Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-03-31
HERE AND THERE.

county in all the United States, there are ap-
plications for the establishment of two more
pending before the postoffce department. and
likely to be granted, as good reason can be
shown for them. One of them Is proposed |
to be located about three miles southeast Of
Strasburg and in that rich and populous
valley between Paradise and Georgetown,
which is destitute only of proper mail facili-
ties. There are a large number of families
clustered about Robert Girvin's store, who
have TO go from three to five miles for their
mail, and there is the place to put il. "Cali-
fornia" was the name suggested for
the new Office, as the place for its
location has long borne that appellation, but |
as there already is an Office of that name in |
the state-in Westmoreland county-the |
more appropriate and good old local and |
family name of "Girvin" is suggested. The |
other proposed Office is to be located just west
of this city for the accommodation of the peo- |
pie who live around the watch factory, out
side the city limits, and who therefore can
not be served by carriers. II would cost
nothing additional TO toss a mail bag with
| their postal matter on the Millersville street
cars and what more original and fit name
| for this office could DO had than "watch"?
| The mail routes in the lower end of this
| county need to be rearranged in the interest
| of economy and public convenience. Why
| shouldn't Quarryyille, the terminus of the
| local railroad system there, be made the mail
centre of the outlying region, and let the
| routes circle out from there The whole
lower end should we within days
| communication Of the city, so that a let
ter mailed here before a. IN. would
reach its destination by night. And of all
routes mail agent is needed on the tram
| between Quarryville and Lancaster. AS it
| stands now letter mailed at @. for New
| Providence three miles distant is carried
| past the latter Office to Lancaster and sent
back to \. T.; while its answer addressed 10
| Quarryville must first come up here to Lam
caster and then be resbipped to Quarryville.
| Out upon such circumlocution! Reform Is
| necessary.
Asbury Derland sends me from Boiling
Springs well preserved copy of the Lancas-
ter lNTELLIGENcER of Tuesday, Oct. IL,
1903. OF course there are plenty of them and
OF further distant dates bound up in the
early files which fill the closets yonder, but
the possessor or finder of the old paper al
ways think ks il is of interest; and he is right.
This number has its first page of four little col
umns mainly tai zen up with the report ofthe
poor directors, showing their disbursements
from Jan. !, lS0S, to May |, 1909 The public
institution had a total of 2, ll9 inmates in this
| period averaging l33 per month. The
| weekly paper then devoted considerable of
| its space TO the letters remaining not only in
the Lancaster postofice but In the leading
offices of the county like Strasburg and New
Holland, and person waited for the pub
Usher or his agent 10 bring his paper around
to him, TO learn from it whether there was
, any letter for him waiting to be lifted at his
postofhce, ten or fifteen miles away. Run
away apprentices and slaves were the subject
; of frequent advertisement. The Lutherans
, | down at Strasburg we're running a
, very enticiug looking lottery to build
their church. moral correspondent
u sstE mali "a
| posed horse race soon to be held 1ea,
Lancaster. The election returns show that
D there had been very hot and close fight fol
! Legislature. John Whitesde led the Federal
ticket, and was the only one on ii who pull ed
through, beating David Buckley. Rep, 1,
votes. George Ross was at the tcp Of the
republican ticket and was elected, with al
a his colleagues except Buckley.
The first volume Of tic late Judge Black 8
works will very soon be published. 1t will
beayolume composed mainly of his speeches
controversial papers, legal arguments and
: the like, with an Introductory sketch of the
i Sage of Brockey by his son and editor of the
a work, Lieut. Governor -Chauncey +. Black
| who brings to the task not only lilial affection
and thorough sympathy, but rare degree o
3 literary skill and polish.
There is a story told OF Judge Black and
a gentleman now eminent in political and
|, business circles The judges first acquaint t
v ance with the subject of the narrative was hi.
employment in a case against Mr.. S. He
store him out" very efiectually, and to his
surprise when about to leave the town where
q court was holding, found the victim Of his
professional fiaying cordially waiting
to take the car with him. "It's all right
a Judge" he said.approaching him and extend
ing his band, "its all right I've got moth
$ ing against you. When | want lawyer
/ | next time I'll know whom TO employ"
|
=, learn that about loo copies of Curtis
:. very excellent and complete biography o
Buchanan were sold and that the pub
y fishers consider it very good patronage fol
a that class of publications. 1t may be ven
g tured that there will be larger sale fol-
the Black book. The president by the way
:. | is great admirer of Judge Black. After he
1 had publicly warned all gift-bearing Greeks
G | to keep OFT, a Republican sent him framed
i | picture OF Judge Black, as tribute of respect
alike to the subject and donee-''two Demo
5 | Gratis who command an honest Republican,
. admiration"--and it was gratefully re
O | ceived.
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If the reader OF "rhe Money Makers" who
r became acquainted with it in the first edition
will compare the story of aaron GrimStone's
death as told in that version with the same
in later editions, he will see that whereas the
- old reprobate dies first in his bathtub with
a |
r end his days in dubious sort of way from
n the fumes of a brazier, OH which the charcoal
h may or may not have been lighted with sui
cidal purpose. By this alteration hangs q
tale. 1t seems that Amasa Stone, the Cieye
land millionaire, father-in-law of John
Hay, died as GrimStOHe dies in this tic
I ton. Stone-Grimstone Then he had
been held blamable for the Ashtabula disas
9 ter, just as Grimstone is reprehended in the
book for the fall of his flmsy death trap OF
an opera house. The author protested thai
! the coincidence was accidental; but il was as
t complete circumstantial evidence as has
! often sufficed to hang men. Anyhow il was
1 offensive to the dead mans family and some
: body prevailed with the publishers to have
S later editions of the book altered I'm the death
scene. 1t is evident that the book is read II
, has gone through more than half dozen
$ editions, the sales being mostly i'm the West
a | As yet the Tribune, Times, Sun, and Even
' ing Post have ignored its existence The idea
f that Mr.. ii. +. Keenan, is the author of il will
Y be strengthened by some very marked CORE
i | spondences of style with "Trajan," lust pub
Q lished, with his name on the title page
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Senator and Mrs. Logan were very highly
4 and quite naturally offended at T. S. Ar.
l thurs use of Mrs. Logan's name in one OF
| toll hat Of. abo