fnMligm&f Sljje mtf a$tei Volume XVIl-Xe. 172. LANCASTER, PA., TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1881. Price Tw feats. CLOTHING. s ECIAI ANriOUNCEMKT. ALROSENSTEIN, THE LEADER OF FASHIONS, WILL BEHOVE OS MAY 1st, 1881, TO- Ne. 37 North Queen St., (New occupied by Mr. Jeremiah Rohrer, .Liquor Merchant). This stoic will be re modeled during the month of APRIL, and will be one of the Handsomest Structures in Lan caster. In connection with an immense and elegant stock of Ready-Hade Clothing FOR MEN'S, YOUTHS', BOYS' & CHILDREN'S WEAR, I will have a 1 where you will find, the Choicest and Handsomest Patterns the market af fords. These goods I will make te order in the most elegant style, using none but flue trimmings, and always guarantee a PERFECT. FIT, AT 1Y.OM $12 TO $20 PER SUIT, SACK, WALKING OR FROCK COATS. MY S15 SUIT is positively ctjual te any $23 Suit made elsewhere. Call aud sce it. 27 Different Patterns from which you can cheese. The bal ance of my READY-MADE STOCK WILL. 1JE SOLI) REGARDLESS OP COST, As I desire going into my New Sterc with an entire NEW STOCK. AL. ROSENSTEIN, 154 North Queen Street. marll-ljd A RARE CHANCE! The Greatest Reduction ever made in FIXE WOOLENS for GENTS WE Alt at H. GERKART'S IDni QhmmiT 1 ,ii A Large Assortment of Genuine English & Scotch Suiting, sold during the Full Season from S30 te 40. A Suit will be marie, up te order in the Vest Style Irein 20 te S30. HEAVY WEIGHT DOMESTIC Suiting and Overceating, Itcducedin the panic proportion. All goods warranted as lepresentcd. The above reduction will ter cash only, and ier the next THIRTY DAYS. H. GERHART, Ne. 51 North Queen Street. PAPERUASQlStia, Jte. w ALL PAIERS. Our Present Stock of Goods is superior te any that we ever had the pleasure of offering. WALL PAPERS. FANCY GILTS, FOR PARLORS, HALLS, DINING ROOMS, CHAMBERS, &c. GROUNDED AND COMMON PAPERS IN LARGE VARIETY. ELEGANT CEIL- 1NGS, FRIEZES, BORDERS. &c, SCOTCH HOLLANDS Fer WINDOW SHADES. Plain Material by the yard in any Celer and Width. SPRING AND CORD FIXTURES. LOOPS. BANDS, FRINGES, Etc. Extension Window Cornices. CURTAIN POLES, BRACKETS, Etc. PHARBS W. PRY, NO. 87 NORTH QUEEN ST. GRAIN SPECULATION In large or small amounts. $25 or $30,000 Write W. T. SOULE ft CO.. Commission Mcr chants, 130 La Salle street, Chicago, 111., tes cii ulars. m2tf-ryd TniDwii auuiiM DBX ITEvf THINGS! NEW THINGS! -AT JOHN WANAMAKER'S, 13th Street, Market and Chestnn DRESS GOODS. Among our new all-wool dress-labrlw is an extraordinary flannel, if it U a flannel. It is se extraordinary as te take it out of flanneh, altogether, perhaps : but we hare no better name ler it. Many ladies will be obliged for this notice. " JOHN WAHAMAIEH. Third circlu, southeast from the centre. DRESS GOODS. What art and skill ar doing in aottea dress tabrics! Twe counters are irorgeeus with them. The lowest price is 5 cents a yai d, aud tlie .highest M cents ; but they are made in soft and delicate ways by texture or print or dye. te rival the stuffs et luxury. Here are the t&miliar names : Scotch zephyrs Foulards Madras ginghams Sateen Seersuckers Lawas Chintzes Cretonnes Oxford cloths Memies Toile (V Alsaee Cheviot Priutc 1 shirtings In almost every name are triumphs. Teu are net elten asked te admire se modest works of art and skill; but see it you cin pass these counters witueut a new view e! modern achievements. JOHN WAXAMAKER. Fourth circle, northwest from centre. COTTON DRESS GOODS. A lady who has bought $45 worth et sateens at several visits here, and who hs been everywhere in town, says there's no such collection et wendertul goods anywhere. Our assortment is se large that many patterns are nowhere cle perforce; lint this is especially true et binall tiguted goods, the choicest of all. JOHN WANAMAKER. Fourth circle, northeast from centre. WOOLLEN DREfeS GOODS. Seme neat checks te-day. browns and grays, SJ-iuch, 25 cents. Will pass ter all-wool ; but a little cotton is carded in. JOHN WANAMAKER. Third ciicle, east Ireui centre. 1JURE LINENS. Wc liav'nt a mixed linen in the store, net even in hundkercbicis. JOHN WANAMAKER. Third, fourth and tilth circles, southwest tiem the centre. Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market, streets, and City hall squat e. OCOTCII GINGHAMS. O Mere Scotch zephyr ginghams ar in te day, but net all by any means. Our price is 31 cents ; 40 is the New 1 erk price. New don't suppose that such a difference as that means anythiug whatever la the ging hams. Ii docs net. it means simply that we buy et the makers, and save one profit. JOHN WANAMAKKR. Fourth circle, Thirteenth-streetentrance. OMEsTIC GINGHAMS. It you would rather buy a coarser aud heavier gingham, that leeks as well a little way off, at 15 cents, the Madras zephyrs, et American make, arc what you Want. They are last colors te. Then the zanzibars, at 18 cents, are a little heavier, and closer woven. The modest Cheviot-plaids at 15 cents and seersuckers at 15 and 18 cents are here also. JOHN WANAMAKER. Fourth circle north Irem centre. OMESTIC CALICOES. Chintz et indigo-blue ground with white polka-dot et various sizes, and ether little tig- lies net unlike the dots et American make, at 10 cents, is a great favorite. Calicoes in ireneral are 8 cents: but some fattcnisare5, i-lmply because they arc net iked se well. JOHN WANAMAKER. Fourth circle, northeast Irem centre. IADIES' CLOTHS. j An entire counter is devoted te ladies' cloth ter dresses. There's nothing new in them but the colors, plain and illuminated. New ladies' clothsare here. It is useless te say mere of these favorite stutts. JOUN WANAMAKER. Third circle, south Irem centre. TNFANTV CLOTHING of like' ratine: verv rich te very plain. home specimens arc shown in the Arcade. Seuthw est corner et building. lEW FANCY BRYON COLLARS MJt"S, etllllUU iu;(u jiuuiwivuq euw ( been wornbyyeiinggentlcuienotlutc). Ladies ...tit .11 .... .1.n. l.i uliitnn no vill na niinnt tint print. amounted te ever 800 cellars and cuffs. One of tlie busy places. First circle, southwest from the centre. JOHN WANAMAKER. JOHN WANAMAKER, Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market and City Hall Square, . PHILADELPHIA. XBOA' RITTERS. ritON II1TTEKS. IRON BITTERS! A TRUE TONIO. IRON BITTERS "are highly recommended ter all diseases requiring a certain and effi cient tonic; especially INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, INTERMITTENT FEVERS, WANT OF APPE TITE, LOSS OF STRENGTn, LACK OF ENERGY, &c. It enriches the bleed, strengthens the muscles, and gives new life te the nerves. It acts like a charm en the digestive organs, removing all dyspeptic symptoms, buch as Tasting thn reed. Belching, Heat in the Sternaeh, Heartburn etc. The only J roil Preparation that will net (slacken the tretli or give headache. Sold by all druggists. Write ter the ABC Boek, "12 pp. et useful and amusing reading ttnt fret. BROWN CHEMICAL COMPANY, tSS-lyd&w ft jfURSITVRE. T)UEKS! BUYERS!! HBINITSH HELLS: Hair Mattress from $10.00 te $40 Weel " " 7.00 te 11 Husk " " 4.50te 6 Woven Wire Mattress from 10.00 te 20 Spring'Bcds... 2.50te 7 Bolsters and Pillows Made te Oriler. Call and sec my assortment, and be con vinced of the fact that my prices are all right. Picture Framing a Specialty. Rcgildlng and Repairing at short notice. HEINITSH, 15K BAST KING STREET, Jan&tiind Over China Hall. ye INVENTORS. W. H. BABCOOK, Atterncy-at-Law. et Washington, D. C, form crly an examiner in U. S. Patent Office, offers his services as Solicitor before the U. S. and Foreign Patent Offices. Careful work at fair prices. Was associate et Mr. Jacob Stauffcr, et Lancaster, until the latter'a death. U0-3icdAw HOODS. W THINGS: Philadelphia, Fa. BLACK DRESS COODS. New things in black dress goods et almost all sorts are ready. Silk grenadines came some time age; new the wool and silk and wool grer.alines are here; and the variety is greater than we ever had before greater than anybody ever had, se tar as we knew. . New urmurcs. plain and liguert, are notable, especially the latter. Among them are armures, with small figures and plaids, that can be se-n only when looked at in certain ways. Tlit draping of a dress of these would appear te be partly plain and party iigurcd or plaid. The figures and plaids seem te have no existence at all. Yeu can't find them except by accident. . JOHN WANAMAKER. Nesfbuter circle, Chestgutrstrett entrance. I IN ENS. j J.ust received a large quantity of Irish shirting linens; uncommonly satisfactory : 23 te 75 cts. Seme remnants at three-quarters value. frlieetlng and pillow linens et many makers. Netice, if yen please, 100-inch sheeting at$l, ami 45 inch pillow at 45 cents. A certain three-quarter napkin at $ : a dozen has been compared with one considered a bar guintJlscwhere at a higher price. JOHN WANAMAKER. City-hail-square entrace. 1TOSIERY. XX Misses' anil heys' r reach ribbed lie.se at 40 te 55 cents, according te size; Cte Scinch; is said te be selling : l;where at G.'i te 80 cents. Cardinal, iiavv bin and ecru. JOHN WANAMAKER. Outer circle, Che-ttuut-street eutiance. SHIRTING UNION of a certain m. ike which we kuewull about we have in ten weights. The co irs"st is suit able for men's draw ers ; the finest ler the finest shirt fronts. This linen we order six months in advance et our wants, have it bleached wholly en the grass, finished without dressing, and labeled "Old-iashinncd linen." It is a perfect linen, if care and skill can produce such. Wc sell it by the side 'it Richardson linen at two-thirds te three-quarters the price of the latter, which is net a whit better. 28 te 75 cents. AU-our linens are beughtw ith jnst such care and skill as this statement implies ; ami the largeness of our dealing enables us te add an inducement in price also. Iluvcrs et table, sheeting and pillow linens, towels, &c, for hotels and institutions had better call here first. JOHN WANAMAKER. Cith hall-square entrance. IINEN REMNANTS. j Anether maker's short-length remnants, similar te the shirting linens mentioned above, in four weights, value as geed 50 te 75 cents, are selling all at one price, 40 cents. JOHN WANAMAKER. City-liall-squarc entrance. SUMMER SKIRTS. Pin-striped sateen (the French cotton silk like fabric new se popular) skirt trimmed w ith plaiting et same, or with that and band of silk embroidery, is the favorite of all the washable skirts we have ; and the ai iety is beyond be lief almost. Net washable, also for summer, is Italian cloth or Farmer-satin, made liamkemu in a great many ways by combinations, plaitlngs, bindings, pipings, entbreulciic.-, Ac. JOHN WANAMAKER. Southwest corner et building. HANDKERCHIEFS. New fancy white handkerchief; ninny. New initials : new letters, a different letter ler each price. New colored borders. Linen cen ters with colored silk borders (nowhere else, probably), require te be washed with care; but with care they wash perfectly : colors fast. Woven color borders, plaids and stripes of course. Net a mixed cotton and linen hand kerchief in the btere. JOHN WANAMAKKR. Third circle, southwest from centre. U NDERWEAR. ifinc muslin and cambric underwear, richly decorated with lace and embroidery, carefully finely and skilfully made. This we have in greater variety than you will find else where; Out there is no difficulty in getting this grade of work. Underwear of a plainer fort ts difficult te get carefully suftl skillully made; but wc hive a really great collection of it. Fer mere than a year pastwe have been raisingthestandurd of manufacture and ciiltluating simpler styles. We have work thc;like of which is in no ether house, here or in New Yerk. The ideal of it is the best et home-made underwear at such prices as will cau3e it te be preferred te home made and step home making as fast as the work becomes known. JOHN WANAMAKER. Southwest corner of building. fltON 1HTTEKS. SURE APPETISER. BALTIMORE, MD. SLEIGHS, AC. Carriages! Carriages! AT EDGERLEY & COS. PracticalTarriage Hiiildcrs, Market Street, Rear of Central Market Houses, Iiucastcr, Pa. We "have en hand a Large Assortment et BUGGIES AND CARRIAGES, Which we offer at the. VERY LOWEST PRICES. All work warranted, uive us a call . 49Repatring promptly attended te. One set of workmen especially employed for that purpose. fn-JS-Ud&w GROCERIES. 8 O'CLOCK COFFE IS THE PUREST and best ler the Breakfast Table. ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC TEA CO., Ill North Queen Street. fcb22-2md- . Lancaster, Pa PUKE WINES AND LIQUORS FOB Medicinal Purposes, Fresh Groceries and Pure 'Spices at RINGWALT'S, NO. 203 WEST KIXG STREET. feblMya Lancaster littdUtjencer. TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1881. DIRECT ELECTIONS. HANKER OF SELECTING OUK CHIEF MAGISTRATES. Proposed Amendment of the Constitution or the United States for the Elec tion of President and Vice "" PresWcnt. Ex-Chief Justice Agncw in .Pittsburgh Commercial-Gazette. In my former article it was shown that the true mode of electing the president and vice president of the United States is seen in the actual structure of the govern ment and the express terms of the constf censtf tut ion. It is therefore an election by the states themselves, through their own duly ajipeintcd electors, who furnish and trans mit the scaled evidence thereof te an ap propriate depository, the president of the Senate, by icftem it is opened in the pres ence of the two houses of Congress, and handed down te be counted by tellers ap pointed by these houses. The result of the count thus ascertained is announced by the president of the Senate, and the constitution declares the president and vice president, as the one having the requisite number of votes. It is only upon failure of the states te elect, the Heuse proceeds te elect the president in a defined mode. The proceeding te elect by the states is an expressly reserved power te perpetuate the executive branch, outside of the legisla tive branch, and by the express terms of the mode provided, and by force of the ninth aud tenth amendments of the const i tutien is nccessatily beyond legislative in terference, tie power being conferred en Congress te interfere at any step until a failure of the states te elect has taken place. Tlie proceeding is seen te be de fective in this that no prevision exists for inquiring into a fraud. In proposing an amendment of the con stitution the subject involves the entire proceeding te elect, as well as the particu lar defect in the existing mode. . Experi ence has shown a wide departure from the original design of the electoral college. It was intended that the electors should select as well as elect ; but new they simply register the popular will expressed in the nomination of candidates. It is new an election of the people by indirec indirec tten. But it is clearly mere consonant te the ti ue spirit of a republic that the people should elect directlu. Yet in doing se, certain vital principles adopted in the for mation of the constitution must be ad hered te. One of these is fundamental, and a condition en which the small states gave their consent te the union. It is that each state shall have an equal representation of its sovereignty, aud therefore an equal representation in the- Senate of the United States. It is the body which represents this sovereignty of the states, and which holds in check the executive branch aud the popular division of the legislative branch. It confirms or rejects appointments te office, tries im peachments, ratifies or rejects treaties, and participates in making laws and ap propriations. Hence tlie small states de manded net only equality of sevcieignty in the Senate, but equal representation of this sovereignty in tlie election of the president aud the vice president by adding te the number of popular electors a num ber equal te its number of senators. It is clear, thcicfere in an election by the people directly the voice of each state should remain equal te that et its electoral college. Without this no small state would or ought te agree te an amendment. It is essential te its protection It must be remembered also that in adopting an amendment the states are all equals. Te de otherwise would citable the popular majority in such large states as Ncvr Yerk, Pennsylvania aud Ohie te swallow up tlie meagre numerical majorities of such small states as Ilhede Island,' Dela ware, Flerida, New Hampshire, West Vir ginia, Nevade, Colerado, Oregon, &c. Iu an election by the people the vote of each state should represent a power equal te the voice of its electoral college. The next essential is that the vote of the state should be determined by a plurality net a majority of its popular vote. This is essential te practical election, as there are often mere than two' parties and two candidates. A prevision is also necessary for ade quate protection against fraudulent re turns of cleetien and false certificates of state officers. This can be effected by re quiting direct returns of the presidential election te the federal as well as the state government, and a power in Congress te regulate aud enforce the same. There should be a well guarded mode also of in quiring into and determining alleged frauds iu the election, by an independent, non-partisan and high tribunal. There may be ether suggestions, but I have stated the most important. In fur nishiug an informal draught of these I de net mean te de mere thap te present them substantially thus : " That the president and vice president of the United States shall be elected by qualified voters of the several states, vot ing therein en the same day in all the states. A plurality of all the lawful votes cast in each state shall determine the vote of such state. Each state shall be entitled, in the election of president and vice president, te a number of votes equal te the whole number of senators aud rep resentatives in Congress. " Duplicate returns of the votes of every county in each state, cast for the three per sons highest iu vote, if se many be voted for in such county, shall be forthwith signed, certified, and sealed up by the re turn judges of every such county, and transmitted immediately, one copy te the governor of such state, aud the ether copy directly te the president of the Senate of the United States. "The governor of each state after re ceiving the returns from all the counties of his state, se duly certified, signed and sealed up, shall together with the secretary of state forthwith tabulate the same, and sura up the votes cast for each person se returned as voted for ; and shall net later than day of following the day of election transmit te the president of the Senate of the United States a true and exact table of the votes se cast, and true and exact copies of all the county returns se made te him, together with a certificate under his hand, attested by the secretary of state and the seal of the state, that the said table is accurately tabulated from the original returns, and that the copies are also true and exact ; the truth of which certificate shall be sworn te by him before a supreme or superior judge of the state, all of which documents, table, copies of re turns aud certificate shall be securely scaled up before transmission. " It shall be the duty of the president of the Senate te keep the said tables and returns, original and copies, from the sev eral States, in his own custody and un opened ; and he shall en the day of next following the said elec tion, 'produce and open the said tables and returns iu the presence of. the two houses of Congress jointly convened' in the hall of the Heuse of Representatives ; and thereupon shall hand them down te be counted by a joint committee of three senators aud three representatives chosen for this purpose by the Senate and Heuse respectively, aud duly sworn in the pres ence of the joint convention te perform their duties impartially and with fidelity. Iu making the said count the said joint committee shall first compare(the original ceuntjreturns with the certifiedcepies from tbt governor of each state. If there be ue table or returns transmitted by the governor of any state, the said joint com mittee shall prepare a tabulated return for the absent state, from the original county returns transmitted by the county return judges te the president of the Senate. If in the table of the returns of any state transmitted by the governor thereof, there be any county returns or the returns of the votes cast therein emitted, the said joint committee shall supply the same and correct the table thereof from the said original county returns transmitted te the president of the Senate. If there be no such corrections te be made, or after any such shall be made, the said joint committee shall proceed immedi ately te tabulate the result of the whole and forthwith-report the said result te the joint convention of the two houses. "lieiore action taken upon the report of the said joint committee, it shall be lawful fe make objections te the 'vote of any state'er te the vote contained iu any county return, but the objections shall be made in writing under the oath and signed by at least five iu number of the representatives or senators present, set ting forth specifically and fully, in clear and distinct terms, the facts alleged en which the objections are founded ; and shall be handed forthwith te the joint committee te be examined. "If no objections te the report of the joint committee shall be se made, or if made shall be found en examination by the said joint committee net te alter the result of the election for president or vice president, the said committee shall forth with se report, and thereupon the person having a majority of the undisputed votes aud of the whole number of votes of all the states for president, shall be the president; and the person having a majority of the undisputed votes, and of the whole num ber of votes of all the states for vice presi dent, shall be the vice president, the vote of each state beiug reckoned by the rule hereinbcfeic provided. "If, after examination of the objections made, as hereinbefore stated, the joint committee shall find that the objections made will alter the result of the election of either the president or(the vice president the committee shall se report, aud what change or changes will be made thereby : and thereupon the said report, together with the said written objections, shall forthwith be certified by the joint couven ceuven couven veutien te the supreme court of the Untcd States, which shall proceed immediately, aud without hindrance or delay, te inquire judicially, iu a mode te be devised by the court, into the truth of the said objections with full power te compel the appearance of persons and the production of papers and documents necessary te enable the court te determine the truth of the s.iid ob jections, and when se determined a record of the findings of said court shall be mule, aud the result or results thereof shall be duly certified forthwith te the Senate and Heuse, which shall immediately reconvene in joint convention, and the count of the votes shall be resumed by the said joint committee, and be made according te the findings of the said supreme court; and the resultef the election for the president and vice president, or cither as the case may be, shall be leperted accordingly te the joint convention ; wherenpen the per son found te have a majority of the whole number of votes of all the states for presi dent, the vote of each state being com puted according te the rula hereinbefore given, shall be the president, and the per son found te have a majority of the whole number of votes of all the states for vice president, computed iu the same manner, shall lie the vice president. , " The proceeding te determine any con test as aforesaid shall be prosecuted with out delay, and determined before the 4th day of March next following said contest. But if said contest cannot be determined by that day, the president and vice presi dent, or either as the ease may be, and if there be no vice president, the president of the Senate, shall continue te fill their respective offices until the contest shall be determined and the duly elected president or vice president, or cither as the case may be, shall take their oath of office. "The Congress shall have power te pass all laws necessary and proper te carry into effect andenferec ibis amendment and every part thereof." If the states fail te elect, the proceeding te be by the the mode new provided. Cerner Leafing. A. Judicious Discretion Commcndee, Messrs. Editors : I have noticed with pleasure aiid approval the course lately taken by our worthy chief of police and his subordinates te suppress the nuisance of stieet leafing, the growing proportions of which had become such that, it was ab solutely dangerous for a respectable young woman te venture out of doers after dark. The glib-tongued and ill-mannered young scamps who habitually stand around the corners and prominent positieus en the sidewalks making impertinent remarks in tended for the ears of girls aud young ladies unattended by male escorts ought te be severely dealt with, and the arrest aud punishment of a few of these profes sional bummers is certain te have a most salutary effect in cleariag the pavements from a disagreeable pest. - At the same time it may be worth while te call the attention of our .police men te the necessity of exercising a little judgment in the pursuance of the Jaudable enterprise upon which they have start ed. Only last night the notice of veur correspondent was directed te a circum stance indicative of a superfluous amount of zeal, or perhaps it would be better te describe it as a lack of discretion, upon the part of one of our conservators of the law. Twe genteel young men going in opposite directions met face te face ou a street crossing and stepped for a moment te exchange salutations. They did net at tempt te engage in conversation, nor occu pied mere than ten seconds' tfhie in their interchange of frieudly greeting. They did net obstruct anybody's passage across the street, for no one was coming in either direction. Nevertheless a member of "the foerce," whose eagle eye descried the meeting hastened up te the young men and rudely ordered them te " move ou," and as they separated, each going his own way, they were scornfully hooted by an unmannerly gang of yeuug roughs, who, having been dispersed a few moments before, had quickly congregated at another point where they were highly delighted spectators of the apparent discomfiture of their betters. X. Y. Z. David Betzner, aged forty-five, who has been in the employ of the Philadelphia & Reading railroad but a few days, was struck by a passenger train at Ninth and Susquehanna avenue, Philadelphia, and instantly killed. Ob the Qaarrjrrille S. R. What a Lively Corrmpeadaat Saw in Fif teen Miles. Fer the Ixtelueksceb. Dickens puts in one of his best descrip tive strokes about a railroad ride ; Saxc makes us laugh again by telling about his " Riding en the Rail ;" and Lewell asks us te moralize with him in an "incident in a R. R. Car:" and why shouldn't " Drumore " gather a laurel for his youth ful brew from a railroad ride, even if he is compelled, peer fellow, te find it en the Quarry ville ? These who have ridden en this read knew as much about it as I de, and te these who haven't I would say it is logi cally free from danger in the way of acci dents, for it runs slowly that is, I don't meau te say, the read inns slowly, but that the trains de, or at least my particular train, the one under point of discussion, did most of the time nearly as slowly as a dumb WAtch. I took the smoking car, at King street. Iu the smoking car you will always find a railroad's best geed nature, its heartiest laughs, its undisguised geed fellowship, its sociability aud most of its politeness. There seems te be a kind of odd-fellewish ele ment or influence iu a cloud of tobacco snioke, as it gathers around men's heads, that "draws men out," and makes them jelly geed fellows, and for the time friends. I took the smoking car, net se much te smoke as te be under the above mentioned influences, and from the ether smokers, as it were, te r Catch '. Seme collateral sweets and snatch Sidelong odors, that giv life. Like glances Irem a neighbor's wife." Beb Montgomery, one of our county commissioners, aud the best man the Democrats could have .put iu that posi tion ; and Jim Cellins, who wants te be one of our county commissioners, and who is the nest man the tepubheans can put there (these gentlemen wilt excuse me for taking them by the button hole, if they please) were the most distinguished per sonages in our car, unless, perhaps but my modesty will net allow me te proceed. These two gentlemen had a bankrupt friend in charge, which friend had found it imperatively necessary te leave his bag gage at his recent bearding house, aud was traveling en friendship, or, in- the slang of our degenerate days, en the " dead head plan." Montgomery and Cellins ' spliced " and bought the unfortunate a ticket, and each took about ninety-nine cents worth of comfort out of the investment in thinking en the beautiful metaphor of bread cast upon the waters. Near f he front of the car en the same seat sat sat Christ. Stener, deputy regis ter, and B. F. Greff, esq., who, for some unexplainable reason, is inseparably as sociated in ray mind with bass fishing and lager beer at Plate's Eddy. Facing them, aud by far the best looking man in the car, Beb Barnes being the only ether claiment in that direction, sat Abe Har nisb, tobacco buyer. Had he been any thing else in the world but a tobacco buyer, I could have loved him. Pretty seen after we started we stepped; hew long I don't remember, for I was just beginning te think out a solution for "why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" when through the smeke from the two-for-fires, and above the silenced rattle of the motionless train we heard the sound of singing : " And the car was tilled with music, Anil the cares that infest the day. Did told their tents like the Arabs, And as silently -stele away." Pretty seen I succeeded in coming down again te mundane things, and looked around te see whence came the beautiful stream of music, and discovered the fountain head te be located in the lungs of the deputy register. He sang the air well and was joined in the chorus, commencing "I's gwiue back te Dixie" by the well executed tenor of B. F. Greff, softened down by the better bass of Mr. Harnish. They sang well'and were rewarded by a round of genuine applause, with Cellins in the lead. Then the pretege of the two commissioners (of course Cellins will be a commissioner) divulged the fact that he tee had "music in him," and I think if the sense of that car could be taken the con clusion would be that it is in him yet. His guardians, the commissioners, seeing a geed chance of getting back some of their money, or their money's worth in music, or in the satisfaction of seeing their fellow- passengers writhe in the agony of beiug compelled te hear, insisted that he should sing, and ' he sang. And the commissioners laughed in their fiendish glee, like Pee's ghouls in the tower as they rang their " bells, bells, bells," out out of tunev He sang a deggciel kind of anti-slavery song, something about " I am thinking of the day," and after he was started he sang it ever and ever again. My reader will remember when the truthful Baren 3Iun chausen was traveling in the ctftd country, the stage coach man was continually blow ing into his bugle but could make no sound. When the bugle was hung in the warm bar-room that night, the tones, which had been frozen in the bugle en the read, wcie thawed and came out in a continual string of toots. Thus it was with this ward of these jok ing commissioners. He had been singing that song in his soul for years, and the world's neglect and cold indifference (peer fellow, I can sympathize with, but net excuse him) had frozen the notes ou his lips. And new 'these heartless com missioners had taken him, their bugle, hung him in the warmth of the forced listening of that smoking car's unfortu nate freight, and he was thawed com pletely out ; and the commissioners laughed te see their "bread "return se seen, se many fold increased. Drumore. Ne t'aase fer Alarm. X he Destruction of tha Earth by a Comet or FIaat Impossible. Fer the lKTEIXIOEKCXK. The idea conveyed by Prof. Procter that the approaching comet will land in the sun, and, as a consequence, that the earth will be destroyed, is mere speculative than true. Unfortunately for the theory of Prof. Procter, the idea held by astrono mers iu regard te the forces which held each sun. planet and satellite in its snhere. is incorrect, and consentient! v uiv conclusions drawn from the premises must be false also. Astronomers aver that what is called the centrifugal force means, or is design ed te express, a tendency te move towards the centre, but, as there is no effect with out a cause, the question naturally arises, what is the cause that any body, or, if you please, the earth, moves from or to wards' the sun at regular period? All things projected cease te move in time and if there was such a tendency as the term centrifugal implies, the earth, the moon and all the planets in our system would long since have landed in the sun, and if there were only such a force as is under stood by the term centrifugal, the same planets, with all their moons, would ages m hnvfi been Ar beyond anv influence the i sun would barete bring them back again. All atoms as well as worlds possess op. pesite forces naturally. It is therefore evident that these supposed forces are net the powers that keep all the planets in their orbits ; nor is it a positive or negative condition, but an absolute attraction and an absolute repuhien, both magnetic forces acting reciprocally in all matter ; and the one always being ?qual in power te the ether, they retain, by their equality, all cue systems in tue universe intneir proper orbits, and it is impossible, as Ien as these powers remain equal, for any ana, planet or satellite te swerve from its sphere. The idea, tee, that Prof. Procter has advanced, that the moon is dead and will fall upon the earth, is the result of the centrifugal theory, and is as false as it is unreasonable, and can only deceive and frighten the ignorant. Such ?u event cannot take place, for, wheu the earth's attraction brings the moon into close proximity, it becomes, magnetically, like the earth, and consequently, will ro re pel and be repelled, until it has lest that similarity (which it does, by the time it reaches its greatest distance from the earth) when it will be agaiu aftraeted. This is the nature of magnetism, and as long as these qualities et attraction and reuIsien exist, it will be as impossible for the moon te approach tee close, or te fall upon the earth as it would be for the sun te leave its sphere and run around the moon. The qualities of magnetism te attract unlike poles aud repel their like, can be easily demonstrated by any ene who will place a magnetized sewing needle upon a piece of glass or smooth weed. If either end of the needle be then approached by like poles of a magnet, they will be re pelled; but will be attracted if unlike poles are presented. In magnetism, therefore, as well a in electricity, " like repel like," and as'alt suns, planets and satellites in the uuiverse possess theso magnetic qualities, there is no chance for a collision and thn fright ened children may rest assured that it is impossible for a. comet, even at its utmost velocity, te leave its orbit for an instant, or te approach tee near the sun or earth, for it would repel and be repelled recipro cally bolore contact could take placa. The idea, therefore, that comets or sat ellites will eventually destroy the earth by coming in contact with it, is erroneous the belief baiug the result of the Cilse theory which has already been disposed of. Wm. B. Faunesteck, M. D. m m " There may be some virtue In all of them" be said. " but for actual worth and rapidity or effect, I knew that nothing made can excel Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup." CLOTIIVfO. K EAD THIS FOLLOWING: THE PRINCIPLES OF A Well-Organized Business : Ruy your Reeds for cash, and then nobody can undersell you. Mark the price- in plain figure. Re sure they are resenable, and theu'stick te them. When the customer has made a selcctin that is net quite sutisfacterycxcliangcit, or refund the money. OUR BUSINESS IS c;lething, hats, AND FURNISHING GOODS. WE MAKE CLOTHING TO .YOUR ORDElc, AS WELL AS A HAT, Olt ANYTHIMG IX FURNISHING GOODS THAT IS MADE. We have several patterns of SI'KING SUITS. READY-MADE, FOIC MEX, ler $11 and $1-2 that are very pretty, and a wonder te everybody hew they can be made se well and trimmed se nicely ter the price. Our Beys' and Children's Clothing is coining in all the time lust new, and every body that takes a pride in having their chll-dr'-n leek nice, should see these goods befere they buy. WHLIA1S0N & FOSTER, ONE-PRICE HOUSE, 36 EAST KING STREET, LANCASTER. I'A. NK EW STOCK Or CLOTHING FOB SPRING 1881, AT D. B. Hostetter & Sen's, Ne. 24 CENTRE SQUARE. Havinz made unusual efforts te bring befere the public a 11 ne, stylish and well made stock of BEADT-MADE CLOTHING, we are new prepared te show them one el the most carefully selected stocks of ilethlng In .this city, at the Lewest Cash I'ricea. MEN'S, BOYS AMI IOUTHS' CLOTHING! IN GREAT VARIETY. Piece Goods el thu Most Stylish Designs! and at prices within the reach et all. S-;ive us a call . 0. B. Hostetter & Sen, 24 CENTRE SQUARE, 6-lyd .LANCASTER. PA CUWA AKD GLASSWAR&. -1H1XA! CHINA! AT CHINA HALL. x lakek use or Haviled ni Frnek Ckiia, DECORATED, GOLD BAKD, AND PLAIN WHITE. HIGH & MARTIN, IS BAST K1HG rasnET.
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