Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-04-24
HERE AND THERE.

iNHNNitlitlN tul nltttitIN pl great events run |
rom jackson to Cleveland, told me the
,ther day that one OF the brightest and most
'apable three women he had ever met was
the wife OF Governor Snyder. She was the
daughter ot that Matthias slough, who Tot
many years kept the swan tavern, and, him
self made good deal of our local history
his father Jacob Slough built the Swan in
li3i and Matthias succeeded to II shortly |
afterwards; he was an assistant burgess |
early IN the history of tho city; rs coroner he |
held the inquest over the Indians massaCred |
10y the Paxton boys; he commanded a hat. |
TALON in the Revolution, on the right side, |
served in the Legislature I775-SS and died at |
the state capital Just as the guns OF our |
second war with Great Britain began to
thunder My informant called attention to
the fact that after the war for independence
good many OF the American officers went
To tavern keeping. Their estates we're mostly
wasted and their business broken up This
calling did not require much capital and
they made rather interesting and popular
landlords. Their families kept good social
position; their guests were the first men of
the country and many match WAS made
between the transient guest and the land
lords c0mely daughter. Hence exalted
strains OF the American aristocracy.
have read it'll a great deal oi interest
Major II. kyd Douglas address before the
Lowell Institute of Boston upon "Ihe
southern Volunteers" 1t was received with
much favor and its author had great social at
tentiouS while at the metropolis of New Eng
land aud the Hub ot the Universe. This
speech is not panegyrc on the Confederate
army or the Secession cause; nor Is 1t the
tlorid and teTvid eulOgy that too often
weakenS the Southern style. 1t Is q manly,
frank, honest historical sketch, telling many
| things the true Northern soldier would be
| glad to hear and prunted to know. The
| Decoration day orators are running pretty
| dry their subject, as they mostly treat it, is
| dTeadiully worn and thread-hAre. | wonder
| that some Northern post OF the q. \. X,
| hasn't invited Douglas to come and make
| this speech TOR it. / cherish the hope we
| LanCastrlaus may have a chance to hear It
| 1t IL not always, III fact | believe 1t D.
| seldom, Elster comes so near the May day
| But what could he loVelier and more fitting
| than thIscOugurreuceo OF natures resurrection
| with the great Christian festival When did
| the country look loveier? Whoever has been
| out through it the past week has seen such "A
| bursting forth OF nature as makes the bloed
| course through the veins with new and
| passionate impulse The buds are spring ging
| into leaf and blossom. The peach and cherry
1
| wheat fields are magnificent; the meadow
| are bespangled with the golden dandelion
| i'll the gardens the datlOdIs and other spring
| flowers are all abluOm and nothing gives
| more life to the Landscape than the brooks
aud creeks, tull to the banks, that 20 leaping
| and sparkling down their courses, hurried
by the iullness OF their springs. 1t Is re
| marked by the oldest inhabltant that not fol
thirty years have the waters been so high OF
the ground so well moistened. 1t Is con
hdeutly predicted that not spring in Ian
caster county will fail this year and fountains
| are sending forth streams now that we're con
sldered forever sealed. Everything promise
| bountitul yield and only man is vile.
This phenomenal rising of the waters
following continued heavy rains Is, of course
the rational explanation OF the flooding o
| the East King street cellars The old spring
that made the Dark Hazel swamp" betor'
| 1t was drained and cleared OF wood in lI45
have simply broken loose. When Georg'
| Gibson Kept 1.-THE Hickory Tree tavern
: about where Isaac OILERS hardware stOr
now Is, his pastures lay ali about that neigh
; borhOod and cows got lost where the lookup
now is. | don't remember this, but peopl,
told me who had grandmothers that did
! do not know whether or not i'll tn,
various fittings and removals, the hOus,
cleanings aud house warnings OF city hal!
the old original minute book OF the city
fathers has been lost But fortunately fU
our local history Mr.. Geo. Stenman OF TIM
city has bad a copy of it made, which b,
cherishes with other treasures of the loca
| antiquarian. The town, you know, though
| laid out by James Hamilton in 1880 was no
chartered until May l, l7i2; and the gran
of its corporation was then made, as it says
"tO promote Trade, Industry, Rule ant
| good order amongst all our subjects of Ou
| special grace"-the said grantor beiug hi
| majesty, George the Second, by the grace o
God, through his Lieutenant GOverno
George Thomas, under John, Thomas ant
Richard Penn, esqS, proprietaries. 1homa
| COOksOn, who was the first chief burgess
| was man OF note and lived on Orange
| street. Sebastian Graft, the burgess, lived
| on the land now occupied by the Lancaster
cemetery and his family built shOber''
| hotel, as the inscription on the stone III iron
| testfies. The assistant burgesses-wh made
| the town council of that day-were the lead
| ing men of the place and it IS a coincidence
| that the name attached to these hTSt minutes
as clerk is the same as that of the mayor o
| l25 years later-tieorge SandersOn, who, by
the way, was chief executive of the city
longer period than any other man in iu
history, lS50-Gs; next came Mr.. Carpenter
who had eight years, lSi3-5L
| The first municipal legislation had here
after thanks for the charter, as the loca
| historian has taken it from these old minutes
| was an order prohibiting secular employ,
ment on Lords day, allowing butchers
however, 10 Kill on Sunday in June, July,
| August-they preserved no ice at that time,
| though nature made it all the same-and in.
| structing tho constables to search the publC
| houses for tipplers. Ii seems that notwith-
| standing the act of assembly ii had become
| "toO customary for the shop-keepers, tavern
| keepers and others within the borough to
| follow their ordinary callings on the Sabbath
| day, the shUp-keepers by selling out their
| goods TO the country people and the tavern
| keepers entertaining company the butchers
| also keeping open shops and selling their
| meat during the whole day." From that
| time on, as traced by the burgesses' pro-
| Ceedings recorded in this minute book, the
| town council legisated chiefly on matters of
domestic concern and the study OF them
| has much curious interest "The liberty
| taken by chapmen licensed to travel with
goods for supplying the country, in setting
| up stalls within this corporation particularly
at the times of elections and court, and ex-
posing their goods to SALE" had grown to be
| gross abuse, Infringing "upOn the rights
| and privileges OF tho shOp-keepers and a
great encouragement OF people settling
here" Hence they were ordered out to the
country, To serve people cat distance from
towns aud shops" and warned under penal
ties not TO set up their booths on our streets
except in fair week, when special privileges
were sold them.
The regulation of tair week, the letting of
st all b.. - Ia.