Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-20
HERE AND THERE.

HENE AND HERE,
There were three accidents on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad ON Thursday--all caused, it is
said, by the sudden cold snap Two broken
| rails and the fracture of a locomotive wheel
| flangc, awakened the attention of passengers
| to the perils they suffer from the exposure of
metallic railroad equipment To sudden
! changes of the weather
S%z
The new asphaltum pavement laid around
| the public buildings in Philadelphia, when il
| got the first covering of snow on it presented
q surface so slippery that the smoothly-shod
horses Of the street cars found il impossible
to get along, They fell at almost every step
! and as many rs u dozen cars blocked the line
! at a time. Ii was hours before the difficulty
was obviated and the usual ten trips daily
| each way of the ears were reduced on Thurs
| day to nine. The route of these cars, which
are expected to traverse the distance twenty
! times day, is from the ferry To Forty-iirst
| street
There are critics aud critics At one of the
! crowded popular receptions to Henry Irving
| in Philadelphia the other night, q cranky old
man said bluntly to him " l took my family
10 see You in Hamlet You can't play
| HdWErt a id bit John Stewart, lawyer
! and politician, who is an ardent Shak-
| Spcraean student and critical patron of the
| drama, praises lrving's Hamlet TO the eX-
| tremc and ex-senator Charles II. Buckalew
| speaks in lavish praise Of Ellen Terry's ac-
| complishments.
Ten or twelve years ago Irving was known
| only as comedian. \ gentleman who paid
| two shillings to see him when he was the
! rage OF London six years ago tells me that
| his support there was immCasurahlv better
| and the magnitude and oXactness of his stage
| appointments in London far exceeded the
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the people who see him here pay $3.50 for the
| privilege.
one of the most accomplished journalists
| of the country recently made this ohserva-
ton: II don't see how the New Orleans
show can be very successful affair. | was
down there few weeks ago and was sur
priSed 10 find ON what scale the scheme has
been laid out Tho preparations were as il
for the Philadelphia Centennial. New Or
leans is a thousand miles from prosperity and
dense population, the centre of poor coun-
try. and l don't see where the people are
coming from TO keep their turnstiles busy"
! Nevertheless the management has gone to
work with a good deal of grit and deserves
success. Some Of the PENNSYLVANIA editors
are talking about deviSing an excursion to 90
down the last two weeks of January. Why
they 90 not propose to wait for Mardi Gras l
have not yet learned.
| III u rOnlbfeu lilll Lllt lIlkalellni1 tHTDH-
iric-HeruId has at length concluded upon a
plGn to make n journalistic sensation and
attract 10 itself the attention which has thus
far failed it. Wharton Barker, its owner,
proposes to writ up what he knows Of the
inside of the Garfield administration, and OF
the scheme which was on foot to get up Il
| difficulty between this country and England
over Canada, resulting in war. conquest and
annexation. The Dominion was to have
passed tariff laws discriminating against the
mother country and in favor of United States
Englauds refusal to ratify these or To permit
them was TO have been the pretext for inter
national difficulties.
And then Barker Will relate the ne
gotations at Chicago which failed tC
nominate Harrison, and which were
modified to permit Blaine's nomina
nation: and how much money wa
raised and sent to Maine. and what part o
7 it was returned The Chronicle Herald may
yet be paper
No slight degree of indignation is fell
among the Philadelphia Democrats and by
the personal and political friends of Mr.. Ran
dali ut the high-fyer style of denunciatiOn in
which Mr.. Watterson indulges, over his pro
posed visit to the South. II goes as he went
before at the invitation and as the guest OF
many eminent Democrats, professional and
business men, who are anxious To cultivate a
better acquaintance OF the masses of the
, Southern people, with trusted Democratic
leaders of the North. Denunciation Of such
Interchange of courtCSes in advance is, 10 say
the least, ungeucrous, and the fiery editor %
the Louisville Courier has only given hi
, more generous fellow-citi7enS u prctoXt t.
pile ON their hospitality.
Dan ErmcutrOut il one of the PennSylvani.
congressman who will likely take in the
t New Orleans Exposition during the Christ
, mas congressional investigation.
As write havo lying before mo little
brown-covcred volume, bound in muslin
plain and meok-looking. The title pag,
bears this inscription
LAYS OF MY HOME
= PoEMS is"
JOHN O. WHITTIER.
BOSTON,
MDCCCNLII.
There are l22 pages OF it, containing the
earlier Of WhittierS poems. The volume is
dedicated 10 John Perepout and tho ode Of
dedication concludes with the stanza:
And girdcd for thy constant fight with wrong
Like Nehemiah lighting while he wrought
The broken walls of Zion, even thy song
| Hath a rude martial tone, u blow in every
thought.
And on the margin of the page below, some
one has written In pencil nehemiah ". Is
For the builders every one had his sword
readily, because the story of Nehemiah re-
building Jerusalems walls by ordering
every man 10 put up that part which ran by
his own house is an effective way of enforc.
ing the lesson of doing political work i'm de-
tailor any other kind Of work for that mat
ter. This old edition of Whittier used 20 sell
at 80 cents. twas the second work of Poems
he ever published. But the edition was
small F; the numbers of il are so rare that one
Of the poets biographers says its existence is
even questioned and / presume that book
hunters would eagerly snap it up at $40 a
copy. SINDBAD.