Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-07-17
HERE AND THERE.

summer vacatiou--but not forgotten about |
he size aud wbnscalities OF marriage fees |
They agreed that the biggest fee either had |
aver received was Sl03, but one of them got | J
Z In gold, when the greenback dollar was q
away below par, and he at once exchanged il |
Tor ESQ in currency, which was high water a
marx for him In this sort OF clerical perqui-
sites. The other told how no got his 500 |
note from a very unex pccted source il was
handed TO him In a sealed envelope, and |
when he opened il at home and found the size |
Of II he thought there must be some mis-. |
take, but his wiser wife knew better and |
when he found how rich the groom was and
what valuable help.meet he got, the par
sons surprise at the cheerful amount OF the |
fee melted away, aud he was reconciled to II |
all of It. One of them related that on an |
occasion bridegroom, who gave him s., |
came back two weeks later and handed him |
so more, assuring him that he had not
known what good wife he WIS getting. In
another instance the preacher was handed
big roll OF coin, wrapped IN tissue paper, and
very pretentious in appearance. lie put ii
into his coat tail pocket, and did not venture
to open II until he was the train bound
homeward for a distance. lie found the |
package made up of twenty-five big old. |
fashioned copper cents. The fee is not al |
ways proportioned to the scale of other ex.
penses. groom who is lavish with gifts |
and entertainments may cut the parson down
to paltry ; while poor aud needy couples
sometimes double that The woman has
been known to pay for the job +; perhaps she
was over-anxious, over-gratelul, or had an
ample dover
Plum growers say that besides other bene-
fits Of the copious spring rains they drowned
the curculio.
n new drive for the pleasure parties is
| along tho Conestoga 10 Safe uarbor thence
| across by beautiful road on high ground
commanding an extended view, to Conestoga
! Centre for chicken aud wafies moonlight
detracts nothing from the drive hcmeward.
The projects of drive around the north
| eastern part of the city and down along the
| creek, and of the establishment of a new
| cemetery somewhere beyond the city limits
| vaguely limited at in this column. meet.
| find. with much favor, and have awakened
no slight degree of interest Everybody con-
| cedes that even when cremation becomes
| more fashionable in town than ii now is
such thing can be conceived will be
l some demand for cemetery accommodations
/ lhat the present decreasing facilities will not
be able to supply. Whoever starts the thing
| will get in first.
| As to the pleasure drive it is badly needed.
| We have beautiful hooks and curves along
the Conestoga that the hundreds who crowd
| its banks, on Sunday especially, have long
| found out, but which need to be opened up
| by q drive along its winding course Driv-
| ing out "the causeway" from Wilmington,
| Del, to Newcastle the other day, between
l overarching trees on either side, il struck me
| a roadbed made from oyster shells was about
/ the most comfortable l ever tried. 1t is
, Il nntsAlps. usti md aaSiIN lyn,,t -,
i repair; but correspondent of the Country
/ Gentlemen says the expense of shells haul
i ing and spreading will not justify its coutin-
uance. Where there is much travel, it be-
| comes as bad or even worse than sand.
! ! "As oyster shells are very friable, they are
l | soon converted into q subtitle powder-from
| the attritlons of wheels and hoofs-much
1 | finer than ordinary dust and soon more an.
r / noylng than the latter; 1t totally disappears
/ in an Incredibly short time by tho sand
Q | working up on top, and sinks faster thar
4 | lime. In some places that were sheled
7 few years ago, now one could not tell 10y
passing over them that shell had ever beer
, | The coming ideal highwaywill he one who's,
t | wide road bed will be held firmly in place b,
a cheap cement that will have the power o
i coalesclng with clay or sand, and converting
3 / them into solid like stone for a sullicien
| depth-and this cement will have To be mex
D | pensive easily made, and that can be han
8 died with facility-with ample room oI
Il
5 All through Delaware there is a larg
amount of hedge fencing. Much Of it il
/ kept in good condition, and it adds a grea
l deal to the beauty of the country. The new
4 | system of combined wire and hedge fence
which has been introduced around Fred
erlck, Md, and is commended for this 10
| callty, is said to be tasteful, permanent anC
economical. II, as is said, it can he brough
to perfection in three years set up for 81. >
! rod, aud kept by contract in condition fn
1 lisc rod per annum, alive, growing AM
/ trimmed and if it can be kept So clean at th
= l root that the ground can be cultivated closel
/ as under board fence, one of the rura
: i problems Is promised solution, with bsaut
as 1t ought to he, " made the bride of USE"
l listened agape the otner day to a man c
D extensive fame, high public position and n
less popular influence predicting to parlo
u car audience an early war with England a
u / the most likely, II not the easiest and mos
| satisfactory, solution 10 good many pend
! | ing social and political problems. In tn
: "corrupt coalition " now forming for Ire
l. / lands coercion he recognized the provok I'M
a / cause Tor new resentnents against tina
}. / country, and in the fishery troubles il
a i American Canadian waters he saw an earl,
5 ] preteNt for hostilites that would put tn
= / torch to accumulated combustbles. Ever,
2 / generation must have its war )" he answered
4
# | sense of Christian civilization would not tol
q / crate a combat between great nations on idl
4 / prOvocation. Wars are as certain as thun
5 / dergusts. The times We're never more pro
4 / pitious. Ireland wants to embrOil Englan,
/ IN some foreign trouble so as to stab her i'll tn
back or to send up balloons that will drol
C | dynamite on the Parliament houses Of Lon
don aud the shipping docks OF Liverpool
| Young Canada is restless and wants anneXa
| ton. The soldier spirit is riier in th
Q | states than II has been at any time since tn,
| close Of the war for the Union. Business
| men want a war to stir up trade, and laborer
! would he glad for the opening of new chan
l nels OF industrial activity. England, prouC
/ of her superior naval armament, would b
| quite ready to hit us a crack and our peop
| would rush right oil 10 buy the Chilian navy
| and hit her back, until we got the new ship
| Duilt Mark 1t, young men, you will see thi
D | war with England. Cleveland could popu
a | larize his administration by going to thu
| front with an aggressive policy and II thu
| administration taltered Blaine would be al
1 ! too ready to seize the opportunity" Ther
z | the Statesman took pinch Of snuil, read
, | justed his travelling cap, and kept on reading
4 i To the finish the little book had laid on his
0 | lap entitled, McClellan's Last Service t
I | the Republic" by George ricknor Curtis.
D ~
4 You will remember reading the three
t leading papers which comprise it, of course
when they were first published in the NorN
l american ReUiep, and again in the publica
| tion made just after General McClellan's
death. But one can well afford TO read 1t the