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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-04

If General Grants lite and services are to
be commemorated before the two Houses of
Congress, the name most worthy to be con-
sdered as the orator of the occasion is that of
Roscoe Conkling. No man knew all the
springs of General Grants character so well
as this man who was always his admirer, and
for more than twenty years his close personal
friend. For his achievements and character
as a soldier he has shown himself discrmi-
mating as well as friendly critic. On the obvi-
Gus faults in his civil record he has either ex-
pressed himself freely or maintained the dig
nifed silence of the friend, while he himself
did most to promote those creditable acts of
his presidency which all unite in allowing
In 1850, Roscoe Conklng, with General Grant
as his subject, made the best speech of eulogy
ever delivered in this country. Simple in
| language, it showed perfect knowledge of
the subject, while it's delivery revealed the al
most perfect orator and the more than perfect
| actor. BY common consent Roscoe Conkling
should be chosen to complete the estimate he
made of his friend while living, now that
| that friend is dead
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-04
PERSONAL.

EPHRAIM HUNsINdER, who recently died
at Harrisburg, was zone of Jefferson Davis
guards at Fortress Monroe.
Rev. DIR. JOSEPH I. DURYEA, of Boston,
has declined the presidency o Union college,
and will remain pastor of the Central Con-
gregational church in that city.
DIR. HAMMOND may take heart from the
favor with which English readers continue
to receive his novel. He is about to obtain
the compliment OF a popular edition over the
water.
A. A. CHASE formerly editor of the Scran-
ton Tribune, has just been released from Jail
AZ an insolvent debtor after serving sixty
days imprisonment for his failure to pay
damages awarded w. w. Scranton in a libel
| suit against Chase.
EDWIN ARNOLD, in a new magazine
| article says Death arrives not like NJ. de
| Paris, to strip criminal or lop away from
| him his life, but as mother lulling her
| children to sleep that they may wake ready
| for play on a fresh morning"
JOHN VIcKERs IL the English writer who
| has undertaken the uphill work of defend.
ing f." Herod's civilizing rule, his reformed
| religion, his family troubles and his alleged
| cruelties;' ~ but he does not explain the
origin Of the time-honored phrase, " out
Heroding Herod."
HENRY FLANDERS, the well-known bar
rister of Philadelphia, author OF various
| legal works of a high standard, has brough
out in very convenient and elegant form
fourth edition of his admirable exposition o
the federal constitution. IL il a Ddde mccuB
to student statesmen and politician.
| MARY ANDERsoS's real betrothed is th
unassuming son of rich Kentucky manu-
facturer OF farming implements, a boyhoo,
friend Of the actress and was assiduous in hi
attentions TO her while still in his homage
Her adoption of the stage separated them
although they kept up correspondence an,
he saw her whenever opportunity offered
| He went 10 EUrDDe this sDrnp and renawp
his suit there with ardor and success lie
still abroad. The marriage Is not TO tax
place until Miss Anderson completes he
career and reiires.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-04
LANCASTER COUNTY FARMERS.
THE REG ULAR MONTHLY MEETING OF
THE LOCAL. SOCIETY.
Good and Had Reports Of the Crops-Essay on
"wheat Culture" by Ephraim $.
Hoover-Preparations 10 Receive tho
state Board OF Agriculture.

l
A stated meeting of the Lancaster County
held In the rooms of [ he " M. G., A.. this |
c;tv. Monday af,erneon
~, r,,.y,,... es, .,, |
were present.
John ii. Lands, president, Manor; Calvin
Cooper, Bird-in-Hand Joseph i. Wilmer,
Paradise T. g. J,inyille Gan. lanes Wood
I,i,,le Rr;to,n Jobnson Miller. Warwick
-. . -. ,,,.- ~. ~ ,,,..,..,'
reter >. heis'' Liu.z Dr ~. - Wckeisna'i',
city; Henry M. Engle, Marietta casper
| Hitler, Conestoga; VIM. ID. Weaver, city I;
| Eph Hoover, Mannheim p. c. Hitler, Con-
| estoya. r. r. DifTenderffer. citv. Daniel
| e,,a,, n,,,,, Jaooh N Iri,r,, o,,r Nv
Dnnoyn' y s ,.',, ppo' y '"
hlener, Guy FRANK .. Lanuis, East Lam
peter John II. Buckwaltei. Salisbury
Daniel ID. Herr, Manor; Simon p. Eby, esq,
city; J. NJ. Johnston, city Albert B Worth,
Colerain Daniel M. Swarr, city $. Watts,
Mifllin county, Pa.
Crop Reports.
H. NJ Enple said the long and seyere
aron,h hod iniured tho ,rass no,otoo. oorn
, o,ou'n '.,.l'.. ,a. m, no s'a'o, WI
anu otnoi o'oP'. 'ho young oioFoi 10 puiheu
, out The corn has been badly blown down
by the late storm and can't get up again.
Late potatoes may do well, but early ones
are hardly half crop. Apples will not
make half crop; peaches pretty good pears
| will yield the best crop had for years !;
| ounces are suffering from blight. Tho oats
crop had been cut down by the drouth nearly
$ one half Rainfall June and July was only
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-04
LET THERE nE pEarr

"Were half the power that fills the world with
terror
Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and
courts,
Given to redeem the human mind from error,
There We're no need of arseDals or forts;
The warriors name would be name abhorred.
And every nation that should lift again
Its hand against Il brother,
On its forehead would wear forevcrmore the
curse of Cain"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-04

Numerous political aspirants have been
anxiousy looking for an equitable division of
official loaves and fishes to themselves since the
Inauguration, but those who struck genuine
frst-class luck are the ones that learned the un-
surpassed merits of DUFFY's PURE MALT
WHIsREY for the first time in their passage
through Baltimore, To and from the great polti-
cal Mecca. Besides being perfect consolation
for disappointed hopes, IL is absolutely free
from an infammatory and exciting elements
found in ordinary beverages, and is strongly en-.
dorsed by the best doctors, as II remedy for the
prevalent diseases of pneumonia, diphtheria
malaria and pulmonary complaints. For sale by
all reliable druggists ana grocers,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-04
An Extraordinary Suicide.

The steamer City of Chicago has arrived at
Queenstown, and reports that lady passen-
ger, mother of five children, travelling to
England with her husband, committed sui
eide during the voyage by casting herself
her husband to give her $500 in gold, and had
the money sewn in bags and fastened to diff
ferent parts of her dress when she Jumped
overheard. The weight of the gold caused
her to sink at once and prevented all hope of
saving her life or of recovering her BODY
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-04


THE eyer-present perils of the overhead
electric wires in popu ous districts are illus
trated afresh in the death of James Welsh, a
| carbon trimmer in the employ of tho Brush
Electric Light company, who was instantly
killed shortly after 10 o'clock Saturday night
by contact with the company's wires in Bal
timore. 1t seems that he was adjusting the
carbons while the dynamo generating
electricity was in operation. lie had just got
up to the lamp and swung one leg over the
arm or cross-piece, when he fell back as
though struck dead. Tho wires caught him
| and his body hung there supported by them
and the cross-piece. Tho employees at the
company's works, two blocks away,
went to the scene and one of them
ascending the pole found Welsh dead.
There were no marks on the body except
some slight dots on the forehead similar to
those made by gunpowder. An astute cor
oner's jury found that he came to his death
from a shock of electricity received whilst
engaged in fixing an electric lamp, and the
jury further think that according to all the
evidence his death was caused by negligence
on his own part" The latter clause was
sagaciously inserted because the jury thought
Welsh had no business to go up to the lamp,
that being another mans duty Although no
one could testify exactly as to how Welsh re-
ceived the shock, all those acquainted with
the electric lamps agreed closely on one
theory that is, that Welsh did not switch
of the current, and, taking hold of the posi-
tive and negative wires, made circuit of his
body and thus caused his own death. At each
lamp there is a clip" or switch on each
wire whereby the currentcan be turned from
the lamp. Between this "chp" and the
point of contact of the wires with the carbons
there is portion of the wire which is not COW
cred. The supposition is that Welsh caught
hold OF this exposed point of one of the wires,
and i'm the intense pain caused thereby
clutched at the other wire and fell back dead,
killed by the powerful electric current.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-04

lF Assistant Postmaster General Stevenson
can maintain for a few months his record of
700 fourth-class postmasters in single day,
he can start out as Il lecturer or run for sena-
tor from Illinois, or do almost anything else
he may choose At this rate the postmasters
now remaining in Office will only last this
healthy Westerner about six months. What
then will he feed on when his appetite has
been thoroughly whetted ?
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-04
BIcycIe Recor,I Broken

L. ID. Munger, of Detroit on Friday at
p. M, started on an attempt to beat the bi-
cycle road record OF 207lS miles in twenty
four hours made by Fred Hoss Cook, ''tEe
California WONDER" this summer He
finished at 3.25 p m. Sunday, having COM
pleted 2il miles, The distance was meas
ured ON Butcher cyclometer which had
been previously tested.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-04

crowds Of farmers who will attend the insti-
tutc. He paid q high compliment to the old
members OF the Lancaster County Agricul-
tural society for the good work they have
done and are doing.
James Wood thought II was due to the
come and provide for the accommodation of
the state board when 1t meets here
Mr. Engle moved that committee of Eve
OF which DIR. j. y. Wickersham shall be
chairman, be appointed to confer with the
secretary Of the state board, and make pre-.
liminary arrangements for the meeting. The
motion was agreed to, and the chair appoint
ed DIR. J. p. Wickersham, +. II. Offender
fer, Joseph f. Wilmer, S..P. Eby, and John
N. Lands.
Notifying the Farmers.
President Lands stated that on several
! former occasions he had sent out several
| hundred postals TO prominent farmers TO at
| tend the lectures delivered before the society
| by Prof, Edge, Senator Lee and others, and
| he believed 1t would be well to do the same
prior TO the meeting Of the state board.
| DIR. Wickersbam suggested that IL woulC
be better TO have programme of the stat,
boards business printed and distributed
among the farmers
On motion of Calvin Cooper, the matte
was left in the hands of the committee, an,
the expense, together with that heretofor
incurred by the president, be paid by the &c
ciety.
business for the Next Meeting.
The following questions were referred fo
answer at next meeting
"What benefits can be deriv we'd from tn
holding of agricultural fairs 7'' Referred [
Albert B. Worth.
Can farmers afford to buy thoroughbie
stock ?'' Referred to John b. Buck walter.
Adjourned.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-04

THIS is an often unknown, sometimes ig
nored, frequently violated and always to-be-
remembered statute of the United States !:
No officer, clerk or employo in the United
States government employ shall at any time
solicit contributions from other officers
clerks or employees in the government service
for a gift or present to those in a superior
official position nor shall any such officials
or clerical superiors receive any gift or pres
ent offered or presented TO them az a contri-
button from persons in government employ
receiving less salary than themselves nor
shall any officer or clerk make any donation
as gilt or present to any official superior.
Every person who violates this section shall
be summarily discharged from government
employ.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-04
A Very Radical Change.

In the alterations of the Cypriote collection OF
antiquities, sculptured representation of a
picnic party, was changed into thai of n funeral
procession. They knocked out the picnic pro
visions and put instead the image Of IA corpse.
Browns Iron Bitters sometimes makes just as
radical "A change only exactly reversed 1t finds
poor Fellow almost corpse and brings him Ia
such state of health that he can enjoy n picnic
party Conquers debility, dyspepsia and ner-
vous prostitution. Buy ~ the drug store.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-04
SPECIAL NOTICES.

Persons Who are Past Fifty will find Dr. Ken
nedy's Favorite Remedy just about the med
cine they need when they need a medicine at all
The ten years which follow that age are full OF
dangers which do not threaten younger men
ana women. This preparation gives tone to the
system, greatly expels impurities and prevents
the outcropping of diseases the seeds of which
may have been sown In earlier life. Why not
live out all your days in health and strength.
jlyl9lmd&w
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-04

Hark bark tits S0ZODONT cry,
Haste youths and maidens, come and buy
Come and II secret iii unfold
At small expense to young and old
charm that will on both bestow
ruby lip, and teeth like snow.
auflwdeod&w W
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-04

Mr.. BLAISE's political managers should
send their pruT1ent partisan preacher,
Ball, of Buffalo, over to England. lie would
find congenial work in the campaign OF
scandal now raging there.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-04

NEXT time Chief Justice Coleridge comes
to America he should bring along his un-
manageable daughter to manage him.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-04

NEXT time the campmeeting worshippers
will not pray so loud for rain.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-04

No, Higgins will not go. Not just yet.
The Republicans are too solicitous about
him.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-04

SINCE Major General Hancock has got to
Mt McGregor, the correspondents encamped
there should recognize that there Is a bigger
man around than Parson Newman.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-04

This makes an average of nearly q bushels
per acre.
Eph. s. Hoover reported the wheat and
oats fair crop ; the corn looks well pota-
toes and tobacco poor up to this time, hui tho
late rains and continued favorable weather
There is large crop of pears and a poor crop
If fnl Ina
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-08
Secretary Endicott,s Good Work.

Secretary Endicott has been rather slow
in getting down to effective work, but his
first positive and far-reaching order will
bring CONSERVATION to the army favorites
who have long been luxuriating in fat and
pleasant places. The new army regulation
which the secretary has promulgated pro-
vides that an officer must serve at least three
years with his company before he can be
detached for staff or other service, and
that no officer shall remain detached for a
longer time than four years, unless as
signed to duty at the war department.
This ought to break up the worst abuses
which can find lodgment in the army in
times of peace. Service with his company
on the frontier is not exactly a life of
pleasure. 1t is remote from cultivated
society, with few of the advantages which
life in Washington or the larger cities
afford. But it is positively all we have for
our soldiers to do 1t is in this work that
all military training is secured. If by
favoritism or any other cause or excuse the
officer misses this while he is still young
man, he is practically without use to the
government which has borne the expense
of his education. If Secretary Endicott
can send out tie idlers and the drones he
will do good work, even if he drives q
goodly number out Of the army.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-08

THE president has well earned the vaca
tion he takes. He has worked hard and tc
good purpose. No executive ever scrutinized
his appointments so closely; none in the same
timo made fewer mistakes, Before he lel,
the capital he disposed of the last presiden-
tial postofiice case that was ready to be con.
sidered and TO the batch of changes made ON
the eve of his departure he appended this
significant memorandum:
"The suspensions in the foregoing cases
were, with two exceptions, made for parti-
sanship. The two were made upon reports
OF inspectors showing bad management of
the offices by the incumbents.
" The president has now considered all the
cases OF presidential postmasters which have
been made ready and presented to his atten :
tion. lie has made 467 appointments, of
which "a were to vacancies caused by expi-
ration OF terms or resignation, and 1893 in place
of suspended officers
Every case of suspension has been care
fully considered upon evidence, in pursu-
ance OF the same principles by which he was
guided in the beginning, and large num-
Der or solicited removals have been refused
including some at his last consideration of
cases on yesterday, because the proofs were
not such, in his Judgment to warrant the
action.
Arrangements have been made so that
commissions will be issued, Notwithstanding
the presidents absence, when bonds are filed
and approved"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-08
How To Die WeIi,v

The New York ChurchmdR, referring TO
Dr. Freeman's estimates Of the "great ex-
amples in history, cites the special notices
of Alfred of England, st. Louis of France,
and Washington. The Englishman and tho
Frenchman are claimed by the euogists as
"saints aud scholars" Statesman and
patriot as he was the American lived too
near our own times for his apotheoss. But
the ChnrchmaH observes ''There was in
Washington, however, no absence of saint
ship or scholarship which essentially mars
his fame or makes him to have been other
than one of the noblest characters in his
tory" Dr. T.. 4. Freeman, it will be re-
membered, visited this country recently and
lectured TO American audiences on " The
English People in its Three Homes"
The Chnrchmdn goes on to say Of Grant in
opposition with Alfred With all his
saintship the great English prince and law
giver did not, and could not better, show to
the world how to die well. This of itself has
consecrated General Grants memory and has
made his example to be heritage forever
As for scholarship, it is neither recorded OF
Alfred nor Saint Louis, nor any other historic
character, that ne deliberately set himself
to write book when, as he knew, the
shadows of the grave were slowly but surely
gathering about him. Cesar-and what
reflections are started up at the bare mention
of the name of that heartless conqueror-
writes his cold-blooded commentaries in the
fullness of health. But General Grant, with
nothing to be ashamed of as "a warrior, and
nothing, we may be sure, which the world
Will be ashamed of either, summons to the
task his remaining and ever-iailing strength,
gives to the world his book and-dies 1t is
story so touching and sublime in its sim
plicity that the generations to come will
fondly dwell upon II as one Of the most re-
markable things In history"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-08
PERSONAL.

LORD WoLsELEY resumes the position of
adjutant general, which he held prior to the
late Soudan campaign.
REV. HUGH RILEY, of the Primitive
Methodist church, Shamokin, Pa, has died
from an epidemic something like the Ply
mouth fever
DIR. J. STURzINGER, who comes to Bryn
Mawr college from Bonn, is said TO be the
first German Romanist to whom an Amer
lean professorship has been offered.
REV. DIR. A. G. GEORGE, well-known
Methodist minister and writer, has died in
Chicago, at the age of 62. He was at one time
regent of the University OF the state of New
York.
Hon. HAMILTON FISH, OF New York,
being prevented by ill-health from serving
as pall-bearer at General Grants funeral, the
president has appointed Anthony J. Drexel,
of Philadelphia to serve In his stead.
II. j. BURDETTE has consented to lecture
i'm Cape May, but objects 10 the place selected
for the lecture--a hotel dining-room. He
says: 81 won't lecture in a dining-room (;
the next engagement would bring me into
the kitchen"
LOUIS KUEHNLE, one Of the most promi-
nent citizens of Atlantic county, died at Egg
| Harbor City, Friday morning. lie was pro
| prietor of Kuehnle's hotel, in Atlantic City,
| and was for many years mayor OF Egg Harbor
| City and held other positions of honor and
| trust
| EMMA ABBoTT's health has been improved
| by her season of rest. She Is getting trifle
| stout, and so has begun to walk six miles q
| day in the hope of keeping flesh down. She
| takes the matter coolly, however, and says
| pleasantly that 1t will never do for her TO be-
| come any stouter than she is.
| Mr.. AND Mrs. l.. MARION CRAWFORD
| are spending the summer at the Villa Coccu
| melia at Sorrento. Mr.. Crawford is busily
| engaged on another novel, the scene of which
| Is laid in Italy. He has formed library
| and work-room out of cave in the cliff be
low the villa, which overlooks the sea TO
wards Naples, and is delightfully."- cool.
JOHN A. WIsE's pretty wife, down at Ole
| Point Comfort the other day, was wishing
General Fitzhugh Lees beautiful wife al
sorts of good luck, after the news of the Demo
cratic nomination was received, declaring
that If the gallant congressman was beatef
she would prefer it to be by so honorable
rival as her husbands comrade in arms.
| EMPERoR WILLIAM, visiting the Empero
OF Austria at Gastein is made much of. Th
town Is gayly decorated with banners
arches, etc. The weather is lovely. On tn
first visit of Empress Elizabeth to Empero
| William, the latter had all the pictures re
moved from the rooms except the portrait
of the Austrian emperor and empress. Th
emperor and empress of Austria on leavinj
the Emperor Williams hotel, consideratel,
requested him not to accompany them, IL
order to spare him fatigue. The two empeI
| ers made tour of the town TO view tho illu
limitations. They received a perfect ovation