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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
Wind AND RAIN STORMS.
A SehOOi-hOuse In Texas Wreck
ed--.One Girl Killed and
Several Injured.
Other Houses Blown Down.
Trains Delayed by Wash
outs, Etc.
SCHOOL HOUSE BLOWN DOWN.

MEXIA, Limestone Co., Tex, April
23.-Prairie Grove eighborhood.
eight miles south OF Mexia, was visit
ed about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon
by severe cyclone. causing serious
results to life and property. a two
story school~house, in which were
about fifty children, was blown down
and torn 10 pieces, killing enc and
wounding several children. The cas-
ualities are as follows: The 14-year-
old daughter of j. 2. Swing, killed,
Estelle Cooke. leg broken; two chill
dren Of E Herring, leg and arm
broken, two children of Mr.. O'Hara,
legs broken and injured internally.
The house of S, McKinnon was
blown down, seriously injurjng Nc
Kinnon. The store-house and post
office, owned by S. D. Hughes, was
demolished, and the goods promiscu-
ously scattered. The residences Of Nj.
B. Cox, Ell. Thompson and T, J. Will,
lams were demolished. Larkin Gen
try's house, some distance from the
village, is also reported demolished,
and himself, wife and child killed.
Other serious results RE probable, as
the country Is thickly settled in the
direction which fhe storm took.
TRAINS DELAYED BY wAsHoUTS.
DENIsoN, Tex, April 23.-In conse-
quence of heavy rain and wind storms,
causing washouts and endangering
bridges, traffic on the Missouri Pacific
north and west of Denison is impeded,
The south-b0und passenger train is
delayed at the city limits. The Red
river Is rising four feet per hour,
Fears are entertained for the safety of
t.e Missouri Pacific Railway bridge.
A freight train of eighteen cars is re,
ported wrecked near Cary Station,
Ind. Z. No one hut.
Lon Holland, injured by a falling
building during the Cyclone yester-
day, died this morning.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-04-12
SHOOTING 1Tu,tuI>oN.

Word was brought the 10 the city
yesterday afternoon that "a shooting
,crape had occurred at Harrison -tI-
ton II seems that a negro aud n
white man met on the highway, and
the negro refused TO give any part of
the road, which led to the alteration,
and nh arrest was made Yesterday
the white man (who~r name could
not bee lcarned) in company with three
others went 10 where the negro was
cutting wood, aud after talking II
Whilo, hot words cnsucd, and in n
~huillc the white man drew pistol
aud shot the negro through hcthigh.
The best smoking tobacco j. Little
Joker
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-04-12
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The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-04-12

Running, thrce-fourth. mile dash,
for thrcc-!c ear old- purse, 500 Three
entries, Nat Kramer, Eva Britton,
pillagcr In the start off Kramer
made the first jump ahead, but Eva
lead to the first quarter, where all
were together, but Kramer opurtcd
ahead lust before the wire was reach
ed. and came out nr-t Brilton second.
Time. l:lS H.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-04-12

Alham1ra aud Golden Beet flour
tlrI-hman genuine rompro--riyca-
Blaude Bros candy company strict
pure candIa-. Ron. Bric-t. jr- PtiIc
Nclnl garden seed. Thurbcr'- strict
ly pure aud unaiutertci Moyunc
teas Ihurbcr's iinc canned and dried
iru.t- of every kind Fairbauk'- nnr
laundry soaps; the best ia the world
Cross X BlachWcll'- genuine Import
ed picklr-, chow chow. etc. Lever
in4'- Arbuohic-, Kicker Leo aud
Alvin iaNoritc roasted rollcc- sold
only at
a. JOSH. IA}Iuu * Bro,
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-04-12
CONNIE RClAL.


GNrrsroN. Apri lo-ru, fouovne DE-,
comparative statcmou, 90 COTTON rpDup.> 3d.
the rrm,ip.t mn-srt. Co .l,, nal t,y >luuu ,l,..
lass ,ytr
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-25
Bites a File.

Il 1xETfie discovery that the lNTELLIGENCER
and the Democratic party of this county
are in full and hearty accord seems to
trouble the Examiner. That " there is no
opposition to the INTELLIGENCER fills
the diaphragm of our atra-bilious con-
temporary with sore discomfort. Poignancy
is added to its grief because of its own re-
cent unsuccessful effort to alter this con.
dition of local harmony. With the co,
operation of a few anonymous contributors
whose identity is quite as well understood
as their motives, it has vainly tried to mis-
represent the eINTELLIGENCER and to bring
its editors and the party of which they are
members into unfriendly relations. 1t
finds that it bites file.
If the INTELLIGENCER has succeeded
in any measure in gaining the confidence OF
its party, it has been because it has advo-
Gated the principles of that party with the
fidelity and consistency Characteristic of
the Democratic organization in Lancaster
county. 1t has spoken for no individual or
faction it has not used its influence to
promote any persons spolitical fortunes its
editors have neither sought nor desired
Office for themselves or their friends, and
whatever of preferment or influence has
come to them has been the honest and un-
sought tribute of an intelligent constitu-
ency. To the Examiner, far more than to
this journal, the movements and fortunes
of its editors have lately been of concern
and if we have been regardless of so
conspicuous subject of the Ecdminer's Is
attention, it has been because in the present
estate of that journal, its eulogies are of rs
little compliment as its blackguard abuse
is of little hurt.
A more intelligent, self-respecting and
independent constituency than the Demo-
cracy of Lancaster county the party does
not hold. Tried by fire, the dross has been
melted out. Winnowed by frequent defeat,
the chaf has been borne away on the wind.
The mercenaries and soldiers of fortune
who for time tarried with it have fol-
lowed their natural instincts to the camp
of the spoilsmen. 1t is high
compliment to the INTELLIGENCER TO as
cribe to it in any degree "the conscience
and political integrity " which distin-
guish the great body of Lancaster county
Democrats from the political Hessians
who fight for pay and change their prnci-
Piles with their employment, and who find
the best reasons in their own self-con-
sciousness for doubling " the conscience
and political integrity "of Others.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-25
Tur report ofthe mineral products OF The

THE report ofthe mineral products OF the
United States shows that the total value OF
non-metalic, metallic and unspecifed min
oral products for 1884 was s4l3, ,I04,62o. For
1888 II was sl52, ,20i ,623, and for. 1882 II was
Si55, ,2l6,6s9 II is thus seen that there is big
decadence in the total for last year as COM
pared with the year previous. In account
ing for this it is found that there was "A loss
in pig iron, spot value, OF over ls,000,000 ;
in bituminous coal Of nearly 5000, 600; and
in Pennsylvania anthracite Of nearly sil,000,.
600 There is a loss of s5, ,0OO, 900 in petroleum
and sl,O0o,000 in building stone and so on.
Not that the supply ofthese mineral products
is becoming exhausted, but that the amount
marketed has grown beyond that consumed
When the surplus is taken up, 1t will b'
found that the supply will again keep pace
with the demand, until commercial greet
brings about the same condition of affairs a
now exists.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-25
Why Roach Went Under.

There is nothing substantial to be made
by the superviceable friends of John Roach,
Bill Chandler and George NJ. Robson, in
their effort to make it appear that Mr..
Roach's recent failure is due to the harsh
ness of politically adverse administration
which had resolved to break down useful
man anda flourishing industry for partisan
spite or to make political capital.
The figures given out by the navy de-
partment the other day, show that Mr.
Roach has been paid largely on the contract
price OF the cruisers building in his yard,
and that no possible Withholding by the
government of the money yet to be
paid for them precipitated his fail
ure. The claim that rigorous insist
ance by the reformed navy department
upon contractors complying with their
contracts would have imperilled Roach, at
once reveals the secret Of his long-contin-
ued relations with the government and
explains his variance from those business
like methods which have heretofore given
him advantages over other ship-builders
and now put him at disadvantage.
For he has not been content with
straightforward, practical and business
like ways He has mingled the wiles of
the politician, the intrigue of the lobbyist
and the devices of the subsidizer with the
arts of the builder and the contractor.
He has subsidized newspapers to ad-
vocate jobs which might enrich him or to
ward off just criticism. He has employed
the most audacious and the shrewdest
lobbyists to be found anywhere to promote
friendly or to hinder unfriendly legislation
in Congress. He has so completely con-
trOlled secretaries of the navy that he had
come to believe he had title deed to all
the money appropriated to the naval de-
partment. Like many other audacious
pretenders he championed the interests of
American industry and the cause of native
workingmen, regardless of the fact that
neither can he substantially and perman-
emily benefited save by an honest policy
that squares with commercial integrity
and the infallible rules ofa sound economy.
If Mr.. Roach was the victim of a sud-
den misfortune, or of a malicious persecu-
tion, he could not have obtained greater
sympathy than has been expressed for him
in many quarters. 1t remains for him to
dlsproye that he has wrought his own ruin
by system that reflects discredit on our
politics and our business interests as WELL
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-25

If landlords were made to pay for the re-
be given to this important question. IL would
be well for this country II the same view of
bad sanitary arrangements was taken here as
in particular section of England, Croydon.
There the tenant of house brought an ac-
ton against his landlord for damages result
ing from the death Of his wife, from disease
caused, he claimed, by defects in the drain
age and plumbing. The lady had possessed
an income Of 81 600 year, which ''died with
her." and for this substantial loss the hus-
band asked compensation. lie showed that
the house had been represented by the land
lord TO be in perfect sanitary condition. But
the state of the dwelling was bad, sewer-gas
escaped from the joints of the sol-pipe and
from broken trap, and a drain in the
rear of tho house was stopped. Before
the death of the wife, this cook, the gardener
and stepson of the plaintiff were i'll. 1t was
in vain that the landlord showed that he had
reason to believe at the time that his repre-
sensations about the conditions Of the house
were true. The jury found for the plaintiff,
awarding him $4,000 for damages sustained
in the loss OF his wife, and 81, li0 additional
for expenses which he had incurred by rea-
son of the bad sanitary arrangements II
all neglectful landlords received this kind OF
medicine, typhoid fever and kindred dis
eases would have far smaller number OF
victims.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-25
PERSONAL.

LORD PALMERsToN once remarked that
the draw backs and objections to war are
somewhat mitigated by the fact that it
teaches geography to persons who otherwise
would never learn it,
DIR. MCTYEIRE i'm his "IIstory of Method
ism" estimates the number of sermons
preached by Whitfield in "a years at $4,000,
and the number preached by Wesley In So
years at AZ, 400.
WAsHINGToN IRVING once gave the fol-
lowing advice to a lady: "DOn't be too
anxious about the education of your
daughters they will do very WE'LL don't
teach them so many things teach them one
thing" s'What is that, Mr.. Irving?" she
asked. 'Teach them," he said, 'to be easily
pleased"
DICKENS was very fond of music, but not
of classical music only. He loved ma
tional airs old tunes, songs and ballads. lie
was easily moved by anything pathetic in a
song or tune, and was never tired of hearing
his particular favorites sung Or played. He
liked to have music OF an evening, and duets
used to be played very often for hours to-
gether, while he would read, or walk upand
down the room.
WHITTIER SAYS: "If Longfellow, Emer-
son, Hawthorne, or myself had been forced
to rely upon the products of our pens for orr
living, we would have wanted bread in those
days when most of our best work was done
To me this is queer phase of literary life,
to find that the greatest geniuses that
America has even given to literature should
have toiled without recompense, and been
forced TO wait until they were old before
reaping the fruits of their labor"
T. G. CRAWFORD tells queer little story
as illustrating Ferdinand Wards rapacity.
Gen. Grant, he says, was accustomed to 20
up to New York 10 attend a board meeting
from Long Branch, when he received
the usual directors fee of $40 gold piece.
This he always gave TO Mrs. Grant until she
had some 20 or so of them. Ward heard OF
this and got hold of them. He had so coaxed
the remote savings of every individual men,
there was not single member of the family
who had 500 at his command.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-25

opened with regularity, and its contents
are not distributed with care. In many
instances which have come to our notice,
after letters were deposited there hours
before certain mail trains left, and specially
to get the advantage of them, the mail
matter was left lie in the box, or if taken
out was carried far beyond its destination
and came back to it after half-day's
delay.
Obviously if certainty and promptness o.
delivery cannot be secured for the letter.
which the public are invited to mail II
these station boxes, they had better b
| taken down.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-25
0be la,,taster 1ntelli9cnfer.
LANCASTER. JULY rs. 1885.
Tariff UnderyaluatiOns.

The reforms instituted by Secretary OF
the Treasury Manning in the valuation of
imported goods, by rigorous correction of
fraudulent invoices, proves what has long
been suspected, that many of the ills of the
tariff system result from mal-administra-
tion.
Under long continued succession of ad-
ministrators, of easy virtue, it has been
the practice for favored importers to en-
tirely defeat alike the revenue and protec-
tive purposes of the tariff by having their
goods appraised at from Is to 80 per cent.
below their actual value. The government
has been cheated out of its just revenues {;
business competitors who had not the poll
tical influence to secure these favOrs, or
lacked the knavery to seek them, suffered
from the unjust discrimination and
!" American industry" failed of the pro-
lection claimed for it by the foreign
manufactures being subject to an under
valuation that brought them in too cheap.
The commercial morals of the country
were degraded by the temptation offered to
men of ordinary integrity to reap advan-
dRtS lIOll dlOOociy duliilliotciSu ~ ot'hi VI
tax laws.
II the new treasury administration up to
this time had done nothing but check this fire.
quent abuse by recovering penalties for past
transgression and warning off the offenders
against repetition of their wrong-doing
it would have accomplished more toYSHf,
substantial tariff reform" than mosf of fin
horizontal theorists, who w. aritate,
their legislative schemeS<t is not strictl
true that "where' e'ert. host administered. i
best; best. but it 1almost an infallible rul
Una, NO system of government
wen administered is better thai
aaWfTL system ill enforced; and tn
seform practicable and i'm
) Secretary Manning has recoe
: @s u sgzed upon, is an honest an
81 "a adminislratio of existing laws. Thi
/ Nh not only best test their efficacy an
~ kmerits, but will most clearly reveal thei
Inequalities and most speedily hiring abou
reform of these.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-25
Reform Is Necessary.

The postal boxes at railway stations
were established to accommodate, not to
mislead the public. Letters deposited
therein are supposed to be taken out upon
the departure of each mail train and hur-
ried to their destination by the most direct
way.
Frequent experience justilies the belief
that this purpose is very often not
realized. Sometimes mail matter deposit
Cd In the box in the Lancaster railroad
Stallion is gathered up and carried in
the opposite direction, causing pro-
voking delay in its transmission and de-
livery, The box at the Philadelphia,
Broad street station Is manifastly not
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-25
WE ALL LIKE SHEEP.

"We all like sheep, the tenors shrill
Begin, and then the church is still,
While back and forth across the aisle,
Is seen to pass the catching" smile.
ave all like Sheep the altos moan
In low and rich and mellow tone,
While broader grows the merry grin
And nose gets further of from chin.
awe all like Sheep" sopranos sing
Till all the echoes wake and ring;
The young folks litter. and the rest
Suppress the laugh in bursting chest.
awe all like sheep" the bassos growl--
The litter grows into howl,
And e'en deacon's face is graced
With wonder ut the singers taste.
"We all like Sheep" runs the refrain,
And then TO make their evening plain,
The singers altogether say,
we all, like sheep, have gone astray."
From He Columbus (Ohio) Dispute h
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-25

The number OF people who dabble i'm liter
ature is remarkable, when 1t is remembered
how small the rat'o of success IL To that of
failure in the literary profession. Since the
first book was made, the best of authors have
long struggled with adverse currents, be-
fore they could even secure liberation In the
world of literature for their work, and to
many of them recognition came when they
had grown beyond the regard of the
worlds applause as sour old men and
women. TO more than few death was the
beginning of a fame that was deathless. In
view of these well established historical facts,
1t would be thought that only few brainy,
bold spirits would attempt to scale the
heights of tho literary Alps; yet every one
| with cdcoethcs scribendi, or a distaste for
| hard work, seems to consider II his mission
| to plunge into authorship. The extent OF
| this impulse is wider than may be imagined
| A writer in New York paper relates that q
| year or two since, the publishers OF Thu
Youths Companion offered prize Of sl,0O'
for the best short story, for which more thar
eighteen hundred writers competed. In
single month, during the past summer,
Now York firm refused the offer of 15
manuscript volumes. The English pub
fishers, on an average, reject ten for ever,
novel they print 1t goes without saying
therefore, that the supply in the literar.
| market far exceeds the demand. Many mel
and women who would make acceptabl
| mechanics or seanstresses are burning tn
midnight oil to no purpose in the effort u 4
themselves for station In life that they wer
never intended to fill.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-25

THE appointment of Joseph X. Bogert, to
be postmaster at Wilkesbarre; and of John
NJ. McMurray, Brookville, Jefferson county,
to position of responsibility in tho interior
department, are in the line of the principal
Pennsylvania appointments hitherto made,
They are fit men, men and trSs' faeM5crats; nd
man OWLS nd no faction can claim
slIe,n ssfi~ Pretension or the complaint that
afy body is cunning the administration in a
| narrow gauge policy AZ to Pennsylvania ap
| pointments seems to be a silly boast or All
| idle growl.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-25
Walt Tpi the Clouds Roll 6y, Love-"

But the clouds won't "roll by" as long as
dyspepsia holds its cruel grip. Dyspepsia be-
clouds the mind, confuses the understanding
and daT-keps the domestic circle. Browns Iron
Bitters yaakes short work of dyspepsia. Mrs.
used Browns Iron Btters for dyspepsia, with
favorable results. believe IL Is all II Is repre-
experenee OF his patrons who have used this
great }pnic.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-25
StimuIant, Tonic and Nourishment.

These are the threefold daily requirements OF
human life, particularly in the whirl and rush
OF social and business existence. Constant eX-
haustion of al the powers requires perpetual
rehabilitation. Concentrated recuperation is
the great problem which is successfully solved
In DuFPY's PURE MALT WnIsKEr, that furnishes
all the stimulating, strengthening and nourish.
ing compouents of the finest barley in the most
eificen. and heaithtul form. entirely free from
every injurious element, so that the most deli
cate system or critical connoisseurs derive the
greatest good and utmost satisfaction from Its
use. Sold by any reliable grocer or druggist.
o Is your back lame? IL is solid fact that the
nly sure cure for diseases of the kidneys, liver,
bladder, Is Hunts Remedy.
Disordered liver and kidneys will produce
rheumatism and neuralgia. All liver and kid
ney diseases are cured by Hunts Remedy.
jy2Ilwdcod&w
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-25

No place less fitting for General Grants
burial place could have been chosen than
Central Park In New York
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-25

MANY who believed themselves philoso
piers have been compelled to admit that thi'
summer weather is too much for them.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-25

1r will soon be time for the railroad stock
jobbers TO gather IN their crop of Wool
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-25

A CENSUS of the church-goers on summer
Sundays would seem to indicate that Old
Nick strengthens his hold i'm warm weather.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-25
n. e. SLAYMAkER,
nstfd NO. % EAST KING STREET.

CAFE, SURE AND SPEEDY CURE.
- RUPTURE. VARIoocKLR and SPECIAL DiskAsKs
Why be humbuyged by quacks, when you
can ind I'm Dr. Wright the only RKau-
LAR PHYsIoIAN In Philadelphia who makes a
specially of the above diseases ana ouRxs them
CURES q d ARAkTKEp. ADVICE YRkK, day ana even
ing Strangers can be treated and return home
the same day. ofices private ,oa-
No. 2n North Ninth street, above Race,
r. D. Box 67a fhuaoeiphia
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-25
Out Door Snorts.
CAINT-RAPHAEL WINE.
INFORMATION.

The Saint Raphael Wine has delicious favour
and Is drunk In the principal cities of Russia
Germany, North and South America, Great
Britain, India, and so on. The quantity exported
ANNUALLY Is sufficient proof OF its stability and
staying powers, while for the real connoisseur
there Is no wine that can be considered its
iS-The Saint Iia phael Wine Company, yalence,
Department of the DrOme (Frunce.D
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-25
lNTELtiGENcER BUILDING,
3. W. CORNER CENTRE SQUARE,
LANCASTER, PA.

DALLY-7en Cents a Week. Five Dollars a
Yeur or FTny Gents a Month. Postage Free.
AD DVERTISEbfENTSJ from Ten TO FVty Cent,
Line.