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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-23
Tho military OnmpanN.

Tho Lancaster military company cele
brated their first anniversary last evening
by giving an exhibition drill. They
marched from their armory to Centre
square, where they went through number
OF manWuvres in highly satisfactory
manner. Tho company has improved
wonderfully in the past year and the city
can be proud of IL,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-23
tjOrr0CtiOu.

When tho report of the exercises and
condition of the Mt. Joy soldiers orpha rs
school made it appear that Proprietor
Wright annually spent 81, 900 to u, 800
more for clothing than tho law required,
il should have read that he has over spent
this much in all during his proprietorsht tp
of the school.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-23

1t Ia notorious In Washington that what
mellows most men, makes Edmunds
more churlish. To some Washington
college boys, who nominated him in their
mock convention, Edmunds has written
that he much prefers their compliment
to the actual Office in question, the EN-
barrassments and burdens of which he
does not desire to assume. 1t does not
follow from this, however, that it would
be safe for real convention to offer him
a nomination with the expectation that
A. will be refused.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-23

SOME of its esteemed contemporaries
are anxiously inqurng just what the
staid New York Ersai1g Post means
when 1t wishes that Blaine would go and
hobnob with Gervinus," inasmuch as
"Gervinus" has been dead these thirteen
years and nobody-e1cept perhaps the
Post knows Just where he went.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-23

MAJOR GENERAL BENJAMIN FRANZ.
LIN BUTLER, having accepted one nom.
ination for president, what is the use
of him going to Chicago to help make
another
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-23

IT is curious yet reliable fact that the
general health OF Cincinnati has been i'm
proved since her recent food visitation
The loss in property seems to have been
more than compensated by the gain in
public health, due to enforced cleanliness
from the food waters
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-23

A PoETEss, who has been indulging
her fancy over June" needs to change
tho title or print her verses in a climate
further north. Apple blossoms in the
orchard are gone " hosts Of starry
dandeIions are now gray headed and
going to seed the pale arbutus " has
withered and vanished, and the "dafTodils
in garden borders" will not outlast the
present month L" May s the proper
name for that poem.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-23
TnK RAsHrrL MARnrREITE.

Sweet Marguerite looked shyly from the gras,
OF country fields and softly wi i-pcr red Here
| make my home, content; tor l,-A'azi
Am not the rose the city holds 30 dear"
just then, the Queen, driving by chance tina
way,
Called 10 page Bring me that Marguerite
l am so tired OF roses '"-ErOm tnst day.
Tho daisy hal the whole world a. her feet.
~ NfrE0Fy,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-23
rho state OF ,ho Bauks

The excitement caused by the suspension
of the Penn bank. in pittsburg, has sub
sided, and there was no run on any of the
banks on Tuesday. The Penn bank
officials say they will reopen their doors
with $780, 600 cash ON their counters. The
stockholders Of the Penn bank have au-
nounced that business will DO resumed
with $3.50, 600 in cash on their counter,
and reserve fund of $4,000 for emer-
geucies." The amount liable to draft 10y
depositors is 1900, 900, but depositors rep
resentiug $50, coo have sigued an agree
ment not to withdraw.
Elicit, DEewry Il Co, wholesale dry
goods dealers, of Richmo ond, Virginia, have
made an assignment with preference
amounting 10 Sl03, 900. Their total liabili
ties are placed at s2OO, ,OOO. Mr.. Drewry
thinks they will be able 10 pay in full.
lu ST. Louis attachments aggregating
over $40, 900 were filed against the firm
of Kaufman, Cohen \ Co, Wholesale
millineTs.
Gall Iaued for Ten Millions In sonds
The secretary Of the treasury has issuet
the l2S:h call for the redemption Of bonds
The call is for ten million dollars three
per cent. bonds issued under tine act oil
Congress, approved July l2, 1892, aud
notice Is given that the principal and &C
crued interest will be paid at the treasury
of the United States on the 3Oth day OF
June, 1884, and that the interest on the
bonds will cease on that day.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-23

THERE is great deal of maudlin seuti .
ment regularly poured on the colored man
just prior to the election, only to be for
gotten when his services are no longer
needed. But tho managers of the New
Orleans cotton exposition have taken a
practical way OF showing their belief in
the negro's capacity by appropria,ing
$50, 900 to an exhibit to be given by the
colored race Of their progress in the arts
and manufactures. AS forty per cent, OF
the mechanics Of New Orleans are said to
be colored men, an exposition that neg
lected that large portion of tho city's
working classes would be necessarily in
complete.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-23

II has been less than ten years since the
LsMoyne crematory reduced to ashes the
body of Baron de Palm, it's first subject.
At FIRST tho bodies burned were mostly
those Of cranks, but since tho example of
DIR. Gross and tho declaration Of DR..
Leidy, cremation, which had been steadily
gaining ground before that, has received
fresh impetus and the list of subscribers
to the Lancaster crematory includes law.
yers and doctors, bankers and editors,
teachers and publishers, men and women ::
the system makes no discrimination
against race, color nor previous condition
of seryitude. Tho necessity for such an
institution right here in Lancaster il
Intensified by the announcement now sent
out from Washington, Pa by the trustees
of the LeMoyne crematory there--the only
one in the country-that after August no
bodies will be received there from outside
of Washington county for cremation. Dr.
F, Julius LeMOyne erected this crematOry
for his own use aud that of persons in his
immediate neighborhood, and not for the
generalpublio. The trustees have admit
ted bodies for incineration from all parts
OF the country since the death of DR., Le-
Moyne In order to carry out his view OF
reform--keeping the subject before thG
public But they believe now, from grow
Ing interest manifested on the subject, that
other crematories will be built and that
the public will bo accommodated else.
where.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-23

SENATOR VEST has put on his sky blue
pantaloOus and congressman know that
the spring time is hore.
Mrs HESDRTCKs, who is even \ greater
than Mrs. Logan, never lost faith in the
denomination Of the odd ticket"
PRrSCE NICroR NAPOLEON has fallen
heir to so, 900 wiIled him by some un.
known person recently deceased,
BBl,Tow will not answer Wayne Mac
Neagh's letter. He considers that ait is
its own best punishment He is right
VERDI is an impressive looking old man
with snow white hair and mustachc. His
spirits aud health have been failing ever
since the death of Wagner, which affected
him deeply.
SIR HENRY Thompson, tho great Lon
don physician, in 1874 said NO dead
pOlluting the earth, the air and the water
above and about it" And 1t has never
been galnsaid.
JoEI. c. HARRIS ("Uncle Remus') was
nearly shot in his editorial room the other
day by an irate planter because he was
announced to marry tbs planters daughter
in a newspaper paragraph, set ahoat by a
fellow Joker on an esteemed contem-
pOrary.
BrRHuARDT's debut as Lazy HIc beth
has been a great histFionic success. Ia
the first act "she wore n white Jersey, close
fitting as glove, no cOrsets. Embroider-
ed tsUrl de lys in gold and blue were scat
tered over the jersey, and the arms and
| corsage were checked in diamonds Of the
same color, while puffs of white crept d,
| Chino weTo at the shoulders, a gold corO
net in her forehead and her auburn hai
tell loosely over her shoulders" 9Th,
nervous, electric convulsion with which
she recoils from the fancied apparition o
the blood of the murdered Duncan, snC
her hopeless wall Of supernatural agony
created that peculiar cold shiver amoul
the audience which is only to be attain e'
by the very perfection of dramatic art.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-23

"LoSDoN-Jay Gould, New York Very
much obliged for your message. My ad.
vices look as if the depressing influences
Of past week are almost over. | think
you will tiud results will be in accordance
with the views expressed in your dispatch.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-23
FINANCIAL NOTES.
vANoERp,Lr AND aoULDooNpERRIN,
Thcy Agree Tnat Times WIN Ge, Better
Thc secretary Calls Tor Bonds-Con-
tItion of tho Banks

The following cables have been cx-
cha nged between w. II. Vanderbilt and
Jay Gould on the financial situation
"W. IL. Vanderbilt, London Since
your departure the failure OF Grant "
Ward, the Marine bank, Metropolitan
bank and others have so greatly disturbed
confidence that good securities have suf-
iorcd large depreciation in common with
poorer ones. But to day we have a
steadicr market and better feeling, with
no further failures, and none likely to
occur. Mr.. Sage opened his doors today
aud accepted all outstanding privileges.
think matters will continue to improve.
The new pools between trunk lines on a
money basis were completed and signed
to day. Mr.. Fink is now considering an
advance of east bound rates to twenty
cents, which he will probably order. All
threatened disturbances among roads west
Of Chicago have been averted. The crop
prospects throughout the West and South
and Northwest were never looking more
prosperous than now, which will guaran,
toe large fall business. ''JAN GoULD.'
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-23
HERE AND THERE.

II see," said bright young Republic
can from the country, that John III.
Lands dedioates his book on Blaine TO tho
young men of the country who are willing
to devote their best energies in advancing
the cause for which James A. Garfield
died | should like to know what cause
that was IL Garfield may be properly
said to have died in any particular cause
il was in the struggle to make Robertson
collector of New York II defiance of civil
service and good faith. There was nothing
heroic in that cause nor attractive in such
q career"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-23

war and the cause, leading up to it.
-
In Thomas Benton's alphabet OBJ"
stood for Benton,
The literature of cremation is limited
because the practical agitation of this
mode OF disposing Of tho human dead is
very recent. But since there is TO be a
clematory in Lancaster, and as many Of
the leading citizens show resolute pur.
pose to adopt this system, those who are
anxious to pursue their Investigations of
the subject will do well to get tho little
work on " Cremation" by Il. Z. Williams,
A. NJ, recently published by j b. Lppin
cott & Co., and filled with argument and
illustration, on sanitary, economic and re-
ligious grounds, for the improved method
OF disposinR of the dead.
Another ardent young Republican CON-
plains that he has looked all through the
Landis. Glare lie and speeches of James
G.. Blaine aud finds no mention of the
most famous speech Blaine ever made.
that in which he called COnkling a "siuged
cat" turkey cock" and other pet
| names.
-
This critic might have added that the
work in question has no mention of the
famous speech made by Blaine in present,
ing To tho government the statue OF
William King, in which he so severely re.
viled Massachusetts,. Nor does it refer tC
that episode OF BlaiDe's life in which he
hired a substitute to do his fighting, who
| got no further than tho chair OF a proves,
marshal, whencn he was sent 10 lai. II
fact, history of the life of Mr.. Blaine
written by his friends, is most likely to bC
chiefly remarkable for what it does moi
tell Of his career. SINDDAD.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-01-03

-~Gustave Dore Is the name Of a new
street in Paris
The husband of Mdlle. Nordica has
made 100000 by introducing tele-
phones into Paris.
A German has computed that from
1902 until 1918 Napoleon /, consumed
$500, 900 men, or at the rate of half a
million year.
Baron Nordenskiold is understood
to be contemplating as his next adven-
ture in exploration voyage to the
south pole in 1885. This expedition
would cost at least 81, 0OO, 900, as a ship
of special type would have to be built
for its purpose.
"A Scotch dai,yman was recently
convicted of selling milk which had
stood in the room in which child was
I'll with scarlet fever. The milk abb
sorbed the poison. and seventeen
persons were infected with the disease,
FOUR of whom died.
The Baroness Rothschild has Just
purchased, for 100000 francs, CHM
ney clock and candelabra which formed
part of the furniture in the Palais Royal
before the Revolution. The Baron
ess intends to present the set to the
Princess Amelia of Orleans, in whose
family they formerly were.
-Russia's determination to maintain
her hold upon Central Asia is illustrated
by the circumstance that her Foreign
Office has instituted course of instruc-
ton in oriental language for military
officers Officers who pass it will have
to serve three years in the territory in
Central Asia.
The most successful jockey during
the season recently ended in England is
Fred Archer, whose winning mounts
number 232, this being three in excess
of his previous best record-229 in 1878.
He has thus accomplished the unprece-
dented feat of heading the list of win
uing jockeys for ten successive years.
John Bright makes notes and head
ings of his speeches, and with great
care writes down and commits to men,
DRY all the important passages. Glad
stone merely jots down facts and fig
ures, and for expression trusts entirely
20 the moment. The late Lord Derby,
he '.Rupert of debate" wrote down
ssery word and committed his speeches
10 memory. In one of his letters he
says that all his principal speeches cost
him two sleepless nights in think
ing what he would say and the other in
Iamenting that he might have said it
better. Theirs was equally precise.
O'Connell and Gambetta spoke always
On the inspiration of the moment.
Everything commercial seems to be
abundant just now, including dla-
monds. The post-office at Kimberley,
South Africa, forwarded to Europe, in
1881, diamonds worth $20,981 ,01O, and
last year diamonds worth $19,622,5l0.
During the past eleven years it has for
warded diamonds worth S131, 900, 900.
But from September, 1882, to May,
1888, owing to a break in the mine, the
registered value of the diamonds found
was only FL, 892,778. Accordingly, the
like the farmers, hope
for a rise. Nearly all the diamonds
now found in West Grigualand are Off
cially registered, and the annual sup
ply is as well known as is that of wheat
and corn.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-01-03
THE OLD PEK.

lis the same Old pew, though its cushions re,
have faded with passing time,
AS the color from out my cheeks has fed
since sat here in my prime.
1 nx my eyes on the pulpit tall.
And there thronz upon my mind
My gfrihoods dreams-alas, of all.
How few are left behind.
Here Elder Jones once sat erect
at first-but nodded SOM,
And Mrs.. Barnes - her one defect,
She slept each afternoon
Sat just behind. He'd soon commence
holding back, but she
Dozed forward. and the consequence
The children laughed to see.
And mp there in the gallery
The boys were wont to stay,
My heart beats. as fstill furtively)
glance again that way.
sometimes. know, when one was there,
My heart beat quick and warm;
When he was absent all was bare
The titled neighbors FARM.
j recollect the very dress
wore in those old days,
AND BACK upon my memory press
Sweet words of love and praise.
Whittier have fed my girlhoods grace
The love. the joy, knew?
All time and care all charms efface,
Like thine and mine. old pew.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-01-03
Old Autograph. !"

A few days ago General F. E. Spin
ner, of Mohawk, so many years Treas
/ urer of the United States, passed up
Genesee street, in Utica, looking almost
as hearty as ever. He wore the military
style of SLOUGH hat and short blue cloak.
and looked every inch the veteran that
he is. He had come home from Florida
to vote, and was looking around our
city on a shopping excursion with the
ladies of his family. A correspondent
writing from Washington to the Pitts
burgh (Pa.) Chronicle says that story
is printed that has this for its begin
uing:
.Sophy is the name of an old colored
woman who had been appointed upon
the scrubbing force of the Treasury De-
partment by Secretary Chase.'
We may observe that scrubbers in the
Treasury Department are never APP
pointed. They are not subject to the
ANNOYANCE of civil-service nonsense;
they are not put to the ordeal of COM
petitive test; they receive no written
certificate signed by the Secretary
making them office-holders; they are
not furnished with a yellow envelope
when they have TO go. The custodian
of the building employs them; he keeps
the labor roll, and pays them at the
rate of fifteen dollars a month. They
work from four until six p. M, and
when they are no longer wanted he
tells them they need not come again
until notified. Nevertheless, Sophy is
reality, and has been in the Treasury
Department since Secretary Chase's
time. She is on the down grade of fifty,
is fine figure of woman, and is
worth her weight in gold-which is
about two hundred pounds-for her
faithful and trustworthy traits. 1t is to
illustrate these that the story locating
her with the scrubbers is told. She
ranks as messenger now, somewhat
soft position, when, as in Sophy's case.
the duties consist chiefly in waiting up
on the lady clerks. This may sound
strange, but is nevertheless true; nor
Is this kind of attention confined TO
these ladies. An army of male messen-
gers render like service to the gentle
men clerks.
1t is related of Sophy that she once
distinguished herself by some volunteer
guard duty in the interest of the Gov
eminent. It was when General Spin
ner was Treasurer that, one evening
when she was sweeping and busting,
SUE ulSCOfcIcu III OuC VI buO
rooms pile of uncovered greenbacks,
which had been carelessly left by one
of the counters. The s.fnd'' frightened
her. because all of the officials had left
the building. and there were only
watchmen, sweepers, busters and scrub
beers there, to none of whom did she
dare reveal the exposed condition of
the money, lest they might be tempted
beyond their power of resistance. 1t is
told that in her extremity she put her
ample weight npon the pile of money.
which had the double effect of conceal
ing it and keeping it down.
In these days Father Spinner slept in
a room adjoining the Treasurer's Office
An eccentricity which brought upon
him quantity of scandal aud Sophy
knew that, in the course of time, he
would come home to bed. 1t might be
late--for the father was liable to stay
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-01-03
The Interior of japan.

The interior of Japan is still under
the letters of Oriental heathenism. All
manner of putrefying vegetables and
animals lined the sides OF the streets
(sidew alks are rare), and the smell
which was waited therefrom was most
abominable. 1t required all the cour-
age we could muster to keep us from
utter detection. 1t is the abominable
smells which proceed from Japanese
food that prejudice persons with civil
lied appetites against eating even the
few things which might otherwise be
relished Most travellers into the in
terror provide themselves with timed
meats, bread, condensed milk, butter
and such articles. We omitted even this
precaution in the first flush of sef-con-
fidence. as well as in view of the extern
sive addition which such a provisioning
would make to our luggage.
Oh, the poor children that are grow
ing up in the interior of Japan. the
poor, blind eyes that look up out of sal
low faces and mutely plead for the full
dawning of the day. These sight1ass
orbs and the various diseases which so
often in the past have swept over this
island with terrible mortality are the re-
suit of the Indifference which the ma
tives manifest toward the commonest
sanitary precautions. Were the coun-
try opened up I think foreign abhor-
renee of these evils would bring about
reform. Even now l can hear the
plaintive whistles of the blind without,
rs they move about on their nightly pill
grimages among the sick. Japanese
men and women who lose their eye
sight take to the profession of healer,
and go about at night laying hands on
the rheumatic. It is at night that the
victims of rheumatism suffer most, and
so the blind choose that time for solicit
ing the employment of their services.
The whistle serves at once to warn PEE
destrians and vehicles of their approach
and to notify the sufferers that help is
nigh.
I have heard that many foreigner
travelling in the interior have become
intoxicated and created an unfavorable
impression. I can understand now why
it is so. The water supply of the coun-
try is very limited, and that which is
obtainable is q prolific source of disease.
God made the water pure, but the ma
tives have poisoned it. Many of the
European citizens of Yokohama send
out into the neighboring kens and buy
their supplies. This poisoned water
brings about various diseases, but its
principal mischief is wrought to the hui
man eye. Two years ago the Govern
ment promulgated q closing order, in
view of prevailing pestilences, and all
the wells were padlocked.-Cor.P hila-
delohia Press.