Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-09-25

4 suggests what - vast waste of Illuminating
power there is in the present system.
The drovers aud feeders put the number
of cattle annually iattened in this county now
| at 60,00O. Most of them are brought here
| from the West; an average of iOO pounds i
| put upon them they are reloaded and ship.
ped To the metropolitan markets, some Ot
| course to Liverpool, where Lancaster county
beet tops oil the list. We suffer from freight
| determinations 1t costs rs much to ship a
| car load OF cattle from Chicago to Lancaster
| as to New York or Philadelphia, say $40
| and then when loaded up again the railroad
| company charges about s. more for the
| short haul to Philadelphia The same
| amount OF corn puts 400 pounds on a beef
| here that it requires for loo pounds in the
| West, because our stock is 80 much better
| housed and cared for.
| Levi Sensenig is the cattle boss of these
| parts aud indeed of Pennsylvania when he
| is about He goes to Pittsburg every sun.
| day night regularly and his berth Is engaged
| hity-two nights i'll the year. You can learn
| a good deal you didn't know before in talk
| ing to him while the porter shakes up his
| bed and 1t Will not be about bull rings and
| hog rings
| l think the business boom has come to
stay. Grover Cleveland is president and the
| owls and the bats are not yet building their
nests in the furnace stacks
Some of the Republican newspapers OF the
state are gleefuliy quoting the New York
| Independents obituary on tue collapsed Pro.
| hihitiou party. 1t was not observed that
| any of them pointed with pride 10 the Iuds-
1 pendent when it recently declared that the
| Independent Republicans OF Ponusylvania
| ought 10 vote for Wolfe to beat Beaver and
rebuke Quay.
| There are other and indeed many WAYS to
| 60 to Boston, but to my idea the most agree
| able journey is that which takes one from the
| Broad street station in the early evening and
| carries the sleeping car on boat around New
| York, some eighteen miles on tho East river
| to Harlem. While on this part OF the trip
| view of the city by electric light
| from the deck OF the steamer transport. the
| variegated flashes from the ferry landings,
| the outlines of the notable buildings mellowed
| in the moonlight the view az the passage is
made under the Brooklyn bridge and ali the
| incidents OF this part OF the journey make 1t
| well worth taking. 1t is a comfort to get
| supper in Philadelphia and breakfast in
| Boston without change Of cars. To my eve
| Boston is the best built city ia the country.
| Its baptism of fire no doubt regenerated it
| L like its winding paths which make the
| streets and tortuous building lines old
| South church and the other historic build
| ings that stand placid amid the onset of busi.
| ness Life Faneuil hall with its market place
| underneath and agricultural establishments
| all around the gilded dome of the state
| house, the green sward OF BOSton's commons.
| the dropping elms and the clam bering
| vines.
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Whenever had half hour spare time
| hailed cab and bade the driver hurry
| hither and thither through the most
| crowded thoroughiares, between jostling
| throngs OF people collected in front OF the
newspaper offices waiting for tidings of the
yacht race, almost under the heels aud within
| a hair breadth OF the wheels of the fire de.
| partment, summoned upon quick call. The
| excitement of such day in a strange city
| Is something very novel; but when
| saw the sign OF Thomas J. Galvins
| floral establishment, ran plump up against
| Philip Bernard on the street, aud read IN a
| Boston paper so promptly OF the ravages Of
| disease among Smith SnOdgrAss' cattle here
| in Little Britain township, | began to feeI
| that | wasn't very far from home after all.
| And when the innocent aud truthful looking
| cabman, who entertained me with reminls-
cences OF the prophets, passed a lead half dol
lar on me, with sweet simplicity and deli
1 clOus lngen upu>neSs and when the Yankee
girl with steel gray eyes, who attended the
| telegraph station in the country insisted
| upon giving me only 80 cents change out OF
| dollar. rendered for % cents worth OF tele.
grams, | made up my mind that it was wei
for man TO have a wit about him even in
habits.
| There are towns in the world, which it is
somewhat extrsvagantly said, we may want
TO see and then die but after days experi-
ence in Boston | want to live and 90 back.
The hotels are excellent and the hospitality
of the people | encountered quite az pro
| nounced as the more Wanted good cheer OF
Southern folk. Pat Collins tells me he is de-
termined TO quit politics or his profession
| Will quit him; and ne has not yet made
| fortune 10 enable him TO do that but bis dis
| trict is safely Democratic, and SO is that
| OF his Boston colleague, Lowering COnspic-
| uous IN Boston is the corner clothing
| store OF Leopold Morse, who for years repre-
| sented the Harvard college district in Con
| gress. twas he who Administered the re-
| buke to Bill Chandler at "A private dinner
| party when sweet William desCanted on the
wonder oil the Harvard district sending
| Democrat and Jew to Congress, and Morse
| retorted that when the president OF the
| United States could stOop 10 make Bill
Chandler acabinet officer, the people OF Boston
| could nse 10 the level of electing a lew 10
| Congress. Young Senator Alger, who is
secretary OF tue democratic state committee
| also represents the Harvard district in the
| legislature OF Massachusetts, There are a
hne company OF bright and active young
| men in the Democratic organization Of Mas
sachusetts but like good many of us they
would like to see more Of the incompetent
Republican othce'hoders turned out.
| -
| Yes, brethren, have in mind the PhiIa-
delPhia postoflice, and If you will "wait and
see" as the little girl was told who wanteC. to
know the dessert before she got her soup.
you can be satisfied that the Philadelphia
| POstotlice is better administered than il ey-r
| was under Republican management; and
| mat THIS Is conspicuousy the case in relation
| 10 every federal office in that city which has
| changed. 1t IL most decidedly and undeniably
| the case at Washington. More work j. being
| done, more money collected, less spent
more work done by fewer employees than was
before. The Democratic party and it5 pregs
| in the country, however, lack somewhat Of
self assertion and do not take credit for hal /
they deserve On the contrary quitft -
| reverse. o d. the
| VI %tNNSDBAD.
| PERSoyOU
| CYRUS ". EIrSpiy BSAL.
| OF The W. "'-GLD, whose wife is a cousin
! i'"it' al ife of Bartholomew the Hartford de