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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-08-12

The occasion of the leading shuetzen bund
cheap excursion on Tuesday, Augustl7th. Trains
leave Lancaster king street) at $780, II. and
1910 p. m; Columbia, 1:3O a. m and 1875 p. M.
Fare only soc. Tickets for sale at all stations on
Reading 4 Columbia railroad. Plenty of music
and lots OF fun II you take in the shuetzen.
bund. augl2 3tdl2liSl6
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-08-12
On the Track of the Thieyes.

The au thorities at Ephrsts are on the track
OF the thieves who robbed the warehouse and
stole number OF teams near Ephrats within
tn @ last few weeks, and arrests will be made
within the next orty-eight hours. The parties
suspected have figured in our criminal courts
Tor similar offenses during the past few years
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-08-12
MARKETS.
Pbiladelphia Produce Market.

PHILADELPHIA. Aug. l2.-Flour Market
guiet Sales OF 900 barrels Mimi. bakers,
at ~ G9t 65 Patents. o. 5Oes5 90.
Rye Hour duh at % 3O9S so.
p. m, all-Wheat-Aug, k63c Sept,
sihc Oct, s5Ac.; Nov. s614c
,I,orn-Aug, Oc,; Sept, 5oci Oct,6lHc; Nov.
Oats Aug. ss1Gc.; Sept. $3.50; Oct. 3,hci
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-08-12
Accident to An Alderman.

Alderman Patrick Donnelly had the mis-
fortune to fall down stairs on Tuesday. He
sustained serious injury and will be confined
TO bed for some time.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-08-12
Cleaned the Boilers.

All the electric lights were out from l2:25
this morning 1t was a bright moonlight
night aud the employees shut down to give
the boilers thorough cleaning,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-08-12

One drunk and lodger were subjects for
the disposition of the mayor this morning.
Both were discharged upon promising to
leave the city at once.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-08-12

Closing Prices-g O'Clock y. IL
chicago aiarRet.

CHIcAso. Aug, IL, go a. m.-Market opened
whest--Aug, 49, &C; sept, 16ssc Oct' IsSc
Nov, SOi.c.
Corn-Aug.. i3Sc; sept. axe; Oct, tS'sc.
Oats-Sept., 2slsc oct SANC.
Pork-sept, 81 IS oct. fS.
Iard-Sept,ss g. l2I oct, p ~
Rios-Sept., O. S.1.
CLueIss.
wheat-Aug.. 7Sssc sept, ;e's9t.c Oct, ~
TSAzc Nov so &c.
Corn-August, GSC; Sept, +ssC.; oct. ~. "
457sc Nov, exc
6sts-Aug. E7s.c Sept, 2sSassSc; Oct.
A1C.
fork-Aug, g. 70; Sept, o. IS: Oct,
s. s2Sig 96.
Lard-Aug, q Is; Sept, o. "; Oct, y 7!S
Nov q 81
Ribs-Aug. q 80 Sept. q 81, Oct. y ~
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-08-12

Remember the trotting and running races at
McGrann's Park Saturday afternoon at clock,
Admission only IS cents. In case of rain the
races will take place on Monday, the 18th. It'd
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-08-12

The sheriff to-day disposed of the stock
of Alexander Lindsey, shoe dealer of Col
umbis. About $500 was realized by the
sale
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-08-12

sugar--market duil Refined cuucaf. 6S-issf
G6Nc; 6ranulated, + li-ltc,
Tallow quiet; prime city, &c.
Coffee dun fair cargoes at CSC,
Rice steady Carolina and Louisiana, common
to fair. S,<oic Rango,n. h.1iSc.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-08-12
Telephone Connection,

H.F. shirk & Sons Stevens cotton mill, No.
IL Pine street. IL connected with the telephone.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-08-12

Miss Martha Mitchell has gone to BED.
ford.
Mrs. A. McTsgue and daughters have gone
10 Atlantic City.
ST Paul's Methodist Sunday school, Of
South Queen street, is holding picnic at
Rocky Springs to-day.
The family of w. II. Middleton have re-
turned from the seashore During their
stay at Sea Isle city, Miss Alice Middleton
caught the largest weak fish ever taken
there.
George w. Sheet aud Dr. J. &. Shauh,
with their families, went To- McCsils Ferry
this morning to spend q couple OF days along
the Susguehanna,
The Thursday excursion to Iursy to-day
was patronized by eleven from Lancaster
and seventy from Philadelphia, and the mum
Der WAS augmented by delegations from YORK
and Harrisburg.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-08-12
North End RIDE club.

The North End Rifle club's practice on
Wednesday afternoon at SteinmetE's range,
Schoeneck, out OF a possible 20 resulted as
tollpws.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-05
BELLEVUE, La, THURSDAY AUGUST 5, 1886.

cobble-stones. Ferguson's face sud-
denly turned to the color of ashes.
He leaped over the dashboard sur.
rounding the platform, CROPPED in the
mud under the car wheels, and then,
with his lips set tightly together,
handed me battered and bent piece
of silver. was the diamond dollar.
1t had slipped from his uncertain grasp,
and the sharp fanges of the car-wheels
had ground the date and figures from
its face and bent it almost out of resem-
blance of coin.
Then Ferguson took up the lines
again, andfrom his present prospects Che
people who ride behind him will con-
tinue to laugh at his old dress and asso-
ciate him in their minds with the mules
he drives for months, or perhaps years.
to come. He knows that there are
half dozen morals to be extracted
from his little story. and has given me
permission to publish it.-Cincimnati
ENQUIRER.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-05
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The trustees of Columbia College
at recent meeting decided to admit in
future to their association women on
exactly the same footing as men.-M
Y Tribune.
Harvard is still the largest college
in the country; Oberlin comes second,
and Columbia has fallen to third place;
Michigan is fourth, and Yale fifth.--
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Julia Foot, colored evangelist,
has been conducting revival meetings
in Denver. She is described as good
preacher, with strong, full voice and
considerable natural ability.
Oscar 81. Cooper, who has bean
chosen State Superintendent of Public
Instruction in Texas, is only twenty
eight years of age. He is graduate
of Yale College. = Chicago Mail.
About one-fifth of the population Of
Philadelphia is in the Sunday-school.
There are in the city $50 Sunday
schools, with an attendance of 186, 1886
scholars and over $1,000 teachers.--
Ptiladel,hia Press.
The colored Methodists have now
the largest church in Washington. II
is on M street. between Fifteenth and
Sixteenth streets, northwest, in fash
ionable neighborhood. 1t cost $116.-
600, of which all but $40, 200 has been
raised, and seats $500 people. Wash
isgton Post.
The total receipts of the Methodist
Missionary Society during the first six
months of the present fiscal year, from
November to April 80, 1886, were
1852, 746.72. This is an increase over
the corresponding six months OF the
previous year of S83,617 04.-The In
terror.
The Presbyterian General Assem-.
bly, has decided to hold the one hum
dredtn General Assembly at PhiIadel-
phia in 1883, and to make the second
Thursday of the session day of jubilee
| in the churches all over the world. II
has also been decided to raise . GEN.
tenary fund of %. 900, 900 for the bene-
| fit of the various church enterprises.
| Christian at Work.
The pastor of the colored church
| atFort Gaines, Ga, succeeded in having
the church debt iquidated in very
novel manner. The members had
| bound themselves under promise to
pay it, and few Sundays ago the
pastor informed them that If they did
not pay it at once he would turn them
out of church for lying. The next Sum
day each member of the congrega ton
brought $3.50, and the debt was paid
Chicago Times.
"A case involving the right of cities
in Georgia to collect taxes upon church
property has been decided In favor OF
the churches by the Supreme Court OF
that State. 1t was . suit of the city of
Atlanta to collect the assessment for
street-paving from the churches thus
benefited. The Supreme Court decided
that public policy required the encour-
agement of church work and that the
congregation were not subject to tax
alton, no matter under what guise it
was sought to be collected.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-05
MARRIAGE IN BRAZIL.
Consanguineous Unions the Rule Instead
of the Exception.

Consanguineous Unions the Rule Instead
of the Exception.
Consanguineous marriages in BrazI
are the rule and not the exception,
there being really more such than OF
those between parties not related by
blood. There are very many, not only
between first cousins but also between
double first cousins; and there are
probably more marriages between a
man and his niece, or woman and
her nephew, than there are of first
cousins in America, even without TAX
ing into consideration the fact that the
population of the United States is foul
or FIVE times as large as that of Brazil.
1t seems most ludicrous to the stranger
to hear a man and his wife address each
other as cousins, as they generally dc
when such was their relationship.
In many cases not only was the union
of the parents consanguineous, but
also that of the grandparents, and in
some cases even further back. Surely
this has its effect on the intellect of their
offspring, though not SO marked and
invariable as one might naturally sup
pose. For some of the children are ap.
parently as intelligent as those OF
people not related by blood. But this
proves nothing unless it is their good
fortune, and even these probably pay
the penalty in some other way.
The people of Brazil are by nc
means Intelligent as race generally.
but this is chiefly due in part to the
absence of educational facilities; for it
is no easy matter for the poor people
in any part of the country to acquire
even the rudiments of an education,
and for those outside of the towns it is
virtually impossible.
Probably to consanguineous mai
riages are due not only some loss OF
intellectual power, but also the facts
that the people are, as rnle, homely,
exceedingly nervous, and not vigorous,
though these conclusions may be quail
fable, for the lack of vigor may be due
partly to the climate and their lazy, in
active lives, and their nervousness may
be attributable to the quantity of strong
coffee they all drink from early child
hood, and the habit of excessive smok
ing amongst the men and boys.
The features of the white people are,
for the most part, irregular. Gener-
ally they have coa1-black hair and
beautiful black eyes. Sometimes the
teeth are very fine, and the hands Of
those Of the best families are beauti-
fully soft and very flexible, most
natural sequence, as these people, hay
ing many slaves, never perform any
work themselves, nor have their imnae-
diate ancestors before them, to impair
their delicacy. But whatever beauty
they do possess will frequently be
marred by ugly skins, noses, mouths or
| other features, whilst the face may
lack cultivated, refined expression,
| which gives place to the sensual. But
this is no invariable rule, for some are
handsome, intelligent and refned-look-
ing.-Brooklyn Magazine.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-05
At THE AUCTION.
veracious Account of q Meeting Between
Smarty and the Auctioneer.

veracious Account of a Meeting Between
Smarty and the Auctioneer.
And it CAME to pass after the going
down of the sun that young Smarty
was passing the mart where q certain
man cried out in loud voice; "rwc
am 1 offered; do / hear two and q
half?"
'.Ahar' cried young Smarty, turning
to the companions who attended him.
.behold! the auctioneer. Let us enter
IN, and mark how will paralyze him. "
So entered they in.
And still the voice of the auctioneer
was lifted up:
..And q haf' n haf'n haf' n a hat
Anybody say three-quartersp"
Three-quarte1s said they not.
s.Prythee, sir, said young Smarty,
"will you allow me to make bidP"
For Smarty, the Juvenile, had read in
the chronicles how a man had once
propounded that query to an auctioneer
who stood in the market place, and on
his replying; ..Yea, verify" he said;
"Then / bid you good night.
As the OK goeth to the slaughter, SC
marched Smarty up to the very front
of the auctioneer.
VIII you allow me to make a bid?'
Up spake the auctioneer, who was
fly with regard to the ways of the un
godly:
mo, will not. I never take bid.
from children and fools. +"
Then the people laughed Smarty t.
scorn and he skunk away, sorrowing. :
Teras Siftinqs.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-05
A FAIR EXCHANGE.

Why Detroit Taxpayer Preferred a
milestone to 3 Patent Door-Spring.
He slid quietly into Jefferson ave.
nue. hardware store Yesterday forenoon,
unrolled q paper on the counter, and
as he held up a patent door-spr ing he
said:
II buy him two days ago, und I like
to exchange him for a wheatstone."
whats the matterP"
'Vhell, can't make him fit ON my
screen door"
"Why, that's the easiest thing in the
world. See here: This end screws on
the door, and that end on the casing"
81 tried him dot vhay. und he doan'
work.
"When it is ON you take this metal
pin and turn the spring. See the holes
there?''
Il does dot vhay, und my screen
doors flies open."
"You turned the wrong way.'
81 turns him eafery way. Some
times der door vhas wide open, und all
der flies in Michigan go in, und some-
times he wash shut oop so tight can t
get in my own house. I begin on him in
der morning, und / doan' leave off till
night. but he won't work right
That's curious. What tools did you
have?"
Il use a hammer und screw-drifel
und cold-shisel und saw und auger und
crow-bar und lots of more, but he doan'
spring for me. My wife works at him,
too, und my hired man he lose half a
day, und / wash discouraged. / guess
I trade him for wheatstone.n
"Wel, I'll. exchange with you, but
I'm sure I can show you how to adjust
it."
II guess I doan' try any more. You
see, my Life vhas short, und I can't
spare so mooch time NIT machine ry.
If / get wheatstone I doan' haf to
screw him on nor tusn him around.
Dere vhas no pins or ratchets in his
stomach. He vhas all right both ends
oop. Maybe he doans keep oudt flies,
but he makes no troubles for me.''
The exchange was made, and the
man went away ligls-hearted, calling
back from the door:
81 can make oudt u wheatstone all
right, und I vhas obliged NIT you. A
wheatstone winds oop only one vhay."
Detroit Free Press
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-05
PuNaEHT PARAGRAPHS.

An exchange gravely inquiries:
"Why will men liep' Because men
will 60 fishing. Chicago Journal.
--.Isn'tit heavenly" calculated Miss
Gush in reference to Miss Pedals per
formance on the piano. Yes" replied
Fogg, .'it is indeed heavenly. Itsounds
like thunder. Boston 1ranscript.
The Salvation Army st Washington
has converted dude. He can already
pronounce the letter r, and next week
will venture forth for the first time
without cane. philadelphia CalI.
The writer of the new song, u
Love You, Darling, in My Dreams, !"
should not forget that dreams go by
contraries. Little mistakes like this
sometimes produce discord. Wash
isaqtoas Critic.
lit is about time to cry halt on
slang,'' shouts the Pittsburgh T'ele-
oraph. You bet. It's time slang had
PLAYED out. Let's all give it the grand
bounce knock it higher'n a kite, as II
were. -NorrtstosUn Herald.
-Adoring grandmother-"Isn't ne
a lovely childT' Calm visitor-"Y es,
he's q nice little baby" Adoring
prandmother-'.And 80 Intelligent! He
Rfust lies there all day and breathes. and
breathes, and breathes. "---SGn Fran
cisco Ne,Us-Letter.
-..Well you are nice sort OF fellow,
anyway" said a somewhat persistent
LAWYER to witness who had proved
rather '.dry mixer" to his diligent
cross-examination. II would say as
much of you, sir" retorted the wit.
ness, elf were under oath. "-Pcck'
Sun.
Wife Sunday night)-"Where have
you been, John?' Husband-''Bee
t. sacred concert listening to (hic)
sacred music" Wife (sarcastically y.
..Yes, and drinking sacred beer and
whisky, and smoking sacred cigars. /
there are saints on this earth, JohI
Smith, you are one of them. Life.
| -"Mary Ann, what was you sittini
up last night readingp Was it novel
| Tell your mother Eyes, il was
novel" "An' who writ itp'' "Duna
| the Elder Now, don't tell me that
Who ever heard Of an elder writin'
novel that you'd sit up half the nigh
and read. IN Y Independent.
| -.Prettya No, won't say baby
pretty declared q young mother, 'fo
| / can speak of him impartially, eve
though he is my own, and that's moI
/ than most mothers can do. He hs
lovely blue eyes, perfect in shape; ha
like the morning sunshine; mouth
well, no rosebud could be sweete
complexion divinely fair; nose just te
cunning for any thing; in fact, ne
faultless. But / won't say he's pretty.
-H0rDer's BdSdr,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-05
SWEEPING DAY.
How 1T Can Be Robbed of Some of Its
Most Disagreea0le Features.

How 1t Can Be Roboed of Some of It's
Most Disagreeaole Features.
If you look at ycur house-work as
the means to delightful home, it will
not seem hard or hateful; even the
dreaded sweeping day, which I own to
liking worse than wash day, leads to
the repose of fresh, fragrant rooms,
and sanctity from dust and deface.
ment. 1t need not DE quite so much a
penance if you have proper aids.
(These are covers sof glazed cambria
for large furniture, carpet sweeper,
brushes, patience, Care, ETC.
If you sweep with a broom, use
damp tea leaves, GRAN, coarse meal.
saw-dust or dry snow, to keep down
the dust, remembering to have these
things damp, not wet; to sprinkle only
a yard or two where you mean
to sweep at once. and to take it up
with the sweepings before you go to
the next place. Brushing a damp
mass of dust and trash over whole
carpet is not the way to improve it.
Fine carpets like Wilton or Moquette
should be swept with the pile to keep
them from wearing; and dealers say
that Brussels should be swept only one
way. 1t is good rule always to begin
at the corner fartbest from the door,
taking up the dust every yard or two.
Take rugs up, bringing opposite sides
together, not to spill the dust; lay
them face down on green sward, or
hang them SO out of windows, and
boo< tho baoEc fiji oil tho duSt Ia ont
Beating on the face sends the dust into
the firm woven ground of the rugs
Baptist Weekly.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-05
MISS CRGSUS.

nv Lady Disdain, my Lady Disdain,
m fcoIltumelious IN en-,
AZ proud and as cold as in days of old,
The proudest and coldest queen;
with your chiseled face and your stately
grace,
You tyrannize over men,
And your beauty rare makes US all de-
SPAR;
But your beeuty will fade
What then?
Nv Lady Disdain, my Lady Disdain,
You're lovely, and gay and young,
agTse in sooth there is naught like
r youth,
AS poets have often sung;
iBut the years go by as the swallows fly
with swiftness beyond our ken.
You are radiant now with your white,
smooth brow;
Butthe wrinkles will come
What theng
MyLady Disdain, my Lady Disdain,
You've servants at call and beck,
And jewels most rare CLEAN amid your
hair
Or sparkle upon your neck
You have wealth. at hand that you may
command
By dipping golden pen,
And an Income fine, that wish was mine:
But your father may fail
What then?
Rambler
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-05

"A child at the Metropolitan Muse
urn of Art was attracted by statue of
Minerva. ..Who is thatp' said she.
.My child, that is Minerva, the God
dess of Wisdom. - s'Why didn't they
make her husband, tooP" Because
she had none, my child" "That was
because she was wise, wasn't it, man.
?'--Erchange
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-05

Robinson Crusoe's island has been
leased of the Chilian Government by a
Swiss named Rodt, who has a colony
there which he manages much in the
way Crusoe directed his community
after immigration gave him one.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-05
A Juvenile Tilt.

First Boy-My pa blows horn in
the band
Second Boy-That amt nothin'.
F. Mischief it amt: mo an your
your ole pa can do. My pa goes to
parties an picnics an your ole pa can't
go there.
S. B.-Yes, an my pa is in the peni-
tentiary an your ole pa can't 60 there.
either. r.-ArEansaU 1rdueier
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-05

George Holyland, of Fork, Md,
was shearing sheep the other day,
when the animal kicked and drove one
of the blades of the sharp shears into
Georges abdomen, inflicting wound
from which he soon died.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-05

"A settlement near Tacoma, w. T.,
has til euph honious name of Succotash
valley.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-05
An Honor to the Profession.

Summer Hotel Manager-Yes, l am
looking for ahead clerk, and if you can
give satisfactory references | don't see
why we shouldn't come to some agree
ment. What have you been doing OF
late?
Applicant am an ex-hackman from
Niagara.
Summer Hotel Manager-And how
about references?
Applicant-It is forty-eight carat
stone, and weighs four pounds, and
when I wear it upon an immaculate
Summer Hotel Manager-That settles
1t. Front! show this gentlemen the
head clerks room.-Iid Bits.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-05

I'm the State of Iowa there are 254
Congregational churches: they have
2l7 ministers, 1928 members, 26,079
in the Sunday-schools; they have
church property valued at 1885, 480.
and parsonages at S6S, 700. They pay
their pastors 1882, 600. and for benevo-
lent purposes gave last year over $685..
0OO.--I IoiCG State Re0isfer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-08-19
Arcadia College
AND ACADEMY
OF rHE URSULINE SIS TIERS.

The system ofeducatlon pursued III TINS
institution is designed TO develop the NOR
nj intellectual and physical powers OF the
nuniIs. TO make them refined, accOmpli 81
ed and useful members of society.
Pupils of all denominations are equally
receiyed-all interference with their con
yictions being carefully avoided.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-08-19
TERM =

For young lady boarders will be for the
present, per session OF five months,
5000 payable in advance.
Terms for instruction in music, foreign
languages, drawing, painting and Or
namental handiwork can be had by ap-
plying as below.
Attached to the Convent, and totally
eparated from the boarding school, Is
SELECT DAY SCHOOL
in which the usual branches of sound and
practical education are carefully impaired.
A system OF rewards and monthly eX-
aminations beget in the pupils healthy
emulation which stimulates study and
produces surprising results.
Terms in Day School will remain as
formerly One dollar, Two Dollars,
Four Dollars, or Five Dollars per month
according to the studies pursued.
In the Dag School boys IA gears o
tIqe and under aOiU he received.
Prospectuses, and other information,
NAV be had by applying, in person or by
letter, to MOTHER KOSE,
super Dress the Convent Of the UrsuIlne sisters
Al ada Iron Co., Mo.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-08-19
gron County Reei5ter
Notice to Trespassers.

over or in any way trespass upon the lands
of the undersigned lying in Sections ,, 3 and
4, in Township 81, range3 east, in Iron coun
~, Mo-, under penalty of the law. / will
prosecute all who do not observe this notice.
July "a, 1SS6.-3t NJ. DARMODI.