Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-05-21
HERE AND THERE.

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party was direct retribution for the great
electoral fraud of ls76-77 But a special cir.
cumstance that has lately come TO notice
suggests to me that the engulfing of Pharaoh
and his hosts was hastened by the Nemesis
that avenged gross act Of partisan vandal
ism I'm the late presidential campaign over
I'm York county. On lofty eminence in one
OF the Codoruses, overlooking a country i'm
which Republicans are about as scarce as |
Democrats in our West Earl or Peuuca, had |
stood for over century proud hickory
tree, from whose summit old Solly hartman,
away back in tho Jackson camgaign had un- |
furled the starry banner of undiluted Demo
cracy and undefiled patriotism. From tho |
topmost branches of this living mast for |
sixty years had noated in every cammigp
the standard of Codorus' political loyalty.
Under Its shelter, rs often as tho years came,
had gathered the faithful Democrats of that
region to renew their vows, and many
tyro on the stump had there had his baptism
In the true faith. TO tho last old Solly
gathered with his brethren and II was prom
ised him,as of direct revelation, that no should
not see death until his eyes had looked upon
the rcnaissance.of Jeilersonian principles and
Jacksonian practices He kept tho faith, but
short time before the ides of Noycmber
came, full of fate for the Republicans and
their knight of tho White Feather, some mis-.
creants put dynamite under Soly Zartman's
hickory tree and utterly destroyed IL. In the
returns from New York the old man had his
satisfaction, and the hickory timber will be
made into walking sticks that will be handed
down in the homesteads of York's Democ-
racy to generations yet unborn.
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York county, by the way has long since
itaai fr,t, fkn I,t,
men Of public affairs which afflicted II some
years ago and IL would now bo entirely out
of debt but for the big food that swept down
the Codorus valley last year and took away
its bridges Tho county has replaced them
| in town and country with new and better
structures and shoulders up about SlioOOO
debt for them with the air OF contentinen
that Indicates a feeling of money well spent
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On Judge Blacks splendid farm, Brockic
which sweeps from tho very summit of
| Webb's hill, across orchards and woods and
| hedges and hilsidcs and meadows, 10 the
| edges of the lazy Codorus, there IL a little
| SchweiZer barn, model of the big Pcnnsyl-
| vania German barns, which were the delight
81 the venerable grangeradvocate. When
the story of his lifo is written, If 1t shall con
| tain One-half Of the good stories that were
told of him and by him, his will be one of
the most entertaining biographies ever pub
| lished. His love of the English poets and
| his familiarity with them were among the
most striking of his many characteristics.
| When he sat in the constitutional convention,
| listening TO the frequent mlsquotations of
| Shakespeare made by its members, his great
| soul was much yeAed and he was wont to
| correct the stenographer's notes that the
| bones OF the dead might not be moved by
| these assaults upon him. And one day, when
| he was compelled to get leave of absence for
himself for a few days, he soemnly called
George NJ. Dallas to him and gravely charged
| him, "in my absence, Ia protect the reputa-
ton of my friend, William Shakespeare, from
| this abuse"
! Wherever two or three judges and lawyers
| are gathered together around the board,
David w. Sellers tells that charming story
| as only Sellers can tell story-of the time
he hungrily accepted Judge Blacks invita-
ton to dine with him at a famous restaurant
in Harrisburg for the excellence Of whose
cuisine the judge vouched. And how after
he had whetted hsappetite on some of u,ige
Blacks stories, and walked around many
squares with him Judge Black suddenly
recollected that "that restaurant was in iialti-
| more"
| l think IL il Sellers who tells the remark
able story of John Hanlon who was hanged
some fifteen years ago in Philadelphia, for
The murder of little Mary Mohrman. The
case has been revived in the public mind by
| the alleged confession of some scalawag i'm
Boston that he, aud not IIanlon, was the real
murderer. But the chain of evidence forged
by 1lanlon's own confession, was too strong
TO be broken by this sensational "cOnfes-
sion" 1t was Hanlon, the story goes who
| alter he had committed and confessed this
atrocOus crime, obstinately refused 10 make
an aiidavit-for the purpose of IA legal appeal
III his caso-ihat he was doing so ''not for the
purpose of delay" IIe declared that he had
that purpose in view and "would not tax o
any false oath" So his case never got be-
yond the lower courts and he was hanged
| by the neck till he was very dead And il
the law made a mistake it is too late 10 repair
it even by hanging the right man now.
Among the rare good story -tellers of the
state, besides Sellers and Black, is ex-Gov.
Curtin. lie can keep the boys up all night
around the campfire or before the open
| crate, where the camel coal makes shadow
pictures. One Of his heroes is Capt Kersey,
who was teamster in tho Revolution but
fought with tho horse Dragons" at tho
battle of Monmouth, where men fell at every
stroke of his stout sword until the headless
| trunks lay piled about him like cord wood
| ana his shoes overrun with gore 1t was
| amid such scenes, Capt X. would gravely re-
| late that he felt hand laid upon his shoulder
! and looking up saw the stately form of Gen.
| efal washington. shall never forget the
| gravity of his manner nor the solemnity of his
| speech. young man. Inc said. RESTRAIN your
| inpetuosity. In the name of God don't
| make slaughter house of the battle field.'n -
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And there was Geo Gallagher, famous as a
small politician i'm the Juniata valley two gen
erationsa ago. After Jackson was inaugurated
he went down to pay his compliments to the
| pride of his political efforts. He was kindly
received and had drink with tho host of
| the White House. When he took his leave
he took occasion, too, to tell the president
with what qualification he would go back to
| his people and report that he had not only
| seen and conversed with the head of tho
nation, but had two drinks with him.
"That, however," interposed Gen. Jackson,
"would not DO strictly correct" "Ah ~
said Gallagher, 4" know tho great Andrew
jackson will not allow me TO depart from
his presence without asking me to take the
second" He got it,
1t was this Same George Gallagher who
having failed i'm business, found himself sub
sequently without the credit in Philadelphia
necessary to lay in a stock of goods. lie re-
turned home; il was about the time of the
discovery of anthracite coal, and the ensuing
speculative excitement over coal lands; but
there was no such land within miles of
where Gallagher lived. Next weeks issue
of the local paper, however, came out with a
of die