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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-27
PERSO ONAL..

SENATOR CAMERON denies that he will
resign and make place for Democrat.
Gov. CLEVELAND gives renewed evi.
dence of his good sense by taking fre
quent counsel from Horatio Seymour.
PHOEBE CoUzz1Ns, lecturer, has begun to
correct ''certain mistaken notions about
Eve" It is high time somebody was
doing it.
JUDGE BLACK will argue for the freight
discrimination bill before the judiciary
general committee of the state Senate On
Wednesday evening.
BEN BUTLER writes to st. Louis paper
that he did not steal pair of horses in
New Orleans, nor ship to Boston coffin
filled with silverware Evidently B. F. is
becoming sensitive to his good repute.
Rev. J. r. BOYLE, late of tho Duke
street NJ. E. church, this city, is booked
for Grace church, Wilmington, Del, and
Rev. w. G. Robinson, it is said, will be
transferred hence to the Twelfth street
church, Philadelphia.
WYCKHAM HOFFMAN to be minister to
Denmark s. q. w. Benjamin, ministe,
to Persia /; Lucius II. Foote, minister to
Corea, and Twight Il. Reed, secretary of
legation and consul general at Madrid
are among the latest presidential nOmina-
lions.
Ex SENATOR WILLIAM SHARoN's sister
| attempted suicide in bath room of the
| Palace hotel, San Francisco, by cutting
herself in the breast with a pen-knife. Tht
smallness of the weapon prevented decI
| wounds, but cuts were SO numerous anc
! the loss of blood 50 great that the lady il
in a precariOus condition. The act is at
tributed to insanity. A great effort i!
being made to hush up the affair.
Miss MARY DANIELS, who presented ;
claim for $4,000 damages against the
New York Central and Hudson Rive
railroad for injuries received in the Spuy
den Duyvil disaster, year ago, has set
tied for $29, 600, the largest sum ever paiG
| by the company for personal injuries. A.
| B. Valentine, of Bennington, VT, received
So, 900 for the death Of his son and So, OO(
for the death of the latter's young BRIDE
both killed in the same disaster.
DR.. GLENN, murdered lately in Califor
MIA by discharged hireling, was a maj
of wonderful physique and bodily strength
as Wei, as of business enterprise. He pait
out in wages as high as 5000, ,OOOin singl,
year. In addition to this he owned ;
10000 acre ranch in Oregon, stocked with
80, 600 head of cattle, neither land nor cattle
| of which he had ever seen. He also owneG
a large cattle range in Nevada. Though
given to large and bold operations he
never lost his balance. Losses never dis
turbed him nor great profits elated him
Last summer his finest wheat field tool
fire and 100000 crop was destroyed
in two hours, but Mrs. Glenn said her
husband slept sounder that night thar
she had known him to sleep for months
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-27
COLUMBIA NDstt1t.



ThaD afe two plans agitated for the
oonfxcl It the waters Of the Mississippi
ono, theif confinement within levees, as
b tho existing practice, and the other
tie opening up Of additional channels
Tor the waters by connecting the river
along its course with other water courses
leading to the Gulf of Mexico. The
levee plan has 80 steadily failed of its
object that one would think that it at
lsast had sufficiently demonstrated its
inadequacy to the occasion. Yet the
United States are now expending
millions Of dollars upon further
tes1 Of this system. Mattresses
Of wire filed with brush have
bsen placed along the banks for their
protection in certain places as part of the
plan, and these mattresses for some days
pagt have covered the turbid bosom of
the river as they float upon it down to
The gulf. The high water has disengaged
them from the banks of the stream. 1t
osems to be q hopeless task to essay to
conlne the Mississippi waters within its
soft mud banks. The floods will come
and wash them away. Annually acres
OF land fall into the stream. We have
been reading lately of coffins found
1oating in the river that had been
washed out of a graveyard on its bank
that was half a mile away from it when
It was laid out a number of years ago.
The effect of the levee system, it is
said, is to steadily raise the bottom of
the river I; and that would seem to be
the natural result. An adequate i'm
provement of the river would be to
lower its bed 80 that in an ordinary stage
OF water at least, the surface of the river
would be below that of the land. Then
IL it is practicable to utilize side chan
nels to the gulf in times of flood, it would
seem to be the thing needed for the relief
of the great river.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-27

MRS. MARSHALL JEWELL, widow of the
late Ex-Governor Jewell, of Connecticut,
died in New York city yesterday, of heart
disease, at the residence of her son. in-law,
Mr.. Arthur M. Dodge, who has thus in
few weeks lost father, father-in law and
mother-in Flaw. Mrs. Jewell was pros.
trated by her husbands recent death
and has been constantly ill since.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-27
Telegrams for the Police.

This morning dispatch was received
from Philadelphia, stating that Frederick
Hilleg left his home in that city, on Sat
urday last. He is five feet three inches
tall, aged Is years, wore dark clothing,
and his friends want to hear of him.
Abraham Hooper telegraphs from West
Chester that he had six year old brown
mare stolen from him last night, and for
the recovery of the animal he offers re-
ward of $50. A description of the mare
can be seen at the ma yor's Office.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-27
Heavy Toll.

hearing yesterday before Alderman Sam
son for driving on the Mannheim pike and
refusing to pay toll. By skipping around
the gate he saved three cents, but the fine
and costs imposed on him by Alderman
Samson amounted to $7.91.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-27
The X. OF p. Fair.

The ladies' fair of X. of P. was we'll
attended last night. Music was furnished
by Knights orchestra. The following
articles were chanced or voted off Sewing
machine, won by Rosie WestwOod clock,
Mrs. George W. Fry; silver watch, Joshua
Swords large cake, Mrs. George Anne !;
pair of horses, Miss Maize Fisher large
doll, Philip Borngesser necklace and
bracelets, Miss Jennie Vogle large doll,
Little Ida Huber. The fair will close to-
night and number of other articles will
be CHANGED off.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-27
A Large EGG.

Mr.. Henry H. Pof, of MouDtville, has
an egg which measures 6x8 inches, and
weighs 81 ounces. The egg was laid by
one of his chickens, which 10 Of but .
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-27
What Answer =!

Our esteemed and intelligent friend,
County Commissioner Robert Mont.
gomery, argues without an opponent in
his structures upon the action of his sue
cessors in Office in levying three mill
tax for the coming year, when two
mill tax would have provided ample
revenue to pay all the expenses of ad-
ministering the county affairs and left a
sufficient balance on hand by April l,
1884, to pay as much of the county debt,
payable then at the cOunty's OPP
tion, as it is necessary or proper
to pay in single year. AS MIR.
Montgomery suggests, while the
county can borrow money easily at four
per cent, it is not right to make an un-
due levy on the taxpayers, many of
whom have to pay 6 per cent. for the
capital invested in their business, while
their tax is collected for part of it to
lie idle in the county treasury or to be
used by the banks favored with its de-
posits for from six to twenty four
months. Mr.. Montgomery also clearly
demonstrates that the times are not at
III favorable for an excessive tax levy.
But, as we have said, he repeats what no
one ventures to gainsay. The answer of
the commissioners to the criticism upon
their course exposes its own absurdity
and Mr.. Sunny is not their oracle !"
when he maintains that it is good house.
keeping to collect tax in 1882 to pay a
debt in 1884. Commissioner Hide
brant, at least, does not agree
with his colleagues in defending
the excessive rate of tax, and, in the line
of Mr.. Montgomery's suggestions about
the reduction of expenses, he has pre-
vailed in his purposes to reduce the item
of printing. But if the commissioners will
apply themselves for eight hours a day
to the task they will discover other di-
rections in which they can economize
than in reducing the cost of making the
public acquainted with where their
money goes. For instance, the tipstaves.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-27

SOME of the PhiladeIphia journals
are berating lawyer to whom the cosFt
referred the question as to whether the
Saturday Night presses, which run at
night in locality of residences in Phila-
delphia are a nuisance. The neigbbors
complained that the noise disturbed
their rest. The referee took testimony
and reported that the complaint was
just. There is nothing to get excited
about in that. Everyone knows that
newspaper presses cannot run at night
in neighborhoOd devoted to residences,
without being nuisance. They should
not be permitted to run there. They
should be operated where people
generally do their business and where
they do not generally sleep. Peo.
pie who take their business into localities
where other people reside, are properly
required to conduct it with prime regard
to the comfort of those upon whom they
intrude. There should, in fact, be a
law prohibiting such intrusion, as com
mon decency does not suffice to prevent
it. What greater outrage could have
been committed for instance on patient
people than was perpetuated when that
wretched cotton mill was thrust upon
North Duke street And that is not an
isolated case in this city of nuisances.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-27

onl5 = - - q - pazsnas v61s tnss
20 pay tribetp 20 H. fknily virtuee whfeh
had illussxatsd Peansylvania's best oit-
zenahip and they who knew him = N
ardent participant In political Affairs were
there, friends and opponents minGling their
sorrow, for they who praised his intrepid
enthusiasm and unstinted liberality could
buast a. we'll that he never struck ut the
back OF the foe. The rich were there for
be was of them ; and the poor because he
never forgot them the old because he had
reverence for his seniors and the JOung
for he never lost the compani0nship of q
genial sunny nature strong men bad seen
his hand ON the throttle of the locomotive
and gentle women had experienced his
chivalrous courtesy.
Broken columns of flowers, unstrung
harps, anchors of hope, crosses laid down,
waiting gates sjar, ships setting sail for
unknown seas, and pillows of peace in
endless prOfusiOn stood all around the
catafalque. The solemn voice of the
clergy, of whose church he had been a
patron of rare generosity, read the ritual
sweet singers chanted through the cham
bers of thronged yet empty house the
dirge Of death and the hopeful notes Of
the resurrection promises. And then, all
too sadly, the long procession took its way
out from the house that he made home fOl
all his friends, out from the town he had
built, leaving behind his great unfinished
plans, to lay him low in that narrow in.
heritancs of Gods acre, which is all that
mans mortality can in tho end lay claim
to.
Between the mountains and the rivers,
along which for generations to come shall
echo and re-echo the notes of those great
industries which the elder Packer founded
and theyounger developed and perpetuated
is his grave but tho prOudest monument
to his memory will be the Interchangeable
place he will hold in the hearts of those
who knew him but to love him.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-27
Carter On Creamories.

John I. Carter will lecture on "Cream.
cries at the meeting OF the Agricultural
society, Monday, March 5th, at 2 p. m.
The former notice was given m0nth too
soon.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-27

A STATUE of Fulton, made by Penn
sylvania sculptor, paid for by the state
and to be put into the national gallery in
one of the two inches assigned to Penn
sylvania for the commemoration of her
great men, has been set up in the capitol
ct Washington, though for some unex-
,plained reason there has been lack of
the Seremony of formal presentation
which. ne believe, has been the rule in
these cases. and which was improved,
when Maine presented the figure of
william Kipg, BY Blaine, to sorely rasp
Massachusetts, to her own discredjt and
the; discontinue of her senator's. The
achievements of our FTlto9 We're of such
. peaceful character that the eloquent
Cameron and the aggressive Mitchell
need not have feared to provoke COLI
sion in setting forth his merits, though
there are not groundless claims on the
part of New York to the citizenship of
Fulton in that state. Seeing that such
resolute effort has been made to rob
Pennsylvania of Fulton, and to deprive
Fulton of the laurels of his invention,
one or the other of our senators might
find voice to vindicate the fitness of the
selection and to praise the excellence of
the artists work i'm formally making pre-
sentation to the guardianship of the fed.
0ral government of Pennsylvania first
contribution to the national hall of stat
nary.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-27

Gov. PATTIsON has given fresh proof
of his purpose to carry into state affairs
the methods of close scrutiny and inflex-
ible administration of the law which
distinguished his conduct as city con-
troller. Heretofore it has been the custom
with institutions getting appropriations
from the state to be given them regard
less of the provision that the appropria'
tion is to be paid in quarterly instalments
upon condition that sworn statement
of the expenditures and earnings of the
institution for the preceding quarter is
furnished to and approved by the auditor
general and the state treasurer. AS a
consequence of allowing them to draw
and spend their money untimely, other
loose methods have come to prevail
which the governor brings UP on a short
turn by announcing that hereafter the
legal requirements must be complied
with.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-27

MARTIN LUTHER is to have a colossal
bronze statue set up to his memory in
Washington. He will be quite figure
among the modern men .of-war who adorn
the squares of that wicked city.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-27

The House at Harrisburg got tired
having the bill to repeal the recorders
Office slumber in committee and called it
out last night by decisive vote. Brosius
and Spader Of this county voted like little
men to let it where it was.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-01-10
TOugl, Place.

A feeling Of insecurity and apprehen.
sion of personal violence pervades this
community. Crime was never SO pre-
valent and violent in Chicago as it is at
the present time. No one who reads
the current local news can pass along
our streets in the evening without a
sense Of danger. This is not because
extraordinary prominence is given to
the cases which occur, but solely
because such occurrences are OF unpre-
cedented frequency. All over this city
crime is rampant. Within stones
throw almost of so respectable part oil
this city as Wabash avenue and Twenty.
second street, four cases of smuggling
occurred during period Of less than a
week, and at least eight cases within a
comparatively short time. To such a
pass have affairs come that the mayor
himself carries an open knife about his
perso0, according to his own confession.
That an American city OF at least 60O,-
900 inhabitants should be thus infested
with criminals is burning shame to
our city, Chicago Inter-. Ocean.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-01-10

"Base.Dalls are like human beings
you never know what's in them unit
you cut them open," said an old time
second baser, as he placed one of his
professional league balls before crcu
lar saw, aud after some little trouble
halved it. "Thero! What do you
think of that? A great deal of science
and hard work is required in the MANU-
facture Of balls. For instance, the
ball known as "professional," adopted
last week by the American and the
Interstate associations, is patented. In
the center is round piece OF the best
Para gum. Then there is the best stock
ing yarn. This is stretched first by ma
chinery to its utmost tension. Then it
is wound 10y hand so tight that, as you
see, it resembles one solid piece of ma
terial The winding is done by sin
gle strands at time. This makes it
more compact. A round OF white yarn
is now put in, aud the whole covered
with rubber plastic cement When
this becomes hard it preserves the
spherical shape of tho ball, and prevents
the inside from shifting when the ball is
struck.
"You have seen scme balls knocked
egg shaped the first blow they are
struck. Well, with this cement cover
ing that is impossible Then comes
more yarn, and finally the cover. The
covering for all the good balls is made
of horsehide. Long experience has
shown this to be the best. Cow or goat
skin will become wrinkled and wear
loose. Why, there is as much change
in the making OF base balls in the last
ten years as there is in the game itself.
The sewing on of the covers is done
by hand, and the thread used is catgut,"
No one man makes bali complete.
One person becomes proficient in the
first winding, then some one else takes
it another will fit the cover, but there
are very few Of the workmen who be-
come proficient in the art of sewing the
cover. A dozen men in the course of q
day will turn out about twenty-five
dozen first class balls, and as rule they
mako good wages. Some Manufacture
ers pat carpet list in the balls, hut This
can easily be detected when the batting
begins, because the ball soon loses its
shape. OF course, for the cheap balls,
such as the boys begin with, not so
much care is exercised in the manufac
ture. They are made in cups, which
revolvo by fast-moving machinery. The
insidcs are made up of scraps OF leather
and rubber, and then carpet listing is
wound around the ball. 1t takes man
about ten minutes to turn one of these
out complete.
1t is calculated that about 100000
base-balls are made each year, and these
are not eXtravagant figures when it is
considered that upon every vacant lot in
the large cities and upon every village
green in the country there are crowds of
men and boys banging away at a ball
whenever the weather permits. And
yet PEOPLE shy the national game is dy-
ing out.-Philaaelphia Record.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-01-10

"About the pet superstitions of in
dividuals in the theatrical profession"
says manager, "there is no end to them.
George G. Boniface has horror of bar.
rels, especially empty ones; and if he
sees a wagon load OF them in the street,
is confident of coming misfortune. But
he has counter, balancing comfort in
the possession of caul, which he al
ways carries with him, believing that it
shields him from violent death. John
Mccullough always goes to the theater
by the same road he has taken the first
time. 1t him get as far as the theater
door, and suddenly remember that some.
thing has tempted him out of the &C.
customed way, and he will go clear
back to his hotel, take q fresh start, and
follow the accustomed route. Nothing
short of avoiding instant death would
induce Harry Courtain to walk under
q ladder. Sarah Bernhardt, when in
this country, manifested q positive
dread and horror of the color yellow,
and, indeed, that is shared, to some ex.
tent, at least, by a good many people on
the stage. Among the variety perform,
ers that color has deep significance
that carries with it more rage than fear,
A ham .fattor' is pretty low down in the
profession, but a yellow is several
grades beneath him, and to call a variety
performer that, or present him some
thing bearing that, stirs all the bile he
has. Charlotte Champion had an abid-
ing faith that disaster was certain if
ever the curtain, having started on its
ascent, was allowed to return to the
floor instead OF going up, and would
insist, whether all was ready to ring up
or not, that, orce moved, it should rise,
even if the empty stage had to wait.
James Stark, an old California manager,
in the days when most OF the theatrical
travel out there was done by wagons,
used to believe that if the wagon in
which the company rode was used for
any other purpose than carrying them,
bad luck would strike the box office
like tornado. Clara Morris considers
herself fortunate if she finds an odd
number of nails lying about the stage
at rehearsal, and if the number found
is even, knows she is going to be sick
before the end of her engagement.
Generally now she seems to find even
numbers. Emeralds are regarded as
very lucky stones, but very few profes.
SIGNALS will tempt fate by wearing that
most beautiful and most unlucky Of
stones, the opal. I'm not at all super
stitious myself, but I'd regard the man
as an enemy of mine who would offel
me an opal"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-01-10

Diamonds should not be washed with
soap and water. Some interesting ex-
periments have lately been made at the
Paris academy of sciences that show that
The washing may be attended with I'M
pleasant results. An experienced mer-
chant had bought fine white diamond
for $4,000. He washed it we'll one morn
ing, and was filled with CONSERVATION on
finding that it had turned yellow, which
which sent its value d wn to $500. The
matter was brought to the attention OF
the academy, and experts submitted a
report which showed that diamond
whitening is fraud easy to accomplish
and as easy to detect. BY plunging a
yellow diamond into an aniline violet
dye it becomes white while at the same
time, it loses neither its transparency
nor its brilliancy. In fact, on making
the experiment, the experts had, in a
few minutes, transformed several yellow
stones into what appeared magnificent
Whine stones of fivefold value. Take q
yellow DIAMOND, dip it even into no
stronger dye than violet ink, wash il
with water to remove any discoloratiou,
and the effect is immediate. The dried
diamond remains white. But, on the
other hand, the illusion is of short
duration. Rub the stone even lightly,
and the yellow tint is seen coming back
again, and little fu. ther attritior
restores the pristine hue completely
Any ono wishing to try these expert
menta may find something Of advantage
to the jewellers.