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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-07-19

verting the breakfast scraps into fresh
eggs for my own use, which cackle and
cutlery was re-echoed by the head
ROSTERS of her community in the field,
as if they too concurred and heartily
seconded her opinion of me.
So rebuked / climbed once more the
ladder, and put myself in position for
mailing on the boxes-a work of some
difficulty, since l was obliged to make
my body conform to the shape and re-
quirements Of the tree and the various
divergences and contour of its trunk
and branches. Effecting one position,
| found that in it ! could not strike a
blow with the hammer through the
interference of hostile little limb. In
another / could not pull the nails from
my vest pocket. Ifound myself for the
work Immediately in hand constantly
lacking in the requisite number of legs
and arms. 1t seemed to me could
have kept then and there employed six
or eight more of these members.
realized then the great advantages for
such kind of work possessed by certain
monkeys who could have slung them
selves airily and gracefully from q
branch bv their strong and flexible ex-
tension of vertebrs. leaving all the
arms and legs free for other uses.
was so rejecting when heard tiny,
modest drop to earth It was the gimlet
for which l had immediate use. 1thad
fallen from vest pocket. A few nails
gently battered after it Then there
was wrath. But to what purposes
Gimlets on the earth respond and rise
no more to explosives than DO hammers.
The giulet would not come to me.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-07
School Rooit svindIs.

~. II. b." from Lititz, this county.
writes as follows to the american, Phila
delphia "The school book business has
grown to DO gigantic swinde as at pre-
sent conducted. Agents prevail upon
school boards to adopt new book, in some
instances resorting TO bribery to attain
their ends, offering to replace the old ones
with new books without any cost TO tho
pupils. When once introduced, they have
a sure and no mean revenue from district
thus manipulated, for number of years.
Pupils are compelled to pay an exorbitaut
price for books. The compiler and publish
er levy q tax upon the scholar, and poor
parents are often put to much discomfort
IN providing books for a large family. The
books are poorly bound and printed on
poor paper, and sold at immense profits,
Last Christmas bought a school book got
up in the shoddy style, for beginner,
paying for it forty i've oants at the same
time / bought y holiday book, neatly
printed on fine paper, substantially bound,
and at Only about half the cost.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-07
PERSONAL,

STANLEY will leave the Congo for Eng
land 10 August.
JOHN BRows's scaffold was sold recently
to relic hunters for 5000.
EMANUEL GEIBEL, the celebrated Ger.
man poet, is dead, aged 6S years
Rev. THOMAS A. CHECK, a well kuo wn
colOred preacher. died in Des Moines On
Saturday, aged 43 years.
d. w. PATTERoS, ir, is homo from
West Virginia for a brief sojourn amOlg
Lancaster friends aud relatives.
Prince OF WALES disliked his dead
brother Leopold, and his OBSERVATIONS
grief at the funeral IS regarded as hypo
critical.
ROSE CoGHLAN, the actress, smoke
cigarettes, and Is said TO be the only
woman in America wh can putr rings Of
smoke from her mouth.
COLONEL BRECKENRIDGE, president Of
tho First National bank Of Sln Antonio,
Texas, has closed the purchase of 800
600 acres of land in the state OF Tam
aulipas, Mexico.
BILLY BIRCH, the onco popular minstrel,
is living in retirement in New York. lie
is without means aud n few days ago tod
q reporter that ho was dead broke " 4
monster benefit will bs gwen loc him
shortly.
MMR. NILSSON was entertained a. diunor
in Boston recently by Ne. Lydig Suydam,
o rich bachelor friend, whose devotion to
the fair singer has lel to many matrimD
NAL j)Ses, She calls him papa, aud kisses
him when she leaves him.
Miss ELY GOpDARp, an American cirl,
was married in Paris, tn Piuce P1uiatog
ski, at the American church in the Rus
Bayard on Saturday and at the 81 Pierre
church aiterwaTd. Ga Friday the civ
marriage took place at the Marie of Passy.
DR.. JoHN G. HALL, superintendent of
the Franklin asylum for the insane, ha,
been rendered tho Same position with the
Pennsylvania asylum for the insane. made
vacant by the death Of DR.. Kirkbride, bu.
he has declined the ofor on account Of bis
health.
REV. DR J. p. NEWMAN occupied bis
pulpit yesterday in tbs Madison avenue
Congregational church, New York, despite
the notice which he received from a p0r
tiou Of his congregation dispensing with
his service. He will formally tender his
resignation at q church meeting to be held
ON Tuesday evening next.
LANSTRS II always associated in Nym
Crinkles MUD with June. The
pomp OF incoming summer with all its
lanRuors Is thore. Bernhardt reminded
me ~ the lean and pungent March, and
Tory, l may say, is somehOw wrapped In
tho mellow mists of October, through
whose golden glimmer CLINT the comin :
frosts Of winter"
hRs. OTTENDERTER, wife OF the editor
OF the New York Stats ZsituRg, who
died recently, was an able factor in New
York journalism. Her former husband
Mr. Uni, and she began the paper togeth-
or, aud each did hard physical labor In the
cellar In common. Sue married, suhsa
quentlY, her boOkkeeper, Mr.. Ottsndorfer
who probably inherits this magnificent
property. She had tremendous funera
and left very great property.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-07
The County Tax.

The Republican members OF The pres.
ent board of county commissioners de.
serve no credit whatever for their
boasted reduction of the county debt on
or about the first Of April this year. In
1883, when they proposed to levy three
mill county tax, ex Commissioner Mont
gomery demonstrated Enthusiastically
through these columns that a two and a,
half mill rate OF tax would raise SUN .
cient money to meet all the expenses OF
the county and pay of a large share of
the debt, quite as much as was neces-
sary to be paid In any single year. In
the face OF this, the commissioners in
sisted on the unnecessarily high tax
levy. The county tax is paid in early in
the summer and fall. Many of the col
iectors, In order to make the five per
cent. abatement for themselves, pay the
Tax TO thecounty before they themselves
have gathered 1t in. The result is
a great plethora of money in the
county treasury from about August to
April. 1t is not needed for public uses,
and the fact that in the present cam
paign the deposit and control OF the
treasury balances are a great stake iu
the Republican contest gives force tC
the suspicion that the extra tax levy OF
one half mill was imposed for the pur
poss OF raising money from tho people
for private benefits. Commissioners
Sunny and Myers cannot plead any
error Of judgment In this matter, for they
were shown at the outset of the year that
their levy was inordinate. They must
answer to the people for having collected
a hundred thousand dollars from them
fer the benefit Of those who have the use
OF IL.
This year they reduced the tax rate t
81 mills, thereby admitting that last
years levy was excessive but as Mr.
Myers is candidate for reelection il IL
likely the reduction was made for cam
paign purposes 1t is being used thai
way. But The burned child ought tc
avoid tha fire. The policy which Mr.
Myers has represented in Office should
receive emphatic condemnation. Treas
ury surpluses and heavy taxes to raise
money for balances TO be kept on deposit
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-07
Another "DravipR..

f. A. Locke's LOTTERY OF Life com.
pany were in Harrisburg on Fdday oven
ing and the Independent of that town has
the same opinion OF them as tho lSTELLI
GENcRR They published our rather
uncomplimentary notice OF the party word
for word On Saturday, aud with muoh
truth add {: "Any strolling company can
secure an engagement in this city aud be
announced in flaming posters aud ornate
programmes as first class. People
go to see such performances only
to be disappointed, aud the imposi
tion has been 80 often practiced as now to
involve the good with the bad. This city
has been 80 largely imposed upon by a
number OF troupes OF this character during
the season about closing, that our people
hardly know when they are safe in pat
ronizing troupe that 10 not universally
known by a sreputation honestly earned and
established. IL Is, therefore, high time
that theatrical managers learn the eharac
ter of troupes aud the merits Of their
performances before placing them before
the community"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-07
uwnuuur 10 L.NuAsrEa.
y Franklin Rngart's Fody hurled Ia wo


= Franklin R,isart's rody uuried In WOOD.
WaTd Hill Cemetery.
The 2:20 train from Harrisburg this
afternoon brought to this ci'y tor inter
ment in Woniward Hi cemetery the re
mains OF J Franklin Reigart, formerly a
citizen of Lancaster and who died recently
IN Harrisburg. The funeral proceeded i'm
mcdiate'y from the station to tho ceme
terry, JnO. r. Russell, c. VI. Howell, ID.
W. Patterson and y. W. Russell, per-
forming the offices of pail bearers. Mr..
Reigart was an old citizen of Lancaster, a
civil engineer by profession aud aided in
the location Of the NJ. Joy, Portsmouth y
Lancaster railroad. He published an early
map Ot Lancaster, was one OF the prOjsc
tors of the gas works and public markets,
and served as clerk of quarter sessions,
alderman and city recorder His most
elaborate literary peTfOrmance-fOr he
was prolific vTiter-was the laVishly
illustrated life of Robert Fulton
which he published some years ago. For
many years more recently no has been
engaged as a solicitor OF patents in Wash.
ington, D. G. He WAS 70 years old at the
time of his death. and among his children
are Rev. ). w. Rsigart, Cf Mech luicsburg,
aud the wife Of Rev. George ". Suyder,
of Harrisburg.
Il
PIt-lo. recalls this reminiscenCe of his ex
peyience as an alderman 1t was during
his iCcumbency in 1851 Of tho last named
position, that the famous slave riot took
place Ia the village of Chrstiana, in Ian.
caster county, aud in which Mr.. Gorsuch,
OF Maryllud the owner Of the escaped
slaves, lost his life. &. Hlnway aud Elijah
Lewis, two well known abOli;iOnists. aud a
score OF cOlored men were arrested,
brought before Alderman Reigart, and
committed TO the Lancaster county prison
on charge of murder aud high treason,
the latter for having resisted the officers Of
the government in the discharge of their
duty. My recollection Of the matter is
for was then but boy
that they were brought before the
late Judge Ellis Levi aCterward
chief justice of Pennsylvania on o writ of
habeas corpus. At the hearing, which
excited intense interest, the prosecution
was represented by the late John l..
Thompson, then district attorney, who
subsequently became gifted aud popular
minister Of the Presbyterian church, and
whose son is now mayor Of Detroit, Mich. /;
Hon. Henry May and Hon. Robert
J. Bleut, of Baltimore, and Hon.
John NJ Scott, who was mayor of
Philadelphia during the celebrated
native American riots Of 1874 For the
defense were suoh eminent lawyers as
Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, Hon. William NJ.
Meredith and George Ford, esq. The
result was they were remanded 10 the
custody OF the United States officials and
were subsequently tried in the United
States district court at Philadelphia,
before the late Judge Kane, and acquitted
Colonel Reigart was an artist and
dIaughtsman Of no mean repute, having
painted picture of Washington, depicting
his entry into New York to be inaugurated
president in 1880, and which is rare
sketch ut the present day"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-07
Li.t OF Unclaimed Letters.

Following is q list of unclaimed letters
remaining in the postofIice at Lancaster,
for tha week ending April 7, 1884:
Ldd!ss' List-Lizzie Brubaker, Mrs. Sue
A. Crowfort, Mamie Doromart, Annie
Evans, Mrs. Sarah ID. CARRIER, Mrs. Sarah
Gable, Mrs. Mary Goldsmith, Eta Gra-
vett, Mrs. Emma Kempf, Annie Moquotts,
Mrs. l.. $. Schinnell, Sue Shank (2).
cents List-H. L. Bowman. Matthias
Buckeler, John Doohtermau, l.. Feldsor
(2), Milton Grove, Frank HeeDan, Victor
KAISER, Jacob Kline, Jacob II. Kreider,
Henry Leipply, George Lichty, David L.
Mayer, Isadore Pfier, Mr.. Ruth, Ezra
Ruhl, jacob Schultz, G. II, Smiley, N.
Soronsky (for.), Stewart TaggarC, George
UImer,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-07
\. I. STEWARDS BuUY
\ story tr,m Cuicago That Looks Like
NaTn.

4 strry tr'Ul Cuicago Thst Looks Like u
haTn.
Tie Chicago Inter Ocean publishes an
interview with AZ unnamed detective, who
claimed thai ia tho summer aud fall OF
1882 Chief of Police McGargle, OF
Chicago, aud two or three detectives held
negotiations with the notorious crook,
Lewis Q. Sweigel5, then serving term for
robbery in the Chester, LIS pelltentiary
under IA assumed Lanc.
STeigels, who was known 20 be a profess
siOual grave rObher, aud was concerned in
the attempt 10 rob the grave of President
Lincoln, told very cOmplete, crcumstan.
tial and consistent story of the robbery OF
A. + Stewarts grave by himself, Larry
Gavin aud n man named kUffe, keeper OF "A
saloon in Fourteenth street, New York.
Sweigel5 promised 20 restore the body
only on condition Of his pardon from the
Peuitentiary and receiving part of the re-.
ward. His pardon was secured, and, ac .
oOTdiug TO tho detectives story, a synd-
cate, with q capital of 10000 was
formed, which included McGarigIe, Do
tRctlvcs Chapin aud Lansing and Z. j.
Lehman, all Of Chicago, TOR the purpose
Of working up the case.
The remains were tinally returned upon
tho payment OF cps, 600 by Judge Hilton,
~ Al eydeuOe OF which Swcigels had
plenty Of money about that time.
Interviews with McGlrigle and the
detectives are also published. They deny
the formation Of syndicate to work on
the case.
MCGarigle admits the general details of
the story, iu3udlng Sweigels' pardon aud
the subsequent negotiations in New York,
but says that they finally became disguised
with Sweigels because he ttihed with
them, and MoGarigle says that no became
convinced that this was merely trick of
Sgeigels TO secure pardon, aud that the
negotiations we're broken off before the
remains were returned, and never re
sumed.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-07
rHE WORLDS U,mRra 7ipE.
Msn's inhumSuity to Msu Sern ia various
Forms


torms
Four robbers entered tho sore of T.
Reichbergcr, a. Neweltown. louisiana.
on wednesday night, for tho purpose ot
robbery. Being discovered they killed
ReiJhborger's cook, au old cOlOr5d woman,
aUd shot aud severely wounded Reich
berger. The rutliIus were arrested. The
leader oC the gang, Charles Davis, had
been clerk In the store.
The house Ot Carl schultz in Harris
vile, Michigan, was entered on Friday
night by thros masked mAn, who beat
Schultz, his wife aud daughter into iusnn-
sibility, murdered his sou, aui ROBBED his
houso Of s3 900 in German gold.
Thomas \, Fitzgerald, lawyer II Bh'
tavia Y. Y, shot himself in hrs oih,e on
saturday afternoon, and is not expected
to recover. lie had been guilty Of several
forgoricS which no hal confessed, and is
supposed to have shot hmsslt % escape
the poGuon'iAry Fitzgerald is only 2b
years Of age. H5 has a wife aud two chill
dyen, the younger born last week.
\ corpse In LONELY Copso.
Sna.hered cries waro heard issuing
from a lonely cop'o mile south Of Erie.
Next afternoon William Aus.il wh'lJ
passing through the thiCket came upon
the body of man stludIug against tree
having moose aruund his ueok aod the
end thrown loosely over limb. From
tho fact tina, tho miu could not have
stranejgd IN such \ position, aad thai the
neck shows marks OF yIuleuoo. the coroner
believes the man WAS murdered aud an
attempt made u create the theory oi
suicide. The body was well dressed, M
valuablcs wero found A letter in his
pocket bears tho address Of ~ c, kuoll
Buffalo"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-07

(the dukes regimcn,) played "lie will Re
turn to Lochabsr no More"
II is nov universally aokuowledsei that
the prince is dead because he was allowed
for the first time in his life 20 90 ont
alone on n spree. Intoxicated with his
unusual freedom, aud accustomed all his
life to revolt against the idea that he was
an invalid, he lived as fast as he could,
danced furiouSiy, stopped up all night,
drauk pretty freely, aud So brought on n
fatal ilt of that epilop'y from which no
suffered all his life.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-07

Grant is enthusiastic for Logan.
Cuukliug asserts that Logan is the east
II, Of all the candidates cxcep: Joe Hay.
ley.
Galusha \. Gro~ pu's on recoci his be
lief that Blaine is the man the Republican
voters want.
Nearly % r. publican count, conventions
were hold on saturday in Illinois, In all
but oge Of them, rs Tar A. suCwn, Logan
delegates were chosen.
TIogl, Chester, Centre, BuI'r, 1niIna,
Montgomery, Bsrks, Bedford, Vanango,
Bradford, Mftl Northumberland and
Dauphin counties declared for Blaine on
Saturday.
Emory 4 Storrs, who ranks as the
DemOsthenes of the Illinois bar, has he
come a sudden cDnver; 70 Logan he will
present the Iatter's name y: the Chicago
convention
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-07
A Lawyer whipped by miIuners

North Lswisburg, Ohio, is excited over
horsewhipping case. A. ID. Palmer,
aged 80, Is prominent attorney aud
leading citizen of Lewisburg. He has a
pretty wife and two children. Cora and
Mary AsheIs are handsome millners OF tho
same town. Palmer has been forcing un
welcome attention on the young ladies.
Friday afternoon hs met them on the
street, and, as they claim, insulted them.
Miss Cora seized stick of wood aud with
whip ia the hands of Mary they polished
OIL Palmer. He stood it long enough TO
feel blood trickling down his face aud
then fed. There is much talk over tho
event.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-07

Palm Sunday, so called, from the tri-
umphal entry Of the Savior into Jerusalem m
and his greeting by the citizens with
victorious palm branches, was appropri-
ately observed Ia the Catholic Epis-
oopaliau and other churches yesterday.
Ia the former churches the blessing aud
distribution OF the palms took place at
the lato mass. The day marks the begin.
the church Is now entering and which has
for its different acts in the sorrowful
tragedy OF the passion, Mauudy Thursday,
Good Friday, Holy Saturday aud Easter
Sunday.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-07

EDWIN STURGIs, OF the Lititz school
board, It is reported to us, says that he
did not know what he was doing when
he signed a petition that the county com
missioners should award the collection
Of the county tax in Warwick township
to the higher bidder. Perhaps not, but
man of such limited intelligence as
that should step down and out of the
school board,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-07
LCuPULu's FUNERAL,
The rrinos's Death Due 20 His Goipg AIono
on n spree.


on spree.
The Duchess Of Albany Saturday morn
ing visited the Memorial chapel, where
the body Of her husband was resting, aud
remained q short time alone. The funeral
services took place at 1 80 O'Clock Ia tho
forenoon, in S. Georges chapel. The queen,
Princess Of Wales and the Princesses
Christian, Louise aud Beatrice went from
tho castle through tho Deanery 10 the
chapel. The Prince of Wales, the Crown
Prince Frederick William OF Prussia, aud
other royal personages, assembled In the
Memorial chapel aud marched In procession
to 81. Georges chapel. Tho Prince OF
Wales followed the coffin az chief mOurner.
The dean began the service as the coffin
was brought in. The choir sang 50 God,
our Help in Ages Past" aud Spohr's an
them blessed Are the Departed. The
coffin was then lowered into the vault As
the queen retired tho choir sang Lead
Kindly Light" Chopin's Funeral
March WAS played as the other royal per
sonages withdrew.
The queen sat during the service weep.
ing bitterly. All the young princes were
sobbiug, The Prince OF Wales WAS pale.
After the service the seaforth Highlanders
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-07
L.uoutsr VIA, . U csiig nAiu.

YORK tribune
Late on Saturday night ooe king m ain
was held just outside OF York, Uy birds
owned by private parties In Lancaster and
York. eco was put mp on each battle q d
slO0 on the match. In the tirst round the
Lancaster bird got away with the York
rooster in about four minutes York took
the second eight, aud Lancaster the third
and last,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-07

The secret OF male success in London
is TO bc stout, sonorous, and sentimental
What Wholesale havoc our own David
Davis would have MADE on Albion shores
before he was bound in Hymen's painless
fetters
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-07
The King is dead-long live the King

A CLEANER. HANDED city official never
went out Of office than the retiring Demo
cratic mayor.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-07
MAD xARCn. sRlDE.

Mai March, with the wind IN hls wing. vide
spread.
Leaps from Heaven. AMI the deep lawns
arch
Halls rearisen again from the dead
Mad March.
"Sott, small flames on rowan and larCh
Break forth AZ laughter on lips tn At said
Naught Ill the pulse in thSn beat loves
march.
But the heartbeat now I'm tho lips rosn.rcd
speaks liic TO the world, ami the WHAT'S that
pgrCh
Bring April forth as q b-ido 10 wci
Mad March"
SLn-uhu. n
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-07

GEo. WN. CURTIS will likely GO 20 the
Republican national convention as dele
gate from New York, for Edmuuds nd
against Blaine and the unit rule. Gut
then Chaupcey l. Filley will be there from
Missouri.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-07

eight months in the year, are the bane of
good government and temptation to
official extravagance.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-07

A PROMINENT medical authority, who
has bad much experience in treating all
forms of mental disease, says Of daucinG {:
"This is an amusement particularly
adapted to the insane" The conclusion
is irresistible,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-07

MANY ANDERSON fatty refused to play
in the Lyceum theatre, London, Saturday
night, because it was the only play house
open in London, the others being closed IN
memory of the dead Leopold. All London
is now raving over her for her action in
the premises. Cute Mary
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-07

THE Realing Times suggests to Con.
gressmsu Ermentrout, OF Berks, thal he
has au excellent opportunity 10 do himself
credit and to do honor to an iIlus'rous
Pennsylvania in making a speech on the
merits Of Gen. Peter Muhlenberg, when
the statue Of the latter by Miss Blanche
Nevin is presented to the United States
ard placed in the gallery Of the Federal
capitol. Ermentrout wopld most acccpta.
| bly, i'll the bill.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-07

MUcH was promised by the temperance
reformcrs OF Ohio in the Scott law that
placed the very highest tax on liquor
liceuses. 1t now trluspires that three
hundred saloon keepers who did not pay
the tax uuder the Scott law last year were
not mo'ested. The Scott law is doomed