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LANCASTER, PA., TUESDAY, MAT 10. 1881
Price TwCmU
Feluie XYII-Ne. 214
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rrUILOBIMG AND OENTS' FURNISHING.
JOHN FALCK,
MERCHANT "TAILOR AND GENT3.
FURNISHER,
Ne. 44 West King Street.
Having removed opposite from my old
stand te the room occupied ler many ycare by
the Lancaster Fire Inburance Company, I am
new prepared te show my customers and the
public a line of goods for the
SPRING TRADE,
which for quality, style and pi ice arc equal te
any In the city. ., , , , , ,
A full line of Gents' Furnishing Goods al
ways en hand.
All goods warranted as represented and
prices as low as the lowest.
apr8-lmd&2mw JOHN FALCK.
VTKW CLOTHING STORK.
CHAS. A. HOHMANN
liiaving Opened a
CLOTHING STORE
Ne. 154 North Queen St.,
(Hehinann's Old Stand),
Nextdoeor te Flinn & Willsen'a Stere, i.s pre
pared te make Clothing te Order at Short
Netice and en reasonable terms. A complete
assortment of
Ready-Made Clothing
of every variety constantly en hand and for
sale at remarkably low prices.
fapriVlmdAw
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FltlNG CLOTHING.
OUtt STOCK OF
CLOTHING
IS I.AUGKU FOK THE SKASOX
THAN USUAL,
and the advantage we" have an: buying in
large quantities and
Selling at Lewest Gash Prices,
IIAYlNti HUT ONE 1'IIICE,
se the poorest judge el goods gel-, as much ler
his money as the most expert.
UUK 10 ALL-WOOL SUITS FOK MEN
Are worth your ccelng.
AND OU5J
CUSTOM DEPARTMENT
IS FILLED WITH THE CHOICEST OF
PATTEliys,
Which we invite you te examine.
WILLIAMSON & FOSTER,
ONE-PRICE HOUSE,
36-38 EAST KING STREET,
LANCASTKU. PA.
S1
Fill NO OFKNING
AT
H. GERHART'S
Hew TaMi MMii
Ne. 6 East Kin? Street.
i
1 have just completed titling up one et the
Finest Tailoring Establishments te be leund
In this state, and am new prepared te show
my customers a stock of goods ter the
SPRING TRADE,
which for quality, style and vauety ei
Patterns has never leen equaled in this city.
1 will keen and sell no goods which I cannot
recommend te my customers, no matter hew
low in price.
All goods warranted as represented, and
prices as low as the lowest, at
Ne. 6 East King Street,
Next Doer te the New Yerk Stere.
H. GERHART.
N1
KW STOCK OF CLOTHINU
FOB
SPRING 1881, .
AT .
D. B, Hostetter & Sen's,
Ne. 24 CENTRE SQUARE.
Having made unusual efforts te bring isferc
the publicn line, stylish ami well madcx stock et
REABT-1ADE CLOTHING,
we arc new prepared te show them one et the
most carefully selected stocks or clothing in
this city, at the Lewest Cash Prices.
MEN'S, BOYS' AMI YOUTHS'
CLOTHING!
IN GREAT VARIETY.
Piece Goods et the Most Stylish Designs
amd at prices within the reach et all.
4VOivc us a call .
D. B. Hostetter & Sen,
24 CENTRE SQUARE,
e-iya
LANCASTER. lA.
DRY
INENS.
LINENS!
We Lave received new linens from Belfast, Barnsley, Duntermline, Lisle,
Brussels, Ghent, Silesia, Bohemia. We have ransacked all Europe for linens,
and have a variety of both fabric and finish that could net be gathered in the
American market. The goods are fresh, tee. That's important ; for linens
bought in NiW Yerk may be several years old, and you knew starched linens
de net improve by age. The dressings used by the manufacturers is net se de
structive as starch ; but it docs injure the fabric in time. We have another
advantage in prices. We gain the importer's profit.
The result is we get the best linens in the world, in the best pessible condi
tion, and for the least money anybody can get them for. We can give yen
the importers' profit, and still have cueugh left.
New it is proper for te consider that somobedy else may be doing the same
thing, and afford the very same advantages. Se, if you please, whatever you
wish te buy get samples of it from us and from ethers, and compare.
Or buy our goods, if you like ; and if yen can 'de as well elsewhere, bring
enrs back. This is rather a brave challenge ; for, you. kuew nobody wants
lcmnauts.
The linens new in are sheeting, pillow, bolster and shirting linens, towels,
tewclings, doilies, napkins, table cloths and table linens.
JOHN WANAMAKER,
Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market Sts.,
PHILADELPHIA.
f 1 ivlki:, newfcits uuksti
SPECIAL BARGAINS
OFFERING AT
GIVLER, BOWERS & HURST'S,
25 EAST KING STREET,
We offer Special Bargains in our Dress Goods Department.
We offer Special Bargains in our Notion Department.
We offer Special Bargains in our Demestic Department.
We offer Special Bargains in our Carpet Department.
We offer Special Bargains in our Merchant Tailoring Department
LADIKS AND GENTLEMEN, we arc constantly receiving all the new season
able goods that, the market aftbids. We consider it no trouble te show goods. We
rather esteem it a pleasure for te have you call, thereby giving us an opportunity te
show you the many bargains we aic offering.
-:e:-
GIVLER, BOWERS & HURST,
25 EAST KING STREET,
TACOlt M. MARKS T
OIIN A. CHARLES.
:e:
LAJtfE
-ALL KINDS OF-
Dry Goods Offered at Great Bargains,
AT TUB OLI UKLIA1SLK STAND,
Ne. 24 East King Street.
SILK DEPAKTMKNT. Special Inducements In Mack and Colored Silks.
The general DUESS GOODS DEPARTMENT constantly being added te ami. prices
inArkcd down te promote quick sales.
MOUHNINO noens DEPARTMENT complete in all Its details.
CARPETINGS, QUKKXSWAKK AND GLASSWARE in immense variety ami ai very
Lew Prices.
DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT unsurpassed in quantity and quality, and goods in all Hie
departments guaranteed te be what they are sold ler.
3Call ami see us.
JACOIi M. MAKKS,
JOHN A.
1'LVMHEJL'S
TLUMItKK'S SUPPLIES. TLCMHKRS SUPPLIES.
GAS FIXTURES,
BEAUTIFUL DESKJXS ON EXHIBITION.
Tarred Paper, The Only Meth Destroyer.
WROUGHT IRON PIPE VERY CHEAP.
Plumber's Supply Depot, Bath Tubs, Bath Boilers, Sinks.
THE FULL DISCOUNT TO THE TRADE.
JOHN" lT AENOLD,
Nes. 11 & 13 EAST ORANGE
IKON
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j:ON K1TTEKS.
IRON BITTERS!
A TRUE TONIC.
IRON BITTERS arc highly recommended ter all diseases requiring 'a certain and effi
cient tonic; especially
INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, INTERMITTENT FEVERS, WANT OP APPE
TITE, LOSS OP STRENGTH, LACK OP ENERGY, &c.
It enriches the bleed, fdrcugtlicns the muscles, and gives new life te the nerves. It acts
like a charm en the digestive organs, removing all dyspeptic symptoms, such as Ta.ithit the
Feed, Belching, Heat in the Stomach, J fcarlbvrn, etc. The only Iren Preparation that will
net ulacken the teeth or give headache. Sold hy all druggists. Write ter the A It C Boek, M
pp. et useful and amusing read lug sent free.
BROWN CHEMICAL COMPANY,
liMyd&w BALTIMORE, MD.
Fer Sale at OOHRAN'3 DRUG
street, Lancaster.
UOTJ2L8.
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HLER HOUSe,
(formerly Clarenden.!
113 and 115 SOUTH EIGHTH STREET ( below
Chestnut),. l'lULADELriiiA, fa.
On the Eutepean plan. Meals at all hours, at
moderate rates. Reems, 80c., 73c. and $1 per
day. Hetel open all night.
ABEL M1SHLER & CO., Prep's,
Formerly of the Misnler Heuse, Reading, Pa.
liAitnr Stkwaiit, Supt,, ,
Formerly of the SL Clair, Atlantic Cit
ml3iud
GRAIN SPECULATION
In large or small amounts. $25 or 920,000.
Write W. T. SOULE ft CO., Commission Mer
chants, 130 La Salle street, ChlcagOrlll., lor.clr ler.clr
n'ars. .m28.lyd
GOODS.
L1S
INENS.
"IIYT.KR, UOWKKS & 1IUKST!
LANCASTER, PA.
teiin n. Ke-rn.
& CO.
CHARLES,
JOHN 15. ROTH.
SUJ'fLTES.
STREET, LANCASTER, PA.
fapr2-tld
HITTERS.
fRON IUTTERS.
SURE APPETISER.
STORE. 137 and 139 North Queen
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QRTH SEEING THE DISPLAY OF
NECKWEAR.
SUSPENDERS AXD HAXDKERCIUEFS,
AT
E. J. ERISMANS,
Ne. BO NORTH QUKB.N STREET,
LANCASTER, PA.
ILancastcr I-ntdligcmrr.
TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 1881.
Editorial Correspondence of Istelliekxcxr.
UP THE VALLEY.
by cumheuland Jt shenandeah
VALLEY KAILKOADS.
A Trip te Luray Cave and Return.
Luray is the county seat of Page county,
Va., ami en the way te it Jenerson, Clarke
and Warren counties arc successively
passed through, all wedged in between
the mountains. They are in the narrow
limestone region of Virginia, a geed wheat
growing and grazing ceuntiy. As you
travel up the valley of course you get
above the sea level, and Luray is probably
six hundred feet above tide water, en the
east or south fork of the Shenandoah,
loekisig northward taMassanutten and en
the ether sidotea broken and much-tossed
line of the Blue Ridge, that rises and falls
in waves Near te the depot is an im
mense new frame structure that they tell
you is a tannery, te be ruu by a Baltimore
firm. Bark is plentiful en these mountain
sides and the railroad has supplied the
transpoitatien facilities. Over en the
ether side of the railroad stakes are set,
grading is going en, lumber is piled and
foundation s! ones are heaped up in prep prep
aiatien for a new hotel building, which
the railroad company will erect for the
visitors that arc expected te be
attracted' here by the beauty of the
scenery and te visit the rave. It will
be three-stories high, and have accommo
dations for :00 guests. It will overlook
the Page valley, with its fatness, and
take in from its site the rugged beauties
of the surrounding mountains. A stone
bridge spans the little riverat Luray, and
the outside water wheel luri.s lazily.
Luiay itself is a straggling, hilly town of
800 population, thin looking stores, a cou
ple of dilapidated taverns, a court house
en a cress sheet, and oflTte one side of the
villege the negre settlement with a Bap
tist and a Methodist chinch. When the
brass band had marched the excursionists
tlueugh the village and halted at the
hotels, the little town was stirred te un
wonted excitement. But the visitors were
much nunc intensely moved by the an
nouncement which met them that this
was a local option town, that under the
law the people of the corporation could
vote ' no liquor' and the exclusion of its
sale from within two miles of the line, aud
that for four years this had been rigidly
maintained. Neither threats, bcguilcmcnt,
reproach upon Virginia hospitality, ap
peals for the suffering or ridicule for the
invasion of an Old Dominion town by the
spirit of Puritanism could discover liquor
in that place. Stable lifted up his veice
against the mother of seven presidents
all of whom he had voted for and de
livered her ever, with imprecations, te Bid
delburger and Maheue, but all te no avail,
until Geerge Carpenter was chartered, the
funning silver put in his hand and his nose
pointed toward the mountain distillery for
apple jack.
It looked nunc like a Virginiatown when
after the dinner, which is net a material
part of this narrative, the vehicles were
announced te convey the party te Luray
cavern. They embraced nearly every kind
from a fish wagon te a tally-he, but they
answered their purpose admirably and by
2 o'clock p. in., the entire two hundred
were gatheicd at the mouth of the cave.
It is en a bleak hillside, three-qiiaiters of
a mile southeast of Luray and several
hundred feet above it. commanding a
splendid outlook of the valley, and net
hall" way te the summit of the hill.
It was sonic time in the summer of 1878
when B. P. tftebhins and the two Camp
bells, Andrew and AVilliam, prospecting
around this country for caves, discovered
the new famous Luray cavern and de
termined te possess the land en which it
was situate. That land, a tract of seme
18 acres, had some time previously been
sold en a lien against one Burackcr
and bought, in by his son-in-law,
licidlcr, at 63 an acre. Under the.law of
Virginia, however, land thus sold may be
put up again at the guarantee of any ether
than the purchaser te bid ten per cent,
mere. The Campbells had it put up and
bought it at 17 an acre. They then de
veloped the. cave, made extensive explora
tions anil impievemcnts, and boasted of
having known of its value and wonders
before they had it put up and struck down,
and negotiated for the sale of it te the
railroad company for about JO, 000. Then
Bcidlcr attacked their title en the ground
of fraud. He elfercd te compromise for a
fourth interest, but they elfercd that
fourth iutcrcst te their. lawyers te win the
case and cave for them. They lest both,
and the cenit confirmed Bcidler's title,"
and he has sold it te the railroad company
for $37,500.
Se a neighbor told us while the party
was getting ready for the descent. The
preparations all completed the two hun
dred visitors and a host of guides and cu
rious villagers, attracted by the news of
free entrance, filed down a atone stairway
for 50 feet between two walls of masonry,
and wcie very seen in the grand
entrance chamber, twenty feet high
and eighty feet wide. Te one
who has been at Mammoth cave the first
consideration that suggests itself is a
comparison of the two. The mouth of the
Kentucky wonder, hke this, is en a hill
side, but weeded where this is bare and
with rocks, all about it suggestive of caves.
The opening there is a cleft that leeks
like the month of a cave and could net
well be concealed, and after the passage
down a flight of stairs a long tunnel is
traversed before the main entrance cham
ber is reached. That vestibule is a huge
quarry covered with a rock ceiling and
massive boulders arc strewn fantastically
about. This entrance te Luray is very
like an ordinary ccllarway or descent te a
vault, with a two story building ever it
for the shelter and accommodation of vis
itors. Emerging fiein under a low arch
way the view that bursts upon you
is that of an elaborately decorated
grotto, wrought with the delicate handi
work of cunning artificers. In the first
chambers you see at once the difference
between Mammoth cave and this Luray
cavern. The first leeks as if it was built
by the Titans, the latter as if the fairies
had adorned it. Fer many, many years
the former has been a place of resort, but
its management has cot in all that time
displayed the taste and enterprise which
the Luray people exhibit upon the occasion
of every visitation by a considerable num
ber of people. This consists in the loca
tion, arrangement and instantaneous illum
ination of 5,000 or 0,000 candies, set en the
stalagmites and se distributed that they
net only light up te view the weuders aud
beauties of the interior, but glimmering
among the stalactites and stalagmites
themselves produce an illusion of enchant
ment that greatly heightens the ordinary
effect of the natural curiosities here exhib
ited. Iticxtcntofceur.se Mammoth cave
is a -most incomparably greater aud
such general illumination is practi
cally impossible. Of course Luray
bids fair upon further development te dis
close many new avenues and chambers and
no adequate conception can yet be formed
of its real extent, but at present a few
hours trip will probably sufiicc te traverse
its entire ronte'ef passage ways, while
days will net take one through all the
laid out paths of the Mammoth. Its im
mense halls, long avenues, deep pits,
navigable streams and mighty blocks of
stone in monster shapes have no counter
parts in Lu ray, but en the ether hand the
vandalism that has se 'weil nigh robbed
Mammoth cave of its greatest beauty in
its stalactites, and stalagmites has been
checked from the outset at Luray, and
thcrc,is left there an exhibition that could
net be excelled even if its rival had been
left in all its pristine glory. It is an ad
vantage that se much of this can be seen
without the wearisome maiehes and toil
some descents and climbing which make
up the long route in the Kentucky cave;
and for real beauty as much is exhibited
in a few hours trip through Luray as can
be seen in a day's travel through the ether.
It would be tedious and utterly inadequate
te convey a proper idea te attempt te fellow
the guide en the routs through the avenues
aud different chambers in detail. Nothing
is se hard te give or get a conception of
from mere word description as a cave.
Luray is already better furnished with
beard walks, stairways, substantial balus
trades aud ample protection agaiust all
possible dangers than Mammoth cave.
With a pair of gum overshoes or thick thick
selcd beets, the journey can be made free
from dirt or dampness. The temperature
is even at about 5S, aud the dripping is
very slight. The thousands of candles and
the caudelabras containing from ten te
twenty-five candles each, hung in all the
prominent places, greatly heighten the
pictnrcsqnencss of the scenes and suggest
the feasibility of the introduction with
geed purpose of the electric light. Every
ceiling almost is hung thick with stalactites,
from the tiny white pipc-stem-like tcndiil
te great folds of stone, that are curiously
draped like the hangings ever an Oriental
throne or ' Saracen's lent." Heie is a
pillar, which they call Washington's 11x20
feet, that is a stalagmite formed by the
drippings of hew many thousand years de
you think? The "(lower garden" is a
great mass of low stalagmites, (lower and
star shaped. Passing up a stair way, te your
left, en a led-e of rock, is hanging a row
of stones that could net have been better
imitations of salt mackerel liung up in
bunches if they were cut out for that
representation. Plute's chasm, a huge
cleft 500 feet long and 75 feet deep, has a
column stalagmite standing in it 10 feet
high aud thick as a big tree. Skeleton
Gerge is another chasm in which when the
cave was lir.st found they discovered the
bones of what was supposed te have been
a middle aged person, Norseman or red
man no one knew, nor who built in that
cavern the fire which had smoked its reef
nor left the ether organic remains which
were there found. There arc veils and
cascades of pure white alabaster and an
"empress column " of white 70 feet high ;
the "fallen column" is a huge stalactite
like the trunk of a mighty tree that has
been detached from the ceiling, and in
falling caught where it new bangs ob
liquely, contented by a mass a!, the small
end te the ether pendants and closely re
sembling the huge butt of a tree as you
see them fallen aud caught in the descent
in a decaying forest. The " angel's wing"
is a white pendant, resembling the object
whose name it bears, though the most cu
rious shapes taken by the pendants arc
the.se. of drapery. The iron h;w given
them a rich brown color, and as' they
hang in curious curves they leek exactly
like heavy folded cm tains. This device
appears again and again in endless variety
and iu many colors, formed by the degrees
of lime, magnesia or iron which compose
them. Seme of thcin arc ttansparcnt,
and when a light is placed behind them
exhibit a wonderful richness and delicacy
of color. Anether curious elfect of these
pendants is the tone given forth when
they are struck, and in one place seme
twenty of them, hanging iu a row, of va
rious sizes anil mostly tubular, can with
a wooden hammer be played upon like an
organ. One of the larger stalagmites is
called " the Tower of Babel " from its
resemblance te the well-known pictures of
that structure, but there arc fully twenty
which fairly suggest this idea, run
ning from ten te twenty-live feet
iu height and all curiously carved
as it seems. Giant's Hall leeks as
if it was crowded with gigantic
figures and with candles placed upon them
the massive stalagmites could easily be
imagined as se many ghostly Titans, lamp
bearers in a nether world. The Ball Roem
is a spacious chambar, away in the re
cesses of the cave, a mile or two from the
entrance and two hundred and sixty feet
below the surface. It is laid with a plat
form big enough for a picnic party te
dance en it and with Heats for a hundred
people ; two or three chandeliers furnish
ample light artd the statuary is as numer
eusas it is beautiful and grotesque. Near
by is a fountain with fully a barrel of
crystal clear water in it, and the formation
holding it is a perfect rosy-lipped scaihelL
Up fifty steps the tourist reaches Camp
bell's hall, anether chamber of dazzling
beauty, aud en the ether side of the ball
room is an unexplored gallery
which is full of premiso te these
developing the resources of the cave. On
the way thither a curious formation was
discovered, a circular peel of water, very
like a bird's nest, with three round white
pebbles closely resembling bird eggs. The
nest was left undisturbed. Over and ever
you come across pure white and
chocolate colored stalagmites that leek
like iust Mether Gruel's moulds of
iee cream. These things are net
a tithe of the beauties and won
der of Luray cavern. There are enough
there te quicken the activity of the scien
tist, te furnish snbjects for the artist or
theme for the poet's fantasy ; but the or
dinary traveler who simply gees te see
wonders and beauty is amply recompensed.
Uc forgets that this is the work of nature,
until chamber after chamber, with their
hundreds of thousands of pillars, fountains,
carved and fluted columns, bridges, stat
ues, bridges, tapestry in stone, reliefs and
multiform decorations arc discovered, he
recognizes hew far beyond the conception
of man or his skill te realise these wonders
in stone, is the interior of Luray cavern.
On the return trip, as we nearcd the
outer chambers, great was our astonish
ment te see ene of the chocolate-colored
statuesque stalagmites meve toward the
van guard of the excursionists, and with
frantic gestures and shufiling attitude
extend a bag that looked as if it might
contain a jug. It was Geerge Carpenter,
of color, who faithful te his trust had
brought his half gallon of apple jack and
had daited past the guard at the cavern's
mouth, en the plea el" urgent necessity te
minister te extreme wants of the subterra
nean wanderers. Geerge was a Methodist
but at the outside " Aunt July," who had
a liltl'J cake stand set up for the day, was
a Baptist and cheerfully sold her lemonade
water te mix with that refreshing moun
tain dew, aud nobody asked whether ihe
revenue lax iiad been paid. But Gcerge
pledged his honor that befere the distiller
would sell him less than a gallon he had
" taken oath and writ his name iu a book"
te conic fcr the ether hairgalleu before the
twelvemonth passed, aud he was supplied
with the means te get it and send it te
Stable, if he couldn't use it himself.
With increased aud well-ordered hotel
accommodations for visitors te Luray and
a line of coaches at reasonable hire from
there te the cavern, liberal excursion rates
en the railroad ought te make it a place' of
popular resort. A week among these
Yneuulains, by that beautiful river and in
that historic valley would be a worthy
part of any summer pregramme ; and, for
these who have shorter time te stay, easy
excursions from points net farther oft" than
this city might be arranged te take the
trip ever there en the afternoon of seme
day, spend the night at the hotel, next
morning at the cavern and- leturn by 8 p.
m. the succeeding evening.
W. U. II.
UALI.OT HOX STIIFIKIW.
Ne Limitation for Electoral Thieves.
At the election of November, 1877, A.
W. Schalck aud W. J. Whitcheuse were
cendidates for district attorney of Schuyl
kill county; the former was returned
elected and entered upon the duties of his
office, but Whitcheuse contested his elec
tion and a vast amount of testimony was
taken befere an examiner. This testimony
showed pretty clearly that giess frauds
had been perpetrated at one pell iu
Schalck's interest, and the examiner,
when he presented his report te the ceuit,
October i:J, 1879 enIy twenty-four days
before the expiration of the two
years given as the limit in which a
criminal prosecution may be brought,)
lccemmcndcd that the perpetrators of the
fiaud be indicted. Pursuant te this re
commendation the court referred the mat
ter te Schalck, who was in the full exer
cise of the duties of district attorney, but
at the expiration of two weeks, he having
done nothing in the matter, Whitcheuse,
the contestant, had indictments pre
pared by private counsel, which were
submitted te Schalck for his signature
previous te sending them te the grand
jury. Schlaek, however, refused te sign
tlicm, whereupon the .court ap
pointed Whitcheuse's counsel special dis
trict attorney te try these cases. .He sent
the indictments te the grand jury, which
found a true bill in each cese. The defen
dants, however, moved te quash the in
dictments, first because they wcie net
signed by the district ; secondly, because
the offenses complained of were in
dictable only under the election
cede act of 1839, which provides
that all indictments drawn ' under
its previsions must be brought within one
year, se mat in tins case we prosecutions
would be barred by limitation. This view
the lower court coincided in and uaashed
the indictments. Frem this demon a
writ of error was taken te the supreme
court, which, in an opinion by Justice
Paxson, reverses the judgment of the
lower court aud orders that the prosecu
tions be continued. Justice Paxson holds
that the indictments were net drawn under
the act of 1839 aud continues : " It must
be conceded that offenses which strike at
the purity and fairness of elections are el
a grave character. Are they indictable at
the common law '. This is a serious and at
the same time comparatively new ques
tion. In considering it we have little in
the way of authority tb guide us. It was
assumed by the learned counsel for the de
fendants that an indictment will net lie at
common law for such acts, they arguing
that offenses against the election laws are
unknown te the common law ; ' they are
purely and exclusively of statutory origin.'
What is a common law offense?" His
honor then quotes from Blackstone,
Bishop and Wharten, and cites two cases
in Massachusetts where it was held that
every qualified voter possessed the statu
tory right te vote, and any act tending te
disturb or unlawfully abridge that right
was punishable at common law.
After declaring that the signing or the
bills by the special district attorney was
regular Justice Paxson concludes as fel-
lows t
We are of opinion that all such crimes
as especially aflect public society are in
dictable at common law. The test is uet
whether i'r,-cedents canle found in the
books, but whether they injuriously affect
the public policy and economy. 'It seeds
no argument .te show that the acts charged
in these indictments are of this character.
They are net "only offenses which affect
public society, but they affect it in the
gravest manner. An offense against the
freedom and purity of elections is serine
against the nation. It strikes at the foun
dations of republican institutions. Its
tendency is te prevent the expression of
the will of the people in the choice of
rulers and te weaken the public coafl ceafl coafl
deBce in elections. When this confidence
is once destroyed the end of popular cer
ernment is net distant. Surely if a
woman's tengue can se far affect the geed
of the society as te demand her punish
ment as a common scold, an offense which
involves the right of a free peeplp te
cheese their own rulers in the maimer
pointed out by law is net beneath the dig
nity of the common law nor beneath its
power te pnnish. The one is an annoy
ance te a small portion of the btx'y politic
the ether shakes the social fabric te its
foundation.
"We are of opinion that the offenses
charged in these indictments are crimes at
common law. We regard the principle
thus announced as net only sound but
salutary. The ingenuity of politicians is
such that offenses agaiust the purity of
elections arc constantly liable te occur,
which are net specifically covered by
statute. It would be a reproach te the
law were it powerless te punish them. It
fellows from what litis been said that it
was error te quash the indictments. The
judgment is reversed in each ease and a
procedende awarded."
Who would threw away hard earned nieuey
for every new etmli syrup advertised : when
you can preenrn that .standard remedy for
cough. Dr. Hull's Cough Syrup, l'riee en.
a bottle.
Toe Hasty.
Hasty persons drink the neelar el existence
sraidiuK het, uml when they puller the pangs
of dyspepsia, or indirection with its kindred
evils, nethjii; will se seen ami he cnYetimlly
help them us Uurdeck liltMsl Hitters, l'riee
$1. trial size III cents. Fer "lie at II. 15. Coch
ran's Drag Stere, i:!7 North IJueen street.
Oult Chewing Tobacco.
Sir. Churchill, machinist, Kultale, S. Y.,
writes : " Frent some cause, ' I laid it te cliow cliew
injj tobacco,' I lest llesh considerably, and felt
se badly that I resolved te leave it oil' and try
Uurdeclc Meed IHttcr.s ; since doing e 1 have
rained steadily, and in a few days hope te
kick the lieam' at niv usual weight." fur
s'Ueat II. IS. Cochran's lrii- Stere, l.'7 North
Queen street.
Nearly a Miracle,
K. Asenilh ifnll. ltinghninten. N. Y writes)
"1 sufl'cretl for several months with a dul
pain through left lung and shoulders. 1 lest
iny spirits. upctite anil color, and could with
dilliculty keep up nil day. Aly mother pro
cured ynmc llurileck ISIoed Hitters: I took
them us directed, and Iiave felt no pain since
tint week after using them, and am new quite
well." Fer sale at IJ. H. Cochrane Drug
Stere, 137 Nertli (Juccii street.
rAVXRHAXUlXllH, fr.
w
INllOW SHADE.?, &V.
200 WINDOW SBADES
in a variety of Celers, that will bu sold from
forty te seventy-live cents a piece. Thin is
about half value ter them. A few of these
light patterns left, iu order te close, will be
sold at seventy-live cents a piece.
l'lain Shading for Windows in nil t lie newest
colors, and in any desired quality wanted, la
inch, -l. inch and 11 inch r large windows
and Stere Shade."
SCOTCn HOLLANDS,
the iKvt goeils made, American Hollands in
assortment. Measure of windows taken, esti
mates made aud Shades hung in a satisfactory
manner. Of
WALLPAPERS
we are prepared te suit, everybody. Our line
is larger, choicer and clic:icrtliaii imy season
heretofore, (.lit Palters irem the chciipcsl
grade te the finest geed made, Grounded
and Common Papers in such a line variety
that we can suit the most fastidious. Cornice's
anil Curtain 1'eles, Window 1':imts, Ac. Or
ders taken ler Fine Mirror.-'.
PHAEES W. FRY,
NO. 57 NOKTII 4JIJKKN ST.
HOUKM ANJ STATION KKY.
-VTKW Al UHOICr:
STATIONERY,
NEW BOOKS
AND MAGAZINES,
AT
L. M. FLYNNS,
Ne. 43 WKMT KINCS STKKKT.
I..NK HOOKS.
JOHN BAER'S SOUS,
15 aad 17 NORTH WEEN STREET,
LANCASTER, fil.,
Have ler sale, at Ike Lewest Prices,
BLANK BOOKS,
Comprising Day Heek", Ledgers, Cash Heeks,
Sales Heeks, Hill Heeks. Minute Heeks, Ke
eeipt Heeks, Memorandum, Copying Heeks,
Pass Hnekss, Invoice Heeks, Ac.
WRITING PAPERS.
FoeNcap, l.ettc.i. Nete. Hill, Sermon, Counting
Heuse, Drawing Papers, Papeteries, Ac.
KNVKI.OPKS AXD STATION KK V el all
kinds, Wholesale and Ueluil.
FAMILY AND TEACHERS' BIBLES,
Prayer Heeks, Devotional Heeks, Sunday
school Music Jtoeks, .Sunday-school
Libraries. Commentaries. Ae.
J-'OB NALJt.
?OK KENT. TIIKKK At'ICKS OF I.AND
r In the Kighth Ward. Apply te
1C J. lit
HOUSTON.
2M
2f, Centre: Square.
HAKNKStf FOKMALK CnKAF. A GOOD
Single Set et Harness for sale cheap. In
nsc but uHhert, time: geed as new. Apply te
D. M.STAUFFKlt,
inK-tld ? Nertli Queen Street.
MISCKLANtSOVH.
WATKK KKNT NOTICK. T1IK WATtB
Kent Duplicate Is new in the hand et
the Treasurer, and en ami after te-morrow.
April H, Water Kent will he received, and
live per cent, allowed for prompt payment.
Ofl'ee hours ireui s te 12a. in. and from 1 te 5
p. m. WM. McCOMSKT,
:U!7-tfd Treasurer and ltccelver of Taxes.
BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED TO I . M..
MAY 27, at the Banking Heuse or D. IV
Lechor A Sen, ter twenty registered bends of
$300 each, or any part thereof, te be Issued by
the Lancaster City Scheel Heard, bearing 4
per cent. Interest, payable quarterly. The,
bends will be dated .Innc I, 1H. and payable
at the pieesare of -Jg-gr EnvA
Chairman Finance Cem. Scheel Beard.
in9-2td
CHrLANDH UKSTAUKANT. AVINU
engaged the services or a 11 rat-class Kes
titnrant Cook, I am new prepared te serve
articles -In -iny line at short notice, such as
Chicken Croquettes, Chicken Salad. Fried
Oysters, Terrapin, and all delicacies found in
season,
tour patronage is respectfully solicited.
JOHN COPL.AND,
Ne. 125 Nertli Qiwu Street.
P. S. Weddings ami parties rveil at
reasonable rates. ' f JlUAStfd