Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-06
HERE AND THERE.

herself especially in vocal another In mstru-
mental music, a third in painting, under
skilltul private instruction and the influence
and association of the best schools and
galleries and models. They write from
their now foreign home that the candy there |
is mean and high priced hut nuts, figs, |
dried fruits, raisins aud other sweet meats |
are all tho best taste could require apples |
and pears are sold 10y the pound, some are |
nice and some are not ono OF the streets in
Munich has the homCly name of " Butter |
milch Strasse - barons are abundant and |
not very impressive Consul Harper of
Munich is about to sail for homo-a good
opening for a good Democrat
A good lady in this city told me the other
day that when She lived in Allegheny, steve
Foster, the musical compuSor-who wrote
" Old Folks at Home " and many other pop
ular negro melodCS--waS a frequent visitor
to her house in his Young manhood. have
just had a letter from his brother, who will
some Of these days, 1t is to bc hoped. publish
a memoir Of the talented and lamcntcd song
writer. Their ancestor, Alexander Foster
came from Ireland about l72S and settled in
Little Britain, Lancaster county. He had
three sons, James, William and John.
The second of them was a
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the congregations of Doe Run and Oc-
toraro his grandson was the late Henry u.
Foster. the famous Democratic politician of
WostmOrcland county, who carried oft the
Democratic nomination for govcrnnra NJ Read
ing in lSG0 in the memorable struggle he
tween Geo. W. CdsS and Jacob Fry, ir.: and
was then defeated at the general election hy
Curtin. John Foster removed from lAuCa>-
ter county To Tennessee, where many de-
sccndantS bear his name and continue his
Nsfr tod fro,
county to Berkcly, in Virginia served
through the Revolutionary war. and after the
Yorktown surrender, settled near PittShurE,
in what is now Washington county. His son,
William b. Foster was an officer in the
l. :. service i'll the war OF lSl2 and gave
large sums of money to aid in cVuiVping the
armies of General Jackson and OF the North
west ut time when the federal government
was in severe straits He represented ALE
ghcny county for wears in the legislature,
when his friend Andrew jackson was preSl-
dent; and was one of the members who NJ
IDENTIFY advocated the resolution which made
Jackson reconsider and alter his purpose To
not he a candidate for reelection. OF his sons,
stephen C.. the song writer, was "A strong
and useful Democrat, though never a polti-
clan, and he wrote many stirring campaign
ballads: William Il. Foster jr., was vice
president of the Pennsylvania railroad
company, aud an ardent and iUtiucn-
tal supporter of the political faith of
his fathers daughter became the
wife of the Rev. Edward y. Buchanan.
sole surviving brother of the president
another son i the Hon. Morrison Foster.
of Allegheny, who in lN~2 beat Mcneil for
state senator in a district Republican 10y 1000
majority bat was counted out by 81 and Last
year,as the opponent of Tom BaynC, for Con
grS-s, ran ahead of his ticket in every pre-
cinct 1t is not unnatural that his name
should be on many lips a. tit one for the
Allegheny postmastershlF, and his political
pedigree is one to which the most modest
man can point with pride"
In 1854 when Governor Biglcr was a can
didate for reelection and was beaten some
$4,000 10y Know Nothing Pollock-though
Henry :. Mott on the Democratic ticket for
canal commissioner had over lnnOOO ma
iOrty-the representatives, Of the Know
Nothngs went to Bigler and promised him
the election if he would only not assail their
order and principles. He boldly told them
| he was against both, and would denOuuce
| them in every speech, lie did and was
| beaten. But his courage gained for him the
| respect of his party and pi tair-mindcd men.
| and he came to represent Pennsylvania III
the L. :. Senate through the administration
| of the only Pennsylvania president that ha'
| ever occupied the executive chair.
FinanCicr Evans, of select council, has IN
troduced into the plan of the proposed new
four per cent city loan, a feature that made
| the school board loans popular viz : The
| quarterly payment of the interest upon the
| bonds. This il often a convenience for in
vestors There ought to bc no trouble in dis
posing of tho 100000 Of new city per cents
at slight premium.
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In bright book, Of recent publication
which in its uneXpurgated condition is not al
together admissible into the family circle
there are some very pungcnt things whicl
| have lost nothing in translation. For in
| stance
| The English are unquestiOnably cut out
| for founding colonies but they certainly
| are not cut out for making love, for they
| have no 0bdadOH they do not know how tC
| forget themselves, and they spend their live,
| mounting guard at the door of their dignity
| More intelligence is necessary in making
| love than in leading armies, and il wa,
| NinOn de LencloS, an authority ON the sub
| jeCt, who said so.
Go TO the theatre and you will hear the
| leading man declare his passion to his lOyeC
| one in the same tone of voice in which il
| France we would say TO our neighbor at the
| table, "PaSs me the mustard, please
The virtue of the Englishman is bounded
| on the south by the English channel, ON The
west by the Atlantic ocean, and on the cas-
| by the North sea.
Say to an English Tory that Gladstone il
an Old rascal, "A chamberlain, q dangerous
| demagoGue, he Will answer " You have said
| it,"
Say to an English Liberal that Salisbury i,
| babbler, Stafford Northcote an old woman
| and Randolph Churchill dancing Jack, h,
will answer, - You are right"
But venture to joke about Queen Victoria
| and the Englishman, whether Il Tory or
| Liberal, will jump At your throat like a bull
| dog.
The reason of this is very simple.
\ Liberal government never did and ncNc
will do anything that Tory consider
proper,
\ Conservative government never did ant
never will do anything but blundcr IN the
| eyes of Liberal
But il you insult the Queen, who is pro
| tccted from all these party jcalousieS, OF
| whose head reflect all the successes and al
| the glorics of the nation, yOu insult England
| aud ON this score the Englishman is implac
| able and that is Just what makes hi,
strength, be sure Of IL
Happy is the country whose children know
how 70 forget all party-dissension, TO think
| at given moment Of nothing but rallyina
| around the flag.
jumped into a cab and went 10 the station
On leaving the carriage, / noticed that the
cOachman had piece of yellow ribbon in his
buttOnhole. "Ah!" said |, "what dccora
ton have yOu there -
Monsieur has been with the water
drinkers, at the blGe-Iib meeting" said
he. ~ belong to the yellow-ribbon army
"Oh ~ cried !, astOnished "and what
does the yellow army do?"
"Sir," said be, "you eats what you likes,
you drinks what you likes, and you don't
care damn for nobOdYlh SINDBAp.