Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-08-14
HERE AND THERE.

lf Lancaster wants to learn how to get
man utactories here lot her business men in
quire how some other towns in the state,
with less natural advantages, got them
Where's that board of trade
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Ii you go down the Columbia ~ Port
Deposit railroad these evenings and watch
the sun set behind the river hills along the
York county shore you will see picturesque
beauties that will make you wonder why
people do not stay at home to see sights.
The Lancaster county delegates to the
Democratic state convention have taken
whole house at Harrisburg, for the sccommo-
datiou of themselves aud the entertainment
of their constituents. The second and third
stories of the Felix building, No l0 Market
square, will be the stopping plsoe oi the
Lancsstriaus and the spacious double par
lurs, second story 'front.' the famous Eagles
Nest " of the legislative contest of lSSl, will
bs the place where our tellow-citi1eus may
meet next week. The round trip tickets
from here to Harrisburg, good all week, will
cost 81. for sale upon orders.
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Happening in Lebanon the other day,
spent an hour with Father Christ, atOretime
assistant TO Father \. +. ksul, at ST An
thongs here aud now himself pastor of the
large congregation of the Church of the As.
sumption in that thriving town. The popu.
ton of his parish is probably 1000 souls
about equally divided in the nativity OF their
original extraction, as he Smtlingiy Oh
served when he pointed To the dl.
plomacy of the architect who had
put a statue of ~. Patrick on one side of the
altar and OF St Bonitace on the other the
altar is covered with statues and is probably
without an equal in ecclesiastic architecture
in the state II alone cost $1,000; the church
entire represents about Sl95,OJN expenditure,
and the parsonage, convent parOchial school
aud other buildings all in a splendid block,
well finished and thoroughly equipped, are
worth, maybe, as much as s2oO,OON They are
located III the very heart OF the city, Opp0'
site the court house and next to the splendid
new Coleman bank and railroad building.
For a young priest Father Christ bears
his large responsibilities with great dignity
and success, and aided by an assistant is now
building up a mission III Cornwall.
What an error it was, by the way, when
the Catholics OF the lower end OF this county
restored the old st. GATHERINGS in Drumore,
that 1t was not removed to aud rebuilt in
Quarryville, instead of at the Out-oithe-way
site two miles below, where it was first
erected by individual munliceuce!
l rather think. take 1t for all in all, that
West Chester is about the handsomest, most
tidy and most comfortable looking place OF
its size in the state. | suspect, too, that
West Chester knows It.
newspaper story goes that Russell sage
and Mr.. Tilden when they were young used
to get together at the end OF every year and
COMPARE their incomes | know two very
| conspicuous men in Pennsylvania either OF
whom perhaps can use seven figures in count.
ing his wealth, who did this Tor a long time.
| After awhile theygot to critcising each others
| investments and a little chilliness ensued.
| They are respectively burning With curiosity
| to know which has the bigger pile.
| Since the popularizing OF some of tn,
| other magazines the Atlantic Monthly is no
| much read in Lancaster; and yet for sole
| literary features it holds its own admirably
| Octave Thanets Six Visions of 81. Angus
tine" of which a section is presented to vieV
by the INTELLIGENCER to day, is a yer.
clever piece of work. Agnes Repler, VIII
| has friends here aud is growing into literary
| popularity, has an article in the Angus
| number ''On the BENEFITS of Superstition -
| David DOdges relation of "DOmestic Econ
, | omy in the Confederacy" Is better thai
many Of the current war articles and MI
| Bishops story comes on apace. \ good dea
| of it is equal to Mr.. Howells best work il
"Silas Lapham." This, for instance. is
very charming bit OF society observation
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"This inter-visiting of school friends, nov
| that railroad fares are cheap, and the remot
est points are really but a few days apart, i
| one OF the great North American agencies TO
unifyipg civilization" said Barclay, as /
| philosophically. "The boarding schoo
| ought to be set upon lofty pedestal OF homo
| as leading factor in the modification c
types and the settlement of race problem
What is the frequent upshOt of these visits
The young stranger, fiattered and feted, al
| pears at her best The young men are takel
| with the novelty; some one OF them asks he
| 10 marry him, aud she stays. She has bee
| blown altar and taken root, just as the seed
| of exotic plants are blown by the winds
} spring up on coral islands"
! have sometime alluded to the manage
ment of the Eastern penitentiary il
this column to what l conceived t
| be its honorable, enlightened and thor
oughly efficient system and an occa
sional echo of surprise aud incredulit,
has been evoked. Such report runs contrar
| to some false impressions that have been ere
ated about the cruel system of separate an
solitary confinement in dark aud lonesom
cells, and about putting "bag' over tn
head OF the convicts when taken around.
| am glad to read the testimony of Rev, ID
p. S. Davis, concurrent with my own OF
servation that all the stories about cruel syi
sides other things he says.
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"The impression created by the report
that in the Eastern pententiary OF Pennsy
vania the convicts are led around wit
| their heads covered with a bag to confus
them; that they never see a preacher, an
that when their time is served they are pI
| out in the same blindiolded way. We knor
what We affirm when We say that now col
| victs are only led in this way to the otfic,
| then to the bath rooms and afterwards I
their cells, and that this is all to prote,
the prisoner from the gaze of others. Th
| writer OF this during one Of his first visits /
| "Cherry Hill," saw a man led from his ce
| to a room where he was to see his wife. Tn
man had veil over his face, which led to tn
, | inquiry, " Do you expect by that means
!, keep that man from seeing the person O
what is going on around him ?'' "No," wa
the prompt reply of the warden, "That
not my object l wish to prevent other prl.
Oners from seeing him, lie may be her
through misfortune aud i do not wish an
rascal who peers through his cell door, to b
able to go out and say to his children, l "a,
your father in the penitentisry.'" That opel
ed up the whole mystery of bags and veil
aud my observation for ten years since hs
been that the custom IL a merciful one, an
all convicts not lost TO shame are Thankful tt
1t, when they are made sensible OF the d,
sign. At the Cellulaire at BRUSSELS
Belgium, where the model prison OF EuroI
has recently been built, every convict I
provided with a mask which he wears cor
stantly to prevent his fellow prisoner froi
| recognizing him. And Mons. Stephens tb