Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-01-30
HERE AND THERE.

| county, Florida. writes North to friends that
| he is ahundantv satisfied with his new
| home. His land Is within the limits Of
| q ConeStuga." and he considers that it is
| growing i'm value ;whilo with wages of SL5O
| per ,day, vegetables growing all the wear
| around and free fucl abundant, hc SccS no
| reason TO doubt that other Lancaster immi-
| grants to the land or flowers will realize
| their rosy hopes. lie expects tO have his
| fences up and his orange grove set out in
| time for the wet spell which begins in June.
| The cold weather down there now j. about
| the temperature Of a Lancaster May. Tho
| cN-CoufcdoratcS and Union soldiers miuglo
| and get along cordially, and Northern men
meet generous welcome the rlCctiuu> are
| quictcr and frccr there than here.
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This thing ot printing many tagged aud
! copicu>ly illustrated special editions ot the
! newspapers is no new idea. Among the
effects of the late Jacob Soudcrs wascarcrully
| preserved copy"t the "oNtrl number of
| the Boston Vuadruple Notion, published Ivy
| George Roberts, June In, lSi1. II proudly
| announced itself "thc largest printed sheet
| yet seen in this or any other country 1t
| had IL Pages, each of them twice rs large ~
| one of the DAILY INrELLGGENCER, and
| all printed ON one sheet Its first page
| illustrations were very crrdilahlo outline
| drawings Of Webster, then secretary at
| state OF Bryant, in his zenith: and Of
| Daniel O'CouuclL For literary miscellany
| il drew from many fountains, and among its
| special features was an original romance en-
| titled s'Fortuncs Of the Maid Of Arc" by
| Henry William Herbert, the English born
| author, who devolopcd on American soil,
| and who had not yet entered upon the career
| as " Frank Forester" which was to give the
| American sportsman a place in literature.
| Herbert had been associated before this with
| Charles FCnuo Hoffman on a magazine, and
| one OF the triumphs OF this blanket sheet
| quadruple Notion was its collection of lIun-
| mans fugitive poems, which nj that time had
| never been printed in book form. This
| first collection. gathered in from the
| magazines and gazctteS, numbered some
| thirty. and at the head Of them. right fifty,
| was " Moonlight on the Hudson" Hoffman
| had lust then "rccciycd nm honorable office
| in the custom house" in Boston. Tie died
| hut lately at the Harrisburg lunniIc asylum.
| after long years of not very rigid rUntne-
| mcnt; the career which opened - brilliantly
| and promised 50 much was early Cloudcd
| with mental iuGrmity. whole page ot
| Park Bcniamn's poetry is collected in the
| same manner. Other fivorltc writers otthat
day were Captain Marryut, W. II. Aims
| worth, James r. Fields, Tyrone Power
! and Rev T.. H. Chaplin. Thirty.onc views of
| Mount Auburn cemetery added to the gray
| itv OF the ponderOus publication and that
sbnvyn tLo f,T,. ratert cIripa WbirL
| made M the entire adyartisiur d,raftnpnt
! of this extra Notion.
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The "Old Subscriber" keeps coming along
| with his account Of the hig hog and the prize
bullock. Somebody tolls in the country
| Gentleman of porkor which dressed 100
| pounds last November. But in his mcmor-
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| frrsoD wrote before tho century was born
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! '-h-Ii>iliidh : uIp through III" 'illlcu states
! he wrote book about it, and called it
| "White aud Black. because he thought he
| had learned something ahout =. the uigper
| question =, Tho Lorl, b,. ,,ot IL II,-os
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"''C'lS ,"'' al" possesses N''Ne features "l
curious interest The author managed I" see
| a good deal in a tlCetiug sort of way and
otted down his imrressionS without malice
ANYHOW. Mr., Secretary of State Stonr,nr
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'" 10 iio'I MN ih'Nt a speech ana "ha' ne
| puhIishou ABOUT IL rms Is page from the
| English travellers journal
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" At the foot of the incline nj NltOona there
are great railway works: and an hour f,lr.
! ther we came to Huntington, a nice rural
| town, where stayed for the night found
| that the bell was going for a Democratic no
| litical meeting and | went there The pro-
| cecdingS were opened bv brass band II
| seems that musical performance OF that
| kind is an Important paTt of political demon
| strations The people were very quipt and
| orderly. heard them saving The Demo
Gratis are going to have a good meeting
| There wa, not So much appearance of narfv
| people seemed very much like those of one
of our country towns. l noticed one or two
| negro boys III the meeting. they seemed
dnrsJer,I,a Tim" om6 soon'o mdlr.fiT d
! patient. At last the Honorahle v" S,ingnrS
| the member for the district. entered, and was
| moderately chccred. 4 respectable elderly
| gentleman was called to the chair, and there
| was then q very formal nomination of vice
presidents and secretaries but | could not
| make out that these functiouaries had any
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