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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-22
FEATURES OF THE STATE PRESS.

FEATURES OF THE STATE PRESS.
Nautcoke has new daily paper called
the Press
Tho Erie Herald doubts whether law
compelling prescriptions to be written in
English would prevent druggists mis-
takes.
The Philadelphia Record congratulates
the Democracy on having no leaders, the
reason being that the party leads its
leaders.
The supporters of Blaine will probably
be surprised TO learn from Wharton
Barker's AmeTlcGH that they have no real
hope ofnominating their fayorite.
Tho Wilkesbarre Leader says there
can be no civil service reform in party
which supports treasury surplusses and
monopoly tariffs and let's Star Route
thieves go free.
Apropos of tho recent Wall street
failures, the Washington Rtpie6 and
Examiner observes : There will not be 80
much soap shipped to Indiana in 1884 as
theTo was 1850"
More than seventy five speeches for and
against the Morrison bill costing over
$4,000 bave been printed at public
expense the Scranton Republican thinks
this is a bad way to reduce the surplus
The first issue of the revived Altoona
Times, which will in future be a morning
paper, made its appearance on Wednesday.
The columns have been heightened, four
lew columns added and the editors an
nouncs their determination to sturdily
defend Democratic doctrines in Blair
county. Messrs. McPike and Mccullough
are able journalists and their enterprise
mus. certainly succeed.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-22
kEitSON AL

Mr. MAHLON ii, DICKINSON, president
Of the state board of charities, IL is lumored
will soon resign his position.
REV. ID. +. SCHoEDLER, of this city,
formerly principal of the Obey academy,
Berks county, will leave for San Francisco
to day, where he will assume the duties of
missionary superintendent OF tho Reformed
church in that place.
KING LEOPOLD banqueted on Tuesday
King William and Queen Emma, OF
Holland. IL was tho first time that the
two kings, who wero born in the same
city, had met in their birthplace and ex
changed good wishes,
PAsTEUR, the French scientist, who has
become conspicuous recently, because OF
his experiments in hydrophobia, and who
Is said to be always right" regards his
remarkable discoveries as only u begin
ming. "Oh, if ] only had time = he says
HENRY IRVING relates the following
good story of Judge Black: A lawyer
named Chambers who was pleading before
him, stopped his arguments to demonstrate
against the courts rudeness. Judge Blacl
retorted with the quotation
HAPPY for I'm bldck,
And have not those soft parts OF conyersatiO or
That chambers have.
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all admissions, 30 that no undeserving
persons are admitted, and thus-withthe
gradual closing of the schools-the mum.
Der of their inmates may be restricted
to their accommodations. Proper re-
gard for these things, together with
vigorous and intelligent supervision and
inspection of the schools, by persons to-
tally disinterested and disconnected from
the system, will spare them from some
iust reproach which has fallen upon their
Administration and yet set forth Just as
conspicuously the real worth of their
work which is unmistakable and a
proper occasion for pride on the part OF
the people of the state which has been
foremost in providing for the orphans of
It's soldiers.
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Uneven ,lustice.

Mr.. James ii. Heverin, Of the Pnila-
delphia bar, was assaulted few days
ago by st. Clair McCaulley on Chestnut
street, Philadelphia, without reason T;
and McCaulley is already in Jail on a
five years sentence at the hands Of Judge
Elcock.
1t was claimed at the trial that Mr..
McCaulley was insane, and all the eyi-
dence produced was to this effect. The
commonwealth did not rebut it. The
defence asked that the trial should be
delayed that they might furnish further
evidence of insanity.
Judge Elcock refused this reasonable
request. He refused to see in the fact
that the assault was unprOvoked any
confirmation of the suspicion that the
man was crazy. He instructed the jury
that the plea of insanity was one to be
lightly regarded in these days, when
it is 80 freely offered. Judge
Elcock, in fine, acted as the hot
advocate of the defendants guilt
instead Of as the dispassionate Judge
upon whom it laid to give him the
benefit of any doubt as to his guilt
Judge Elcock secured his conviction
and then sentenced him to five years
imprisonment, a penalty ind cative Of
vindictive nature in the judge greateI
than that charged in the indictmen
against the prisoner.
Judge Elcock is the personal friend o
Mr.. Hevern and made his friends enem
his own. This is something which it /
wholly unfit for a judge to do and con
firms the suspicion, which we have 70
some time had, based on other acts o
Judge Elcock, that he is not 6lesse
with that evenness and impartiality O
disposition which are neededto Constitut
a fair judge. We say it with regre
but with an emphasis demanded by tn
uneven holding of the scales of justice
the case Of the commonwealth agains
McCaulley.
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The Fatal Termination of Runaway Acc
nn AInnnAY


dent on Monday.
Peter Scheid died AZ his residence on St.
Joseph street last evening, Of injuries re-
ceved in runaway accident. Scheid
was employed by jacob Gable, whose team,
consisting Of horse aud wagon, he was
driving down Rocklaud street, between
Middle and Vine, on Monday afternoon.
The animal had been rather loosely
hitched aud as he walked along
tho wagon struck him on the legs
causing him to friShten aud run. He
turned Into Vine street ard ran TO a point
Just west of Duke, where the wagon
struck tree. Scheid was thrown heavily
to tho ground aud was out about tho face.
He also complained of his breast. lie was
taken to the Office of DR.. George Z. King,
whero it was found that he was suffering
from internal in uries. He was soon after
wards removed to his home. He seemed
to grow better after the accident until
yesterday morning, when a change for the
worse took place and he became uncon-
scious, remaining in that state up to the time
of his death, which occurred at half past q
O'Clock last evening. Deceased was about
AZ years of age and had worked for Mr..
Gable for many years. He leaves q wife
aud five children.
His funeral will take place at 4 O'Clock
p. M, Sunday, and will be attended by st.
Peters, St. Joseph's aud st. MichaePs
beneficial societies, and by tho Conestoga
and Schiller mutual benefit associations,
of all Of which Mr.. Shield was o member.
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rhn ronn Mank su.pensinn.

The Penn bank of Pittsburg suspended
Wednesday, in consequence of a run upon
it which had continued for several days.
Its p.oStdent, Mr.. Riddle, said the deposits
had decreased over 100000 within five
days, owing to uufounded reports made
current by interested and malicious per.
SONS \ stookholder says the bank is Gu
tirely solvent aud will pay all its indebted.
ness. The capital stock is 100000 Mr..
Riddle said that tho directors of the bank
had begun au examination of its affairs,
and everything indicated that all claims
would be paid in full He declined to
make auy statement of the liabilities and
arrests, but il was learned from an out
side source that tho liabilities will moi
exceed 81, 500, 900, and that the assets vii
moro than cover this. Tho only question
is ia regard to the time Necessary L
realia).
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whom they return from vacation or holi.
day and bring back with them the effects
Of ovcr indulgence or tho diseases peculiar
to tho malarial districts from which thoy
hail. Most of tho Gtudeuts come from
towns, rather than tho rural regions. DR..
Il. says ho has authority to minister TO
their comforts and necessities, regardless
OF expense. and the sanitary condition of
tho school certainly confirms his estimate
of its good IN lnagomsnt. For all that, IL
seems that the sick rooms might DO i'm
proved in ventilation aud adornmcnt aud
tho water closets and sewerage ol tho
place are capable of improvement
The DisI
Tho pupils, who do the housowo,k by
turns, boys and girls, and are given prac
tical instruction in tho useful arts of
sweeping, baking, cooking, washing,
ironing, 40, arc fed three times day
regularly. They rise early, go to bod
early and keep good order in their dormi
tories. They get good healthy bread, the
buttor is boing improvcd-aS it needed to
be--and while the fare is not luxurious the
best proof that 1t is wholesome Is tho APP
rearance and condition of tho children.
Thore is no going behind those returns.
Tho Instruction.
The corps of teachers is small, for the
number of pupils but they work with
remarkable efficiency aud SUCCESS, as the
results show aud the course of study and
system of mental training provo them.
selves. Tho drill is tho best physical
exercise Of the school but it ought to DO
supplemented with gymnasium apparatus
of which thoro are no signs on tho ground
The discipline Of tho school is good !;
there seems To bo prevailing spirit of
manly Independence and iranknnsS among
tho children and III private they Indulge
in little whining, while they show
no signs of being brow beaten or cowcd.
| The restraint of the sexes and their com.
municaton with each other is admirably
managed the principal ia free from trOu.
bio and the school has been exempt from
scandal ON this score, whilo wholesome
liberty is tolerated.
For the keep, care, clothes and education
of the children, Mr.. Wright receives $ll1
each for all under 10 years of age
and $50 apiece for all over lO-ayer'
aging about Sl30 per capita. Ono sixth o
this he is required to Gxpcud for clothing
showing rigiual bills for tho same and
he says ho overTuus this every year from
81, 500 10 al, 500. For about 800 pupils hC
got last year from tbs state $40, 900 some
people think he makes u great deal OF
money out of IL ho Invites them to Try
it aud tiud out for themselves.
On the whole, with the exceptions noteC
above, the Mt. Joy school seems to bC
admirably carrying on; ito purposes bu
tho reforms indicated should DO mad,
without delay. The principal 1t woul,
seem, can afford them, and the state dc
partment should insist upon them. Th
SO called inspectors should long ag
have secured them. A school Is bes
Judged by the outcome Jf those who ar
subjected to its training, and by this tes
Mt. Joy shows up well. But tho next 81!
years OF its existence will be crowned Wit
more success If its accomm DdatiOns ar
enlarged and its number Of prpils KEEP
, down TO them.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-22

In tho grand lodge OF Odd Fellows it
was decided to pay off debt of 5000
which the lodge has been carrying for
several years. This clears the grand
lodge Of all incumbrances. The following
officers were elected Grand master,
Geo. uawkey deputy grand master, F.
V. Nauartsdaleu grand warden, Charles
". Ridgeway grand secretary, Jas. B
Muckle representative to sovereign
grand lodge, samuel F. Gwinuor. The
election OF deputy grand master also took
place, the list including one representative
tlOm each county.
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Soldiers Orphans schools.

Hindsight is conspicuously clearer
than foresight. II 1t could have been
anticipated In the days or Gov. Curtin's
administration, when the generosity OF
the Pennsylvania railroad company
laid the foundation OF the soldiers
orphans schools 81 stem, that the supply
of orphans and the tenure of these
schools would last until 1890 the plan of
their administration could have been
much improved. Especially might about
one half the normal schools fostered by
the state during the last quarter of a
century have been proltably converted
into schools for soldiers orphans and at
their close, as such, a afoundation would
have been laid for that system of indus
trial training for which there is popu
lar aemand, whether it Is founded in
wisdom or not.
But the fact is that the schools are
here now, as organized under existing
laws, and are here to stay until 1890.
Any attempt to extend their time should
be firmly opposed. Such an effort can
only have purpose In desire to abuse
their privileges and original objects or in
schemes Of private speculation and per
sonal profit. The consideration with the
public and with state supervision should
be how to best carry out the laws con
trolling them. They have long been
objects Of suspicion and subjects for
much complaint, more or less well
grounded. The exceptions to their
management can generally be very lib
orally discounted, with due regard to the
querulousness of parents who commit
their children to these schools, and the
unreasonableness Of the pupils who ex =
pect all the luxurles and indulgences Of
home life where they are not to be ex-
pected, and ought not to be granted.
With view of presenting the average
condition Of these institutions, the In
TELLIeENCER has for itself investigated
the Mt. Joy school, not only because it
Is the nearest to us and the one of which
most complaints have reached us, but
because 1t Is rated as a fair representa-
tive OF the system and is under the man
agement of ex-senator Wright, who has
two other schools, There is much found
In its management to commend ant
some things to crlticise and al
are alike frankly stated IL
the report given In our loca
columns. What Is most urgentl
demanded In the way of improvement
can be made, we feel confident, by tn
proprietor at Mt. Joy. Already, since hi
attention has been called to them, certai
deficiencies have been corrected and hi
new principal seems TO be earnest an,
dhigent IN the work Of reform. TIL
school department OF the state has II
duty 10 perform In carefully investigating
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-22
A Lancaster Coanty Mans Bicycling Invsn.
tiOnB,

OAIOfu ffess.
DR.. n. NJ. Wilson, of Philadelphia, for.
melly Of Little Britain, this county, is an
inventive genius as well as successful ply.
siciau. He has obtained letters patent for
tho use of vulcanized paper fibre for the
hubs aud felloes OF bicycle and tricycle.
wheels. 1t makes o light, durable and
strong wheel and has several points of ex
celence over the steel aud rubber wheels
now in use. DR., Wilson has also invented a
tricycle. for which he has made application
for letters patent. 1t is great improve
ment on the present tricycle.. The third
wheel is behind and close to the rider,
instead of being in front like the present
machine, Is easily controlled iu its office OF
steering and is not in the way of tho free
action of the rider. This tricycle is
we'll adapted for ladies and children
and for businessmen. The machine ia
bound to work revolution in this GLASS of
vehicles. DR.. Wilson had large number
OF practical men to examine his tricycle.,
all Of whom pronounced it complete and
he has also had offers of purchase from
manufacturers and business parties for his
tricycle. and the right to use his patent
| paper wheels
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-22
Lancaster CounIiaps In Law SUIT.

Philadelphia Press,
Jacob F. Frantz, of Wilmington, Del,
has beeu held in ss,400 bail by Judge
Arnold, on a capias in civil proceedings
issued at the suit of Homer A. Herr, of
Philadelphia, who alleges that Frantz and
several confederates, who have not hitherto
been arrested, robbed him by threat and
intimidation Of about q, 900 in money and
promises to pay. The co-defendants are
jerome B Bell, Clinton Rice, G. fl. Lob
dell, Edgar II. Cook, J. j. Rice j. X.
Bayliss Herr was the creditor of several
Of the defendants for money loaned and
money due from commercial transactions.
In September 1882, they all called at his
office, ho AYERS in his complaint, aud, hav-
ing secured the doors, by threats and
intimidation compelled him to part with
their individual notes aud money amount.
ing to nearly 81 900. They were threatened
with legal proceedings at the time and
frequently since, but Mr.. Herr says they
have never returned any part Of the
valuables claimed. Tho remaining defen.
dants are to be arrested when found.
Mr. Herr says he will institute criminal
proceedings az tho termination of the civil
suits.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-22
Ascension Thursday.

To. day il Ascension Thursday, whom
the Christian world honors the ascension
OF Christ into heaven. The feast is a
holy day of obligation In Catholic churches
and is very ancient, having been observed
az early as A. ID. GS. 1t occurs tho 10th
day after the resurrection OF tbs Savior.
The public schools were closed to-day, and
appropriate services were held in the
Catholic Episcopalan, Lutheran, Reformed
and other churches,
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ALetter Boz smssner In Limbo.

Frank Bender, tho ls year Old boy who
smashed tho lamp.poSt lctter box few
day ago, was taken to Philadelphia yes.
terdaY by Officer Barnhold aud handed
over to tho United States authorities.
Uuitcd States Commissioner Philips com
mitted him for trial. Bender declared at
the hearing, in extenuatiOn of his otfense,
that ho was drunk Mt the time.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-22
A Cake Walk.

There was largo attendance at the fair
OF the Goodwill band last evening. The
feature of the entertainment was cake
walk in which twelve couples OF colored
people participated. The prize, q large
cake, was won by Edward Clark and bis
sister Elizabeth, who exhibited the most
grace.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-22
NOtaty AunaIntea

Governor Pattison has appointed George
Byrode, of Elsabethtown, a notary public
for said borough, his commission TO date
from May 2Sth aud run until tho end of
the next session OF the state Senate,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-22
ODE on MORTALITY.

Our birth Is but dream and u TO: getting,
The Dust that rises with US, our LIES : tar,
Hath elsewhere al Its settling,
And cometh from afar
Not in entire tOrgetiulness,
Nor wanting "A fur travelling dress,
But trailing tails OF monkeys do We come
From protoplasm, our home.
Menageries lie around our infancy
We are not what we were primOrdiaIly,
The Laws OF Evolution
ork out much queer confusion.
At length the Man, the sOulIess child OF clay,
Stands winklng at the new light OF the 'tay.
- Wordsworth.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-22

ARTHUR's remark that Democratic votes
in New York are needed to elect Re
publican president, and his intimatiOn
that he knows best how to get them are
significant. While they are full of warning
to the Democracy they signify the low
estate of the "grand old party" which
has to go bartering through the sIums
and shambIes of New York city TO elect
It's nominee.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-22

THE spectre OF the electoral fraud OF
ls76-77 confronts the Republican party
at every step 1t is the bloody ghost that
will not down, the damned spot that will
not out. Tho Republicans are afraid to
run either sherman or Edmund', mainly
because OF tEoir participation IN that
iufamy, and tue name of Hayes, its
beneficiary, is recoivoI everywhere with
jeers and kissing scoru.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-22

LET us hear no moro about Democrats
not being willing to give tho colored
brother chance. In the committed of
the NJ. E. general conference, on the state
OF the church, the main report, recon-
mending that race, color or previous
condition is no bar to admission into
correctional churches or colleges, was
adopted by vote OF 20 to 2j. Tho one
vote required TO adopt the report was
given by the chairman of tho committee,
the Democratic governor of Pennsyva
MIA. BY the way, they say, the governor
is 80 popular in tho conference that he
would have been made bishop save for
his office.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-22

THE Republican party arc not unani
mously endorsing the course OF their state
senator's in ignoring their oaths, deGying
the law and denying a. honest, just and
true apportionment. Senator AruhOlt, Of
Pittsburg, who was candidate for re-
nomination, has been laid on his cooling
board He makes q nice looking political
corpse, and is ready for cremation.
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The Accommodation.

Necessarily in an institution OF this
kind, with the allowance made for each
pupil, aud the military drill that is re
quired aud salutary for them, they cannot
have the conveniences afforded in ordinary
boarding schools and hence their clothes
are kept in one department, numbered ;
and there are common wash and bath
rooms. To the inadequacy Of these latter
the most forcible objections lie. The
girls, especially, lack proper conyeniencies
of toilet and bath, while the boys bath
bath room is used for too many other
purposes.
The second reform i0hich can be redsORd
bin urged, because not iRDOlUng tIpense at
ali commensurate Wih itS benefits, IS a de
ctded imprOpement in the Dash and bath
rooms on both sides Of the school,
Health, m oraIs aud discipline,
With these two enlarged aocommoda-
tions effected, other minor reforms Will
readily suggest themselves. There are many
features of the school management, regula'
tion of the pupils, diet, discipline and
moral instruction, which have been the
subject of individual complaint that do
not appear upon examination to be proper
objects of material exception. The aim of
the school Ia and ought to be to secure the
physical, moral and mental development
OF lis pupils. The best evidence of its
success in these regards is tho prevailing
condition OF health, morality, discipline
and mental culture. so far as the ap'
pearance OF the children speaks for them,
1t gives satisfactory testimony. They
look fat, rosy checked and healthy There
was only one in the infrmary ON Wednes
day and he was suffering from broken
aukle. DIR. Ziegler, the medical attend.
ant, saws the average OF health Ia excel
lent, Far better than in most families /; his
chief trouble is with the children after
they get ga box " from home or
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THE SOLDIERS ORPHANS.
A pA, AT rus MT. JOY souooL
Ihe Annusi Examinations 80 The Pupiis'
work and visitors Views - 4
Review OF the Worn.


The annual examination Of the soldiers
orphans school at Mount Joy, on Wed.
nesday. WAS moro largely attended and
was In all respects muIc successful and
satisfactory than any occasion of the kind
for many years. There were in attend.
ance many friends OF tho school from the
town and neighborhood, u number of tho
parents of tho children, J. Al. Meyers, of
the Columbia school board and Con Welsh
post, q. A. r., with other members of tho
post A. &. Leonard, Thco. Wcuditz
aud other members of tho Lancaster posts
Mr.. Potts, of the Harrisburg post and
state encampment DIR. J, l.. Xiegler,
Simon l.. Brandt, |. X. Wilmer Rovs.
Gamble, of Mt. Joy, and McCleary, of
Marietta Profs. Sbaub and Lyte, Of Mil
lersvillo state normal school Profs.
Iutzy and |, :. Geist State Supern-
tendent Higbeo, Deputy Uouck and Maj.
Jas. l.. Paul, of the school department
Boro. Supt. b. G.. Ames, OF Columbia
W. w. Griest, of the Lancaster Inquirer,
and many others interested in educational
matters.
The school room, hung with pictures
and cheerful with the light OF many
windows was decorated with mOttoes in
green, consisting of such significant words
as Peace" &" Merit" Power"
q" Right" " Truth" Faith" 1t wa,
we'll crowded and the different classes ant
divisions were brought in SUCCESSFULLY
beginning with the primaries and after
being subjected to a rigid aud rapid ex
animation by the teachers the pupils were
handed over to the sharp fire a. random o
| the visitors