Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-03-13
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With chiselled touch,
The stone uuhewn and cold,
Becomes living mould,
The more the marble wastes
The more the statue grows
Michael Angelo, Translation.

The more the marble wastes
The more the statue grows
Michael angelo, Translation.
The petroleum exports for January, 1884
show falling off Of 4,096,07s gallons Us
compared with the same month of 1888. The
aggregate for the seven months ending
January 81, 1884, however, as compared
with the same period of the preceding
year shows gain OF %, ZIG, ,s3i gallons.
THE trustees of the Presbyterian
hospital in refusing the bequest of s2 500
from the charity ball fund on account of
its alleged IN christian source, have estab
lished n new criterion for money. Hitherto
it had been popularity believed that
money was always orthodox, while princi-
pies alone might DO hereiicll
| THE Republicans of Missouri hayiay .
failed to sustain one party will try the
experiment of two. They will be known
respectively the " Filley 4" and Van
Horn PARTIES, but really it is tho Stal
,watt and Half Breed distinction. Their
state Conventions meet on the same day
and place, which looks like an attempt at
| reconciliation.
BREWSTER, attorney general, cannot be.
lievo that it is poss ble certain persons
are aiding in tho prosecution of heinous
crimes by shipping to foreign ports ex
plosiyes dangerous in the highest degree to
life and property" nevertheless, as it is
so reported, he gives public notice that
there are severe federal statutes against
this sort of thing and all of Uncle Same
officials are exhorted to be dilgeut in their
efforts To prevent the offenses described,
and 10 detect and prosecute those who
have or may commit them. Now let the
British lion smooth down his rutiisd maue.
In was to have been expected that the
" weird, ghostly, fascinating and blood
freezing" sight of "that great, gaunt, |
hollow eyed aud silent giant pushing "a
long, slim black coffin through score
OF country papers, moro or less simulta
neously, "by special arrangement"
would be too much for tho average small
wy SOaSV'y n"A Iho EItGt, bauhl, |
hollow eyed and silent giant " made his
appearance when juvenile captain
kidds," Dick Dare Devils, :" and Slim |
Sans !" were found at dozen railroad |
stations, armed with dime novels and |
pistols and bound for Mormon land TO |
take vengeance on the bloody Danisss :
no less than seven such were gathered in |
at Jersey City yesterday, on their way to
New York in search, no doubt, Of " Joa
quin Miller's" " lair.
Fox the sake of our common humanity, |
II is to be hoped that tho terrible tales of |
suffering among the Siberian exies are
much exaggerated, Prince Krapotkine
details the horrors Though which the un |
fortunates go on their journey to the Rus
sian prison pens Of Siberia, and il one half |
of tho dreadful story be true, Russian |
prison atrocity will remain forever unpar.
alleled. Men, women and children arc
crowded together in rough vehicles, driven
for days over tho toughest roads thence
packed into river barges like SO many cat.
tie and Whenever an opportunity is given
to walk they are chained together In
squads, tho stronger dragging along tho
weaker, with soldiers on all sides ready to
shoot the first ono who attempts to escape.
The government that counteuauces sueh
terrible barbarity towards its criminals is
blot on the fair face OF civilization.