Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-21
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Tho " funeral directors associations"
which is the name OF combination Of
undertakers, will soon hold conference
out in Piltsburg. Their discussions rs
announced are to be mainly directed to the
best modes OF embalmug and preserving
the corpse. Ii they recognized tho inev'
| table they would know that the popular
| demand now is to how most quickly dis
pose Of 1t.
The lSTELIIGESCER printed romantic
story the other day that Cen. Hood, OF the
Confederate army, got his promotion
| through the influence Of the ambitious
| lady To whom he was bctrothod and who
discarded him after his military discom.
future in the Southwest. "Siubad hears
that it was Miss Preston, OF the famous
South Carolina family of beautiful sisters,
to whom Hood was betrothed. The
! engagement was broken OIL on account ot
his shattered health and not by rcasoa of
his military defeats.
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| A sketch of Blaines life aud public
services, and compilation of his speeches
make up the contents of 22O page vol
ume, just published, edited by |. ;. Clare,
an experienced historian, aud Representa-
tive John IL LanulS, an INDUSTRIOUS COM
piler and ardent admirer oil BIalhe' AS
MIR. Blaiue's own big book omlts mcntiou
of him, il is fair that this work of his
local adherents should have wide circula
tion, aud those who take an interest in the
subject will find it worthy Of their patron
age. The authors, however, have erred in
representing, as the NCU Era reviewer
puts it, that 'eveu in his college days
young Blaine was uUted for his skill in
debate. AT that early day he had acquired
the trick OF oratory' nave u, on the
excellent authority OF one OF his class
mates and college irIehds, that blame
always shirked debate, and paid hts
society fines rather than perform this
duty. Nothing more surprised those who
knew him in college than that he ever al
tanned prominence as public speaker
| They had marked out for him the career
, of pedagogue he exceiIed in scholarship
especially IN the languages and mathcmat
0 les.
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q am satisfied that the scare about the
: peaches being winter killed aud the apple
blossoms being drowned out was prema.
: ture. The Delaware peach growers arr
I not happy, however. big crop is baC
4 crop for them. They make most none!
/ on about half full crop, when they com
Q mand fair prices aud incur NO dangers of 4
| glut nor losses from the rotting of th(
over stock. In the early fall every tramp
you meet in this county striking south
4 ward will represent that he is bound TO
, the peach pucking in the spring he II
n going TO the fishing. And when they arr
on the back track they uniformly tell thu
= same story of being on their way to worl
!. on the Cornwall railroad. SO an Observan
4 | housewife on one OF the main thorough
Il fares in the lower end, tells me and 70
a her kitchen door hungry, and seldom on
IA was turned away without a new " oil
shirt" if he asked for it. Where a
ID those old shirts have come from is prot
lem Of domestic economy the solution t
n which | am sure would help to unraY'
20 many a knot in federal finance.
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De a layman filed exceptions to the cost
~ and fees in a trust estate, OF which he VI
h an heir, in Dauphin county and whom |
m was allowed to argue the matter betoi
r. the court the other day and let himse
, loose he proved TO be good deal OF ou
: in the legal china shop. he talked Sens'
7 however, and set the Judge TO thinkin
about whether lawyers and trustees ougl
not to leave the heirs at least the bones
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Next Congressman Hiestand, sam Ma
Friday, Senator Stehman, Delegates Le
: Hartman and kelnhoid and lot
other congenial Lancaster county Reput
10 leans propose to travel il SPECIAL car
the Chicago (Hepuolican) convention
" There Will be about two dozen in u
40 40 company and preparations are aireao
90 90 making TO side track the car 10 flttsouE
w or switch 1t OIL toward 81 Louis unle
40 Hartman can be severed from his devotiC
~ to Blaine
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AS two young men "hlsEeu up NOT
3 queen street one sald lie sa I0ahu
.s and she's WoTk'he. d'i not kno
r hof care whom sney "1io Sain'ns aoSu
no qucnt experience my us us true.
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"a asked the oaroer "hat MS era
~ ~ charged 10 shaVe aead man, ana ne sal
~ - II we can gov IT, oo Genus II we car
" Ret more. AZ y an uup'easah' @ task
~ " ne explained, anu often very ulinGu
~' one rev ooJecI 10 the price, because
genera'y 1n Iho soa'o " othel IuHel
expenses. We haho no uouueI'on loF
regular CUSTOMER ior nus rlS u1atI 70 LOS"
no MS oaroer, 700. lne oaroor secs
40 proht' lot hih' III o.eula''on'
VI ,.r. ,,u~ Al ooo ,,.,,, ,
olo "'I III, IHii go ,i
every yeai III Cnis Souu'f' s"'u ~ iotii'