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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-09
a STATE BANK,
The Peoples Money should not DO ia PsI-
yats Banks.
'c'h Ah' DoJ iSoloNh bcluOcIuI.
The lancaster INTELLIsENCER says

FROM tue DoylestoWn Democrat.
The Lancaster ISTELLIsENCER says:
The state treasurer jogs along with the snug
balance OF tSi2 7,3.43 In the general iund. al
though the legal limit is $500 go. The depo II
in the Peoples bank, Philadelphia has been
cut uo"n 10 t4OOOO but the UniOntown and
PitlsburB banks hold up their end Of the line
with about 100000 OF the peoples money
There should be no balance to deposit in
the Peoples or any other bank. Not one
cont OF public money should be turned
over to bank to trade upon. The state
finances cannot be properly managed until
the commonwealth ia divorced from the
banks. Fifty years ago the great question
with the federal government was separa.
tion of the peoples money from the
banks. 1t Itrequired years to bring about
this reform, but 1t came at last. Such a
reform is needed in this state. Ohio
established an Independent treasury sys.
tenn several years ago, and that state now
takes care of her own money. Not q dol.
lar OF it goes into the vaults of banking
institution. Why cannot Pennsylvania
keep her own money as well as Ohio
There is the same necessity for 1t.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-09
The Pardenins Power.

Nothing has distinguished Gov.
Clevolsnd's administration more and in
nothing has he displayed more con
spicuously the qualities Of q wise ruler
vnan In bis exercise Of the pardoniug
power. 1t is very easy to grant pardons
Unfortunately and to yield to the
manifold influences that beset an execu
tive in this behalf. It is even easier to
grant none and to sternly set up false
standard of executive inflexibility which
may win the cheap applause of the
uuthinking. But to make the patient
exnmination, to weigh the considerations
Of public policy and private right, to
keep in view the qualities of mercy and
OF justice. and to brave public criticism
by simply doing what the right of each
case demands, requires the very incest
discrimination, the best qualities of
mind and the highest executive talents.
In none of the duties of his high Office
has Governor Cleveland been more
successful than in the discharge Of those
relating to the pardoning power, and his
statements from time to time of the
reasons moving him, which have accom-.
panied his pardons, have been singu
larly conclusive and convincing. Critical
opponents who have conceded little else
to him have given him unqualified praise
on many of these occasions.
1t is notable that he has shrunk from
no responsibilities which this important
branch of his duties imposed upon him !;
nor has he hesitated to correct the mis-
takes Of courts and iuries when his own
judicial investigation of a case convinced
him that there had been gross error in
the conviction or abuse of judicial
power In the sentence. In a recent
peculiar case brought to Gov Cleveland's s
notice, prisoner had been convicted Of
arson, because he had tried to burn a
hole through the cell in which he was
incarcerated, in order to make his escape.
The evidence showed that precautions
were taken by the incendisry to prevent
the destruction Of the building but the
judge, through palpable error, neglected
to direct the jury tepass upon the ques-
!. tsOn Of intent, and to Gnd the prisoner
guilty only In case they arrived at the
conclusion that his purpose was to
destroy the building, which alone under
the New York decisions could make out
"a case of arson in the first degree, OF
which he was convicted. Governor
Cleveland went into the law and the
facts Of the case, and indisputably estab
1ished a justification of his pardop n,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-09
NO ono wanted Dessers.

From the Chicago Rambler.
A story came to me the other day of an
engineering party in Dakota that had
seated themselves at their dinner table in
q tent, when party Of COW boys rode up.
One of them dismountsd, and thrusting
his pistol in the middle of a rice pudding
that was placed in the centre of tha table.
called out whoever wants pudding
must ask NO." No one seemed to caro- for
dessert that day.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-09
Six In n Year.

Less than twelve months ago, Mrs.
Hugh Blair, of Chattanooga, Tenn, gave
Dlrth 70 three children, all OF which are
inc the same lady gave birth TO two boys
and girl, making six children boru Co the
lady in less than o year.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-09
A Long Isiana Eiopemsns.

The wife OF Deacon Ephraim Arch, of
Vuogue, l.. l., eloped on Sunday with an
unknown negro. II is thought they have
gone to Florida. She leaves three children
and is said co be very handsome. Her
husband is in good circumstances and says
no shall not want to see her again.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-09

From Wilmington Every Evening, Dec s.
Frederick Hoefel, of Lancaster, Pa,
was awarded yesterday, tho contract for
erecting a skating rink on Eleventh street
west of Madison. His bid was sS 800.
The structure, will have q floor surface OF
60x170 feet and be of brick half way up
the first story. Above will bs large
windows filled with oolored glass and
framed with ornamental slate finish and a
ROOF entirely of tin. The Interior will be
painted 10 colors in the Egyptian style and
the building heated by steam. The erec.
tion OF the building will begin at once and
be completed as speedily at possible.
January LIST is set down for the formal
opeaing.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-09

Miss Nettie Koran died Monday at
Fort Atkinson. Wisconsin, from poison.
taken with suicidal intent Before dying
she confessed that she had poisoned her
died suddenly at intervals within three
years.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-09
A Womnn,s ,hsrp R.,n,,

Horace Greeley once asked Mrs. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton ''Whst would you do in
time of war If you had the suffrage P''
"Just what you have done, Mr.. Greeley"
was the quick reply ''stsysd at home
and urged others TO 90 and fight"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-09
seven men Ki,lsu,

An explosion Of gas in Henry Clay coal
slope, Shamokin, Pa, on Monday in which
several hundred persons were at work, is
supposed to have killed seven men. Ono
body Was taken out.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-09

The Philadelphia Record remarks /:
"All plumbing in house ought to be ex-
posed aud painted An excellent sug.
gestion.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-09

The Mahdfs prophetic powers having
been challenged, it is asserted that he
tried to make his followers walk across
the Nile, and thereby lost 5000 men.
The campaign liar is evidently sojourning
in Soudan.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-09

"All plumbing in house ought to be ex-
posed aud painted An excellent sug.
gestion.
The Mahdis prophetic powers having
been challenged, it is asserted that he
tried to make his followers walk across
the Nile, and thereby lost 5000 men.
The campaign liar is evidently sojourning
in Soudan.
DR.. BURoHARp has again dropped into
ALTERATION. This time it is ''the poisoned
arrows of the public press that come in
for his condemnation. And yet to most
Democratic ears the alliteratiye sweetness
| OF "Bully Boy Burchard" is the best.
THE PALM AND THE FINE.
In the far North stands a Pine tree lone
upon wfntry height;
1t sleeps around 1t SHOWS have thrown
covering of white.
1t dreams forever of a Pain
That, far l. the Morning land,
stands silent in a most sad calm
Midst OF the burning sand.
-S'dnsy LaHier's ITanssatioH from ReiHe.
MR.. BLAINE is SO overwhelmed with al
abundance of historical data for his book
that he finds one of his chief labors to bt
| that Of condensation. In his picturesqu,
| style he says he could not ''put hundred
l tons Of hay in ten.ton STABLE" Make /,
five tons and give the book reviewers q
| show.
| BALD-HEADED men are now beginning
to plume themselves on the scarcity oi
their hair. They declare that young and
thoughtless men who do very little brain
work may find hair on top of the head no
obstacle to their comfort, but man whose
brain is in constat exercise naturally
wishes to keep his head COOL and conse-
quently nature considerably thins out his
hair. This is carrying the doctrine OF
making virtue of necessity few steps
too far.
The future of wine growing In this
country as an element of our material de-
velopment that is seldom taken into
sufficient account. France has turned out
over O billion gallons of wine in year
and yet California has as large an acreage
adapted to grape culture as France /;
besides the Pacific slope this country will
have two other great regions for vini
culture the second, the Piedmont slope
or table lands between the Allegheny
mountains and the Blue Ridge, including
the states Of Virginia, North and South
Carolina, Georgia and part of Kentucky
and Tennessee (; and the third the Indian
territory, with large parts of New Mexico,
Arizona and some parts of Arkansas and
Kansas 10 draw from. Besides these is
| the Texan country, and the lake shore
grape region. In all we have 100 acres for
grape growing for every one in France.
In 1870 the United States consumed three
million gallons of native wines and i'm
ported nine million gallons this year it is
estimated that five million gallons were
imported aud twenty eight million gallons
produced here. The California crop is
nearly always sure, while that of France
is uncertain. Kentucky boasts the pro
duction of as fine wines as the world can
show and exhibits $500 an acre profits from
| viticulture.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-09

DR.. BuRoHARD has again dropped into
ALTERATION. This time it is ''the poisoned
arrows of the public press that come in
for his condemnation. And yet to most
Democratic ears the alliterative sweetness
of "Bully Boy Burchard'' is the best.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-09

And Sidney Lanier! What state can
show three brighter names than these
blazing out of the war cloud? Rev. DIR.
William Hayes Ward has told in his
lit memorial how Lanier was summoned
from books to arms how he remained a
private to the close of the war of the
touching compsnionship, in all vicissitudes,
OF his flute how he sketched the unfold
ing, and how he longed for the extermina.
ton OF the germ of the ''strange. enor.
nous, terrible flower of war;" "Though
he loved the free life in the saddle and
under the stars" he felt, as every pure,
heroic heart that beats for man, must feel,
the oppression of the 'tyranuy aud
Christlessness of war;" Even more
touching Is the story OF his later
life, when like the dying swan, his
notes grew sweeter and clearer az
his soul ''cut swiftly into tho great
space of the subtle. unspeakabs deep,
driven by wind after wind of heavenly
melody" In all the history of literature
there is no sweefer story OF more manly
struggle against Fate and Death no
purer love tale than the nari ative of his
search--now with and now away from his
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-09
THE PALM AND THE PM.

THE PALM AND THE FINE.
In the far North stands Pine tree lone
Upon a wintry height;
1t sleeps around 1t SHOWS have thrown
covering of white.
1t dreams forever OF a Palm
That, far l. the Morning land,
Stands silent in a most sad calm
Midst OF the burning sand.
-SIdney Ld1ier's formulation from ReiHs.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-09

Georgia has right to be proud of the
place wrought for her in American liter
ature since the war. Imet lady who
told me much of interest, and some things
l would like to print, Of the sweet, pure
life OF Paul ii. Hayne, whose verse is
the expression of his life aud of his son
VIII, whose poems are already now and
then seen in the papers.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-09

Mr.. BLAINE is so overwhelmed with an
abundance Of historical data for his book
that he finds one of his chief labors to be
that Of condensation. In his picturesque
style he says he could not "put hundred
tons Of hay in ten-ton stable" Make il
five tons and give the book reviewers a
show.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-09

Senator Joe Brown, by the way, was q
Baptist preacher; and Senator ColquItt a
Methodist preacher. Colquitt's sisters
were pupils at the Ltitz female seminary
nearly forty years ago under Principal
Frueauff ; and so was Mrs. Hardeman the
estimable wife of Georgia's Congressman
at large.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-09
SOUTHERN SILHOUETTES
NOTES oT a VISIT TO ATLANTA.


In short in s trip from Washington to
Atlanta and back with two days s9icurn
in Georgia's capital mostly in company
with ardent outspoken Democrats, many
OF them ex Confederate soldiers, but with
many opportunities to intervie Repubi
doubt the patriotism of the people and the
equal protection of all races than | have
TO question the same in Lancaster or
Philadelphia.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-09

Massachusetts, by the way, was tho first
OF the thirteen original colonies to intro
duce slavery and Georgia the last.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-09

hardeman mads hit in his jubilee
speech when, tenderly alluding to the
carpet bagger. he said "The Lord gave,
and the Lord hath taken away blessed be
the name of the Lord"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-01-09

Does Mr.. Carlisle, as Speaker of the
House, and as the leader in the Demo
cratic branch of Congress, intend to
make open war on the pres excellent
national-bank system? He has placed
the fiat lunatic, Buckner, at the aead Of
the Committee on Banking and Curren-
cy, and he has made the silver lunatic,
Bland, YChairman of the Committee on
Coinage. He has placed other imprac-
ticables on botbsof those important com.
mittees, and it looks as if there was to
be revival of GreenbackiSm in its
worst form in Congress this winter To
this end Carlisle has apparently search
ed about in his party for all the bad
material he could find to chuck into the
Buckner committee Representative Va
pie, of the Fourth Michigan District, is
a member of. that committee, and it was
only four years ago that Yaple ran for
Congress as the Simon-pure Greenback
candidate. A year ago last fall he was
elected by fushion among the Green
back and Democrats-the latter sacrific-
ing their 'honest- money! principles for
the hope of success. 1t really looks as
if Mr. Carlisle had organized the Com
mittee on Banking and Currency with
the object of precipitating a financial
crisis upon the country, and if such a
disaster should be averted it will be be-
cause there is good sense enough in Con-
gress to defeat and hold in check the fl
nancial Yageries Of Buckner, Bland and
Company,-ChicagO Journal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-01-09
PAPER as A BUILDING MATER
IAL.

A correspondent in the Jefferson Ban
ner speaks of probable new industry as
follows:
Now that many fibrous vegetable SUBJ
stances, heretofore of but little or no value
wheat straw, rye straw, rice straw,
palm leaf, sea weed, and in England,
peat turf,-are wrought into paper, econ
omists are discussing the utility of man
ufacturing building material from paper
stock. It is asserted that roofing, sheet
ing siding, flooring, doors, shelving, in
deed, all inside and outside useful and
ornamental work can be constructed
cheaper and better from paper stock than
from pine timber.
Presuming that the material has been
fully tested and that the writers know
whereof they testify, may we not hope
that new and profitable industry may
grow up in our midst? 1t is well known
that we are surrounded with extensive
peat fields, which if utilized by convert
ing the fibrous turf into paper, would
build up a new and remunerative indus
try. In England the method of convert
ing peat turf into paper has recently
been discovered and put into successful
operation.
Will Yankee invention, push and
thrift be far behind?
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-01-09

James Russell Lowell, our Minister to
England, gives one an impression of firm
health and muscular vitality. His "a
years have silvered his brow and beard,
and his pleasant blue eyes and courteous
manner make him agreeable and popu-
lar in personal intercourse.
Will the Chicago Tribune, or some
other free-trade hobby-rider. inform the
world why it is that in freetrade Eng
land the iron trade and many other in
dustries are at present suffering degree
of depression that threatens a general
collapse? The free-trade theorists are
quick to attribute ali temporary business
disturbances and depressions in this
country to our system of protective-tariff
duties on imports. but they fail to ex-
plain how it comes that in England,
where they pretend to have no protective
tariff, these business disturbances and
depressions occur more frequently and
more distressing than anywhere else on
the face of the globe. If all that is claim
ed for free trade were anything like true,
such trade crisis as at present exists in
free-trade England would be impossible.
Chicago JON raj.
Judge Maddox, a prominent Green
back orator and politician, failing TO get
an office, has obtained the privilege Of
opening an apple stand near the main
door of the House IN the Capitol at
The Washington CORE
spondent of the Hartford Times says that
f'the spectacle of the Judge in dress
suit of black cloth, high choker collar,
and wearing fashionable beaver tile,
sitting behind his stock of apples and
was not exactly what many
who heard his eloquence during the late
would hardly expect to wit
ness. And yet the Judge looked happy
aud smiled pleasantly"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-01-09
AN HONORABLE PASS.

Among the arrivals in this city not
many days ago, was Mrs. James Cald
we'll, who came hither from Mexico, Mo-,
to visit her son. Her transportation was
through pass to which hangs an inter
esting tale. The instrument was present
ted to herself and husband twenty years
ago, and is life pass for both. 1t is rec
ogpized upon any line of railway in the
United States, and was issued by the
Northern Missouri Railroad Company
after they had respectfully declined an
offer of $4,000 from the corporation.
The couple, who were well-to-do in this
world, having declined a gift of this
magnificent amount, naturally excited
some interest, and the story which is
exceedingly rare is given in brief. Ia
January, 1861, the Confederate bush
whackers set fire to the bridge over
Young's Creek, and Mr. Caldwell got
out of bed in season to check the flames
with pail of water. Then he hurried
to Centralia to.give the alarm, leaving
his wife and children to keep the fire in
check. 1t was bitter cold night, and
Mrs. Caldwell had to wrap her children
10 blankets; but despite the cold they
worked and extinguished the flames.
The bridge. however, had been reduced
to a mere she'll Mrs Caldwell knewIthat
it could not bear up train that was al
most due, and, hurrying 20 her house,
she got a lantern, and stood on the
bridge in tie bitter blast of a January
night until that train with its freight of
human life had been warned and stop
ped.-LeadciELe Democrat.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-01-09
]. PRocroR KNorr has de.

GOVERNOR J. PROCTOR KNOTT has de-
livered his message to the Kentucky
Legislature. Among other things, it
shows that the finances of that oDe sided
Democratic state, as in the one-sided
Democratic city of New York, are in a
deplorable condition, deficits of $500,
900 existing in the State Treasury. The
Governor recommends the taxing of lot
teries, and favors the building of new
Capitol Building.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-01-09

IT is said in Wall street, upon good
authority, that Henry Wizards private
fortune is all gone. the result of the heavy
decline in the value of Northern Pacific
and its kindred stocks, which wrecked
the fortune OF so many, having at length
brought about his ruin also. An init
mate friend Of Mr., Willard stated to re-
porter that Mr.. Willard had nothing left
absolutely nothing. His stocks, his
bonds. his two residences are all involved
in the wreck. He has saved nothing.
He never was so rich a man as reported,
nor anything like it,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-01-09
watertown Market,

Corrected Weekly by VIM. Buchheit
Commission Merchant, Third Street
WATERFOWL.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-01-09

Red Winter Wheat................. "a
White Winter wheat..............."...... so
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-01-09

SABIN ON FINANCE. -MINNEAPoLIs,
Jan. Senator Sabin, Chairman of the
National Republican Committee, this
afternoon defined his position on the
finances as follows: In his opinion, the
payment of the national debt should
cease, in fact, should have ceased long
ago. He would favor the issue of 2
per cent. fifty-year bond by the Govern
ment into which all bonds Of either de-
nominations should be converted as they
mature or are called in. These bonds
could be used as basis for bank issues.
Accompanying this measure should be
the repeal of the l per cent. tax on bank
circulation now existing. This would
make the interest on the new bonds
equivalent to the banks to 3 per cent,
and he thought the majority of the banks
would readily take them, especially if
allowed, as they should be, to insure cir
culation upon their full face, or par value.
Under the present laws the banks can is
sue circulation to the extent of only 90
per cent. of the par value of the bonds
deposited as security for such circulation.
He thought it would be safe to permit
banks to issue notes 70 the par value of
the bonds, because our money cannot be
apy better than our Government.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-01-09
Col. G. II. SLAUGHTER died at Mad

Col. G. Fl. SLAUGHTER died at Madi-
son on the evening of the 4th inst in
the 18th year Of his age, He was born
in Culpepper, V, came to Madison in
1887; was in the territorial council in
1916; represented the counties of Dane,
Dodge, Green, Jefferson and Sank, in
in the state legislature in 1866; was at
the head of the Mineral Point land Of
fee during the administration of Presi-
dents Taylor and Fillmore. At the time
of his death he was crier in the United
States court at Madison