Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-04
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SENATOR JOSEPH II. HAwLEY's wife, OF
Connecticut died In Washington Wednesday
evening, of pneumonia. after short Illness
JoHN G. WHITTIER approves of annual
elections in Massachusetts,. "We need, every
year at least, a reminder Of our duties and
privileges rs citizens"
CHARLES PRATT, OF the Standard Oil
company, who Is president OF the trustees OF
the Adelphi academy, of Brooklyn, has
increased his gins to it by the sum oil
Sl0O,000.
CAPT. J. T. BARR, late of this city and
now of Porter Il Coates, Philadelphia, is
treasurer of a fund that Is TO reach $500, and
then be applied TO put granite memorial on
the spot where Hancock was wounded at
Getty sburg.
MACAULAY had so little faith in the success
Of his Lays of Ancient Rome that he made
Mr.. Lougman a present of the copyright on
the sole condition that II should be published
1t is said that the publishers did not take
| advantage OF the rash generosity OF the author.
MIR. HEWITT admitted in the ways and
means committee room, when one OF his own
| workmen was being examined by the com
! mttee, that should he run for Congress in the
district where the works Of Cooper & Hewitt
are located he doubted If ten of his men
would vote for HIM.
| CYRUS w. FIELD announces in the North
| American Rerictc that ait appears to me that
the time has arrived when the government
| of the United States should purchase, in the
| interest of the people all the telegraph lines
| i'll the country which is a fair indication
that Cyrus has an axe TO grind.
| WAYNE MACNEAGH says: "Spite ofcriti-
| cism, in spite OF error, In spite of mistakes
here and there, the great abiding common
sense OF the American people after weighing
| Grover Cleveland in the balance for the
| last IL months, has concluded that he Is an
| honest and well-meaning man."
JosEFH Cook says John b. Cough "had
| fire in his emotions, in his imagination, in
his intellect, in his will, and in his con
| sciences he was himself pillar of fire,
through which God looked in the morning
watch of a great reform, and troubled the
| hosts of its enemies and took off their chariot
wheels"
SAMUEL BowLEs always sympathized
with the Boston editor, TO whom a mar
came with the complaint: Your paper say'
that hanged myself, and | want you Il
take it back. NO. said the editor; 'we'r,
not in the habit of doing that, but W,
will say that the rope broke, and you es
caped.'"
REV. CHARLES JONES Woop, assistan
rector of st Marks p. +. church, Philadel
phia, has accepted call to St Pauls church
Lock Haven. Calls have also been accepte,
by Rev. w. Howell, of Allentown, to 81
Georges NJ. T.. church Philadelphia, and b
Rev. William II. Clark, ID. D., of Nyack, \
Y. to the Second Reformed church, of ths
city.
J. NJ. KEPLER, of the Forest Democrd
and woll-known in Lancaster, was arreste
, for libeling John A. Proper during the eau
paign of the latter for election TO the associat
iudgeship. The indictment was prompt
quashed when it came up in court The a
legged libel consisted in the republication {
the history of Proper's confession OF hn,
public reproof for Jury tampering.
Mr.. WILLIAM d. HowELLs is said t
command higher prices for his work, partiC
ularly in the magazines, than any othe
American author. The rumor Is that he n
ceives from $50 to sl00 page for his work i
the Century and in Hdrper'S, and that HI
estimated income from his writings this yea
, | will be about $4,000. Twenty-Five years ag
his salary as a news editor was SO week.
PROF. WIGGINs says that last August
a | predicted an unusually severe winter on a
count OF the planet Saturn being in perrin
: lion. The planet has moved the Cult streal
: nearer to the American shore. He also. L
\ SAYS, predicted a severe storm on the mer
e dian OF London on March g. which woul
9 reach America on March !, accompanied b
. high tides. He adds that it will be lively
Quebec, Halifax and ST. John next Sunda,