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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-03-28

Between two worlds life huvers Ike a .tal,
'TwiXt night and morn, upon the horizon,
verge,
How little do we know that which we are
How less That which we may be TnO ctcT
nal surge
OF time and tide rolls on and bears alau
Our bubbles US the old burst, new emerge
Lashod from Ihe ioam OF ages, white III,
graves
OF empires hravc but Ike some pas,in.
waves. -BgrOn.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-03-28

THERE is a growing suspicion that the
rcd headed and hopeful chairman of the
Republican state committee is trying to
ride wooden horse inside the walls Of
the Blaine stronghold.
THE vast amount Of cash expended
in luxuries is seen from tho fact that of
the Si8l, 800, 1862 of dutiable merchandise
imported into the United States last year
sll9,O34 $50 wero for embrolderes, art
work, fruits, wearing apparel, &c.
LIVES MYSTERY
Between two worlds life huvers Ike "A staI,
'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizons
verge,
| How little DO we know that which we are.
How less that which We may BIZ TuO' ctcr.
nal surge
OF time and tide rolls on ana bears alan
Our bubbles Us the old burst, new emerge,
| Lashod from the loan OF ages, white The
| graves
OF empire, hravo but like some passing
waves. Byron.
POOR Gladstone is between Boel2ebub
and the deep sea. The peers seem bent
on knocking the stufting out of his bill for
the extension OF the franchise on which he
has staked his hopes for the holding to-
gether OF his ministry, and now some of
his friends are urging him to accept o
peerage as dignifed way of retreat. 1t
may bo depended upon, however, that
Gladstone will not give up the ship while
there is a plank left TO float upon.
THERE must be some mistake in the
following item
ln the New York assembly yesterday
the bill allowing street railways in Now
| York city TO use the cable system was
defeated by vote Of l07 TO 10. The
measure had the support of powerful
lobby, including John J O'Brieu and
Silas b Butcher.
A powerful lobby that could not
control more than ten votes is not power
full lobby ; or have We come upon the good
times when the more powerful the 'lobby'
the less chance a bill has to carry?
THAT women are forging rapidly to the
| front as bread winners can be seen at a
glance through some foreign statistics
| l'~''N''S w 'Nh'"'o 'ihployntuJ. IN Eng
land the postal order service ia cxclusiyel,
entrusted to females Franco EMPLOYS II
the postal and telegraph service s Oi4
women in 1881 Switzerland had AGO n
telegraphers and 5s3 in the postal depart
ment III 1888 Italy had in the telegram
office GS2 Germany employs women ex
clusively to receive aud despatch tele
grams while Austria, Holland, Belgium
and Russia are all following in the sam
direction.
TUE female temperance relormers q
Canton, Kansas, have a very effective wa
OF getting rid Of a saloon keeper that vic
lates the law. One Harold in that tow
persisted in opening saloon in defianc
ot all enactments governing the lquO
traffic. On Tuesday last tho women of th
place determined to take tho bull by tn
horns and proceeded in body tO tn
saloon and poured all the liquors the
could find into the street. This mode G
procedure, apart from the risk involved @
causing breach of the peace, may b
recommended to the temperance retormers
who are asking for constitutional amend
ments, as the shortest cut TO the stampint
out of Illegal traffic in spirituous liquor.
The weekly Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 1882-188?, 1884-03-13
The Judge Flushed.

A prominent Judge and State Senator,
who with his family was among the
friends of Mrs. Cady Stanton, still felt
himself called upon publicly to oppose
the married woman S property bills which
were carried through our legislature by
the efforts of Mrs. Stanton and her CO.
laborers. The judge made several
speeches against tie bills, declaring that
ii wives were permitted a separate estate
from their hus lands it would cause dis
sensions in families.
The bills were passed despite the elo-
quent advocates opposition. A few
months later Mrs. Stanton met the Judge
in New York. She held out her hand
with a mournful expression of face,
though, l doubt not, there was a twinkle
of fun in her kind, blue eyes. Permit
me to condole with you, she said. "Con-
dole with mel" exclaimed the Judge;
con what q "On the great unhappiness
in your family-the unfortunate differ.
ences between your wife and yourself. "
The Judge flushed, thinking that some
busybody had spread slanderous tales
concerning him. Why, what have you
heard?' he demsnded angrily. "Noth-
ing, nothing whatever" replied Mrs.
Stanton; "only, as !nu predicted such
dire family quarrels as the result of pass
ing the property bills, and as they have
since passed, supposed you and YOU
wife must be on the eve of divorce. >
The good Judge laughed heartily at the
practical joke. You were right" he
said; II do not think any trouble viii
come from those new laws.
The weekly Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 1882-188?, 1884-03-13
Too Much Freshness.

Gen. Joseph McCook, the dark browed
warrior Of Colorado. Is relating one OF
his Western experiences, which, he OBJ
serves, taught Tim the inadvisabiity of
too much freshness. "About wear
ago, says he, Il had long journey to
take through the widest part of Arizona
The country was full of Apaches who
were going about in small bands steal
ing anything they could lay their hands
on and doing whatever they could in
general way to make things enthusiastic
for travellers. That is to say heard
good deal about these Apaches, but as |
didn't see any of them | thought it was
simply case of scare. Ny driver was a
quiet Californian who didn't say much.
but ran the expedition to suit himself.
Every night when it came time TO make
camp he would turn off at right angles
with the road and drive for couple of
miles in that direction before unhitching
the horses. / kicked about it of course
said 1t was useless expenditure of time.
Besides 1t isn't funny to ride over per-
t: city unhroken country. 1t is too much
like being chucked up in a blanket.
But the more | swore the less attention
the driver paid to me. Well, one morn
ing when We struck back into the trail
We found place where there had been
camp the night before. There had also
been fight with the Indians. never
set eyes on such horrible sight. The
whole party of white people had been
killed and fearfully mutilated. All of
them were scalped, some of the bodies
were dlsmcmbered, and one of the wo-
men was disembowelled. The stock
had been run off and the wagons ran
sacked. Those people had camped
alongside the trail. and the Indians, who
are on the lookout for such parties, had
found them. My driver didn't get airy
more of my views of camping. He
could have driven to the Gulf OF Mexico
after that if he had wanted to. :" -.
The weekly Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 1882-188?, 1884-03-13
A Crows Intelligence.

The sentinel system of the crows is
very complete. Their guards display a
remarkable degree of judgment and in
telllgeuce. They will raise cry for a
man with gun long before he gets in
range of them, and they are equally
wary of man who creeps toward them.
But team may pass close by without
disturbing them, and they will even let
a man on foot pass unnoticed if he
hasn't gun and goes boldly about his
business. | had curious example of
this when I first began to study their
habits. | commenced by trying to shoot
them, but though l had passed them
close enough before, l could not get
near them after began carrying a gun.
L went out with my gun every evening
for weeks. | crept behind fences and
lay ID wait in the bushes, but could
never get a shot at them. One day.
however, l struck upon plan which l
have since operated very successfully.
l held my gun close to my side, the bar
rel running down the side of my leg,
and walked boldly down the road with
out taking any notice of them. With
their usual disregard for travellers, they
let me pass close up to them, when i
turned suddenly and fired. Now l can
shoot crow whenever l want to.
The weekly Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 1882-188?, 1884-03-13
A Profitable Steamer.

The sale of the steamer Senator for n
coal hulk to New Zealand finishes the
active career of one of the most success
ful vessels atioat. She was built at New
York in 1916. and ran for short time on
the f ,steru coast, but during the gold
excitement of California she was sent to
San Francisco. where she arrived IN
September, 1919. with over five hundred
passengers. Soon after arriving there
she was placed on the Sacramento river.
making three trips a week, and, with S35
cabin passage and SIS for standing room
on deck, she soon paid for herself ten
times over In fact, her receipts averaged
close to $50 600 a trip, and for four
months, fully $4,000 a week. She is
known to have carried in this trade, over
one million passengers. She has made
more gold than she could carry and has
outlived scores of the finest steamers
ahoat, which were wrecked or went to
decay, while the old Senator, one Of the
few remaining links of the "davs of
old. the days Of gold. the days of 40. =
pl rdded along successfully, until she A.
nally had to give way to the march of
improvement and to the new and more
economical style of craft, the steam pro-
peller
The weekly Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 1882-188?, 1884-03-13
Horace Greeleys Boy hood.

Ben. P. Poore, in his "reminiscences,
thus speaks of Horace Greeley: Horace
Greeleys personal appearance was
always a subject of remark from his
boyhood. Rollir =. Iallary. a member
able champion of the American System.
used 10 narrate a visit of his to the
printing office of a country newspaper
at Poultney, Vt, his place of residence.
His attention was attracted to a young
composition, who was rather awkwardiy
sticking types, aud who, though full
grown, was evidently the youngest ap
prentice in the office. HIS legs ran
good deal more than "a feet" through
his pantaloons, the sleeves of his coat
scarcely reached below his elbows, his
hair was very white and fiaxen, and he
was, on the whole, IN the aggregate,
taken separately and together, the
greenest looking specimen of humanity
We ever looked at. and this is saying a
good deal, for Eve keeps a looking
glass" That boy" said Mr.. Mallary,
will make a remarkable man; can't
hold an argument with him on Masonry
or anything else connected with politics. y
AS Mr. Mallary was considered one of
the ablest men in Congress, his remark
caused me some surprise; and We not
only made note Of, but took another
look at the "devil'' (printer's we mean,
and could not bat trace in the expansive
forehead ga mind formed in natures
finest mould and, wrought for immor.
tality." 1t was yesrs afterward that we
became aware of The fact that that boy
WAS Horace Greeler!.
The weekly Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 1882-188?, 1884-03-13
With no Drop Of Negro Blood.

The Selma ala. Times tells the fol-
lowing singular story Mr.. Isaac
Frank, white man. was indicted ny the
last Grand Jury under the charge of
living in unlawful wedlock with a negro
woman. Mrs. Mary Ann Frank, wife Of
the accused. was present also her
alleged mother, Lucinda Weaver. col,
ored Lucinda was sworn, aud put upon
the witness-stand Her testimony threw
new lRN upon the case and caused
little fiuiter Of excitement and surprise
among those present. She spoke IN
straightforward manner. Notwithstand.
ing Luc nda has always been known as
the mother of Mary, It turns out that
the young wOman's pareutaRe is purely
white. Lucinda testified that she was
not the mother Of Mrs Mary Frank and
that Mrs. Frank was given to her when
an infant three davs Old that promi-
ncnt gentleman in South Carolina brought
the young child and pre- ented il 10
Lucinda, requesting that she raise it as
her own. She stated further that the
child was the iliegitimate offspring Of
an aristocratic woman, and it was her
brother who gave the infant TO the old
IegTeSH 10 fbltIu MS bl5ItT FtDuLdlI'i
and conceal her shame. The old negress
brought her charge to Alabama, claim
ing her as a daughter, and the real
truth of matters very probably never
woull have been uncovered to the world
but for Mary's marriage to the white
man and the Indictment issued against
him. Mrs. Frank, now grown into
mature womanhood, has light, straight
hair, fair complexion, and Gear, hlhe
eyes, and doesn't bear the re mote stVrace
Of African blood. A number Of gentle
men visited her recently, conversed with
her, and decided that she was beyond
doubt a white woman. After Lucinda's
testimony was heard, Solicitor Pitts
agreed to a verdict Of not guilty. g
the happy twain departed in peas
The weekly Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 1882-188?, 1884-03-13
A South Sea Fight.

4 report from Auckland states that the
GO. 'rament schooner Julia, which is
regularly employed in procuring labor
ers from The different groups of islands
in the Paci.fE - work on the sugar
plantations in the Sandwich Islands, re-
Gently landed at the island of Nanouki
with about thirty returned laborers, who
belonged to the islands of Taraway and
Apiang. in the same group, the inhabit
ants Of which have been at constant
warfare with the. inhabitants of Nan
ouki. The returned laborers on land
ing seized a number of young girls and
assaulted them, which provox ed fight
with the natives, who were armed only
with clubs and spears. Twenty of the
Nanoukis were killed and many were
wounded, while the others escaped to
the ISLAND of Apamama, a short distance
away. Being reinforced there, a mum.
Der returned to Nanouki, where another
affray occurred, in which several were
killed on each side, and three or four Of
the assailants were carried off to Apa-
mama,
The weekly Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 1882-188?, 1884-03-13
An American Ierskht.-

The credit SSrehing India, China,
and, indesSp entire East to American
coIIer - due to Elias II. Derby, a
Salem merchant, born in the port in
1879. in 1874 be dispatched the ship
Grand Turk, under Capt. Jonathan In
grrsoll, to the Cape Of Good HOPE on a
mercantile reconnaissance, to discover
the needs and capacity of the Eastern
market. She returned III less than a
year with the information sought, was
quickly reloaded. and on the 2Sth of
November, 1875, cleared for the Isle of
France. with Instructions to proceed
thence to Canton by way Of Batavia.
The ship was laden with native products
fish, flour, provisions, tobacco, spirits
and made "A successful voyage, return
ing in June, 1877, with II cargo of teas,
silks, aud nankeens, the first vessel
from New England, if not from America,
to enter into competition with the incor-
porated companies of the old world. Her
Success seems to have electrified the
merchants Of Salem, Boston and New
York, and an eager rivalry for the trade
of the Orient ensued, with the result
that when Mr.. D,rhy's ship Astrea en-
tered Canton two years later, she found
10 American vessels there taking i'll
cargo, four of them belonging to our
merchant, however, who had not b. en-
slow i'll improving his advantages as pio-
neer. This was not the only pioneer
work that he did. His bafk Light
Horse, in 1874, first opened kAmerican
trade with Russia In 1853 hts ship At
lantic first displayed the American flag
at Stat. Calcutta and Bombay. An
other die. the same in siam: the third
was the first to pen trade with Mocha.
In 1870, it is said, his vessels brought
into Salem 72S, 81 pounds Of tea, these
ventures being among the first in the tea
trade
The weekly Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 1882-188?, 1884-03-13
SOUI ISurying.

Whenever an Abchasian is drowned
his friends search carefully for the
body, but, if this is not found, they pro-
coed to capture the soul of the deceased,
A measure which then has become a
matter of importance.
A goatskln bag is sprinkled with water
and placed with its mouth, which is
stretched open over hoop, looking
toward the river, near the place where
tie man is supposed to have been
drowned. Two cords are stretched from
the spot across the river, as a bridge on
which the soul can come over. Vessels
containing food and drink are set around
the skin, and the friends of the deceased
come and eat quietly, while song is
sung with instrumental accompani-
mentS.
The soul, it is believed, is attracted
NV the ceremonies, comes over on the
bridge that is laid for it, and goes into
The trap. As soon as it has entered
that is. when the bag is inf ,ted by the
breeze-the opening Is quietly closed,
and the bag is taken up to the burial
place, where grave has already been
prepared. The bag is held with the
opening to the grave, the strings are
united, and the bag is squeezed into
the grave, and the burial is afterward
completed.
This rite is considered of equivalent
value with the burial of the body, and
.he grave is treated with the same honor
as if the body were really within it,
Popular Science MONTHLY.
The weekly Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 1882-188?, 1884-03-13
1t Was No Good.

There was Chicago man who found
ont that he was not so peculiarly en-
lowed by nature as he had srrr pused.
An inch more than usual would pro-
verbally be a great deal on a nose.
This man had it, and in consequence ne
overrated his nasal Importance. A test
proved that il taes not render him thrill
ling to the masses. de is a cigar maker
by trade. Whenever he took his walks
abroad he was gazed at in amaZement.
"If | am TO be looked on as curiosity"
he reasoned, sit would be better to make
a lazy living with my abnormal nose. :"
So he took his big feature to the man
ager of a ten-cent museum. Very
we'll" was the offer which he received;
I'm do just the same by you that | do
bv any other new freak. We can't tell
what'll catch on with the public. You
can have place on the platform for a
week. If You make a failure, I'll give
You five dollars. If you hit EN-, Ill
fix a square, liberal salary but
how m to know whether l hit 'em p
the amateur curiosity asked. by see
ing whether the folks stop to look at
YOU. That's the test" The nose was
not potent. What had been novel in
private life was almost disregarded in a
professional. The man has returned to
his cigar bench.
The weekly Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 1882-188?, 1884-03-13
The Sneak Thief Cracker.

This is the latest. 1 guess, said a
dealer in novelties, showing a reporter
what looked like the motto crackers that
aer pulled apart at evening parties with a
sharp report, disclosing a sentimental
motto. 1T is a motto cracker, ne said.
with the motto left ont. They are also
minfs the bit of candy that the motto
is usually wrapped around. These
crackers are for the use Of the CONNER
cial travellers or others who have to
travel great deal. They are made so
as to produce a report as loud as the ex-
plosion of pistol. The way TO use the
cracker is TO fasten one end on the door
by wetting this little surface of gum
with the tongue, aud the other end to
the Jam of the door. The result is that
the door cannot be opened by a hotel
sneak thief, if he picks the lock or shoots
back the bolt over the lock, without pro-
ducing a report that will arouse the &C.
cupant of the room. The alarm cracker
is popular particularly among iewelry
statesmen
The weekly Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 1882-188?, 1884-03-13
Advice to a Young Man.

No, son, You can't make up lost time.
You can onl y do the work of one life
time i'll a life time. Yes, you may write
six columns To-Day because you neglect
ed to write you- three yesterday, but
you've discounted one day somewhere
about 35 or 40 years further on in The
account. You have about 70 Years
placed to your credit. Every day yol
use or misuse is charged to YOU, and YOU
can't get credit for two days tomorrow,
if you waste to-day. An engine three
hours behind time, may reach the termi-
nal station on time. by running fifty
miles an hour instead of thirty, her
schedule time. But when she gets in,
she requires nearly ali, or quite al, or
many hours more than the three hours
she made up, in being doctored for the
strain on nerves and sinews of steel,
by reason of the extra effort and speed.
There's something sprnng here, bolt
started there, journal burned out
somewhere she limps away to the round
house, overheated, rattling in half a
dozen places. covered with grease and
dust and grime, with an engineer growl-
ing in his cab and a master machinest
grumbling as he walks around her
That's the way you make up time, .
my boy. Believe me, you'll last longer
if you run on schedule time day by day.
You won't make people yell and hurrah
and you won't make such a grand,
thunderbolt kind of show as if YOU
would go booming through the way
stations, swinging along like cyclone.
But you'll go waltzing into the round
house in supremacy better style, with
your steel bright and your brass shifting,
and not spot on your jacket, and ready
to throw another hundred miles ovel
your shoulder the minute the gong
strikes. Just make your regular time
lay by day, nay boy. The superintend
ent knows what you eau do and what he
wants you to do, and you can't trea
yourself better nor please him more
than to do exactly that much, without {
mile wasted or a minute to spare.
BCRDETTE.
The weekly Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 1882-188?, 1884-03-13
One rom EnEaIo, n. I.
One f1 Paterson, n. J.
+ brooklyn, Nay.
Two Texas.
A Fortune From Slx 4ssass of String.

"You see that large factory 1t covers
money wol4Ap't buy it. Well, it was
built by little piece of cord not more
than six inches long" Here the speaker
paused aana scrutinized the reporters
coHhtenauGe for indications Of incredu-
lity, not to say establishment. But the
narrator was talking to a man who;since
the introduction of the telephone, has
made it peint of principle to be ready f6f.
anything and to believe all that he hears
The speaker added: Eight years ago
there lived in the third story of cheap
tenement, I'M New York city, poor me-
chauic, who was kept poor because he
had passion for inventing; it amounted
to passion He didn't drink and didn't
travel with be politicians, and all who
knew his Amily wondered why they
should be SO poor. Timespassed on,
and still ths man was poor, but at last
he perfected an invention-the simplest
thing on earth-and with his patent in
his hand he went down town one day
and called fer the head of house whose
check was current for five figures any
where in 'the street. The inventor Of
fered to sci! two thirds of his patent for
$50, 600 if the house would bind itself to
put 500, go into factories for producing
the little thing that he had invented.
The firm 81 ned papers in less than an
hour from the time of hearing the pro-
posal and N another hour the inventor
had CONVEX ed the firms check for $40
900 into 81 enbacks. Lots were bought
and fac iory erected. The business
speedily 6 sw to gigantic proportions,
and at len h the firm acquired all the
rest of tn. block, and covered it. with
brick and crtar, and now the inventor
is able TO q ciata with the rniilienaires.
TIE little glove fastener piece Of
cord about x inches long and dozen
little metal hooks or buttons-is the
thing that was invented"
The weekly Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 1882-188?, 1884-03-13
Texas Fence Cutters,

A funny phase of the latefence-cutting
special session of the Texas Legislature is
revealed in the fact now patent. that the
Legislature really meant q do as little as
possible to meet the difficulties that for
SO many months have disturbed the
State. While the rlch rauchmen and
large landowners hell full control
of thu Senate, the smaller landowners.
and With them the feuce-cutters, had
the House. So when the House
required fiat landowners should put
gates IN their fences every three miles so
as to let the little men get to mill and to
water. the Senate made the penalty for
not dong so as light as possible. In
fact, few of the legislators seemed to care
SO much about the fences as to be on
the fence themselves. The amount APP
propriatei for carrying ont the few
laws mad is ridiculous " insufficient. 1t
is now sid that the Legislature WAS
wholly unorepared to deal with the sub
ject and that popular sentiment and
opinion wire neither fairly presented nor
represents. Things generally will wait
probably III the next November cleo
ton, when, the fence question will be
paramount n choosing members to the
Legislature