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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-10-05
Nonrt OF ofNomnnnpIc,a.
pEroRE JUDGE LIVINGSTON.

BEFONE JUDGE LIVINGSTON.
Henry W. Shcrbley, for the uso Of
Abraham Sherblcy VS.. David B. Myers,
action to recover sl3j.ls, for goods sold
and delivered TO Joseph Schlcgclmilich, u
coach maker of Mt. Joy township, for
which it is alleged the defendant agreed
to pay. The defense Is that Myers mover
in any way made himself liable for the
debt. II will DO remembered that the
case was tried in tho August court. After
the jury had been out for sometime, Philip
Miller, a juror was taken very sick, and for
that reason tho jury was discharged before
arriving at u verdict and the case now
comes up for another trial. On trial.
la tho case OF Henry \ Herr VS.. James
kccmcr the jury rendered verdict in
favor OF the plaintitl for 3l,0j3.75.
rule was granted on the Merchant
association to show cause why soldiers
liconSe should no. b. granted to Isaac
kaufman, ard this afternoon, as thcrO was
no opposition, tho rule was served.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-10-05
business, go far as progress in each separ-
ntn chamhar is cnncerncd.

business, so far as progress in each separ-
ate chamber Is concerned.
The ono thing for. the majority party Of
the House TO do Is to get together, and to
put all Its powers into force to keep to.
getber, that sufficient constitutional mum.
Der of it's members without which IL can
do no effective legislative work, aud then
to pass honest apportionmont bills fairly
dividing the state into legislative and
congressional districts as compact con
tiguous territory, and as equal as may
be in population and then to place the
work once more before the Senate. IN
less It does this, and does 1t promptly,
there is no justification and can be 40
justification for further continuance OF
the session. The absentees Of the House
aud the majority OF the House by their
tolerance Of and trihing with such absence
are placing the House in rs untenable a
position as tho Senate has put itself in.
Unless il is corrected, 1t will have to be
assumed that both the abseutees md the
Democratic majority desire to bring about
lust that result.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-10-05

EMPERoR WILLIAM is anxious to keep
his fingers in the Franco. Spanish pie, aud
he teegraphs to Alfonso his sympathy and
belief that the indiguitles OF the Partisan
mob were aimed more at himself than at
the Spanish king.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-10-05
THR VOICE ArrrMN-

There comes, from yonder height,
A soft repiDing sound,
where forest leaves are bright,
And iall, like fakes OF light,
To the ground.
ltit the autumn breeze,
That, lightly floating on,
Just skins the weedy leas,
Just sttrs the glo wing trees,
And is gone.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-10-05
LOST UHAHLEY MoUumAs.
Tho Death of tho Apache Ju Intorfsros wit
the HesDue

Advices from Deming, N. NJ, state that
Geo. w. Wilson and ID. Ii. Leroy, who
left there Sept. 10, TO get little Charley
McComas from the Indians, returned there
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-10-05
Pay Your Taxes

B. +. Nondersmith's store, No. 5 East
Orange street, is the place whclo you
must pay your taxes it you do not wish TO
lose Your vote.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-10-05


ONO is in q ferment of political activity
and nothing certain can be predicated of the
result next Tuesday. Republican expecta.
tions of q sweeping victory have given
place TO the hope of narrow majority,
and all are at sea as to the voting strength
OF the prohibition element. The Demo.
cracy need not Ohio for national success,
while to the Republicans tho capture of
the Buckeye state is all in all.
a MUNICIPAL laboratory established in
Paris for the purpose of aualyzing the
different wines Of the city dealers, shows
the extent to which tho adulteration of
French wines is carried. The proportion
o. a'aohol in these products il variable,
raj. ~ from 7 per cent. in volume to 81
per cunt., while the balance of the com
pound is made up of many acids,
ooloring matters and large percentage OF
water. What must bs the condition Of
the American wine product if the boasted
French wines are in this sad state of de
generacy
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-10-05
ARE your taxes paid?

DEMOCRATS should remember that If
hey wish to vote, to morrow is the last
day on which they can pay their taxes.
The experiment OF having county direc-
tories and histories written up by non
residents will problbly bs discontinued in
view OF the last two inglorious failures to
which the local public have ban treated.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-03
HOW WEBSTER WON A SECOND FEE.

Washington Correspondence Boston Trag-
6er
An anecdote of Daniel Webster was
told me the other day, which will bear re
peating Soon after Webster had started
out as lawyer, blacksmith called upon
him for advice concerning the title to a
small estate bequeathed to him. As the
terms of the will.were peculiar, and the
kind of estate transmitted doubtful, an
attempt was made to annul the will.
Webster carefully examined the case, but
found that he was unable to give an
opinion for the reason that he did not
have the proper legal authorities in his
possession.
He was very much interested in the
case, however, and at his own expense
purchased the necessary law books, and
in his leisure time studied, and came to
the conclusion that his client had the
right of the contest He argued the case
when it came to trial, and won it, charg-
ing the blacksmith $15 for his services.
Years aftcrward, when Webster,s name
was upon every lip. he was travelling
from Boston to Washington and stopped
over in New York city. Aaron Burr was
at that time engaged in arguing a very
important case before the state court, and
he sought Webster's opinion. Webster
heard the facts, and upon being asked if
he could mention the law applicable to
the case, Instantly replied that he could,
and then began to quote decisions bear
ing upon 1t from the time of Charles IL
Burr was amazed, and said: Mr.. Web
ster have you been before consulted in
this case?" Most certainly not, he re-
piled. II never heard of your case until
this evening" Very well, said Mr..
Burr proceed" Webster concluded his
quotation Of authorities, and received
from Burr handsome fee The secret
of Webster's knowledge of the law apph
cable to Burr's case, was that precisely
the same principle was involved as in the
blacksmith's case of many years before,
for which he received but SIS.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-03
CANADA AND IRISH EMIoRAsrs

Canada has long had a grievance in the
preference of emigrants for the United
States and che has repeatedly tried to
turn the tide which flows to Castle Gar
den toward her own door, She has re-
preached England for failing to send
departing inhabitants to augment her
population, yet almost without avail.
But the Irish emigration scheme gives her
an opportunity which she ought to en-
brace with JOY. Let the British govern
ncnt assist Irish paupers to reach the st.
Lawrence. rather than Castle Garden
The Canadian Pacific Railway company
has offered 100 acres of land under the
homestead law to each of 5 900 families
to be sent from Ireland by the govern
ment, and II is understood in England
that the proposition to send $4,000 Irish
men to the northwest of Canada with
sufficient funds to enable them to estab-
lish themselves as farmers, receiving their
land free, under the homestead law, is
regarded with governmental favor I'm
doubtedly 1t will be great benfit to all
the poor of Ireland who accept the offer,
and Canada win be gratified by the add
ton to her 4, 1924, $40 population
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-03

The Philadelphia Times moraIizes on
the fate of the managers of the Republi-
can presidential campaign in Indiana.
1t recognizes the hand of retribution in
the fortunes which have pursued this ex-
ceptional band of patriots;
t1Il-luck appears to attend the outsiders
who were prominent in the management
of the Indiana campaign in 1880. Dor
sey's troubles are well known Brady,
who, though a nominal resident of the
state, was really as much of an outsider as
any then, has also had his share of griev-
ances in connection with the ex-senator
from Arkansas. Gorham and Filley have
not been indicted or tried but they have
made themselves so thoroughly ridiculous
that they are the laughing stock of the
country. This is worst of ALL as the prac-
tical politician would rather be thought
knave than fool at any time Among
these importations was one s. Fl. Russell,
of Texas, then United States marshal for
one of the districts of that state He was
ruthlessly indicted a few months ago for
embezzlement, just as any other man
without political claims would have been
if short in his accounts. Strangest of all,
he was convicted in the face sof the fact
that he had been the Republican candi-
date for congress in one of the hopeless
Democratic districts of that state and has
just been sentenced to two years impris-
onment in an Illinois penitentiary
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-03
3 Bride of Death.

SCRANTON, Pa, May flames Nc
Grath and wife, of Forest City, village in the
woods on the line of the Delaware 4 Hudson
railroad, near Carbondalo, came to Scranton,
Saturday night, on their wedding trip, am.
stopped at the Scranton house Yesterday
morning, at O'Clock, a servant was passing
their bedroom door, she detected a strong
smell of gas, and informed the clerk at tho
Office. 1t was found that the gas was turned
of in all the other rooms, and after making
sure that it was escaping in the
room occupied by the young couple,
an effort was made to rouse them by
knocking loudly on their door There was no
response from within, and the clerk, on locking
into the room through the transofn, saw Me
Grath on the floor, face downward He was
wholly unconscious. The door was forced
open and medical aid promptly summoned.
Mrs. McGrath vas lying in bed, her hands
folded across hef breast She 7wasaas rigid as
a corpse. McGrath was not quite so bad His
position when discovered, showed that he
realized, even Ia his stupor, something of the
and was on his way to turn OFF the
gas when he fell helpless ON the floor. The
doctors said they thought there was a chance
of saving his life. Mrs. Mc(frath was uncon-
scious at a late hour tonight, and cannot re
cover
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-03

WASHINGTON, May 2.-jSenator Har-
rison, of Indiana, has recommended the. APP
pointment of his Law partner, Judge Hines Of
: indianapolis for the United States district
judSeship made vacant by the resignation of
Judge Gresham The president, it is under
stood, does not wish to appoint Mr.. Hines, nor
does John G. New want Mr. Hines to have the
place, and there are premonitions of small
storm among the Republicans of the Hoosier
state over the matter. At the White House 1t
is said that MIR. Harrison has been urged to
name some~ether candidate than his law part
ner, but thus far he has refused to dc So
President Arthur as rule, has always been
guided in making Indiana appointments by the
heiis now anxious to receives inspiration from
another source, unless the senator viii give his
Rennblican opponents In Indiana O chance.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-03
FORETFLLING TORNADOEs.

The New York Herald advances the
opinion that the approach. of tornadoes
may be known at long enough before
their arrival to allow the people to
make some preparation to escape their
fury. 1t AYERS that extended observa-
ton indicates that these storms generally
form in or near the southwestern quad
rant of deep barometric depressioEs, when
the warm, moist gulf currents are brought
in contact with relatively cold, dry cur
rents from the northwest" In this
respect it is noted that the barometric
depression which presages the breaking
of such winds on the earth was present
In the southern states previous to the
disasters in Mississippi having moved in
that direction from the base of the Rocky
mountains in Colorado. The other threat
ening phenomenon, in addition to baremet-
ric depression, is cold current, ana this
is reported to have descended upon West
Point some three and a half hours before
the cyclone struck Beauregard. The
practical part of our New York contem-
porary's speculations, if, indeed, they are
based on data sufficiently ascertained to
be regarded as having practical value, is
thus stated
1T is obvious, therefore, that with the
barometic conditions known to be then
existing in the south, telegraphic warn
ings might have been sent by local OBJ
servers at any points where the north
west gale was felt III time to put exposed
towns on their guard against the desolat-
ing meteor. In such cases, as we recently
pointed out, local weather kilograms may
often be the means of forewarning i'm
perilled districts, and on the approach of
a tornado a single half hours forewarning
may often be the means of saving many
valuable lives. 1t is to be hoped that the
states lying in and north of the Ohio and
lower Missouri valleys, especially those
which have already state weather services,
will lose no time in arranging a system of
tornado telegraph warnings in anticipa
ton of the dangers to which they may be
increasingly exposed from these frigbtful
tempests,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-03
NunscspaI elections in Indiana.

INDIANAPoLIs, Ind, May 2.-Muni-
cipal elections were held in the following cities
of this state yesterday, with results as follows
Vincennes-Th entire Democratic ticket was
elected for the first time in several years
Delphi-Tho Democratic ticket was elected
by handsome majority.
Greencastle-The Democrats claim the entire
ticket by 225 majority.
Greenfeld-The whole Republican ticket is
re elected by increased majorities.
Logansport-The Democrats elected the
mayor, treasurer, clerk, marshal, and four out
of the five councilmen-a gain of the marshal
aud one councilman.
Terre Haute-The Republicans elected all
their ticket except clerk The city went Dem
ocratic last November by 800 majority. The
council is Democratic.
Muneie-fhe Independent ticket WAS elected
The canvass made on local issues.
Kokomo-The Democrats elect the mayor
and marshal; the Republicans elect the other
officers
Madison-The Democrats elect the treasurer,
marshal assessor, and four of the six council
men. The council will DO a tie, with n
Republican mayor to cast the deciding vote.
for mayor and clerk were elected The Demo
Gratis elect the treasurer, marshal and two
councilmen, and the Independents one.
COlnmbus-The entire Democratic ticket
elected
Richmond-The Republicans elect the mayor
and marshal and seven oeunclimen; the Demo
Gratis elected three counci1men.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-03
The News in Brief.

Emperor William has returned to
Berlin, and is in good health.
DR.. Henry Bachus, pioneer educator
of idiots, died suddenly at Syracuse, N Y
The Montreal city government has
decided against permitting female tax payers
/ TO vote.
An injunction has been granted
against removing the big organ in the Music
/ Hall, Boston.
| The suit for absolute divorce brought
by Mrs Dion Boucicault, at New York, has
boon discontinued
At Trenton, Mich, M, S. Smith
| 100000 steam yacht. the Sigma, has been sue
| cessfully launched.
Hailstorms in East Feleciana and East
Baton Rouge parishes La, greatly injur ID
| early corn, fruit and cotton.
The woods at Mansfield, Mass, are
burning and 20o.men are fighting the flames
Many residences are IN danger
The first annual commencement OF
the woman's Medical college, of Baltimore. has
been held There were seventeen matriculates.
Constable Sleeves illegally seized Il
horse at Moncton, n B., and upon constable
Dryden attempting his arrest he (Steeves) shot
him dead.
Owners of steamships will meet in
London ON the 10th of May to take preparatory
steps for cutting another canal across the
lsthmus of Suez-
John Bowen died at Wauwatosa, Wis
In early times he trapped with Dayy Crockett
and other pioneers, and penetrated the Black
Hills region in 1870.
The schedules OF Isaac Sippili, the
New York merchant recently arrested for swim
ding show liabilities amounting to s226 so
will nf
E. P. Allis & Co., of Milwaukee, have
secured an award of damages against all the
mill-owners of Oshkosh, Wis, for an infringe
menI on their patent 4saw-miIl dogs"
Hattie Thornton, aged twelve, has
been arrested at Boston for making several at
tesnpts to burn the Hotel Glcndon. Her ex-
euse was that she liked to see the blaze.
The Orangemen of lower Canada in
tend to form new political party, whose
platform will include no separate schools and
abolition on the use of French IN parhaTncnt
The league base ball season has
opened, the contests so far resulting: Chicago,
idence, 4; Philadelphia, ) Cleveland, Z; Buff
falo,
The trustees of the Brooklyn bridge
have been formally requested by the New
York aldermen TO open it on Decoration day.
and not on the oath inst, Queen Yictoria's
birthday.
The Western Union company has
been granted permission to bury their wires
in New York city, paying cent per iineaI foot
for each street opeAed, and giving the CITY the
use of two wires
Mrs Mary Z. Jones left Paw Paw.
Mich, on her walk to San Francisco. where
she expects to arrive Sept L She viii lecture
on the way, and undertakes the tramp to show
what woman can do
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-03
THE CTaAR-MAKERs


CLEVELAND, o., May 2.-The thif-
annual meeting of the stockholders of the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern railway was .held
to-day. The following directors were elected
William II, Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt
William K Vanderbilt, Augustus Schall
Samuel r. Barger, John L BIrrrel, Darius O.
Mills, Edward d. Worcester, of New York
John Newell. OF Cleveland; VIM. l. Scott and
Charles NJ. Reed, of Erie: Rossellas Brown, of
.Warrens and J. III. Wade, of Cleveland.
President Yanderbilt's report shows the total
earnings SIS, 20, 600; an increase of $250, 900;
net earnings, 81, 100, 600; increase per cent. !;
dividend paid, per cent Operating
expenses, COZ per cent, a decrease of 2 per
cent The first mortgage debt was
reduced $3.50, 600, leaving 1t So, 600, :
coo. The second mortgage debt. in
creased from s14, 665, 900 to $21, 1872 600: by
the exchange of 81, 52i 600; second mortgage
for lac, 500 shares preferred and 124, 500 shares
common stock of Nickel Plate--a controlling
interest This involves an increase of S45G. $50
IN annual fixed charges The total funded
debt is S43, 1s2 900; increase ST, 277, 600 -
The directors met after the vote was declared
and re elected all the officers of last wear
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-03
The New YORK stocfl s.araset.

NEW YORK, May .2.-The Sun says
@There is no stock market at all here; as to
the daily trading, it is all a humbug About
Ii. goo shares Is fair average days transac-
TONS and three-quarters of that amount are
wash sales engineered by the eIiques which
are loaded with stocks, and consequently
bound to keep up the quotation of tho tape. The
process does not give them the slightest
chance to unload any of their holdings, and
costs them great deal of money
paid ont in commissions; but 1t
prevents the increase of a. feeling
of uneasines SO among the outside holders, and
consequent heavy sales if long stock. 1t keeps
also the bear element in subsection, and by
constantly squeezing them for one or two
poi:.ts every time they begin TO sell too freely
fedaoes the short interest The ultimate re-
suis. however, is that the whole business is
Transformed into petty board room trading
and that after a weeks transactions the con
tenGtng parties very much in the same
position of two jail birds confined in the same
cell, and INDUCING all the time in game of
seven-up The outsiders are not coming for
ward, and the few that drop in once in awhile
come to sell, not to buy"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-03

The highest railroad bridge in The world
is said to be the railway viaduct oil Cara :
bit, in France, now being erected over Il
river in the department OF Cantai The
bridge has a total length of about 1850
feet and neer the middle OF the great
centre arch, which is one of the notewor-
thy features of the structure, the height
from the bed of the river to the rail IS 4l3
feet. The viaduct was commenced in
1881. and is to be completed next year.
The cost is estimated at about 5000, 600.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-03

the quarter from which the British govern
ment obtains its information, nor how much Of
tits bought If ex-Consul General Archibald
ever writes his memoirs the chapters devoted
to the Fenian excitement win be more inter-
esting than those dealing with our civil war.
When the Irish republic. had its head
quarters up at the IIoffat mansion
there used to be a veritable foot
race down Broadway whenever anything of
importance happened or was heard of to see
who eouldsen the news first, and finds were
so plentiful in those days that there was no
great necessity for selling secrets In 1866 there
not q package OF arms shipped to the
front tire marks and description of which were
not recorded IN the British consulate before
the truck had reached the freight depot In
the British eonsulate-aye, in the militia de-
partment at Ottawa, also, for Mr.. Archibald
sent John A. Macdonald a cipher dispatch
daily ON the subject very simple cipher
too it was--one letter OF the alphabet
being substituted for another and always for
.the same. was telegraphing then and found
the key in half an hour, After that informing
didn't pay very well, and the informers here
used to deal directly with the Canadian govern
ment In 1870 one of thu invaders under
ONelll-a prominent man, too-went to Ottawa
and collected his allowance from the govern
ment which was nominally thirsting for his
blood before he returned from tho frontier to
New York. By that time the market was
spoAed The Canadian FenIans had taken TO
selling information, and being on the spot and
selling it cheap there was no chance for an
honest New Yorker; and afterwards when it
was discovered that the American govern
ment would enforce the neutrality laws, and
the Canadian government no longer cared to
encourage Fenian raid in order to keep up
the expenditure the volunteer force, the
bENiness went to the bad entirely Since 1877
it was revived, and within the last year it has
been very brisk OF two things you can be
sure There is not important club ill New
York of the real dangerous sort which has not
had spy in its membership from the day
bowling .dynamiters the kind of dynamite they
ship to England goes by mail and blows up
their own credulons agents. Still green has
long boon the national color of Ireland"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-03
Westward Emigration.

The number of acres of public lands
disposed of by the General Government
for cash during the year 1882 was very
near IA 100000, while the number sold in
1877 was less than 3,500,OOO Here is
more than a four-fold increase in five
years. The number of acres sold last
year were nearly double. the number sold
In the booming year of 1872 The return
tide of Western emigration is marked by
several important changes, which are VS.
IDLE In the following exhibit of the num-
Der of acres sold by the Government for
for Cash in the four leading Quarters.