Daily Republican., 1886-06-29
UP TO LANCASTER.
Inland City. and Makes Notes and Oh.
ssrvations of What lie Noticed
There and on the Way.
RAMBLER TAKES a FEW HOURS
OFF-VIsITs PENNsRLVANIA's

but that was before the railroads had
made q transformation of Delaware.
Still Lancaster County is as beautiful
as ever, dressed as 1t is in robes of
gold and green. No prettier rural
sight can be presented to the eye than
the dotted Landscape of Pequea Valley, |.
as seen from the deep cut Of the Penn
sylvania Railroad in the Gap Hills.
An attache of the REPUBLICAN saw
this panorama Of rural beauty yester-
day. The wheat was about ready for
the reaper, though as far as the eye
could reach from the Gap Hills to the
Welsh mou atains, not a sheaf OF wheat
| had been harvested. Along the Will
m mington & Northern Railroad, from
Wilmington TO Coatesville, here and
| there the reaper had commenced the
task of cutting and binding the golden
grain, but beyond that, up the Chester
VALLEY, and all the way to Lancaster |
city, haIvesters were content at cut |
tiE & the rich heavy crop OF Timothy |
aud clover.
| To-day N doubt at farthest tomorrow, |
standing fields OF grain will be seen In |
the shock. Speaking Of standing grain |
| reminds us tb at the wheat crop on thel
Chester and Pequea Valleys ID not sol
heavy and tangled as that on the Du-
| Pont farms referred tO in yesterday =
l IREPUBIICAN. nor will IL yield any
/ thing like as much TO the acre as the
new varieties that DR.. Greenleaf has
been experimenting with and has put
into succeesful growing. By the way,
lsturdy, honest Mennonite and Amtsch
farmers Of Lancaster County never
rush to take up any idea whether good
ior bad. Their creed is TO live honestly,
4 4. a u To nNtn f4
solidly the Republican ticket. The
! lightuipg rod and book man give them
a vide berth Speaking of the Menuo-
mites, we doubt II many OF the readers
If the REPUBLICAN know how they
choose their preachers. Well, this Is the
plan:
Il an old preacher dies, or from any
J other cause a new preacher has 5o be
t chosen, the mem bers of the con2rega-
Jion come together 10 their meeting
houses, which are very plain, something
ike the Friends meeting houses. A
G | meeting ia organized and nominations
are made from among the members.
: Then the mem bers vote, but differently y
j, from the Democracy of the Third,
e Tenth and Eleventh wards of this city,
G and whoever gets the most votes 10 the
o prs acher Of the congregation. He may
never have stood before congregation
loy audience, but he must preach all the
same, and he must do it too without
A pay. Tae Meneists, or rather Mennon'
!. ties, pay no salaries. All the mem bers
q are generally we'll off and do not preach
a for money. They 20 to church very
Regularly to hear their preacher read
Il and expound the scriptures. These art
"a the kind Of people that till the ricf
valleys of Lancaster County, and tina
y roll up tremendous Repu blican majori
ties.
Il But we are flying up through Pequ'
valley. We saw no wheat, no corr, no
even grags "a large as on the fields O
Christiana Hundred. CrussiAg the dt
lviding ridge we enter the CoDestoR
valley, but the same great crops Is tn
rule. A little distance ahead TO tn
left looms up above the surroundin
shade tree tops the tower OF Lancaste
County prison, about hali-1ail and nal
Ipenitentiary, where the Buzzard ram
lily, the terror Of the Welsh mountatn
seemed to go out and in at pleasure, ,br
IIow through some kind of an undel
lstandinR Abe Buzzard bears his tnoal
-. Iceration with becoming meekness will
- lout any attempt to gain bis freedom.
~ rumble across the Ccnestoga bridge,
few pierciU whistles from the locom
tive, a few rings of the bell and we ste
off in Lancaster city. What splendl
an land substantial Belgian block paw
ments are laid in North and Sou
TO o leen streets aud East and West Xii
,c lsJreets. Wilmington should take le
i". son from these streets.
I'M Lancaster is an inland town whe
most OF the people, some 35 900 of thel
talk German. A German cast is CIV
to the city, but there ie no bonded pn
lie debt like there is in WilminR1o
lOtI Thrift and economy appear to be I
order OF the day. But We cannot ia
'ul time and occupy space in describing
he Idesail all the ennobling qualities
Lancaster and her people. Suffice 1t
cay that she Is putting up as handsol
lschool houses as Wilmington, whit
when compared with the little Of
s'ory buildings erected many years al
show the rapid progress that has D'
made In the cause of education.
Walking out Chestnut street on Mo
It's day morning We came to cemetery
Ismall one by the way, but large enot
dIc to contain the remains of man
the great Commoner Thaddeus {
vens. Yes, sure enough, 1t
Shreiner's cemetery, and in the fart
end of it, distinguished from OF
monuments beiug built OF brown 81
ITO istone, arose the fitting memorial OF I
llO gre at friend of human liberty,
We entered, and with hat in NJ
I'VE drank in the inspiration OF libe
lwh!le reading the inscriptions n
1.-The tablet sides. Built OF solid bro
~ Ipranite placed upon moulded, car
- base of the same, it stood some ten
O9 high and was carved with capst
gently inclining to peak in the
tre, Brown granite columns forI
the four corner pillars, and between
pillars were white marble slabs
the inscriptions. Each end was o.
Approaching the monument we
ON OF @ tablet the following: "Thadd
stevens, born at Danville, Caledt
County, Vermont, April 4th, 1892; {
at Washington, August l1th, l8'
Ion the oval end was the follow
.'Stevens, 1792-1868 Passing arc
we came to the Sc cond marble tai
which contained this inscription'
repose In this quiet and seciudeu
not from any natural preference
nnfa solitude, but finding other cemet'
uGlA limited as TO race by charter ruiz
lhave chosen this that | might illus
In my death the principles adVoc
ices. through long life, equality OF
before the creator"
1t must not be supposed from
that colored people inter their de-
this cemetery, for do not know o
that was ever inferred there, but
is nothing in the rules or charter
prohibits them from buryiug their
10y the side of Thaddeus Stevens II