if some Of
the orders have to be sent by mail instead
OF being fAshed over the wires, and just
- many newspapers will be read if they do
not publish all tho details of crime in some
obscure place which their readers never
heard Of. The tendency Of the newspaper
press nowadays is to fill its columns with re-
ports of crimes and casualties which may
be Of intsrsst to the people Of the local.
ties where they ooour, but which nobody
living thousand miles away cares about,
to tho exclusion of moro important mat
tor. II tho money that is wasted in
telegraphing was spent BY tho newspapers
in other ways journalism would mako q
great advance. No ono newspaper can
start out in this direction alone, but If tho
strike, by depriving US of . part of our
telegraph service, should force press agents
and special correspondents to mako moro
careful selection of tho matter they tele-
graph, it might demonstrate the truth Of
the statements we have here made.
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THE STARS.


resent Month.
August is the least brilliant month of
the year for stellar displays. The dog
star, Sirius, with his magnificent
retinue Of heavenly diamonds, is
almost in conjunction with the SUI,
and there are very few stars of tho first
magnitude to reward the search Of the
gazer. The brightest ono now visible is
ActuIus, fine red star, which may easily
be found by following the curve made by
the handle of the Big Dipper, which is
now up side down. Continuing in the
same curve, low down near the horizon, is
Spica, the only first magnitude
star in the constellation Virgo. Over in
the south the Crab has things all his
own way, with Antares flaming red from
the middle of one of his claws Uphjgher
just beside the Milky way, the middle one
of three in straight row, is Altar, the
gem OF the constellation Aquila. Almost
directly overhead, in the early evening,
Vega, in the Lyre.
Mercury and Uranus are evening stars, but
they don't count because they are invis-
ible. Saturn does not rise until after
midnight, and Mars is still later. Both
arc now in the ''rainy Hyades," with
whose principal star, the ruby Aldebaran,
Saturn will be in communion at sunrise of
the 18th. Jupiter does not rise until about
three O'Clock, and Venus is so late as to be
eclipsed by the glory of the coming king
OF day. Later in the month, however,
Jupiter will be seen at any time after two
O'Clock, and Venus, although still late,
will be visible as the sun gets lower.
The absence of planetary attractions,
however, may be more than made up by
auroral displays such as made last Sunday
evening delightful and about the 10th,
and again on the Gath, the usual meteoric
showers may be expected. In the middle
of the month the moon will rule the night
ard will stay longer than usual so that
altogether, lovers and other persons
addicted to evening strolls are provided
with very attractive programme for the
month
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nEOPt,sALy FOR STEAM PUMP.

Proposals will he received at he Mayors
IL, 1883. fJr C0ndensing PnTpfng Engine
to be erected at the Citv Water Works With II
capacity OF 6UOO.(O0 in "a hours, delivered St IL
height of 800 feet. E1dders to make all exca.
vations. build foundations. make all pump
wells, furnish check valve ON pumping main.
all steam pipes and material necessary 70 put
cylinders and heads, steam chests AMI all
steam pipes to be cover cd with asbestos, wood
pulp, or any other improved pipe covering
character. and subject to the approval OF the
Wu,crC mmittee. Proposals to be adire- se.i
The committee reserve the right to reject any
or all bids. For further information address
JNO. T. hACGONlaLE, Mayor,
Chairman of the Water Committee.
iyoSxau2l48
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Grab Q Centah Pole.
Bismarck Tribune,

At a circus in Bismarck, D. T., tho
other day colored man and his wife oc-
cupied front seats, and when terrific gale
of wind began to rip tho canvas the woman
planted her knees right down in the dust
and began to call upon the Lord to save
her and spare her life. The man threw his
arms around stake driven in the ground
and cried out: "Look yah, ole woman,
you bettah ease up on dat prayin' an grab
certab pole if yo' doan wanter leab dis
country ahead of de rcg'lah procession.
Hits all right to rassle in pra'r in de
ordinary program OBJ life, but de Lawd
anti gwine to head off dis tornader as q
pussonel favor to you. You jes' grab q
certah pole now, an shet yo' eyes,"
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An Inyasion ofLocusrs-

The districts of Matheran and Mahable
shwar, in the Bombay presidency, have
had an invasion of locusts, huge swarms of
which settled On the trees. which appeared
to DO covered with red foliage and clusters
of red flowers during the occupation, but
when abandoned were nothing but bundles
of bare twigs. Although no seri-
Gus danger has arisen from their appear
ance this year, next years crops will suffer
severely unless some method of extermin-
ating the eggs be adopted. While the
lOcusts are on the wing it is difficult to
make any impression on them, although
an Italian landowner, resident in Cyprus,
has destroyed largo numbers by placing IN
their path, soon after they are hatched out
and still unprovided with wings, pits so
prepared that after tumbling in it was i'm
possible for them to get out. This, how
ever, is only feasible during the
wingless stage, when the young
locusts march across the country in
great columns, more than a mile in
breadth. But the most radical treatment
is that of destroying the eggs, which are
deposited in masses in one place, generally
on an uncultivated hillside. The locust is
edible, in Arabia men and horses using it
regularly as an article of diet. By some
of the natives they are eaten with oil after
being stripped of their legs and wings,
but Lady Anne Blunt in her travels was in
tho habit of boiling them and dipping
them into salt Their flavor is described
as savoring of vegetable, not unlike the
taste of green wheat.
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sudden Disappearance.

Tie Mannheim Sentinel says that Samuel
Breitigam, miller, at Mount Hope mills,
Penn township, deserted his wife and two
children on Monday. He has been leading
crooked ways of late, recently bought on
time a horse from Jacob S. Keener, of
Rap',o township, wagon from Joseph
Schwartly, near Mount Hope, and harness
from Juo Fulmer, OF Mannheim, the whole
rig value! at about 5000. This he sold at
Lebanon on Monday, purchased ticke
for Cincinnati, Ohio, and has not been
heard of since.
Rev. Morgan s. Watkins will preach ut the
First Baptist next Sunday morning and even
lug, with a view OF giving him a call. MIR.
Watkins comes from Minonka, Pa. and is
highly recommended.
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SECOND EDITION.
FRIDAY EVENING, AUG. 8. 1888.
BY CABLE.
1u-DAY,s BUDGET OF FOREIGN EVENTS

Sixteen Thousano People VIctims of the
Cholera In Egypt-The Alleged
Work OF Fenians-A Noted
Trial Concluded.
LONDON, Aug. 3.-The trial of the ten
Jews at Nyiregyhyaza, Hungary, who
were charged with numbering Esther Sally
misi, . Christian girl, in the synagogue at
Tissea, Esster, in order to procure her
blood to mix in the passover bread, has
been concluded. A verdict of not guilty
was returned.
Dynamite in Scotland.
A box of dynamite to which a Lighted
fuse was attached has been discovered in
q large brew factory at Capar Fife, Scot
land. The fuse was extinguished before
it reached the explosive. The attempt to
blow up the factory is attributed to Fen
ianism Great excitement has been caused
by the affair and the police are searching
for the persons who placed the box where
it was found.
Tho Cholera Said to be, Less virulent
The Daily Neus asserts that the total
number of deaths from cholera in Egypt
80 far has been 16, 600. 1t says the disease
is now less virulent. Often men attacked
among the British troops an average of
six survive.
Ins Disease In Egypt Abating.
ALEXANDRIA, Aug. 3.-Three deaths
from cholera occurred here yesterday.
Although the cholera epidemic continues
at Ismalia, there were no deaths there
from it yesterday.
Hot Weather at Cairo.
CA1Ro, Aug. 3.-The weather here is
intensely hot, aud the average temperature
under canvas is 1O6 degrees. Several
troops in Helnan are constantly moved
from place to place. Tho health of the
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cHIoAsos BAD mar.


A.A. Congo Lo0oo "a, 600 Pounds 0G Beet On
New York World.
The seizure reported in yesterday'a q
World of 90, 900 pounds of Chicago dressed
beef by Inspector Romaine, of the health
department, causes much excitement
among buyers and dealers in Western beef.
The diseased meat was seized at tho cor
ner Of Forty fifth street and Third ave-
nue. and was Immediately sent to Barren
island.
The report that the meat was consigned
by Armour s. Co. to William Ottman &
Co., of Fulton market, is incorrect. The
meat was shipped by II. A. Congo and
was not consigned to any one. Mr.. VIM.
Ottmau yesterday said
''Mr. H. A. Congo recently constructed
a new style of Car, which he claimed was
unequalled for the transportation of West
ern dressed beef. About ten days ago he
wrote that he wished to make An expert
ment with his car, and asked me what
would do for him in case he brought ON
load of dressed beef. I replied
that if the meat was of good quail.
ty, and arrived in good condition, I
would endeavor to sell it for him. When
the car reached here I sent my inspector
to the cattle yard, and he reported that the
meat was rotton. I informed Mr.. Congo
that the best thing he could do was to
have tho fat melted. He acted on my
advice, and the cargo was on its way to .
rendering establishment when it was
seized Mr.. Congo. bslieve, asserts the
beef decayed because it was not properly
chilled before being placed in the car"
DR.. Edward Jones, Of the health depart
ment, said "Putrid beef is unwholesome.
There are well.authenticated cases where
people in beleaguered cities ate meat that
was absolutely rotten and experienced no
ill effects, but medical experience teaches
that tainted meat is injurious. It does
not cause any specific disease, but acts on
different people in different ways"
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Live Stock Prices .

CHIcAGo-Hogs-Receip 900 head ship
ments. 200 head heavy grades lO@l5c lower
light tirlner mixed, s. GOQ5 35 heavy, IS SO
Is; light, IS S0dG ~: skips. s. GOlo5 Is.
Cattle-Kecefpts. 5000 head; shipments,
500 head; good TO choice grades steady ;
others slow; exports. s6 1895 S.; good to
choice Shipping, s 1896 co; common to me-
dium, 81 6O05 50.
Sheep-Receipts, 400 head; shipments, 900;
market dull and weak inferior 10 fair. S3 OO
03 Is; good, "a choice, 81 so.
EAST -Cattle-Receipts, 1885 head !;
market active on good and slow ON common !;
prime. 6G6 25 {; tair TO good. s. 25G5;5; COM
mon, 81 1895.
Hogs-Receipts, 1,s4O head; market slow !;
PLiladelphias, g Is; Workers, 81 1896 25.
Sneep-Receipts, 1000 head market firm !;
prime, IS ?5l5 50; far to good, "a 50@5 % i;
common, s. 5O04.
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WILD WINDS.
A Tornado Which Swept over New Yo
S1nfa

A Tornado Which Swept over New York
ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Aug. 3-The north
ern part of Monroe county, including the
towns of Greece, Penlield and IrOndequoit
was swept last night with a terrible
storm of wind, hail and rain. The grain
and especially the fruit wero badly dam
aged. Many farmers report losses OF from
$500 to 81, 900. Many grape vines were en-
tirely ruined. Tho hail killed birds and
fowls and brought blood from the horses
and stock The belt traversed by the
storm was two miles wide by ten or
tEelve miles long.
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OBITUARY.
Death OF q Former Lancastrian.

Death Of q FOrmer LancAstr1AD.
DIR. William McIIenegan, we'll known
citizen of Chambersburg. died yesterday
I!e was a native of lancaster and studied
dentistry with Dr. McCalla. He practiced
here for sGme time and left for Chambers.
burg about twenty years ago. For the
past fifteen years he has been engaged in
tho mercantile business. He was /,
nephew of Col. VIM B. FOrdney, and was
aged between 45 and so years. His wife
died some years ago and they had no
children.
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MARKE1S.
Philadelphia market.

PuL8O0Ipn10 M1fK0t.
PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 3-Flour firm.
Rye flour at IS 5O03 62.
Wheat tirmer; No. Western Red, 81 AZ
No. Pa: Rad. 81 l64; No. do 81 IL:
6I663c No. Mixed, 59G6Oc.
Oats drmer and quiet; No. l White, 1870
44c No. do. 42G42Lc; No. 3 do, 4l@0ilIc
No. Mixed, SOC.
Rye nominal at 63HG4c.
Seeds unchanged.
Provisions st; ady, good demand.
Lard quiet.
Butter steady, demand moderate.
Eggs scarce and weak.
Cheese steady.
Petroleum iull.
whisky Mt 81 10
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Assaulted for Not Voting for Him.

CINCINNATI, Aug. a-Wm. II. Kelley,
the newly elected member of the board of
health, was assaulted in his saloon last
night by the brothers, John j. and Peter
Kelly, and severely beaten because he 70
fused to vote for John X. Kelly, as super
intendent of the market. Some shots
we're exchanged, but policemen interfered
and arrested John ]. Kelly Peter Kelly
escaped.
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Three Children Drowned,

CHICAGO, Aug. 3.-Last night, while a
man named Besey was on his way to a
train in hack with his three children,
James, Josephine and Christine, aged re-
spectively 10, 12 and 1G years, tho horses
became frightened and plunged into the
river at the Polk street bridge, the draw
being open. The hackman and Besey
escaped. but the children, being cooped up
in the vehicle, were drowned. The horses
were also drowned.
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The AveDEer OF the Blood OF tho Early Peach
and Green Apple.

TIE AvenEer OF the BloodOf the Early Peach
and Green Apple.
The first cucumber, upon hearing of tho
vanquished forces at the forks of the road,
led by Burdette, buckled on his armor
and proceeded to the selfsame field of car
mage.
II am the great Abdul as is-as was,
and shall be forever more,'' he exclaimed,
" and the grave digger is my private sec.
retary. My chief butler bears with him
slippers made of tanned human hide, and
| employ the undertaken by the century,"
The little hero WHO had vanquished the
army was coming up the road on his way
home from stealing swim in an aban-
doned trickyard puddle, with his face
yellow with clay-his shirt wrong side out,
and holding up the newly made left
lapel of his breeches behind, that bad
been cut by knot on fence rail.
"Bismllah," uttered the cucumber, as
the boy appeared, as if to remind the lad
of the Early Peach he had SO easily routed.
81 don't have tOO," simpered the urchin,
and thinking Of tho luscious fruit he had
before encountered there, he picked it up,
and putting it into his mouth as far as q
Dutch musician does q clarionet. he shut
his trap upon it, and threw down the
fragment and sauntered on. He had just
firisaed the last of four dozen lies he told
his mother about not being in swimmin' :,
when the cucumber sounded the reveille,
and the lad doubled and sounded tho tocsin
Of war. The engagement lasted just three
hours, when the private secretary was
sent to attend to his duties at the Tewks
ourying ground. The cucumber had got
bis work in.
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around the wreck. The derailed cars were
loaded with lumber, bar iron. heavy tire.
&C., and six or eight hours were required
to clear away the wreck. No ono was
hurt by the accident.
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Gtace Church Goes TO Lititz.
Arrangements are being rapidly consum-
mated for q good time at Lititz on Wednesday,
August sth under the auspices of Grace
Evangelical Lutheran church. To know that
this people are going Is a sufficient guaranty
of thc pleasure in store for each and all.
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SOCIAL PIUNIO By THE LANUAsTER
"A Typographical Union; Ho 20 III ,1% Be held
1883, will leave hesdq uarters (4rand Army
Hall, N. E. corner Penn Square), at II O'Clock
and continue all afternoon fare for the
round trim, Is cents. Refreshments on the
ground. TaylOr's Ochestra. 1t
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Grand Army and X. of r. Excur

To Atlantic City and Philadelphia On Satur.
day, August IL. Round trip Tickets good for
three days. Through train leaves Lancaster,
(King street. Al 5ip, Columbia at $40, Landis-
vile at Cos A. I'D. Fare only $780, Leave Man.
helm at 90, Lit'tz at 6:3S and Ephrata at A.
IN. Fare only $3.50 Special train will return
same night
ulN3O&aue25S lOS2tW
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TLTANTED INN AEDIATELY-A GIKL TO
w do general housework and milk, on a
farm seven ~ miles east OF Lancaster; good
wages paid. Inquire.
HENRY BUTLER, Gron's Store.
Lancaster County, Pa.
Or at the INTKLLIoENCER Odica. a2lWd~