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Hancaster intelligencer.
TUESDAY EVENING. JUNE 14, 1881.
Tbc Trertle is the Water.
The coal combination is considering
what te de te keep up the price of coal.
All agree that mere coal is being mined
than is sold, that being a patent fact
which cannot be disputed ; and all are
equally agreed that everyone else is pro
ducing mere than his share. The differ
ence of agreement seems te be about the
number of days that a suspension of min
ing should take place at a time, whether
three days a week, or a week or two
weeks in a month. The precise value of
this difference we don't quite under
stand, or care te, being pretty sure that
there is a chance hidden in it somewhere
by which the greediest of the "com
bined corporations expect 'te cheat the
ethers ; since it seems clear enough that
if all worked fairly together it would net
matter when the suspension of mining
took place or for hew many days at a
time, se that it was for the stipulated
time. All corporations will cheat one
another when they get the chance, and
no form of agreement has yet been
found te bind these soulless spirits.
And a most excellent thing it is for the
people that they are se selfish, and that
-their combinations are thus but ropes of
sand. We the people seem te like te be
victimized, and if the 'corporations, that
se much enjoy the profits of the fleecing
that we also appear te greatly relish,
could only manage te stick closely te
their work it would net be very long
before they would have all the meat off
our bones. And they are just like a let
of jackals around a carrion; they will
interrupt their feast te indulge in a
fight amongst themselves in the effort
te keep the carcass te themselves;
and when they get their belly full of
lighting and need another belly full of
meat te sustain their strength, they
cease their quarreling and amicably
fall te work upon the common prey.
They are new very peaceably en
deavoring te fatten their .frames
that have been much emaciated in late
years, and we the people are suffering
and enjoying it accordingly. It seems
odd te speak of enjoying suffering, but
if that is net just the situation very
often between us and the railroad, coal,
telegraph and ether corporations, then
we wholly fail te realize it. Fer cer
tainly they fleece us. They water their
stock and make us pay them a big profit
en it. They charge what they please
and we are patient. We knew that we
could step the abuses any time we
should try, but we don't try. Therefore
we must enjoy experiencing them. If
that is net a demonstration of the fact,
what could be?
The very coolest thing just new, and
very agreeable te contemplate at this
season when the sun is het and we don't
want coal, is the calmness with which
the coal companies are discussing hew
they can keep up the price of coal be
yond its market value. Of course it is
net our interest that this shenldbe done,
for we want cheap coal even in summer
time for our manufacturing industries.
And there is no doubt that we could
prevent it. The law prohibits such com
binations te keep up prices, and if they
didn't we could .easily pass such as
would.
Hut we don't. We don't want te. We
would rather see our furnaces blew out
because they have te pay nearly twice as
much for coal as they did a year or two
age, than choke the coal producers and
carriers into selling their product at a
price that enables us te produce pig iron
. in competition with the English iron
master. The miners and carriers say
they arc net charging tee much. But
that depends. If they must earn a div
idend en the immense tracts of coal
land bought at a trreat price by working
only a small part of it ; and if they must
have dividends tee en heavily watered
and heavily mortgaged railroad stock,
then perhaps they are net paying tee
much. But ought we te be asked te pay
a profit en unproductive coal lands and
extravagant railroad cost ? Ought our
industrial fires te be put out by all this
water ?
m m
Tin: pretext of the gas company for
bidding te supply the city with light by
the thousand feet of gas consumed, in
stead of in conformity with the ordi
nance, is net found te be ingenuous
upon inquiry into the facts. Mr.
Baumgardncr says. " Section 3d of the
ordinance says the latnps shall be extin
tinguished by the police at daylight each
morning. This is net done, as during
the past year we have had considerable
less by some of the police or the boys
they employ in letting the lamps burn
long after daylight." This is te some
extent true, and te whatever extent
it is, we repeat that .the gas com
pany is entitled te consideration,
but te fairly weigh Mr. Baumgardner's
argument the facts should be borne in
mind, which he suppresses, that the
lamps have rarely ever been lighted as
early as the prescribed time, that often
many of them have been left unlit for
two hours after it, that the burners of
most of them are smaller sized than the
city ordinance-contract calls for, that
mere than half of them are net turned
en full head, that many lamps paid for
said te average ten a night are net
lighted at all for example four en West
Lemen street, which burn en an average
once a week and that scores of them
are net kept clean as the contract calls
for. These deficieucis outweigh ten
fold the consideration upon which alone'
the gas company justifies what is niani
festly an attempted "pinch" of the city
by the gas monopoly.
The fact that se large a majority of
the Republicans at Albany are voting
against Conkling and that of his oppe
nents one at least has a clear majority of
a Republican caucus, were one called
new, leads the Times "te inquire
whether all the men who are nominally
voting against Conkling and Piatt are
really opposed te the return of the ex
senator?.' ' We have suspected all along
that some Conkling men are playing
possum. It is cheap and may gain him
some popular favor te vote against them
when they have no chance te elect ; but
could they lead the administration forces
into caucus ambush they might fall upon
them and massacre them in cold bleed.
A Considerable quantity of "talk"
by Grant, te a Chicago reporter en peli
tics, is telegraphed ever the country by
the associated press.agent's favor, net by
reason of any worth it has. He repeats
his sympathy with Conkling, his claim
that he elected Garfield, his denial of the
Menter treaty, and his plea for senatorial
courtesy ; he attributes it all te Blame,
and -renews his complaint about the
Cramer and Badeau charges and the
Fish removal. There is nothing new,
nor strange, nor interesting in all this.
The opinion of few individual citizens
is worth less than Grant's. lie is a io ie
litical tramp a veritable. Micawber.
MINOR TOPICS.
Bosten is te have llerdic cabs. We
knew the Pennsylvania Yankees weald be
teaching the Yankees of Bosten a thing or
two before long.
The Western city councils cannot se
far forego their patriotism as te banish the
patriotic and insidious fire cracker en the
glorious Fourth.
The deadly sparrow having paid no
heed te imperial decrees of banishment
from Vienua is new hunted through the
royal parks by chasseurs with air guns,
An esteemed contemporary which re
marks upon the quick journalistic compe
tition for the liar's jack-knife in the Mil
lersvillc business is tee modest te say that
the esteemed contemporary's local reporter
quite outran the regular correspondent of
the Philadelphia Press.
It wasn't the types, nor yet the " intel
ligent compositor," nor the "erudite proof
reader," but the "stupid editor" who
said that alumni day at the college would
be Thursday and baccalaureate day en
Wednesday. On the contrary just the re
verse. The Philadelphia Times with true
charity remarks that ''wbcuitis remem
bered that members of the New Yerk Leg
islature have brought as much as fifty
thousand dollars, it is net much wonder
that the story about buying one for two
thousand should be received with sus
picion." A fugitive F. A. Bi,E Inte the moon
lit Ice Cream Gardens of ancient. Athens
once stumbled an Ass and began te recite
what he called a Lunar Ode. The Guests
seated areuud fled in Terrer, ere he had
finished two Lines of his Sole. On the
next Evening the Nightiugale sang its
Seng te the Moen, and everybody listened
in Rapture. But the Ass, net discomfited
by the Comparison, boastfully said : " I
sang that same Seng before."
It seems that the attempt te naturalize
camels in Texas and New Mexico was net
after all an utter failure. The camels used
for carrying freight across the California
desert did net, for some reason, prove
profitable, and they were turned loose en
the Gila and Salt river bottoms. There
they lived and bred, until new, it is said,
they ream the lower Gila plains in large
numbers, giving the Louisiana Citizen
ground for the belief that they " will con
tinue te increase in numbers, until a drove
of wild camels will become as common en
the Western plains of Arizona as buffalo
new are en the plains cast of the Recky
mountains."
Tiie stalwart Inter Ocean has discovered
that iu 184-2 President Jehn Tyler, Secre
tary of State Daniel Webster and Senater
Henry Clay occupied relations similar te
these existing between President Garfield,
Secretary Blaine and Senater Conkling.
There was the same rivalry, the same dis
trust and similar dissousieus, caused by
the nominations of Clay's personal enemies
te office. Stung by what he considered
ingratitude, rather than submit te what
he considered insult te himself and his
deveted friends, Clay resigned his .scat in
the Senate iu disgust, and was nominated
for president in 1844 but was terribly de
feated by " that man Polk."
PERSONAL.
Baren Zetiien, a millionaire of Vienna,
has been shot by his servant. This is one
of the luxuries of being a millionaire.
Solicitor Raynek, of the treasury depart
ment, will be removed at an early date.
General Guosvknek is mentioned in con
nection with the place.
One of Camden's most noted and re
spected lawyers, At.den C. Scovel, died
suddenly, of ossification of the liver and
heart valves, yesterday.
Jehn P. Hewaud, of Burlington, Vt.,
yesterday gave te the University of Ver
mont $50,000, the largest individual gift
ever made te that in institution.
Senater David Davis is said te own
mere land in Illinois than any ether resi
dent of that state. A Bloemmgton corres
pondent estimates his wealth at $-1,000,
000. He pays $38,000 in taxes yearly.
lien. Isaac B. Gara, of Eric, who is a
native of Lancaster county, visits us again
after an absence of five years. He is look
ing exceedingly well and expresses a warm
feeling for newspaper men, having been
himself connected with the profession.
Fer a long time he was deputy secretary
of the commonwealth.
Archie Campbell, of Wheeling, de
nies that he has ever had an intimation
from Washington en the subject of the
Berlin mission, te which position several
newspaper correspondents had appointed
him. It was hardly necessary for him te
deny. Easier could a camel go through a
needle's eye than te Berlin with credit te
tlw country.
Sir Pekcv Shelley, the grandson of the
poet, has lately built a private theatre at
tached te his house at Chelsea. Sir Percy
himself painted all the scenery, one drop
scene being "The Peet Shelley's Last
Heme. " The theatre was opened the
ether evening with the performance of two
pieces one a romantic drama by Wilkle
Cellins.
Rev. Jeseph H. Kummeic, the eloquent
divine, who for a number of years occupied
the pulpit of the Moravian church, has
called upon us, returning after an absence
of seven years. His many admirers will
be glad te knew that he is in excellent
health apparently. He resides in Phila
delphia and weekly hears from Lancaster
through the Intelligencer, for which
he has very kind words.
Rev. Dr. C. Z. Weiser, who delivers
LANCASTER BAIL? iNTELUGENCER TUESDAY, JUNE 14. 1881.
the address en " Self-Education " in the
court house this evening te the public and
the literary societies of F. and M. college,
is of the class of 185. ne was the prime
mover in the peace commission of the Re
formed church and was president of the
body which brought concord out of dis
cord He is an eloquent talker, a man of
thought and of "snap." He knows
something about his subject and can tell
what he knows.
In Winnipeg, Man., the discovery of the
real heir te- the Ticheerxe estate has been
made. He is an invalid in the hospital
from injuries received en section A of the
Pacific railway. His name is James Riches
Celes, Riches being his mother's maideu
name and Tichberne the title of the estate,
ne says that he is 52 years of age, and ad
mits, but it is perhaps useless te deny, that
he is uneducated. His story is that he left
England when between 19 and 20 years of
age te fellow the sea. He c ime from Au
stralia via England te Canada.
In Williamsport yesterday Tunison
Coryell, the eldest resident, celebrated
his ninetieth anniversary among his im
mediate friends at the residence of Jehn
Gibseu. He is iu the enjoyment of geed
health and his mind is clear and bright.
Few men of his age iu the state have a
wider acquaintance with politicians aud
men of letters than Mr. Coryell. During
his life he has enjoyed the personal
acquaintance of many distinguished men
and relates many interesting incidents in
their history.
AueiiEK, the English jockey who rede
Iroquois for Mr. Lorillard, is a person te
be envied. He is the companion of lords
and cams mero than a prime minister. His
regular fees are twenty-five dollars if he
wins, fifteen if he loses aud ten for a trial.
This, however, docs net tell the stories of
his earnings, for he receives presents of
enormous value, like geld watches, dia
mond rings, riding 'horses, deg carts,
yachts, suits of clothes, cases of cham
pagne, etc. Mr. Lorillard gave him $3,000
for winning the Derby, and Mr. Kccne
gave Fordham $2,500er coming in first at
the Grand Prix. Archer's earnings in
1870 are reported te have reached $00,000.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
An official dispatch received at Oran,
Algeria, says that Gen. Detrie.has defeat
ed a body of insurgents, killing fifty of
them.
The main building of Tayler's paper
mills, en the river Denn, at Tohnerden,
Out., was burned Sunday night. Less,
$2,000 ; insurance, $95,000.
Frederick Adolp Ruffini, aged 57, a New
Yerk furrier, shot himself yesterday morn
ing. The bullet entered his heart and he
died before assistance reached him. Ne
motive is.knewn for the desperate act.
The brakemeu of the Arkansas & Texas
divisions of the Iran Mountain, St. Leuis
& Southern railway have struck for in
creased wages. They were receiving $30
a month and demand $00.
Baseball : At Bosten Detroit, 2 ; Bos Bes Bos
eon, 0. Worcester Buffalo, 10 ; Worces
ter, 9. Providence Chicago, 12 ; Provi
dence, 5. New Yerk Metropolitan, 7 ;
Atlantic, C.
An election for members of the national
aud grand councils and for the district offi
cers of the Chcrokce nation, will be held
next August. A bitter canvass is already
going en between the factions, and one
prominent candidate has been murdered.
Captain J. J. Jcffrys of the schooner II.
II. Lyens of Tem's river and new lying at
New Yerk lest his balauce while looking
from a third story window of the Dary
house fell te the pavement and was in
stantly killed.
At the clese of Jehn Griscom's sixteenth
day's fast at neon he weighed 173 pounds,
being a less of 1 J- pounds within the past
twenty-four hours. He said he had net
felt better at any time since the fast
Itegan. His pulse was GO; respiration,
18 ; temperature, 98A.
The Weman Suffrage convention, under
the auspices of the National Weman Suf
frage association, began yesterday in
Hartferd. Connecticut. Addresses were
delivered during the day by Mrs. Isabella
Bccchcr Hoeker, Mrs. Matilda Jecclyn
Gage, Miss Rachel Fester, Mrs. Elizabeth
Merriwcather, Miss Susan B. Antheny,
Rev. Olympia Brown and ethers.
Gen. Oyoma, J apanese minister of we r,
will seen visit Europe and America. Of
twenty-five vessels composing the Japan
ese navy only nine arc serviceable in case
of war. The Japcucse arc making stren
ueus e liens te assimilate the Loe Choe
islands te the rest of the empire, and pre
mete the loyalty of the people, iu view of
possible trouble with China.
STATE ITEMS.
The Bedford Gazette wants an anti
cigarette law passed. Next ?
Pcttciigill's advertising agency in Phila
delphia has sold out te N. W. Aycr &
Sens.
Philadelphia has bought 500,000 copies
of the re vised JNcw Testament se lar, and
may yet realize its name.
The second week of the June term of
the Montgomery county criminal court was
brought te a sudden termination yester
day by the discovery of a defect in the
drawing of the traverse jurors. The
venire blanks returning and certifying te
the court the names, residences and oc
cupations of jurors te be summoned were
net filled up, although they had been
signed by the sheriff and jury commis
sioners. The proper list were also unpost unpest
ed in the sheriffs aud prothenotary's
office.
Sensible Talk.
Philadelphia Evening liiillctiu.
A New Yerk paper, speaking of the
widow of Mr. Lincoln, declares that she is
in Springfield " dying comparatively alone
and nnbefriended, ana it eiames the peo
ple of the country for leaving her in " suf
fcrintraud isolation." Te most persons
there will seem te be little justification for
this censure. The position and condition
of the widow of Abraham Lincoln can
never be a matter of indifference te
th American people ; but Mrs. Lin
celn has near relatives who may also be
supposed net te be indifferent. Mrs. Lin
coln's son is secretary of war, in high posi
tion with ample means, and of course
bound te lus mother with tics of teuderest
affection. While he lives it is absnrd te
speak of her as a friendless person, te com
plain that sue is m isolation, or te reprove
the people of the cenntry for net offering
her assistance. It may be regarded as
certain that neither Mr. Lincoln nor his
mother will regard with satisfaction such
remarks respecting her, and it is likely
that they would resent as impertinent in
termeddling with their affairs any popular
movement for her relief.
Greatly Disgusted,
carl Sehurz's Jf. V. Evening l'est.
There, are things which, in public life
net devoid of all decency, should be im
possible. And this is one of them. An
unfortunate accident may put the vice
president at the head of the government.
And we may assure Mr. Arthur that the
ceple are contemplating with shame and
dismav the possibility of Mr. Conkling's
errand boy becoming president of the j
United States.
NOTABLE SEWS SOVBXTIES.
Stirring and Striking Events of the Mora
ine News.
A hundred persons were killed and
Bixty injured by the earthquake which re
cently devastated a numbgr of villages in
the Pashalic or Van Armenia.
A statistician thoroughly acquainted
with figures assures a French paper that
the American women yearly use enough
cosmetics te paint 37,000 houses.
The youthful Chinese emperor has been
suffering from small-pox for twenty days.
He is in a critical couditieu and the court
physicians have little hope of his recovery.
The Empress of the West is expected te
recover. Over one hundred nurses have
been employed te feed her with their
milk.
Seven thousand wild pigeons from the
Indian Territory are new in tile coops at
Jersey City and eight thousand mere will
arrive en the 17th instant. The birds are
for the use of. the New Yerk State Sports
men's association tournament, which will
be held at Ceney Island next week.
Mrs. Leng, who lives between the mis
sion and San Roeko canyons, Cal., while
milking her cows one evening about ten
days age was startled ey a scream iruu
her four-year-old daughter. On hastening
te the spot she was almost paralyzed te sce
a large California lien, with the child
in its month, making toward an adjoining
thicket. She followed helplessly scream
ing, when the brute, taking fright at her
cries, dropped the child and lied te the
mountains.
A nogre cabin .en Mr. Ollie Jerdan's
place, in the Fourth district, Georgia, iu
which six children were sleeping, was
burned down last Sunday night. The
father and mother were away at a n03t
inr. There were three jnuis in the end of
the house which caught en lire first, which
discharged their contents, the report of
which reused Mr. Jerdan from his slum
bers, and he rati down te the house in
time te save the children, none of whom
had waked up. .
Mrs. Ambrose Hartley was drowned in
Helly creek, near Cohutta Springs, a few
days age. She had gene en the mountain
in search of pink root and ginseng, in com
pany with a little girl, and wheu return
ing home in the evening she slipped from
aprceipiee aud fell te the stream below.
Her little companion was powerless te
render her assistance, aud the unfortunate
woman quickly drowned. All night the
little girl remained desolate aud alone by
the side of the corpse, which was floating
among some driftwood a few feet off.
When morning dawned the girl returned
home, a distances of live miles, telling, en
her arrival, the sail, sad story.
There was a large and dangerous water
spout in the Chesapeake Bay, off Heeper's
Island, en Thursday. The schooner
Nemiiii, Captain, James B. Field, from
Salisbury te Baltimore, light, was in com
pany with several ether vessels, at anchor
about six miles from the island, te await
the passim: ever of a threatening squall.
when a large waterspout suddenly descend
ed with the rapidity el lightning and catcu
iujr the Nomini turned her completely
ever. The captain and two ether men who
were aboard were thrown out into the
water and clambered up en one of the ether
schooners.
A Maniac I toy.
A woman named Harrington die J at the
coal mines in the the town of Portsmouth,
R. I. Soen after her death her husband
informed the overseer of the town that in
the attic of his house was confined his
son, a maniac, who for fifteen years had
been tended by his mother. She was the
only person whom he had seen during all
that time, for the secret of his existence
had been closely guardad lest he should be
taken from her. After fifteen years of
unfaltering devotion the woman had died,
and her husband had found it impossible
te continue this loving service, though he
had made an effort te de se. The authori
ties who removed the maniac te the state
insane asylum, found him in the attic
scantily clad and covered with a long
growth of hair.
Massacre or Italians.
A massacre has occurred near the Egyp
tian halting station of Bailel of the Italian
expedition which left Assab in April last
te explore the course of theOualima river.
The Italian government has sent a tele
gram te Caire demanding a strict inquiry
concerning the facts and the punishment
of the murderers. Lieutenant Ginlctti,
leader of the expedition, is among the
killed. The attack was made by the na
tives at night, twelve days' inarch from
Assab. The object is believed te have
been plunder, though another account
states that it was in retaliation for an act
of the explorers in seizing a Sheikh in con
sequence of a dispute about a camel.
WilU Western Storms.
' Saturday night's storm in Minnesota ex
tended ever nearly the entire state, doing
great damage. There were high winds,
heavy rains aud much lightning. At Shake -pee
trees were blown down, the crops lev
elled and buildings damaged. At North -field
two inches of water fell in thirteen
minutes, and the wind, as nearly as can
be estimated, blew at the rate of 75 miles
per hour. A church, a windmill and a
railway tank house were wrecked and an
empty freight car was blown a distance of
twenty-live feet from the track. The storm
at Blue Earth City was unprecedented iu
violence. Five inches of water, according
te the report, fell there in an hour, and
trees were uprooted and buildings de
molished by the wind. Iu Laura, two per
sons were killed and another injured, per
haps fatally, by the demolition of build
ings. The storm extended throughout
Central Iowa, and was even mere destruc
tive in places than in Minnesota. Live
stock, poultry, and ether small animals
were killed bv enormous haiIstones,heuses
were wrecked by the wind, and a number
of persons were killed in different places
by the wind aud lightning.
. A Few Fatalities.
Themas, a nine year-old son of Rebert
Cottingham, city purveyor, Was kicked en
the head by a horse hr Wilmington. His
skull was se badly fractured that he died
seen after.
A patent water-hack hnrst from the
boiler at the grape sugar works in Buffalo,
yesterday morning, severely scalding three
men.
Messrs. Flanagan and McDcrmet, of
White Mills, were drowned by the upset
ting of a row beat at Kemble, Pa., en Sat
urday afternoon. They were going te
Lackawaxeu en a pleasure trip.
Michael J. Ueustin, aged GG, and his
seu, Michael J., aged 30, both of Waynes
boro, Pa., were suffocated at Frederick
City, Md., yesterday morning, by foul air
from a well while they were taking out a
pump stock.
Michael Connelly was killed and Patrick
Burke aud Jehn Hawkins were seriously
injured in a mine of the Delaware & Hud Hud
eon company, at Plymouth, Pa., yester
day, in consequence or the premature dis
charge of a blast.
A terrible cyclone visited Wiscensin.a
few miles south of Hepkins, Sunday even
ing, causing a great destruction of property
and killing James Yeung. Yeung's wife
was se badly hurt that she will probably
die. 'Jehn Crabill and several members of
his family were also badly hurtgKveral of
whom will likely die.
Timethy Maleney, a . policeman, was
shot dead while trying te arrest two
drunken burglars in Chicago en Sunday
night ; the murderers escaped. Elizabeth
Shultz, 19 years of age, murdered her new
born babe, near Shultztown, Rockingham
county, Va., last Thursday afternoon.
Peter Magnus, a respectable butcher of
Chicago, kicked his baru tender, William
Gorden, en Sunday, for -abusing his son.
The kick broke Gorden's neck and he fell
dead. Magnus surrendered himself.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
FOKESTKV.
What te IMant Se as te Get Trees Quickly.
Following is an csay read at the meeting or
the Agricutural society by F. 11. DifleiiderlTer
which hail been written and s-ent in by Cas
per Hillerwesq., who was unable te be present. 1
The question of forest planting has of
late years become a very prominent eue iu
many sections of our country, and it has
even in our own agricultural county be
come a subject of discussieu. The general
opinion here, however, is that our land is
tee high in price and tee valuable for gen
eral farming purposes te plant or retain in
forests. This te a great extent is true.
But there are many acres in our county
that cannot profitably be cultivated te
farm crops, owing te the ruggeduess and
steepness of the land. These steep hill
sides, owing te the wash from heavy rains,
incenvenience of manuring, etc., yearly
become poorer. If these hillsides would
have had their mature timber cut out as
needed, the balauce taken care of and the
bare places replanted, they would be the
most valuable part of the farm. Hundreds
of acres along the Concstega and Pequea,
and at ether places, are te-day net worth
the taxes which their owners have te pay
yearly en them. Even uew, if they were
planted te the right kind of trees, they
would in the lifetime of many of the own
ers beceme as valuable as the farm land.
But if it should take many mere years te
become available, it is still the duty of
every owner of these worthless hillsides te
plant trees for a valuable heritage te his
children and children's children. We
toil aud heard te the end of our days, for
what! That we may have a competency
for our old age. Rather that we can put
our children in geed pecuniary circum
stances. If it were net for our great rail
read facilities, we would already feel that
our extravagance aud recklessness with
our timbers lp brought us merited pun
ishment. The distance of carryiug our
buil(linr lumber is yearly increasing, and
a generation hence the freight alone will
se advance the prices that theso timbered
hillsides will be a treasure te their owners.
Artificial forest growing is by no means
chimerical. Thousands of acres in the
old country are planted forests. The hare
hills of Scotland have in less than ene
hundred years been clothed with timber
that have increased their value a thousand
fold. Land that was worth only a few
shillings has iu a period of sixty years pre
duced timber which realized ever 31,000
per acre. Thousands of acres have been
planted te forests in the West, and many
mere arc planted annually. In Virginia,
the Landreths, of Philadelphia, have been
planting thousands of acres of its worueut
and abandoned, fields, which will in time
help te build up the state, and make it
one of the most desirable in the Union.
They commenced planting in 1S72, and
have planted trees by the million. Last
year planting was about as fellows : 200,
000 Catalpa; 20,000 Ailanthus ; G,000
Abies Deuglasi ; 10,000 each of white oak,
hickory aud tulip.
Lancaster county has very little exper
ience in forest-growing, what few at
tempts made at it were net especially
noted for success. Why? Mostly for
want et judgment in planting and want
of care afterwards. Example : A grove
was planted te yellow locust from six te
eight feet apart. These trees, after
thirty years, are net ever four inches in
diameter and never will be very valuable.
Trees planted iu the same locality, well
cared for, and haviug room te spread, if
made into pests would realize $4 a
piece. It is well enough te plant thickly
at first, but such planting must iu time be
judiciously thinned out until the right
nicau lie attained. Less than one hundred
trees te the acre, iu a majority of cases,
would be better than mere. The trees iu
the following list were planted by the
writer. They were dug up in the forest
when live or six feet high.
White l'inc..:0 years old, 00 in. circtimrurt-nrr.
Hemlock :W IS . " .
Locust ISO ' 15
Larch ' " 4S "
Walnut i " sr "
SngarMapic-jii " ::e "
Silver Maple.ai " fie "
TulipPeplar.-JO " -in "
l';inleni:i.,..ls -,:,
Catalpa IS " 10
Add te this list the oak, the chestnut
aud the esagc orange, and we have about
all the varieties needed for practical pur
poses. What varieties te plant depends en the
time when we desire te realize and the
uses te which we intend te apply. If for
fencing we should plant chestnut, panlenia
or catalpa. Panlenia aud catalpa premise
te be of mere value than locust. They
crew much taster, and are se far net sub
ject te insect depredations, while the
locust is se infested by borers as te be un
worthy of planting in many localities.
Panlenia and catalpa arc both soft weeded,
but arc said te be fully as durable as
locust.
A piece of panlenia weed placed in a
situation (live years age) is nearly as
sound as d. was, while oak and even chest
nut would be rotten. Panlenia is prefer
able te catalpa, ou account of its stronger
aud mere upright growth.
The maples, as cau be seen by the list.
will become available for fire weed in less
than 40 years.
If we plant for future reucratieus the
pines, larches, tulips, walnuts aud oaks
are the most premising
At no great future time our mechanics
will be in great want et hickory. This
should be planted, or in its stead pl.iut thp
usage orange. This is a better ere vrer and
for all purpose is fully equal te the hick
ery. A tree of this variety in Chester
county has attained three feet iu diameter
in 50 years.
This planting of our hare hillsides will,
beside the advautages mentioned, beautify
our landscape and may have a beneficial
influeuce en the rainfall, and it is also as
sumed that it is worth all the cost of
planting, by the protection they give te
the farm buildings and te the crops of the
farm. This part of the subject, viz.: "The
uses of forests iu Lancaster county, their
influeuce en the climate," etc., is very
ebly treated in a pamphlet of thirty-five
pages by Simen 1. LDy, esq , et Lancaf.
ter, which should be in the hands of all
who feel an interest in the future of our
county.
Lancaster County Entries at Oxford.
In the list et entries at the Oxford fair
appeared the following Lancaster county
horses : W. C. Hariuau, Gap, mare and
colt ; W. Kennedy Cains, pair of driv
ing horses,, stallion and stud, celt: C.
Blackburn,' Celcrain, gelding and stud
colt; E. P. Martin, Octoraro, pair of
driving horses; Mrs. James Turner, of
Colerain, exhibited flowers. The weather
was very disastcreus te the fair.
At the postponed races ou Saturday
Lady Lear wen one in 2.5C. West Phal
wen another in 2.52 ; the races for the 3
minute and 2,40 classes were declared off.
A special trot, best two in three, was wen
uy .uauy jjear.
Summer Excursion Routes.
Ticket agent Zieglcr of the Reading
railroad company has laid ou our table a
70 page pamphlet with handsemly . illumi
nated cover, giving the summer excursion
reatcs of his company, upon -which yen
can go te nearly every place that is worth
going te. Te leek at the pictures of cool
places in the book makes ene feel like put
ting en an overcoat.
The Heard et Health.
Earnest complaint is made that the use
ful and salutary work of the newly organ
ized beard of health, of this city, is re
strained by the lack of a small but neces
sary appropriation for the registry books,
&c. If that is the only hindrance councils
should see te it.
OUR COLLEGE.
The Commencement Season.
The nontinnatien of Franklin and Mar
shall college commencement exercises will
be by the'jBiennial Literary oration in the
court house this eveuingby Rev. C. Z.
Weiser, D. D., one of the most distin
guished divines of the Reformed church,
an clemicnt and ready sneaker. His sub
ject is in the educational line and he cau
invest it with interest aud rare attrac
tions. Te-morrow will be alumni day, begin
ning with the society reunions in their
balls at 8:30 a. m. ; mectiug of the alumni
association at 10 ; alumni dinner at 12:30,
te which all the local clergy and resident
alumni of ether institutions are invited ;
and the alumni address by Rev. J. Span
gler Kieffer, of Hagcrstewn, 3Id., in the
chapel at 3 p. m en "The Subaltern
Character of Intellect."
Gov. Heyt has written te the president
of the college that he will be present at the
alumni reunion and dinner en Wednesday
of this week, 15tn inst. He will come in
the morning train from Harrisburg and
spend the forenoon at Dr. Apple's residence
and en the college grounds. An opportu
nity will thus be afforded members of the
alumni association, of the beard of trus
tees, and his personal friends te meet
him before the public exercises in the
(lining hall and the chapel commence.
Prof. D. M. Wolff, a graduate or, and
for some time a teacher iu, Franklin and
Marshall college, has been elected comity
superintendent of Centre county. Prof.
Baer, who was superintendent of Berks
county, aud who was elected superintend
ent of the public schools in the city of
Reading, is also a graduate of the same
college Prof. Ballict, another graduate,
has been elected superintendent of Carben
county. Prof. N. C. Schaeffer, principal
of the Keystone normal school at Ivutz Ivutz
tewn. is also a rraduatc of the same Mr.
Kemp, a member of the present graduat
ing class, has been elected professor of
Latin and Greek at the above named nor
mal school. We refer te these, and might
name ethers also, te show that the gradu
ates of our college are rapidly finding
prominent places in the educational work
of the state. We are glad te sec college
men doing their part in the course of com
mon school education.
Seventeen -new students have already
been examined and admitted te enter F.
& M. college at the opening of the next
college year. Thrce from Chambersburg,
undone from Harrisburg expect also te
be examined for entrance, besides a con
siderable number mero who have ex
pressed their intention of coming from
ether portions of the state. One young
clergyman from North Carolina, who has
net enjoyed the advantage of a college cd cd
catien, expects te enter the junior class
in the fall aud graduate regularly with
that class. The indications arc that there
will be a large accession te the celIege,and
that the whole number of students will be
considerably increased next year. We are
glad te note these indications of the sub
stantial prosperity of our college. With
this internal growth we hope its friends
will enable it te expand its facilities and
enlarge its operations in ether ways- also,
particularly in the scientific department.
Linden llai I Commencement.
The eighty-seventh annual commence
ment execises of the Linden Hall female
seminary at Lititz, this county, will take
place en Wednesday evening of next week,
the 22d inst., at 7 o'clock, and the- In
telligencer is under obligations te the
able principal Rev. II. A. Brickenstein,
for a neatly printed invitation te the same.
The graduating class numbers upward of
a dozen young ladies who have completed
their regular course at this excellent
school, and the pregramme will comprise
the reading of several essays, vocal and
instrdmcntal music, award df prizes, and
ether features of merit. Iu past years
the commencement exercises at Linden
Hall have been signalized by great success,
and the forthcoming celebration bids fair
te equal its predecessors. It is expected
that the attendance from this city, aud in
deed from all the country roundabout will
be very large.
Rev. J. Y. Mitchell, D. 1)., has gene te
Delaware, college, Newark, Del., te de
liver the honorary oration in connection
with commencement exercises there.
OUT-LET TO THE OCKAN'.
Anether Kallread ler This County.
Heading Times.
Last night at half-past t;n o'clock there,
arrived iu this city from New lerk en the
Cincinnati express a party of New Yerk
capitalists who are interested in the
building of the new railroad from this
city te tide-water, which was chartered
several months age under the name of the
Reading & Chesapeake coal and railroad
company. The party-met by appointment
at the Mansion house, Cel. S. C. Slay
maykcr, of Lancaster, for the purpose of
proceeding in carriages with that gentle
man ever the entire route of the projected
railroad, from Reading te Havre de Grace,
a distance of 70 miles. The party will
make an early start from this city this
morning.
The new railroad will fellow along the
Wyeuiissing creek te Adamstown, along
tlie route first surveyed for the Reading &
Columbia railroad ; thence along the
Muddy creek te Hiukletewn, where the
railroad will cress the Concstega creek ;
thence te New Helland ; thence via Inter
course te Lcaman Place en the l'enn
sylvania railroad. Frem the last men
tioned point a local read running te Stras
burir, Lancaster county, will be used,
which has been purchased by the New
Yerk company ; thence the new read will
continue te Quarry villc in the centre of
the rich iron ere region of Southern Lan
caster county ; thence the read will lie ex
tended te Perryville, at the mouth of the
Susquehanna river, where it is proposed te
build large wharves and piers for leading
ships and smaller vessels with coal.
It is expected that connection will be
made with the Lebanon Valley railroad en
the opposite side of the Scliiiylkill,iicar the
Lebanon Valley railroad bridge, se as te
avoid the expense of building a bridge,
across the Schuylkill. The new read is
intended te de a large business in carrying
coal te the seaboard, for the purpose of
establishing a great coaling station for
ships en the coast. As it will pass through
ene of- the finest agricultural sections
of the state, and through a country
rich in limestone, iron ere, and ether min
erals, it is believed that a large local trade
will be developed. The effect upon the
business of this city canuet be otherwise
than very important. A branch railroad
from New Helland te Lancaster, sixteen
miles, is also projected, It is reported that
all the stock has been taken, and that per
sons residing along the line of the proposed
railroad will net lie asked te subscribe for
a siugle share. Cel. Slaymaker, who is
interested in the project, has had large ex
perience iu the construction of railroads,
and has great faith in the success of the
present enterprise.
We understand that the party prospect
ing the route are passing through Eastern
Lancaster county te-day via New Helland
and Strasburg.
Sergham.
ITnn S T ftnnrl.ill lias OUT thanks for a
package of sorghum or sugar cane seed, of
approved quality, irera mu ajjutmiuia.
bureau. Any of our fanner readers who
have a mind te test itcancallatthelxTKi
I.IOKXCRR office and. get a sample.
I,evefeast.
Over 2,000 pcople attended the levefeast
at Oregon last Sunday evening, and the
best of order prevaiiett. .Liuers .iacoe
Reinhold, Scngle and Kauffman were the
speakers.
TORACCO.
The Lecal Crep Late Sales-The Sfew Crep
Prospects.
Last week was a rather active one among
buyers, for though a number of them have
ceased purchasing and closed their pack
ing houses, most or them have left behind
agents iu charge who de net fail te pick
up a desirable crop of 1880 whenever they
find one. Other buyers are still in the
field and scouring the country and com
plain that baled leaf is getting scarce.
This is corroborated by the farmers them
selves, a number of whom from all parts
of the county were at the agricultural
meeting held yesterday in this city. With
out exception they reported that the to
bacco in their respective neighborhoods
was pretty well bought up.
The new crop has been nearly all planted
the late rains having been very favorable
te the setting eat of plants, and from nearly
all sections of the county the report is that
the tobacco growers are jubilant. The
weather, however, has been rather cool,
and en ene or two nights last week there
were slight frosts in the valleys, and the
plants iu these places are said te be yel
low and unhealthy looking. In some neigh
borhoods the cut worm has rained many
plants, but it is yet early enough te reset
them. There are also complaints here ami
there of damage by the flea, but en the
whole reports are very favorable, and the
pespects of a geed crop were never better.
The llilkciire, by which a packing ap
praised at nearly 00,000 was mere or less
damaged, continues te be a theme of con
versation among tobacco men, and much
satisfaction is expressed at the prompti
tude with which the less was adjusted by
the insurance cempauics, they purchasing
the entire packing at its appraised value,
10 cents through. The extent te which
the packing was damaged has net yet been
ascertained, but seen will be, as the insur
ance companies have offered it for sale.
We hear of about 1,200 cases of thoeiep
of 1880 having changed hands last week,
but the prices' are net stated. The anxiety
shown te secure the crop, and the hand hand hand
sorae figures at which Mr. Hilke's pack
ing was appraised, are the best answer te
these who have, during the entire season,
attempted te cry down the Lancaster couu ceuu
ty tobacco ; and is the best warrant also
for the farmers te plant heavily and de
mand fair prices.
The following is from our .(Juarryville
correspondent : " As predicted by us two
weeks age the tobacco of 1SS0 iu the lower
end of the county has been cleaned up, at
least almost se ; crops are new few and
far between ; buyers have te drive ever a
large territory te find anything geed, bad
or indifferent. During the List week that
section has been pretty well canvassed.
Among the sales wc note Ocorge Trout,
of Bart, te Michael Ilarnish (.a new
buyer) two crops, ene at 12 and the ether
at 8 through ; James McGrady, of Dru Dru
merc, te Kreidcr at 8, 3 and 3 ; and A.
Menrcr, te same at 12, 5 and 3 ; and Jacob
N. Greff, of Providence, te Herr, at 10, 4
and 2. II. II. Wiggins, of Providence, te
llcnscl 2 acres at 13, land 2, and J. M.
Eckmau of Eden has sold te same 3 acres
of extra line goods en private tcr.ns said
te be IS, 0, 3. Ilcnsel has bought very
largely lately, many of his purchases
being fine grades. Oppcnheimcr has
bought from Ann Snavcly 1 acre at 9, 3
and 2 ; Jehn Smith bought 4 acres from
Aareu Hart man, of Bart, at IIS, (J and 3 ;
and Clnis. Tyson, 1 acre at 15, 5 and 3.
We are told that ever 50,000
pounds of tobacco were shipped
from Quarryville last week in the
hale ; the preceding week it was much
mere, and during the months of March
and April it was 134 tens. Besides this,
much of the crop is hauled by the Pert
Deposit it Columbia railroad and by teams.
It is net often that farmers complain of
tee much rain, but such is new the case.
Tobacco in the lower end does net leek
well, it is tee cool, it leeks yellow and
some of the growers say it shows signs of
being foxy, and that plants are extremely
tender. The flea and cut worm are doing
considerable damage. We saw ene field
that was entirely ruined by the flea, but
the season is young yet aud plants seem
te be plenty.".
The following Chester comity lets have
been purchased by Jehn Dellaveu : S.
Farrcll's at 91, 4 and 2 ; II. Cellins' at 81,
4 and 2 ; J. A'. Lindereamp, at 11, 4 aud 2 ;
W. A. Davis at 11. 4 and 2.
Mr. McLaughlan has secured the follow
ing crops in Salisbury township : J. C.
Walker's, at 8, 8, 3 and 3 ; Jehn Linder
camp's, 9, 3 and 2 ; Mr. Kanffman's at
17 and 5 ; J. Marsh's at 8 and 3.
Jehn Elmer of Salisbury has sold 4 acres
te Mr. Fatman at 1G, 5 and 3 ; Wm.
Livingston, of Salisbury, 1 aero te Mr.
Sigle at 13, 4 aud 2 ; ami W. D. Hear, of
Salisbury, 2 acres te Mr. Sigle at 10, 5 and
3
Mr. Lecb has bought from Franklin
Hippie, of East Denegal, his crop at 8 and
3, and from O. Hippie his crop at 8 and
Twe Mere Reversals,
The supreme court yesterday, in Hugh
McCert's appeal from the decree of the
Lancaster county court, said in concluding
its opinion reversing the lower court : We
conclude, therefore, that under the act of
185G, thengh it might he different did the
act of 1874 apply te this ease, the appeal
of the appellant, being within live yean
from the date of the probate, was in, time,
aud court ought net te have stricken it off.
The decree of the orphans' court is new '
reversed at the costs of the appellee. The
appeal of the appellant is reinstated and a
procedende awarded.
In the appeal of Leuis B. Harberger, the
court decided as fellows, also reversing
the local court : It is new ordered and
decreed that that part of the decree of the
orphans' court requiring Leuis B. Har
berger te give an approved bend in the
sum of $25,000 lie reversed aud set aside,
and that part el said decree which directs
the register te issue letters testamentary
te the said Harberger be affirmed, audit
is further ordered that the appellce pay the
costs of this appeal.
m
A KeallsUc Acter.
Mr. William Davidsen, late of Jay
Rial's " Unde Tem's Cabin " troupe, has
returned te his home at Harrisburg.
Seme weeks age, while playing at Mat Mat Mat
toen, III., Mr. Davidsen had a tussle with
ene of the trained bloodhounds which ap
pear in the play and was seriously bitten.
The deg get desperately in earnest and
seized Lawyer Mirks (Sir. Davidsen) by
the right hand, aud when he was shaken
off he sprang upon the actor's back and
inflicted gashes upon his body which dis
abled him for several weeks.
When, Where, What Is It?"
Examiner.
The latest development in the move
ment for " reform," as represented by the
Neie Era and Levi Seuscnig, is the offer
by Senscnig, through a go-between, te a
certain defeated candidate, of $1,500 if
he will " help " te have Skiles counted in
aud Fridy out. Beint? defeated, he was
supposed te be willing'te get his " money
back" according te the "reform"
methods familiar te Senseuig.
Obscene Matter la I he Malls.
A letter from Antheny Comstock in ex
planation of tbc recent Ulcssncr case is
published in Sunday's Times, in which he
explains at length hew Glcssner sent quan quan
Uaies'ef obscene printed matter te school
boys and girls in this city, and that he
was fully old enough te deserve punish
ment. A IMble 33C Years Old as Eparatm.
Zepti. Undercuffler, proprietor of a hotel
at phrata, has a Germau Bible in his pos
session wiiieu was pnnieu in i;n.i. tc was
purchased at a public sale a short time
age and is iu excellent condition.