Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-04-03
HERE AND THERE.

Baird, on an elevation south of the railroad (;
that of Mr.. Clotbier the dry goods man, near
Ardmore, Just finishing, IL another splendid
ediiice. Either OF them is In better taste
than the Rock aud Rye castle of the Gibson
the taiiy-colored French palace In agro~ing
grove next TO owen Jones' fine old place I;
that has never lost It's comfortable and home
like appearance. -Four houses like those Of
Baird, Clothier and Gibson, ! am told, eat up
million dollars. Thus we go. Lancaster
will be ono OF tho suburbs some fine day,
and the electric motors will take us to and
fro In half an hour
Sidney Dillon, the great Gould railroad
lawyer, OK judge and nearly everything else,
was also a tavern boy. lie attracted the at.
tention OF Judge Grant, riding the circuit in
Iowa; studied law, married well, got along
and Gould got him. Dillon and Hoxie are
a team--a tandem team--but pair OF pull
lers
Down around Wayne and Devon they
keep building away. The Devon company's
ground IL being rapidly occupied with cot
tages and summer homes OF more or less
magnifcence, and though 1t costs something
like $1,000 per acre, there IL big profit in the
sales of the ground. Some years ago man
bought a farm down that way for Si1O0.
There were 80 acres in It. The other day his
son sold off acres of the tract for 500.
Wayne is soon to have electric light The
poles are up When henry Askin, who
built the big house there, owed SGOOOOO ne
thought he was bankrupt but after Childs
and Drexel bought 100000 worth OF land
from him, 1t Is the easiest sum in subtrac-
ton to figure out how he was worth SlOO,oOo.
He Is blind, but as radical Democrat az II
he had all his senses intact.
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The wbilom Reverend Oliver L. Ashen-
felter, whose interstate escapades were nine
days wonder in Massachusetts, New York
and Philadelphia last fall, is living quietly
where anybody can find him who wants
him. There seems to have never been any
serious effort TO enforce the laws processes
against him. lie writes me that he was the
victim OF malignant misrepresentation and
malicious prosecution. This does happen
sometimes, even to the clergy.
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While Ego is writing his "reminiscences OF
the war and spreading himself and his ex-
ploits over many pages OF magazines, week
lies, dailies and other periodicals OF every de-
gree, 1t IL well to remember and to recall
that one modest man, years ago somewhat
nearer the campfire, wrote some vivid war
sketches WORM TehulnS. ltitT W = VI. 'co.
f.. Warnings "whip and Spur" little
book that is now out Of print, made up chief
ly of sketches first published in the maga-
zines some fifteen years ago. They are SIM
ply stories OF the horses he rode in the army,
and are very charming In style and senti-
ment lie is the most modest hero i have
vet encountered in his war tales. His tributes
to the noble animals who shared his camp
and field experience are beautifully wrought
Where is there more concise, graphic and
terrible picture OF war as 1t is, without the
glamour of false light, than in this extract,
true to the letter?
"Here we struck the marvellous prairie
region of Northeastern Mississippi, literally
a land flowing with milk and honey. An
intermnable, fertile, rolling prairie lay
before us in every direction. The stern rule
of the Confederacy had compelled the
planters to offset every small field OF cotton
with wide area Of corn, until the region had
become known as the granary OF the south
ern army. Not only must every land
owner devote his broadest fields to the cult
vatiou of the much-needed cereal, but one
tenth of all his crop must be stacked ior
public use in cribs at the side OF the railroad.
1T was an important incident OF our ms
sion to destroy everything which directly OF
indirectly could afford subsistence to the
Rebel forces and during the two days fol
| lowing our arrival at Okolona, while we
marched as far south as West Point, the SKY
noi,on We, 10" ~ single niantation. our thanking
49,, h,rnaS thiTtv.seven hundred bushels
pp@ ,i,ha cnyn which was cribbed near the
| rai,rnaS no sooner was its light seen at the
| ,ianta,;nn hnuses than hundreds of negroes
| ahn swnrned from their quarters TO ioir
| onr coImmn. fired the rail.built cribs il
| which the remaininp pine-tenths of the croJ
| was stored Driyen wild with the infection
tha,, sot ,ha torch 10 mansion house. stables
| on,;y,ne. .in and nuarters until the whol,
| .';,rnoS Si;,, sa,ti anant was blszipp i'm an mn
| n,a"toi oonHaarat;on. To see such wealth
nI ne ann,,ms,iatad nroducts of such vas
pana. ~ swant fro,n the face of the earth, CAV,
| 10 tha asnact of war a saddeninp reality
| whin,, ,al In s,roru contrast To the peaceful
| ana harmiess Iife our brigade had thus ia
IaS In oil this nrairie region there is n,
,o., LA ona the ayidence of wealth anl
,ar,ii;,w lao hafore us i'm ali directions a
NO ,,ssrrhsd the neyroes came en- mass
fro,' aver n,antation to ioin our column
iaon;nU o,',y fire and absolute destruction
hehinH them. II was estimated that durln,
these two Iavs, march two thousand slave
snes w. ,,Ssana muleS we're added 10 on
anu anu, o'io 'no''A
MT,o ;,o;aa,ts of all this desolatiou wer
o,,on s;onan;na and heart-rending delicat
r"m,am and chiIJren whom The mOrninl
had somna in naaca and plenty. and glown
,ith nr;Sa IL the vaIor of Southern arm
| na ,,a oar,airty of an early independenc
snr tho;r haIova3 baifcountry. found them
| calves nafore nightfall homeless penpiless
aud alone In the midst of desolate land.
| g Cantain Frank Moore the Cossack c
| ntn,,a,;on nf which ths showy mansion