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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-19
FLOUR AND WHEAT COMPARED.
speculative Operations In Wheat Depend"h
ON the Demand for Flour.


From the New York Tribune.
II is observed by some that the price Of
-four remains remarkably low, notwithstand-
ing the efforts made with scant successto
lift the price of wheat. little comparison
at this point may cast light on the subject
-Four years ago the best patent Hour sold at
IS a barrel and the same flour now sells
at So But No. red winter wheat four years
ago sold at Sl.32, and tho same wheat sells
now at 90 cents. -Four years ago spring
wheat extra flour sold at S1.l5, ana
| superfine from $40 to sLeO. NOW
| the spring wheat extra sells at 500 10
| 81 and the supertine at 50 to $3.50 But TOUR
| wears ago the price of No. Chicago spring III
| this market was sl.36 and now 1t Is "a cents
| II is reckoned that a barrel Of flour Is equlVa-
lent in consumption or in exports 10 "a
| bushels of wheat. Four years ago the aver
| age cost of the wheat in barrel OF Hour was
| So soi/, and on the same date the average cost
of ten different qualities OF flour was 90 So'4 ::
But the average cost OF the ii2 DuShelS oi
wheat is now Si%, and the average cost ol
the same ten qualities Of flour j. now sL3i =.
II appears too, that tho decline in prices
has not been regular or equal, for III lso-,
about this date, the average cost OF zen nar
rels of -four was S57s, but the cost OF the
wheat was only Sj.0S. Again, in August
lss3 the average cost Of the -four was -. ll}.i
while the average cost of the wheat was
SL2lI<. one year ago the average cost OIL the
|
of the wheat was Si.OJ. At that time Whea
was much lower than it is now, and was lel
, atjyely too low for tho price OF flour. No"
the difference between the two III re!atiV'
: price is comparatively small, the relation
, being substantially the same as in August
, 1854, when flour and wheat both eos
> $3.50 against s4.3l or A@7'5 at til
: present time. Thus it appears that the DC
; | Zine in the price of -four has not bee
! | exceptionally great, but only about equiyalen
= | to the decline in the price of wheat. il al
; pears also that although the exports OF hou
larger pfopOrtion of the wheat sent abroa
. coes in the form of -four than was thus eN
!, ported i've years ago, the .relative price
II the two remains about the SAME; anu
u nerhaps more fairly adjusted at this tim
u Than i usual in the history of tho trade. J
: short, unless the demand for flour suthces
. lift it to a considerably higher price, tnei
. seems little reason to belive that speculatil
a operations to advance the price OF wheat WI
- | be long successful.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-19
Ibe ia,,fastcr 1ntclli9cuter.
LANCASTER. AUGUST 10, 1855.
A Patriots Retirement.

The positive declaration of Allen G..
Thurman that he would decline either a
nomination or an election to the governor
ship of Ohio, and his equally positive asser-
tion that he does not want any office, will,
no doubt, take the Old Roman out of poll
tics for good and all. And with him goes
one Of the ablest, most honest and vigorous
men seen in the politics of this country
during the past generation.
Judge Thurman only became prominent
in federal politics upon his entrance into
the Senate in 1869. He had served for
some years on the bench, where he made a
reputation as a just and able judge. In
1867 he made the race for governor, and
was defeated by less than three thousand
legislature, and Mr.. Thurman entered the
Senate with General Grants first admins
tration in 1869.
There he began the work which ha
given reputation not even limited by tn,
boundaries of his own country. For twelv
years he remained in the Senate, durinj
which time he took part in the discussion
of every important question which cam
before that body. For some years, Will
the villainies of reconstruction and carpet
baggery were doing their work, Thurma
never failed to uphold the honor and dig
nifty of the country and assert the trrI
principles of government.
Now, at the age Of 73, he refuses to /
drawn from that retirement which is s
grateful to him and which he has earned s
well. There is no Democrat or patriot wi
will not join in the wish that he may liN
for many years to be the quiet spectator
the triumph of those principles he repr
sents SO well and which he has done
much to promote.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-19
Calling "A Halt.

1t is the opinion of a writer for the Ptiid-
delphid Bulletin that American authors have
written enough dialect stories, and would
better stop where they are. "Who cares, ,"he
asks, whether Miss Murfree puts just such
phrases into the mouths of her illiterate
white or black Tennesseans as they actually
use? To use it seems a confession of lack of
imaginative and of creative power when an
author depends so much upon local color and
hunts up specimens of ungrammatical speak
ers in out-Of-the-way localities. A little dia-
lect goes great way, especially where it
has nothing but its corruptness TO recon-
mend it, Yankee farmers who talk about
'keows' and 'Wall, guess or negroes who
say Marse' for Master and 'shuah' for
'sure, and all the other illiterate products of
our American life, should hare something
beyond their illiteracy to warrant their intro
duction into fiction. These are the mere eX-
ternals and accidents of character and like all
oddities, they first strike little observers but
they can hardly ever bereproduced in books
and great writer's are too wise TO weary the
readers with them. Thackeray did not run
the cockney or Irish or French English of
some of his creations into the ground. The
inimitablo talk of Captain Costigan-which,
by the way, recent critics say is not genuine
Hibernan at all--is a mere side stroke, and
not the pillar on which the interest of
'Pendennis' rests So, too, with the delight
iul letters of Colonel Newcome's French
sweetheart"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-19
M Mnnder They Arc Worried.

The Republicans seem to be exercised
over the promise of harmony in the Demo-
cratic party upon the tariff question. Mr..
Carlisle's reassured reelection to the
speakership without a contest; and Mr..
Randlll's conceded continued leadership
on the floor of the House, the promise of a
fair and satisfactory revision of the tariff
within the limitations of the Chi
cago platform the reform in the
treasury department an honest ad.
ministration of the custom house and q
just and vigorous collection of internal
revenue, all point to a stable, popular ant
wide-reachng financial system which will
win the confidence of the public and estab
lish the success of the party.
1t is no wonder the Republicans are wor
ricd. With returning public confdenc
comes permanent Democratic success.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-19

CURIOUS form of smuggling has been
unearthed in Watertown, New York. Sol
omon Nermylea owned big corset factory
in Bclleville, Ontario, and to get his goods
into Watertown and vicinity, it was neces-
sary to pay the duty exacted by the
American officials. AS these duties made a
big hole in the profits of Solomon, he hit
upon curious expedient to throw dust in
the eyes of the customs officials. lie opened
a small factory in Watertown, and got his
wife and two girls to smuggle in the goods,
concealing.the corsets in their bustles and the
steels i'm their dress skirts. But alas! and
alack a special inspector discovered the
pretty game and seized the factory and the
stock, finding 81 900 worth of fsmuggled goods
| Future historians will wonder how much
time Mrs. Nermylea and the girls gave tC
| sitting
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-19
PERSONAL.

Hos. JuLIrs CoSvERsE, ex-governor of
Vermont, died at DiXville Notch, n. H., on
Sunday night, aged 81 years.
MRs. NELLIE SARtoRts still wears tie
$1,000 diamond ring which was one of her
wedding presents from friend other fathers
in public life. Tho day after the generals
burial, Mrs. thilds, of Philadelphia, gave
her Il beautiful mourning chain of onyx and
gold Tor the little silver watch she carries.
NINE. BouCICAuT, proprietor of the IA
nous Bon Marche, Paris, recently an
nounccd To her 1000 employees that from her
| private fortune she had appropriated $780,
| 600 to the foundation of n pension fund for
| aged and intirm employees. \ similar fund
| of SlSO,OO0 already exists, given by the former
| proprietor in 1876.
CHRISTOPHER TALBOT is the only mem.
| ber of the House of Commons who sat In II
| prior 10 the reform hill of 1882. Flity-fve
years ago he was returned, at the age OF ~
Tor Glamorganshire, and the connection thus
formed has been continued unlnterruptcdly
up To the present day. The only member
who can be said to rival Mr. Talbot is Mr.
Gladstone, who was born in lSy9, and ha
been member of the House OF Common
since 1892, With an interval OF two years iron
1915 to lSi7.
CLARA BELLE writes in the Cincinnati
enquirer: "When j am in the Nassa
presidency / shall establish chair OF ma
rimony, with the most competent perso
possible to lecture on the qualities oil ma
| WIFI TelcTence 10 HIS ueph apiii'J ',' ~
band. The matter of mate hing certain dl
| positions and temperamentS shoulu recelN
especial study and would try to make Il
students expert in discerning the good an
= the true in a suitor's attentions from the ba
1 and the false"
r UNITED STATES DISTRICT AIToRNE
~ FOR WYoMING ANTHoSY {. CAMpBEI
4 was married at st. Patrick church PottstoV
- on Tuesday afternoon to Miss Mary Brenna
II of that place Revs McCourt and Gall
o CHER officated. Charles Brennan, OF Bal
70 more and James ii. Garman, of Port Carlo
'r were proomsmen, and Miss Kate Brenna
o of Potisyille, and Mary J.. Healy, of Dou
y lassvile, bridesmaids. The groom is w
1t known in this city, and was formerly 81
II dent at the Millersville Normal school.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-19

On Tuesday evening while the Atlantic
City boardwalk was crowded with promen-
aders the electric lights went out, caused by
an accident to the boilerat the electric works.
George Shelmire, of Philadelphia, fell from
the boardwalk which caused considerable
of panic, during which Mary Hagan fell
turea his shoulder and Mrs. Hagan broke her
arm. The sufferers were taken on stretchers
10 the Mansion house, where they are now
in a critical condition, attended by two ply
sicians Mrs. Hagan is from Philadelphia.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-19

WINE PRODUCTION i'm this country has be-
come "a big thing according to lately prepared
statistics; in 1850 the acreage in vines was ISL
5s3 acres, the product 23,453,S7 gallons, OF a
value OF Sl3 426,l7 California led in point
of quantity, producing 1858, l55 gallons
Missouri followed with l,S24,207 gallons
Ohio with l,6S2,073 gallons; New Mexico
with 00s,500 gallons; Georgia with 903, ,20i
gallons; New York with 5si, li5 gallons, and
Alabama with Az, ,672 gallons. To show how
Americans are getting away from the theory
that only imported wines are fit to
be brought on tho table, it is bu,
necessary to state that from 1877 to 1884
| both inclusive, tho average annual pro
duction was 1901, ,i59 gallons, against 5, li2,
957 gallons imported, while during the pc
| riod from 1870 to 1876 the average was bu
S,g7G,747 gallons of native to S,76I, $40 gallon
of imported wines. The greater purity o
American wines over the foreign product ac
counts chiefly for their growing popularity
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-19
MEDICAL.
A QUESTION ABOUT
Browns Iron BitterS

ANSWERED..
The question has probably been asked thous
and- OF times " How can Browns Iron BittCrs
cure everything ?' We'll n doesn't. But IL does
cure any disease for which equitable physician
would prescribe IRON. Physicians recognize
Iron aS the best restorative agent kown to the
profession, ana inquiry of any leading chemical
ilrm viii substantiate the assertion that there
are more preparations of iron than of any other
substance used IN medicine. This shows con
clusivcly that iron Is acknowledged to be the
practice II is however, Il remarkable TACT inat
prior to the discovery of BROWNS IRON III
TIERS no perfectly satisfactory iron combinatioh
Browns Iron Be does oes TSSf nCt nare gJS 'G the ioo
| cause headache or produce consbipatlonwalI al
other Iron Bitters do. Browns Iron Bitters cures
| Indigestion, Biliousncss, Weakness Dyspepsia
| Malaria Chills and Feyers, Tired Feeling, Gen
| eral Debility Pain in the Side, Back OF Limbs,
| Headache and Ncuralgia-tor all these ailments
| Broun'S Ir0n RitarS Iron IS prescribed uallE, =
| DTUNu lTUU DlllCTS however does not cure III ~
| minute Like all other thorough medicines, IL
| acts slowly. When taken by men the hfrt sy
tom of benefit IL renewed energy. Inc hus.lSs
then become frmer. the digestion improves, lne ne
bowels are active. In UoBlen the effect Is geher
ally more rapid and marked. The eyes begin az
| once to brighten the skin clears up hettn!
| color comes to the cheek nervousness ulsnp
| pears functional arrangements become reBula
| and If Il nursing mother, abundant sustcnahc
| L. supplied for the child. Remember, Brown,
| Iron Bittcrs Is the ONLY iron medicine that
| not injurious. Physicians and Druggists rec
Otntend IT, The Genuine has Trade Mark ant
crossed red lines on wrapper TAkE ~
, OTHER. sep9lyd&wt9
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-19
AFTER VACATION.

Broke, broke, broke,
I'm home from vacation now
Broke, broke, broke,
With the sweat OF toll on my brow
Oh, well for the office boy
That he whistles and laughs and Is gay
Oh, well for my fellow clerk
That he Is not going away
Broke, broke, broke.
And my MASKING bill's due again
Broke, broke, broke,
AndI'm trying 10 borrow in vain
And my stately boss goes by
To take from a very fat till,
But oh for the touch of silver coin
And the sound of crisp green bill.
From ho Boston Budget
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-19
Must the Roller Skating Rink Go g.?

The rolIerrink craze Is likely 20 be checked
by the number OF cases Of pneumonia which
can be traced to this Cause unless safe remedy
l. rroyidCd Roller Kinks, well as all places Of
amusement where one becomes Overheatcd arc
Injurious ut this season. The only safe way to
have the fun and avoid the danger IS TO use
nrFFY,s PURE MALT WHIsKEY, which prepares
the ystem to resist all sudden changes ana eN
nosurc 1t f. a reliable remedy is warranted
absolutely free from hurtful elements. Recon-
mended by leading physicians for pneumonia,
consumption and all pulmonary troubles. For
sale by leading druggists and grOcers
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-19

The blood II s. our life. Ii must DE IN go"H
order to go through the very delicate niue tubes
through which il Is constantly coufslhB', "
itself The luid j. without color; but, "a we look
at II, Il a deep red the cOrpuscles give IL that
color, by reason OF the iron in them. Inc cor
pusCles are so small that ii takes 100 ol thcnl
laid in q straight line to make AN inCh. Brown
Iron Bttcrs carries iron TO these little corpus
ces, and thus enriChes the blood " hen II Is poor
thus comforting health and Vigor. This famous
tonic is only dollar bottle, at tho druggists.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-19

a GALVESTON, Texas, scientist has made
the important discovery that mosquito bites
are preventive of malarial fevers. AS every
created thing has its use, it is well TO know
that some real utility has been found for this
denizen of swamp lands. The Texas man
gives as the reason for tho faith that is in
him, that he made experiments for the holy
cause OF science on his own person. He
went before the mast on a vessel engaged in
the lumber trade between Calcasien and Gall
weston. "The swamps along the Louisiana
coast" he found, ''swarmed with myraids OF
the genus culex, which, settling aboard the
vessel in dense clouds, drove the captain and
crew below 20 the shelter of the mosquito
nGtS'l~'The cxperimenter, however, ere
mained on deck all night and let them bite
away" The result was perfect immunity
from the fevers with which his companions
were prostrated. Other instances are cited
in the same general vein to prove that the
mosquito bite preserves health. Soon the
seaside hotel proprietors will be advertising
the MOSQUITO as their chief card to attract tho
invalid to their clutches.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-19
SPECIAL NOTICES.
North Pole EXpeditions

Prize fights, lotteries, walking Matches and
balloon ascensionS are usually humbugs OF the
worst sort. Dr. Thomas Eciectric on Is not
humbug. 1t il "A quick cure for aches and
sprains, and is just AS good for lamcncss: For
sale by II. L. Cochran, druggist, l31 and lJ9 North
Queen street, Lancaster.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-19

Ex-JUDGE AGNEw, a Pennsylvania rail
road stockholder, with not a cent of interest
in the South Penn, says the proposed rail
road deal is a high-handed wrong upon the
people. He mover spoke more absolute
truth.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-19

TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND people annually
commit suicide in this country and in
Europe Mans inhumanity to man is re-
sponsible for a big part of them.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-19

The unanimity with which the judicial
mind graspS the correct view of the oleomar-
garine question must be very disturbing to
those who would permit their devotion to the
dairy interest to go TO the extreme of a denial
of plain constitutional right The New
York supreme court led the way by declar-
ing that the prohibition of the sale of oleomar-
garine as such was unconstitutional Maryland
now joins the army Of common sense people
by rebuking the anti-oleomargarine crowd in
that state for their persecution of men en-
deavorng to earn an honest Livelihood. The
Maryland statute made it a crime to sell
oleomargarine unless it was cOnspicuously
branded as such, but the penalties of the &C
Overreached themselves in their stringency.
The legislature first imposed fine for every
violation OF the act, but this was not deemed
severe enough, and imprisonment was added.
The purpose of tho law was right, but its Sc
verify made it ridiculous, and the Maryland
court of appeals has just decided that neither
penalty can be enforced, because OF the i'm
possibility of reconciling them. So fades
away another fond anti-oleomargarine
dream
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-19

BosToN may need scrubbing out similar
to that which the IdU MAJ Gazette gave TO
London.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-19

AN agricultural laborer, on being question
cd as to what he thought of Mr.. Gladstone,
asked whether he was the man who rode
round the circus at Agricultural hall. Such
is fame!
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-19

one week more and Quay's conqucror
will bc named.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-19
s. W. CORNER CENrRs sauAm,
LANCASTER, PA.

DAILY-7cn Cents "a Week. Fite Dottdrs a
Year or EYIty Cents Month. Postage Free.
ADvFRTISEMENTS from Ten TO ENdy Gents
q Line.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1885-05-23

superior steam-raising fuel.-Coal
Trade Journal.
There is great dearth of news IN
this market. No large contracts
have been on the market. Prices re-
main as last week, at $2.75@$3 for
round lots f. o. b. New York ship
ping ports, and IN some cases small
lots pay little more. These prices
hold for Cumberland, Clearfield and
Virginia Goals whatever road they
come over.
Pool price, 1925, used here when q
seller has little to sell, or a buyer
knows little of the market.
The Beach Creek road is flooding
the market with cheap Clearfield
coal, and the statistics show that this
Fighting millio !" is taking away the
Pennsylvania railroad trade. Just
how long the Pennsylvania road will
keep its temper under the provoca-
ton, and just what it will do when
it gets ''mad," are things "no fellow
can find out" at present, but the
guesses and bets are all in one d.
rection.-Engineering and Mining
.JOnynU1
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1885-05-23
A DISPATCH of Tuesday saws

'
The epidemic of typhoid fever at
Plymouth, Pa, seems to be decreas-
ing, but there are still $50 cases of
sickness, and there were four dea tbs
from the fever yesterday afternoon.
Plymouth suffered severely last
summer from the drought. The en-
terprising citizens filled the reservoir
from the river which passes the town
and the people used the water freely.
A neutrality-suspicious. of the causes
of the epidemic by eminent physicians
induces the latter to ascribe the whole
trouble to the use of the river water.
AS Providence will have it, no river
passes Frostburg, or We might be
suffering like Plymouth to-day. Our
time may come yet, however. Thank
the Lord, the worst curse that has so
far befallen the bright lexicon of our
metropolitan youth was \ Water
Commission.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1885-05-23
Eastern ViesOs of the Coat Trade.

NeU YOrk-Of soft Goals, market is
on the side of consumers who have been
taking large contracts accordingly.
The Pocahontas field (Virglnia) is
becoming an important factor in the
supply and the Beech Greek route
(B. & 0. R. r. is beginning to do a
large business, running 300 cars a
day ; the branch to Gazzam is expect
ed to be open by the first of June, and
the Crowell Run and Derby branches
by July first, and after that date the
shipments are expected to be four
hundred cars daily.-Mining Record.
There continues to be a mixed
market on bituminous Goals prices
are ranging all the way from $2.7O to
1926 for coal in this market, for we
hear of sales Of the several varieties
within this scale. New York appears
to be the place Of last resort-whsn
too much coal is produced for any
local trade, and to keep the price
from breaking there coal Is consigned
to New York to sell for what it will
bring. With Norfolk and Western,
Chesapeake and Ohio, Baltimore and
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
and Reading, Lehigh Valley, and the
Erie railroads bringing soft coal, the
buyer has the opportunity to choose
on both quality and price. A meet
ing of the operators and the miners'
delegates was held in Cumberland on
Saturday; it was seen from the re.
ports made that there was no oppor-
tunity for an advance in wages for
mining along the Georges Creek-too
many districts are working at less
money, and selling their product for
less in competing markets. We pre-
sumo now that all will 60 on regular
Ivy l. q n
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1885-05-23

Ell MAHDI Of the Cumberland
Times some time ago had something
to say Of the coming campaign in
this county. The JOURNAL quite
forgets in what particulars it agreed
with the Times, but later informa-
ton incllnes us to think now that the
Mudir, of Westernport; Omar Pasha
OF Pekih; the Ameer of Ioncaoning,
and the Ahkoond Of Pompey Smash
will consolidate forces IN favor of con-
ferring the Caliphate upon Mt.
Savage Hadji. The Bashi- Bazouks,
Of Cumberland, and the Sheiks of
Oldtown, however, are afraid of the
Abdel Fuad, so long as Haroun AL
Raschld Bustid is at large among the
gallant Sofas. The gonfalon is be-
ginning to unfurl all along the line,
and all candidates, whether, soldiers
or prophets, should get the lead by
placing their tive-dollar cards in the
JOURNAL. A man lost the Sheriff
atty last time by neglecting this duty.
In the brilliant language of Barbara
Allen" all should stake warning"
and not fool with procrastination too
long. The five dollars is not ad-
eluate pay really, but it will be
taken, not necessarily for publication,