Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-04-10
HERE AND THERE.

hirty per cent more wages than the men | ,
asst of the mountains in the same vocation,
he lower-paid mechanics are better of and |
,etter men. They are far more steady,
pend less eNtravagantly and have employ
nent at least eleven months of the year,
while the others work only about seven. SO
that the relative amount of wages does not
always determine the reward of labor He |
saws, too, that since the organization of his
works the employees in them have invested
a good deal more OF their saved earnings in
real estate than the capital and surplus OF the
concern Itself amount to- This particular
manufacturer wants something done for
American commerce and to secure foreign
markets for our surplus manufactured pro.
duct In order to get into the markets Of
Rio de Janero his firm has shipped nails to
Hamburg, thence to Brazil 10y the German
lines and in that market not keg of nails
could they sell because their goods bore an
American brand. l take it that all these
facts have a bearing on our economic prob
lens.
A manufacturer OF textiles tells me he Is |
not making one-fourth of one per cent. on |
his invested capital. But he cannot 80 well |
afford to let his machinery rust as to run it |
even at some loss.
Every manufacturer of textile fabrics will
tell you that in color and finish especially
the influence Of the Centennial exposition
was felt almost to the extent OF total revolu-
tion in certain manufactures Color has
come to count for great deal andthe fash
ion in color Is factor that sometimes con-
trols, makes or wipes out all the profit
What science, chemistry especially, has
done in this direction The intelligent
superintendent of great establishment
showed me the other day some rich and
skillfully dyed goods, the cOloring matter
| for which he said was formerly of exclusive
vegetable origin, and the supply was very
| limited. Ii cost SIS cents per pound. They
| found a secret of making it from coal gas
| tar, or some other nasty stuff, out OF which
| you would never expect TO develop beauty
| and now it costs Is cents The saving to this
| one establishment by the discovery was
| $4,000 month-the interest on a million
| year.
There was lately going the rounds the
story OF the great whist hand, which has Oc-
| CURED two or three authenticated times,
| when somebody got thirteen trumps. | saw
| in this town the other night remarkable
| hand dealt at the new fashionable game of
| " "Newmarket" The layout In that game,
| you will remember, is the Ace, King, Queen,
| Jack-no, ! don't call it the Knave who
does but the book-wrilers f-and Ten of Dia-
monds Well, there were ten players in the
game--tive cards dealt to each. The first to
play drew the marvellous hand-the highest
i've cards of Diamonds. He played it course,
| in order swept every chip of the layout
and collected the largest possible amount of
every player, OF whom it may be said " the
subsequent proceedings interested them no
more" Straight hushes sometimes happen, l
believe, in poker but that this hand should
have fallen to the first player in ten that it
Corresponded in suit with the layout and
| the very top oftbat suit, is a coincidence that
will not happen once in many million times
Il tried to calculate Just how many and ran
out of figures.
There is one establishment in Lancaster
that runs out over thirteen miles of cotton
ticking in a day. Think OF it-a web that
would reach from here to New Holland. We
scarcely know the town we livein.
To the Revolutionary military orgauiza
ton styled in Washington's general orders
"Col. Thompson's Battalion of Riflemen,
and raised in pursuance OF a resolution o
Congress, June H. l775, for raising " six
companies of expert riflemen," Lancaster
county contributed more than its quota.
Two mpanies-Ross' and Smith's-were
, raised here instead of one, and nine COM
panies in all made up the battalion. Cap
tains then got $50 a month and privates S63.
to find their own arms and clothes and little
chances of big pension money even in the far
| future. number of gentlemen went along
aS Independent volunteers, not entered on
the rolls, paying their own expense and at
| liberty to return when they chose. The
| men were as a rule stawart they wore
white frocks and round hats and could hit
the mark at two hundred and fifty yards
with great certainty. Lancaster's most dis
| tlngulshed soldier, Gen. Edw Hand, went
with that battalion as lieutenant colonel and
| became its commanding officer before his
promotion to the brigadier generalship came.
Capt. smiths company-largely from that
| part OF Lancaster county which Is now
Dauphin-went OIL with Arnold's detsch-
ment to invade Canada and its experience
is told in Judge Henry's narrative. He was
one OF the eight men dispatched at Fort Wes-
tern on the kennebec to ascertain and mark
| the paths which were used by the Indians
towards the heads of the river, and to ascer.
tain the course OF the Chaudiere. Lieutenant
Archibald Steele led the little band. While
Ross company lay in camp at Cambridge
some of the Lancaster boys became mutin
Gus. a sergeant being arrested for miscon.
duct, thirty-two OF the men I" with their
loaded rifles swore by q od they would go 10
the main-guard and release the man or lose
| their lives, and set OFT as hard as they could
| rum" Washington strengthened the guard,
| and the mutineers were soon surrounded
with 4" fixed bayonets and loaded pieces" TO
which they speedily succumbed. They
were hned 20 shllings each but Washing
ton and Hand felt mortified, up there in New
England, that the only regiment from the
South in camp should have furnished such
an example OF misbehayiOr. John Adams
wife, however, wrote to him afterwards that
| lhompsOn's men in action behaved well
they marched through water to the arm
pits on stormy day and drove the British
to their boats in the Lechmere Point skIr-
mish. Edw. Hand, writing TO his wife of
that engagement says oi the Lancaster boys:
ALEX Creighton, of Ross company, was
mortally wounded. Wm. Hamilton need
not grudge the money his son cost him His
coolness and resolution surpassed his years
Billy Burd had his eyes closed by the dirt
Knocked oil by cannon ball"
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| Col. Samuel J. Atlee, of the Musketry Bat
talon, who was commissioned a lieutenant
when he was II years of age and appointed
colonel March Il, l776, was elected to Con-
| gress when he was prisoner in the hands
| OF the enemy. While attending the assem-
| bly IN lIS6 he ruptured blood vessel In a
| paroNysm OF laughter, died and was buried
| near the door in Christ church. Philadel phia.
| Capt Thos. Herbert's company OF his battal-
| Ion was raised in Leacock and Salisbury
| Abraham DeiIut's was also from this
| county.
Lancaster county has the distinction of
having more postofiices within its borders
than any other county In the country there
are something like l55, To the best OF nv
knowledge and belief change OF admins
tration, and more than thirteen months of IL