Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-01-08
HERE AND THERE.

copies of No. IL, Vol l, OF Dic ffdmmc, |
very respectable looking German monthly,
published in Berlin. ut four marks a year II
chronicles the progress of the cremation
movement in all parts Of the world, aud pre-
scnts striking facts and wcghty arguments
in favor of reform methods of sepulture At |
tho last meeting of our local association the
project of establishing n cremation periodical
was discussed and referred to a committee Of
three.
some anxiety is expressed in certain quar-
ters for member of the cremation society to
die and leave directions To- have his own
body crcmatcd. 1t is urged that this would
give to languishing cause a great boom
Queer, that none of the members seems dis
posed to accommodate the unhclicvcr
Old Brisbin SlSiles was in town the other |
day. gray rs a rat and polite rs Chesterfield. |
He is the king of the fox hunters still many |
of his old companions who used to take the |
field withThim are beyond the hearing of |
the hounds having hut "Bris Skilcs' is |
ready for a bush anytime in season. lie has |
retired from hotel keeping. and l. living on |
farm near smyrna where he has n kennel OF
about thirty-fve dogs, and where the latch
string always hangs ont for his friends.
There was no happier Democrat in the
country than old man Skiles when he heard
the news ofa Democratic presidents olec-
ton.
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Apropos oi the talk about the historic old
| bell from Independence Hall, soon to bc
| taken Nun open ear to New Orleans 10y way
| of Lant,ster, an old Nirginian soiouruinE in
| this city, recalls to our attention the famous
! bell, imported for the Ephrato community.
| sold to old Trinity Lutheran church, then to
| Tho WASHINGTON fire CgulpqnN. and finally
| presented by J. Fred. SCncr, as a memorial
| of his father, To- Grace Lutheran church. in
| the tower of which it now hangs, Its history
| is not now story, as it has been told by
| Rupp, the historian. by Mrs. Gibbons in her
| 4" Pennsylvania Dutch" and more recently
and more fully in the columns Of the INTEL
| LIGESCER. But. as has been suggested, it j.
one Of tho oldest bells in the country, no
doubt having been imported in I7iI. IRA
diton has it that the bell on ST. James Epis-
copal church was given to that parish by
Queen Anne. This il not verified. But it is
an old bell too and when the Liberty bell
comes to Lancaster it should have salute
from the historic bells that hang in the tow
ers of Grace and St. James.
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1t seems that Andrew Jackson Davis, the
! famous spiritualistic leader, harmonal phil
osOphcr and voluminOus writer on kindred
| SUBJECTS, Is suing LOT q OlNOft't from q we
whom he was married in May, 1850. He
claims to have recently discovered that when
he married her she had a former husband
living from whom she had never been di-
vrrCcd but some of his Co-workcrs i'll the
spiritualistic cause declare that he has fallen
from grace and has been psychological by
a massage woman" who nursod him through
a late spell of sickness. Spritualism seems
TO be ON the wane. Tho gross mountebank-
ism that was practiced under its name has
checked its spread and disguised many who
Were dipping into II. \ good many per-
sons around here will remember one OF
Andrew jackson Davis most ardent disciples
who delivered political lectures through
Lancaster county in 1872 for the Liberal Re-
publCans. His name was Prof Leo Miller.
He was an earnest and impressive speaker (;
! he had but one address, mcmOrized and was
on a salary by the national committee He
claimed 10 have had a revelation ofhis whole
future and was as certain of safe deliver
ancc from every peril as he was of Greeley 8
} election. But one dark night, returning
from Il political meeting in this county,
Brother SteinmCtz scared him so awtully by
l little reckless driving that we lost all conf
, dence in the Professors own confidence in
his revelations. While here he had his
. "bride" with him, but n year or two later
there was notice of him taking TO himself
another spiritual " partner somewhere ont
in the Northwest So they so, these apostles
of the new dispeusatons.
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II is very encouraging to see some people
deuuunce Illegal fec-takng now who few
years ago, when the journalistic war on this
abuse was begun, not only shielded the
offenders, but edged them on to foolhardy at
, tempts to silence their accusers with libel
suits and empty threats of prosecution.
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The policy holders of the dcfunct aud eX-
ploded New Era Life Insurance company,
of whom there were at one time great many
in Lancaster have been invited by some OF
their fellow victims in Philadelphia 10 stand
with them in resisting the recent assessments
levied upon them, to which il is not likely
any Lancaster stakeholder was disposed to
give attention. As the names appended to
this Philadelphia circular are not of we'll
known persons the obvious query suggests
itself 'who will hold the stakeholder %
Nevertheless, if there is a move to sue the
Lancaster policy holders, they will find il
policy TO confer and cooperate
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The wonder expressed by every public
spirited stranger who takes trip thrOug II
our streets is that no local historical society
has ever been organized i'm Lancaster county.
With wealth Of historical matter, running
back to 1870, extending through the Revolu-
tionary period and the entire century of our
federal history for so many years the west
cn OUTPOST of development tho largest
inland city capital for a night of the country
and for years of the state, with personal
stories of great men, invaluable records. his
toric houses and monuments on every side
ii is high time Lancaster city and county
wake mp to the necessity of organizing the
work of collecting and preserving
this material. Tho LinnHan society
has the nucleus OF good collection
but what results could not be secured in
twelve months work by a society which in-
? cluded such well-directed minds rs those of
Samuel Evans and Samuel Shoch, s. S.
Rathvon, :. II. Zahm, d. Men. Staulfer,
Geo. W. Hensel, Rev. e. w. Stewart, ID. d.,
Prof Dubbs and Stahr Of the college Mrs
p. +. Gibbons and Mrs. NJ. J. Nevin (;
DR.. J. =. Wickersham, Frank Ditienderer,
Elwood Griest and dozen others easily re-
called, who have shown an inclination TO en-
courage the making Of local history? If these
good people will get together and talk it
over for AN hour we will have historical
society worthy the name and tit for its work.
! VIII YOU do IL SISDBAD.
PERSONAL.
GLApsToNE's illness, it is thought will