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

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The last time saw or heard Mcclellan | :
was at the Democratic state convention of | g
New Jersey, In Trenton, during the presi- /.
iential campaign in 1881. ] was most torc. ,
bly, struck with the elegance OF his dlctlon
and the vigor OF his expression. He was
man of singular refinement Of manner and
elevation of tone The subject Of most cruel |
no bitterness of reproach
ESCAPED his lips aud he went to his grave
without adJ ,IIiato defense, not of his motives |
for they needed none, but of his acts and
deeds. hear Fourth of ly aud Decoration
Day orators without number exalt tho "mon- |
uuent OF American fame, which bears the
names oil Washington, Lincoln and Grant, |
but some day or other make no doubt,
Just pubic sentiment will be firmly fixed |
that Mcclellan was quite a. pure u patriot |
IA Lincoln and altogether IA skillful and
brave general as Grant.
| met General BENJAMIN 4. Butler the
other evening. lie is ageing rapidly, walks
with some difficulty and talks like man
who has lost his fire aud snap. But he was
out at night without an attendant or n car.
rage, and displays in conversation the versa |
tility which has distinguished his long ca
reer. OF course he is Sir Oracle and when he
opens his mouth no dog barks. We listened
to him discourse of bomesickness, which he
AYERS Is a veritable disease and no related
how whole regiment OF Maine men got it
down at New Orleans. The hospitals were
crowded with victims of nostalgia and when
he walked in and bade them cheer up, he
was going to transport them back to their
homes, nearly every man promptly recovered;
| it wasn't cowardice, but pure and simple
homesiCkness. | do not think Butler is very
cordial towards the administration he pre-
diets Republican control of the next House,
in accordance with an unchanging law OF
| politics that every administration suffers this
reversal in the second year he does not
| sympatbi2e profoundly with the pension
| vetoes and does not share the popular
| opinion that the least deserving class of pen
| sioners are the later applicants. His expert
| ence as manager of the soldier homes is that
some of the most deserving apply for public
bounty only when every other means of
| support tail. In these homes, by the way,
| some six in number, there are about II 1000
| old soldiers, who are well taken care of. 1t
| does not seem unreasonable that those among
| them VINO get pensions should surrender
| these while supported III the homes, or at
| least turn in the money TO help keep up the
ins!ituaons That used to be the law but
| Congress changed it Butter would restore
| it, il for no other reason than to keep the
! homes from being overcrowded with men
| getting ample support from the government
| TO the exclusion OF more needy class. 1t is
| suggested too that it is hardly fair for the
| thousands of these soldiers, living on a gov
! eiument property, in a certain locality, with
| out any local attachments or interests, to yot,
| and have the power to control local elections
| The old soldiers home near Washington il
| for regular army soldiers only. 1t is kept VI
| by fines, reservations from pay, etc. and, by
| special laws, deserters' money, unclaimed
| funds of a certain class and other revenues
are turned into it until, besides its equip
} ] meut, 1T has a balance of about $1,000 600 /,
| its credit in the United States treasury.
! Down i'll East Tennessee, they tell me VIII,
have been buying land there, the surveys ar,
. | very inaccurate and in one case a gentle
| man who bought 50 acres of land of som,
, value couldn't bring the courses and dis
tances within 100 yards of i" the place of be
= ginning y when he had it resurveyed. VI
= | in Etk county, this state, however, where
| section line was blaZed through the fores
3 | years ago, two of the mile trees are il9 rod
| apart, when in point of fact the old-iashone'
mile was only $50 rods
~
: 1t is an old story and one of my hobbies
1 this bigness of Pennsylvania but ever
! time get into new part of the state l al
" | impressed anew with the vastness and variet
n | OF its resources. ] had read that its tame
- leather interests, like its flour milling, iroI
@ | glass, coal and oil interests far exceede
y | those of any other commonwealth, but | di
u not know much of them by personal observ;
2 | tion until got up into the hemlock region
It | of Elk and adjoining counties. They had
/ | Fourth OF July celebration in Rdgway @
l. the Third; aud they were all there. In El
II | and Tloga tho New York capitalists, espe
- | tally, have located their tanneries in Il
midst OF their purchases and possessions
o | tens of thousands of acres of the hemloc
IS | lands which have been gradually peeled ft
Il / the great tanneries of that region. The pro,
:. unity Of the bark, ample supplies OF cles
Il Irain m
y | the advantages of location here, and the
have been improved by enterprise and OF
= | ergy. take 1t one of these big tannerit
d l Will use up from $50 to 500 hides a da,
II | turning out, therefore, as many as 900 side
3 | OF leather and when it is remembered th.
" | nearly six month elapse between the ra
u | material aud the manufactured produc
10 l some idea can be had of the capital require
Y | for the plant here. The spent tan supple
al | fuel. i would not have believed the W
', | stuff would burn SO well and make such
hot ire, until shown that dried tan was I
good at all for fuel. | was equally surprise
Di | at the economy of a tannery. The liquor
10 ! heated and used over and over until ever
,r | bit OF the hemlOck extract has done its Sc
- vice. Up at Daguscahonda, five miles frol
y ! RidEway, there is an extract works,
81 | which Jackson s. Shultz, tho well-know
l. | New York capitalist, has large investmen
10 | There they simply extract the juices Of Il
g. | hemlock bark for convenient shipmel
- abroad to foreign tanners. At Wilcox, She
| lltlu anu OiDtF lelIllS III lOe county llGfe
~ | big tannories, which, with the Tioga Col
~ | cerns make this the great sole leather tai
q | ming region of the world, well worth week
- | visit. You SEQ the sole leather process
4 | something altogether different from that
Il | the manufacture of leather for betting, u
/ | pers, harness. &c, where the strength is
a | the stretch" They say that in England an
| other foreign markets the tanners welgl
, | their leather shamelessly, putting in
4 | much as fifteen per cent OF adulteratiol
" | which would ruin the standing of an Amer
=, | can manufacturer The best sole loath,
I | may have no stretch quality its fibre is
! | the I" up and down " wear.
~
a | Ridgway is "A brisk town of probably II
q as many as 1000 population. 1t presen
is | signs Of wealth, enterprise aud reiinemen
: | The ire that burned out one OF its best bus
|, ness blocks some years ago led to its r
y | placement by better one of brick. A goo
70 | court house and jail, in the centre of ii
o place, surrounded by park, have settle
| the long controversy with ST. Mary's as
y | the location of the county seat Tor man
y | years this was the leading political issue
this county. The hills around Ridgway al
. full of good springs, and every citizen ca
. have his own water supply, bath room o
| every floor and a fountain in the front yaI(
u They bring the natural gas from near by an
: it flares in the street lamps that burn lik
| great pine knot torches they burrow til
: hllsides Tor coal and near the town son
generous soul, with an eye for the beautiful
has lot stand acres OF the hemlock torres
| Long may she wave.