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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-20
PERSONAL.

BARON Won SCHLEISITZ, the German
statesman, formerly Prussian minister OF
foreign affairs, is dead.
Mr.. AsroR, the United States minister ia
Italy, had an Interview with King Humbert,
yesterday, ana presented his letters OF recall.
JUpGE P. VI. JASNEY, OF Minneapolis,
Mimi, is in the city, spending a short time
with friends He Is on his way TO Glove
lands inauguration.
DR. WILLIAM DONALD, aged q years.
who has been surgeon OF the steamer Slate oi
Nebraska, died ON wednesday m ght at New
York, from an overdose of opium taken by
mistake.
BISHOP MULLEN, OF Erie has condemned
roller skating rinks, and pastors of Catholic
churches have notified their tiOcks that In.
future the sacrament Will be denied those
visiting these places.
COLONEL BUBSABg many wears ago
passed as The strongest man in England, and
used To twist poker round his neck and
carry ponies up stairs. Then he had an i'll
ness, and subsequent TO this he never re-
newed these feats
W. w. STORY, tho sculptor, has three
children now growing TO maturity of talent.
Edith Story (hme. PeruZZi) has lust trans
lated an Indian work Waldo Story is a
sculptor, and Julian Story Il painter-both Of
them young men OF promising parts.
JONATHAN ]. WRIGHT associate Justice
oil the supreme court of South Carolina from
lS'O 10 1877, and the only colored man who
ever held that office in the state, died on
Inursday at Charleston, aged A wears Mr.
wright was native OF Pennsylvania.
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TIE UTiH 4VILISCHE.
How y Man Feels wnen Buried Beneath tho
Deep Snow.


Deep Snow.
Fred. Culliman, who was buried longer
than any of those rescued alive from the Alta
snOw-slide, was seen by an Associated Press
correspondent from Salt Lake City or
Wednesday. lie says Albert Thomas, pro-
prietor Of the notel, was out getting snow to
melt for water, when he saw the slide COM
Ing. Thomas gave the alarm and ran to a
less exposed part Of the building, followed
by others who heard him. Cullman was in
the back shed Of the hotel The first he knew
of the slide was when he heard it strike Re-
gan's saloon. lie tried to turn, but hadn't
time before he was caught and covered with
boards and tinbers. A board was across his
neck, one arm was stretched straight out and
held fast. He could only move ono hand
little with a miners candlestick which he
happened TO he holding in the hand. With
tins no cut OH the board pressing on his neck,
which was almost sutiocating him. He found
1t short ana pushed il away so that he could
breathe. He hallooed all the time, and was
first heard about nine o'clock tho next
morning. 1t took four hours 10 get him out
from under fifteen feet OF snow. He had the
candleslick in his hand when he got out and
was so stiff and bruised that he could not
move. lie had 10 be rolled out like a iOg
For two days he couldn't move in bed. lie
had only pair ufOveFalls anG b0Ots with a
miners shirt, and had to be hauled down the
cannon on sled. lie says ne felt confident
all the time that he would De rescued. lie
did not feel hurt, was not carried far, being
caught al about the limit of the slide. He
could here them digging above him, ana
was satisfied that they would get him after
while
Parker Norton organized the digging force
and dug himself longer and harder than any
body. He supplied hot coffee and crackers
for all, and when all were got out that could
be found, went out and broke two miles of
road. The party would not have been able
TO get down the canon that day but for him.
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DEITH M EOISDN,
Mrs, Webb killed by Arsenic Administered by
some One Unknown.


The coroner of Philadelphia ON Thursday
held an inquest in the case of Frederick
Crisp, ir., aud his grandmother, Mrs Caro-
line Webb, who died at their homo under
suspicious circumstances The whole family
were Frustrated on January H. amer drink
ing tea Mrs. Crisp aud seven of her child
ren recovered, but her eldest sou, Frederick,
and her mother, Mrs Caroline Webb, died nn
SUNDAY night, January -, within short
time Of each other.
Professor John J. Reese made an analysis
OfthC contents of the stomarhS Ofthe deceased
He testified before the coroner Thursday that
arsenic was present IN minute quantities
Indications of arsenic also appeared in other
portions Of the body No poison was found,
however, i'm the stomach of the son. The
conclusion arrived az by Professor Reese was,
that IL the arsenic was taken ny the deceased
person in the tea, rs seems to he supposed, II
must have been introduced therein alter the
tea was put tO draw in the tin teapot
The Jury gave u verdict tn the olcrt that
Frederick Crisp camo to his death uon
typhoid fever, and Mrs. Webb from arSenical
poisoning. administered hy some party or
parties unknown.
Frederick Crisp, sr. and hiS wife were
seen at their home last night They pnib
stated that the matter was deep mystery tC
| them. They have no known enemies, aud II
| they had, Mr.. Crisp stated that 1t would ht
| impossible for them to enter his house ant
put the arsenic in the teapot.
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There is good deal in the newspapers
nowadays about elaborate dinners; and
from the description printed of the flowers
and the glass, the china and the uphol-
stery that furnish the banquet boards, it
might be judged that the feasts Of Luz
cullus and the famous festivals of the an
clients had no such splendors as are in the
modern dining rooms Of Philadelphia and
Washington.
Social entertainment is fine art. A
dinner may be made the occasion for o
display of the highest refinement. In
the arrangement Of the table, the
choice of the menu and the selec-
tion of wines, there is opportunity to
exercise great taste, intellectual accom-
plishments and a nice artistic sense. When
the aim Is to minister solely to the sensual
appetite and to crafty barbaric desire for
display, the dinner becomes only an affair for
the upholsterer, the floristand the caterer:
the long purse and the most vulgar taste
will perhaps give the biggest and best din
ner. Too many Of the modern dinners are
simply affairs of this kind. The host pays
for them and that is all there Is of him
about them; he might as well bestow upon
each guest the cost of his or her share of il
and let them spend it to their liking.
For instance, bright table talk is want
ing. 1t is being oyershadowed by the
other features of 6 the feed" The con-
versation runs solely to the excellence of
the yiands and the age of the wines, They
are not regarded as simply incidental to
the feast of reason and flow of soul. The
costliness of the affair suppresses every
sort of enthusiasm but that OF admiration
for the wealth and and liberality of
Crnsus.
The reaction will only come when the
sumptuousness and elaboration of the
present fashionable dinner gives way TO
palmer forms.
A young man sat down at dinner the
other day with gentleman worth mil
lion dollars, who had been in public life for
half century, who had counselled with
presidents and had dined with kings. They
had beefsteak, boiled potatoes, milk and
pie. The next day he was invited to dine
with Solomon Shoddy, who in his rise from
the position of sculion to one of opulence,
had learned nothing; there We're thirteen
courses and nine kinds of wine. the best
that money could buy.
And yet the little dinner was the best,
even for guest who knew not dyspepsia
and had no dread of indigestion.
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STREET sPBINKL1Na seems a rather un-
necessary subject to discuss with the ground
frozen, but in time of sunshine it is pru-
dent man who prepares for rain. On tho ef-
ficient laying OF dust in cities by street
sprinkling much of its credit as cleanly
place may depend, and housewives will hail
with joy the advent of whatever will tend to
lay the dust, which she esteems her worst
enemy. Whether it is proper for a city to
take hold Of street sprinkling on its own
hook, or to sell the privilege to the highest
bidder, or to let it go by default
is question. In Brooklyn the
men who sprinkle the streets pay the
city cent for each 100 gallons Of water used,
and charge the occupant of q building 81 a
month for distributing it in front of his
building. This worked well enough until
the politician began 10 take hold of the privi.
leges for street sprinkling. \ political set
upis made, the contract awarded to a party
favorite, lower bidders are frozen out, and
the property holder must either pay the
price demanded, sprinkle the streets before
his own door, or uncomplainiug swallow the
dust Better the latter alternative, however,
than this simple department of the city
should fall into the hands Of unscrupulous
politicians.
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0be canfastcr 1l,tclliecnfcr
LANCASTER, FEBRUARY %, 1855.
The Forfeited Land Grant.

The United States Senate has at last
consented to forfeit the Texas Pacific land
grant. When it came to the plunge it
took it with great unanimity, only two
members voting against it. But it has
been evident from the delay in reaching
the final vote that the Senate was not en-
thusiastic over the measure. The intlu-
ence of railroad corporations and magnates
seems to be much stronger in the Senate
than in the House; perhaps it only seems
to be so, and the Senate's slowness pro-
ceeds from its natural conservatism yet 1t
would appear that no great opportunity fer
hesitation is afforded over the question rs
to whether land grants that have lapsed
by the failure of railroad companies to use
them, should be declared forfeited. 1t
may have been conservatism" in the
supreme court, which caused it TO decide
that land grant, whose conditions had not
been obeyed, needed to be forfeited by act
of Congress: or it may have been the same
soft feeling for the corporations of which
the Senate is accused.
This Texas Pacific grant had no merit in
it whatever. The company to which ii
was given never built the road through the
granted lands. The Southern Pacific,
which was built through them, was built
without land grant, and it was only after
it had occupied the ground on which the
Texas Pacific proposed to lay its line that
the latter company, which had passed from
Scott's hands to Gould's, entered into q
combination with it in which it gought
to transfer its land grant, the tim,
for securing which had alread!
elapsed, to the Southern Pacific road
The chickering's and lodgings by which the
scheme was sought to be promoted il
Congress, have been graphically told ii
the Huntington letters, the publication ot
which has been one of the greatest boon:
the country has had. 1t so uncovers the
. traces of the serpent that Congress coult
not fail to see and put its foot upon it. 1t il
well that the job is done, however late anC
rClurtayilV
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GiadstOne's PosIiion.

Mr., Gladstone is coming in for his share
OF abuse-and for more than his share-for
the disasters which have attended the En-
glish arms in Egypt. He is realizing in
the popular feeling toward his government
just now that, whereas nothing succeeds
like success, nothing fails like failure. He
who was but yesterday the idol of the non
ulace and whose governmental policy and
administrative skill We're iauded TO the
skies, is to-day an object OF intense dissatls-
faction ard il is tolerably certain that
We're the government to go before the
country now in Parliamentary elections il
would meet with DISASTROUS reyerses If not
with utter political overthrow.
A clever comic pictorial receptly repre-
sented Mr.. Gla'lstone's longtime an
tagonlst, DisIaeli, looking down-by q
stretch Of charity, perhaps--yery com
plaeentiy upon the embarrassment of do
meotic and foreign troubles, which hsset
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Childish Wrnngling.

A Washington dispatch says that Mr..
Randall and Mr.. Hewitt, who are not per-
sonal friends, h d 4 dispute on the floor of
the House, during which, after Mr.. Hewitt
had said that he held Mr.. Ramdall's COM
mittee in the highest esteem, Mr. Randall
replied that he could not say that the feel
ing was mutual. We refer TO the matter
simply to say that in our judgment such
encounters are very unworthy of distin-
gushed Democrats on the floor of the
House, and that they should be conSpicu-
ously absent. The re;ort of Mr.. Randall
was not happy. His committee could not
avoid holding Mr.. Hewitt in high
esteem, because ne is worthy of it: just
as Mr.. Randall is. The country holds
them both in high esteem; but the esteem
will be much greater if they will abstain
from exhibiting in public signs Of anger
which children only are eXCuSable for
showing.
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the government. II Beaconsfield were
alive he would most certainly find in the
present complicated situation of England
rare opportunities for the display of his
unique and dazzling powers; and he would
undoubtedly trick the populace with his
characteristic articles into new enthusiasm
for his imperial policy of foreign wars and
distant conquest.
No temporary disasters, such as have be
fallen the power of Great Britain in the
Soudan, or the violent outbreaks Of Irish
discomfort at home can alter the history of
fifty years, or change the verdict which il
has written. The pacific policy of Mr.. Glad
stone; his humanity for Arab and Irish
his Liberal views and lofty Christian
craftsmanship are in accord with the real
genius of England and the civilization of
the century. In the end they will triumph;
and no cloud can obscure his pre-eminencc
among Englishmen nor long dim the lustrt
of his fame before the whole world, which
has none greater in his day and generation
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-20

IL one of the Chicago courts recently the
jury in a certain case were unable 10 agree
upon the amount of damages to be awarded,
eight being in favor Of a verdict of one hun
dred dollars, while four thought fifty sufli-
cient They decided to settle the matter by
tossing up penny, the winning side TO
have the awarding of the verdict. The penny
was tossed, and the side Iavoring the 500
verdict winning, that sum was awarded.
The judge learning OF the manner in which
the verdict was arrived at promptly set it
aside. The jury could have saved time and
gained credit for ingenuity al the same time
by dipping up the coin bofore entering the
jury-bor.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-20

IT Is rather a novel scheme for rent-payiug
that is proposed by the Dublin organ Of the
Irish Nationalist, United Ireland. 1t pro-
vides that the tenants shall unite in order to
determine for themselves what would be Il
fair yearly rental for the individual holdings.
The plan proviCes for the appointment ol
trustees who will receive the whole rent
from the individual tenants, and to whom
these tenants will rSfer the landlords when
they demand settlement Ireland would be
a very pleasant place in which TO own pro-
perty il this order Of things should be car
ried out, The owner il placed in the posi-
ton Of rhe poor relation who, on his rich
relative dying should he thankful that ne is
remembered at all. The plan can never be
acceptable to seli-respecting landlords Ire
lands only remedy seems 10 be the owner
ship of the lands by the tenantry, and legis-
lation that makes their purchase easiest is for
the best interests of the Emerald Isle.
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The Inauguration nall Not for pcadheads.

The abolition of free tickets to the Washing
ton Inauguration hall causcS grief and wrate
among good many on~.iiutioual dead
beats. Tho only free invitations arc those TO
Mr.. Arthur Mr.. Cleveland, NicC-PueSideut
Hendricks, the president of the Senate, the
speaker of the House, and the ladies' of their
respective families, In Washington society
ed with great libcrality. Alta Presidents re-
ccpiiOn given this wintct where member
was invited with the ladies of his family, he
appeared with line Of seventeen women
tagging after him. every woman wearing a
tram, and while the head of this procession
was shaking hands with the president the
tail OF it was hardly down the staircase.
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A Marine Disaster.

Ihe following news has been received from
Fort Morgan, via the Mobile and Gulf Tele-
graph company's lines: The British schoo-
ner, Il. V. Olive, Capt. Clark, from Ruatan
Tor Mobile, with cargo OF fruit, was wrecked
On Dixie Island, last night, during a heavy
hortheriy gale. She was discovered nj an
eSariy Sy n9ar Thursday morning, and the pilot
W. iua ia Lowe proceeded to the wreck.
,.ri,' men the olive was reached only one of her
crew was found, and he was taken from the
Iisging IN an unconscious condition and lived
oniy snort tune sftsr ssing rescued,
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General Grants Recent sickness.

The following will appear in next Satur-
days issue OF The New York Medical Rec
ord:
"Thore have been so many sensational
the disease OF General Grants tongue and
throat that il will be gratifying to his many
friends 10 learn that all the more serious and
alarming symptoms connected with than
have virtually disappeared. Whatever may
matter for great congratulation that all fear
OF grave complications are for the present
at AN end, and that our beloved ex-president
Is spared an atiliction the bare contempla-
uon of which would w distressing ~ tL9
extreme
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nn. wILLINM.s INnINN rIIE OINTMENr

This Is going to be an OH year. No political
booms for " plumed Knights " or " Reform d"
will help keep up the health and strength of the
vast multitudes whose fIlih Is pinned on the
glowing party promises of election year. Multi
t1des OF such Will need Il reliable tonic to tone
IN the system. n purifier to work OF the bad
blood, and ,UUe remedy for lame backs, rheu.
II ati>In, biliOusuC-S, etc. such remedy j. Kid.
uey .worl. It has long stood az the head of the
list of kidney remedies and IL receives the
higheat praise from al tht, use it,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-20

Recalling the amenities Of tho legal profess
sion, what could be more illustrative of the
old school courtesies than tho story that
when William Writ was upon an important
trial in the supreme court of Massachusetts,
he was introduced by Daniel Webster in
speech OF great beauty. In rising to address
the court IN reply Mr.. Writ said ne had one
reason 10 regret the worry kind Introduction
which he had just received his friend Mr..
Webster had placed him under sn obliga-
ton which he could not return, for he could
never meet that gentleman ct tiny bar in the
United States where his name and fame had
not gone before him. SISDBAD.
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1t was Johnson who said it, and of Milton
of whom he said it, that " nc thought women
made only for obedience and man for rebel
lion" And Milton had three wives the
first of whom he chastened with obedience
and the others never ventured upon any
other course. When he was old and blind
his daughters abused him and stole the mar
ket money, while his third wife wrote &" Par
adise Lost" 80 he dictated it in bed before
break fast
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a dainty envelope, superscribed in q neat
feminine hand, contains only recent edito.
rial from the INTELLTGENcER in which
occurs the expression " Now it is shown
that John Barncveldt, the Holland states
man, who was hanged for treason" etc. And
the word " hanged " is marked with a black
line. Only this ana nothing more ! OF
course you are right, my bright young
woman he was not I" hanged" "He
knelt with his face towards his
own house The servant took fare
well of him, and Barneveldt said 10 the
eXecutioner. BE quick about it. BE quick
The eXecutiOnef then struck his head OH at n
single blow. Many persons from the crowd
now sprang in spite of ali opposition, upon
The scaifod anu dipped their hahdkerchief~
in his blood, cut wet splinters from the
boards or grubbed up the sand that was
steepeu in It driving many bargains after
wards for these relics to be treasured, with
various feelings of sorrow, joy, giutted or eX-
plated vengeance" The young woman who
reads Motley and can make pies, too, is the
coming woman.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
The American Eagle.

See the image Of this bird on the standard
silver dollar lie spreads his wings and seems
a. II about TO scream with wild delight such
enthusiasm may well pp-~C~- the people who
have Econ cured of chronic indigestion by using
Browns Iron Filters NT thomas J. Purcell,
yard mHstcr Of Camden station oi tho lAllimure
X ohio railroad. at Batim0rn, writes, There is
nothing rs good Browns Iron Bitter-. 1t
cured me Of chronic indigestion, from which
suffered thirteen years"
DR. WILLIAMS INDIAN PILE OINTMENT
l.. G.. McCUllum, conductor uu the u. Il W. X.
T.. springfield. %, Aug. ~, l~S2 says: | have
been great sufferer with the piles. ! used nu-
mCruu- remedies and employed many physiC
iu-, hut to no purpose : friend recommended
pr. Williams Indian Pi'" ointment which am
grateful to say hUS cured me sold 10y II. H.
Cochran, 49, and E9 North Queen street. (D
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THE British lion is thoroughly awake and
ifEl Mahdi is prudent, he willpromPtly seek
cover.
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flour judges and attorneys were to spend
much time in other courts they would dis
cover that the swapping and quarreling to"
common in the trial OF causes hero are not
characteristics OF the relations Of the bar and
are not tolerated by the courts in every juris-
diction within the commonwealth. II is in
many places considered not only good
manners but the mark of good lawyer to
not ask improper questions and to not object
to proper nterrogatories; and in some courts
when the lawyers mnot entirely agree aS to
the proper form of a question, the court is
able to shape it 50 that both readily conc de
the prUprietv of the judges way of putting IL.
In five days examination OF witnesses in the
important McTrGnn suit in Pittsburg there
were not As many objections, not as much
wrangling and not nearly so mucn unplcaS-
antneSS as often mark two hours case in
the Lancaster quarter sessions where the
interests involved do not transcend the
issues of dog fight
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Ir would be a red-headed apportiOnment
that deprived Delaware county Of its sena-
tor,
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DIR. FRAZIER,S MNGIC OINTMENT.

Or. FRAHlERS MAGIC OINTMENT.
The greatest blessing that has been discovered
TN this generation. sur" cure for IIOil-, Burns.
Sores, Cuts, FlC~h Wounds, sore Nipples. Hard
and soft Curn-, thdppvd Lips and Hands, PIN
pies and BlOtChe~, Price jIC. sold by Druggists
trvUt, fn
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THE woman with the brittle bones Is
again travelling in the newspapers ; it is little
wonder that she sustains many fractures