Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-20
HERE AND THERE.

liked Miss Cleveland's letter about the low
necked dresses, she said she liked what was
said, but she did not like Miss Cleveland to
say it. Now why do You suppose the Young
Woman is so capricious
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And this said this same young woman,
who has seen her often: 'The INrELLIoES-
GERS picture Of Mrs. James Brown Potter
does not carry an adequate idea OF her
beauty. She is very handsome but an ALSO
lutte failure rs an actress. She Is awkward
and without vivacity. Her 'Ostler joe
wasn't quite the thing to serve up for intel
lectual refreshment at a private party; l
am glad to see the people OF Washington
are not snobs, but independent enough to
express their disapproval in spite of Mrs.
Potter's position aud beauty, which allow
her to do and say anything in New York
without condemnation" This is new view
of metropolitan and capital society.
Recalling the fact that ex-Attorney GEN.
eral Benz. II. Brewster-it Is said-has a law
library worth SlO0, 600 ait is said," mind
you-a distinguished member of the Iancas-
ter bar points out that there are in all not
$500 volumes of the entire court reports OF
the United States, and they can be pur.
chased for about an average of g per volume;
after you have these, $4,000 more will pro-
vide very complete law library. The
young man at the Lancaster bar, who is
worrying along with u professional income
of s, 600 or $4,000 year and does not stay
out too late o. nights, may reasonably hope
in the course Of time to get together few
law books. | know OF one barrister who,
when he started, had more leisure than law
suits and being disposed to study rather
to be .al sba
bookseller to trust him for 500 worth.
promising not to carry them oil nor hypothe-
cate them for his board bill. The book man
admired his frankness, but only sold books
for :. The lawyer got along all the same,
and can now buy and sell the book seller
and all the book sellers heirs, assigns and
successors. The young lawyer who is anx-
ious can borrow all the books he will read,
until he is able to buy them.
How one good deed shines in a naughty
world One of the prominent members
ought to be vestryman If he is not--of an
Episcopal church, in the county, told me he
received an enclosure of S25 for his church
the other day from an unexpected source
And the donor, taking it for granted some ex.
PLANTATION was needed, told him how when a
struggling youth aud refused help in other
quarters, the late beloved Bishop Bowman
gave him SIS and, better still, some good
words To this start in life he felt that he
owed his all, and he was only paying part of
his debt in sending ON his enclosure of SIS
for the church.
over the blue furnace hills that lie way of
yonder to the north, visible from the reser-
voir grounds or any other elevated point
hereabouts, you may see on any clear day a
fleecy cloud hanging that rises from the
stacks of the great furnaces at Cornwall. The
iron hill is on the upper side of the range.
| 1t is not as high as some of the peaks nor as
| wide, but like Mercutio's wound it's enough.
| There's millions in it. And millions have
been taken out of it. MiSsouri's Iron Noun.
| tain and Pilot Knob are small affairs to this
though they cut more of a figure in the
| Biographies. i have often wondered that
| the magaznists and enterprising journal.
ists' have never made more out of this
romantic and picturesque Cornwall estate,
| with the complication OF owners, rights and
| titles. In Philadelphia where by the con-
| sent of all mankind, including himself, the
| laureate crown has rested tor two decades
undisturbed II not uufadng, on the head OF
| George II. Boxer, poet l picked up at a
secondhand book store the other day for
| 25 cents the 1869 edition of 4" "koengsmark
| The Legend OF the Hounds, and Other
| POEMS" and the ISTELLIGENoER TODAY
| reprints one of these-the only one know
OF in literature in which our Cornwall an
pears. | have often heard among the Penn.
| sylvsnia Dutch households OF that region the
varying legends OF the ElCiQ JAEGER 1.-THE
| eternal hunter) whose hounds and horns are
| yet heard at nights upon these hills. But
| nobody knows who was the original of the
coarse and brutal parsonage of BOXERS
fancy; and OF course, 1t was all a fancy. 1t
is none the less poem OF graphic power and
dramatic interest
The munIments of title of the Cornwall es-
tate make big book. Nobody can tell how
much it is all worth. II there is ore
enough there to run " a thousand furnaces a
thousand years" you would be satisfied
with a small share OF it These lands. now
comprising such vast and valuable estate
making millionaires of dozen owners were
acquired for mere song by Peter Grubb
who patented them Nov 80, 1877, and Aug
=, lIi5 Upon his death his elder son Curtis
Inherited a two-third share, under til law of
the province as 1t then stood, and his son
Peter cd the remaining one-third On
June :, TS3, Curtis Grubb conveyed to his
son Peter (3d) one-fourth OF his share, or
one-sixth OF the whole, and Peter (3d) in
turn conveyed the same on Nav Q, 1856 To
Robert Coleman, the first of his name who
shared this great estate This grantor, how
ever, reserved out of this one-sixth conyeyed
10 Coleman the right to dig, raise and haul
away enough ore for the supply of any ore
his heirs and assigns.
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This reservation and the construction to
be put upon it was an important feature in
the subsequent litigation over the estate and
the different rights involved in it. When
Peter Grubb (2d) died his one-third interest
descended TO his sons Burd and Henry
bates while the remaining interest of Cur
lis Grubb,w after his death, by direction of
his Will, jan Il, 1898, sold to Robert Cole
man. Burd Grubb conveyed to Henry
Bates Grubb all his interest, which was m
turn granted to Robert Coleman who by
this time had acquired title to fiye-sixtbs Of
the estate, and Henry Grubb the remaining
owner OF that name, retained only one sixth,
IL was this Robert Coleman, then residing
IN Lancaster, who WAS the father of the
nancee of James Buchanan their love story
aud Its abrupt ending having been recently
told IN the Curtis biography. Another
daughter, who did not, however, grieye her
sell 10 death, was betrothed to the lately de-
ceased William Augustus Muhenberg. II. ID.
then the young co-Iector of St James Z, E.
parish, Lancaster. The records of that
church tell OF the proud old fathers opposi
ton and interference. Muhlenberg wrote
ms hymn, Would Not Live Alway,r un-
der the inspiration of the disappointment of
his young loves first dream. lie repepted
It's melancholy strain before he died she
married somebody else
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When Robert Coleman died he devised
his 50 shares, out of the 96 comprising