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Volume XVIl-Xe. 172.
LANCASTER, PA., TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1881.
Price Tw feats.
CLOTHING.
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ECIAI ANriOUNCEMKT.
ALROSENSTEIN,
THE LEADER OF FASHIONS,
WILL BEHOVE
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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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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.
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EAD THIS FOLLOWING:
THE PRINCIPLES
OF A
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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
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AND
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WE MAKE CLOTHING TO .YOUR ORDElc,
AS WELL AS A HAT,
Olt ANYTHIMG IX FURNISHING GOODS
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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.
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ONE-PRICE HOUSE,
36 EAST KING STREET,
LANCASTER. I'A.
NK
EW STOCK Or CLOTHING
FOB
SPRING 1881,
AT
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AT
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