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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-06-02

officer. He is but
two grades aboveLITTLE PHIL SHERIDAN,
a colonel and one above g brigadier gen.
eral. He may fight his men well, but no
planning, nothing original Is expected of
him. II Grant, when asked by President
Lincoln whom he wanted to command the
cavalry Of the Army Of the Potomac, had
thought Of some one else Sheridan would
probably have died comparatively un-
known. As II was, he came out the most
striking figure for spirit and quick, nerv-
ous work Of the war.
Gen. Horace Porter has given In The
rentury Magazine for November, 1887,
vivid picture Of Sheridan as he appeared
ut one of the closing scenes of the war,
before the enemy's earthworks, near the
White Oaks road in Virginia. The move
ment was slow and Sheridan got impa-
tient. Sheridan" says Gen. Porter,
"chafng with impatience and consumed
with anxiety, became as restive as racer
when he nears the line and is struggling
10 make the start. He made every posi-
BILE appeal for promptness; he dismounted
from his horse, paced up and down, struck
the clenched fist of one hand into the palm
of the other. and fretted like a Gagged tiger.
"At 4 o'clock the formation was com
given, and the struggle for Picket's In
trenched line began. Sheridan
now rushed into the midst of the broken
lines and cried out, Where is my battle
fagT As the sergeant who carried it
rode up, Sheridan seized the crimson and
white standard, waved IL above his head,
chcered on the men and made great efforts
TO close up the ranks. Bullets were hum
ming like a swarm Of bees. One pierced
the battle flag, another killed the ser
Geant who had carried 1t, another wounded
Capt. McGonigle in the side, others struck
two or three Of the staff officers horses
All this time Sheridan was dashing from
one point of the line to another, waving
his flag shaking his fists, encouraging,
threatening, praying, swearing, the very
soldier who could help following such a
leader. -
Sheridan rode Rienzi, the famous horse
that had once carried him twenty miles
from Winchester The general spurred
him up to the angle, and with bound he
carried his rider over the earthworks and
| landed him in the midst of line Of pris-
| oners, who had thrown down their arms
and were crouching close under their
breastworks. Some Of them called ont,
'Whar do you want us to gotoT Then Sher-
idan's rage turned to humor, and he had a
running talk with the Johnnies' as they
fled past. Go right over there, he cried.
pointing to the rear; get right along now;
drop your guns; you'll never need them
any more. You'll all be safe over there;
hre there any more of your We want
every one of you fellows"
There is no such picture as this of any
Of the great leaders of that period. Stone
wall Jackson, on the battlefield has been
described as such a man, and undoubtedly
had q remarkable power of transmitting
enthusiasm to his troops.
No general rose SO rapidly when he once
got an oppOrtnnitY as Phl Sheridan.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-06-02

The venerable and world famed Irish
correspondent, Thomas Mooney, more IA
miliarly known to every one in this coun.
try interested in the cause of Irish free.
dom as Transatlantic, recently ended
his long life at Dieppe, France. For sew.
enty years he devoted himself heart and
foul to the cause of Ireland, and from
Emmet to O'Connell and O'Conuell to Par
hell he has been an active and valuable
leader In Irish affairs. To "Transatlan-
Ing inaugurated, during the pas
twenty Years, the crusade which
has developed into such powerful
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-06-02

n 0 Lancaster Accommodation leaves Har.
lisa Grg So s:ln r. m. ana strives at Lancaster
~ ".
TG- Marietta Accoin mooatiCn leaves Colun
ia 1t s:s0 q. m. aud reaches Marietta at 6:66.
A!f' caves Columbis at ll4b g. m. ana 2,A6 p.
10 aching Eariette a. l2:U anc 26o. Leavss
1sr alta aL S:CS p. III. ana arrives AZ Columbia
p = u atsc lrsvee si s'9s aud arrives at 6.b0.
II 70 fnrf AccoHm "oRt,ps leaves Marietta
e, . p -" arrive, Al Lancaster at 500 con-
Tfci rg ~ HnrTtsDuTk L1 press at $40 q m.
y rrederck Accom- mediation, west, con.
nee, az Mt Lancaster with Fast Line, west,
at 3 z. ~, VIII run through to Frederick.
TT frederick Accommodation, east, leaves
Siolu mta at l2:ss and rearhes Lancaster ct 1883
p. N.
He nover Accommodation. East. leaves Col.
umbia at 4:l0 p. m. Arrives At Lancaster at
4M D. M. connecting with Day express.
hanover Accommodation, west, connecttng
at Lancaster with NiaEarS gEprese at $50 &
NJ. Ntn run through n ssnovar. daily. exoopr
erruay.
Fast Line, wsst, "a. Sunnias wbsn naxgo0.
VIII stop at Dcwningtown n, Coat@sv llle' ParkeG.
curS, It. Joy. EliIafetht pwC Al Mi0dletOWu.
rhe only trains which run daily. On sunday
the stail train west runs by way of Columbia,
3: X. WOOD, General Passenger AGENT
81 Oh AZ. a. PEGH General Manager.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-06-02

Frank Ford's rule for mixing Paris
green with plaster for the potato bug ia
one pe''nd Of Paris green to 800 Of plaster.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-06-02

ward. He then
weighed about 1870
pounds; bis figure
was small, his face
rather thin. He
n lw ays had the
same 3 pl Q n did
black eye. A di-
vision general,
where there are
corps commanders
and the general 1
commanding the
army over him, is
b mere executive
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-06-02

NOT ER year
has rolled round,
and West Point Is
about TO send ont
q ne " crop Of
Q m bryo heroes.
There are { he
usual examina-
tions, the artil.
lery, infantry and
6 a avalry drills,
bridge building,
signaling, excr-
c cses theoretic,
-,41 altnhf
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-06-02
As 10 WEST POINT.
|DoMernINo HISTORICAL REGARDING
The MILITARY ACADEMY.

|ue~~e.esmers rfns Causes the Minds Of
AnSrsss.s - rsr Toward This Deausi.
~ ~ - enc Hudson some Interest
~ On Reiics Illustrated.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-06-02

II Is stated that at least 1000, 900 tom.
OF commercial fertilizers are now annually
used In this country
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-06-02

ecncci BOYS snnd nowu-so psuensy on
the soles Of the shoes aud bore with hole;
the buckhorn, and all the other things
which we are fond Of contrfving. In our
Of our parents and teachers.--M. L. Gu.
todc In Popular Science Monthly.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-06-02
II EBANON & LANCASTER JOINT
~ LINE RAILROAD.
Arrangement OF Passenger Trains ON. ana
after, SUNDAY, MAY l3 1883.
" ESE " ahls,

" EsE ;, akls.
..scinc EIpresst...
News E1preset. ...u..
%ay Passenger.
Mai. train VIA Mt.Joy (
NO. 2 Mail Traint.... .
Niagara Express. .....
ian over Accom- 80.
FAsj i.fDet............
frederick ACCOM-.
Ian castor Accom-.
Harrisburg Accom-. =.
Columbia ACCOM-,
Harrisburg Expres, I
werserr VI presst.
& AsI W ANIL,
.'hha. Exprssss.,....
Fast Lipef ..,......
Harl isburs Expree !
Ian caster Accom- Al
Anipmbts Accom-.
SAss aore Express 90.
PnIl .daipbia Accom-
nnclay Mall. .......
st6y HNuTssYt
Har isburg Accom-.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-06-02

There is no such picture as this of any
of the great leaders of that period Stone
wall Jackson, on the battlefield, has been
described as such q man, and undoubtedly
had remarkable power of transmitting
enthusiasm TO his troops.
No general rose so rapidly when he once
got an opportunity as Phil Sheridan.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15
BlLDAD AND BETSEY.
Home Protection--Bildad Resolute5 While
Betsey Strikes.

Homo Professionalism Resolute-5 while
Betsey Strikes.
Bildad and Betsey were sitting in their
cabin ON quiet summer evening, when
suddenly an enormous bear walked into
the open door. Taking in the situation
at glance, Bildad, with one bound,
caught pole stretched across overhead,
and drawing himself up out of danger,
proceeded to hold convention, adopting
the following resolutions;
First pause on the threshold of this
proceeding to honor the memory of our
first great example and immortal cha1z-
pion of freedom from attacks of bears,
King David, the son of Jesse.
Second-I reaffirm my answering de-
votion to the matrimonial state and to
the indissoluble union of Bildad and
Betsey
Third am uncompromisingl in favor
of the Betsonian system of home protec
ton.
FOURTH condemn the custom of the
frontier to place bears on our visiting list,
and insist that the cabin lofts shall be
adjusted and maintained so as to furnish
full and adequate protection to all future
Bildads.
Fifth declare my hostility to the in
unknown bears, alien to our civilization
and our domestic constitution; and | de-
mand the rigid enforcement of existing
opposition to it, and favor such immediate
| efforts as will exclude this bear from our
| cabin.
| While Bildad was ''resolutin" from his
perch above, Betsey with poker, skillet,
tongs and hot water was vigorously be-
| laboring the bear. After Watching the
| symptoms of the terrific struggle going
on below for some minutes, Bildad added
| ono more resolution to his platform, to
wit: 1.-The first concern of all well regu-
lated households is the safety of its men,
bers from the attacks of bears, and Bill
dad cordially sympathizes with all wise
and well directed efforts to promote the
| destruction of bears that find their way
| into defenseless cabins"
Just ct this point Betsey by a well d.
| rected blow, killed the bear, Bildad ad-
| journed his convention, slid down FROM
his perch, and reported the cabin as en-
thusiastic in support of his platform; and
that the only issue before the people was
| the protection of frontier homes"
Who shall dare to deny that Bildad
was the "only man that ever did any
thing" toward the destruction of that
bear!-Henry B. Hudson.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15
Joseph Cook for Prohibition.

Our Day, of Boston, of which the Rev.
Joseph Cook is the editor, in it's current
number declares for the Prohibition party
as against the Republicans. Mr. Cook
says: 1.-The hopes of non-partisan Prohi-
bitionists and of temperance people gen.
orally have been disappointed. The Re-
publican party dares not utter syllable
to offend the whisky vote. AS it can now
be seen in the light of history that it was
once the duty of all honorable citizens,
however ineXpedient such action may
have looked at the time, not to vote for
any party that was on it's knees to the
slave, power, so now it is, as we believe,
the duty of all honorable men not to vote
for any party that is on it's knees to the
liquor traffic. The saloon in the saddle is
today greater evil than the south in
the saddle" He adds, as to the promo
ton of temperance and morality" resolu-
ton This plank is too small for serious
temperance men to swim on" Undoubt-
edly this expresses the feeling CT large
number of sober minded men, not only in
Massachusetts,, but throughout the coun-
try, and it will have it's effect upon the
coming election.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15
PERSONAL LIBERTY LEAGUE.
RummieS to the Eescue!-Down with the
Prohibition Party!

Prohibition Party!
What is intended to be a national or
ganization designed to work in opposition
to the Prohibition movement was char
tered under the state laws of Illinois in
the name of the Personal Rights league.
The incorporators are well known Ger
man American citizens of Chicago One
of them explained that the formation of
the League began some time ago.
Its membership is growing very rapidly,
and as soon as it Is sufficiently strong
here branches will be established in Mil
waukee, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Minneap-
oils, st. Paul and other cities. The pro-
moters design to have a popular national
movement against prohibition, though in
favor of temperance. At the same time,
as parallel movements, the constitution
declares against the adulteration of food,
the corruption of press and politics, the
mismanagement of the public moneys and
all trusts and analogous combinations.
The closest attention to the instructions
In public schools is demanded, in order
that intolerance may be successfully re-
sisted and keen appreciation of true
liberty ipculcated in the people.
The plank referring to Prohibition reads
as follows: 1.-THE Prohibition party as the
supporter of moderation, as the champion
of legalized guardianship to one portion
of the people over the other portion, and
by Systematically destroying the citizens
appreciation of their personal rights, is
seeking to place itself at the head of the
American nation. Prohibitionist agita-
tions have assumed an attitude SO threat
ening that it becomes the duty of the lib
erty loving citizens to oppose them ps
harmful to public interest and reprehen-
sible.
Excessive indulgence in alcohol can
only be prevented by rational and liberal
laws to be strictly enforced, by strict
laws against the misuse of alcohol by ex-
ercise on the part of the authorities of
strict control over the manufacture and
sale of beverages, and by means of insti-
tutions capable of Improving the social
condtion.of the working classes; but it
can aever be prevented by prohibition
The by laws provide for literary bu-
reau to disseminate the leagues princi-
pies and combat it's opponents through
the medium of the press.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

The Prohibition party is the only real
protection party. 1t proposes to protect
the farmer by giving him chance to buy
his supplies at the least cost; to protect
the manufacturer by enabling him to
compete with the manufacturers of the
world; to protect the mechanic and laborer
by enabling them to live more cheaply and
freeing them from the bondage of rum; to
protect the homo by outlawing and Danish
ing the saloon and its kindred evils; to
protect men and women by removing temp
tation from their paths and putting away
the incentives to evil doing; to protect
every mans purse by reducing the ex-
penses eff government, a large proportion
of which is caused by strong drink. Is
not this protection protection that bene-
fits not the capitalist, but the man of
small means, the farmer and mechanic as
well? This is the protection we need and
with rum wiped out shall secure. Let US
by all means be protected from rum and
beer, vice and crime.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15
Colored Men for Fisk.

The other day some colored men were
talking politics, when one of them gave
vent to the following: Il tell you what
1t is, it makes no matter about what our
political opinions may have been in the
past, or what they are likely to be in the
future, we cannot afford to go back on
Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, who dared to
espouse the cause of the poor colored man
before the Republican party was known
by that name, and who since the war has
not ceased to defend the cause ofthe poor,
and who has especially done so much to
elevate the colored RAGS from degradation
and ignorancel tell you, am for Fisk
first, last and all the f2nep
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15
Temperance BuncovAbc.

Referring to the Boutelle buncombc
temperance resolution added to the Re-
publican platform, The Portland Oregon
Ian (Rep) says Resolves like these are
as current in our country as copper count
ers in India and China, and about as valu-
able Ask any Democrat and he will tell
you that his party sympathizes quite as
cordially with all wise and well directed
efforts for promotion of temperance and
morality as the Republican party, or the
Liquor Dealers association, either.
Virtue, however, is not always approved
or purchased by weight of protestation,
for, as in the case of beauty, they some
times are lightest who wear most of it."
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15
THE PLATFORMS.

Have you scanned the remarkable planlls
Arranged by political cranks
In the old party meetings of late?
how, afflicted with brainal congestion,
They stamped on the temperance question,
Disclosing their habits and hate?
How, warmed with their whisky and wine,
They staggered and fell into line
With the bosses of stills and of watts!
How stout they debated protection
Except In a moral direction, z
Revealing the bricks in their hats9 "sss
ignoring the..weal Of our land
IF only the parties may stand
And win a full quota of votes;
Embedding our virtues complexion. i
Intent to secure the election
And liquor to tickle their threats. A.
Pray,swhat do they care for our homes y
Any more than for Feejeean tombs; =
So narrow and shriveled their SOULS.
Regardless Of questions of morals
AS of mid-ocean islands Of corals, s,xp.'a'A
" 'N0 '''''' ''-''i '''Ds ''' p''0'' s~
Conventions by liquor are yoked,
The masses by platforms are joked
And treated as constituencies game.
Yet this is pronounced a free nation.
Alas for the fair appellation
Unless we shake off the rum shamel
The people, at last, will arise
And bandages cast from their eyes,
To see how like slaves they are sold
TO tippling, beer bought politicians
Who aim for official positions,
And clutch at the government gold.
Rev. F. Dennison.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15
OVER TAXATION.
Drink the Chief Cause of Poverty--Eng-
lish Testimony

Drink the Chief Cause of Povprty--Eng-
lish Testimony,
The United States is not the only coun-
try, according to the following paragraph
from The Echo England, which is suffer
ing from over taxation. The popularity
of the case here is the extraordinary posi-
ton assumed by great party striving to
regain power, advocating, in behalf of
capitalists, trusts and monopolies their
pretended condemnation of the same to
the contrary Notwithstanding, a perma-
1ent continuance of the heavy burdens
ander which the great mass of the people
are now grooming and praying to be
freed:
at is notorious that the drinking
habits arc the chief causes of the poverty
of the people. But for these habits this
country might be the home of o great and
industrious and fairly contented people,
But the orators who speak at meetings of
the unemployed denounce capitalists and
the present organization of society, but
they say little or nothing about the ex-
pensive and almost universal drinking
customs of the country, which are the
root of so much social misery.
Again, for some years past commerce
has been languishing; the labor market
has been restricted, and we have heard
more, year after year, of increasing hard
tiees. But in the face of this general
depression and fall in the price of rents
and labor, the taxation of the country has
been increasing mountains high. Govern
ments have been spending more when
they should be spending less, and yet we
hear no popular cutlery against rulers who
misuse the national funds. The little
good recently done in this direction has
been mainly effected by Lord Randolph
Churchill. Perhaps the greatest anomaly
of all is that this ever increasing and ever
crushing burden of taxation should go on
simultaneously with increased education,
with an extended suffrage, and principally
whilst the professed advocates of peace,
retrenchment and reform were in power. -
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15
A Wise Benefactor.

DR.. R. Fl. Mcdonald, of San Francisco,
has subscribed for about $4,000 prohibi-
ton bombs to be sent weekly from now
until election from the National Prohibi-
ton bureau to that number of California
voters.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15
THE TARIFF BUGABOO.
ingalls, and Plumb the Tarif-Party
Platforms Mean Nothing.

The tariff question is not of as much
Weight as the fly on the cart wheel We
have GOV to aim at a solid north, as the
Democrats are sure of solid south. The
tariff is only feint, false pretense. 1t
Is only an instrument for jugglers and
tomfoolery. If the Republican party fails
In this campaign it will inevitably 60 to
pieces. II it fails, the historian may
write its history Immediately, add the
word "finis' at the end and the volume is
complete. 1t is our last fight unless we
.win.-Senator Ingalls, in Chicago Tribune
Of June IS.
The senate, as you will remember,
passed bill which would prevent any
further contraction of the currency by
providing additional circulation to take
the place of national bank notes retired.
This bill has been shelved in the house
and will not be heard of again. Mean
while, we are told that the tariff is the
source of all our woes and the only thing
which needs looking after. The contrac-
ton of the currency is responsible for
more of the financial trouble than the
tariff is or could be.-Senator p. B. Plumb
to Editor Phillipsburg Herald.
After reading the above declaration Of
the two Republican senators from Kansas,
read the following from The Pioneer
Press, the Republican organ of the north
west. Do they not prove that the Re
publican tariff cry is only intended to de-
ceive the voter? 1t says: "There is prob
ably not one in hundred [of the Repub-
hcans in Minnesota who would subscribe
to the new tangled fiscal policy for the
first time laid down in that platform which
looks to the abolition of all internal
revenue taxes on tobacco and whisky as
means Of reducing the surplus rather than
touch single item of the sacred and in
violable tariff. But it adds that 'no Re
publican is bound by it unless he happens
to. be individually in accord with It," and
speaks of Republicans who reserve the
right to think what they please of those
transitory trimmings of party platforms
which change with every season like the
fashions in dress"
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15
A True Story.

A Party went out one day in search Of
an Issue. 1t was returning in the even
ing Footsore and Empty Handed, when it
met a worn out Sentimentality.
DiXit the Party, II want an Issue!''
Respondit the Sentimentality, Issues are
scarce this year, but I'll do what I can
for you, and from it's pocket it pulled
out Red Bandanna.
And the Party took it and said This
is an issue, for | have heard its owner
say, 'Ih- III shoe! Ih-Ih- shoo! into it many
times"
And its heart was gay.
A second Party went out, also to hunt
an Issue. Evening had come, and still it
was Unsupplied. In it's despair it hunted
up Recollection.
Inquit the Party, "Give me an issue, y
Ad h@c respondit the Recollection, "Is-
sues amt to be had this year for Love OF
Money, but | have real nice thing here
that think will do in q Pinch" and he
handed out Bloody Shirt
And the Party said:
This will be q Bonanza to me, if can
get the people to look Backward and not
Forward"
And it smiled very sweetly,
III.
But when these Parties met in conflict
they were both Amazed to see bearing
down upon them Young Party, and il
its hand was Real Live Issue! They
saw, too, that in the van was Progress
and they fed before it.
MORAL.
Haze fabula docet, that if one wants ar
Issue he'd better wait till he gets it, Oh
else not 60 out to Fight.-Dayton Ad
vance
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15
WILL MAKE A GOOD GOVERNOR.
The Prohibition Candidate for Governor
of New Hampshire.
Here is q portrait of DR. Edpar +, Carr

of Pittstield, N.
H., who is the
nominee of the
Pro h i b itionists
for governor. He
Is a man of the
people, a success
full educator, an
old veteran Union
soldier, a hard
worker and q good
Pro hi b i ZIONIST.
Though not de-
siro,lS of the hon
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

A refusal to insert tho plank (anti,
saloon) will be regarded as equivalent to
a POSITIVE declaration for the saloon. DR.
Sarroll, editor New York Independent,
before Republican platform committee.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

or, he has consented to make the canvass,
and vigorous campaign is promised.
DR.. Carr will poll q good vote, and
should have the support of Senator Blair.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15
Raw Whisky Too,

1here is great waste of 'rah material
IN presidential campaign.-Life.